cherish each day - Katie Pertiet

enjoying san francisco

 

an evening walk along the pier and a trolley ride back to the hotel! ends day 1 :)

last day of the sale

just finished my morning workout--not as tough as usual because I went to sleep at 9pm last night--completely wiped out!

Busy day of creating today and prepping for our vacation coming up and getting things ready for the babysitter etc!

I'm also trying to pick out a picture for our Christmas Cards for this year so I can get those printed and ready to send out. Kelly likes this one but I have other favorites!

And don't forget, today's the LAST DAY of the sale over at DesignerDigitals.com with 30% off! There won't be another storewide sale until February 2010!

indoor field hockey game #1

I do enjoy coaching the girls for indoor. It's more cheering them on and subbing them in and out more than anything else but it's good. The only thing I don't like about indoor is no pictures. There's not enough light and the flash is too distracting :( So I'm sharing a field hockey picture from this past month!

And today's game was not a win. We played North Harford and lost 1-5 :(

I'll miss next week's game while I'm on vacation but hopefully they'll do a little better! :)

walking

just back from my walk--starts the day off right! Scrapping & creating today before heading off to Kelly's first indoor field hockey game of the season!

30% off at DesignerDigitals!

I know, I haven't been the best blogger... a new years resolution in the making!

But we are in the midst of our 4th quarter sale with 30% off storewide at DesignerDigitals!

Here are some of my favorite new items to check out!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and we'll see you at DesignerDigitals!

Fierce

We've had lots of field hockey lately and Kelly is one fierce defender!

at practice again today for another game on Monday!

:)

Princesses

Homecoming was this past weekend. But they only allow for 500 tickets which sold out before it could get to the freshmen :( So sad, you'd think everyone could go--I don't remember anything like this when I was younger. So instead Kelly & her friends went to play laser tag & to the arcade where they got themselves these tiaras and crowned themselves homecoming princesses before ending the night with a sleepover! Fun times!

Only a few more field hockey games left in the season--it goes by so fast!

but this is my self portrait for the last few weeks!

And over at DesignerDigitals we have a begun a new series of giving back and our first Scrapbooking Kit for a Cause: HOPE with all proceeds going to the Susan G. Komen Foundation will be available until December 25th at which time the donation will be made.

And I have added a few new items in the store at DesignerDigitals over the past few weeks and these are some of my favorites:

No school today, lots of errands to do because my man is celebrating his birthday in just TWO more days! :)

keeping up!

Trying like heck to keep up but it seems to get harder and harder!

Life has been so busy, but busy in a good way!

Kelly made the JV field hockey team and is proudly sporting the number 31! They won their pre-season scrimmages and tonight is the first official game and it's a home game, so I have my camera batteries charging and am trying to get my work done before I head over to school!

 

and we just got home last night from a trip to Kentucky to meet our newest granddaughter, Alexis 'Lexi' Nicole and visit with Emi and Cas & Joe and, of course, take pictures!

 

Emi had had enough pictures by this point! lol!

 

Lexi was a little jaundice, so I'm loving black and white conversions with the texture of the cocoon!

 

and I had just a few props and treats for Emi while we broke in my new backdrops! Looking forward to working with these backdrops more! Thinking I'll ship the white one to Omaha for my visit there next month!

Working up loads of new digital scrapbooking products for DesignerDigitals this weekend too! And NEXT weekend is our quarterly sale and 16 hour chat event!! woo hoo!!

back to work! :)

oops!

okay, way behind here...

but the last post was an oops! I had been a guest blogger over on Molly's site and had composed my post here and forgot to remove it! So be sure to check out Molly's blog too!

I'll be back with more soon!

It's been incredible busy here with Kelly making the JV Field Hockey team, starting high school yesterday and our oldest, Cassie, is in the hospital right now waiting the arrival of our newest grandaughter!!

:)

ps--as for the giveaway, that one is over right now, but I'll come up with a few new giveaways here in the next few days!

Digital Scrapbooking & Templates

One of the quickest and easiest way to get started scrapbooking with digital is by using layered templates and Adobe Photoshop Elements [Please note these templates only work with Adobe Photoshop Elements]. There is a large assortment of styles, themes and even complete albums that give you a jumpstart on your page and leave the personalizing up to you in the store at DesignerDigitals!

You can do very little personalizing like I did taking Children Layered Template

 

and simply adding my pictures and journaling

 

or you can take it further and add in more elements to personalize the page further

for example, I took Hugs & Kisses Layered Template 5

 

and added in paper strips and a cut heart too! making it more unique!

 

All of the templates come with simple instructions that explain how you can easily 'clip' your photos to the placeholders in the templates using the 'group with previous' option. And if you get stuck, there's nearly always some around to help you out if you just post on the boards at DesignerDigitals!

So if you're wanting to get started in digital and don't know where to begin, I suggest starting with templates and as your comfort level grows so will your understanding of digital!

Thanks for playing along! I've enjoyed sharing my passion with you! :)