Totally Tuesday

Yesterday I said I was going to do some work. Well I did for about 15 minutes. While driving my two boys and my two nephews to two different schools I remembered I didn’t pay my property tax for my house and the property tax for one of my parent’s carehomes. Both were due on the 10th. Then when I got home, my cousin called and asked if I can take her to Sam’s club to go Christmas shopping. My cousin is my also my high school classmate and one of my best friends, we talk every single day. Her oldest son is also my oldest son’s classmate and we live just a few blocks away from each other. Neat, huh? So, yesterday I wrote two tax checks, called the bank to transfer money, went to Sam’s club, Costco, Smart-n-Final (saw a friend and talked to her for awhile), the post office (which was really crazy in there), Gottschalks, Walgreens (talked to two of my former coworkers, from two different jobs), went to my cousin’s house to drop off her groceries, went to the elementary school to pick up two of our boys and then she dropped my son and I at home and then she went to pick up our older boys at the Junior high….phew! I have to add that during that time I received 2 calls from my husband, 1 from my dad’s friend and 1 call from one of the carehomes. I also had to check up on another cousin/high school classmate/very pregnant best friend to see how she is doing. I call her at least once a day because she is due at anytime and I am the one to take her to the hospital and be with her in the delivery room if her husband is at work or out of town. Every time she answers my call she always says, “No baby yet”

I woke up this morning to find out which eye I keep open. Well when I woke up at 4:12 I had my left eye open walking to the bathroom, did my thing with both eyes closed, blew my nose still with my eyes closed, then walked back to bed with my right eye open. When I woke up again, it was my left eye open. To Laurie, if I don’t do my morning “anti-morning allergy” treatment I will sneeze that much too all in a row. My son, he will sneeze 5 to 8 times if he doesn’t blow his nose right away.

There were 322 visitors/hits on this blog since yesterday morning…. Well, about 70 of them were mine checking to see if I got any comments…lol…and only received 8 comments total for the two days….sniff sniff…. I guess you are all wanting a freebie. Just let me tell you a sample of what this slow poke computer puts me through.

Open Photoshop = 2 mins. 3 secs.
Open a file = 43 secs.
Complete a long brush stroke = 7 secs.
Merge 5 layers = 1 min. 5 secs.
Save the paper = 1 min. 23 secs.
Save for web = 2 mins 25 secs.
Photoshop to close = 3 mins. 19 secs.
Computer to shut down = 1 min. 58 secs. Yes, I had plenty of time to use a stop watch and file or open bills while waiting for the little circle timer thing to stop swirling...lol


This paper coordinates with the same color scheme of Splash, Retro, and Artistically Colorful. Since my Photoshop CS3 trial ends in 1 day, I’ll try to make freebies from my Xara or Corel Painter programs that need to be installed on this, what Pammyj calls “dinosaur” computer. Sorry, this link has expired.

In the meantime, I want to squeeze in a little advertising here. My CT, Pammyj, is hosting a challenge of challenges called “Keeping it Straight”.

Participate by creating layouts for all of TSG’s challenges and crops held during this month. Keep track of them in the "Keeping it Straight Challenge" Forum.

You will receive elements/papers/SticKits from my “Angel” kit for posting bonuses.

Also I want to add that Tracy Beck helped me out by taking over the Paper Patch Crop that I was supposed to do (thinking I would get my computer fixed by now) this Thursday, the 13th.

Please support Tracy by purchasing her “Winter Jewels” kit for $2.00 until the 13th.

The Paper Patch is a fun crop and a great deal to get a kit and more for $2.00. Her crop will be held this Thursdayat 9pm EST.

Don't forget my Blog Element Hunt Challenge I'm doing. PM me with your entry. Remember, all those that submit an entry will get a SticKit.

I would love to receive some comments, questions, ideas about future kits, etc…or even just to say “Yo, What’s up?” or “Hello”

Take care and Hugs, Lynn

Morning Allergies

Am I one of the very few that experiences morning allergies, ie: sneeze the very moment you wake up? This is something my dad, my brother, my youngest son and even my best friend go through every morning. It’s even Googleable and the diagnosis is allergic rhinitis, but I still call it morning allergies. Every morning if I wake up “wrong” I will start sneezing or I’ll start sniffling and get that weird pain in the nose or that sensation that you get when a sneeze is trying to come out. I’ve had this for as long as I can remember. For about 20 years now, I’ve been able to lessen or even prevent the morning allergies, it’s a ritual I do when I get up in the middle of the night and every morning. When I wake up, I have to have one eye closed. Yup, you read it right. One eye closed and then I have to blow my nose. Sometimes it’s hard to blow my nose when there is nothing in there, but if I don’t do it…. Yup, I’ll sneeze. As I’m typing this I really don’t know which eye I close, I’m thinking my left, but I guess I’ll have to figure that out tomorrow morning. I probably can just get up and just blow my nose when I wake up, but I’ve been closing an eye for more than half of my life, it’s automatic. Weird though I never do this when I wake up from a nap… I don’t get nap allergies. After my husband and I got married he would see me walk to the bathroom with one eye closed. I would have conversations with him with one eye closed. I mean I don’t look like Popeye or look like my face froze while winking. Is there anyone out there like me?

I received a couple of entries for the scavenger hunt. Great hunting girls. Here’s the layout again. There are 12 elements shown, each coming from 12 different kits of mine. Find the kit for each of the elements. May be tricky because some elements are not shown on the previews, but are just a different color or you can tell by the theme. I also gave a clue in my first post. PM your answers to me at TSG (again, I’m jklmscrapper) do not send the answers as comments here on this blog. All the correct entries will be gathered and on Friday I will randomly pick 1-3 winners (depending on the amount of correct entries) and announce the winner(s) on Saturday. The winners will get to choose one of the 12 featured kits in the scavenger challenge as their prize. Everyone who participates in this challenge will get the SticKit of the challenge layout.

I also host the Petals of Wisdom challenge. I create a free word art for you to use or you can create your own. Posting bonus for all who participates and if you use any of Linda Cumberland’s kits in your layout, you get an additional bonus.

I only have 3 more days left of my free trial of CS3. After I do some work, I will create a small freebie for you. See you later.

Happy Sunday!

Hello everyone! My name is Lynn Reloza and I’m your guest blogger this week. This is the first time I’ve ever blogged. My first fear was that I wouldn’t know how to publish/post this blog, but if you’re reading this, I must of done something right or I got some help…lol. My second fear is that I will bore you guys….crickets chirping..lol.

Well, here I go… I am an exclusive designer here at TSG since December of last year. I have 3 boys. My first is my husband, Mark, who I have been together with for 17 years and married for 12. Our oldest son, Kainoa, is 12. He is our Honeymoon baby and gave him a Hawaiian name. My youngest son, Josiah, will be 10 next month. We prayed for him and gave him a Biblical name. My TSG user name is JKLMscrapper. That is the first initials of all our names in alphabetical/age order. If I have another baby and it’s a girl, her name will be Nina. If I have a boy, his name will be Isaiah…. Still naming them in alphabetical order. And no there are no plans for babies in the future, but if it happens, it happens…and if it’s gonna happen, please happen soon…..

I haven’t created a kit since the beginning of November, my computer completely crashed on me. It’s been a nightmare trying to get it fixed and then just last week my colored laser printer stopped working. I’m borrowing a computer that is very slow. I bought a new colored laser printer so now I am in a crazy rush to make my Christmas Gifts and our Christmas/New Years card. I apologize in advance that I will not have a freebie for you everyday, but I’ll try my best to create one or two for all of you.

But in the meantime, I have a pictorial scavenger hunt for you. There are twelve elements shown here, each coming from 12 different kits of mine. Find the kit for each of the elements. May be tricky because some elements are not shown on the previews, but are just a different color or you can tell by the theme. I’ll give you one hint. If you played the November Bingo game, elements from the prize or the kits on the coupon are not shown. PM your answers to me at TSG (again, I’m jklmscrapper) do not send the answers as comments here on this blog. All the correct entries will be gathered and on Friday I will randomly pick 1-3 winners (depending on the amount of correct entries) and announce the winner(s) on Saturday. The winners will get to choose one of the 12 featured kits in the scavenger challenge as their prize. Everyone who participates in this challenge will get the SticKit of the challenge layout, I will PM it to you…well hey, there’s your first freebie. Good luck to all.

If you have any questions, I would love to answer them in my next blog.
Happy Hunting and see you later!!!

My Last Day...

My last day..... Sob sob. I hope that you haven't been bored by my rants too much over the last week and if you have My Scarecrow kit made up for it...lol
I have really enjoyed my time with you all, you have no idea how sick I felt the day before I was due to do it. I almost emailed Jen to tell her I couldn't do it as I was just to nervous and scared that I would have nothing to talk about. But I am so glad I did as it has been such a pleasure to read all the comments each day.
Ok on to a couple of question's - Diane you are such a sweet Lady it is always a pleasure seeing your name pop up around the challenge's , Blog and site , You asked how I do it. Honestly some days I wonder that myself...lol It's not too bad, I do get weeks or days if I have been real busy in my real life that it takes me a few days to get caught up again..But I Love it, I Love to Create stuff and seeing that people enjoy it. That makes it all worth it.

Judy you mentioned a Manly Heritage kit. ... I will certainly give that one a go , I think it could be very popular and something I think I would use myself for some photo's of my own Dad. Thank you for that. You also ask what program I use... I Love my psp I started with psp7 went on to 8 and now I just love my psp9 I have used psp10 but prefer my old faithful PSP9. I do also have CS2 and PSE3 that I do use for certain elements, but all the putting together and bulk of the work is done in psp. I started by accident , took me 3 days to get to grips with paint shop pro , my pal Janey gave me the programme and I was determine to crack it as I had seen tags on the Internet and I really wanted to be able to make them myself so I sat at this programme for 3 days cursed it and everything but once I got the basics nothing could stop me and I was doing tutorials that I found on the web and I just loved it, I have always loved arty stuff even from a very young age I loved art. Most of my inspiration comes from seeing what others do around the scrapping community, I might see one item and think Ohhhh that's nice and before I know it I have created a kit from it ...with my own twist. If I get stuck I usually research a theme and see what pops up on it and usually the colors or pictures will give me enough to do something with.

Dyanna , you mentioned Vintage kit's... That will be on my new years list as well , I have not done anything along these lines yet so I am certainly going to give them a try and I do want to do a little girly princess kit as I have never done that either with having a boy .
It really has been a pleasure I am going to miss doing this also... I am sure you will see me again some day in the not to distant future and if you don't want to see me then you will maybe want to see what I have for a freebie...lol

Here is the Very last kit for $2.00 my lovely Framzz pack get it HERE for the next 24hours.

And the very last part of my kit A Touch of Christmas is here . If you missed this kit or Part of it ,You will be able to get it in the Store on Tuesday, Along with all the challenge bits as well.

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I am sorry for the problems some of you had with the last link... No idea what happened but because of the problem i will leave it up a bit longer.

Thank you again to all who joined me this week and i hope to see you around the garden sometime as well. Take care and i hope that you all have a wonderful Christmas when it comes.

Friday Here Again....

Good Morning everyone. Friday again. I don't know where this week has went , I am just so behind with all my duties , I have two kits that i need to get done and i have hardly even started them yet, I have been playing around this morning with one as It HAS to be done by Sunday and i just can't get it going at all. Don't you just get weeks or Days like that where nothing just seems to work for you.... And then other days everything just falls in to place and you have so much time on your hands you are looking for something to do.... Not that i get many days like that mind. I keep saying if i go sit down and forget about it , it will come to me. I even sat in bed Last night with a note pad and just doodled some idea's down but Today trying to put them on the Canvas just isn't working. I need to get the color swatch down and then it might just work, but i can't even decide on that for some reason....I could scream.

Soooooo Anyway Tomorrow will be my last day and the last piece of the Freebie , I am really sorry that some of you have missed the freebie's, But the rules are they are up for 24 hours and i have been very careful to make sure that they are not up even one minute shorter than that , so that you all have at the very least 24 hours to get them. I don't think the time i post should be an issue to anyone because if i post at 5 am on Tuesday the piece will be there for the next 24 hours so you have all day and night to get it because it's going to be 5 am the Wednesday at the earliest before it is taken down. If you did miss some bit's then you will be able to get The Kit in store next week. I would have had it in today if i had time, but i have just had one of those weeks where nothing seems to be getting done so the plan is to have it for Tuesday.

Since this is my second last post, Is there any questions that you would like to ask me?????? Anything you ask i will answer tomorrow , So please feel free to ask anything that takes your Fancy , I would be more than happy to answer anything you care to ask :)

Here is the $2.00 Kit for Today . The very popular Dogs Life kit , Click HERE if you would Like it or just want to see more about it , There are more Previews in the store .

And Last but not Least my Day 6 piece of the Download for this week .

Here is Todays DOWNLOAD (Sorry, this link has expired)

***Link fixed at Friday @ 9:25am EST....so it will stay up until that time tomorrow.

Regarding Missed Links

Instead of repeating myself yet AGAIN....please see this thread
http://thescrappinggarden.blogspot.com/2007/12/link-is-up.html

Karen has posted her links in the early AM EST (since she is in Scotland) every day, so I would suggest stopping by in the afternoon/evening if you are in the U.S. If you miss anything, Karen has stated that she will have the kit available in the TSG store soon.

OOp's A bit late Today

This week has gone so fast , I can't believe that it is Thursday already and today i went and slept in so i didn't have time to get on here before rushing out to work..... BAD ME!!!!!!! Still gave you a little longer with yesterday's Download.


Yesterday turned out to be quite a nice day, We took Jason to Glenrothes and got his ear pierced as we intended. The guy wasn't going to do it at first, Said it was too busy, but with it just being one ear they did it for him , Jason sat down in the corner very straight faced, I was half expecting him to get up and say "No I don't want it done now", but no he waited till it was done then said he didn't want it now...LOL I stood back a bit and my mum was near him and I could hear him saying to Gran are you sure it doesn't hurt Gran... Now this was after he had got it done...lol I must admit his face was a picture , I wasn't sure if he was going to cry or what, as he was really straight faced. I think he got a shock as he didn't expect it to look like a gun. When he got up he said he wants it out now as it stings. We said no you have to keep it in till it heals, he said FOREVER ... We said yes and off he went arms swinging all ways, saying he knew he shouldn't have got it done... And he went out of the shop and across to the big tree in the middle of the town center in a huff...... It was quite funny and I think that was what stopped me crying as I had a lump in my throat when I saw his face after it got done. I really wasn't sure if he was going to cry or not at that stage. He did calm down and then just went around with one hand covering it because he said people will see it.
We went for a coffee and a roll and he settled down and seems fine with it now. We did get him a pair of Gold Hoops so that if the stud bothers him while sleeping I can put the Tiny hoop in and it wont bother him. I must admit I think his little stud is just so cute though. I am really glad he got it done.

I managed to get a few of my Christmas presents in as well and feel really relieved at that, I was starting to worry that I wouldn't get them in , I just couldn't think what to get, I think that is most of my Shopping done now , just a few little bits to get , like sweets and things like that.

Today's $2.00 kit is My Cute as a button Cars Alive kit. I think this is such a cute kit . You can grab that kit HERE for the next 24 hour's.

And Here is Todays part of A Touch of Christmas

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I just want to thank everyone for all there Messages, I really do enjoy reading them. Thank you again and keep them coming. See you all tomorrow.