Kirsten the Ballerina and Layouts

I was searching for ballerina stuff online since that is the theme Kirsten wants for for B-day party. I came across a Dora Ballerina video on You Tube and there were tons of Lazy Town videos in the side bar. Kirsten danced to different videos for almost an hour. She even learn quickly how to use the mouse to pick a new video once it ended. We signed her up for Ballet classes that start 9/3. She really wanted to start today once we went into the studio.

Here are some recent LOs:

Click LOs for Credits & a closer view

Another LO was selected for LOTW

One of my brand new layouts (LOs) was selected for Layout Of The Week (LOTW) at Digital Scrap Obsession. Here's the one that was chosen:

Credits

This picture was taken at Smuggler's Notch Resort in Vermont. We had a entire week vacation there and it was the first time Kirsten had seen real snow (not counting when they made snow at a Florida amusement park for "Snow Days"). It snowed almost every day we were there and we had a blast. The picture above is exactly what I saw as she peered through the fence on our back patio (all that was cropped out was the fence).

Yesterday when I was browsing through photos from our Vermont trip, Kirsten informed me, "I want to play in the snow". I told her to ask Santa for some snow this year. It looks like we will be planning another snow trip within the next few years. I have to say I am loving having a timeshare. Although they have been trying to convince us lately that we need to upgrade to points instead of weeks or we will start noticing we are limited in where we can go because point holders have priority. Well if it were free or cheap we would upgrade but they are charging over $5000.00 to upgrade. So I told them I was holding out until I noticed a huge difference.

We just completed a week (+ a few days) of Kirsten waking multiple times during the night. Saturday was the start of a new pattern (thank goodness because I was beginning to let her crawl in our bed way too much). Jake figured out she wanted to sleep with her door open. We think she got trapped in her room one day and had problems opening the door. So now we are leaving the door completely open for naps and bedtime and she has done really well. Of course the 1st time she made it through the night again we celebrated with claps and high fives.

Kirsten is going to stay with her Meme this week so Jake and I are gonna make some Mommy & Daddy plans!

Here's some more recent LOs:

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This is my new niece. She is my baby brother, Mike's little one. I am a bad Aunt and have the wrong birthday on there. it should be 6/10/08. It's she a doll? Kirsten adores her!

Credits

Freebie: Daddy's Day Wordart & Templates

Here's the wordart I used in the Daddy's Day LO I made. It's nothing real special but I thought someone might be able to use it.

If this LO looks familiar and my baby look way younger it's because the pictures are from last year (2007). As I am editing my LOs for spelling errors I have found myself redoing a few LOs that I did when I first started digital scrapbooking.

In case your interested the journaling is mumbo jumbo about the reason the letters look funky. I wanted to late and all the painted letter were sold out so I bought plain one and wrap ribbon around them.
Kit is Just Dirt by Simple Sweet Designs. Word art was made using an action from Atomic Cupcake.

I have added links to my template freebies in the left column to make them easier to grab.

Ponies, Princesses & LOs OH MY!

Here's a few of my recent LOs:

Credits

Credits

I have a few more but I gotta resize them 1st. Last week we took Kirsten to a local consignment shop and she got to ride ponies several times and see a few princesses and a pirate. She refused to within a few feet of the pirate. She loved it! I also got a great deal on some clothes. I bought 3T, 4T & one or two 5T. How can you beat 4 clothing items (many were 2 piece sets) for $5? I got 36 pieces/sets and paid $45! What a great deal! I love getting a good bargain. I should have took a picture of the stack I got but they are all strung out now between the laundry and drawers etc.

Pics from last weekend:

We went back this weekend and Kirsten rode the ponies again and we stood outside in the heat to get Kirsten her very own ID card. She thought it was very cool. We took a break from the heat and went in and found a few cool toys.

Saw this on another blog and had to try it. Have to say it's pretty accurate.

What your Fridge saids about you:

You like to be surrounded by things you love. You aren't exactly greedy, but you can be materialistic at times. (this is an inaccurate part)
You tend to be a fairly thrifty person. You splurge occasionally, but you're mostly a saver.
You are a very adventurous person. You love to try new things, and you get bored very easily.
You are responsible, together, and mature. You act like an adult, even when you don't feel like it.
You are likely to be married - and very busy.

What Do the Contents of Your Refrigerator Say About You?

New Layouts & More

Here's some of my recent LOs:

We had a great July 4th. We went to a fireworks display that was held at a local church. I came up with the bright idea of putting earphones on Kirsten to muffle the sound and she wore them and love the fireworks this year.

Her current is 34 lbs (same as November 2007) but she has grown 2 inches and she is now 3 ft 2 in (38 inches). You can tell it too because she has lost her baby fat and is slimming up some. Her language skills are soaring and she is getting smarter and smarter everyday.

This was our family July 4th picture and it was taken in front of the huge oak tree that shades our house.

I used American Pride by The Digi Twins.

Here are some of my other recent LOs I have yet to share:

This LO was done for Danielle's CT Blog Challenge. Head on over to the blog to participate! I hear Danielle is working on a great treat for those who play along. I used her Beautiful Day Freebie from her blog (6/21/08 post).

This was another LO I did for a challenge. We were asked to scrap 3 places we wished to visit one day. I picked Paris, France and Hawaii. Kit is Sprite Freebie From Britt-ish Designs.

Journaling: You love your new V-Smile game system. You have definitely inherited Mommy & Daddy’s gaming gene!
I used: Becky Wallace's Grab Bag (6/08), Atomic Cupcake Chipboard Action used for Alpha

Paper & Photo corners from Danielle Corbitt's Attach This.
Swirl: no TOU
Used Atomic Cupcake transparency action
Tag from ASterigou Floriade

Kit is April Showers by The DigiTwins
Date Strip by Britt-ish Designs
World Art by Elegant Wordart 2

OK here's the link to my album since there are still some I have yet to post:

http://picasaweb.google.com/AmandaDawnRN/LOs

I got Layout of the Week on Digital candy!

My "Tree Hugger" LO was chosen for LOTW at Digital Candy. Here's the link:
http://www.digitalcandy.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=6144.

I have a few new LOs that I will share later when I'm at home. I should get back to work now :)

My "BIG" Tree Hugger

Here's the LO I did today. As soon as I saw this kit I knew exactly what pictures I was going to scrap with it. Check out my adorable little Tree Hugger! She is getting so BIG!

Journaling: One morning when I dropped you off for school you asked me "Mommy I give tree a hug"? I told you to go for it and you did. This picture was not from that day but the last time you gave that tree a hug during the last week that your school closed.

Kit is Tree Climber by Danielle Corbitt (coming soon to digitalcandy.ca). Date stamp is by Brit-ish Designs. Template is from Aggie Aviso Journaling is Scribble.

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TOOTING MY OWN HORN: I just got notice that one of my pages will be featured as part of the Down Load A Day blog post on June 28th at http://digital-scrapbooking.org/main/

Say Cheese LO

Another new LO from tonight :) I've been playing over at http://www.digitalcandy.ca and got some RAKs (Random act of kindness) items. I made this LO using a quickpage and alphas from a grab bag from Becky Wallace.



BTW for anyone that was still waiting on "my news" it was a possible job change and didn't work out, I'm okay with it though. I'm sure God has a plan and I'll just wait around and see what it is.

New LOs

Journaling: We met another couple at McClay Gardens and took some shots. We ended up with a few good ones but it got dark quick so we ran into lighting issues.

I used Chirpie Love and Pretty Pins 2 for this LO. The template is my template #5 and can be downloaded below. I made the paper using a filter in PSE. I'm not thrilled with this LO but hopefully it will grow on me. The lighting was terrible on the day we took the pictures and they aren't the best but they still hold a memory that I wanted to capture. I just love these pins and the little chicks are adorable!


Temp by Ferg Designs Kit by Franziska Attmann


I love this new LO. Template by Aggie Aviso. I can't find the kit but will try to update when I do. It's a neat one.


Kit is Sunday Morning by Ellie Lash Designs. Temp is by someone else but I think I deleted it already :(



Kit is from Digitreats add ons (some old one). The word art is from Elegant Word Art 2



Tomorrow is house cleaning day...What Fun! I really need a good house cleaning service.

I'm a Aunt Again!

My little brother & his girlfriend welcome a beautiful little girl into the world today. Her name is Summer Rayn. I don't want to post her picture online so if any family members want to see a picture e-mail and I will send you one.

New Daycare Update & a New Template

Kirsten is loving her new daycare. She had no problems at all staying on the 1st day and told us bye and then went about eating her breakfast and check the surroundings out. She has been so perky when I pick her up each day too and yesterday she wanted to give all the teachers that were sill there "big hugs" before she left. Today one of the teachers asked me if she is potty trained yet. I of course responded "no" but we are really working on it. She then told me Kirsten has been keeping her pull ups dry at school and telling them when she needs to go potty. So we had a little talk on the way home and it didn't work because she refused to go potty before or after dinner and of course wet her pull ups. Hopefully with them working with her at school and us at home she is will staying dry at home more too!

Here's a new template, click to download:

Templates 5 + 2 & 3

So I felt bad after my last post and made a new template. I'm liking it too. It is from the Nov./Dec. copy of Scrapbooks Ect.

You can now download templates 2 & 3 that were in the Autism Kit:




Happy Scapping!

I would love to see the LOs you make using my templates. Shoot me an e-mail to Amanda_Dawn at USA dot com

Layouts and Such

Momma's Day Memories 2008:

Kit is "In the Yard" by Danielle Corbitt and Alphas are by Boutique Cute Dolls.





Journaling:
I am the luckiest mom I know.
I have a healthy, beautiful family.
There is nothing more a momma
could ask for. Daddy & Kirsten
made my day special by letting
me sleep in, keeping me entertained, and
cooking a delicious dinner.
I also got my Nikon D40
SLR camera too!

You had to have
the sticker off
the baked potato
and you put it on
your mouth like it
belonged there.

You decided to dunk
your head in the pool
for fun, we laughed so
that of course meant
had to do it several
more times.

We ate dinner
at our table
on the patio.

After dinner we took
some R&R in the hammock.

And my June Desktop from a Desktop Quickpage by Scrap Kitten Designs

A LO from 1/08:


Kirsten's daycare closed forever yesterday. She will begin a new daycare on Monday. She has been there for a few hours on a trial basis and loved it. She will be in the 2+ to 3 yr old room because they thought she was too advance to put in with the 2 yr olds.

I in somewhat of a scrapbook rut and haven't got a lot done lately. What I am doing I am using templates, hence why I haven't made any lately. Hopefully I will get inspired really soon and make some. I may try to work on my Disney pages tomorrow.

I got TAGGED!

I was tagged by Michelle who is a fellow CT member at Xandra Martin's Designs with me. She has some cute freebies on her website: http://inasunshinestateofmind.blogspot.com/.

What is so sad is I had to google "tagged" just to find out what that meant then I realized if I just went to her website it would probably tell me.

So here's the rules as to what I had to do and if you are one of my lucky 7 below then what you are suppose to do.

1. Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog .

7 Facts

1. I have a Bachelors of Nursing degree, a Practical Nursing degree and an Associate of Arts degree and work full-time as a registered nurse case manager M-F 8am-5pm.

2. I am terrified of most insects (esp roaches and the flying insects). Although I have gotten a little better and will now throw the dead ones in the trash whereas before I didn't want anything to do with them dead or alive. With a little one I can't just leave them there until my hubby can get them.

3. I am addicted to reality TV (my faves are Big Brother, Survivor, & American Idol) and am sad that they are all over for now.

4. I scrapbook on my laptop during my one hour lunch break almost everyday at work.

5. I have only have one biological brother who is five years younger than me but I was raised in a house with 6 total kids (my mom has lived with the same guy since I was 11 yrs old). So adding them in I have 1 sister and 4 brothers.

6. My Middle name is Dawn.

7. I love Zumba!

Ok so who's my lucky seven gonna to be?

1. Shasta: http://byshasta.blogspot.com/
She has some wonderful sketches and does a great job on moderating our scrapbook board at Baby Center (http://boards.babycenter.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?webtag=bcus11984)

2. Jen: http://www.roxybonds-scrappin.blogspot.com/
Great variety of sketches and lovely LOs too. Another lady I met at Baby Center :)

3. Michelle: http://atexaschickie.blogspot.com/
The talented owner of Star Studded Designs. She makes some adorable kits and such and you can check out her store here
I am lucky enough to be on her CT and loving it.

4. Christina: http://wimpychompersramblings.blogspot.com/
Talented chic on Danielle's CT with me. She has some cute LO and so funny poems on her website.

5. Shannon: http://scrappinitdigitally.blogspot.com/
Another very talented digi scrapper and photographer. Looking at her crystal clear pics inspired me to get and SLR Camera

6. Amanda: http://amandaheimanndesigns.com/blog/
Fellow Digi Scarpper that I met at Baby Center. She has some beautiful LOs and sells her own digi designs too.


7. Erica http://www.templatesbyerica.blogspot.com/
And yet another lovely scrapper from Baby Center. She has some very neat templates and kits on her website.

Wow I suprise myself and found 7. Please no one shoot me :)


There are new things going on in my little world but I'm not ready to share yet. When things are more finalized I will :)
And no there is not a baby on the way!

I learned something new...

how to make a blinkie :) It was actually fairly easy once I figured it out.



I finally got my new printer/scanner/copier up and running. Here are Kirsten's school pictures that were take a few weeks before March. Notice those funky pony bows in her hair, those were not the ones I sent for her. And the one of her sitting on the grass made her look chubby which she isn't. I haven't a clue what the photographer was thinking keeping that one. She is darling tho and I of course paid for the entire package.

New Scrap Layouts

Here's some of my new pages that I made for the creative teams (CT) I am on. For all my blog readers that don't know what a CT is it is a team that designers of digital scrapbook kits have to showcase their kits that they have for sale and by being on their CT you get free kits for making layouts (LOs) and posting them where other scrappers can see them and hopefully but the kit. It's really fun and I love getting the freebies for doing something I love. So here's some LOs I did using Danielle Corbitt's Kits.

This one is from the "I Lub U Momma Kit" and a template I made. It's one that I donated to the Autism Kit (although I did flip the frames). I will share it in June after they are finished with the kit sale.



and using the "May Flowers" Kit and the template is by Yin Designs


Journaling: You loved dancing to the parade music and watching the colorful floats and costumes. My favorite picture of the day are the ones of you playing with the magnifying glasses.

And this was made using a Freebie by Danielle called Starz



**The journaling basically saids these pictures are from the 1st 7 days Kirsten slept in her big girl bed and the date is 6/2/07.

You can find the kits in Danielle's Digital Candy Store, except the freebie that one I got by signing up at her Yahoo Group

We're Home

We had a great vacation and Kirsten loved Disney. She is one a first name basis with the characters now and she hardly knew the names of any beforehand. Her favorites are Mickey, Ariel, Donald Duck, and the Princesses. Of course I took tons of pics and have them uploaded so you can check them out here: http://picasaweb.google.com/AmandaDawnRN/DisneyVacationMay2008

If you are wondering who the picture of the first girl is in the red dress it is last season's American Idol Jordin Sparks. She was apparently filming a video when we were there and she was on a top ledge of the castle (thank goodness for 12x zoom).




We ended up getting a 4 day four park tickets with the park hoppers pass. We rode almost every ride we wanted to and as you may notice from the pics there aren't many pics of us on the rides because Kirsten was actually able to ride most with us. We did ride a few by switching her off. We did find out she does not like 3-D shows. We thought it was the scary ones she didn't like and took ehr to the mickey mouse one and she screamed and bit me.

I didn't get a chance to scrap while we were gone but I did this LO yesterday. It is my first CT Assignment. The kit is "It's Easter for Peep's Sake" by Xandra Martin Designs (link on sidebar).



I also wanted to share what I got for my anniversary/Mother's Day present: A Nikon D40 SLR camera
I took a few pics tonight and haven't uploaded them yet but they look great on the LCD and it takes pics so quickly that I know I will be able to catch those shots I have been missing with my other camera.

So it's back to work tomorrow. When I left I still had at least a day's worth of last months work left so tomorrow with be catch up day...what fun!