On the 3rd day of Christmas AAOV gave to me . . .

3 ribbons to decorate my pages.
Download here & please leave a comment: http://www.4shared.com/file/33134368/b7c430c4/day3.html

On the 2nd day of Christmas, AAOV gave to me . . .

Sorry to be so late but it's been a rough day. My brother is in ICU, and for several hours we were worried about my son, who had not shown up at his father's this morning as planned. He left around 9pm last night to return to Richmond, planned to get some sleep, then head to Charlottesville this morning. Around 3:30 pm his father called, thining he might have stayed over here in Norfolk. Both of us tried reaching him on his cell phone but couldn't get a response. Finally, his father called an old friend in Richmond and sent him to Jeremy's apartment. No answer to the knock on the door and the guy didn't see Jeremy's car. We were frantic to say the least. My fibro was acting up so getting upset was a bad idea. overtired and anxious, I went to bed to rest. About half an hour later, my son called in response to the message on his phone.

It seems he knew of someone who was by herself this holiday and stopped by her apartment to check on her before going home. She insisted he eat with her (he's already had dinner here) so he did. Had something with creamed spinach that didn't agree with him and was up sick all night. When he finally was able to get to sleep, he slept through ringing phone, knocks on the door and all! But thank heaven, he's okay now.

Still haven't gotten word from Florida on my brother, Thom's condition so am just praying there were no complications from the surgery to replace his medication pump in his back.

Now to what you're looking for:
On the 2nd day of Christmas, AAOV gives to you 2 quickpages created with my Christmas kit, Happy Holly Days, (available at Scrapbookersplayground).

Download the zip here: http://www.4shared.com/file/33100220/1473fa42/day2.html?dirPwdVerified=4c81dd0f

Hope you like them!

Merry Christmas!

Hello everyone! Sorry I've been a bad blogger recently but I've had computer problems and health issues. Overstressed and lacking time to blog. Anyway, it's Christmas and my son, Jeremy, is home for the holiday and my husband is napping on the sofa so all is right with my world. Below is a layout I did for Blushbutter and Dusty Bear's December Challenge which required using the quotation "Friends and family are the true gifts of Christmas." Jeremy is the best Christmas gift I ever received. The layout shows us on his first Christmas.

So many people think of the 12 Days of Christmas as ending on the 25th but they are actually the days beginning with Christmas day up until Ephiphany (January 6). I'm going to be posting a little seasonal giftie for you each of the 12 days of Christmas, so please check back and download any you like.

The first gift is a quickpage:

Download here: http://www.4shared.com/file/32955955/92178170/qp1.html?dirPwdVerified=7bf9fb

Many thanks to Emphemeral Victorian for the designer resources used to make the quickpage above. Note: tree is from Dover.

Enjoy!

Layouts Made With 50's Diners by Sandi Scraps

I'm old enough to remember some of the diners that were so popular years ago, many will lots of shiny chrome and flashy neon signs. Here in my hometown, there's a little place downtown that was a hangout for my parents when they were young, a cool place to grab lunch when I was downtown, and still operates today selling excellent barbeque sandwiches, delicious limeades, thick chocolate milkshakes, and icecream on old-fashioned sugar cones made on the premises.

When I saw Sandi's kit, I knew it was perfect for a tribute to a Norfolk tradition - Doumar's.

No background is included in the kit so I roughed out a night sky and parking lot and created a sign to go over the word "Diner."

Dourmar's has been in downtown Norfolk since the 1930's. Within the windows of the "diner" are photos left to right of: their famous barbeque sandwiches, Al Doumar working the ice cream cone machine. (An earlier Doumar invented the sugar waffle cone.), famous Doumar's limeade, behind the doors are waitresses Hilda and June in the 1940's (June is a family friend and my father's companion), waitress at counter with other Doumar brothers.


Above you see the inside of a typical diner of the period from Sandi's kit. I extracted the figures of my parents from some black & white photos from the 50's and colorized them to place them in the diner.

If you've got some 50's photos you need a home for and enjoy the look of 50's Diners you can find it here:

http://www.scrapbookersplayground.com/Cart/index.php?main_page=product_scrapbook_info&products_id=6861

Recent Layouts Using Birth Announcement by Robin Ackler

All of the following layouts were made with Birth Announcement by RObin Ackler of Scrapbookersplayground. You can find this cute kit here:

http://www.scrapbookersplayground.com/Cart/index.php?main_page=product_scrapbook_info&manufacturers_id=59&products_id=6919

Here's the outside of a baby shower invitation I made using the Log Cabin template (resized) from Jimstown and Robin's kit.
And here is the inside of the half-fold card. You can see this kit would be great for birth announcements, shower invitations, first birthdays and much more.

Robin thoughtfully included announcement cards for both boys and girls to hold all the pertinent information as you can see in this layout. (Large flower and frame center were cut from some of the papers.)

And if you don't want to use the anouncement card, the bib element can be enlarged to make a great journaling block as seen here.

And yes, if you're thinking you've seen this baby boy before, you are right. I haven't been able to get hold of Ty;er's hospital photo yet so put in his Uncle Jeremy's baby photo to see how it will look when finished.

A Sample From CTYD

If you missed Scrapbookersplayground's Crop 'Til You Drop last night, you missed a lot of fun. There were loads of mini kits - one planned for each hour starting at 7pm and only $2.00 each. During the crop, we tried to guess the kit name from the base kit we bought and additional elements that were given out free during the hour.

I checked in around 10pm and things were going strong. Left around 2am today and still a good number of hearty scrappers on hand. Lots of discount coupons and special offers were given during the crop too.

Here are a few quickpages I scrapped with the hourly kits as we chatted about anything and everything. And if you missed this crop, mark your calendar for January 19th when we're going to do it again!

I believe this one was the 10pm kit and the name is Walk On The Wild Side. (I think these kits will be offered in the store now, so check in if you see something you like. They would be under DDDesigns because Diosa created them.)

Oops, I've got the 12am kit here before the 11pm but that's okay, isn't it? This one is called Upsy Daisey and I guessed the title and won $5.00 in playground credits!

Here we go. This is the 11pm kit below, called Nutty Fudge.

The two above are from the 1am kit and I've forgotten the name. I was getting tired by then.

Hope you enjoyed seeing a sample of what our Crop "til You Drop kits are like. Please join us on January 19th and bring a friend.

Crop 'Til You Drop

Grr! Wanted to tell you about this sooner but have been ill. If you catch this, be sure you check out Scrapbookersplayground's Crop 'Til You Drop tonight at 7:00pm Eastern. Lots of goodies and lots of fun. We'll have designers dropping in throughout the evening and they'll be bringing goodies. Will try to stop by myself if I get to feeling better. Have fun!