Selective Coloring Challenge

Over on the IVillage Digi Scrapping board, there was a selective coloring challenge.... well, you know I don't pass up a challenge!!!



Here is My Cookie!!!!

The selective coloring is that her cookie remained pink but the pic is B&W - jazzy huh???

I made this with Beckie Wallace's INCREDIBLE (my favorite kit of all time) Boy Meets Girl Kit!. You can grab it at SAS or Digital Candy !!!!

Beckie also has a SHITLOAD (that's right - its uncensored, remember?) of freebies on her blog. So head on over there and check them out! And check out our Creative Team Blog --- and see our kick ass layouts!

Leave me some love at SAS!

A new layout with my RAK

Over on my design blog, I am giving out a RAK (random act of kindness) to those readers/downloaders/whatever that comment or send me layouts etc.

I did a layout today with it, and I love how it turned out. I did it for the IVillage Digital Scrapbooking boards Friday challenge. Today was a quote challenge!

This is Madelyn, and it was taken 1-4-2006!!! Can you believe my MJ is almost THREE!

Hop on over to SAS and leave me some love !!!

Maddie-ism -part who knows what

So my mom stopped over for lunch today and brought us some burgers and fries. We are all sitting at the kitchen table eatting and MJ knows something is amiss. My mom typically doesn't come over for lunch because she is working. We usually go shopping and then eat out somewhere. MJ always knows eatting comes after the shopping.

So we are sitting at the table, and she is quizzing my mom as to why she is at the house, are we going shopping... a million questions. Finally, my mom says, "Mimi is working today, honey. We aren't doing the shopping today -- so, Mimi brought you the eatting".

MJ looked at her, shook her head and said 'So, Mimi, what is it with this job and our shopping?"

My mom said, "I am so sorry that my job is interferring with our shopping."

MJ said, "thats ok, Mimi".

So, I guess Mimi will be quitting her jobby job for some more shopping time with MJ because apparently she doesn't get enough :)

Two new layouts!

I guess everyone has that one favorite kit that they go back to because they love it so much! Beckie has this incredible kit called Boy meets Girl! I love it so much, honestly - I can't get enough of it.

Here are two more layouts I did with it today :)

Leave me some love at my galleries - images and titles are clickable :)

MY COOKIE!

YOUR SONG

Designing .... the scoop

Ok, so I am really digging this designing thing. I am constantly looking now for cool color combinations and themes even when I am just doing every day things. For those who have asked here is the breakdown of how many times each kit has been downloaded so far.... I say so
far because it seriously is still going up every day !


Coffee Talk: 373

Summer Cottage: 570

Millie's Garden: 579
Under My Pillow elements: 472
Under My Pillow papers: 517
First Tooth elements: 288
Sentimental: 632
On the Go: 454
Spring's Bliss: 495

Seriously! Can you believe that? I can't!!! I love it - but now you understand why I had to seperate the blogs... that's a whole lotta somebodies checking out my shit! So, I didn't want all the Maddie-isms and Lauren's milestones among the people who are just out for a freebie, KWIM?

Maddie's outdoor adventure :)

We had a little picnic in our backyard today. I can't wait to scrap the photos, and I am so excited for this warm weather because Maddie is finally at an age where she can enjoy it. She has this little playhouse that was given to us that she never really played with and Mike wanted to dump it this year, and I said, "Wait, she is going to really want that this year"... boy, was I ever right! She was running in and out, shutting the doors and windows - playing pretend (which I love that she is old enough to do that now) - just having a blast.

We kept cracking up though because she kept running in and bursting open the shuts to sing 'AHHHHH, AHHHH, AHHHHHHH' like Giselle does on ENCHANTED. I got it on video - thank goodness rodents didn't come to call :)

Lauren finds her shadow

Well, I don't know about you but I am LOOOOVIN this beautiful weather we are having right now. It truly couldn't be more perfect! I started opening the door to let the spring air in and Lauren loves to sit in my full length glass door and watch cars, people, birds and mostly the school buses (there is a school on my street).

LOL, how funny! Anyway - we are outside enjoying ourselves. Will post more later ;)

Spring's Bliss

Be sure to check out my new kit, created for the SAS color challenge.

It is called Spring's Bliss, and here is a preview.

Check out my new design blog - STEEL CITY SCRAPS for the freebie download!

Thank you Beckie

For those who don't know - I LOVE BECKIE WALLACE!

She gave Steel City Scraps a big ol' shout out on her blog ! I am so thankful to her for so many things - I can't even begin to list them. Above all else, she is such a great mom and mentor - incredible designer - just a sweet friend! I love being on her team, and look forward to whatever she has in the works! Thanks Beckie!

You can check out her design blog here, but be sure to stop at the Creative Team blog to see what we got rolling too! Her designs can be found in her shoppes at SAS and Digital Candy !

YOU ROCK !!!!!

One last picture

I have one last picture of the girls' from when we had our outting last weekend. Kelly and I inadvertantly switched our pictures, so for a week now I have had pictures of Roman and Kailey here and she had pictures of Madelyn and Lauren.


Yesterday, we switched back. So, now I can share this little gem!

I have been pretty busy. We are trying to get our house in order (ROFL, ROFL) so that we can switch the bedrooms. Mike is busy cleaning out my mess in the basement. I am busy cleaning upstairs - basically our third bedroom (which used to be my office) is now a storage room. I am such a packrat, but mostly I am afraid to let go of things. I don't know where it comes from but seriously, I probably have clothes here that would NEVER fit me now. Mike is the same way. Most of his stuff is sentimental - notebooks from school, baseball cards, trophies. Some of mine is sentimental, but some of it is not and it just needs to go. We have some of our crap stored up at my sister in laws because we didn't have enough room to store it here when we moved. ... that's how much crap we have!

Well, we are doing an amazing job cleaning this stuff out - I can't wait to get the girls' moved up into their new room! Then they can have a little play room down here, and some of the shit can get the hell out of my living room! It's just so time consuming. I get frustrated that it's taking so long - but progress is a good thing!

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Me and My Gang!

Check out Lauren's face - she's like why am I here with these wackos?

Some good times with good friends :)

Need I say more????

What WAS for Dinner!

My mom saw this awesome recipe in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette sometime last week, so we made it on Sunday and I am still eatting it!

Easy PotRoast FrenchDips:

In the CROCKPOT combine:

two cans of FRENCH ONION SOUP and two cans of water
one package of Good Seasons Dry Italian Dressing Mix
one package of Onion Soup Mix
pepper and garlic powder to taste (no salt though, the french onion soup is very salty)
in the center place a 2-4 pound beef roast (I used sirloin)

Cook all day on low 7-8 hours or on high 4-5 hours.

At about the 6 hour mark - take out the meat and shred or cut into VERY thin slivers and put back in for the remaining time.

I baked two loaves of Pillsbury Italian Bread (in the cylanders like crescent rolls) and cut them open like hoagie buns then cut them each into three buns. I did this all when they were still warm, but not hot.

Spoon some meat and some onion onto the bread.

I served the sandwiches with egg noodles, and poured some of the remaining sauce over top and OH MY WORD, was it good!

ENJOY!

Steel City Scraps Blog

Ok, I did it.

The new blog for the scrap stuff can be found here!

Now, I can keep my shit seperate. Swear (a/k/a be uncensored) on this blog, and not on that one :)

This way I don't have to worry about offending the visitors, and I can just go back to being me.

Ahhh, I feel much better now, and more organized!

Hope this doesn't jack some of you up!

Thinking....

I am thinking of creating two different blogs.

One for me personally: with my rantings, and my personal pictures, layouts.
One for the STEEL CITY SCRAPS stuff - layouts done with the kits and my freebies.

That way, things will be more divided and easier to keep track of.

Any thoughts????

First Tooth Goodies

I have some first tooth tags and wordart that I made for my friend Heather when her little one's first tooth broke through. I originally made them blue, since her little bug is a boy :) But I just made some pink ones too.

Grab this freebie here if you can use em !!!

New Freebie kit - Millie's Garden

Again this is a cottage reference! I can tell Spring is here because I am starting to get anxious for summer and warmer weather - which means 'LAKE TIME' to me. I love being there. Just relaxing on the beach all day, no TV - limited phone, (some computer - via wireless from the main house), but really reading all day, spending time with my family, playing cards, cooking, eating, beaching, drinking - all things that make a 'city girl' like me happy!

So, when I was growing up Millie lived in the main house. She was like a third grandmother to me. She taught me to cook, how to entertain guests, and more importantly how to be a good friend, mentor and role model to other people. She had a zest for life that if I could bottle, would make me a gazillionaire. This freebie is inspired by her garden. She had a wonderful green thumb, and had this incredible garden that bordered the sidewalk for a good thirty feet. It was her mother's garden before that - and my earliest memories of the lake were of having to walk off of the sidewalk to avoid the bees hidden in the flower bed.

So I present to you my latest freebie kit, Millie's Garden: jam packed with bright colors, doodle flowers, frames, some sheer tissue papers and an alpha. I hope you will check it out.
Grab this freebie here : MILLIE'S GARDEN KIT

But please leave me some feedback somewhere - you know I am just learning and would love to hear how I am doing. I would also love to post any layouts you create with this kit.