Can't believe it's been almost a month

since I posted!

Haven't been very social, HAVE been busy and pre-occupied, so don't take it personal :-)

"MY" space is getting into shape. The carpet is in, the storage is there, the desk is set up, and I've gone thru all but 3 boxes, and there in lies the rub.
Found stuff that was not supposed to go, found stuff we had packed together, tore apart and spread over several boxes, and didn't find stuff that was NOT in the house after the movers left, but somehow didn't make it into the crate. Part of it being the nativity set I grew up with, that my dad brought with him the last trip he made to The States. I found the sheep, the well, baby Jesus, but no Mary, Joseph, Camel or any Wisemen..... I also haven't found the coffeepot of my dishes, only the lid. I don't know if I'm sad, ticked off, discouraged or all of the above. It kinda takes the fun out of finally having "my spot".......

My sister, brother-in-law and my niece came up 2 weeks ago, and helped me paint, and a couple of days later my brother in law and niece showed up to go pick up the carpet and racks.... Somehow, our little KA was not up to the job LOL. As cute and economical as it it.... storage it doesn't have....

Lilac Avenue

Got my MAC back, and tested it. I had forgotten how immensely slow it is compared to the I-Mac) and discovered a snag in my thinking...... We have wireless internet, and my mac needs an air card... I have it, ordered it when Mike ordered his, but now that I remember how little power it has... I'm not sure it will work, but hey, that's why they made thumbdrives! LOL  My "yellow box" works too, so I'm in business as far as computers go. The only thing left is to get everything I unpacked, repacked with like items, so if I need something I can check one box instead of 20 :-)

I managed to play a little, but haven't posted to the required places yet. So, you might consider this an exclusive showing! LOL.  As soon as I'm done posting here, I will go in, and post everywhere I was supposed to over the last month.  I'm dispensing with the advertising bit this month, and just show you the pages with the links to the stores, for more inspiration.

Ann has 2 kits out since we last talked. Country Cottage and Even Tide. Both are collabs, Country Cottage she did with Aquarius, and Even Tide with Booland Designs. I loved both of the kits very much. They're HUGE too, with lots to chose from, and both beg for more time to play!

Ann has a store at: Digidesignresort:

                        E-scapes and Scrap:

                        Coolscrapsdigital:

                        Heritage Scrap:

Country Cottage
Just found out that I lied.... The picture I have as Mike and Kim , should read:
 Mike and Jamey... (his sister's kid, not his kid-sister)

Even Tide

IvyScrap has a great Mega this month, and it was very much fun to play with. My last posting is going up today, as wel as my entry in the heritage challenge. It's sorta-kinda like LifeBook, and I LOVE that, so I got suckered in! LOL. This one I already had in my mind , just not motivation to actually put it to "paper", other than in sketches. When I started the family tree, and found all the extra fun stuff that didn't fit in the genealogy part, I had decided I would make one book for Mike and one for me for the time before we met, and one for our life together..... so, since I started the first 2 with Vicky, I decided to do the third one with Ivy, as part of the CT obligation, and this time, I will try to make it more cohesive, and not just fun :-) but because it's not so much genealogy related, I'll have more leaway in what to put in it.... maybe just highlights, maybe indepth...... not sure how I'm going to tackle this one yet.

Here is the cover for it. All I can say about it is..... Boy, were we  Y O U N G !!!!! LOL

Made with a combination of Lilac Avenue and Lilac Smiles

Oh my, I think I'm hitting a purple fase........ It's such a happy color though. I don't seem to be able to pick anything but bright and happy colors these days. That's a good thing, right? LOL

Great Outdoors

Before I forget again, I want to thank Jessica's Sweet Nothings Design for the Mothers-day gift to the ct's. We got to pick any kit we wanted from her store..... I couldn't help myself. I saw Teddybears and I was hopelessly lost LOL.

Beary Merry Christmas

Booland Designs, is cleaning out the closet, and will be retiring a bunch of kits in the near future. She is bundeling them up, and believe some one who has bought her store twice..... You want to go take a look!

She sells at her Store over at Digital Scrapbooking Studio.

Even Tide Collab with StarSongStudio

Daddies Girl
The Mickey Mouse I extracted from a picture of  Franka  the rest is part of the kit.

I'm going to try and put the pages by bundle, but I'm so far behind on posting that it may turn out to be very tricky :-) also because some kits from the bundles I have not downloaded, because I already had them as part of the store buying thing, but I fully intend to make some pages with them as well. Just so you know what comes in which bundle I will put all the kits down.

Bundle 1: 

                 Charismatic You

                 Belladone

                 For Margaret

                 Chantilly Lace

                 Blue Skies and Sunshine

For Margaret

Bundle 2:

                 China

                 Sweet Calli

                 Nana's Joy

                 Great Expectations

                 Rainy Days and Sundays

Sweet Calli

China

Bundle 3: I did not make any pages with this one... I missed the whole thing :-)

                 Black Rock

                 Daycare

                 Dinotopia

                 Future Leaders

                 Heatwave

Bundle 4:

                 April Bloom

                 Clarissa

                 Bloomin' Love

                 Dalliance

                 Magical Summer

Bloomin' Love

Magical Summer

April Bloom

Bundle 5:

               Gentle Breeze

               Fields

               Cherry Road

               Glorious Morning

               Boolicious

Bundle 6:

              Winter Bloom

              Rose Crescent

              Woodvale

              Meadow Lane

              Lilac Avenue

And I just noticed that I am missing A LOT more pages than I thought, so..... Off to "work" I go!

Hope you have a great day or evening, depending where you are in the world, and don't forget to hug a loved one :-)

Hugs for a soggy Holland,

Pauli