Fun Give- Away!

Stacey Curry has an awesome blog filled with beautiful scrappy things (not to mention she is just plain fun!) I encourage you to check out her blog and enter to win a super cute prize! Tell her Jayne sent you! :)

http://currychaos.blogspot.com/

Tomorrow is the Day!

Jingle Bell Crop!

Just a quick reminder! Feeling Scrappy is hosting a huge crop tomorrow! The crop will run from 10 am until 9 pm with challenges, games and fun posted every hour! Busy or work on Friday? No worries - all challenges will be due on Sunday night with winners being announced on Monday. We are giving away over $200 retail value worth of scrappy prizes! Check out these prizes! You don't want to miss this crop! Join us tomorrow to get your share of the goodies! To play just join our message board at www.feelingscrappy.com!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We are heading back to Indiana today to spend the holiday with Don's family but I wanted to post a quick message here first to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you have a wonderful time with your family and counting your blessings. Here is a recent layout about three of my greatest blessings :)

Jingle Bell Crop!

You are invited to join us for Feeling Scrappy's

JINGLE BELL CROP

on Friday, November 30th!

One more big cropping party before the Holiday rush. The crop will run from 10 am until 9 pm with challenges, games and fun posted every hour! Busy or work on Friday? No worries - all challenges will be due on Sunday night with winners being announced on Monday.We are giving away over $200 retail value worth of scrappy prizes! Check out these prizes! You don't want to miss this crop! Join us on November 30th to get your share of the goodies! To play just join our message board at www.feelingscrappy.com!

Here is a peak at all the great prizes you could win! A fantastic kit has been donated by Storytellers Club! (See first picture!) But it doesn't stop there - many more prizes follow!

One more day!

You still have time to enter Feeling Scrappy's Shades of Autumn Contest for a chance to win this fun Autumn Embellishment Kit! Layouts for the contest are due by 10pm (central time) on November 13th. If you miss this chance - not to worry - our next monthly layout contest starts on November 15th! You can check out all the details on our message board or at www.feelingscrappy.com. Hope you will give it a shot - you never know! :)

Seeing Red!

Here are several of my recent layouts (click on them to enlarge) - as you can see I was into red during this scrapping session! :) I didn't even notice it until I was done. These are layouts from this past summer but all this red is getting me into the Christmas mood!

Happy Halloween!

I finished the layout above this morning :) Hope you have a great Halloween! Here is the journaling on the layout:

It is easy as an adult to get wrapped up in the “work” of Halloween. Making sure the kids have everything they need for their costumes, decorating the house, getting and carving pumpkins, planning and volunteering at the school Halloween parties, making sure I have enough candy for the trick-or-treaters, helping the kids get ready, our annual photo shoot and finally taking them out for the night. Sometimes it can be hard to fit everything in with our busy schedule! But today as I think about the Halloween to-do list, I am taking a minute to remember back to when Halloween was all about fun, magic and freedom.

I loved Halloween when I was a kid, much the way my kids do now! Every year, Billy Rebey and I would go trick-or-treating together. Some years, Connie and my mom would take us to different neighborhoods to see what kinds of candy they gave away – my mom likes to tell the story of how at one house I asked the lady not to put the treat in the sack because “my mom wants to know what I got” and some years we would run around Billy’s neighborhood in a frenzied race from house to house! I went as all sorts of things – a girl ghost, an old woman and an Indian squaw being the most memorable.

It was a day when you didn’t worry about someone snatching your kids, so sometimes Billy and I got to go by ourselves. What fun we had – it was such an adventure to be out after dark racing through the yards with our pillowcases! I can still hear the sound of leaves crunching under our feet and feel the cool air on my cheeks. When we had had our fill or our moms made us come home, we would dump out all our candy and sort through the treasures! Counting and sorting by type then picking out our favorites – mine was always Health candy bars and bull’s-eye caramels. Yum! Mom always wanted my butterfingers and Dad always had the snickers. We would eventually go to bed completely worn out from our excitement and running but also completely happy knowing there was a stash of candy waiting for us the next day!

I am happy I have children, because without them I am afraid there would not be much joy in Halloween but I am one of the lucky ones who can relive my childhood memories while I help my children make their own.

Carving Max

We finally found time to carve our pumpkin on the night before Halloween! The boys had fun playing in the "guts" then got board and went to play while Abbie and I carved him up. Abbie said he should have a name so Max it is! Our pumpkin seeds are soaking in a salt water bath waiting to be roasted tomorrow! Yum!

My mom is great!

I was finishing up this layout this morning (it was from when my mom visited Omaha last June) and I was thinking about how lucky I am to have such a great mom. I talked to her last night on the phone for over an hour and basically bent her ear about all sorts of things. It is such a comforting feeling knowing that she is always there in any way I need her. Thanks mom. I love you! (Just wish you lived closer!)

On a side note - those of you considering trying out for the Feeling Scrappy Design team - the time is now! The deadline is October 22nd so check out www.feelingscrappy.com for all the deatils and get those applications in!

Happy Birthday Baby!

I just can't believe my sweet baby girl is 9 years old today. I am so very proud to be her mother. She is everything a daughter should be - smart, beautiful, funny and loving! Every year that passes, she surprises me with that fact that I could actually love her more and even though her birthday is a very happy occasion, I can't help but feel a little sad that another year of her childhood is gone. Happy Birthday Abbie - may you always shine as brightly as you do today!