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The other big thing...

I am really good about blogging things in the past.  I'm less good about blogging things that are happening right now.  I will be honest and say that it freaks me out a little bit when someone IRL says that they read something about me on my blog.  So, I have a hard time blogging about real parts of my life that I may not want every "Tom, Dick, and Harry" in the world to know about (as my mom used to say).  I always go back and forth and back and forth about posting things. 

So, here it goes.  The other big thing that has been taking up SO MUCH TIME in my life is that we are MOVING.  My husband was offered a great opportunity last February at another company in another state and we accepted it.  So, we have spent the last few months getting our home ready to go on the market and researching areas in the new state, schools, and many, many other things.  We are really excited!  No, we are not moving to Utah!  I always tell my husband that there are 49 other states and many other countries in the world that we can be happy in...haha.  We have lived in this area for 12 years and had no intentions of moving, but when the Lord has a different plan, he has a way of making things happen and putting it into motion. We were not looking for a different job...the job came to us.  I am very sad about leaving my friends, my home, and my island...but there are much, much worse things in life...so it's all GOOD!

The fun thing though is that once we are moved, I will share some photos of the island and the area that we have called home!  See...that whole blogging the past thing...haha! :)

Have a good one!

More goodies...

I forgot to mention yesterday that one of the really cool things about the Stephanie2 product line is that each product includes a PDF file of the doodles that you can print without any fancy software.  All you need is Adobe Acrobat Viewer, which most computers come with and which is FREE.  Sooooo if you aren't a digital scrapbooker, but would like to use our stuff, YOU CAN!!  Check out the other Stephanie's blog to see a little more detail about how she Hybradoodles! :) (don't you love that term?)

I added this set to the store yesterday.  For those of you that love and use templates...these dooldes ROCK!!  It also includes, brushes and png files (and that PDF I just told you about). 

Finally....

Finally!  I can explain ONE of the reasons for my absence!  I have been working feverishly the last several weeks...well over a month on a top-secret project with another Stephanie.  So....what do you get when you add

Stephanie(me) + Stephanie (Homegrown Hospitality)=

Well you get Stephanie to the power of 2...haha!!  It really is a crazy story how Stephanie and I came to collaborate and long, so I won't share now, BUT we are so excited to work together.  Stephanie is a self proclaimed "long live paper" girl.  As I have been getting things from her, doodles and then photos of hybrid projects, I can't help but picture all of these wonderful things just exploding out of her.  Kind of like a commercial with someone walking down the street and some happy music playing in the background with doodles, flowers and cute things being drawn all around her as she moves.  Not sure that does justice to the imagery I have in my head of what happens when Stephanie puts pen to paper or paper to scissors!  She is extremely talented and I feel blessed to be able to collaborate with her. 

So, without anymore blah blah blah from me...let me share with you OUR stuff and everything is on sale through Sunday AND you will get a free set of gingham papers with each kit through Sunday as well (who can't use gingham?):

New Machine

Can you hear the crickets chirping on my blog???  I can...sheesh!  The good news is that I am busy with some very fun and exciting things over at TDD.  I can't wait to share it all with you, but you have to wait a bit...don't you hate it when people do that?!

I do have some exciting news that I can share with you though...a couple of weeks ago I got myself a new machine!  I am LOVING it...well...loving everything except the Vista!  I had decided that I was going to wipe my hardrive and put XP on it, when I got a virus...well 2 viruses, some malware, and a trojan and over 900 instances of spyware on my old laptop that has XP on it.  I have heard around the www that Vista IS indeed less likely to get all of these ugly critters, but this time I saw it for sure.  I have been moving my little EHD back and forth between the two while I get everything set up on the new machine the way I like it.  I also go to pretty much the same sites on both machines, so there was plenty opportunity for the bugs to contaminate my new baby, but they haven't.  I was able to get the old laptop fixed...without help..hehe!

Soooo...for those that care (haha) I have a SWEET 17 inch HP laptop with 325 gigabyte hardrive and 4 whopping gigabytes of RAM!!!  It has HD connections and a bunch of other connections that dh said I would want...haha (he's the TV/Video guy in the family, I'm the computer person). I cannot believe how much faster I am able to do things though.  My OLD laptop had an 80 gig hardrive and 1 gig RAM...yeah...BIG difference!  I can run Illustrator, Photoshop, Excel, Word, surf the web (with multiple windows open) AND a few other things all AT THE SAME TIME!!!  Not kidding!  I am a happy, happy girl that is getting lots of work done...when I am able to be on the computer.

I am also busy planning girls camp stuff...we are in the last leg of the race, as they say, so it will be extremely busy from now until the first part of July...but as I have said before...IT'S ALL GOOD and for that I am so THANKFUL!!!

Soundtrack Sunday 52

Sorry this is so late, it's been a couple very busy days.... :)

WOW!!!  52 Soundtrack Sundays....a whole years worth of soundtracks from my life and the people I love...crazy! 

If you have been a reader of mine for a while you know the problems I have had finding a hair stylist I love.  Well, just over a week ago I went and got my hair cut for the second time by someone.  When I came home, my husband said, "Wow, your hair looks really good!  Don't ever change it!"  Which is GREAT and made me feel good, but then he kept staring at me and gave me a hug and said, "I really, really like this hair style, it looks so much better!" 

WHAT!?  So much better?!?!?!  All the kids were there and making a fuss over my hair as well and at this point my son said,  "Yeah, Mom, every single time you go get your hair cut, before you come home, dad says, 'No matter what mom's hair looks like, tell her it looks good!'" 

I started laughing so hard and looked at my husband and said, "Really?!?" to which my daughter responded for him, "Yeah, Mom, he does!  Every time!" 

islanddad started trying to shovel himself out of the hole the kids had dug for him by saying, "But, THIS time it really DOES look good.......other times I have had to bite my tongue."

So, this song is for all of those BAD HAIR DAYS....the ones when you look at the photos and "the camera doesn't lie"!!  Hate those days!!!