Happy New Year

Great sale going on right now at Moo Two Designs, Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps and Digi Scrap Station Check them out

Holiday Cheer

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone. I just want to wish you all the best in the New Year to come.  Love Always, hugs and kisses Oase

Morning all in Blog land

Just want to remind everyone about Moo Two's Christmas Express pulled out of the barn on Monday, with the first gift being hid in the store categories of Christmas or Winter. Going to be some really great hybrid projects you will collect this month. 

My mother-in-law get some of the coolest emails and I wanted to share one with you all. 
This place means a lot to me in my heart due to my husband being retired military. 

 

Rest easy, sleep well my brothers.
Know the line has held, your job is done.
Rest easy, sleep well.
Others have taken up where you fell, the line has held.
Peace, peace, and farewell...

Readers may be interested to know that these wreaths -- some 5,000 -- are donated by the Worcester Wreath Co. of Harrington, Maine . The owner, Merrill Worcester, not only provides the wreaths, but covers the trucking expense as well. He's done this since 1992. A wonderful guy. Also, most years, groups of Maine school kids combine an educational trip to DC with this event to help out. Making this even more remarkable is the fact that Harrington is in one of the poorest parts of the state.
Please share this with everyone on your address list. You hear too much about the bad things people do. Everyone should hear about this. 

and have you ever wondered what the 12 Days of Christmas meant or even had to do with Chrstimas

check this out 

There is one Christmas Carol that has always baffled me. What in the world do leaping lords, French hens, swimming swans, and especially the partridge who won't come out of the pear tree have to do with Christmas?
This week, I found out.
From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly. Someone during that era wrote this carol as a catechism song for young Catholics. It has two levels of meaning: the surface meaning plus a hidden meaning known only to members of their church. Each element in the carol has a code word for a religious reality which the children could remember. -The partridge in a pear tree was Jesus Christ.
-Two turtle doves were the Old and New Testaments.
-Three French hens stood for faith, hope and love.-
-The four calling birds were the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John.
-The five golden rings recalled the Torah or Law, the first five books of the Old Testament.
-The six geese a-laying stood for the six days of creation.
-Seven swans a-swimming represented the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit--Prophesy, Serving, Teaching, Exhortation, Contribution, Leadership, and Mercy.
-The eight maids a-milking were the eight beatitudes.
-Nine ladies dancing were the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit--Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self Control.
-The ten lords a-leaping were the ten commandments.
-The eleven pipers piping stood for the eleven faithful disciples.
-The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve points of belief in the Apostles' Creed.
So there is your history for today. This knowledge was shared with me and I found it interesting and enlightening and now I know how that strange song became a Christmas Carol...so pass it on if you wish.'
Merry Christmas Everyone 

 
 

Moo Two's Christmas Express

Want to find some really extraordinary gifts, these are not your usual freebies that you find on the net. These hybrid projects were all designed by the designers at Moo Two Designs, they are all very useful items that you can use to make your Holiday this year a bit easier on you. But your going to have to look for them. CHECK IT OUT

Sale at Moo Two Designs

Digital Scrapbooking Day Sale

Brand New Collaboration Kit Seasons of Our Lives

at Moo Two Designs. You really need to check it out. This kit is fabulous, not only do you get all these pieces to create  your own calendar, but papers and elements for scrapbooking too. There is also a calendar that is all finished where all you have to do is put in pictures and print it out, and you have a great calendar.

Blogger is having hissy fits won't let me change or add a link so here is the link for the store

http://mootwodesigns.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=211_25&products_id=6075

Scavenger Hunt

Moo Two Designs is having a scavenger hunt. All you have to do is like our Facebook Page <~~~~ click that to be taken to our Facebook Page LOL

And if you get stuck on a clue and can't figure it out, you can come to the forum to ask for help FORUM
All the pieces that you will be collecting match our newest collaboration kit called Seasons of our Lives - which is a calendar/scrapbooking kit. There is everything you need in this kit to make a gorgeous calendar for yourself or friends or family. Think of the holiday gifts. And there is one completed calendar in there that all you have to do is add pictures, print out, bind and WALLA you have a calendar.

Halloween Sale At Moo Two Designs

Come check it out 50% off entire store

Come check out our challenges where you can earn discount coupons to the store and some have participation prizes.

Barnyards Around the World: Tina - Teenybop61
Barn Dance Lyrics Challenge: 
Branding Iron Font Challenge: EhKho
Holiday Hoedown Challenge: Marcee - Rose Made Designs
Horse and Buggy Scraplift Challenge: Lori Imel
Paint the Barn Challenge: Sandy
Shack Out Back Quote/Scripture Challenge: Tina - Teenybop61
Scrapping My Life Story: Linda - Studio Linda Renee

Barnyard champions - place for participate to keep track of all the challenges they complete for a chance to get our collaboration kit
Gabby Goose Praise Game - post your comments beginning and ending totals for points toward discount coupons to the store.
Bingo - Come join me for BINGO, win a prize.  oase - Panda Bear Designs
Hybrid projects/challenges -
Progressive Scrap - Eileen - Happy Scrap Arts
Speed Scraps

Moo Two Designs

We have a brand new collaboration kit this month called Through the years. This kit is gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous and I am not saying that just cause I had a part in making it, but it's true. This kit has so much in it and would make the greatest scrapbooking pages for you. This is an Anniversary kit but you can use it for so much more. Check out the preview.

In this kit there is:

84 papers (57 patterned, 27 solid)

117 elements, including: month tags, day tags, Anniversary labels, bows, bottles, glasses, cupcakes, borders, hearts, tags, leaves, candles, flowers, brads, ribbons, frames, fasteners, journal tags, doodles, strings, wax seal, butterflies, buttons, corsage, flourish, clusters, scatters, swirls, grid, balls, candy, splatter, bags, clips, key, lock, mats, stamp, word art, brooch, garland, pillar, pearls, wraps, rings, cake, bells, jewels, staple, pins, journals, poems, "25", "50", swans, cups, goblets, sprinkles, vines, book plate, gold trim, notebook paper, corners and ric rac..... 


Also want to tell you guys to come check out our challenges in the forum. Join me for a game of BINGO, prizes for playing along and one if you are the first to call BINGO. 

Good Morning Everyone

I have been a bit busy lately, lots of things have gone on since the 1st of Sept.  This is my month in a nutshell. Stitchy Bear Stamps - where I sell paper packs, accidentally deleted a file on her ftp and lost her whole store. So I have to redo all my previews, zips and upload everything to the store again. She is now betting things back on track. Store is almost done but you can go check it out. She has redone it to be more customer friendly. There is Tuesday Thru Thursday Spree Sale. All Fantasy is 25% OFF come check it out.

Then there is my baby's birthday and the start of school.

You all know my favorite place to hang out is Moo Two Designs.  Donna who owned Moo Two Designs has some health problems that have not let her run the store the way she wants too so she handed the store over to me. I am now the proud owner of Moo Two Designs. I am both honored and a bit weary LOL. I know the responsibilities of running a store and so hope I can do Donna proud. 

Some Exciting things happening at Moo Two Designs

My Memories Digital Scrapbooking Software

I have had the opportunity this past week to play around with some digital scrapbooking software. I know I have used my programs in the past and have always been very disappointed with them. Cause either they were too complicated to use or I couldn't do or move things where I wanted them to. I just couldn't get the software to do what I wanted it to do. I know that is important to me, I have to be able to open the software and get right to work. Working on a layout with new software is how I learn things and when I want more complicated things that is when I go to the help or read me documents to see if I can do what I want to do. LOL
I know with designing kits I most use Micro Soft Digital Imaging (which isn't available anymore, we are talking old school program here LOL) and I have gotten better with Photoshop. But for doing a scrapbook page I want sometime simple to use to create that layout, but I also want to be able to bring in my creations into that layout too.
Well guess what, this software lets you do that. I was able to create this layout in their software in minutes.

I didn't add many embellishments cause I don't have them all finished yet, but the paper is my design. The doodle is by My Memories which is included with the software, the flowers are also included with the software. It comes with quite a bit of things to work with. Templates too. I really loved how I could very easily make rounded text. It was a piece of cake, let me tell you I can be very software challenged. LOL but with this it was so easy.
The one thing that impressed me the most with this software was that you could import PSD (photoshop files) and PDFs (adobe files) into the software and it reads them so that you can work with them, way too freakin cool if you ask me cause not many problems that I know of do that. I really loved using the software. I think you would too. If your new to digital scrapbooking, and don't have a user friendly program, you have got to get this one and if you are a seasoned digital scrapbooking you would love this software too.

And I have the opportunity to give away one program to one of my followers, so this is what you have to do. Go to My Memories Gallery - just click on the words. Pick your favorite layout, post in my comments your choice with the layout of your choice,. I will put everyone in a drawing to win a free copy of this software. Good Luck

SunShine and Flowers

Some of the designers over at DigiScrap Station got together and did a wonderful collaboration kit called Sunshine and Flowers. Including me LOL. Also thou there are parts in the Build a Kit category that were made to add on to this kit that you can get if you want. The collaboration kit thou is spend 10.00 dollars and get the kit free. Which is well worth it. Take a look

Isabella vbs

Vbs

VBS

Kimberly attended VBS all this week at Fulton Alliance Church, they had their performance tonight at the church. OMG those kids were so cute signing their songs. Here is a video of Kimberly singing her song. She the last on in the back on the far right
http://youtu.be/M4OSyqW2z6E

Here is Isabella (my niece) doing her song, she was just great too. She is in the back on the far left.

http://youtu.be/TeZG9XBbnco

What a Beautiful Day

My nephew Charles (Chas) wedding day finally arrived Saturday. It was such a beautiful day for the them. It was to hot or too cold. The day was just gorgeous. They did such a good job getting the church beautiful for them. They made such a gorgeous couple. Here is a picture of the happy couple who as we speak are lounging around on the beaches of Jamaica.

 

I also wanted to show you the favor that I did for the wedding. Laura Bea, Chas and his brother Anthony helped me with a few of them. We made 199 of these little bags

  Inside each bag were 4 hugs and 4 kisses 

on the bottom of 2 of the hugs and 2 of the kisses was a personalized sticker 

They had such a good time and made such a beautiful couple. I am so happy for both of them and love them dearly.

Painted Garden

I know I never got back to posting a picture of my new kit a few days ago. Just got really busy with getting the final touches done on the wedding.
Here it is, my newest kit.

New Kit, New Happenings

I have a new kit I have been working on for some time. I have no idea how some people can get 2, 3, or 4 new kits out a month, I am lucky I can get one kit out a month LOL. Drives me crazy. 

But first some new things in the stores I am in. 
Stitchy Bear Stamps has a brand new collaboration out for June called Picnic/4th of July. Some really awesome stamps and papers in there. Just think of all the things you could create with it. 

 

Moo Two Designs also has a brand new Collaboration kit out called Chillin'.  It's for all those teen photos you have, this has some awesome pieces to it. 

  My newest kit isn't in the store yet, it should be either today or tomorrow.  Most of the flowers in this kit, some of the elements were all painted by me digitally. 

Here is a preview of it. Coming soon, that is the one thing I need to finish OMG I forgot. I will post it later today. Bye all for now

Hello Everyone

It has been a while since I posted last. Things have been busy and stressful the last few weeks. First the laptop went to the repair shop with a problem with Window's 7 and came back clean as a whistle. They had to do a whole clean out, right back to factory settings. Which meant I lost everything on the laptop. But I did have almost all of it backed up online, except for a few files cause one of the problems that occurred was Windows was preventing my online back to back up. But thankfully I only lost a few files. But I have been really busy trying to my EDR to match what is backed up online. I would have never realized how long it takes to download what has been stored online. I was like OMG, so I am doing a little at a time. 
But next step is to clean out the EHD of files I don't want to make room for the files that are online that I do want. 
Today I decided thou I was going to work on my blog and get it looking the way I want it to. It's OK, no sure if I like the background or not but we will see how it goes. 

Then it was lunch time, had a wonderful Chicken BBQ, from Cody Fire Department, they have the best chicken bbq in town. If you live in Fulton, NY you need to go get bbq today. 

I have been working on things, I have been busily working on my nephews wedding. Save the dates, Invitations, favors and now the programs from the wedding. Then on Friday making meatballs. Saturday the wedding is over with. I know they can't wait. 
here is a look at the save the date and invitations I did. 
Can't show you save the dates till I scan one, that is one of the folders I lost and wasn't backed up online either. But here is the invitation, RSVP card and reception card. 

 

Easter Scavenger Hunt

Come join me over at Moo Two Design for a Easter Scavenger Hunt, hidden thru out the store are pieces to a gorgeous Easter kit called Easter Morning.  Forum

Kelley's Kids has Blog Candy

Come check out Kelley's Kid Blog and some really great blog candy

Happy Moo Day Blog Hop

Moo Two Designs is 4 years old and we are celebrating Miss Moo's Birthday. We have so many activities in the forum, plus this blog hop for you all. Come by the FORUM to see what we have going on and we have some great prizes too.

Thought I did great by posting my post early and then only to find out I didn't give you any download buttons. WHAT A BLONDE I am. I apologize for that. Here is my Blog hop

DOWNLOAD 1 DOWNLOAD 2



01. Scrapz 'n Bitz Designs - http://scrapznbitz.blogspot.com
02. Happy Scrap Arts - http://happyscraparts.blogspot.com
03. Dee's Delightful Designs - http://deesbibbmusings.blogspot.com
04. KatLen Kreations - http://katlen124.blogspot.com
05. LoobyLoo - http://loobylcreations.blogspot.com/
06. AuntRachel - http://auntrachelshappenings.blogspot.com/
07. Lizard Dau Designs - http://liz-lizarddaudesigns.blogspot.com/
08. RoseMade Designs - http://rosemadedesigns.blogspot.com/
09. Stylista Lori - http://ladytigerlld.blogspot.com/
10. ValarieRog - http://fleurdescrap.blogspot.com/
12. In a Blue Moon Designs - www.inabluemoondesigns.net
13. SandEz Creationz - http://sandezcreationz.blogspot.com
14. Sanko Studio - http://sankostudio.blogspot.com
16. Panda Bear Designs - http://pandabeardesigns.blogspot.com/ - YOU ARE HERE
17. Teenybop Scraps - http://teenybopscraps.blogspot.com/
18. Moo Two Designs - http://www.mootwodesigns.blogspot.com/

Blog Hop Coming Soon

Come Join me over at Moo Two Designs for some FUN

Brand New Kit in the Stores today

I just put a new kit in the store last night called What A Catch, it will be great to scrap all those fishing photos you have.

and check out the layout that Myra did for this kit.

Funny Story about Kimberly

I have a really cute story to share with you all about my daughter, Kimberly. Kimberly's bottom teeth have been loose for a long time and she just doesn't play with them enough to get them to fall out. Her permanent teeth have grown in behind  her baby teeth on the bottom. In Feb she was out sledding in our back yard with her cousin, Brasen.  Brasen decided to run in front of her while she was sledding down the hill and she crashed into him, knocking her front tooth out of her mouth. It was just the tiny bit loose. It kind of traumatized the poor kid, to have blood dripping from her mouth, her hand was all bloody. Poor Kid.  Now there is no hope to get her to get those bottom teeth out.  First tooth gone and we told her we would write to the tooth fairy to let her know that her tooth was lost in the snow. She was so worried that the the tooth fairy wouldn't be able to find her tooth.

 A couple weeks ago, Kimberly told me that she was having problems seeing the blackboard at school and I had noticed that she was standing and watching TV in front of the TV. So we decided to take her and get her eyes checked, well she is nearsighted.  Yesterday we went and picked her up from school to go get her first pair of glasses. She looks so cute in them.

We decided to take her to Apple Bee's for dinner, she has been doing really well at school. While there she went to the bathroom and came out saying, "Mommy I lost a tooth, and can't find it" Oh no not another one, she lost one of her bottom teeth in the bathroom, but I think she might have swallowed it and not realized it.

So she said to me, "Mommy can we write the tooth fairy another letter and let her know that I lost my tooth here in the bathroom, I said of course. Now again she is worried the tooth fairy won't find her tooth again.,
This morning she comes running up the stairs to show me she has lost another tooth. Her other front tooth fell out sometime during the night and she can't find it. She said to me "Mommy, do you think I will ever have a tooth to put under my pillow? "I am making a lot of work for the tooth fairy."  poor kid. And I do think she has swallowed this one too, cause it wasn't in the couch or on the floor. My darling little girl.

Good Morning Everyone

I hope this finds everyone happy and well. I have a brand new kit that I just in the store last night. Now the thing with this kit is if in March you join me for Bingo in the Moo Two Designs Forum you can win this kit for free in different sections. I have the kit broken up for Bingo one kit is called Spring Blossoms Tulips, Spring Blossoms Daffodils and Dogwood, Spring Blossoms Pansies and Hydrangeas and finally Spring Blossoms Hyacinths and sm flowers. Now the freebie that I gave away in the newsletter is in with kit, just so you are aware of it. Here is the preview of the whole kit.

Now check out some layouts Myra did with my new kit, they are just gorgeous

 

Good Evening Everyone

Just wanted to pop on and wish everyone a wonderful Valentine's Day. I really hope everyone enjoyed their day.

Tomorrow for the fans of my work, if you subscribe to Moo Two Designs Newsletter, I am the featured Designers, my store will be 50% off for the next 2 weeks and there is a really pretty freebie going to be in the newsletter. Then in March, if you join me for Bingo in the forum, you will be able to get more pieces to the freebie and here is a peak at this week's freebie.

To subscribe to the newsletter just go to the store  Moo Two Designs - in the upper right side of the store is where you join our mailing list. You might want to do it today, so that  you get the newsletter tomorrow. 

Check it out

Stitchy Bear Stamps is celebrating it's very 1st Birthday and we all know how special that very 1st birthday is. So there is a lot going on. Some of the Creator's and some of the Designers have freebies for you on their blogs and some have their freebies in the store. So your going to have to do a little traveling to get the freebies.
Remember Stitchy Bear Stamps is a Digital Stamping store, they do care some scrapbooking kits BUT all the freebie you will collect today is going to be digital stamps or papers most of the papers are either 8.5 x 11 or 8 x 8. Have fun looking at all the wonder cards you will see on the way. Ohhhhhhhh and I have a freebie for you. I have a set of birthday papers for you and they are 8.5 x 11. Click on the preview to be taken to 4share where you can download my papers. ENJOY

Happens at Moo Two Designs

We have a lot of goings on over at Moo Two. Plus I hope you all sign up for the newsletter cause there is a gorgeous set of freebies in there for this month. The blog is running its weekly Friday Freebie. We have a brand new collaboration kit called Barnyard Buddies. This kit is so adorable, with all the animals, barns, ribbons, papers, there is so much you will be able to do with this kit. You really need to have a look at the kit. its so nice.

 Plus Moo Two Designs is having a Designer call and a Creative team call, come join the greatest store on the net, I think so anyways. We have a great team. Check out the adverts for them and you can find the applications on the store front, on the left hand side just below the list of designers.

Hello Everyone

OK I know I have to be the worlds worst blogger. Sometimes months I am good and then other months I really suck. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and are having a very Happy New Year.
There is so much going on. I know I was really busy the month of December between trying to do my commitments. making Christmas presents, baking cookies, cleaning, all those fun things that come along with the Holiday. Plus a lot of family drama.
But it's a New Year and hoping this year is going to be a good one. Not even going to make a resolution about bloggin cause God only knows I probable won't keep it. But I do have a lot to share with you all today. First lets start with digital stampin' which you guys if you haven't tried it, you should. I find making cards is such a joy for me. I find it so relaxing. Its like bringing back one of my favorite things to do, color or paint. Stitchy Bear Stamps has a brand new monthly collaboration kit for Valentines Day you should go by the store and check it out.

also if you are into making cards they have challenges each week, where you can win some really nice things. you should check out the blog. One Stitch At A Time Challenge Blog
Guys you wont believe how gorgeous these stamps are and if you sign up for their newsletter, there is a freebie in there so that you could try out the stamps or papers. NEWSLETTER it's right at the top on the right hand side of the screen after the header.