Blinkies ~R~ Us!

Remember how I said I wanted/needed a new blinkie for here? Well, I got 3!!

Loyal - from A Dash Of Whimsical - made these for me, bless her heart - they're FABBIE!!

and

Then, I "bought" one/had it designed by Kaylek - of Kaylek's Designs - who did a fantastic job:

Aren't they just the coolest freakin' things?? LOL I just got the program to make them. Now all I have to do is sit down with Dreamer and figure the damned thing out.

Ah yes, let the torture begin! Wo0t!

I got ANOTHER award!!!

Yep. You heard me right. Another award! Das' right - I'm bad. LOL

OK, that TOTALLY didn't come out sounding as cool as I'd hoped. Why do I try? Hehehe

This award comes from Heather from HezaScraps & Tags. She needed some help getting blinkies to work on her blog, so we put our heads together and worked it out. Now you look at her blog and wonder - "Yeah, right. She needed help. Uh huh. Suuuuuuure she did." {insert eye-rolling here}

It didn't look like that before - I swear! Sheesh. I help her with blinkies and before I know it she's off and re-vamped her blog and is more stylin' than I am! LMAO OK, not that I ever really was stylin'. But I'm working on it!

Anyhoo. Thank you, Hez, for the award. And who knows... maybe we'll be neighbors soon. {keep yer fingers crossed, k?}

I got an award!!

This NEVER happens! LOL I'm just lil' ol' me, not into designing scraps (yet) or fancy stuff like that. I just sit in awe of all the talented designers out there.

Some of which happen to be some of my bestest friends - the gals from Terminally Unique Designs.

I call myself the "resident un-creative non-scrapkit makerer person" over there - because I'm a photographer, not a scrapper. I'm getting adventurous and making stickers tho (baby steps, baby steps), but for now, I'm just a "fifth wheel". LOL

One of the ladies, Helga of Classie Creationz, gave this award to the gals at TUD. Thank you, Helga! You made my day! I'm going to pass this to Peggy over at Eclectic Chaos - she's the one that got us all together in the first place. And I can't thank her enough.

OK... I need a new blinkie

The one I have is mainly for my main website. I need to get one for here. I'm going to start creating stickers and alphas... I just need to get creative.

Any ideas??

Terminally Unique Designs Christmas Collab Kit!

The designers of Terminally Unique Designs have banded together to bring you this Christmas collab kit which contains 38 papers, 166 elements, 1 Christmas flood fill and 2 Alphas. This wonderful taggers kit is free with a $10 purchase! Simply add $10 worth of products as well as the Collab kit, which you can find here, into your shopping cart and then during checkout apply the discount code: TUDChristmas and you will receive the kit free! You must add the collab to your cart along with your products or the coupon will not work.

Ho Ho Ho!

Brynna's Kit is ready!! Holy Buckets!!

This kit is a labor of love for Treasured Scraps as Brynna is the niece of their owner, Patty (one of my Butterfly/Terminally Unique Designs friends - see Designs By Honor in the Blinkies section). Brynna is a remarkable 9 year old, going through something no child should ever be forced to endure. So Patty decided to put together a Charity Kit for her and 41 designers have come together to bring you this very special kit that contains: 339 papers, 1040 elements, 6 background tiles, 3 alphas, 4 Quick Pages and 1 Brag Book - for only $13! You can find the kit by either clicking on the preview above or going to the Treasured Scraps Exclusives or Charity Kit sections of the store. 75% of the proceeds go into a fund for Brynna herself and the other 25% will be donated to a wonderful charity called RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network).

You can find out more about Brynna at the blog Aunt Patty set up for her HERE.

If you decide to purchase this kit - thank you and bless you.

Come On, Ride The Train...

The gals from Terminally Unique Designs

have come together for a Blog Train!

I didn't have any photos that matched their

theme colors, so I didn't participate. That doesn't

mean that I can't advertise for them, though!

Loyal, Helga, Hezalin and Patty (Honor) are wonderful designers

and I'm proud to be a part of their little corner of the 'Net.

I hope you enjoy the freebies - I know I've snagged 'em!

A Dash of Whimsical - Loyal KD

Helga's Classie Creations - Helga

Hezascraps & Tags - Hezalin

Honored Scraps - Patty

Ah, November

Time for another change of scenery.

*sigh* Changed the layout of the blog again. I like the 3 column better, personally. I wish I could have figured out how to get one of the fancy-schmancy ones to work. I kept getting an error code, and by the time I was done - I was seeing stars. So I just edited this template to give me another column.

Yes that was almost as rough, but in the end, I like the colors and the look of this one. Next time I decide to do it again though, y'all have permission to smack me. Seriously.

Tonight we didn't have too many trick or treaters. I was surprised, given the fact that it was in the 70's today. An absolutely gorgeous fall day. Oh well, at least those few that stopped by got lots of candy from us! We emptied the bowl - so we weren't tempted by the leftovers. Not that I'm a huge fan of smiley-face gumballs....

Anyhoo. It's November now. Well, in 30 minutes it will be.

Time to put up the Christmas lights (while the weather is still good) and set up the tree. Now, before you think I'm crazy - which if you know me, it's too late - we got a new kitten back in June. Boo is now 10 months old and into everything. I'm thinking of putting up the tree (no lights or decorations, you weirdos) so he has the chance to get used to it. I'm thinking it would be better to have to pick up an undecorated tree over and over than one with ornaments and stuff on it. Hope fully he'll get used to it and there will be no trouble.

Wishful thinking.

I'll keep you posted. Wish us luck.

Updates, updates...

Titzi gave me an award, which is what dragged my slow butt back in here. I needed some serious updating. LOL

I had to get a new PC. The power in our house spiked, causing my PC to get fried. Oh yay. Thankfully I'd been burning things to disk and had just ordered a new removable external 350MB drive for backups. Thank God for small favors, because I was able to recover everything but a few tubes from CILM. I think they were Rion Vernon tubes. Oh well, lesson learned.

Backup, backup, backup!!! Point taken.

So I've updated my blinkie links, added a chat box thingiemabob, and added a link to my friend Patty's blog so you can read about her niece, Brynna. She went through some tough crap, but kids are resilient, and I'm praying she'll pull through this and be able to grow up a healthy, happy young woman. Patty is putting together a collaboration scrap kit to sell for Brynna & charity, and if I have photos to "match" their theme then I will be donating them to her to use.

OK. I really need to get back to work. I work from home one day a week to save on gas, and I'm spittin' this out at lunchtime. I need to eat and get back to the grind.

I got an award!!!

Titzi from A Blonde Moment gave me an award! That was so sweet of her. Hugz, hunny!

The Rules:

1. The winner can put the logo on their blog

2. Link to the person you received your award from

3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs

4. Put links to those blogs on yours

5. Leave a message on the blogs of the folks you’ve nominated

Here are my choices:

1. Lori from Doodles From My Noodle

2. Clarey from Clarey's Designz

3. Fi from Fi's Fault Scraps

4. Connie & Nicole from Irresistible Scraps

5. Yvette & Missy from Misfits Scrapz

6. Paula from Scrapz A Daisy

7. Norma from Swheat Creations