Chance to win my new kit...

Hi ya!! Things are good but very, very, very busy. I left a couple of jobs recently and I am freeing up some time for digi-scrap :P Here is a Sneak Peek of my new kit "A Full Life". The bundle will include Quick pages and brag book pages, alpha, clusters and stacked papers. Come back next week for a small sample add-on freebie to the kit. This week just enter to win the kit by commenting over in this thread at goDigitalScrapbooking.com in the announcements threads for a free chance to win!! Good Luck! - Crystal

been busy

Sorry everyone. I was very very sick in March /April.

I have been extremely busy. I have started two more Part-time jobs. And finished up a web design and did an overhaul of my single car garage for a garage sale. Now I need to prep my NEW stores Scrapbird.com and GoDigitalScrapbooking.com for my grand opening. I have a few GREAT new kits up my sleeve so check back soon.

Once the stores are promoted I will be working on getting my insurance license completed to sell for Farmer's Insurance. Then I will be back to finishing up my book by July. phew! I have added 10,000 words for a total of 35,000 words but I need 15,000 - 20,000 more until it is completed.
:) - Crystal

Announcement coming next Friday!!!

Sorry for skipping a couple weeks my friends. I have some important things in the works... I'll be back with news soon.

p.s. the book needs more attention lol. I am at 25,000 words and need to double it. :O

[hugs]

Crystal

Finale Mello Momoents Week 6 conclusion.

Here is the final week

 week 6/6

direct download HERE

Week Five of Six on Mello Moments Kit

It's been a busy week. Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

Not much happening this week. Just day in day out busy...

Here is week five of six on the

 Mello Moments kit.

Week 5

Direct Download Wk 5

Here

So Happy!!

Hi everyone!

I am still very happy that I have a book contract! It is so very exciting.

I have week 4 for you on Mello Moments...

Week 4

Week 4

Direct Download HERE 

for other parts and kits...

see OLDER POSTS below.

New Life Event... I'm a budding Author!

Hi everyone,

Since I tore up my knee it was too uncomfortable to sit with my feet on the floor. I did not have the same software on my slow laptop as my i5 desktop. well...


I started a book about life's journeys and recovery from mental health and depression issues and perseverance on my birthday 1.5 years ago. I looked into publishing it then but decided not to pursuit it at the time.

I wrote a couple more chapters the week that I was on crutches. I Googled it and found a few new publishers that actually looked more suitable. I sent in an outline and a couple of chapters. WELL....

Wait for it...

I signed a book contract!!!

I'm going to have a published book this time next year!!! woohoo!

It's called "Shattered Crystal" and fiction but inspired by life events.

well... back to why you are here lol.

Week 3 continues on Mello Moments!

Direct Download HERE wk 3

For week 1 & week 2

please see Older Posts below

Blimey!!!! OUCH!

Hello All! :)


I just want to pop in to post this week's portion of the Mello Moments kit.

Hopefully I'll find the time to write a bit more next week as I am off my feet due to a knee injury. Ack! Just when things were starting to go well after surgery... well, I did need to slow down a bit anyway. haha.

Yup, I was bent down cleaning and felt a minor stretch on my knee one day this week. Then I fell on my knees a couple times cleaning. Then I reached down to lift a heavy box of brochures from the floor and kinda felt another small stretch to the same area.

On the way out of our break room that afternoon I was just walking normally and felt a "POP" sensation in that knee. Criminy! Doctored all day the next day. What with x-ray and such. I find that it is a bad sprain. Both meniscus and ligament damage. Oy!

Well, at least I'll have a bit of time off to post something readable... mrahahahaha! Well... gonna wind up here and head to bed. I have a long day planned tomorrow with back to work and all. Oy!

Here is Week Two of Mello Moments.

 This the full kit if you collect all 6 parts!

 direct download Week 1/6 HERE

direct download Week 2/6 HERE.

Thank you for checking out my blog. :)

Check this out in my Etsy store! ...

Oo-La-La!

 ~Crystal

Welcome Meditation NEW: Mello Moments

Here is one of my older kits in my stash... Mello Moments. It is a bit too big to put up on my Store at Etsy but it has 6 parts to it. Welcome the New Year.

Anyone have Resolutions for this year? I am on a fitness/ dieting regime. I have lost 13 lbs since my heart procedure and am going to try to continue the journey toward healthy weight and wellness! Since recently gaining over 50 lbs I now will be trying to lose some 120 lbs of weight. I've done it before with low-carb diets and combination diets like Somersizing this time it is all about permanent lifestyle changes!!!!

I'm getting prepared for my big move! I've lived in the same apartment for over 16 years now. I am getting ready to do a major purge of my things and move light. I will be moving about 100 miles away. I will be within the Twin Cities metro area or surrounding suburbs. I currently reside in South Eastern Minnesota in a small City with a population of slightly over 100,000 people and growing quickly.

My dear friends live up in the Cities so it will be fun getting together with them more often. woot!

So... here is Mello Moments

direct download part 1/6 HERE

Have a safe and happy New Year!!

-Crystal

for links to previous kits... check out older posts :)

New Store is open!

I opened an Etsy store for my designs... you can order my kit(s) there if you missed a part to one of my kits or want to pick it up right away! How great is that? Currently I have Oo-La-La up in the store. There will be a few oldies in the store as well as some brand new original kits as well!

If you want previous parts to my kits you can always go to "See older posts" on the bottom right of my blog. Sorry that the week 3 link was a bit off last week. You can also go to the label on the blog for that kit and it will show all posts for the selected kit. as in "My Boys" label and such.

I had a marvelous Chistmas!! I hope that you did too! New Year was good as well. I wish everyone a prosperous and happy New Year.

Anyone want to share your resolutions? I am on a fitness and weight loss thing. Funny, when I diet I love to bake. I taste a small sample of my baking and end up either giving away the rest or sharing it at work. They love me at work!!! mrhahahahaha!!! I brought in Oatmeal cookies lately with dried cherries, and a pumpkin spice cake with cream cheese frosting! How great is that?

Well, here is the final week of My Boys...

Complete kit with all 5 parts, links Here.

Direct download week 5/ part5 HERE

One For The Boys Week 4

Hi everyone. How was you Christmas??!!! I hope you had a great one with family and friends.

Here is week four,and we will be finishing up this kit this weekend :) Happy New Year!!!

 

Part 4/5

Direct Download HERE

One For the Boys...

Hi everyone. Just a quick hi between jobs today... I am felling good. I went back to work just days after my surgery and have hardly had any time off since. eek! Doing well. It's now just a cram session to get ready for Christmas as I have company coming. LOL!

Here is week three, sorry that it is a few days off schedule!

 Complete kit with parts 1-5

Part 3/5

direct download HERE

My Boys: Week Two

Here is a kit with five weeks or parts to it... Enjoy!

 

Direct Download Week 2/5  HERE

I Made it Through!

Hi hi everyone!!

So there I was lying flat on my back on a flat surgery table in the catheter lab during my heart ablation procedure. I was having low heart rates, swelling, and an irregular heart beat, especially a lot of PVC's, pre-ventricular contractions. So my heart was working 20% harder than it was supposed to be. We needed to do this procedure to avoid congestive heart failure.  Also my body was backed up with toxic fluids.

The procedure took ten hours. I was awake for most of it. They went in something like they do in an angioplasty procedure from the arteries. They had a camera and electrodes in there. They ended up burning twenty-four positions in the heart lining and around my pulmonary artery valve. phew! I am so glad I made it through all that!

I went back to work the next Monday, not even a full week off. I should have taken a full week and came back after Black Friday. lol. Best Buy was nuts!!!

Anyway, I can now walk without getting light headed or out of breath. My swelling is gone and my body is no longer all stiff and sore. I feel 10 years younger!!!

Thank you so so much for all the kind thoughts and prayers. It is so much appreciated.

Well... I am starting a new kit today. Sorry I did not get to it sooner. I have been back working and still tire a bit easily yet. My stamina will be back soon, I am sure. This post introduces the My Boys kit. It will be a five part kit. So here is the first part...

 

Week 1

Direct download HERE.

Week 1 of 5

ENJOY!

oh, and I'd love to see any layouts made with my stuff :p - Crystal

Last but not Least... Week 4 of Amalie

Well, I'm having my heart procedure (surgery) done this week. All prayers and kind thoughts are most welcome! I am excited to get this done so that I can feel better. :)

With that on my mind a bit I can't come up with anything else to post so I'll just say, " See ya later my friends!"

Direct download WEEK 4 HERE

I will see you next week: same time, same place :)

I am thinking maybe a boy kit again!

Happy Scrapping, Crystal

Week Three- Amalie Freebie and Eight Great Recipes

Hi everyone! I have been a busy lady lately. I missed my post last week. I have been working both jobs and putting in some 60-70 hours a week working.I just could not find enough energy to do a post. I simply could no think of anything to say either. So I have decided to search a few good recipes for you.

I just love All-recipes.com.  (Sorry that there are no pictures here about these but I do not have permission to post them here.)

Recipes-

My favorite...

• Delicious Ham and Potato Soup

For the slow cooker-

• Easy Baked Potato Soup
• Marie's Easy Slow Cooker Pot Roast 
• Slow Cooker Potluck Spareribs
  
• Honey-Garlic Slow Cooker Chicken Thighs
• Unbelievably Easy Slow Cooker Black Forest Cake

Something good to try-

• Kung WOW Chicken
• Jenny's Black Forest Cake
• Paleo Tropical Ice Cream

Classic at Home versions...

• General Tso's Chicken II 

 Now for the Digital Scrapbooking Freebie that you have been patiently waiting for...

Here is week three of Amalie...

 Direct Download Part Three HERE

Week Two of Amalie

All is well here... I have been working many hours but...

Here is Week Two!

Direct Download Part2 HERE

Start of Something Great... Part1

I am starting a kit for you today!! 

How great is that?  

This one is also a previously sold kit from my designs stash.

Amalie

 

Direct Download Part 1 /4  HERE

Come on back next weekend!

Columbus Day Weekend

Commemorating in America the discovery of Columbus to the Americas. Well, at least it gives the kids in school a day off on Monday :)


Guess what? A very nice lady left me a long stem red rose on Friday for offering her great customer service. I commented on her being so polite and pleasant. Her husband behind her was being a real tool to her. So just remember the power of our words... She felt so appreciative that she left the restaurant and bought a rose and came back to leave it for me. I must have made her day! Then... she made my day!

 

This is the last part to the Apple Pickin' Digital kit. Sorry I did not get it posted Friday The creative urge took over and I was working on a new kit... shhh it's a secret. Anyway,...

Here is the last part to Apple Pickin'

download Part 6 HERE

October is ...Octo-Brrrrr

Hello All,

I don't know about your corner of the world, but mine is definitely feeling like fall! We had our first snow this weekend. Temps were in the upper 40's F all day and got down to below freezing overnight at night. Brrrrr.. And I sneezed for about an hour when I had the heat on for the first time this season. Ack!

Not much to say this week as I don't really feel well and I am taking things easy this weekend.
I had social plans to go visiting friends in Owatonna and Woodbury but was not up to it. Sometimes staying home is the perfect solution! Mrhahahahaha!

I just remembered... I have some recipes to share. I had a Ton of apples to use up and preserve so... I am going to share a few of my favorite recipes with apples and comfort foods for cooler weather.

RECIPES- The first one is from Pioneer Woman- Strawberry Oatmeal Bars
cut these like breakfast oatmeal bars!! yum!

 

Apple Crisp recipes...

Apple Crisp II  by All recipes.com      

• http://allrecipes.com/recipe/apple-crisp-ii/

Apple Crisp from Pillsbury Cookbook by Spark Recipes 

•  http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=791406

Here is the Freebie for the week

Week 5 of Apple Pickin'

 

 Week 5

Direct Download HERE