A CAT AND A RAT

Good Wednesday morning everyone…I know, I know, 2 blogs this week…I’m on a roll!!!!

I have a little story for you this morning, about a cat and a rat who were friends! I know all of you have “Pet” stories about you children and this one came to my mind last night so I thought I would share it..

Lori took the boys to the pet store one day as all of them loved to go and look at the exotic birds and so on…well this day they came back with 2 tiny white RATS, cages and the works. I nearly had a heart attack but of course, I gave in. They just had instructions to keep them in their rooms.  The lady at the pet store told them Rats were smart and you could train them. Josh started fooling with his, he named him Tiny,and lo and behold Tiny learned his name. He followed Josh like a little puppy.

Tiny also learned how to get out of his cage, so most times he was running around in Josh’s room…and in the house..how do pets know the ones who like them least..because that rat LOVED to come in my room and sit on my bedside table..I woke up more than once with him staring at me!!! One day the kids were at school and he got in my room, I had to pick that darn rat up by his long, ugly tail and put him in Josh’s room YUCK!!!1

We had a cat named Floyd at that time..and when Floyd was in the house Josh had to make sure Tiny was not out. One day Floyd was in and Josh realized that Tiny was not in his room..Tiny loved to get in Josh’s messy closet and sleep..and he wasn’t there..Josh went looking for him and calling him, yes he would come to you when you called him..he came running in my room and I hadn’t seen him, I told Josh to look under my bed and lo and behold this is what he found

From then on they were good friends, they played together and took naps together and amazed everyone.  Tiny caught a bad cold and got very sick one night, Josh was trying to give him breathing treatments and Oxygen but the little fella died before we could get him to a vet.  Josh grieved over that rat for days and weeks..Now, Chase was another story, his rat got out of the house the 1st week he had him..didn’t bother happy go lucky Chase, he just played with Tiny..  I have more funny pet stories for another day!

Don’t forget my part of the pic ur bits kit “Forever and After”

Here is some beautiful eye candy by Lainey

Forever and After

Andrea made this one

Funky Love Lines …Thanks for using my word art on this beautiful layout.

From Chaos Lounge

Forever and a Day…Thanks Jen for this beautiful layout, your layouts always make my word art look pretty..

Jen has a new colab kit out and this is her part of it

Flutterbies and Pollilops  this is a beautiful and fun kit..here’s what I made with it…my own little “Katlen in a Box”

I have a little something for you today..

http://www.4shared.com/file/214315072/ef93f0dc/lr-Time_Gone_By.html

LOL, well I see I gave it 2 names…why I don’t know, just chalk it up to old age!!

Hope you have a great Wednesday.

PICK UR BITS

Good Monday Morning Everyone..hope  you all had a great weekend..mine was quiet and cold..lol I only left the house to go to my mom’s to eat supper on Saturday and Sunday, my sister is the best cook..I ate both nights till I was so stuffed I could hardly breathe.. I did get a lot accomplished design wise and I actually got my laundry all caught up too!

I guess  you’re wondering about my catchy little title aren’t you LOL..well DSO has another first for you today..Most stores do big collab kits with all of the designers contributing a part to make one big kit..Now you may like it all, or you may like only a few parts, but you have to buy the entire kit to get them..OK hold on to your seats..

The DSO designers did a “Pick Ur Bits” kit, what this means is…we had a color pallet and a name for the kit (Forever and After) and each of us made a part, only each designers portion  is priced separately, so you only have to buy what you like, or buy them all..and this is the really great part, no kit is more than $2.50..some are only $1.00 WOW you can’t beat that can you?

Here’s a little preview of all  the parts of the kit

and here is my part. It matches the other portions submitted by the talented designers at DSO.

The name of the WA is Forever & After.. Here are a few layouts my CT and I made using them.

From Pkdoll

Paula also used parts of KimB’s and GS Creations kits.

I made these

I used my word art cluster, paper,mat and birdcage from KimB’s Designs  and the little elves are from GS Creations part of Forever and Always.

I used my word art cluster and paper from GS Creations, heart and swirl from KimB’s Designs elements.  My mother had 7 brothers and sisters and there were 14 grandchildren, this is a picture of some of us and some of our kids..can you find me? Kim did LOL..

I also made you a little something today

You can get it HERE

Well duckies I am out of here for today, hope you all have a wonderful day and don’t forget to go shopping at DSO today, and be sure to stop by Words To Delite.. :)

WEDNESDAY SLUMP

Good Morning Everyone hope things are going well for  you today.

I am so in a slump  here, my get up and go got up and went!  I can’t seem to get moving this morning.  Might be old age has a part in it..LOL

I tell you, there are so many nasty virus’s going around now, it makes me leery of surfing the web…Kim B. got hit by one that has had her out of commission for awhile, and needless to say, having bad design withdrawals! 

A lot of these virus start by popping up a message on your computer, they look official too, some people see a msg about a virus and they panic and click on the wrong button and wham you have one..some of them just pop up and start running a scan…I have had too many of those the past few days..I just immediately shut down my browser and then my computer.  I have spyware programs running  in the background all the time, and my anti-virus software..but these nasty buggers get by them somehow.

Please be careful when you are using the internet. There are so many wonderful people on the net, but there are also some who aren’t nice and love to destroy..

Don’t forget my new word art that is in the store now..

What Love Is

What Love Is

$4.00 $3.20
Save: 20% off

What Love Is, the 2nd set in my Love series, is perfect for that special someone in your life. There are 15 word arts each on an individual png file. These are just in time for your Valentine layouts. Any one of the phrases will add that special something to your page. They can be re-colored and re-sized and are done in 300 dpi. 
WHAT LOVE IS is a must have for your word art collection.

I have been in a slump this week with my designing..I seem to lost my mojo, everything I make I don’t like, I leave it and then look back and start re-doing..I just can’t come up with anything I really like..

My CT hasn’t been in a slump LOL they have made some beautiful pages that I want to share.

From Nancy

 

Descriptions Teenage Boys

Classifieds-Teens

By scoobie81

Descriptions Teenage Girls

From MumaSue

Funky Love Lines and I Thee Wed

From scoobie81

Descriptions-Teenage Girls

Thanks girls, these are all beautiful..loved Nancy’s moody teenager, he has the expression to fit the title, I also love all the pink in her other page. scoobies rabbit page is so adorable and fun..aren’t those babies precious..MumaSue wedding page is unusual with the black but also beautiful..and scoobies Object of my afftection is just gorgeous and unique with the while bg.

If you liked these layouts, leave the girls some love, it sure makes them feel good, and me tooooo!

No pressy today, sorry everyone, I will have you something next time..

Have a great day.

WHAT LOVE IS

I hope you are all having a great weekend…Just popped on to show you my new word art.

What Love Is

$4.00 $3.20
Save: 20% off

What Love Is, the 2nd set in my Love series, is perfect for that special someone in your life. There are 15 word arts each on an individual png file. These are just in time for your Valentine layouts. Any one of the phrases will add that special something to your page. They can be re-colored and re-sized and are done in 300 dpi. 
WHAT LOVE IS is a must have for your word art collection.

What Love Is

Some layouts my talented CT made

From Lainey

PK Doll

From MumaSue

From Me

I also have a lot of Love themed word art in my store with more coming soon

Words to Delite

I have something for you today

Passions Blush

You can get it HERE if you like.

Hope you have a great weekend.

A BIT OF NEWS

Good Morning everyone I woke up and thought it was about 5 am..went to let Gemma out and saw the clock, it was actually 7:30 and raining cats and dogs..Gemma just looked out and went back to her bed! 

I want to thank you all for the sweet comments after the 4share incident.  I’m so glad that you finally got the Hearts downloaded.

I have some news today and you might want to take some notes..DSO is getting ready to get an online make-over. New this and new that. But to do all this Bunny is going to have to tear into some things. FORUMS, PRIVATE MESSAGING AND THE GALLERY AT DSO will be going down for the facelift on FEBRUARY 1ST.

There is no guarantee that all the Gallery will be able to be saved and uploaded again successfully. It must be de-tangled from the forum bits that will not be saved, but the goal is for the entire Gallery to be re-loaded after the new facelift. Just in case, not all makes it back to its place, it is recommended that if do not have your Layouts saved on your computer you back them up before February 1.

This is very simple to do, just go to your gallery, click on EACH layout, right click, and hit saveas. That’s it..you’re all done. Save them to a folder on your computer or back them up and store them on your external drives.  If the gallery makes it back in tact, just re-load them. We realize this is going to be a bit of an inconveniece but the results will be well worth it. Just hang in there, have patience and we will all get thru this together.

The one thing that WON’T be shutting down are the challenges. You will continue to do them in the Challenge Blog.   Please remember FEBRUARY 1st DSO is going down.

Now that the business is taken care of, I want to show you some of the beautiful new products in the DSO stores.

Wow, what a selection of items for your Valentines Day layouts, or for any occasion. We have the best designers at DSO, you can rest assured that all the products have been through Quality Check and are as perfect as they can humanly be!

We can’t forget Digi Scrap Vault for all your commercial use products…you know you can rely on these.

here’s a layout I made using LouCees Creations Love Actually Kit

I love this picture of the kids..someone stuck that red bow in Kaylen’s hair…I was surprised she let it stay there!

I made this for you, the hearts are on separate png files..hope you enjoy!

I had problems with 4shared timing out so I used Media Fire again..I tried the download and it worked…

http://www.mediafire.com/file/oyzerzzgzt3/foreverlove.zip

Don’t forget FEBRUARY 1 hope you have a good day