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Well, May has come and gone.. where did it go?  At work it was filled with kid’s birthdays and various celebrations. At home it was my daughter’s school jog-a-thon, our 10 year anniversary and Memorial Weekend camping… then *poof* May was gone.  I haven’t created much by way of scrapbooking. I need to get some pictures developed and since getting my new computer, I can’t find my photo editing software cd…. grrrrr. I have to make another pass at all the places it could possibly be, but it’s just annoying I can’t find it.

So for now here are some freebies I’ve found recently on the web.

Ryn’s Creations has a cute I love my pets kit

Mel’s Lightbulb Moments has part of a collab kit called Beach Hut

Pimp Your Scrapbook has a Blog Train for June, also fun beach kits. I believe it’s called Sailboats

Tootlebugz is part of the ADSD blog train Soft Denim there is also another blog train geared toward manly pictures called My Favorite Guy

So, have fun with those and hopefully I can find my software soon and will have new layouts to show off!

Happy Bookin’!

ErinAnn

Mother’s day was mostly uneventful here. My hubby has been sick for a week now, but he was a trooper and went out for brunch with us all (after he skipped church) and then afterwards felt much worse than before he ate. Oh well. We gave my mom her beautiful hanging flower basket and I got a planter of flowers also. Caitryn also made a beaded safety pin “for my shirt” at Sunday School, and planted seeds at school that are growing but not flowering yet.. so I don’t know what they are!

After we got home, Caitryn ran around in the yard and I let the bunnies out of their cages, one at a time. The boy bunny wouldn’t leave the cage area and was bothering the girl bunny, so I put him away and got her out, putting her down away from the cages, and she hopped around and had a fine time. Even letting Caitryn pet her a bit. I didn’t get any pictures because my camera was inside and I didn’t dare leave Caitryn alone with the rabbit out.

I also planted the plants I bought yesterday. Half went in containers and the other half went in my small raised bed. Time will tell which ones survive!

Here are some Mother’s Day themed freebies for you. Tell me.. do you like just a list of freebies with a short description, or would you like to see a preview picture of the freebie?

Scraps of Ellay has a blue hued collection… there are blues and purples and lots of fun elements. It’s called A Mother’s Moment

scoubidoocreation has a kit with lovely pinks, sage green, oranges..lots of beautiful elements! It’s called Mother’s Love

Kim B’s designs has Remembering Mom, a very elegant mini kit.

Doohikey Designs has a fun, bright kit called A Mother’s Melody. Hot pink butterflies are super cute in this kit! It’s part of a contest, so check it out.

Scraps by Andrea’s kit is called Flowers for Mom. It has 16 papers and 49 elements. Very cute with flowers, frames, patterned paper.

Hope you enjoy and Happy Bookin’!

Hmm, two completly different things today!  Yesterday for National Scrapbook Day I wasn’t able to scrap at all until after my daughter went to bed. So I was only able to finish one page, but that is one page closer to being done with the book, so at least I got the one done!  It is from a visit to the pumpkin patch a few years ago. I like how it turned out. I’m trying to do more with paper because I’ve accumulated quite a bit recently, so I need to get using it!  Here’s the layout:

Here are some freebies that I’ve found today.

Ryn’s Creations has some Home Improvement Freebies here and here is a blog train of Home Improvement Freebies.

Pimp Your Scrapbook has a May Freebie with springy greens and blues.  Very relaxing.

J.a.d.y has a cute Mommy’s day freebie and a matching alpha

Ninie has a set of overlays. These are always fun to add interest to pictures.

Hope you all had a great NSD and have fun with the freebies.

Happy Bookin!

ErinAnn

It’s here, it’s here.. the May Blog Train from ADSDesigners is here!  Yeah!  My starting point is always Tootlebugz.com. There are a lot of designers, so if you don’t find something you like, keep looking!  What a fun way to get ready for all those summer pictures (or scrap the ones from last year you haven’t got to yet! ) Tootlebugz also has a great sewing mini kit, so grab it now, it won’t be free forever!

I have the day off work today.. so nice not to have to get up with the sun. Also nice to be able to get my daughter dressed for school and actually have her hair done! Usually daddy just brushes it and calls it good. Oh well. I’m hoping to get some stuff done with my time.. like prepare to meet my goals for National Scrapbook Day. Who is with me?

Happy Bookin’!

ErinAnn

This Saturday, May 2, 2009 is National Scrapbook Day. While I’m not going to any local events, I was thinking about making some goals for the “big” day, or possibly the weekend. I’m going to have a majority of the weekend free because my hubby is going away on a trip for school. Friday night I’m going to see “Spam-A-Lot” (and I’m super excited for that!!!) and most of Saturday I’ll probably be at my parents, but Saturday night I”ll be able to do work and also I’ll try to get stuff done on Sunday as well.  My number one goal is to finish my daughter’s “3rd year” scrapbook. I’ve been trying to finish it at my montly craft night for about 3 months… I want to get to the next book! Part of my problem is I still need to print out some pictures so I need to buy a refill for my photo printer since I can’t find the last one I bought (I’m convinced I haven’t used it yet and it’s hiding in one of the still packed boxes).  But I also just need to get it done. I’ve done too much playing the the cricut I think at craft night and not as much actual creating… but it has been fun!  After that goal, I’m hoping to get done at least my daughter’s 4th birthday… and maybe Thanksgiving. We’ll see. I’ll try to twitter about it.  If you want to follow my tweets you can find me at Erin_Ann.  I recently bought a several Die Cuts With a View stacks.. the Spring paper stack and the Spring glitter mats. I also got the Butterflies and Blossoms stack. I need to get the Spring cardstock stack though, so it’s easier to coordinate. I just got my new JoAnn flyer in the mail and saw the new Summer line is out.. argh! LOL I used a gift card to buy all the other stuff, but I should get the summer line now while it’s 50% off! Like I need more paper, though. It’s just so pretty!

I did a bit of quick searching tonight to find some freebies for you.

Mel’s Lightbulb Moments: There is a bit of a collab there called Showers in Spring.

Chingjp has some fun stuff.. extracted photos of flowers and some Mother’s Day word art.

Scrapbooking Autsim has a Mother’s Day tagger kit.

At Scrap Girls I found a whole bunch of Freebies.

So, that’s about it for today.  Hope you can find something useful at one of those sites.  Stay tuned for Scrapbooking Day and while you are here now, leave me a comment on your goals for NSD!  Maybe we can make an evening at least out of it together and get those goal completed!

Don’t forget to check out my store of handmade, pre-made scrapbook pages at MyBookinOnline Store!

Happy Bookin’

Erin_Ann