Designs by Kimberly

Scrap Outside the Box is celebrating it's 5th Anniversary! There is a fun challenge by Wilma to "Pimp that Cupcake". She provides a template for the cupcake and you pimp it out!! There is also a Speed Scrap that went on tonight. You can upload your layout until midnight Sunday! Larisa of Garden Girl Designs hosted the crop and she's giving away an AWESOME gift if you participate. You can pick up her Teenie Weenie Halloweenie kit for FREE!!!! How cool is that? Look back in my blog a post or two and you can see a preview of that cute kit! Click the following links to get to the challenge forum: Pimp that Cupcake Speed Scrap (scroll down the thread until you find the instructions) Here is a sweet (yes, pun intended!! LOL) layout that my almost 9 year old made tonight in honor of Scrap Outside the Box's 5th Birthday/Anniversary! She is so methodical about placement and making sure everything matches. It was pretty fun to watch her make this. Let's see, what freeb...

...uneventful. I think I jinxed myself. LOL So, last post I said the last few weeks had been uneventful, and they had been! Now, I have pink eye, in BOTH eyes. It's miserable. I haven't had this since I was a kid! It totally stinks! I'm making sure to keep my daughter and hubby away from my hands and face LOL. I was also invited to join my absolute favorite digi scrapping's anniversary blog train!! It's happening this coming week and the weekend! So, keep an eye on my blog if you want and you can pick up my piece to the blog train and get all the other blog links! The most amazing thing happened to me today!! I was invited to join the "designer's" side of a store. I get to hang out there until I get up enough nerve to try selling my designs! I'm so excited!!!! It's so hard to come up with the words for how I'm feeling. Let me just get a little of this off my chest. I'm very excited and nervous at the same time. I'm scared that I...

These past few weeks have been wonderfully uneventful. LOL. Don't you just love when things just go well. The only thing that's pretty much sucked is we went from nice "fall-like" weather to hot as hell weather. Does anyone notice that the seasons seem to be shifting? I mean for example, winter starts later and lasts later, then spring starts late and so on, and so on. My oldest niece, Kacie, and her fiance came down over Labor Day weekend and we all went to the Jelly Belly Factory here in Fairfield. It was our first time. It was fun but because it was on the holiday the factory wasn't actually in use. We still got to tour and see all the jelly beans "curing". It was cool!Elizabeth seems to be doing great in school. I'm not sure if it's the medication she's on for her ADD, maybe the fact that she's seemed to mature quite a bit over the summer, her new teacher, or maybe a combination of all of them but something's working with her. I o...

WOW talk about a huge change in weather. Yesterday we had a high temp of 101. Today got up to a whopping 79! I was just coming back in from taking out the garbage and I realized that over night the shadows seemed to change, or maybe it's just my wishful thinking! Autumn is my absolute favorite time of year. I love the way the shadows lengthen and the smell of the crunchy leaves. We don't get the gorgeous color changes that other parts of the U.S. get but it's definitely on its way!I wish someone could've reached out and gave me a cyber smack, saying, "wake up girl and post something on your blog!" LOL I guess I just didn't even think about it, no other excuses! School is going well for Elizabeth, Andreas is enjoying his job, and of course I love my work. I always say my job is a monkey job but where else am I going to find something I enjoy, something that pays EXCELLENT and something that doesn't stress me out? I may have never shared what I do. I wor...

So, the first week of school was pretty uneventful. I briefly explained in my last post that Elizabeth's school got shut down at the end of the last school year due to budget cuts. The district decided that they would bus the kids from the old school to the new school. Right now the whole bus situation is a joke. Last Saturday we got E's bus pass in the mail. It said she was to ride the 7:40 bus. Umm, no way! School starts at 7:50, and she's supposed to be on the 7:40 bus, there is no possible way for that bus to make it to the school on time. We took E to school on the first day, it took us 30 minutes to make it there when it normally takes 5 minutes. The traffic was so backed up, it was incredible! According to the principal, it's gotten better each day. But the bus thing has me all confused. I take her to the bus stop in the morning at 7:10, which is in time for the earliest bus. There is also a 7:25 and then the 7:40, who knows what will finally be decided. I guess ...