Designs by Kimberly

Okay, so I was reading a friend's blog and she had taken some of those blog quiz thingys and I thought, "why not?". So, here are the results of those silly quizzes: You Are Ceramics You are open to the world and it's possibilities. You are able to start something without knowing how it will end. You trust your intuition above everything else. Going with your gut often works out. You believe that every day objects can and should be art. The best art allows ordinary life to be more stylish and beautiful. What Type of Art Are You? You Are a Lynx You are a quiet observer of the world around you. Your wisdom comes from listening carefully. You've always been extra sensitive and aware. And it's made it difficult for you to fit in. You see past people's outward personas. You are able to penetrate a stranger's soul. What you've learned about people is both beautiful and ugly. And you keep these secrets to yourself. What Big Cat Are You? You Want to Impress...

I'm the temporary "hostess" of the FNL (Friday night live) Crop at Scrap Outside the Box. At this crop we play games, have a ton of fun and create our own kits to share with the everyone else. (Click here to get to the FNL thread) May is the third month I've been hostess. I love doing it. I have started creating my own kits and it's so much fun. What's driving me nuts is that since I've started hostessing this crop the attendance numbers have gone down so much that I almost think it's a waste of time. But I don't want to let down JenJen the original hostess of this crop who is on medical leave for a little while, so I'll keep going as long as there is one more person in that chatroom besides myself. LOL The usual way we do the FNL crop is to pick a color palette and a theme and then whoever wants to can make pieces to coordinate with the colors and the theme. This month I wanted to try something a little different. I picked the color palette, b...

It's been an entire month since my last entry. I so totally blew it. LOL. I can't believe how crazy busy it's been in this household, and quite honestly I don't know why. It's been a daily struggle with homework and our daughter who is 8 years old. She has a "contract of smiles" that gets sent home with her on a daily basis. It goes something like this: Well, for the last several weeks all she's been bringing home were either 'straight faces' or 'frowns'. We've tried every reward and punishment we could think of. Quite frankly we were at the end of our ropes. Grounding her didn't work, taking things away from her didn't work, giving her rewards for 'smiles' didn't work. It was like she just didn't care one way or the other. We finally got an appointment for her with her new pediatrician. She's been having these horrible stomach pains and nausea. He put her on Prevacid. Now, when she was born she had gastr...

I had the wonderful opportunity to work with an absolutely gorgeous kit by Larisa of Garden Girl Designs. The kit is called Happily Ever After and it is one HUGE kit. It has over 90 elements and tons of gorgeous papers! I fell in love with it. It's perfect for boys and girls as well as romantic layouts. Let me show you a preview of the kit: Elements Papers Here are the layouts I made with this awesome kit: Next, I want to show you a gorgeous layout made by Alicia with Happily Ever After. Her layout is just stunning. I wish I could link it to her gallery but she doesn't have it at a gallery where I can find it. But here is one by Heide: Here's a layout by another friend, Frannie. Just goes to show you how many different kinds of layouts this kit can be used for: The cool thing about this kit is that there are so many elements...stuff you can use for girls and boys. (I'll link these layouts to their galleries as soon as the upload them!)

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...