Spring Ball

I find myself so busy these days, that I don’t pay attention to this ol’ blog -at all- but it’s important to me to chronicle these first days of Lulu’s first softball season. She is so incredibly...

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Laborious

Happy Labor Day!! Things have been hopping around here, kids back in school, working on some freelance sites, work is really busy this fall, and my sister had a baby! She was amazing, labored long...

Dressed Up Kids

Sorry for being so absent, life has just been keeping us so busy. The biggest event was our dear friend’s wedding last weekend in which my kiddos and I participated in the wedding party. I was a...

Fridays

I don’t have a layout to share this week for my Layouts on Fridays posts. Things have been pretty busy around here on the home front. I did manage to finish making a necklace and earings for a...

Layouts on Fridays

Another Friday installment of new releases at One Story Down! The third weekend of every month is the Block Party over there and one collab kit is released by two or three designers, then the other...

Homespun

My friend has been learning to die and spin her own yarn. She made this just for me and I can’t wait to do something. I haven’t been knitting much lately, but this beauty has me inspired!!

They Are Home!

Wordless Wednesday Well almost wordless, love those grandparents!!

Kidless

So we’ve been kidless here at home since Monday while the Grandparents have them. They are enjoying some beach-front cabin living and Joel and I are just doing our daily thing. I always think I’m...

Our Garden

One thing I am not really good at all is keeping plants alive. I just don’t have the knack, but luckily my husband enjoyes gardening and he is passing that love on to our daughter as well. I...

Layouts on Fridays

It seems that Fridays are the days that makes the most sense to show all my scrapbook layouts, most of the designers I scrap for release new products on Fridays, so most every week I’ll come and...

Celebration

Wordless Wednesday (late edition to include photos from the 4th)

Free 4th of July Printable Journaling Cards

So lately I’ve been making some of my own digital scrapbooking supplies, sometimes to supplement my stash and sometimes because I’m inspired by colors or an idea. I miss being a digital designer...

The Ardent Sparrow

When One Story Down became a consignment store, The Ardent Sparrow was one of the debut designers. I used two of the products for the launch of OSD and was hooked, instantaneously. The Ardent...

Welcome Back Kitschy Style

Well, Winter and Spring have come and gone and I’ve been absent on this good ol’ blog the whole time. But today, I had to come and post, this is just way too exciting not to come and share! In case...

Dream List – 5 things I’m going to accomplish this year

I’m back for another installment of Dream Lists. This one probably would have been better for the beginning of January, but it’s still only February. I have time. Number 1 would have to be lose...

Pinterest Lovin’

I thought it’d be fun to share with you a bit of what has caught my eye lately on Pinterest and in the blog-o-sphere. I’ve been pinning lots of things for the home, lots of texture, gorgeous...

Dream List – What would you do if you had a free day

What would you do if you had a free day? Here’s what I would do…in no particular order Get a hair cut, style, and color. Do some yarn shopping. Get a new stylish outfit. Go listen to a band play...

Latest layouts for Rachel Young

I made three pages for Rachel this January. Trying to stay up to date on posting them here as much as possible. Click on the images to go to my gallery for full credits.

More of us in January

I got pretty sick the third week of January, the kind of sick where you think to yourself that you have never been that sick before. I hate head colds, to me they are worse than stomach bugs. I...

Practice

As my first post of the new year showed, I didn’t make a big deal about choosing my “One Little Word“, hopping onto the Project Life bandwagon (although I was really tempted, and still am), or...

Dream Lists – The Vacation List

In an attempt to share more and be a little more consistent on my blog, I’ve been trying to come up with a way to journal without having to find photos, which I’m bad at consistently taking, or...

Christmas recap in photos

So, here’s our Christmas. It was good. Real good. Only thing that could have made it better was seeing my Dad and Brother. Hopefully next year. The kids got a bike and scooter from us. Lulu got a...

2012 So Far

I hope everyone had a happy holiday season. I know I really tried to keep my grinchy tendencies to a minimum and try to embrace the season for my kids. I find the holiday hard to deal with for a...

Dear Santa Letters

Hard to let them grow

9 year olds are a weird creature, are they not? He wants so badly to be grown up, but he’s just not there. I find myself struggling more and more to let him be his own little person, but it sure...

Chevron Patterns and Christmas Glitter – DIY Project

About a month ago I thought I’d make myself a stamp in the uber-popular chevron pattern. But I had’t figured out what I wanted to do with it, until I was thinking about my Christmas cards. This one...

Scrapbooking Christmas

I’ve never liked taking Christmas photos. There is just so much to look at, busy backgrounds with trees and lights, and I’m not really a fan of red and green. But I’m trying to be better about...

December Daily Album

At the Craft Day we had in November, Shanna brought us an enormous amount of her scrapbooking supplies so we can get a head start on our December Daily albums. I’ve thought about doing this project...

Fabric Pumpkins and Craft Parties

I have had the privilege of being invited to my friend Shanna’s to participate in Craft parties with her family and friends. Everyone in this family is incredibly talented. Shanna is a photographer...