I’m starting a brand new store (it’s so new I’m not even done - so no revealing it yet!) and I am looking for some Christian digi designers who are in need of a new or additional store home.

Advantages and Requirements:
* 75/25 payout (minus paypal fees)
* No exclusive designers
* Only need 1 new product added a month (kit, pack, bragbook page, etc)
* Collab. kit participation only once every 3 months (or more, if you’re able)
* Completely safe, clean and wholesome atmosphere
* Christian theme product at least one out of every 5 products (word art set, kit, anything)

Sound interesting? Submit in one email:
- Your name, address, phone, and email
- A short testimony of salvation & the name of your church
- A short paragraph about yourself and why you’d like to work @ Life Scrappers
- Links to all stores you sell at, if applicable
- A link to any online galleries, resume, blog, etc. where I can see additional work
- At least 5 papers and 10 elements - your best original digital designs (no commercially-used products, please… NOTE: You will be allowed to sell kits that use commercial-use items, but I want to see what you can do all on your own) at 4 shared or other similar download site

If I like what I see, you will move on the the next step, which will include the making of a mini kit.

I hope to hear from you soon! God bless!

Happy Thanksgiving!!! We have so much to be thankful for in our lives!!!

Here are some of my thankfuls:

A renewed marriage

a renewed faith

a healthy husband (mostly LOL)

safe, smart, beautiful kids

a home (including a lowered monthly mortgage payment - woohoo!)

working vehicles

family within close distance

food on the table

friends

a chance to sell my designs!

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The huge sale is going on at each of my stores and it lasts today until Tuesday morning (my products are until Tues. morning because Monday is “Cyber Monday” - I don’t know how many others are doing this). I’m having a 65% off price reduction! That means entire kits for just a few cents!!!!!!! I’m crazy, I know!!!

Check out my store @ SOL and the other gals’ sections too! Check out my store at Bouquet of Pixels and the other gals’ sections too! (Please note there are the same products and same prices at each store - just decide which one you want to buy from. )

We celebrated Thanksgiving at my parents’ house yesterday, since Jerry works today. It was a nice time! Reagan and Cooper are getting SO big! It’s always nice to see the brothers, my sil and my niece and nephew.

Hope everyone has a fabulous day!!!!!!

God bless!

this post is mainly about jamin. he turned 15 months on the 9th, and has had an AMAZING week or so of growth. i’ve been shocked at his progress. he is in his “own” room now. the playroom still has most of the boys’ toys, but his crib is also in there. so no nursing with mama all night. just once before bed and once when he gets up (still throughout the day, but i mean for bed). he will do a little “showboat” whine for a few minutes, but goes right to sleep with no problems. there was a day and a half or so that he broke my heart crying longer than that, but i don’t think he was feeling well. he’s back to normal with sleeping now. he is walking a lot now. not exclusively, mind you, but it’s about 70/30 walking/crawling. he has been talking up a little babbley storm. “cookie” “piece (about pizza)” “beebee (big boy)” he says “papa/dada” all the time. he really tries to repeat almost every word you say. he is so adorable!!!!!!!!!!!! when i was praying the other day for dinner, he folded his hands and was being quiet. i was so surprised and proud of him! it’s hard to believe he gets cuter every day, but he DOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1% goes to josiah, who was just so adorable yesterday. he had a GREAT day most of the day. i surprised him with something, and he said “that freaked me out!!!” ROFL! oh, that boy. he said something really “out there” the other day, and i told him he was just so imaginative, and he said “no, it’s just my imagination, mama.” *gigglesnort*

ok the other 1%…jamin growing up has inevitably brought about my “baby itch”. i’m thinking about it now…someone pinch me or something…

today mom was with jeremiah in the gathering area during the service, since he and jamin might still be contagious with whatever bug they have. jeremiah said to mom, “i love mama so much i wish there were two of her!”  i asked him later, did he mean so there was more of mama to go around, so he would not have to share me? he nodded and said yes, then he said “but i wish there were more of you so you could be everyone’s mama.” 
josiah, during nap today, was annoyed with me because he didn’t want to sleep, and said “i don’t love you…no, i really do love you mama, i know da troof” (i know the truth)

i guess i’m doing SOMETHING right.

oh and i remembered the cute thing josiah said the other day. he was asking me for something (i think it was candy) and he said “can i have just some?” i said no. “please? just a puckle?” instead of couple. LOLOL. isn’t he so cute?!

today at lunch mom did something, and jeremiah said “impressive!”. i need to try to write these cute things down every day when they happen. you won’t mind, will you julie and amy?

i always find it amazing when wordpress still remembers my username and password, when i’ve been gone for so long!

well lots of things have been going on over here. i’m scaling down my computer time a LOT and when i’m on i’m really trying to devote it to designing and such. i still plan to try to keep up with everyone one of these days, and i think of you all often and pray for you.

speaking of prayer, please be with me in serious, honest prayer for our president-elect and of course for our country. i am trying not to be concerned and just completely trust God in this. my friend keer pointed out the absolutely perfect quote:

C.S. Lewis - We’re not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

yep, that’s where i am right now. i know He has His own plans that we can’t see, but it is scary thinking about what will happen on the road to that end. sigh.

oh i am still doing the faithbooking challenge at scrappin’ out loud. if you’d like to join me, i have a new one up: click here.

so what have i missed? jamin is still not walking consistently, but he’s getting there. he is so adorable. he still doesn’t say a lot of words but the ones he does say are just darling! we are trying to teach him “no” means it. so far, it just makes him giggle and smile a VERY familiar ornery smile!

jeremiah is in Word of Life at church, and this is his third memory verse (they learn a new one each month). he is doing really well with memory verses, and we are going to start learning other verses as a family, that pertain to our lives at the time. the first one we’ll be learning is about our anger. being the oldest, he gets very frustrated with his little brothers about things, and tends to act out about them a lot. so we want to learn verses to help combat these selfish feelings. i admit that we all have issues of selfishness, and our anger tends to stem from that every time.

josiah is still our monkey boy. there are days that he is calmer, but most of the time he’s on the go. he is getting SOMEWHAT better at listening when we try to tell him something. he is a really smart little boy, and so cute. i can’t remember what it was he said yesterday, but it was so adorable. he’d accidentally inverted some letters to make a word. if i remember it, i’ll post it! his “thing” all the time lately is being a “super-heeyo” - and yes, that’s exactly how he says it. he pretends he has buttons all over him, and will pop his “wings” out to fly, and another button puts the wings back in. it’s so cute. i’ll see if he’ll let me video it.

i have some very sad news. my newest camera, the one purchased with tax refund money, has died. i don’t know if it will be able to be revived or not - if it can be repaired, it will depend on the cost whether we can do it or not. i think josiah got a hold of it (but i’m not really sure WHAT happened to it) and the lens is completely out of focus.

ok julie tagged me…she “forced my hand” to get me to blog, so i thought i’d do the meme for her LOL.

You are supposed to find the 6th folder in your pictures directory and post the 6th photo in it.

So here are the instructions:

* Go to your sixth picture folder then pick your sixth picture.

* Pray that you remember the details.

* Tag 5 others, leave a comment to let them know they’ve been tagged.

how fun! it’s a pic of my dad holding jamin at his first birthday party!  that’s jamin’s “shy” smile. he hasn’t done that one in a while LOL. i was hoping it wouldn’t be one of the pics i needed to just delete…i am horrible about deleting even the worst pics…i always wonder if i can use them for something. lol.

i almost forgot to tag anyone!

1 - keer

2 - bobbie

3 - amy g

4 - cheryl

5 - lynn

well i think that’s it for now.