NOTES FROM THE HOLLER

Wednesday is Hump Day:and we are half-way through the week.  We here in the USA are looking forward to a big holiday weekend, the 4th of July!  I am sure my sons will take their kids to one of the fireworks shows in the area, and we always have a family cook-out at my brothers house.  I still have to try to get my stuff together for the big yard sale my DILs are having on Saturday.  But today, my husband and a few of his friends are meeting here to finish putting up the big 100 ft CB antennae tower for his "Bull Creek Sub-Station!  He loves to talk and there is always a listening audience for his foolishness on the CB.  That is about the only hobby he has, lol! For me, my love of digi-scrapping led me last night to double-check and finish some of the photo books I have to make sure they are ready for printing.  I added a couple of slide shows from these projects over on the right side of my blog so I hope you take the time to peek at them.  I ca...

Kimmi has released for use today three little kits of darling, digital elements and backgrounds that are perfect for capturing your favorite fur baby and its favorite human companion.  Kimmi's Best Furry Friends Kits are so adorable that you will use them for other pages as well!  I made some  pages to go in my youngest GD's brag book!   Also today from Kimmi, you have to check out the Beach Bears Kit !  I love these colors, and they look so well for those sepia toned photos we all love! Muse Charne has a real pretty gift for you one her blog using the above kit, so Go Check It Out and don't forget to leave her some love if you download it!  Have a great week!

As a told you some weeks back, I am fortunate enough to be on the Kreative Team for Scrappin Digi Kreations once again, and I have been playing with a new release, Tide of Life from SammyD Kreations .  I love the colors and those cute flowers in this collection! I also use the above kit on my submission for the SDK Cut It Up Challenge for a companion page to the above.  I  like the way 2 coordinating pages look when you open up the printed photo book.  I hope you go check out the fun challenges at ScrappinDigiKretions ! I also made a couple pages for my youngest Granddaughter's Brag Book which will be her Mommie's Christmas gift this year!  The delightful frame cluster in the kit made it ever so easy! And to make things even easier for you, I created a Tide of Life BB page for you too!  I hope you enjoy it and see ya in the SDK Forum ! *DOWNLOAD NO LONGER AVAILABLE*

Summer is definitely here!  For the past couple of weeks we have been dealing with the heat and humidity that normally arrives in July and August.  If this has been a preview to the upcoming summer months, we are in for a hot time in the holler!  All those gardens that were put out early, survived the flood, and now looking so pretty may just cook now!  I have been piddling in my flower garden a little but mostly staying in my cool air-conditioned home and scrapping up a storm!  I had so much to catch up on that I barely knew where to start. Today, I'll begin with showing you some of the special layouts I created with some of the hot products by Tracey Monette-Clever Monkey Graphics:   My grandson Isaac loves Diego television show so I used those lyrics with the cute childlike doodles of zoo animals in Taylor's Zoo .  I combined those elements with Tracey's Multifarious Elements and Papers from SBE.  Multifarious is tough and delicate all at t...

Good morning!  Have you guys missed me?  Sorry I have been absent for so long but you know how life can sometimes get in the way of things...I wanted to drop in today to let you know that I have not forgotten you and to show my appreciation for your loyalty in good times, and in bad.  I have a little something for you today!  Its a cute little QP I created from a layout I made this morning using the Tulip Angel Mini Kit by Kimberly Stewart .  I hope you enjoy it and hopefully (keep your fingers crossed) I will be back soon! *NO LONGER AVAILABLE*

I just wanted to drop in to say hello and let you guys know that I am alive.  I will probably remain somewhat absent for the rest of this week and probably next.  I have started my census job, and with the 8/9 hours daily grind of driving and doing that job, and my sinus infection or whatever it is (yes, I am still a little puny) I am just too pooped to scrap when I get home.  Sunday night was the first night that I actually slept all night in weeks and now here tonight I woke up at 12:30 coughing my head off again.  I think it is sinus affection because my ears are all stopped up still and now, the only time I get these coughing spells is when I lay down.  I like the census job (it started last week) and although there is definitely nothing hard about it, I find that I am pooped when I get home...combination of getting back into the routine of working in public again, and the stop and go driving all day long. It even has aggravated an old injury ...

I hope you have enjoyed a wonderful Sunday with your family!  I am posting so late today and I am sorry for that but I am afraid I am sorely under the weather.  I have spent most all day piled up the couch with my roll of toilet paper close by (my replacement for a box of tissues).  The congestion part of my cold is getting better thanks to the Alka Seltzer Cold Plus but my throat, head and ears hurt terribly so I have done nothing but try to sleep.  DH did get something accomplished today...he and his BIL Rollie dug out the horseshoe pits and got them framed in nicely.  Due to the heavy rain we had last night, they are going to wait a day or two before they go down to the Green River and get a couple loads of sand to fill them with.   It has been years since I pitched horseshoes so I am looking forward to the kids coming down throughout the summer and playing with me. You know how I look forward to Sundays and all the wonderful New Releases at Scrap...