December 1, 2008

Well, here we are in the final month of 2008! Can you believe it?? It doesn't seem possible.
Lots of things have changed in my life this past year and I think I've grown as my own woman. I no longer let people run over me and I've learned to speak my mind, BUT I DO listen first. I've become more independent and make my own decisions.
Maybe that comes with age. YIKES! I AM an OLD HAG!!
We had snow flurries all day today and it's VERY cold outside. So this seemed like a great day to put up my Christmas decorations and my trees. Yep, trees. I just have 1 big tree and 3 little primitive trees spread throughout the house all decorated and........well.....Christmasy!! I watched Christmas movies while decorating and put myself right in the Christmas mood!
And along with that Christmas mood comes "giving". I'm giving everyone a Christmasy paper overlay today to start December off. So pick up your gift today and come back tomorrow for another Christmas Gift.
It's CU/S4O/S4H OKAY!! TOUs included in the zip file. Please leave a comment if you appreciate the giving that the TSG Team will be doing here on the blog this month.
Thank you for stopping by!!
Cheryl McCain - aka Digi Designs by Cheryl

Download your gift HERE. (Sorry, this link is no longer available.)

August is almost gone, do you believe it?

Wow the month is almost over. Only 4 more months in this year. Where has the time gone. Get ready for the September challenges at scrapping garden. Come and check out some of the mini kits at the color challenge. Here is a preview of what I did for it.

Hope all is well with you and please be thinking of those in harms way of the hurricane coming in. Thanks for stopping by.

Summer slipped by

I just realized I was to be posting this week and felt real bad. But I see that it has been very quiet here for a month. I guess everyone is out having fun. A lot of kids have gone back to school now so hope everything gets back on track. There are a few changes happening at scrapping garden. Starting September 1st I (teenybop61 aka Tina) will be taking over the Can you Face the Font challenge and Donna (Keiki) will be taking over the Snap a Masterpiece challenge.
Check out the Paper Patch crop Thursday August 28th. Go on over to the store and pick up the Pamela's kit Got Dot's then come to the crop Thursday 8 PM EST. There is still time to do some of the challenges before the end of the month.
Well, I will go for now, Check out the forum, the gallery, and the store for some great challenges, LO's, and kits. We are glad to have you join us in the scrapping garden.
Tina Bentley (teenybop61) Scrapping Garden CT team

An Apology, A Couple Layouts and a Gift

I've probably been the worst hostess ever. I never imagined that when I decided to hostess this week that it would be such a busy week for me. Between the yard sale and getting ready for the big move, I've barely found time to sleep. I think I'm at a grand total of 20 hours for the entire week, let alone scrap and open up to all you Scrapping Garden fansI hope to chose another week to hostess again in the very near future so I can share some before and after pictures at our house, as well as to share more of myself with you all. That will definitely be after the move and after Kathryn starts school in August though. That way I know I can have my life all situated.

But, since I'm here, I thought you all might like to see the layouts that I've done this month with Michelle Rodriguez's wonderful mini kit Day Dreamin'

This first layout is from when I got together with my best friend and her kids. It is Kathryn and Erica's oldest daughter Grace.

And this second one is from my cousin's wedding two years ago.

The first picture is me dancing with the bride during the dollar dance. The middle is my Mom, my cousin Cindy (sister of the groom) and my cousin Jason (the groom). Finally, the last picture is my brother dancing with Jason during the dollar dance. Our entire family is crazy, as you might well be able to tell.

Now finally, here is what I know you all are looking for, my gift to you all for being so patient with me: Falling quickpage (sorry, this link has expired)

And here is a preview of the gift you'll be receiving:

Hope to visit with you all again soon,
Dorann

I'm Sorry

So sorry I've been letting everyone down.
I've been busy preparing for a yard sale with a friend this weekend. And all of the stuff is at the new house so I can't even write a post while I'm over there.
It's okay though, maybe I'll make a few extra scrapping dollars and I know I'll get rid of some clutter.

I promise a good post for tomorrow (or today depending on how you look at it) and hopefully I'll be able to prepare a gift for everyone too.

Just Stopping By To Share Some Pictures

Almost a year ago, Tom gave me a Canon Rebel for our anniversary. Since I got the camera I've taken over 2500 pictures. Most of them are of the kids, but I've also taken pictures of some random things as well.

That said, I have some pictures from this month that I'd love to share with you all.

First off, I'll share a picture of my family. This was taken in May, and it was the first time we've had a family picture done since Paul was born. Thank goodness for my tripod and timer on the camera.

This month we also got together with my best friend who moved to Texas last year. We hadn't gotten to see them since then, and it was the first time that I met her youngest daugther. Here are a couple of pictures from that day.

That was our group picture from the day. From left top it is Paul, my brother Michael, my niece Lilliana. Bottom Erica, her daughters Elizabeth and Grace, Kathryn, Erica's son Zach, and myself.

And finally Erica and I with our babies. Her with Elizabeth and me with Paul.

It is dark because I haven't been able to edit them yet.

I also want to share just a little bit about Erica. She is the best friend that a girl can have. We've been friends for 25 years now. Since we were both 3 years old. She was there for me when my dad died when I was 14 and was a bridesmaid in my wedding. She was able to cry with me when I had a miscarriage on the same day that she announced she was pregnant with her son. We would both have been due on the same day. And she is Godmother to my rainbow baby, Paul.

Hi Everyone

Well, this is my first time blogging here at TSG. And I'm not sure how many of you know me, so I'll start with a little bit about myself.

I'm Dorann, better known as dorannmwin, or Mommy, or Woman. LOL. I'm mommy to two wonderful children, Kathryn who is five and Paul who is 21 months, wife to a wonderful husband of nearly four years. Our anniversary is coming up next week. And furmommy to two furbabies, Michaela and Jasmine.
Right now our family is in the long process of moving into our first house. We started the process of buying our house in October of last year and finally closed on it in February of this year. Since we've bought the house, we've done a lot of work to it. We gutted the bathroom, stripped out all of the flooring on the first floor and had a new heating and air-conditioning unit installed. We hope to start moving our stuff over there this week. However, we can't stay there yet because of two things. First off, we don't have the bathroom done, so there is no toilet. And, more importantly, we don't have an internet connection over there yet. I refuse to live at a house without internet.

So, how have your summer's been going? Ours, busy busy. We've spent a lot of time at playgroup activities and working on our house. And, in our spare time, we love to play in our pool.

I hope everyone will enjoy visiting with me this week and getting to know me a bit better as the week goes on. Any questions are appreciated and I will try to answer them all. I'll try to share some pictures of the house and of my kids this week. And, I might even have a surprise for everyone at some point during the week.