WOOHOO! IT'S READY!

Oh I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOO Happy to be able to share with you, the FANTASTIC news that SWEET BUTTERFLIES is READY!! WOOHOOOO!!! Oh you remember this kit, it's for Chelsea, you can meet Chelsea.
Well, all the proceeds go to aiding her medical finances and the BEST news is that it's ONLY $10.00!!!!!!!!! (That's Canadian, about $10.26 for USA) It's available at MooTwo Designs
You get ALLL This, check it out!!

OH, I am sooooooooooo excited about helping by buying, I am heading over there RIGHT after this post! hehe AND I don't want to forget to say that all who buy this HUGE & WONDERFUL kit, will get a BONUS by Gloria Val Verde!

How cool is that?! Well I am soo thrilled with this that I am running to the store now, hehe, hope to see ya there!!
If you find yourself in a position and cannot buy the kit, then please consider keeping little Chelsea and her family in your prayers! They work too, in a BIG way! :D
Thanks so much for the AWESOME response I am getting for the Christmas kit & alpha too!! I LOVE it!!! Have a BEAUTIFUL day, you help make mine, even though it's raining here. Thank you so very much for visiting! :D HUGS!

SURPRISE!!!!

Your comments are so overwhelming and WONDERFUL, i got busy on more to the kit hehe

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i hope you like it as much as you do the kit! WOOHOO! and thank you so very much for the GREAT comments!!
These are just the FUN capital letters (A-Z but background paper is not included) but i do have the symbols & small letters made too,(they are undecorated chipboard in same color, preview to come) just haven't uploaded them yet..... BUT I WILL lol because i had SUCH a WONDERFUL response! hehe kinda like one hand washing the other, is JUST how you inspire me to create more :D so Thank YOU!! :D
Thank you so much for visiting my blog and have a BEAUTIFUL day! Hugs!

WOOHOO!

4shared played very nice with my uploading this morning so i have 3 links ready! WOOHOO! lol


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Hope you enjoy and as always, if you use this, i would LOVE to see what you do! Give Thanks will be availble before the end of the week! hehe Thanks so very much for your AWESOME comments!!! Have a WONDERFUL day and thanks sooo much for visiting too!! hugs! :D

New & old...

sharing some previews today, of new & old kits. lol old kits are revised with add ons and made new again :D I hope you like them, cause if you do then as soon as 4shared wants to play nice, I can share the links :D
Give Thanks, just in time for those Thanksgiving pictures you are getting developed by now hehe


Credits:
Bunny S Cates aka SomeBunny
Roberta D'Achille
and other old kit that's been given a breath of fresh air ( and add on LOL )


Credits:
Atomic Cupcake
Kimb's designs
Gail P.
Roberta D'Achille
wordart font - Shoplifter
I sure hope you like them and can use them! It's fun to create & share :D
Thanks so much for visiting and have a GREAT day/night hehe hugs!

a littlle story or two

Two men were in the hospital. The man by the window would describe what was outside that window daily to the man, in the bed, next to him. Telling him "It's a beautiful warm, crimson sunrise with children coming out to play" also detailing an enormous parade with children running and people celebrating. This went on for weeks until then one day, the man by the window died. Missing the daily visions, the other man pleaded with a nurse to allow him the bed by the window until she relented. Once moved there, he positioned himself for the view only to see a brick wall. Confused, he said to the nurse, "I don't understand, he would describe these lovely days and all i see is a brick wall." The nurse replied, " Sir, didn't you realize that man was blind?"
Hence, the moral of this story is to view the world for all its beauty and not dwell on the negativities. ;)
I hope you like that story and share it with others, and if you did like that one, here's one my DH shared with me this morning ...by O.Henry
There was a little girl who was very ill and bedridden and she had an old artist friend who would come by and visit her daily. Where she looked out the window, she could see a tree and brick wall. As it was autumn, they would watch the leaves falling off that tree. And one day, she said to the old artist, "When the last leaf falls, I will die." The artist looked out the window, noticing only a few leaves left on the tree, so the little girl thought she would not make it through the night. She awoke the next morning to find a single leaf still on that tree, on a branch that lay next to the brick wall. She waited and waited for her artist friend to show so she could share the news. Finally she asked her mother where he was and was told he had died from the cold during the night. She looked out at the tree and as she did, a wind blew and the branch moved but the leaf was still, because it was painted on the wall. And she then realized he had given his life to save hers.
How do you see the moral of this story? :D
i really like those stories.
Here's another thought:
Courage is the triumph of the spirit over the body.
ok ok, enough of the mental & spiritual... off to play & CREATE!!!
Have a WONDERFUL day and thanks so much for your visit!! :D hugs!

New layout!

This layout was to be of our BEAUTIFUL dinner from yesterday but most of them are in the other camera still lol but it made a pretty good Cinnamon layout too! lol But how could it not.... it IS Cinnamon lol AND a cool template and an AWESOME kit Please see credits below

Credits:
template - Val
kit - Elegance by kimsmith designs
fairy dust - Mrs.Wresh Designs
Thank you so much ladies for such WONDERFUL designs, making creating layouts soo easy & pretty!!! :D
Thank you, my friends for such warm & fantastic comments! i LOVE them, so please keep them coming! They bring me such a smile and some i truly feel hugged :D so thank YOU!
Thanks so much for visiting and have a GREAT night! :D

Did you get enough turkey?

If not, you might want to check under your lampshades lol

With hopes that your day was WONDERFUL & filling! Ours was BEAUTIFUL! Here's part of our spread:

May your holiday weekend be EVERYTHING you want it to be!! Thank you so much for visiting! Hugs :D

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

hehe :D Have a BEAUTIFUL day! hugs!

Add on links! YAY!

Thanks so much for the sweet comments and you will be happy to know the links are READY! YAY!! lol
here
here
and
here
I sure hope you are ready for Thanksgiving! Are you having a big dinner or small one? This year it will just be DH, DS, and me :D but we will have the whole deal going for dinner since this might be DS's last Thanksgiving here at home :D We ARE going to have one extra mouth to feed, Cinny is coming home!! YAYYYY!!! (doing a happy dance) Now tomorrow i may be singing a different tune but for now lol i am soooooooo looking forward to my little girl coming home!
Pictures from Kathy (thank you, my friend):
how could i NOT love this little angel?

and one of Sunny & Cinny Mini

the next time i get these two together, i will try to make them sit for a pretty picutre ( yea, i hear ya, GOOD LUCK on that, huh? lol)
Ok, onto to some holiday humor :D (also from Kathy, Thank YoU!!)


oh well, thank you so very much for visiting and have a safe and happy holiday!! hugs!

How about an add on?

Last night I played with photoshop again YAY!!! and came up with an add on for the Snowmen kit!

it is amazing just how much time these dogs allow me lol The links will be ready either later today or tomorrow for sure!
a quick update on Cinny:
we visited her Saturday and was asked if we wanted to pick her up Wednesday night since Kathy & Marty will be having a full house on Thursday. Well, of course i couldn't say YES fast enough lol and NO nothing has changed here but hopefully these dogs missing her (crossed fingers) hopefully they missed her and will all get along somewhat better now! Although, it will be tough thinking about Sunny (their male Japanese Chin who LOVES Cinny) not having her to play with... Cinny will have Coco again, who i do believe misses her. he whines an awful lot lately. Here is a picture of what Sunny looks like (i didn't get a picture of his little face yet, this one was found on the web but looks JUST like the sweetie)


And here are some pictures of Cinny & Sunny playing.




and then when she tired out, she wanted daddy

i miss her so dearly!
oh well, off to check some other blogs and get some work done for the day!! Thanks so much for visiting and have a WONDERFUL day! hugs :D

Powerful music video & links!

Way to go, PINK!!!!
Dear Mr. President
hope you enjoyed that! sure is a powerful message to the leader of this country, no? :D
Well, onto the kit links hehe AND you will find a little surprise inside one of those links hehehe.
here
here
here
and
here



Enjoy! And, as always, I would LOVE to see if you use any part of my kits! You do such WONDERFUL layouts and I sooooooooo enjoy your comments too! Off to enjoy the sunshine! Thanks so much for visiting and have a GREAT day :D hugs!

Look what i got!

lol NO!! it's not another pet! lol I finally had time to design and play! WOOHOO! :D

What do you think? I like the colors alot! :D i could have the links up tomorrow if you think you could use it :D
See?! it DOES pay to keep checking back here lol
You know, i have been thinking (rut roh! lol) and every week when we go to the swapmeet, we always get such good deals or such cool stuff, that i thought it might be fun to share some pictures maybe sometime, huh? eh! it could be fun and maybe you could share with me, the deals in your life lol Who doesn't like a GREAT deal, huh? lol eh, if nothing else, it gives me something more to share hehe LOVE sharing!!
It's late but i wanted to get this posted tonite for you :D so have a WONDERFUL night!! Thanks so much for stopping in and sharing some time! :D hugs!

Be Prepared!

first i wanted to say THANK YOU to Kathy!! she called this morning to let me know how Cinny is doing and all is well! as i knew it would be! she is having a ball playing with Sunny (a little male Japanese Chin dog) Soooooooooo precious to see them romp!
Now my nerves can get back to some kind of semblance of 'normal' lol
Onto the REAL reason for this entry...i recently learned of something VERRRYYY disturbing to say the least!
Did you know that in Taiji, Japan, the annual dolphin hunt starts October 1st and continues through March 30th. Here, the massacre of dolphins is strongly encouraged by three local dolphinariums that purchase show-quality dolphins at a high cost and ship some of them off to othe facilities in Japan and abroad. This brutal massacre the largest scale dolphin kill in the world goes on for six months of every year. Even more shocking, the captive dolphin industry is an accomplice to the kill.
If you need to see a video on SOME of what goes on, check this out here, but please be warned, this is BRUTAL!
Let Japanese officials know that international pressure will continue to mount as long as the dolphin massacre is allowed to go on. Demand a permanent end to the drive fisheries and the preservation of dolphins and whales as natural treasures.

Ryozo Kato
Japanese Ambassador to the U.S.
2520 Mass. Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20008
Tel: (202) 238-6700
Fax: (202) 328-2187

For more information, including photos and video of the Taiji dolphin slaughter,
see www.savetaijidolphins.org.

Donate to the Save Taiji Dolphins Campaign today!

Please support the Save Taiji Dolphins Campaign with a generous donation. Your support will enable Earth Island Institute, Elsa Nature Conservancy, In Defense of Animals, and Animal Welfare Institute to keep our Action Team on the ground in Taiji to monitor, witness, investigate, educate, and end the dolphin slaughter.

You can support our work immediately. As the most resource efficient method of donation, contributing on-line enables us to direct the largest percentage of your contribution towards our campaigns. Just complete our secure, online Credit Card Contribution Form and click 'contribute'. That's all!

Questions?

E-mail: marinemammal@earthisland.org

Mail:
SAVE TAIJI DOLPHINS/International Marine Mammal Project,
300 Broadway, Suite 28,
San Francisco, CA 94133-3312

Phone: (415) 788-3666

Fax: (415) 788-7324
Let's see if we can help put an end to this horrendous event!!
If that's NOT enough, here's an excerpt from Flickr.com about VW & songbirds!
IDA (In Defense of Animals, IDAUSA.org) was sickened to learn that the Volkswagen Foundation is paying experimenters at German and U.S. universities to capture and use beautiful songbirds in worthless experiments that terrify the birds before they are ruthlessly killed for curiosity's sake. Although the use of any animal for experimentation is objectionable, the thought of birds-who are universal symbols of joy and freedom-captured, caged, terrorized, and vivisected, is particularly heinous.

Help drive Volkswagen to make the right decision. Please Take Action and send a polite message to Stefan Jacoby, VW President and CEO asking him to use his influence to earmark funds for research that does not entail the use of animals. Then print your letters out and mail or fax to:

Stefan Jacoby, President and CEO
Volkswagen of America
3800 Hamlin Rd.
Auburn Hills, MI 48326-2829
Tel.: (248) 754-5000
Fax: (248) 754-4930


Send very polite emails to Mr. Jacoby's assistant at bettina.weidemann@vw.com.

Contact our literature department for VW leaflets so you can educate other shoppers.


To learn more visit:

www.vivisectioninfo.org/campaigns/volkswagen/
Now i haven't checked this out, but for the LIFE of me, i cannot imagine why they would need to experiment on songbirds of all things!!?? But it is sickening to know this kind of stuff goes on! Russia & Canada still have those seal hunts as far as i know too! just awful!
Please see what you can do to help put an end to these malicious hunts! i will too!
Thanks so much for visiting and have a great day :) hugs!

Cinny gets a vacation!

i made a tough decision on tuesday and finalized it last night... today will be Cinnamon last day here for a couple of months. it has not been an easy adjustment for the other dogs and has only been one big stressful moment for me to have her... as much as i love her is as much as it is hurting to make this decision but i cannot keep up the stress level daily in this house when no other pet wants to play with her and she is constantly jumping up in their faces to play. She will be spenting some time with Aunt Kathy & Uncle Marty since they have a little boy plays well with Cinny. i will miss the play dates for them, heck, i will miss her deeply (haven't stopped crying since yesterday) but it's gonna be best for her..... not me, but my nerves will appreciate it. i will, of course get to see her anytime and this couple wanted to buy her before i did, but didn't have the money at the time so i KNOW they will only be good to her! They will just kind of foster her for a month or so, and then if all works out, we will get her back but if they work out for the better, for her to stay with them, then i won't stand in the way.
this is easily, one of the hardest things i EVER had to do because i love her so much, but my other pets just won't :(
not sure how much time i will be on the computer for awhile either, guess you all know how it is when sadness weighs so heavy. off to spend my day with Cinny (tear falls)
have a great day and thanks soo much for visitingQ! hugs

Cosmetic dangers

Have you heard about the dangers that just applying everyday makeup can cause? This has been going on for years now and i am just hearing about it.
The following is from an article that was out in 2005!!!
" The cosmetics industry in the U.S. is now a $35 billion a year business, and increasingly, people are concerned about potentially dangerous chemicals some cosmetics companies use in their products. Joining us to talk about what's in the stuff many of us put on our faces is syndicated health columnist Judy Forman."
You can hear it here
Want to check the ingredients in your makeup? Check the database here
i hope this has been as enlightening to you, as it was for me!
Stay safe and thanks so much for visiting! Have a WONDERFUL day!!

Have more interest in

Those Poms kit lol so i thought i would share the link here :D
Personally i like the blogs that have that freebie list on the side and i will learn how to do that so all my freebies with active links, are all in one spot... wouldn't that be nice?
Well, Halloween is over and my son dressed as a pirate and looked fantastic with his long hair

but since he wanted his hair cut, it was time to donate to Locks of Love again! So we cut off about 13 inches lol this is the shortest i EVER remember his hair but it looks so good!

Don't ya LOVE when they pose for ya? Hahaha Well, i told him, i sure wouldn't take offense if he wanted it done professionally but it looks pretty good considering i have NO expertise in shorter hair cuts, but i can cut a pretty mean EVEN cut LOL Usually we send just the 10 inches needed but this time he wanted to go shorter.... so we did :D
Well, i hope you enjoyed our time together and now i am off to see what goodies i can find hehe Thanks so much for visiting and have a WONDERFUL day!! :D

We have Security!

lol First i hope you all had a WONDERFUL weekend! the weather here was reasonably warm, bright & sunny on Saturday. We went to the swapmeet and as always, we took Cinnamon. She LOVES to see her other mother (breeder) and she has taken to a few of my friends there too, so she LOVES the outing! Everyone absolutely LOVES to see her too, its quite the social day for both of us lol This weekend, 'Aunt Kathy & Uncle Marty' gave her a little jacket with SECURITY on the back (THANK YOU again!!) and tho she won't be able to wear it all winter (it's tight now) it sure was CUTE!

Credits:
template - Leslie Hasenkamp Designs, a scrappindigikreations freebie
Those Poms kit - me
font - Georgia
Don't be surprised to see more photos lol as i took more on the newer camera but have yet to upload those. Isn't she too sweet? She actually is a little sweetheart, but i sure wish i could bottle some of HER energy! lol
Thanks so much for all the warm well wishes on my eye and it's healing totally WONDERFULLY! Even DH commented on how fast it is healing, i just smiled cause i don't really even remember that i am wearing a shiner still since the swelling went down, it doesn't hardly bother me at all. there is just the outside corner that has a small lump and still sore but the color is fading nicely :D
Thanks so much for visiting!! i LOVE your comments, they make me smile and sometimes i can even feel those hugs! so keep 'em comin'!! hehe and i will do the same!! Have a BEAUTIFUL day where you are! Stay warm!

Just been taking time...

to heal up and getting some layouts for challenges done lol :D
Have you ever seen a black and blue scab?LOL Well i did, NOW!!
That little black & blue surrounded by the yellow, right by the outside corner is an actual black & blue one LOL
Incredible! lol oh well, onto my layouts and NO they are NOT of my eye LOL
These two are my older DS who now lives in NY.

credits:
template (#13 Template Tuesday) by Gloria Val Verde
Instant Magiques by Peggy
fonts - Juice ITC & Blackladder ITC

Credits:
template (#10 Template Tues.)-FroggyPond Designs
Patriotic kit - me
Stitch & Gold Fairydust - Mrs. Wresh Designs
Thanks so much for visiting and all the well wishes on the eye :D HUGS Have a GREAT day!

Things that go bump in the night.....

Like me!!! And look at me now! lol

Yea, i know, i know lol Halloween was LAST week! lol And how GOOD would this have looked with MY costume? LOL
i think i will start to turn on some kind of light when wandering off in the middle of the night from now on lol Wierd, to me, but i am no expert on shiners lol, but seemed weird how i hit the outer corner of my eye and tho the swelling went down with ice, WHY would it blow up under and to the inside corner of my eye?? i dunno lol But you can believe i was a little shook up for awhile...

it happened about 5am, yes, THIS morning lol and the pictures were taken about 12 hours later lol And from the side, the bottom is blown out further than my eyeball!! Even tho i kept ice on it for over 2 hours (off & on the corner for an hour and then the bottom of my eye for the rest of the time) strange! On a lighter note...
Cinnamon is doing FINE!! lol still has a scratch on her head and hasn't learned much at all from the experience and jumping and biting everyone to play lol but proving she is back to health!
I hope you have a better week than i have been having (sigh)... mine have not been the easiest but definitely interesting to say the least lol
Thanks so much for visiting and have a WONDERFUL day!! HUGS

November already?

Wow! Hard to believe it's already November! Just a few more weeks til Thanksgiving, sheesh!! I hope you had a safe and happy Halloween! As for me, well, I have been nursing a hurt Cinnamon. Her first Halloween and she sure was introduced quite well, poor thing! Charly gave her a warning bite and Thank GOD it's nothing serious, it scared her quite severely! She does have a small spot that bled a little and that's when we called a vet tech friend of ours. After examination and a little clean up, we were given a few things to watch for and sent home with a fairly good diagnosis. Barely a scratch but one lesson learned well! Yesterday we kept the boo-boo clean and with neosporin on it and she pretty much wanted nothing more than to rest! She ate and spent some time with me (and went potty, ok too) but mostly just wanted to rest, the little sweetie. And today, she is almost back to normal (more scared than hurt), still went up to Charly to play, so I am not sure what lesson she learned, if any! lol But what a scare for ALL of us! sheesh! So now we are considering Charly either to be more an outside dog, like we wanted for him from the start, or a new home. We are leaning toward the first option, for now. Wish us luck. :D

Speaking of sweeties, do you remember this little one?

Well the designers from all different sites have been busy creating something FABULOUS and I have some of the previews of all the yummy papers and goodies that will be available starting December 1!!!




Can you believe this WONDERFUL MEGA collaboration!!??! I pray you all open up your hearts and share in helping Chelsea starting December 1, by buying this kit, as all proceeds go to aiding her family with her care expenses.
Maybe you recognize some of the designers:
Brittney Ferguson
me, :D xashee
Gail P.
Michelle McCoy
Gloria Val Verde
Jeanette Bollinger
Kim Broedelet
Leslie Hassen
Lynncal
Molly & Max
NanaC
Tara Donovan-Kostyrski
Terrells
I will definitely keep you posted to all the where and when the AWESOME kit is available and thanks soo much for visiting today! Have a WONDERFUL day! HUGS :D