Many reasons to celebrate and save!

Happy Halloween!

Tomorrow is (Inter)National Digital Scrapbooking Day!

Sunday is my birthday!

The presidential election is Tuesday and all of the political ads will stop!

Passionately Pink Charity kit from Team Divine

I keep watching this preview, looking for my contributions! I've seen at least a couple of my papers, my star flourish, my flower and both of my word art elements.

WOW!!! 111 papers! 192 elements! All of this for ONLY $5.00!!!

PLUS 100% of the proceeds goes to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for Breast Cancer Awareness!!!

Get yours at Divine Digital today!!!

October is the Sweetest Sale

Between birthdays, anniversaries and "holidays" my family (including extended family) have fourteen reasons to celebrate during the month of October! A new baby was welcomed into the family on Tuesday the fourteenth. DH and I just celebrated our fourteenth wedding anniversary yesterday!

To celebrate, for the month of October, you can save fourteen (14) percent off the already low prices in my boutique at Divine Digital.

All month long!!! Includes commercial use items!!! SWEET!!!

A Shout Out to The Shaker Box Creative Team!

I just visited the gallery at The Shaker Box and I am so proud of "my creative team"! I guess I can call them that for now since the are CT'ing for me this month! These first two are hybrid layouts by Carole. The middle one is digital by Ella. The last two are also digital, by Cheryl. I can't wait to see what else the team creates this month. Thank you my Shaker friends!

Party On!

The Divine Passionately Pink Blog Party spans the entire month of October. If you are looking for more pink freebies, here is the next stop!

More Passion, More Pink

Welcome back to the Divine Passionately Pink Blog Party!

After cleaning the pink out of my closet yesterday, I forgot to show you my favorite pink thing. As a girl who doesn't "do pink", this might surprise you! It's the purse that I have been carrying everyday since I got it in July. I've convinced myself that it's not "pink" - it's dusty rose or mauve. In honor of breast cancer awareness month, I'll tell you that my dad would call it titty brown. The purse came in brown (which is often my color of choice), but the awesome stitching didn't show off as well.

I am passionate about breast cancer awareness, because I lost a dear friend to breast cancer. Unfortunately that still doesn't make me do my monthly self exams (I'm currently a DD and they are rather dense and fibrous). I've had two surgeries to remove breast tissue - praise the Lord the tissue was benign. OK - back to my friend, Ginny. We met Ginny when she was very pregnant with her first daughter. She was a school teacher and my mom took care of her daughters while she was working - they became like little sisters to me. Sometimes Ginny helped me with my papers (she was an English teacher) and sometimes she helped me with life. I remember after my divorce her telling me that it was a good thing because she never would have gotten through her battle with breast cancer without her husband (if my first husband could not stick through one year a marriage, he would not have been able to stick through a battle such as this). Praise the Lord that now I have a husband who stands by me! The last time that we saw Ginny was on our wedding day (14 years ago this month). I did not know that she was still battling. That day she talked to us about how important church was and to go every week as a family. We are trying to follow her advice and look forward to seeing her in heaven one day. She passed away the month her oldest daughter turned thirteen. It was the saddest loss I've experienced.

This is a picture of Ginny with my mom on our wedding day. It's an older layout and I apologize that I am unable to list all of the credits. I think the flowers are Christina Renee. I think the wing brushes were from a collection called Found Art by someone at Scrap Artist. I think the paper is probably by Sunfire.

I know - the real reason that you are here is for the freebie - so here it is

Pick up your Passionately Pink Bling Styles here. (They are big, made seamless 12 x 12).

I'd love to know if you like the bling styles - I'm thinking of making more of them.

Please stop by my boutique at Divine Digital to check out my other designs.

The Divine Passionately Pink charity kit will be available at Divine Digital next week!

Thanks for stopping by for the Passionately Pink Blog Party!

Today it's all about pink and passion!

Usually when someone suggests pink, I say that I don't "do pink" and am thankful that the good Lord blessed me with boys! Someone suggested that I share my favorite pink thing.  Hmm... Let's see, I have to admit, I do have a few pink things...

(now that I have pulled them out of my closet for this photo, I realize that I haven't worn most of them in a while so I think it's time to get rid of some of them)! I think I was hard up for business casual wear when I started my job at Nationwide - the pink button down from Eddie Bauer (WITH FLOWERS - what was I thinking?) - it's out of here! The skirt was on clearance at J Jill (WITH LACE and RICKRACK again - what was I thinking?) - it too is out of here! The Eddie Bauer twinset - I needed a cardigan to go with a dress - this was the only thing that I could find that went well with it. BUBBLEGUM PINK? It's out of here! The Old Navy t-shirt - well they had a "three for" sale - I had one in blue and orange too - time for it to go! Since the Adidas shirt coordinates with a pair of navy blue workout pants that I have (with a pink stripe mind you) I'll keep it for now. The Columbia sweater is as comfortable as a sweatshirt and it's really not "pink" (no, I'm not really a tomboy - just appreciate comfort and warm or dusty colors - which you'll often see in my designs) - it's sticking around for a while longer!

So what am I passionate about? I am passionate about giving my boys the opportunity to know the peace that transcends all understanding - teaching them about their Father God, their Creator and praying that they accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior. I am passionate about becoming a better wife, mom and Christian. And of course, I am passionate about creating art to preserve their childhood memories!

Congratulations if you have made it this far!

Finally, here is your freebie!

Be sure to come back tomorrow as the Passionately Pink Blog Party continues here. I'd love to see you over at Divine Digital too. Come check out my designs!

The Divine Digital Passionately Pink Mega kit collaboration will be available soon!

Marly's Birthday

Marly commented that everywhere he went people sang Happy Birthday to him! We sang to him at home at breakfast. They sang to him at preschool. They sang to him at Buca de Beppo. They even wished him a Happy Birthday at the Blue Jackets game!

Our friend Daniel was a part of the "Future Blue Jackets" that got to play during the first intermission. We took advantage of the deal they had for tickets to the game (better seats at a better price than we would have been able to get). This was Marly's first hockey game. Since it was his birthday, I called Nationwide Arena to see about getting his name up on the jumbotron. That was $25.00. For just $40.00 more, Marly got a visit from Stinger (the Blue Jackets mascot) and a LOADED goodie bag. The money went to the Columbus Blue Jackets Foundation so it was for a good cause and Marly thought it was pretty cool! The Blue Jackets beat the Wild 5 - 3. It was a great time!

New Designs and a Freebie!

Happy October! My baby turns five tomorrow and I have a gift for you! Please check out the recent additions to my boutique at Divine Digital as well as the online store at The Shaker Box in the posts below.

Download the file for this quick page here. You will find this word art in the Divine Pumpkin Patch collaboration mega kit now at Divine Digital for just $5.00. The corner and photo mask comes from my Pumpkin Dreams embellishment collection (also in the boutique at Divine Digital). The paper was made exclusively for this quick page and coordinates with the Divine Pumpkin Patch kit.

Find Pumpkin Dreams in my boutique at Divine Digital.

Find Grandma's Garden in the online store at The Shaker box. If you are a hybrid scrapper, don't miss the coordinating October kit from The Shaker Box club!

Find Swirls of Shadowbox Memories in my boutique at Divine Digital.

Find this cute alpha, perfect for your hybrid layouts (print and use your circle punch) in my boutique at Divine Digital for just $0.95.

Find Garden by Design in my boutique at Divine Digital.