There was an old lady who lived in a shoe......

     Here are three more listings in my Nursery Rhyme Series using those adorable papers from Debbie Mumm.  I do have a few more of the papers and may be doing the remaining layouts to finish them off...

     This has already turned out to be a very busy week and it is only Sunday, the week hasn't even begun!  Alexis woke up with a fever of 101, Caitlin has a birthday party to go to today (don't know where I have to take her yet), and of course Brian is away on business.  He had an early flight out this morning to Florida - on a Sunday mind you - and won't be back until Tuesday night.  It never fails that when he leaves things always happen.  :(  

     I just put in another HUGE prima order with Michelle's Scrapbooking.  Oh boy do I love primas.  I think 90% of my entire scrapbooking budget goes to primas.  I will be in prima heaven in about 3 weeks!  Maybe I'll post a picture when they come in!  :)

     Here is to hoping for a better tomorrow.......

This little piggy went to the market......

Have you seen the new line of papers by Debbie Mumm?  How can one not be inspired by it!?  I went to Joann's this weekend and immediately knew what layouts I was going to do when I saw it!  I did not get to all of them but will finish up the Nursery Rhyme series next week.  I have done a Nursery Rhyme series before, I LOVE doing them, but this one actually has matching paper! How fun is that!  

This week I was able to finish:

This Little Piggy

Pat a Cake

Baa Baa Black Sheep and

The Three Little Pigs (there wasn't paper in the stack themed for this layout)

Sneak Peek into Tonights Layouts

It has been a long and crazy week with Brian having to leave at 4 am for inventories, his car breaking down on the interstate, and having to be sure I get all three kids up and out to school on time.  That alone is NOT as easy a task as it sounds, I have one in high school, one in middle and one in elementary.  They are all on different schedules and have different bus stops and pick up times.  I will be happy to have this week over.  Oh..... But I also got the best news this week.  One of my very oldest and dearest friends will be visiting us next week!  I have known Christine since middle school!  She will be visiting along with her beautiful daughter Tehya for the weekend.  A very short visit but I am thrilled to spend any time with her! 

We have added a new member at BTDL!  Her name is Stephanie and her seller ID is Steph_1999...  She has the most adorable layouts and is a PERFECT fit for our group!  You can see her work by searching BTDL on ebay....   

Well here are my listings for this week.  :)  As you can see I was THRILLED to have finished my goal of 5 layouts after such a crazy week.  :) 

New Layout Design.....

Since I started selling premade scrapbook pages on ebay, way back in 2003, I have been using the same basic layout design.  

The two main reasons are:

1. I LOVE having 7 photo mats, so much more options for my customers and 

2. I LOVE spending the majority of my time on the piecing.  

I have been thinking about changing things up for sometime now, and just haven't had the time to really put into.  Well, that is until now!  I introduced my new design last week.  I am pretty happy with the new design but I would love to hear from you and get your thoughts on them!

I will be doing my standard layouts as well in the future but for now I am having so much fun with something new!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

Well, we had a wonderful Christmas Eve and a wonderful Christmas day!  Being away from the family is very difficult this time of year.  We are so thankful to have moved into such a great neighborhood and to be surrounded by great friends! Tonight we are having a party at our house with our surrounding neighbors, 6 families!!!  It is going to be FUN!

I have managed to keep a couple of layouts listed during the hustle and bustle of the holidays.  A task that wasn't that easy.  :)  I think the part that wasn't easy was actually staying out of my office..  I DREAM scrapbooking!  :)  Here is what I have listed this week.  I did change my listing days to accommodate the holidays since they both fell on my regular listing night of Wednesdays..

I was also able to get a couple boarder, piecings and photo mat sets finished.  I LOVE doing these as a way for my customers to "catch up" on their scrapbooking for the year.  My original intention was to do 4 or more sets a week - haven't reached that goal so I may continue doing a couple through January.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

Here is our official Christmas photo for 2008....  Not an easy task this year.  Tyler just didn't want to take the picture and I swear he was making a face in every other photo.  I was concentrating on the girls to make sure they were looking cute and little did I know what Tyler was doing.

So the family letter is done and waiting to be printed, I have sent the pictures to Walgreens to get printed - love how easy some things are - the family video is 2/3 done, the Christmas shopping is no where done, and I have a few things to catch up on and then I am going to take a week off.  I haven't done that in a long time - thank goodness I love what I do!  :)  I am sure I will sneak into my office to do something, how can one really stay away from scrapping!  

From my family to yours, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

I couldn't resist putting this one in....  Sorry Tyler, maybe the next time, you won't make it so hard!  :)

Santa, can I please have more hours in the day? :)

Yep, that is what I would ask for.  :)  Sometimes I just wish I could have one extra hour a day. During the holiday season I would love two!  Today I spent quite awhile on the phone with the postal service.  Our mailman drove right by my house and didn't pick up my scheduled pickup.  I know that he looked my way and saw the size of my outgoing mail and did not want to touch it.   I finally got someone to come back out, at 5:30 pm to pick them up.  Guess I am tipping the mailman a little more this year.  :)

Here are my listings for tonight.  I really do love doing the Christmas house series. I have gone through 3 bottles of snow and two bottles of glitter in the last couple of weeks.  I walk out of my office everyday with glitter on my clothing, face and hair.  :)

I could not get the third one to load!  I will try again in the morning.