Freebie Double Template #55

It's Friday, It's Friday, TGIF!
Wow what a crazy week it has been!
Let's see here, Thursday I did get a bit of design time in and started on the Yankees World Series Fan kit for you all. It should be posted around Thanksgiving time.

I also finished up the laundry. My little one surprised me so much with the laundry! I had carried a basket full of clean socks, undies, and other bleach able items out to the living room. I came back to reload the dryer before folding the basketful. This is when my little one stepped up and took over! She sorted and "attempted" to fold the entire basket! She carried her brothers things to his room and placed them on his bed for him to put away when he got home. Then she took her older teen sisters stuff and opened the door and just tossed the clean clothes in! I was practically rolling on the floor laughing. I think 95% of her clothes are scattered all over the floor in there. I have had the argument with her so many times about keeping her room picked up and clothes kept nice so they last to no avail. I have pretty much decided to let her live in the filth. How long can it last? It has gone on longer then I thought it would. I'm starting to think she really don't care. I think the little one has even gotten the message about that room! Just toss it in and hope for the best! The door won't even open all the way!

After we finished putting the laundry away she watched a video while I washed dishes. I was half way done drying when she came marching in demanding that I leave and let her dry! I finished all the glass items and knifes and let her finish drying the silverware. The only time she asked for me to come back in was when she wanted to know if the big serving spoon went with the big spoons (Tablespoons). I pointed out where it went, and she said "Thank you, you can go now"! Come on she's three! I'm not ready for this!

After dinner we had the boys first basketball game of the season. We lost 45 - 15 but it's not exactly fair when your team only has seven kids and one don't show up. 5 on the court and one resting. the boys sure do get tired! We played a team that had 11 on there team! I don't understand why, but we play five 8 minute quarters. Five? Don't quarters mean 4? or is this some new fandagled math? The boys had fun and that is what matters most! Although I think we might need to make our boy run some sprints and learn what running is, instead of running, he skips down the court! Even the coach hollered a few times for him to hurry up and get in position!

Today was design day! Oh was I on a roll! and as I was designing I received a few layouts in my email! Love em, Love em, Love em! Every time a new one came in it spurred me on today! It was a happy happy day! The little one you ask? She was out spending time with Dad! When they did come home she was tired and went right down for nap! That gave me two more hours to design! I was going so strong that I found it hard to stop and make diner tonight. While everyone else sat at the table to eat I brought my dinner in to the computer so i could keep working!

After dinner we headed to Grandpa's house to work on a couple of pieces for Cisco's new cage. Tomorrow we assemble everything! After spending a little over an hour there we headed off to Basketball practice. I left the girls with grandpa while we went to practice. The coach had them all run sprints! Start at the end of the court run to free throw line and back then to the half court and back then the other free throw... you get the idea. He had them do this twice and boy were they huffing and puffing. All in all it was a good practice. They worked an a few screens and on there ball handling skills. When it was over we headed back to grandpa's and hung out for a bit before coming home.

Well I just realized I did not upload my images to blogger before I started typing. From past experience this means that once I do load them my spacing is going to be all messed up! Drat!

Here we go let's get to those fabulous layouts!

Check it out!

Michele has used Tonight's Double Template #55 for her layouts!

The kit for the first two is my portion of the Morning Solitude Blog Train (STS).

Kit: My Heritage by RhonDogg

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Zora sent in this fun layout for our monthly Participation Challenge.

Template: No. 54

Kit: Girls R Us by Lindsay Jane

Date Wheel: As The Days Turn by Danielle Corbitt
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Connie sent this one in for our Country Living Challenge! She said that this photo was taken near Rosslyn Chapel which is mentioned in The Di Vinci Code.

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Jessica sent this cutie layout in of her chicken err I mean hen, Goldie.

Goldie could be the twin of one of our hens from when I was a child. Her name was Red. Very original I know!

Nanscraps sent this beautiful Layout in. I love all the elements and the papers all layered together to make up this wonderful scene! What a gorgeous horse!

A REALLY BIG THANK YOU goes out to all of you ladies tonight! You made my day! Watching them come rolling in one after another like that was a blast! Thank You!

If you enjoyed our layouts tonight it's not to late to get in on the deal. All you need to do is download my Latest Kit "Country Living", scrap a layout with it and send it in before the end of the month! You can find my email on the right side in the about me section.

Here is what you will get in return for participating in the "Country Living Challenge"

Finally tonight we wind down with our Freebie Double Template #55

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Thank you all for your wonderful comments!

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A great new freebie list every day!

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Thanks again everyone! You make me smile!

Until next time...

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Freebie Project 365 Week 47 Template

Howdy All!
How's your week going?
Busy busy around here this week! Yesterday was a full day and last night the oldest had her Fall Orchestra Concert. That made for a late night with the little one. I must admit if it was not for the little program flier thingy I would have had no clue as to what they were playing. I'm just not into Wolfgang and Bach and all the others. Wish I was, but I'm not.

Yesterday I also managed to finish up the first of the two Christmas kits. I'm struggling with them this year, I'm just not in the Christmas mood yet. When the snow flies I'll get in the mood. Hard to be thinking of Christmas when it's in the 50's out! Normally we would have snow by now but the last storm came up short and missed us again! We had three or four of those last spring that were suppose to hit us but stoped just short. Next week we have another small chance at a storm system but it's a bit to early to tell yet.

I was able to spend a couple of hours working on the private request kits this morning. I finished up all the papers and am now starting the elements for them. Then I read what felt like a library to the little one! OK OK so it was only about an hours worth, but I think I now have a few more of them memorized! Some of the books have the pages falling out we have read them so many times!

The boy had a Dentist appointment at 12:30 and while I took him to that, Dad took the little one to the eye doctor with him to pick out new frames for his glasses. After they were done they headed to the park. I meet up with them at home again after I dropped the boy back off to school. While she napped, I did the dishes and got most of the laundry done. When the other two came home from school she woke up and it was time to do home work. As the older ones do there school work the little one draws and practices her letters.

After dinner tonight while the kids did there daily reading I tore apart my built in, in our living room. Need to remodel it so Cisco's new cage will fit. So I took the fish tank out and am thinking about putting it in a different place. It's only a 30 gallon but it fits in here a lot better then the big 55 gallon one I have in storage. Cisco should be able to investigate her new cage this weekend sometime.

Tomorrow, I hope to get some good quality design time in, I don't have anything planed except the boy has his first basketball game of the season in the evening.

Now that I have rambled on and on about all sorts of things how about we get down to the nitty gritty and check out what our readers have been up to!

Robin~

Congratulations Girl! Keep it up your doing great!P365 Week 36 Template Side B

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Connie~

Family gatherings are always a lot of fun!

I agree children grow up way way to fast!

Template #219
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Don't forget you can still get your 3 pk of Templates! All you need to do is submit a Layout (in email) using my latest kit "Country Living" Challenge closes at the end of the month!
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Thank you to those of you have responded with your wishes for next years P365 templates!
Your input is greatly appreciated!
For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about scroll back to Mondays post. I have a few questions about the P365 series.
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Project 365 Week 47 Freebie Template
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Don't for get to check out Digifree's list of freebies!

Until next time...

Freebie Template #220

Evening Everyone!
So how was your Monday?
Not to bad round here, gorgeous day out really. First client was at ten this morning and then we replaced a broken window at one of our properties. The little one wanted to help so bad I gave her a hammer and turned her lose tapping in all the lose nails in the deck. I hate building things with nails just for that reason, they always work themselves lose over time (we did not build it). She had fun, no fingers were whacked, it kept her out of the broken glass and as far as I could tell she got darn near all of them! Thank you little one for being a big help today! Who knows maybe the kids will actually read this some day?!

This afternoon we headed to grandpa's house where I spent a couple of hours following the tiller around the garden. Oh man there was a lot of stuff to till in! corn stalks, pumpkins from Halloween, leaves and grass clippings (this past years mulch), even a few carrots and onions that got missed during the harvest. We also have bags and bags and bags of leaves stored for next spring to use as mulch around the plants. They work great and at the end of the season we just till them in!

Yes I am feeling much better today! I think it was lack of sleep more then anything. I seem to just crash and burn about once every three to 4 weeks. Yes I know, that is bad to do. I think it is part of my go go go personality. I can't sit still with out having some thing to do, and when I do lay down to go to sleep my mind continues on at full throttle! Most nights I don't go to bed till 2 or 3 am. Some times later, it all depends on if I'm on a roll designing or worrying about one thing or another. Oh yeah that's another thing, I'm a huge worry wort! I know, it's getting to be a bit to much info!

Currently I'm working on two private request kits and the two Christmas Kits that I'm participating in this year (release dates listed on the side of the blog) so the next Fan Kit might be a bit. But I promise I will get to the Yankees World Series one as soon as I can. I spent what little time I had on the computer over the weekend making templates so that those can remain on schedule. Speaking of templates. How many of you think you will be continuing or will be starting Project 365 in 2010? Would you like me to keep this series going? If so, would you like to see Double Templates again or Single pages for the new year?

Thank you for all the wonderful comments and feed back on the Country Living Kit! I had a ton of fun creating it! There are a few things about it I would like to change but most of that will come with practice and time. I think my favorite element is the wagon wheel with the fence post and flowers. I spent a ton of time figuring out how to weave those flowers in and out of that wagon wheel! But I think it was well worth it and next time it won't be so difficult.

Tonight we have the first "Country Living" Layouts that have been sent in.

Lorrie~

Christelle~

BusyBee~


These three ladies will be receiving this 3 pack of templates!
You can get a copy to! All you need to do is email me a Layout made using my latest kit "Country Living"! You can find my email in the "About Me" section under "My Links" on the right side of the blog.
Each of these three templates comes in 3 sizes!
psd and psp files.

And of course it's Monday!
Hold on!........ Cisco just ran off with my spare camera battery!
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Ok back.
She is running around on my desk keeping me company tonight.
I still need to install the hinges and latches for the new cage doors. Also need to install the different levels for her to climb around and play on. It is 40" tall, 30" wide and 18" deep.



Ok back to Monday!
Freebie Template #220

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I'm sure most of you have noticed the adds now on the blog. I'm trying to earn a little to purchase a few new CU items. If I could get you to click on one every now and then (you can always come right back by clicking the back button) it would help me get there a little faster.

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Alright time to go put a couple of hours in on the kits.

Until next time...

Freebie Country Living Alpha

Last part everyone!

I hope you have enjoyed this kit I know I had a lot of fun bringing it to you!

Don't forget that everyone who sends in a layout this month using my new kit "Country Living" will receive a 3 pk of templates!

Sorry folks i really do have more to say but I'm not feeling all that terrific tonight and am heading off to bed as soon as i finish this post. :(

Tonight is Freebie Country Living Alpha!

Complete upper and lower alpha with numbers 0-9.

Also included is 10 different punctuation marks.

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Until next time...

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Freebies~ Country Living part 6 and Double Template #54

Good Evening Everyone!
First off to night I have had a few questions that I need to answer.

Fan Kits include Collage and Pro Sports. Please see this post for previews and download links of all the available Fan Kits. Please note when downloading, some kits have more then one download. Also there is now 3 pages of kit links, kits are listed alphabetical. Please leave your comments and requests here on the blog, Media fire does not accept them.

Private Kits such as the high School ones take precedence over blog kits, I promise to have the templates on there given schedule or as close as possible. But the Fan kits get done as I have time to do them, usually late at night.

My email is in the "about me" section on the right side of the blog under "my links". I know that this is a pain but I like to keep it hidden from the spammers other wise I would put it right out here for you all.

For you rat lovers! Cisco is doing great! She has doubled in size! Very curious about everything and runs back to me when ever she gets uneasy about something. She is also very destructive! She has chewed her way out of one store bought cage, (in the course of just one night) and has figured out how to manipulate the door latch on another! She is one smart little cookie! Currently she is in a ten gallon tank with a steal lid with holes drilled in so that so she can't escape in the next few days! I'm building her a cage this time. It will be about the size of a three shelf bookcase but a bit deeper when I am done. Spent three hours this evening working on it. When it's finished I'll show you a few pics. She is also a picky eater. Well not really I guess, she eats some pelleted variety. But it's with treats, I have yet to find one she likes other then the sunflower seeds out of the bird food! Back when I first got her someone said something about biscuits for her and to watch her try and jump with one. What kind of Biscuits? If you don't mind sharing a little rattie info. :)

The birds~ I'll just say they know what they like and what they don't like! I made the mistake of buying the wrong type of bird seed for them. Well not the wrong type just the wrong brand or flavor then what they like! When I fill the feeders all they do is throw the seed all over the floor and the bottom of the cage until the feeder is empty, then they holler at me to refill the feeder! I bought another type today and mixed them together so far so good.

I also have a three pack of templates for everyone who sends in a LO using my new "Country Living" Kit before the end of the month!

Ok that's enough reading for tonight! If I think of anything else I'll post it tomorrow night.

Tonight's "Country Living" inspiration layout comes to us from Michele!

Template #214

And being that it is Friday I also have your Freebie Double Template #54 for you!
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Finally but certainly not least,
Freebie "Country Living" Part 6

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Don't forget to stop back Saturday night to pick up the Alpha!
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Until next time...
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