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to a few sweeeet friends of mine who's birthdays are both today! :) My dear friend Amy from school...hope you have a wonderful birthday! And to the famous and friendliest Gina, hope your day is spectacular!!!!!! Smoochies to both of you! :)
And you have to go nab Miss Kim's fabulous free sketch and also Vintage Charm's beautiful freebie paper pack! YUM!!!! I scrapped this with it. FUN!!!! Thank you girls!
everyone for you deliciously sweeeet comments! I truuuuly appreciate it! Really! And I will be leaving Shabbylicious Fall up on this shabby bloggie so you can still get it...linkeeee is on the right! :) And wow on these pages I keep seeing! I am blown away by everyone's amaaazing shabby talent! TY!
Sooo, what a weekend! Hope you all had a fab one! I got tons of stuff done! LOL Well procrastination isn't a friend but still, I am learning to be more diligent in getting less distracted! Seriously need a much LOUDER alarm clock too! LOL
My dear friend Lanne always find the cuuuuutest stores online! I swear that girls knows her internet! LOL Soo I had to share some fun stuff with you all today! Oh and I did order a TON of those felt bags...at Plum Party thanks to one dear friend! :) I can't wait to get them and use some as goodie bags! I got some Halloween ones for the kiddies too! :) YUM!
Soo back to Lanne, lol, here are some FABULOUS sites you won't wanna miss!!!!!
This site is TO DIE FOR!!!! This artist is incredibly talented and her paintings are sooooo beautiful! Love these! Chayce loves this one!!! She said she loved seeing the family!!!!
Okay another adooooorable site that I think I might go crazy at is this one....Giddy Giddy. YUMMMMMY clips!!!!!
Sooo did you see Auntie Pea's bloggie today! Fall inspiration I tell ya! I looooove this purse!!!!!!
And yesterday afternoon, we hit our favorite store, Target, and just busting about this and Kristie would too, but I gave in! LOL Josh totally wanted these shoes! LOL So we splurged and got them! And some totally cute stylish hikers for him and a few pairs of cute shoes for Matt too! Looove those shoes! LOL 
He loves them! LOL
A few more goodies and I will leave you all alone! LOL Go check out Megan's blog and grab this amaaaaaaazingly fresh and beautiful paper pack she made! LOOVE THIS!!!! 
And then go to the amazingly talented Miss Kim's blog and grab her most fantastic sketch! Her sketches are TO DIE FOR!!!!! I love them!!!!
Smooochies!!!
SMJ
Here's my first "real" digital scrapbooking kit...for free! Yup and it is one that totally describes me...the colors..the shabbiness, the flowers and the WORD ART! LOL Shabbylicious Fall!
Please enjoy it and if you download it, please leave a comment so I know you got it. My "designer" girfriends have been bugging me to do something as to designing a kit! LOL
Please read and respect terms. I know, dirty subject, but I'd graciously appreciate it. Enjoy!!!! And also, please email me your pages! Or post links here! I'd TOTALLY love to see and comment on all of them!!!!!
Thank you and of course, SMOOOCHIES! :)
SMJ
You can download SMJ Shabbylicious Fall right at these three links. :) Please use one and if one is expired, try the next one. :)
...and what a WILD morning that was! LOL Gosh I hope I wasn't that detail oriented about things to my mom when I was little. :) Our lil princess was "mommy my boots feel weird" or "Mommy my hair's not exactly right" and on and on..LOL....So we were running a tad behind this morning! I love having a girl!!!! :)
Really she was quite thrilled to walk to her new school. Since we moved, we are really appreciating living closer to places we always need to be at like school, soccer, etc. So we all five walked to school this morning! So refreshing! :) The kids loved it and our princess was soo thrilled to walk on her new campus today ready and excited to meet new friends. I know she misses her friends from where we used to live but I know her bubbly personality will easily land her new ones.
So we dropped off our sassy girl and ran some errands! The baby boys are EXHAUSTED! LOL I know we all have to "relearn" the school routine. Changing from summer schedules to now school ones. Going to bed early, waking up early. Even for mommy and daddy! LOL
Anyways, did a quick page of today using my dear friend Lanne's amazing storyboard!!!!! Totally getting the idea of it but I added a few of Heather Ann's goodies to it!!!!! Hope you are all having a great one!!!!
SMJ
to all you sweet friends for your absolutely sweet comments. i am sooo grateful and just so appreciative! OKay so had to scrap! My sweet friend Sara created this most FABULOUS kit called In the Rough. And she was sooo generous! SO of course had to scrap our princess..with no teeth! LOL
OMG and are these new blog banners just awesome or what? I loooove them!!!!!
Okay tomorrow is the first day of school! Tons to do! Everyone please have a GREAT DAY!!!!
Smoochies!
SMJ
Today is a great day to remember! A day of life changing events, a time where I literally see myself finally growing up and that in itself is a good thing. Really since we moved, it has been nothing but great even through the daily stresses of life. That's a good thing!
I really had no time for tv before since I was way too busy with life, but now lately I have been watching some Sex and the City reruns...Good show! I've also loved the quotes I've heard there! Decided to scrap a few that really hit home for me. :)
You know something good can come out of anything! I definitely am learning that one from my Godsend friend Jen. Truly! She's taught me soooo much about life, people, moments, friendships, just stuff to truly soak in. I love her more than life!
I love these quotes. You know sometimes in life, things happen that we don't expect. I think I've been seeing so many "unexpected" events happen and it's nothing to bawl about. It's really all good in the end. It makes me a better mother, wife, person who loves to create and girl who loves to go shabby with everything. If anyone chooses to classify a decision or person as being selfish..well let's look at the whole reason behind it. It someone chooses to end a career, move on, buy a home, sell a car, end a relationship, buy a guinea pig, what truly is behind their decision? Is it that they want to show off and try to become the "celeb" that they never were? Is it to say that you have this and that and therefore you are in a much higher rank than all the others? Or is it soley because you know in your heart that you will be a better parent, a much less stressful one at best. And that once you make your decision, you have not one ounce of regret about it?
That's how I strive to be! My previous recent decisions have ALL been based on me putting my three shabby babies far above what I would want in my life. A better car, a bigger house for them, a job at home and friendships that don't stress me out. Friendships that build me up and make me a much better mommy than I can ever be. So what about "rescuing" friends? Gosh Jen you taught me so much about that. I dont' think I'll ever look at this the same again. Knowing that I am making a friend based on what I can give them and what they can give back. Not about the "pats on the back" so to speak. Oh you "saved" me and I am always in need of saving. I now am one who knows that the number of friends isn't the issue anymore as it was in high school and college. It's about INTEGRITY. Substance. One building up another and not sucking the life out of them. I realize now and after 10 years of one FABULOUS husband, that my dude picks the best guys to be buds with! Okay why don't I? LOL Not saying any of you are not great friends! Believe me there is way more to this story than I can reveal.
But oh my oh my, I must learn from this spectacular dude that life isn't about "feeling good" all the time but more about "feeling good" about the decisions I make! Okay feeling VERY GOOD about all my recent and past decisions! Ones previous just were not the best ones for me to make. But I think like this 2nd quote, I've found a friendship that has taken me to somewhere I least expected! And yet how come everyone around me knew of the danger? All but me? What am I some dork or something? I think a tad too naive. But I can get over that and learn to be less like that! LOL
So because I choose my family and kiddies before anyone else...am I selfish? Maybe so but I am darn well HAPPY that I am!!! LOL These kiddies have no one else but us! Like the quote above, people come and go...but these babies and absooolutely irresistable dh of mine will be with me for the most time and I need to pour ALL of my energy into them! Everyone else will have to wait awhile. But to my sweet friends that wait and I wait for them, THANK YOU! You all know who you are and Lisa I miss you like crazy!!!! Susan, you are my angel who never gives up and for that I am more than grateful! Genuine friends....are irreplaceable.
Okay so on a sweet note...I love baby pictures! Found this yesterday! Sometimes it's totally hard to look at our babies baby pics, cuz then I get hit with baby fever, but truly I just love to be surprised remembering how little they each were! Ahhhhh.
Thanks for listening to me rattle!!!!!
..is Italian tole..I just LOVE it!!!! Sooo vintage and sooo italian and definitley ornate! It's brings in such a great garden theme and with three lil ones running around, the metal flowers don't break. LOL Just love this stuff!!!!
Okay so I scrapped this from the AWESOME doodles that are for Asher.
You know I am on this incredible scrapping team of Gina's and it truly is more than an honor for me. But more importantly, our dear friend asked us to design doodles and word art to help raise money for our sweet friend Steph's son Asher. Amaaazing stuff these girls have created and I am so excited to have made a few as well. So please GO NOW to Digital Design Essentials and buy these!!!!!!!
...is it when you meet a bud with the same love that you have...beaches! LOL Especially Huntington! :) Michele sent me the cuuuutuest picture of her dd at the same place I scrapped our daughter...the sweet shabby mosaic mermaid. :) How coool! Just wanted to share!
And she sent me some fabulous pics of the beautiful beach! Love it!!!! Thanks Michele!!!
