I totally forgot ...

I can't believe I forgot to ever post my December 2007 wallpaper for hubby. I need to make this into a large layout for Ollie's scrapbook.

Retro Christmas

Finally, I finished it! Coming to the stores by weeks end, Retro Christmas inspired by Raylene's doodles and some fun, funky and retro Christmas paper. I started working on this kit last Christmas and it was sitting in my spare parts folder for a long time. I'm pleased with how it turned out in the end.

Inspired by wonderful doodles and retro wrapping papers, this is a Christmas kit full of unique papers and elements sure to please any scrapper. With so many papers and unique elements, you will be able to put all those treasured memories of Christmas past, present and future on wonderful pages to treasure. With so many papers and elements, this kit is versatile and can be used for lots of pages.

Kit Contains:
1 Edged Insert Paper, 8 Embossed Papers, 11 Patterned Papers, 1 Bead Border, 1 Bows, 4 Brads, 1 Crossed Candy Canes, 1 Clip, 3 Frames, 1 Glittered Corner, 1 Glittered Lights, 2 Glass Ornaments, 2 Ornament Hangers, 1 Tree Oranament, 1 Star Ornament, 1 Curled Ribbon, 1 Staple, 1 Crossed Staples, 1 Stitching, 3 Tags, 4 Tied Ribbons, 1 Tree, 3 WordArt

More Brag Books

Dawn was busy again and made some more beautiful brag books. The two new ones as well as a combo package of all three sets will be up in both stores by weeks end. It's a little slow getting things activated in the stores right now with the holidays and all.





Aren't these fabulous?????

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!

Ok, so I'm a day late with that post. This past month has been super crazy and I can't believe how fast it all went. Good news is no matter how far behind I got, I made my deadlines and managed to get everything taken care of for hubby and Ollie for Christmas. Even got my Christmas cards out the week before too!


We've all been in various degrees of being sick at our house. I don't think I've felt 100% since before Thanksgiving and I spent the weekend before through now with a wicked sore throat, a cough, an unhappy tummy and 2 mega-humongous-killer migraines. Poor Ollie has been battling the sore throat and cough. Hubby hasn't felt 100% either. All the cats have a cold too, I'm thinking about bundling everyone up and opening the windows to the house for a day and trying to kill all those germs floating around.


Christmas was wonderful and spectacular as always. We enjoyed our little family and the day together. The cats got tons of toys, a new scratching post, a new kitty cat tent from Ikea and of course some treats.


Ollie got everything on his list and then some! I guess the biggest and best was his new Baur Vapor XXXX stick.





He's been playing one game on the computer since last Christmas and finally made the level they consider a win on Christmas Eve. He was super excited to get the exansion pack for it. He's all loaded up and started on new conquests and campaigns now.

I tried to do a lot for hubby even though he kept telling me not to since I bought him the professional lens for his birthday. I did get him one of those new record player/cd recorder things that were so popular this year. He has a huge crate full of albums in the basement that we can convert for him now. Also got him one of those fun 1000 places to see before you die books. Figured it would be fun to go through and target some places we'd like to visit.

He and Ollie did so much for me this year. I got tons of really cool gifts and ended up really spoiled. My two favorites are my new iPod

and my most favorite is a beautiful ring from hubby that he made me wait to open until the very last thing. We've had a bit of a struggle keeping things together this year and I can't even tell you what this ring means to me.




So, that's a quick catch up and a peek into our holiday. I'm working today, but off the rest of this week and will return to work on Wednesday, January 2nd. Ollie has a hockey tournament with the JV team tomorrow and Friday. Hoping to get some good time to sit down and organize for the new year. I have lots of ideas and goals in mind. I'm actually looking forward to a fabulous 2008.... I think it's going to be a great year!

Hugs to all!

Look what's NEW!

The Dreaming of Christmas brag book features the all the dreams, colors, spirit and joy of the Christmas season. Bearlyscrapping Designs by DawnP from my Dream Team created this wonderful brag book pages using my Dreaming of Christmas Kit and Add On. This 6-page 4x6 quick page album is perfect for quickly putting together an album you can carry with you anywhere. Brag books are also the perfect gift for parents, grandparents, friends and loved ones. You'll receive 6 4x6 inch pages. Each page comes as a .png file with transparent holes for your photos.

Available at Digitals today. TSG coming soon.

I can't tell you how excited I am to have Dawn working on these pages for me. Keep your eyes open for the 8x8 and 12x12 format coming soon too.

New kits and an update ....

Dreaming of Christmas is now in both stores. It is on sale for only $2 at TSG until Wednesday, December 12th. Be sure to check out the recap from the Box of Dreams Crop to see how you can get the Add On kit for free. If you're not interested in the challenge, the Add On kit is up at Digitals and will be up at TSG on Tuesday.



Dreaming of Christmas Add On Kit



The next three are from my Black Friday grab bag at Digitals. All three kits are up at Digitals and will be available at TSG on Tuesday.

Misty Morning



Frosty Days Alpha




2007 Calendar Brushes

I'm starting to feel a little better, but far from feeling 100%. I haven't been sick for this long in a long time and I'm not liking it. I'm very run down and super tired.

Ollie is doing great with the high school team. He scored a goal in his first JV game and followed it up with a goal in the second game as well! Be on the lookout for a layout soon with his first goal in high school. He's been called for several Varsity practices, a scrimmage and game. It's super busy, but he's loving life!

I know there's much more to catch up on, but I've got to get lots of work done. I'll work on a blog freebie to go with the Dreaming of Christmas stuff and hope to have it up early next week.

December 2007 ~ Box of Dreams Crop

Please come join me and my Dream Team for our monthly crop at The Scrapping Garden. We are having a pool party!

The crop is on Thursday, December 6th at 9:00 p.m. EST in the TSG chat room.

Purchase my Dreaming of Christmas kit for only $2, attend the crop and do the challenge with the kit. You'll get a fun attendance bonus for coming to the crop and then a great add-on kit for completing the challenge with the Dreaming of Christmas kit.

Here is a sneak peek of the attendance notice for tonight's crop:

You can find my Dreaming of Christmas kit here.

Hope to see you there!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I'm still very sick. Actually looking forward to a few days off to hopefully rest a little and get better. The cold is very bad in one of my eyes and is making me a miserable girlie. Good news is that I'm leaving the office at noon today and don't have to come back until Monday morning. I'm not volunteering for any extra work over the weekend, I need a break.

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving for those of us here in the US. It is also Ollie's birthday. We will be celebrating with all the traditional stuff (turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, pumpkin pie, etc.) and in addition he has requested pancakes for breakfast, pumpkin bread and chocolate cupcakes with white frosting.

I'm going to at least bake the cupcakes, make the pies and pumpkin bread today. I'm also going to start prepping the stuffing and maybe make the mashed potatoes. I can frost the cupcakes after breakfast tomorrow once the turkey is in the oven. Hubby also got some fondue chocolate and goodies to dip in it one night this weekend. Ollie loves fondue! We took him last weekend to The Melting Pot to celebrate his making the high school team, getting a great report card, etc.

Ok, enough rambling from me.... I don't think I'm making any sense.

I did finish my grab bag. Don't forget to check it out this weekened at Digitals. From what I've seen, there are going to be fabulous ones there. Some great sales too!

Happy Thanksgiving to all..... I'm so thankful for my family and friends!

Bad bad bad blogger!

Yes, I've been a terrible blogger. Last week was tryout week for the high school ice hockey team. It was super busy and crazy. Was also working on getting my grab bag together for the Black Friday sale at Digitals. You don't want to miss out on this one! I'm super happy with the contents and it's a bargain for only $3. The bag will be on sale Friday, November 23rd through Sunday, November 25th. After that the three products will go individually into both my stores.





Good news is Ollie made the high school team. He will play JV full time and also play some Varsity games! We are super proud of how hard he worked for this. GO OLLIE!

I've had a terrible cold and been sick since Friday. I'm working on catching up here and on the Dream Team blog. See ya soon!

Good morning ...

I'm off work today. All the schools are out today and tomorrow for Teacher's Convention. Funny because I know a lot of teachers and have never met one yet who attends this mysterious "Teacher's Convention". Personally, I think it's 2 days vacation for teachers. Anyhow (getting down off soapbox), I promised Ollie I would take today off and we would do whatever he wants. I was originally supposed to be off tomorrow also, but with Sig sick and all it didnt' pan out. We have to go get Ollie dress shirts, but other than that the day is whatever he wants. I think he wants to see a movie and spend some serious time in Barnes & Noble.

Figure I'll get a few things done while he's sleeping in.

Have a great day!

It's Humpy Day Already?!?!?

Good grief, where has my week escaped to? I guess I've been super busy getting the three finished kits in the stores. Working on getting Dreaming of Christmas ready also. There's also a grab bag event at Digitals on Black Friday that I'm hoping to have a bag ready for, but with the way time is flying, I just don't know if I'll make it. I'm working on it though! LOL

Here are the three kits going into the stores this week. They are already up at Digitals. They will go up at TSG on Friday and will be 25% off through Sunday November 11th.

I also got hubby's November wallpaper done ysterday. I used some photos he took for me of the season's last Dahlias. It's inspired a color palette and I already have several papers and elements done. The wallpaper will give you a peek of where it's going.

I've also been working on getting the Dream Team blog up and organized. I've been gathering their layouts and labeling them so you can find them easily. There are some great ideas for my kits there. Grab a cup of coffee (or cocoa) and go browse through the beautiful layouts. On the bottom left hand side, you can click on individual kits that you are interested, by layout artist or you can just scroll through the blog randomly.

Dream Team Blog

Happy Humpy Day!

My last day of guest blogging at TSG ...

I decided that to post the end of my week as guest blogger at TSG on my own blog as well.

Enjoy!

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I'm said this is my last day of blogging with you, but I'm sure I'll be back around for a turn another time. I hope you've enjoyed my silly rambling and picking up the pieces of Spooky Dreams. For those of you who missed any part of it, I'm working on getting it together to go in the store next week. If you like my rambling, it's easy to find me rambling away on my blog. Also, I'd like to announce that I've got the greatest Dream Team Creative Team ever and I have started a blog to showcase their talents. Stop on by the Dreams Ink! Dream Team Blog and meet the members of my team. They make my life so much easier and they are super talented ladies. I'm so glad that they've chosen to work with me and my designs.

Be sure to check out the forums today for some fun National Scrapbook Day activities! You never know what Miss Cheryl has up her sleeve. I know it will be a great day.

As this week winds down I reflect on why I scrap and design. For me it's about capturing memories and being able to visit them in my mind and print (or paper, I love paper scrapping too!). It's about a creative release, allowing my creativity to flow and learning new things. Designing gives me great joy and even though it often seems I don't have the time, it's something that fulfills me and makes other parts of my life better. It's about showing my family (and fur-babies) to people and letting them know that they are the most important part of my life. Without my family, I am nothing but a lone person in the world. It's about letting my inner spirit shine to the world without "preaching" about it. It's a stress reliever when the pressures of life and the world get to be too much, somehow escaping for a little while into photos, papers and elements eases the stress and gives new perspective. One of the greatest joys in my life was the look on my Grandmother's face at her 80th birthday party when not only did I surprise her by showing up with my hubby and son (we had told her for a year that we wouldn't be able to come to her party), but also showing up with a 50 page album that showcased her life from a young woman through the present. Her joy in that album made the year and countless hours I spent on it worth every moment. My hubby and son supported me every step of the way, gave me ideas, critiqued my work, praised my work and it turned into quite the family event. To me, that's what all this is about. So whatever your reason for scrapping, keep it up and keep sharing those pages with us.


I'm going to leave you with the dedication page beginning my grandmother's album, one of my favorite layouts because she is absolutely beautiful in that picture and the final page of the album so you can see I intend to continue it. One of these days I'll get all the pages uploaded in one spot so that everyone can see this album that I treasure as much as she does.



Enjoy life and happy scrapping!


Hugs,
Georgia


p.s. In the spirit of this post and today, I'm making pumpkin bread from one of my Grandmother's Aunt's recipies. After that I think I'll work on some extra pages for her album. Ollie's game isn't until 8:30 tonight.

November 2007 ~ Box of Dreams Crop

Please come join me and my Dream Team for our monthly crop at The Scrapping Garden. This crop is paired with weekly challenges each month.

The crop is on Thursday, November 1st at 9:00 p.m. EST in the TSG chat room.



This month Raylene from my Dream Team has created a fabulous Brown Paper Christmas kit and card templates. You can see a glimpse of these goodies in the ad. We will have a fun holiday card challenge each week, so bring your creative mind and join in the fun!

Happy Halloween!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've got a fun and spooky freebie for you today:

You can download it here.

This is a quick page from my new Spooky Dreams kit which is being given away this week as I'm guest blogging at TSG. Don't worry though, if you miss a day or two of the downloads, it will be in the stores next week when my guest blog spot is done.

Have a spooky and fun day!

Guest blogger....

Be sure to stop by the TSG blog all this week. I am the guest blogger and will have some goodies to hand out during the week. Ollie has a game this morning, but I'll be back later this afternoon with a post.

A recent layout ....

Yeah, I don't get to scrap near as often as I like. Every once in a while it comes together and I can sneak a page of my own in. I need to make time to do my own scrapbooking more often as I really enjoy it and have thousands of pictures that need to be done.

I couldn't resist this template when I saw it. It was the perfect way to capture the best of a months worth of pictures of our six fur-babies.

Template by Janeal's Corner
All paper & elements by Georgia Oliver, Dreams Ink! Digital Designs

HUGE Sale! All my kits 50% off!

Come on over to The Scrapping Garden and save 50% off everything in my store from October 21st through October 27th.



You can find my store here.

So stop by and load up your goodie bag with lots of treats for all your scrapping needs. Also be sure to stop by and join in all the Fall-O-Ween festivities. There is lots of fun and plenty of prizes happening in the forum.

Everyone attending the Fall-O-Ween Costume Party on Saturday, October 27 at 10pm has a chance to win a SanDisk MP3 Player. Check out this link to see the MP3 player and also to see the great people that are sponsoring this event.

Happy Scrapping!

Blog Freebie and Last Days of CT Call ...

In honor of the Falloween Festival at TSG next week, I've made some fun leaves for you that will coordinate with lots of fun prizes being handed out. I sure hope you'll come join us for fun, games, prizes ... did I mention fun?!?



You can download them here.

Don't forget I have a CT Call going on until October 20th. You can find the details here.

Super Crazy!!

I'm having a super crazy and busy week this week. Both partners are going to a show in Germany and I've been working my rear off trying to get them settled and on their way. Hopefully tomorrow I can dig my way out of the massive pile of papers on my desk. I need to get re-organized around there.

2008 Calendar Brushes, Avocado Spice and Dream Your Own Monogram for fall are in my store at Digitals. They will all three be in my TSG store tomorrow. They will be 25% off at TSG tomorrow through Sunday.

Don't forget I've got a CT call going. Pass the word!

Contents of my grab bag revealed ...

Here are the contents of my grab bag from Digitals Birthday Bash. I am now working on getting these all individually into my stores at Digitals and TSG.

Thanks to all who purchased kits and my grab bag during the bash. It's always nice to think that people are enjoying your designs.

It's a call ....

I'm looking for four new members for my Dream Team.

Requirements:
2 Layouts per kit
Post in one of my stores and two additional galleries
Post to at least one Yahoo Group
Fun and positive attitude
Minimum six month commitment

Please e-mail DreamsInkDesigns @ aol . com (you know the drill) if you are interested. Please put "Dream Team Application" in the subject line so I don't lose them in the e-mails.

Please give me a short bio, links to your galleries and why you think you would be a good fit for the Dream Team. I’m also interested in finding someone to help with ads, quick pages and albums. Let me know in your e-mail if that is something you would like to do.

Deadline October 20th ~ Team Announced October 28th

Box of Dreams Crop

Please come join me and my Dream Team for our monthly crop at The Scrapping Garden. This crop is paired with weekly challenges each month.

The crop is on Thursday, October 4th at 9:00 p.m. EST in the TSG chat room.



This month Diann from my Dream Team has created some fun Halloween goodies. You can see a glimpse of these goodies in the ad. We will have a fun challenge each week, so bring your creative mind and join in the fun!

Grab Bag & Sale

Where does the time go? I keep trying to get here and do an update but get interrupted everytime I open blogger.

As mentioned last week, I have a Grab Bag at Digitals this week for their 3rd Birthday Bash.

This is a great deal and I promise you won't be disappointed by the contents of my bag. Also, all my products at Digitals are 30% off this week. Grab them while you can!

Hockey this weekend was great! They tied 3-3 on Saturday and won 2-1 on Sunday. We are now 2-0-1 for the start of the season. Wooohooooo for starting out on such a good foot! Hubby took 200+ pictures on Saturday and 150+ on Sunday. New lens is great. I do think that I'm going to invest in Adobe Lightroom soon. I'm on a 30 day trial now and I can't tell you how nice it is to batch process groups of pictures for simple things like white balance, etc. I'm almost done editing the weekends games so I can get them up on th website for our team.

Need to get working on design stuff. Box of Dreams Crop is this Thursday. More to come on that soon.

New lens ...

Here's a quickie with the new lens taken at practice the other night. Still need to work on the camera settings for pictures, but I'm happy with the initial shots I'm seeing. Biggest problem was noise, but I found a fabulous noise reduction software that I'm considering buying. Only edits to this photo is the noise reduction and levels for the white balance (which hubby is working on). And LOL, not it's not Ollie... can you believe he took like 30 test shots and never got one of our own child? Silly man ....

Humpy Day Update

The new lens arrived yesterday! Woohooooo... hubby was playing around and did a few test shots around the house. We have an extra practice tonight at a rink that's not lit well and we've had problems getting good pictures. This will be a good chance to test it out. I can't wait!

Ollie has become a super busy kiddo. High school hockey team has started their dryland training for the season. He has dryland every Tuesday and Thursday from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m., then the senior players will do a run with them every Wednesday and Friday after school. Monday his travel team starts regular practices every Monday and Wednesday night. We also have 2 and sometimes 3 games a weekend from this weekend till at least mid/late November. Just means he'll have to make sure he's staying on top of all homework.

Finished my grab bag for Digitals Birthday Bash. It's full of brand new product that is a huge bargain for only $2.00. It will be available at Digitals from October 1-7, I will post more as we get closer. I have a couple of mega kit things to work on and then I want to get back to some new kits. I just finished my first set of brushes and they were a lot of fun. I'd like to do a lot more of those and maybe some template sets and stuff.

It's off to work for me. Have a great day everyone!

Pictures from Saturday's Game