Celebrate Awareness by April the Scrapaholic

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April has added another kit called Celebrate Awareness to her blog store. It's a super cute kit with a great cause---for every kit sold April is donating $1 to The Breast Cancer Site. That means you get a great kit for scrapping your photos and help a good cause all at the same time!

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I used Celebrate Awareness to make a QP for you. Just click on the preview below to go to 4shared for the download. Make sure you visit April's blog store to check this kit as well as her other kits and awesome freebies!

Boy Thing by Nibbles Skribbles

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Nibbles Skribbles has a great kit called Boy Thing that is perfect for scrapping all your little boy pictures. the kit has 36 elements, 12 papers and an alpha. Check out the preview...

I've used the kit for two layouts so far, but since I have a friend who is expecting a baby boy I know this kit is going to get used over and over again!

You can find Boy thing in the Nibbles Skribbles store at The Studio. You should also take advantage of the Halloween sale and check out all of her other great kits!

2012 Calendar Templates by Nibbles Skribbles

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It's time to start thinking about your 2012 calendars! It doesn't matter if you're making them for yourself or as a gift for someone else, if you're anything like me, you need to start making them now!

Nibble Skribbles is helping to make the task a little easier with her 2012 Calendar templates. They are 8.5x11 so they fit perfectly on a regular size of paper, but you can always resize them if you need a smaller or larger calendar.

The calendar grids come in PNG format as well as layered TIFF and PSD format. Perfect for everyone!

Now, to make things even better----there is a sale at The Studio this weekend so you can save 30% on the personal use version! Of course, there is also a CU friendly set available! Check out the preview...

Don't you just love it! Nibbles Skribbles has taken care of the hard part of creating calendars! YAY!

Oh, and don't forget to check out the super cute Holiday Calendar Markers!

The Story of Me, part 12

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This is the end of Clara's story. Next week, we'll begin learning of Harmony's life with Pat.

December 31, 1989

Pat entered the house quietly. The baby was sleeping and she wanted to put her down for a nap before checking in on Clara,

Poor Clara. She hadn’t started drinking again, but she had withdrawn back into herself. Most days Clara didn’t bother to get out of bed. Mortimer’s death had hurt Clara deeply. She had loved two men in her lifetime and both of those men had been murdered.

Pat had indulged Clara’s moods for long enough. Today she had refused to get out of bed for Mortimer’s funeral. Pat attended the service with Harmony and watched the church door hoping Clara would enter to say her good byes, but she never did and that made Pat angry. Clara had to get over herself. She had to deal with the pain and move on. There was a baby to take care of and raise. Staying in bed all day was no longer an option and Pat intended to make sure Clara understood that.

The baby was sleeping safely in her crib as Pat tiptoed across the hall and knocked on Clara's door. She waited for the usual “Go away!” that Clara screamed on a regular basis, but it never came. Pat knocked again as she opened the door expecting to see Clara in the bed that had been her home for the last week, but the bed was empty. At first Pat was relieved, thinking Clara was finally coming around. Then she noticed the open closet and the empty hangers that were inside.

Pat moved into the room for a closer look. Clara didn’t own many clothes, but the ones she did own were no longer in this room. Pat tried to remain calm as she moved on to the bathroom and saw that Clara’s few toiletries had been removed from there also.

Clara was gone. She had waited for Pat to leave the house with Harmony and then she left. Pat was in shock. She checked in on the sleeping baby before going into the kitchen. Pat sat at the table and cried. She cried for Mortimer who had died too soon. She cried for Clara whom she had grown to love and prayed that the woman would return home safely. She cried for Harmony, the small baby that had now been abandoned by two different people in her short lifetime.

Pat cried quietly because she did not want to wake the baby. When Pat had no more tears to cry she reminded herself of the hard but loving advice she had planned to give Clara. Get over yourself. Deal with the pain and move on.

Pat stood and started preparing dinner for herself and the baby.

Pick up your own copy of The Day Ginger Snapped!

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I should have known....

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I should have known it was going to be a bad day when I woke up thinking I needed to find my 100th day t-shirt and stop to buy a cake on my way to school.

Today was only the 45th day of school!

I actually laid in bed going over the things I needed to do today and those were honestly the first two things on my list.

Can you imagine the looks I would have gotten if I had shown up in that t-shirt and carrying a cake?

I have no idea what I was dreaming before I woke up, but it must have been good! lol!

Another Camping Retreat QP freebie!

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I've got another quickpage made with April's Camping Retreat kit. Just click on the preview to go to 4shared for the download and make sure you check out the kit in April's blog store!