Designs by Kimberly

A Mother’s Love was created by the thoughtful and generous designers of Scrap Outside the Box to help the family of McKenna Elise Conrad. McKenna was born January 12, 2008 with a cleft lip and cleft palate , which occurs in one in every 500 births. Now one-year-old, McKenna has already undergone numerous procedures to repair her cleft lip, resulting in $5,000 in medical bills. She is scheduled to undergo palate surgery on March 6 and that amount will more than double. Sadly this is all after health insurance has been paid. Her family is in dire need of financial assistance and you can help. McKenna is very near and dear to our hearts, because she is the niece of Scrap Outside the Box owner, Dani Fenning. It seems only natural that we reach out to her family in the best way that we can, by creating and sharing a fabulous charity kit and donating the proceeds to this needy family . A Mother’s Love is the perfect title for this warm, colorful collaboration full of flowers, butterflies

I think we just need to rent a room in the ER because it's like that place is our second home. Elizabeth has been sick since last Sunday night. She started being really nauseous and then came the vomiting and diarrhea. Joy, right? She was home from school all week because just when we thought she was over it and let her have a little solid food, like noodle soup, she gets severe stomach pains again. Thursday night I just couldn't handle seeing her curled up in a fetal ball on the floor in tears because it hurt so bad, so I called the advice nurse, who after 15 minutes of questions advised us to get Elizabeth to the emergency room within the next hour. I wasn't panicky worried, because I just don't get that way. But I was a little worried when she started singing "Why does it have to be my stomach? Why do I have to be sick?" Poor baby. So, we got to the ER at 10pm and a measly two hours later we were in a room with our very own TV which totally pleased Elizabet

Today was a day filled with all good things! We had our immigration interview for hubby's residency. I was so totally nervous when we went in there. I was expecting to be drilled with questions, but she (the interviewer) mostly just went over the application, asked hubby a few crazy easy questions (like his parent's first names), asked where we met, then said "okay I'm going to approve this right now" and she handed him a piece of paper that he'll keep with him until he receives his "green" card in the mail. It's been a long 4 years coming to this. So, finally this part is over. Now, we wait for the card then he has to get his California driver's license and files for a Social Security card, and then, FINALLY he'll be able to go look for work. He's pretty excited about finally being able to work. He's been so bored just sitting here at home, working on his four computers all day long. Okay enough rambling about this. The next grea

Hope everyone's having a great beginning to 2009! January is a busy month in my house! The 10th is hubby's birthday, followed by our anniversary on the 22nd, nephew's birthday on the 24th, and my birthday on the 27th. We all had that nasty tummy virus this month, too. It hit us all a different way, I was lucky enough to get it twice, Yay me! We're all better now! But I did manage to get all my challenges done at SOTB in January! I'll show you some of my favorites, but first let me tell you, there are some changes going on at SOT B . Several new designers will be joining the site and there will be changes to the challenges, also. There will also be more chats and crops happening. You just need to check out the calendar of events . Oh and the mega kit from SOTB is just gorgeous this month. It's called Winter in Japan : Okay, and now for some of my favorite layouts that I did in January. The first was for the Twice as Fast Challenge which will be discontinued this