Aggie Shoots. Aggie Scraps.

I have been scrapping a lot of boy layouts lately. I did some rearranging on my scrapbooks a few days ago and realized with a pang of guilt that my son is so much behind on pages compared to my daughter, not that he has been cooperating lately. He has been in school for most of the day for the past two years and it is just so easy to take pictures and just “be with” my little princess. My husband also has about 10 pages out of the 600 I have printed – so I told myself I need to try to make pages about them.

Making pages about my husband is harder, since I always seem to be lost for words, and everyday life with him is far and few in between because he works in the city. So I just scrapped what felt like scrapping, after all, this guy – he doesn’t give me the whole world at my feet – no diamonds, no shoes, no bags no fancy dinners, but he gives me himself, focus and all. I doubt few men can offer themselves up like that. And for that I am grateful. After all, before we had kids, he was my everything.

Have you scrapped the men in your life lately?

I hosted this week’s Take-Out Tuesday and Libby made a beautiful word art that is yours for the taking – grab it here!

I love quotes. Sometimes, when you are at a loss for words or just couldn’t find the right words to say, quotes are perfect and complete the page for you!

Here is what I was able to come up with:

We have record breaking temperatures here lately. The hottest day of the year, so far, was recorded yesterday, at 35.6C and it is expected to reach the 40’s by April. Talk about deadly. Friends have been talking and planning (and dreaming nonstop) of taking a vacation and just heading down the beach to cool down, make use of the sun and get tanned. While I am not a fan of the heat, I love being in the water. Plus I can see myself lounging in one of those Adirondack Chairs under a sunbrella sipping my favorite fruit shake, reading a book. That would be an awesome time for me.

While I cannot go to the beach right now as I am swamped with work, I can bring the atmosphere of that vision in my backyard, sans the pool. There is a 30% sale off sunbrellas and chairs at Customer Cushions right now (www.customcushions.net) and you can have an Outdoor Bench Cushion made for your chair too! You can be guaranteed to be able to order a cushion at any size, thickness and color of fabric.

I personally love this style and the orange color of the cushion just screams of energy and happiness to me:

Last year was such a huge shopping year for me, even if technically, we were not doing well, economy-wise. Work has been very very good for me and I didn’t have the foresight to “save for the rainy days”. This year we started off right – I made a commitment to save, and to save like there is going to be no more work for me tomorrow . Two months into the year I have been able to save well, well enough for me to spend something for my birthday (two weeks ago). Of course, I still shopped wisely.

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If you have been following my blog for quite some time, you would remember how time and time again I would complain and whine about my need of a printer. I am a scrapbooker – I need one! Everything in my wish list has been crossed out one by one (it took a long while, but at least it happened!) – a laptop, an external hard drive, a Wacom pen tablet – except for the printer.

I am thinking I can get one next month, mainly because I have loyalty reward points I can cash in from my internet provider and one their items is a printer. Technically, I can just buy one, printers have become considerably cheap and so does their ink cartridges. HP Ink Cartridges are the best cartridges (so are HP printers) based from feedbacks I heard from fellow scrapbookers – fast drying, less bleeding, lasts a long time.

It is not only me who would need a printer, my two kids will be in school in June so it will be easier for them to print things off the internet when doing homework. My son goes to my Mom’s (whose house is a few blocks away) to print projects!

My most favorite of the SSD blog features is Take Out Tuesday – the freebies are just a plus – it helps you create pages without having to feel limited by it. It is like the life insurance quotes I’ve been receiving, it gives me so many options!

Sheri whipped out this fabulous photo cluster for you! She wrote:

You can use the rounded corner squares for photos and/or papers and I’ve also included a text path to add another element of fun!  If you want to adjust your photos or papers to be at the same angle as the template, I have the rotational degrees listed in the layer descriptions.  The template is available as both a .psd and .tiff templates.  Thank you so much for playing along, I can’t wait to see what you come up with!  Don’t forget to link your images in the comments so I can leave you a little love.  {image is linked}

Here is my page, it’s a page that holds very big meaning for me:

Credits: The Very Thought of You by Scrapkitchen Designs and Krystal Hartley, font: DJB Sarah S

Does this little guy look familiar…?

If it does, you know what’s coming up, if it doesn’t you’re sure to get to know this little guy really well over the next week because the famous and oh-so-fun Click-A-Sig week is here! Starting Sunday February 21st, every Sweet Shoppe Staffer will be wearing this blinkie in our forums! Find our special blinkie and click away because FREE goodies are hidden inside! Each day there will be 4-5 different treats from our designers, so be sure to come and click click click to collect them all. Thanks for making SSD such an amazing place to work for the last 4 years, we couldn’t do what we do without you, so here’s to you!

I seriously love this collab – its been a while since SSD did a boy collab and this one rocks, the colors are for boys of all ages, and yet there are yellows and oranges that will pass for a girl as well. I might as well throw in the sink and />ceiling fan because I am truly all praises for this kit! Go ahead and grab it this week – spend $10 and you get the kit FREE, $20 you get the kit and brag book designed by the Sugarbabes free as well.

February is midway and I am only now blogging about this. Perhaps the quick trim burn and cleanse I have been trying to use also cleans out my memory!

February is here and we couldn’t be more excited because we’re celebrating 4 years of sweetness here at SSD with a month of special events! In addition to a brand new set of challenges for our February portfolio, we also have an amazing new Treat of the Month that we are so excited to shine the spotlight on! Leslie Coltrain is a scrapper with distinctive style and her gallery is going to knock your socks off. Lifting Leslie is the very first task that will earn you Sweet Reward points in this month’s portfolio, so get to her gallery right away and start looking for a page that inspires you! In addition to earning you a point, every layout posted in our special Treat of the Month Gallery this month will be automatically entered to win a $10 gift certificate to the shoppe! As if that weren’t sweet enough, don’t forget to look for more of Leslie’s work in the shoppe this month in our "Inspired By Leslie" templates created by Darcy Baldwin. Thanks for making Sweet Shoppe Designs such a sweet place to be over the last 4 years, we look forward to many more celebrations with you in the future!

Here is my page for her:

I love Leslie’s page, Bank On It, this is a literal scraplift! Thanks for the inspiration Leslie!
Credits:
Cloud 9 by Kristin Cronin-Barrow

You can get the limited edition Inspired by Leslie templates by Darcy Baldwin too: