Mariannes Motifs

Happy Blog Day

Someone told me its blog day today.  So I am going to list 5 blogs that might be of interest to you.

Ikea Goddess
Wonderful site - she lists digi freebies and even shows a preview for you.
http://ikeagoddess.blogspot.com/

DigiFree
The Automated Digi Freebie Search Engine
http://digifree.blogspot.com/

Living it up China Style
http://gesweinfamily.com/
Really interesting blog from an American family living and teaching in China

Top Digi Scrap Blogs List
http://topdigiblogs.fishscraps.com/

Kim Hill
The designer I make layouts for.  She's da bomb.
http://kim2002.typepad.com/

Awesome Sale at cgessentials.com DigiScrap site

Some of you may already know that I am on Kim Hill's Design Team.  What started out as a temporary gig has now gone permanent. 

Kim has redesigned the website at her own store CG Essentials (she also sells kits, templates, and popular photo actions at scrapbook-elements.com and acherryontop.com)  The site looks wonderful.  There are also some brand new alphas for sale.

The best thing of all however, is the Dollars for Dollars promotion she has going on.  For the entire month of September, for every dollar you spend at cgessentials store you will get a gift card code for that number of dollars on October 1st.  And GIFT CARDS COUNT.   To my logic this is pretty much analagous to 50% off folks.  Time to look over your Kaboodle Wishlist and buy some stuff.  Don't know what you want?  Buy a gift card.  If you buy a $10 gift card you will get $20 to spend on October 1.  Woo Hoo.

This is one of the items I am excited to play with - the Wrinkled Paper Alpha.  This is going to be perfect for my Art Journal. 

Styx Concert!

Saturday night we went to the "Rock of Ages" concert: Foreigner, Styx, and Def Leopard.  Ok, we were late (traffic) and missed Foreigner.  Styx was the real reason we wanted to go, and the ROCKED OUT.  There were so good.  As the redneck guys behind us said "F***in Tommy Shaw!!!!"

We renamed the event "Mullet Fest, 2007."  Melissa says that Classic Rock concerts should be banned in the South as they bring out, shall we say, an undesirable element.  LOL.  We took off before Def Leopard.  Sad to say I aready saw the Def-sters play late last year.  What they lack in talent they make up for in VOLUME.   Anyway it was great to have a babysitter and get out for a while.  Here's some pics.

Home sick today

I am playing hooky today.  Just tired out and ouchy from the crohns disease.  I am doing ok, but I just felt if I took the day off and rested it will be better off in the long run. 

I have so much to do at work - we are migrating from Lotus Notes to Exchange so its alot for me to learn and set up.   I really like being an email admin, but I am feeling overwhelmed about this project.  Its one of those BIG projects with lots of different parts that have to fit together.  And I am in charge.  How did that happen?  So I have to keep my strength up. 

Art Journal 10

One of the current projects I am working on is a digital art journal.  I've been having fun collecting all sorts of fun elements like books, notepads, and in the case of todays page, file folders.

Its been very freeing working in this theme.  Instead of thinking of it as a "scrapbook page" in thinking of it as an art journal it lets me stretch the boundaries and try to do a little free form.  Like a visual version of stream of consciousness writing.   By making the pages a different shape and size than my family scrapbook pages it reminds me, "hey, no rules to follow, just have fun and express yourself."

This is such a fun hobby and I am so glad  I have learned so many new techniques, actions, tools, and little bits of digi papers and elements to purchase.  Of course like any hobby, there's got to be a bit of shopping involved.  (heh heh)

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