Queen Bee Scraps - Fingers in the Flour

Queen Bee Scraps has a new kit out called 'Fingers in the Flour'. You will be able to purchase each part separately as part of the STS November BAK series. Please click here for more information.

                                             

Here are some layouts I did using this kit.

All Aboard and some Freebies

Winsor Digi Designs has a new featured kit this week called 'All Aboard'. It will be availble for purchase sometime on Monday. As you know the featured kits are always at a giveaway price so please check it out.

Winsor Digi Designs

Here is what I made with this cute kit. 

left side LO

right side LO

Now for the freebies. The links will be valid for 14 days.

Left side QP

Right side QP

Layout Challenge at 4 My Babies Scraps

COSTUME PARTY LAYOUT CHALLENGE!!!

The winner of the layout challenge will win the "Costume Party BIG Bundle" when it comes out!! 

Challenge Rules:

1. Go to Just 4 Our Babies Store and purchase "Costume Party": Click Here to purchase the kit. There is also a coordinating alpha for "Costume Party" but you DO NOT have to purchase it to participate in the challenge, just know the alpha is not part of the BIG bundle.

2. Make a 12 x 12 digital layout with the kit.

3. Save your layout as a 600 x 600 .jpeg and e mail it to Michelle at 4mybabiesscraps@gmail.com

THAT'S IT!! oh, and HAVE FUN!!!

Michelle will then post all of your entries on her blog, for her followers to vote on the best layout.

Voting will go through Nov 15th

Any follower who leaves a comment/vote, on her blog, on the challenge entries will have a chance to win the "Costume Party" kit!! Just for saying which layout you like best!! Michelle will draw one winner from all those who leave a "vote".

The post with the layouts in it will remain at the top of her blog until the voting is complete and the winners have been announced!

Here is COSTUME PARTY!! You will love it!! I promise!!

Halloween Freebies to be given away

Here we go again another Sunday drawing to a close. Did you have an enjoyable weekend? If you read my last post you know part of what we did this weekend. Today, well my husband had to suffer thru the Detroit Lions game while his beloved Chicago Bears played in England. At least things were happy for him, the Bears won and the Lions lost. Me, well I coped with the fallout of yesterdays adventure and a nasty allergy headache. This was not a day for me. OK, I did win a contest from Parenting.com so some little one in my family is going to get a Cabbage Patch doll for Christmas. I looked up the style of doll and that model runs $50.00. Cool! I'll take runner up any day.

Now the reason you stopped by today was to look at the halloween kits being offered at Winsor Digi Designs and grabbing a freebie or two. This week Chelsea will be featuring two new kits. One is geared towards the boys and is called 'Halloween Superhero' and the other is geared towards the girls 'Halloween Princess'. As you all know my little monkey is a boy so thankfully I have a pretty cute stand-in of my grand-niece, Nevaeh. Luckily both her and Nick enjoy getting their pictures taken. However, since Nevaeh is only 15 months I don't have any actual halloween pictures of her. So Monkey is in layouts for both kits. What to do when she moves out next week. I'm going to miss her little butt. Well, back to the sales pitch. As you know by now the kits will be offered this week for next to nothing. If you can afford a cup of coffee or a bottle of pop you can afford one of these kits.

Winsor Digi Designs

Now for my layouts

 

Superhero #1

Superhero #2

Princess #1

Princess #2

And finally the prize at the end. Man this was worse than saying trick or treat!

All links will be active for 14 days.

Superhero #1

Superhero #2

Princess #1

Princess #2

Pre-Halloween happenings in the Goodman house

Tuesday Monkey went on his first ever school field trip. The kindergarten classes (Mrs. Craft and Mrs. Morey) took the kids to the Pumpkin Factory in Belleville, Michigan. No one I knew had heard of the place before so I looked it up online. While they don't have a website some people were kind enough to post some reviews. All the reviews were good and really correct. The farm is small and it does have the animals but not a petting area like what was stated. They did have hayrides where the kids picked a pumpkin to take home. The rule for the kids was whatever pumpkin they picked they had to be able to carry. Monkey didn't like that idea at all. We took a school bus for the trip. The kids really enjoyed themselves and I was happy Monkey had so much fun. I went on the trip to but I wasn't sure how I would be able to cope with all my medical problems. Thank heavens my hips didn't go out until the bus ride back to the school. By the time we returned to the school I could barely get up off the bench and walk off the bus. I almost didn't make it climbing down three steps to the pavement. Walked Nick back to his classroom at a snail pace because the pain was so unbearable. Monkey still had 90 minutes of school left and I didn't want to take him out early so I called Aunt Sue. Luckily she wasn't busy so she agreed to get Monkey from school and bring him home. As soon as I got home I took my prescription pain medication. It took me three days to recouperate from that trip but to see the joy on my sons face was worth it.

Today was the Boo Bash at the Toledo zoo. I had called earlier in the week to reserve a scooter but they had none left. Oh no! I was told they would reserve a wheelchair for me and leave a note with my reservation that if a scooter became available I was to get one. Well, that didn't happen. In fact they never reserved my wheelchair either. Luckily, one of the other locations had a wheelchair available so they brought it over to the main entrance. Monte isn't really in the position to push me as he has had both rotor cuffs operated on and he has developed joint problems too. We knew there would be a couple of tricky spots being steep uphill/downhill but we had forgotten about many other hills in the zoo. A lot of the animals were in there enclosures out of sight due to the costumes. The zoo was so crowded with pushy rude people that it wasn't as fun as it could be. Surprisingly enough it wasn't me who got cranky first it was Monkey. Normally it is me having to deal with the pain of my spinal issues and a scooter or a wheelchair. Monkey was just so cranky that he really wasn't even paying any attention to the treat lines. That said we really didn't spend much time looking at the animals that were out. In the end we did have an enjoyable time even if Monte's hips and back was sore and achy and every muscle in my body hurt. Even my knees were acting up. Next year I will try to book a scooter at least a week or two in advance. Heaven only knows how I will be able to function tomorrow as I can't sleep in my bed and I'm afraid you just don't get enough rest in a recliner.

Monkey got a decent amount of candy from todays outing and got to try a new resturant. We stopped off at a Sonic. We were really amazed with the friendliness of the staff, how quickly our order came and even how clean the bathroom was. I've gotten so used to going places and the staff act like they are doing you a favor by waiting on you. If ever we are back in that part of the state again and want lunch we'll stop in again.

On the 31st Monte will have to work - the life of a truck driver, so Aunt Sue said she will help me take Monkey Trick or Treating. Mr. Ironman only goes three blocks on both sides. We figure he gets more than enough candy and treats from those blocks that we don't have to do any more than that. No one on our block actually hands out anything so we have to go one block over and since it is a three block run from Telegraph Rd to the church he can handle that.

I will post some layouts of the trips as soon as I scrap them.

STS Featured Designer Challenge

Earlier today while visiting the STS forum I peeked in at the featured designer challenge. I was in luck as I had her freebie kit so I joined along. All participants will recieve a kit at the end of the challenge. I used 'Summer Afternoon' by Digital Scrap Fun.

Scrap for a Freebie Challenge at Coolscrapsdigital

Over at the Coolscrapsdigital forum they are having a challenge - get a free mini kit in exchange for scrapping a layout. Here is a preview of the free mini kit you can get.

Here is a link to the forum: http://coolscrapsdigital.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3089

Here is a link to the designers blog: http://createdbyjillscraps.blogspot.com/

My layout.