Final Day of Digitals Birthday Bash 6!

TGIF! I hope everyone's had a great week so far! First, let me say thank you to all of you who posted comments or e-mailed me to thank me for this week's freebies. The thank you's mean so much more than you know and are much appreciated!

Also, thank you to those of you who posted comments or e-mailed me with well wishes for our little guy and his rash. Yesterday over the phone when we called to make and appointment, the nurse suggested that we try the California Baby Callendula cream or lotion, so I picked some up last night at Target. It worked wonders literally overnight! We had been taking before and after pictures with my phone each time we tried one of the suggestions from the pediatrician to see if there was any improvment ... yeah, I know we're kind of hyper about the baby, but he is our first and only - LOL! So, when we got home last night, we took a photo of his little cheeks, and they looked as if he had rug burn on them, and it was hard and sort of crusty. I put some cream on them immediately after we got home, and then again when he woke up to be fed around 4:30 this morning, and by 8 am his cheeks were completely back to normal; you couldn't even tell that there had ever been a rash there! We still brought him to the pediatrician's for his appointment (just in case) and explained everything, and he told us that from the photos and the results we got from using the calendula cream that our little guy most likely had eczema! I sometimes get patches myself, but his looked so much worse. I have a prescription steroid-based cream to use for mine, so I was really pleased when the doctor told us to just continue to use the calendula cream as the ingredients in it are all natural. So, end of story is that Mr. Drew is all better, and he's back to his smiley, sweet self today. So, again, thank you to everyone who sent good thoughts our way!

And just as a reminder ... today is the last day for all of the birthday bash events including my store-wide 40% off sale where you can get all of my designs*, both personal and commercial-use. (*Excludes items already in my clearance section for 50-85% off!)

Today is also the last day to get my Grab Bag which contains 4 all-new "Quotables" word art sets. You can see previews of the four sets in Wednesday's blog post HERE.

And, last but not least, the blog train goodie! Today's piece coordinates with my Quotables Word Art Set #7 - Dreams Set #1 and Quotables Word Art Set #18 - Dreams Set #2, currently in my Grab Bag.


You can download today's goodie HERE.

If you've miss a day of the blog train, the complete set of word art will be available in my Digitals Store within the next few days!

You can find a list of links to the blogs of other Digitals' Designers participating in the train as well as all of the other great events that have been planned for the week HERE in the Digitals' Forums.

Happy Scrapping,
Jen

Day 7 - Digitals Birthday Bash 6 Blog Train!

I hope everyone is having a great Thursday! I've had a very busy morning today, and I have a very busy afternoon/early evening in front of me. This morning was filled with laundry and other household chores as well as tending to a cranky Andrew again. A red, dry rash popped up on his face yesterday and no matter what our pediatrician told us to try to put on it - Johnson & Johnson baby lotion, Aveeno baby lotion, Vaseline, baby oil, etc. - the poor little guy's cheeks are still all inflamed! I'm now pretty sure that's why he's been cranky the past two days, so we're bringing him in tomorrow, and the pediatrician is going to check him out just in case. The silly part is he is scheduled to go in for his 2-month well baby check-up on Monday, so we'll have to take him back on Monday as our pediatrician doesn't like to mix sick baby/well baby appointments. Oh well - LOL! Hopefully we can get some other suggestions to help get the rash to clear up so he'll be more comfortable. And this afternoon, I have a Dr.'s appointment at 4 pm. Andrew and my mother-in-law are also coming along so that we can visit Old Time Pottery (one of my favorite stores!) so we shop for some things for the house, halloween decorations, and some picture frames so that we can put up some photos of the little one. Provided Andrew cooperates - LOL - I might also check out their scrapbooking section to get some inspiration for pages and designs as well! Then, on the way home we need to stop at Target to get some Baby Oxiclean Spray (which works wonders with ALL kinds of stains) and some new footsie PJ's. He's swiftly outgrowing the newborn size of the brand he's been wearing (Carter's), but the size 0-3 months in the other brands we have are still too big! So, he currently has three pairs that fit him just right. Two are Disney Baby sleepers that are great, but that brand is super expensive and my husband refuses to buy him more (grandma bought those two pairs for him - LOL); however, the second is the Circo brand at Target which we've found to still be very good and fit him well, so we're going to try to get him more. It's so frustrating that the sizes between brands are SO inconsistent! It would be so much more helpful if the companies would just mark the weight and length ranges ... even if they put it on their tags or web-sites ... but, sadly, many don't. So, because things are so hectic today and my rant about baby clothes sizes is now over - LOL, I'm going to hop right and post today's piece of word art which coordinates with my Quotables Word Art Set #8 - Home.

You can download today's goodie HERE.

Please Note ... each goodie will be available for 1 day only. I'll be posting to my blog every day sometime before 2 PM, EASTERN, so you should check back each day after that time for the download link. If you miss a day, don't worry ... the complete set of word art will be available in my Digitals Store at the end of the promotion!

You can find a list of links to the blogs of other Digitals' Designers participating in the train as well as all of the other great events that have been planned for the week HERE in the Digitals' Forums.

See you again tomorrow!

Happy Scrapping,
Jen

Grab Bag Reveal & Day 6 - Digitals Birthday Blog Train

Hi again everyone! First let me apologize for being late with my post today. Mr. Drew (one of our many nicknames for the little one) has been a crankpot today. For some reason no matter what I tried to do for him this morning and early this afternoon, he just couldn't be appeased. It's not the norm for him, so I definitely can't complain, but it did put me very behind today - LOL! So, now that I am here, let me start by jumping on the bandwagon and reveal my grab bag to you! As I mentioned previously, this bag contains 4, brand-new sets of word art - Happiness #3, Love #2, My Favorites #1, and Dream #2 - which you can see previews of above. This grab bag is on sale for $3.00 until October 8th, and then each of these sets will be added individually to my Digitals store at the conclusion of the Birthday Bash for their regular price of $1.75. You can purchase my grab bag by clicking HERE or on the preview at the top of this post.

And, last but not least, the blog train goodie for today! Today's piece coordinates with my Quotables Word Art Set #14 - Winter Weather.

You can download today's goodie HERE.

Please Note ... each goodie will be available for 1 day only. I'll be posting to my blog every day sometime before 2 PM, EASTERN, so you should check back each day after that time for the download link. If you miss a day, don't worry ... the complete set of word art will be available in my Digitals Store at the end of the promotion!

You can find a list of links to the blogs of other Digitals' Designers participating in the train as well as all of the other great events that have been planned for the week HERE in the Digitals' Forums.

See you tomorrow!

Happy Scrapping,
Jen

CT Call & Day 5 - Digitals Birthday Bash 6 Blog Train!

Hi again everyone! With me taking several breaks from designing and just with the passage of time my creative team has dwindled to just a few girls. I've had (and still have) some amazingly talented ladies on my team, and I would love to have some more scrappers join them. I created the graphic above to send out to my Yahoo group (Jen's Cropping Creations), the Yahoo groups at Digitals, etc. so I thought I would post it here as well so my blog visitors can see what I'm looking for and e-mail me (JenMaceyunas@gmail.com) if they would be interested. So I hope to hear from some of you :)




This month at Digitals, my Autumn in the Air kit is being featured along with, my friend and fellow designer, Sarah Meyer's new Apple Crisp kit for the October Digitals Quickie Challenge. Both kits are on sale for $3.00 for the entire month of October. To participate, purchase one (or both) kits and create just one quickpage with the kit to exchange with the other challenge participants. Everyone who joins in the fun will receive all the other quickpages made with whichever kit they used. You can read all the specific details for the challenge by clicking on the image above or by visiting the forum HERE. I hope you'll join us!

And, last but not least, the blog train goodie for today! Today's piece coordinates with several of my pet word art sets - Crop Your Cat Word Art, Quotables Word Art Set #4 - Dog Set #1, Quotables Word Art Set #5 - Dog Set #2, Quotables Word Art Set #6 - Dog Set #3, and Quotables Word Art Set #10 - Dog Set #4.





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Please Note ... each goodie will be available for 1 day only. I'll be posting to my blog every day sometime before 2 PM, EASTERN, so you should check back each day after that time for the download link. If you miss a day, don't worry ... the complete set of word art will be available in my Digitals Store at the end of the promotion!

You can find a list of links to the blogs of other Digitals' Designers participating in the train as well as all of the other great events that have been planned for the week HERE in the Digitals' Forums.

See you tomorrow!

Happy Scrapping,
Jen

Day 4 - Digitals Birthday Bash 6 Blog Train!

Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a great weekend! We didn't do anything special as Jason had to work on Saturday which left Sunday as our "chore" day this week and we focused on our backyard ... cutting the grass, pulling up weeds, trimming trees/bushes/plants, fertilizing our citrus trees, etc. Being from New England, it actually made me sad in a way, because everything is still green and pretty much in full bloom! We do have one tree on the side of our yard (picture above) ... well it's actually in the neighbor's yard, but we still get to enjoy it ... that changes color somewhat. But it's still not the same as the foliage in the northeast!


Back in 2006, we were lucky enough to be in CT and RI in October, and I took a TON of photos while we were in the area. They came out so much better than expected, because generally photography is not my forte, so I made them into a photo-realistic papers and called the set Fall Flair, and it's currently on sale for 50% off, making it JUST $0.88! And I was so inspired by the colors of the photos, I created a coordinating kit called Fall Foliage, and it is also currently on sale for 50% off, making it JUST $1.63!

And, last but not least, the blog train goodie for today! Today's piece coordinates with my Quotables Word Art Set #9 - Birthday Set #1.

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Please Note ... each goodie will be available for 1 day only. I'll be posting to my blog every day sometime before 2 PM, EASTERN, so you should check back each day after that time for the download link. If you miss a day, don't worry ... the complete set of word art will be available in my Digitals Store at the end of the promotion!

You can find a list of links to the blogs of other Digitals' Designers participating in the train as well as all of the other great events that have been planned for the week HERE in the Digitals' Forums.

See you tomorrow!

Happy Scrapping,
Jen

Day 3 - Digitals Birthday Bash 6 Blog Train!

Happy Sunday everyone! A lot of friends and family have asked if I had a picture of the little one from when he was first born, so here is one of him Jason took in the hospital the first day after they had given him his bath. I still can't believe he was ever that small. He was actually one of the smallest babies in the nursery while we were there. Most of the babies were seven or eight pounds, and there was even one little girl who was almost ten. He looked even tinier next to all of them - LOL!

And, here is today's blog train goodie! Today's word art coordinates with my Quotables Word Art Set #11 - Love Set #1.

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Please Note ... each goodie will be available for 1 day only. I'll be posting to my blog every day sometime before 2 PM, EASTERN, so you should check back each day after that time for the download link. If you miss a day, don't worry ... the complete set of word art will be available in my Digitals Store at the end of the promotion!

You can find a list of links to the blogs of other Digitals' Designers participating in the train as well as all of the other great events that have been planned for the week HERE in the Digitals' Forums.

See you tomorrow!

Happy Scrapping,
Jen

Day 2 - Digitals Birthday Bash 6 Blog Train!

Happy Saturday everyone! I just have to share another photo of our little guy that I snapped last night. We got him a thing called a Wubbanub which is basically a pacifier sewn securely into a Beanie Baby-like stuffed animal. You can rest it on their chest so that way if they spit out the pacifier it stays close to their mouth so they can get it back in again. We got him a doggie one, and he's been named Max after the dog in the Grinch, because grandma thought he looked like him. Anyway, it just came in yesterday afternoon, so we gave it to him last night. And he loves it! He holds onto it's paws and smiles and makes cooing noises like mad, especially when Jason makes woofing noises for him. He's been smiling now (for things other than passing gas) for about a week and a half, but we hadn't been able to get a picture of him until last night!

And, here is today's blog train goodie! Today's piece coordinates with my Quotables Word Art Set #8 - Home Set #1.

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Please Note ... each goodie will be available for 1 day only. I'll be posting to my blog every day sometime before 2 PM, EASTERN, so you should check back each day after that time for the download link. If you miss a day, don't worry ... the complete set of word art will be available in my Digitals Store at the end of the promotion!

You can find a list of links to the blogs of other Digitals' Designers participating in the train as well as all of the other great events that have been planned for the week HERE in the Digitals' Forums.

See you tomorrow!

Happy Scrapping,
Jen

All Aboard the Digitals Birthday Bash 6 Blog Train!

Well, I've determined and come to accept the fact that I'm just a decidedly poor blogger – LOL! I had intended to take a short break after my last post here way back in October 2008 to catch up on designing things, but then life got in the way. First, came the 2008 holidays and all the chaos that goes along with that time of year. Then at the beginning of 2009, I was asked to go back to teaching at the school where I taught from 2000-2004, because their current teacher wanted to leave to go back to school. Needless to say, that endeavor occupied pretty much all of my time. I even taught SAT Preparation during the summer session! Then, just as things were finally getting to the point where I had all my materials prepped for school, and I thought I might have a chance to do some designing and blogging ... I found out I was pregnant last December! My husband and I had been trying for a while, so it was a pleasant surprise; however, it ended up being a very difficult pregnancy. The good news is that I delivered a perfect baby boy, who we named Andrew Jacob, just over 7 weeks ago. Here is the birth announcement that I designed to send out our family and friends. I recolored my Cute & Quilted Denim Kit and my Cute & Quilted Denim Add-On Kit to match his little doggie onsie that his grandpa bought for him.

And, not only is our little guy adorable (if I do say so myself - LOL) he is also an extremely good baby. He only fusses if he needs something or has gas, and he's even been sleeping 4 or 5 hours at a time in the evenings for us! At his one month pediatrician's visit, he had already grown one inch and was up to 7 lbs. 15 oz. from his birth weight. He's now just over 7 weeks old, and I think I finally have a system that works well to take care of everything that he needs along with all of the normal household chores and such so that I can once again start designing and (hopefully) blogging more regularly again.

So as I haven't gotten a chance to blog in a long time, when the ladies at Digitals decided to do a blog train to celebrate Digitals' 6th birthday (I can't believe it's been that long!), I knew that I just had to participate ... so here I am!

I have so many fabulous things for the birthday bash it's hard to know where to start! But seeing as I have to start somewhere, let me start by telling you that you're going to want to visit my blog each day, starting today and going until Friday, October 8th after 2 PM, EASTERN to grab my goodies blog train goodies! In addition to the train full of goodies, I am also having a store-wide 40% off sale where you can get a great deal on all of my designs*, both personal and commercial-use. (*Excludes items already in my clearance section for 50-85% off!)

Also, as part of the Birthday Bash, I have my third-ever Grab Bag, available for $3.00. My grab bag contains 4 all-new "Quotables" word art collections valued at $7.00. All sets are PU/S4H/S4O. Please see my Angel Policy in the product's description for specific S4H/S4O acceptable uses. You can purchase my bag, from October 1st through 8th, by clicking on the link or preview above. You can also check out all of the other word art collections I've designed thus far in my store HERE.

And, last but not least, the blog train goodie! So, because my grab bag is filled with word art, and (as you may have guessed by now - LOL) one of my favorite things to design is word art, for this blog train, I've created 8 different pieces of word art for you to collect! Today's piece coordinates with my Quotables Word Art Set #7 - Dreams Set #1.

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Please Note ... each goodie will be available for 1 day only. I'll be posting to my blog every day sometime before 2 PM, EASTERN, so you should check back each day after that time for the download link. If you miss a day, don't worry ... the complete set of word art will be available in my Digitals Store at the end of the promotion!

You can find a list of links to the blogs of other Digitals' Designers participating in the train as well as all of the other great events that have been planned for the week HERE in the Digitals' Forums.

See you tomorrow with more news & goodies!

Happy Scrapping,
Jen