Happy Sunday!!

Happy Sunday everybody! I hope you're all surviving the winter months in the Northeastern United States, and elsewhere according to The Weather Channel. We've seen more than our share of snowfall this winter with record breaking accumulations in my location.
I'm sending hubby outside with the camera this afternoon to snag some photos of our latest blast! For now, I'm snuggled in my office chair with a cup 'o joe and chatting with all of you.
Let me tell you about the challenge I've got for you this week. We'll be using my "Snapshots" Daily Download kit that I'm sure you know you can get a piece of in the Daily Download Challenge to get your weekly bonuses there too.
What I've got in mind for your challenge is this: I'd like for us to complete an album this week by creating layouts using the "Snapshots" kit and choosing a different photo everyday this week.
For today's photo, I'd like for you to find a snapshot of yourself as a child. We'll go through the years in a week and complete our "Snapshots of My Life" Album.
So now you know to dig through your piles of photos and find some interesting photos of yourself throughout your lifetime and let's make a really cool album to show off in the GALLERY.
I realize you don't have that many pieces of the Snapshots kit yet, so just for those of you who are visiting the Blog this week, I'll be giving out pieces ahead of time to enable you to complete your Album with more pieces to the kit.
You can also get a free Snapshots SticKit by reading the TSG Garden Gateway Newsletter.
For today's layout challenge, use what you've downloaded from the forum so far and I'll have more downloads for you tomorrow to help you through this week.
I DO hope you choose to take the challenge and I'll be looking forward to seeing your layouts in the gallery!!
Take care......see you again tomorrow,

If you click on the "highlighted" Gallery above, it'll take you to the Blog Challenge Gallery where you post your layouts. You can either post daily or all at once at the end of the week. HTH.

Oh Boy Puter Problems!!

Well, I expected not only to have a freebie for you today but a sneak peak of my new kit, and a CT Call. I have them all done but no way to get them posted here. I am using the family computer. For some reason I am having really weird problems with my computer. Last night everything was okay but as soon as I tried to log on this morning I began having problems. My computer registers that I am connected to the internet but it cant find any servers. Not even Hotmail or MSN. go figure. It is really weird. I will most likely spend the next week getting all my important info Off of my computer so I can take it in to be looked at. I am not really thrilled about it.

So anyway I think I can just type out my CT Call here. Sorry it isnt all fancy.

I am looking for One permanent CT and one Guest CT. The Guest CT is a three month commitment. I am also looking for someone interested in using my kits to make ads for me. The benefits is to be able to keep the kit you are working on for free!

What is required:
At least use 2 kits per month making 3 layouts from each kit to post at three to four sites, including The Scrapping Garden, Digi Shop Talk, Gotta Pixel, and if you want one of your own choice.
Make 2 Stickits or 1 Brag Book including front and back cover for me to use as Friday Freebies or posting gifts. You may make your layouts into stickits if it would make things easier and also for the layouts I do not mind if you use templates. (Stickits and brag books must be your original design)
If you are interested in doing the ads please email me and I will be glad to send you requirements. Making the ads is not a hard thing to do just time consuming and I need the time to design. I will need to to post the ads for me at the advertising sites I give you.
If you are interested please contact me at ascrapbookdiva@hotmail.com or pm me at www.scrappinggarden.com.

Well, I am sorry that I havent been really great this time blogging and that my life is a mess this week again. Things really arent like this normally in my family. Usually things are nice and quiet. I hope it gets that way soon. Take care everyone and again thank you for all of your wonderful comments and well wishes. I will see you again sometime next month. You can catch me on my personal blog at www.divascustomscrapbooks.blogspot.com Remember that I have Friday Freebies most of the time. I try to be consistent with that unless I am sick or there is something up with JP. I also have freebies or layout shares during the week sometime. If you have purchased any of my kits and have made any layouts make sure to post them in my gallery becauese I would like to honor you on my blog sometime for layout share. If you have pictures you would like to share then again upload them to the same gallery at The Scrapping Garden, www.scrappinggarden.com and I will be glad to share them on my blog also. It would be great to see who you all are. Make sure to tell us who everyone is.

Have a great weekend everyone and I will see you all next month.

Hugs

Today is Better!!

Thank you all for your well wishes and prayers. I am feeling a tad bit better today. This disease is such an up and down thing. The change in the seasons is usually the worst time for me :( . When the weather changes back and forth everyday and the barometric pressure is going crazy, so does my fibromyalgia. I think the hardest part to control is my mood. I have a tendency towards depression anyways and with a chronic pain disorder I go through periods where just getting up in the morning is a fight. Sometimes I just want to give up. Thank goodness and thank God that I have something creative or I would go out of my mind. John also is my light. He fills my heart so full of light and love. Sometimes I think that is why God in his infinite wisdom gave him to me.

Enough of that. I am getting very anxious for my son to come home. I miss him so!! We have so much fun together now that he is an adult. When he comes to visit we are all over going and doing tons of fun stuff. Now that he has a drivers license it is even better. He loves to drive and is very willing to do my errands for me which is a great help considering.

I did something very stupid today. LOL Yesterday was late start for John at school. Yesterday we had a doctors apt. A recheck on his pnemonia. Well, last night when I went to bed I thought today was Wednesday and reset the clock to a later time. OMGosh was I surprised when the bus didnt come, and didnt come, and didnt come! I called upset wanting to know where the bus was. Thank goodness that Candy the lady in charge of the transportation and I are friends. We finally figured out what the problem was: ME!!!! ROFL I apologized and decided to keep John home today. The pain puts me out of my right mind. It is really weird. Even after I start feeling better I still feel like I have cotton stuffed in my brain. An after effect of intense pain my Doc says. It does go away after a few days but in those few days I can do some pretty stupid and funny things! lol

I am working on a few different kits right now. One called Grandma's House. The colors for this kit I took from the Color Challenge and you can get a glimpse there in the forum. Hopefully I will get it posted there today. Karen always comes up with some challenging color palletes for me. I always have to stretch out of my comfort zone. Always a good thing. Pushing the envelope never hurts in the creativity area. You may open up a flood of creativity that was just waiting in your brain to be tapped. Also, I am on the Mega Kit Design Team for April and also have The Promotional Kit coming up and that will be Bette's Butterflies. Then Marsha and I have out kit for next months chat coming up also. It will be an Easter Theme so make sure to start collecting up your Easter Pictures.

I hope you all have an awesome day!! and God Bless you all!
{{{Hugs}}}

Freebie Day!!!!

I know, I know finally huh! It has been a rough week. I know I have made promises I have not been able to keep. It has been hard for me to get anywork done the past few days. I dont know if I have mentioned I have fibromyalgia. When it gets close to a season change and the weather starts going back and forth. I have increased pain. The past few days I have been forced to take muscle relaxants and just go to bed. It never pops it's head up at a good time. Never at a good time. Anyway, I felt much better today after sleeping until almost noon pacific time today. I have been okay since. So, I had time to make a freebie. I hope you enjoy it. The colors are very spring oriented and fun. On April 1st you will get to see the kit this came from. Here is the preview.



Here is the link: http://www.scrappinggarden.com/april/als_tsgfreebie.zip

On another note. Marsha and I had our first crop tonight. It was so much fun. I would like to invite you to come on by the Growing Your Elements forum and find out more about the challenge and how you can still partcipate. I will be putting together how you can do that sometime tomorrow. So by tommorrow evening pacific time I will have that up. We would like to extend the invitation for you all to come next month. I know some of you cannot make it so we will try as much as we can to help you out so at least you will be able to receive the posting bonus.

This year has seen a lot of crazy weather so far and I hope you all have been surviving okay. It has been tough here because we get one day of really nice weather and then it is freezing at night and rainy the next day. I have heard about alot of you still having ice problems, snow problems, and even tornado warnings. I will pray that the Lord will keep you all safe and pray that he will begin to tame the weather.

You all have a wonderful day and God Bless you all. I hope so much that you will love the freebie.

Hugs to you all,
Peace out!! lol

I spoke too soon!!

Yes I did! It is raining today!! :( Of course it rained since I had to go do errands, isnt that always the way? I am a little behind today so I dont have your freebie ready yet. I promise tomorrow I will have one for you all. Also, a few layouts using my new Celtic Dreams Kit.

It will be out tomorrow in my store for 25% off. I even got some stickits made for those of you who do not have a lot of time. Just plop the pictures in below the layout, resize the pics a little and call it done!!

I am now going to begin to work on a baby girl kit. One of my DH's high school students is having a baby within the next month. It is going to be a girl. I have decided I am going to make an 8X8 album for her. So if anything I will have some Stickits to put in the store. Hopefully by the end of the week. Or on Tuesday for sure. I hope. You never know what is going to happen.

In two weeks my Oldest son Marc is coming home on leave. He is in the process of transferring to Balboa Hospital in San Diego. I am so glad he will be closer to home and maybe we will see him more often. He is in the Navy and is an E-5 Corpsman. He was on a fast frigate in Hawaii for three years. He really loved it.

Well, I need to run and eat lunch. Sorry about being so late and being last minute. I will blog tonight again before I go to bed so it will be here bright and early for you East Coasters.

Have a great Day,
Hugs,

It's Me Again!!

Looks like you all are stuck with me again this week. Hope you all dont mind too much.
John Paul is doing fine. Getting better and better everyday. He has a check up Doctors apt this Wednesday and they will do Blood work and an X-ray to make sure the Pnemonia is leaving. He finished his course of antibiotics a few days ago so I am sure all will be well.

Here in WA the sun has been shining for a few weeks now pretty much anyway. lol Here in WA everything stops when the sun is shining and we go out and worship it! lol Not really but it comes close. We get so little of it around here that it is really special when it does shine. The temperature has been around 60 degrees which is great for this time of year and it feels so warm in the sun. Spring is just around the corner. I am so glad. It was a cold, cruel, winter!

Linda Cumberland's son's mother-in-law has been diagnoised with cancer and she is taking an extended leave to help her family. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers as well as the rest of the family. I will be taking her Blueprints of my Garden while she is on leave. A new challenge will be starting on the 17th of March. Wait until you see the Blueprint we will be using. it is so cute and springy. I think you all will love it! Linda had the Blueprint ready so all I will need to do is to make a posting bonus. I think I may have one almost done just waiting for this. I always have something waiting in the wings just in case. Again, please send thoughts and prayers to Linda and her family now at this terrible time for her and her family. I will keep you updated as I hear anything.

I have a new kit coming out on Tuesday called Celtic Dreams. It is a huge kit. So huge I had to break it into a Paper Pack, and Element Pack and I am working on the Stickit Kit. The stickits will have some Old Irish Blessings that have been floating around my family for awhile. What, I cant hear you, a little louder please. Oh, got it you want to see. Okay, here you go.







So, what do you all think? I hope you like it. I had a blast creating it for you. It will be 25% off for the first week in the store.

Tomorrow I will have a sample from this kit for you to try out. I know it will wet your appetite for more! lol

Here is an ad for Marsha and I. On Tuesday March 4th we have our first Growing Your Elements Crop. 7:00pm eastern time in the chat room.

Hope to see you all there in the Chat room! We will have fun, fun, fun!!

Have a great day and I will see you all tomorrow!!