Grins & Giggles

How many of you have finished your Christmas shopping? I can finally say for the first time ever, I think, I am done with my major Christmas shopping before Dec. 1! :) Woohoo! I currently do not have wrapping paper though to wrap any of these gifts yet. I forgot to pick it up the last two weekends we went shopping. Now to figure out how to get someone to take me to a Walmart, Target, etc. since I didn't have any plans on going back over there until after Christmas when I go in for my next Dr. appointment for my ankle. hmmmm...

I did pretty good with all the Black Friday sales last week. I started hitting the Amazon Lightning Deals the beginning of the week and got a few television shows, movies and Wii games for my family along with a few other things. My biggest deal was my new laptop from Best Buy. So glad I was able to order that on Thursday afternoon instead of having to try and fight the crowds that had started camping out there on Tues. afternoon already. The bad thing though is that since I had to have my parents and in laws chip in part of it to get it as my birthday and Christmas presents my husband won't let me open it until then. (There are certain times when it actually pays to have a Christmas Eve birthday. Don't tell anyone I said that though because I will never hear the end of it. ;) Most of the time though it stinks. :P ) It came yesterday and it was so hard not to open it and start getting it ready to use. When Paul ordered a compound miter saw from Sears on Thursday night I told him "Merry Christmas" and now he can't open it until Christmas either. lol. He decided it would be a good idea to get one to do the trim work and stuff when we start re-doing our house or actually putting trim up in the rooms that we have already redone. It's only been about 13 years for a couple of rooms to go without the trim work. Why is it so hard to do that last little step? Another great deal I got was new laminate flooring for my kitchen!!! I'm so excited about that it. When we first moved in here 13 1/2 years ago, one of the first things I wanted to change was the carpet we had in the kitchen. It's just been one of those things we keep putting off, but now it's finally going to be GONE! Happy dance! I told Paul, though, that when the new floor gets put in my cupboards are going to look worse than they already do. He unfortunately told me I could then sand them and he would be more than willing to hand me the sander. :P What a party pooper. Can't say I didn't try though. 

Our schedule has suddenly gotten about ten times fuller in the last week, too, all of the sudden with all the preparations for Christmas programs and parties. And as usually I don't see it slowing down again until at least February. Decided to try a new app on our phones to keep Paul in the loop a little more this year. I have such a hard time writing things on our calendar it seems, so sometimes he misses things. Hoping this will help alleviate some of that. 

This week I have my grab bag broken down and in the store. The bright colors of this collection are so fun! Don't forget new releases are 20% off through Sunday.







And if you just have to have all of it...Grab the bundle and save!



Here is my layout using this kit.



Check out some more inspiration using this collection from my CT and the ScrapMatters' CT.









Until next time...Happy Scrapping!

Black Friday Grab Bag

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and was able to spend it with their family and friends. I would like to thank everyone for being such great customers over the past year and look forward to creating more great products for you to use to scrap your memories in the coming year. 

I don't know if you are a Black Friday shopper or not, but I have really become one over the last 4 years. I had never gone Black Friday shopping until 4 years ago when I found a digital camera at Walmart that I wanted to get my oldest for Christmas. I had wanted to go before, but could never find anyone to go with me or watch my kids. That year while at Thanksgiving with my mother-in-law's family all of us ladies decided we would go. It just so happened that Paul was going to actually be home that weekend, too. Normally he would have to take off with a load of livestock either Thursday night or early Friday morning, but we had decided to have a date night Friday night so he stayed home. This was also the first year that Toys R Us opened at midnight. That year I managed to stay up for a total of 40 hours! Spending a good majority of it shopping. Ever since that year I have kind of become hooked. I've not done too bad on getting some great deals, but this year has been the best so far. I've gotten basically everything I have wanted to get, including new flooring for my kitchen! :) After 13 years of having carpet in my kitchen I will soon be able to get rid of it. So excited! Let's just say that having carpet in the kitchen with 3 kids and a husband that tends to get oil and grease on his shoes at work and doesn't always take them off before walking into the kitchen is NOT a good idea. It was one of the first things I wanted to change in this house when we moved in, but we have never gotten around to it. Now if I could just magically make it bigger so we could put in an island, I might just like it. lol. 

If you like getting great deals check out this bright, fun grab bag that I released this week at ScrapMatters. You get 3 full size products for only $3.99! But hurry though because just like Black Friday doorbusters this grab bag won't be around for long. It is only available through Nov. 29. After that it will be broken up and the individual pieces will be available in my store. 

Check out what you all get in this fun grab bag!







If that wasn't a big enough deal the rest of my ScrapMatters' store (excluding bundles) is also on sale! Plus just a little hint check out the Flash Sale on Sunday night around 6 pm EST. ;)



Until next time...Happy Scrapping!

Full of Character

So did everyone have a great weekend last week during Digital Scrapbook Day (Weekend)? Did you get a lot of pages scrapped? I had plans to get some pages done, but my mojo seems to have taken a vacation on me. This year has been really slow for me in the scrapping department. I think with all the changes we have had around here in the past year, have really started taken a toll on my creativity. Thankfully I've been able to keep on designing to still have a bit of a creative outlet. I'm really hoping that I can finally start to get a bit more in a groove with everything and scrap more very soon. Does anyone else ever seem to get in such a rut that you have trouble digging yourself out of it?

This week I'm releasing the individual pieces that were part of my grab bag last week. The colors of this kit are just so bright and cheery! Not only is it great for scrapping pictures of your magical character interactions, but also great for scrapping your everyday pictures. Like always new releases are 20% off through Sunday! :)











If you just have to have it all, than grab the bundle and save!



Here is a little bit of inspiration using all the pieces of the Full of Character collection from my CT.







If you haven't stopped by my Facebook page and grabbed my journaling cards yet, make sure to do so this week before they get put in the store next Friday.



Until next time...Happy Scrapping! :)

New Facebook Freebie

I have a new freebie up on my Facebook page. It is part of the ScrapMatters' Facebook and Blog hop. Head on over and "like" my page to pick it up. :) All of our parts coordinate, so if you visit all the stops you will have a great collab when you are done.



Also how would you like to win a $10 gc to my store? As part of the DSD celebration I'm hosting a scraplift challenge in the ScrapMatters forum. Find out what you need to do for your chance to win in this thread. You have until 11:59 pm ET Monday night to post your layout. While you are there, make sure to also post to your favorite MHK Scraps product here for your chance to win it. Hurry though because this giveaway ends at 10 pm ET tonight!

Full of Character Grab Bag

What a week it's been! I finally was able to go back to work on Monday. I decided to start out with just working every other day until 2 o'clock. I was doing pretty good until Wednesday when I was out with the kids trick-or-treating. I think I might have over done things a little bit because I have been in quite a bit of pain and my ankle has been very swollen since then. Hoping that over the weekend I can let it rest enough that by next Monday I'm good to go again. 

Hard to believe that it is already November! But do you know what that means?! One of the biggest digi-scrapping weekends of the year is this weekend! Woohoo! I love Digital Scrapbook Day. It's great that it's 6 months after iNSD, so it give me some time to recover from each in between. lol. ;) Lot's of things happening this weekend. 

First off my entire store at ScrapMatters, excluding bundles and grab bags, is 40% through Sunday! Make sure to check out the ScrapMatters' Facebook page today and tomorrow for some great coupons from the designers at ScrapMatters. Stop by my Facebook page tomorrow to pick up my part of this month's collab. And last but not least...how would you like to win an item off your wishlist from me?! Then head over the ScrapMatters' forum to this thread and find out how you could be the lucky winner. 

Now on to my fun new release for this week! Do you have any magical encounters that need to be scrapped? Than I have the perfect grab bag for you!  My Full of Character grab bag contains 5 full sized products that are perfect for scrapping the magical encounters you may have had at everyone's favorite characters. Hurry and grab it now because it's only available through Thursday. 



Hurry and grab it because it is only available through Thursday. After that it will be broken up.

Until next time...Happy Scrapping!