Designer Spotlight This Week!

This week is my designer spotlight at Oscraps - it will be worth your while, trust me...to play, check out Designer Spotlight Challenge Forum at Oscraps

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Holy cow, last post January! I've been busy creating a bunch of fun crumpled papers and chipped frames... plus I'm running a special to save you some money - if you buy at least $7 worth of products you get 30% off your order!

Check Them Out in my Shoppe

2008 Update and Some Cool New Products!

Wow, so much for blogging. I have some cool new products in at Oscraps - I am so grateful to all the people who have purchased my designs in 2007 - I remember being so petrified as a new designer last January but everyone at Oscraps has made me feel so welcome. They are truly an awesome group of people to work with.

Click on image to check out the product in my store





Here is my sweet foster bunny Raleigh featured in a layout with Thrift Shoppe Frames 3 and Aged Leathers Biggie Frames. Isn't he adorable? I kind of 'rescued' him from a reptile store (long story) and the Columbus House Rabbit Society has graciously offered to adopt him out through their network.



Plus more Aged Leathers items from 2007 (can't believe I didn't post them here!)

New EXCITING Line of Stuff

Aged Leathers...these seriously look like old grungy leather - I ended up doing 44 papers! And I thought I was an element person hehe.



Coming soon...frames and other super cool accessories to match! As in see below...



Other than that, I'm still on Jenny Craig - only 3 1/2 pounds to go...it feels so good to have this 'weight off my shoulders'...the Jenny Cuisine is a bit pricy so I am slowly finding other frozen dinners that are healthy...Ethnic Gourmet and Kashi are really good. So are Amy's (in the health food section). I can't believe how tasty Ethnic Gourmet's Saag Paneer is (that's this Indian spinach and cheese dish that is my all time fave meal) and it was on sale for $3.50 - guess what I ate all week :)

Carla Gibson

Sue Cummings and I were working with Carla Gibson on a collaborative project called Frameworks. I remember Carla Pm'ing me about her altered designs and would I be interested in working on that kind of stuff...

So it is with great sadness that I learned about Carla's aneurism and passing...I didn't know her well but she had this beautiful motherly energy...

In case you haven't read, Oscraps is creating a "Friends and Family" category in the store to benefit Carla's family. That or buying Carla's products will really help. Or you can do a layout or just leave a message of condolence for the family. They are good people.

Links - How you can help:

• Give the Family Your Condolences


• Post a LO in our Carla Gibson 'Well Wishes' Gallery


• Purchase Friend's & Family Products


• Purchase Carla's Products

Designers - you can donate products to Friends and Family - email Vicki Stegall at the following address: Charity at Oscraps dot com

May Update

Sigh....you have probably noticed I am not exactly prolific when it comes to putting out new products...or doing layouts or blogging or anything else for that matter...between work and my never ending battle to 'fix up the house'...not a whole lot seems to get done...

Jenny Craig Update - I have lost over 15 pounds! Jenny is perfect for my lifestyle (ie I hate cooking, meal planning, grocery shopping and anything else having to do with eating properly). Deciding which frozen entree to eat for dinner is just my speed. I went to Macy's (never shop there I'm a Marshalls/thrift shoppe girl) just to try on a size 6 and it fit (eh a little snug but my ego was satisfied)...

NeverEnding House Saga - I painted the living room this rich golden brown - it looks super with all these ethnic tapestries I got on E-bay and these cool Umbra carved wood curtain rods I got at Odd Lots (cheap!)...of course being a bad blogger I have no pictures. My back patio, despite having slaved over it 2 summers ago, looked horrendous so I had to buy this weed killer to put between the patio stones and spend an afternoon doing gardener type stuff like hacking off dead foliage from last summer along w/a multitude of weeds that set up shop.

Car Saga - I can no longer pride myself in driving an old beater. God blessed me with a 95 Buick LeSabre with leather interior -- yeah baby! It's an older luxury model with lotsa' bells and whistles (shoot, just having a driver's side door that opens is a bell and whistle in my book)...

Get out the Violin! - Geez, I look at all the amazing layouts, amazing designers...and sometimes feel that it is all passing me by. As a designer I feel like I am slowly creeping along, one tiny step at a time. Scrapwise I have bottomed out - no new photo shoots, thus not much incentive to do layouts.....Just bear with me! Back when I was scrapping into the wee hours the rest of my life was going to seed - gotta balance things out I guess. I am an 'all or nothing' type but reality is forcing me to parcel out my efforts one small step at a time...

What's Up...

I have not had the mind to scrap, design or anything creative lately. Instead I tried to get my taxes done, clean the house, file/toss mounds of paperwork and so on. It's amazing how much free time you have when you don't digiscrap. Of course I wasted 3 hours watching reruns of America's Next Top Model last night. This is the kind of show I am embarrassed to say I watch haha. But who didn't grow up wanting to be a model and the show provides a sort of vicarious thrill.

Moni, one of my CT members, has resigned from digiscrapping. It's a bummer because she is mega-talented. But I totally understand how much time this hobby can take - it has a way of taking over your life and if you have kids and obligations it makes things even worse. Hopefully we'll see her again soon.



I joined Jenny Craig! I am so bad about eating - they call my type 'the unconscious eater'. Jenny is perfect for lazy singles such as myself cause all you do is buy your food their and nuke it. It's actually pretty balanced and satisfying. Valerie Bertinelli has just signed on - she wants to get down to a size 8.

Everyone looks puzzled like 'you aren't even overweight' but it's that pesky 10-15 pounds that I continually complain about but am to lazy to tackle that motivated me to try Jenny.

Actually I do have one new product out, 5 & Dime Braided Trim - I have this idea for a line of inexpensive elements called '5 & Dime' you know, like the dollar store: