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Archives for May 2008

Hello Everyone!

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I am Vicki and I am, of course, On Chris’s Creative Team. Just wanted to pop on here and say “hi” and I will be back. I just finished my grandson’s first 8 months of life album (he’s now 9 months old) and have only a few pages left for these next couple of months until his birthday. I am almost out of room in this album, so I hope we don’t have any major happenings. Chandler is 9 months old and talks. He says Mama, Dada, Brother and BaBa which means “food” in general. He likes his food more than his milk. He walks – not alone, but all around the furniture. He’s early in everything! What a joy and a challenge.

Here’s a picture of one of my Favorite Projects using one of Chris’s files:

Happy Day Everyone,

Vicki

Autumn Beauty file Link

Memories Curly Matte or Frame

Road Trip. BumbleBee and Flowers

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My not so young “puppy” isn’t feeling well today. So trying to keep an eye on her. So this will be short.
I uploaded 1 file to the membership and posted a poll for another file and then will be offering the flower and bees from below. These are what I cut on the bowl for Bella.
Enjoy!
Chris
Road Trip posted in membership & soon to store.

File coming to membership & Store

Bella’s Bowl..and a new teeny saddle.

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Did you have a wonderful weekend! I did. Saturday was a ton of fun at the auction. A relaxing and all around day spent doing very little and hanging out alot. We bought a few miscellaneous items .. like a purse even.. I buy the oddest things at auctions these days… but most fun was a little teeny saddle for my son. A children’s saddle that will hopefully help him get his seat right. I have read many different opinions on this and decided that yes we shoudl have a saddle that is his size. Riding in one of Mom or Dad’s would be like walking around in a big shoe and he would slide all around in it. He is very excited about it.
Saturday night when I got home I decorated this bowl with white vinyl for my niece. It is her birthday and she is my goddaughter. I loved the bright color of the bowl and filled it with fun craft items, but then also added her name to the outside. I think most kids like to get things with their names on it. So I hope she likes it. What do you think?
I am just finishing up my South Dakota files so I need the next state to work on. If you went somewhere for vacation and want the landmarks for that state put together email me with a few specifics and I will see what I can do. I should have some sample files to post this week and am compiling the next set of files for the next challenge.

Well I am off to take the kiddo to school. More on the weekend later. Have a wonderful monday!

Enjoy!
Chris

Happy Mother’s Day!

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These were sent into me by Dana on my creative team. Beautiful!! She does great work also.


So the last few posts I have packed in all the Creative Team projects. I hope you enjoy them and they inspire you. My Creative Team is made up of a great group of people. I am loving working with them and seeing what they create.

Have a wonderful Mother’s Day. I am off to a BBQ today and then home hopefully to get some horse riding in! More on the weekend tomorrow!

Enjoy!
Chris

Love Word Book for Mother’s Day…

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If you’re trying to find something today to create for Mom for Mother’s Day. This might inspire you. It was created by Ger on my creative team for last quarters Word book letters. I love the bright colors. I hope you do to.





Have a wonderful Mother’s Day tomorrow!
Enjoy!
Chris

Great Projects to see..

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My Creative Team has been on overdrive lately and I am loving all the projects. I can’t remember which ones I have shown. So I thought I would show a few of them. And if I have repeats I apologize!! I just love them all.

From Karen

Sting of the Bat



Clownin’ Around

Alpha Jumble

From Sussann

Snowflake Jumble



From Wendy

Sting of the Bat

And there will be a few more tomorrow.

on to life…

It is Mother’s Day this weekend. Hubby and I chatted about it and we like to see our Moms on Sunday. So Saturday has become my Mother’s Day. This works out wonderfully because we are going to head to the horse auction for the day and hang out and just watch horses and enjoy the time together. My little one loves to go because he sees all the other boys hangin’ out and wears his boots and hat and jeans like Dad and gets to be with us. It is very nice. Might hit the Mexican food restaurant on the way home. Might not depending on how the day goes.

But for now I have a ton of conversions to do for some new files. So I better stop delaying and get to it.

Happy Mother’s Day to everyone!

Enjoy!

Chris

Thursday Thank goooodness

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It is Thursday. Woohoo!! Okay I have started going through the list of participants requests for files and sending them out. I hope to have them all out by next week. So they are a coming.

Thursday is also my busy day. Run the washer while I work on files and then put them away and work on one room at time to get it done in between files. And my little one is awesome help. He is 4 and catching on how to sort laundry. and which room we are headed to next. I keep him with me. Makes it take so much long however I notice that he keeps an eye on his things a little more when he has to be part of cleaning up.

I have lots of little things to say, but not completely formulated. I will get it together and have a show and tell post tomorrow or maybe late tonight. Have a wonderful day!
Enjoy!
Chris

The Challenge The Challenge

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I want to post really quick about the Poll for the Challenge. I have received many emails from participants of the challenge that requested their entry not be polled. That they enjoyed the challenge and one lady wrote “it inspired me to be creative and would like there to be more of this type”. I have to say also that I received some of the most inspiring emails to me regarding the challenge files. And I liked everyones take on the files and it was interesting to me to see which ones were picked and how they were used. So after much deliberation I have decided to not poll the submissions. However, I am going to offer those who participated by sending in a submission an additional 2 files of their choice from my section of the store at Paperthreads. So everyone got the 9 files plus two more for participating. Email me your file choice (please choose two files that are listed as $5.00 or less). I thank you for participating and hope that so many will participate next time around as well. If you cut the SCUT files for the challenge. I have a list of files that are already converted. It can be found here. I will try to convert your requests to SCUT as soon as possible. but it may take me a little bit if it is not on this list. But I will do my best to get it done. Since I have to convert them all anyways I would rather start with requests.
I will be adding everyones submission to my mainsite page. Thank you again for participating!! it was wonderful to see them all. Enjoy!
Chris

Challenge.. More details later… Weekend Stories…

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It’s Monday Morning… Did you get your National Scrapbooking Day Challenge Entry in? I hope at least everyone got some scrapbooking done. I finally sat down to the computer Sunday night and tried to catch up on emails. I uploaded a bunch of pics to the paperthreads gallery and also to my main site. If you would like this figured out. As of this moment, I still have more to go, but I am working on it. Also, thank you to those who decided to participate. This was a fun challenge I hope it was for everyone. More details about the polls coming when I get a chance this afternoon to organize. Alot of you emailed and said you were using the Challenge to inspire you and get you moving. Really all of your emails inspired me. So thank you for your kind words and thoughts! Thank you! You have made this challenge very enjoyable for me.
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We went to a community fair for the local school and saw some of my little ones soccer teammates there and watched him run around and play. I went inside to check out the silent auction. I loveeee these things. I got a few cool goodies. My hubby being the awesome man that he is took our little one out to jump in the jumping castle and the air slide and do his things. All in all it was a very fun evening.

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Saturday morning I got a call from the head soccer coach, her little ones were sick. So that means me… I get to be the coach.. wooohoo. oh my goodness what have I gotten myself into. I don’t know the rules of soccer. I know how to help the kids on the sidelines get into the game and those who need a drink to get swapped out and how to cheer them on and swing them circles and say GREAT JOB. So I ran into the closet got my extra coaches shirt and handed it to my hubby and said your the assistant today. He smiled and said sure no problem. So it wasn’t. It was a lot of fun. My hubby was awesome helping out and the kids had a great time. So it all went well. My little boy kept yelling. Okay Coach mom and Coach Dad. Cute. Yeahh!!!
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We had a few friends over on Saturday night. And easy bring your own main course BBQ and we had sides. The guys went on a horse ride and the girls hung out and chatted. and the little ones played. Impromput and just lots of fun also. Sunday was a lot of work. I wasn’t feeling so wonderful, but the hubby worked his bum off going through a bunch of storage. Time for spring cleaning. Getting rid of all the little baby clothes. For some reason I feel the need to hold onto them. My hubby smiles and understands and I told him. Leave them all there. So they are in a big pile waiting for a family member to come look and see what they want. And then off to goodwill they go. We need the space and every something feels heavy on the shoulders. So time to clean it out. So that was a good feeling.

And that’s about it. Just an awesome wonderful weekend. I hope you had one to. I didn’t get to my Craft Room, buttttt I really thought about it and all of you that were getting the chance to scrap. It is looking good for this week for me. I have a friend who might come over if all goes well. I better get the little one to school. Have a great day!
Enjoy!
Chris