It's Been So Busy Around Here

Last week was truly a blur.  Between baseball games, practices, birthday and vendoring, I feel completely out of touch with reality!  

Well yes last week, April 10th to be exact, was my 38th birthday.  My hubby surprised me with dinner, cake, cards and presents - what a good man.  He gave me this gorgeous neckless called "Tears of Christ", very special.  Then he took all the boys to pick out cards and presents for me.  It was an awesome day, I felt really special.

In the midst of last weeks 100 yard dash, I was able to carve out a few creative minutes.  Take a look at these cards I made using the

4 Scrappy Sisters March Full Size kit.  There is only 1 kit left in the store so if your interested run quickly.  Side note:  today, April 15th, is the last day of our "Tax Relief Sale".  

Chat again really soon!

      

Envelope Album

I've spent the last 2 or 3 days working on this envelope album.  I've decided that I'm going to offer it as a class at our next 2 weekend scrapbook retreats.  I can't tell you how easy and fun it was to create - and believe me when I say the possibilities here are truly endless.

    

For this envelope album I created a pocket for each one of my boys + one for hubby.  I then interviewed each one of them.  I had a list of about 10-12 questions and then narrowed it down a bit for the album.  Then I put together a small group of photos for each one and tucked them in the envelope pocket with their Q& A's pasted on the outside.  It really turned out great if I can say so myself.

      

Thanks for looking and I'll be chatting again soon.

The Little Things

Okay, this just goes to prove it's the little things

 in life that really make me happy.  I was over at the bank recently, when the teller sells me an offer I just couldn't pass up.  "If you complete this brief credit application today we'll give you one of these FREE."  "Sure, why not," I said, and now I'm the proud owner of this awesome little radio/cooler combination - what a great idea!  We can so use this at the 101 baseball games we attend each spring. 

The radio part is am/fm with a built in antenna.  Plus it has an earphone jack and a plug for your ipod.  So now all I have to do is attach the ipod and it'll play through the speaker...ingenious idea I tell ya.  It's all about the little things in life...the little things.

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The Best Idea Book EVER!

I'm the kinda person who is always on the search for amazing new idea books. Well this one is the BEST I'VE EVER SEEN! 

You all know already how much I love Becky Fleck and PageMaps, well her long awaited 

idea book has been published and reached my doorstep yesterday afternoon!! 

It is literally FILLED with all new sketches and example layouts. But the most ingenious part of the book is that she has condensed the sketches into travel 4x6 laminated cards that detach from the back and fit into this cute little box (also in the back of the book). 

Now when your at home you've got the book to refer to but when you travel to crops all you need to grab is this little 4x6 box full of sturdy, laminated idea cards. They have a sketch on one side and an example layout of the other - BRILLIANT, I tell ya, just BRILLIANT. The book is filled with sketches for all size scrappers; 12x12 single, 12x12 double, 8.5x11 single, 8.5x11 double, 8.5x11 landscape, 8.5x11 portrait...it unbelievable. The book itself is hardback with a spiral binding on the inside, which makes it so easy to flip through all the yummy pages! 
I truly think if I could marry this book I would.  

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Busy Weekend!

4 Scrappy Sisters spent the weekend vendoring a scrapbook retreat with Scrappin Retreat.  We had a great time, met a lot of fun scrappers, scrapped a little ourselves and sold some of our stock - heck I really don't think it gets much better than that :)

~ Here's a look at what I was able to accomplish this weekend ~

---------------------------->  One Proud Mama  <----------------------------

I just have to share a very proud mama moment with you.  Take a look at this - my son Jacob (Jake as they call him on the ball field).  

Jake's No Hitter

Can you see me beaming from ear to ear!

I hope your weekend was filled with great joy.  Chat again real soon!

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I've Created A Social Monster :/

My 13 year old son has one of the greatest sense of humors I've ever known, and this just goes to prove the point.  I accidently left my computer unattended with the 4 Scrappy Sisters message board still live.  When I came back there was a post entitled "The sexyest boy alive".  I was afraid we had a hacker but quickly learned it was just my socially starved son.  Well as the night wore on it became apparent that he was having way too much fun for a kid his age and even ended up creating his own user account :0  You've gotta love the name he chose "Da Man".  What a total nut.  Look at a couple of his posts:

"Da Man"{user name} {Avatar pic.}

hey hey hey ladies of the board guess what i now have an offical user name so you will be hearing from me alot more and just to let you know i will make your day the funniest one you will ever have and if there is anything you want to know about me and my amazing life you know were to find me and for the other repliers know its close to spring break and i dont have any home work and i sleep when sleep is needed :) about me i like long walks on the beach my favorite color is blue and im now 13 and single. i play many sports as baseball,football,and wrestling so im pretty built im currently 5"11 and 160 Pounds of sure hunkness and i am currently working hard towards my scholarship at UVA i am a very entresting little guy i like to make people laugh and like to see people happy and if there not i will make them happy so any of you have husband troubles feel free to talk to da man (me) so i guess thats it so message back and tell me a little about you well i see that you ladies have missed me so don't worry I'm here  well as you know i have to go to school so i will have to leave you at 8:00 so we can have fun till my mom gets on jk so anyway who wants to talk   __________________________

What have I created!?!?  I did tell him if he wants to be a part of the mb he must scrap something.  He said, "I'll just throw a little card together."  We'll see!

Check out this layout I made during the 4 Scrappy Sisters cyber crop.  It features Adam modeling the new suit we bought him for mom's wedding.  

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Spring Has Hit Virginia!

Yep, it's the end of March here in Virginia and all signs are pointing to another beautiful and busy spring.  We have runny noses, itchy eyes, constant sneezing, baseball practices, baseball games, baseball tournaments, more sneezing, sinus headaches...do you see where I'm going with this.

Well, with the help of Claratin and/or Zyrtec, I was able to see Jacob's, my oldest, first High School baseball game about a week ago.  He pitched an unbelievable first game.  If fact, I don't think they can get much better.  He pitched a 7 inning - NO HITTER - game, with only 92 total pitches thrown and a top pitch speed of 88 mph.  Can you tell I'm one proud baseball mom!

Despite my extremely busy spring schedule, 4 Scrappy Sisters was able to pull off a week long Crop-Til-Ya-Drop cyber crop and it was a tremendous hit!  My Design Team is unbelievable - without their hard work and dedication the crop would have been a mess.  Hats off to each of you.  You gals ROCK!  

And you won't believe this, I was even able to pull off a few of the challenges myself.  Take a look at this cute little card I created for one of the card challenges.

Chat again real soon - I promise!  :)