They Don’t Want to End!!

I have been having such terrible computer troubles. It is outrageous. But, it is also something that we haven’t been able to specifically identify either. Another annoying thing to deal with.

My computer will be running fine, then there is a loud click, and it restarts……but it won’t go anywhere. When I take it anywhere to be looked at….no one can duplicate what happens when at our house.

I am starting to think that it is the house and not the computer. the wiring in the basement where the computer is plugged in, I think was done poorly by the previous owners and this is one of the side effects.

On to other news. I am pretty upset with my MIL at the moment. Of course I can’t go into too much detail on here, it wouldn’t be right. But, let’s just say that I am tired of dealing with something that thinks and responds to things the way that she can at times. Totally wrong in her assessment of a given situation, but you know the waters will be parted before she will admit that she isn’t correct in her assessment. GRRRR! It actually hurt quite a bit finding out she thought this and feels the way she does on one particular topic. I guess now I would say that I am happy (not really…but you know what I mean) my trying to plan a nice birthday surprise for her 60th, didn’t work out like I had wanted it to. I tried to get her Brother Kevin to come down from Newfoundland, and at one point her sister Cynthia and other Brother Danny were going to come too. I even talked to my SIL about her and her hubby making it in from BC….because I feel 60 is a bday to celebrate (any bday is in my books) and she has had quite a number of health issues including an angioplasty operation in 2004 that went wrong and we could have lost her….but we didn’t. So for her to still be here at 60 with some of the things she has gone through…I felt she deserved a special special day! No one could make it from out of town and although I spoke to FIL a few times in regards to it, he didn’t seem to remember anything everytime I did talk to him again about it. So, it ended up being a huge BUST!

With my Husband knowing that I tried to plan this, in part just to give her a great bday and in part to show appreciation for things that she and FIL have done, he is royally peeved at his Mother too for what she said the other day in regards to me.

I wasn’t in a hurry to move, but I can see now that maybe we need to, because the frame of mind that woman has about things…..I don’t want to live around for much longer. But, I am not going to tell anyone else that…only the 1 or 2 people that happen to come across my blog and actually read any of it will know it……for now at least.

HAGD!

Boy Oh Boy!!!

 

The last few weeks been a crazy time. I really should schedule in my time for blogging, must do that. I need a new planner. Almost the end of the year. I didn’t like the one I had for 2007 and therefore didn’t use it much, and it shows in a bunch of things that I didn’t do quite as well as I would have liked from not properly organizing my time.

I just wanted to pop in and say I haven’t forgotten about my lonely blog, and hopefully starting next week, I can get in here a little more frequently.

We have been busy setting up our Element Team (some like call it Designer Apprentice) at SFS. It has been a whirlwind…..but a lot of fun too.

Like all things, there have been bumps…but I am confident that in the end we are going to have a good thing going.

HAGD!

GRAB BAG Sale!!!! Commercial & Personal Use Bags!

Here is my Bag Preview.

 AND…5 other Bags are available too!

I am so excited that we have our first Grab Bag sale happening. We originally started talking about this kind of sale in early September, but we had so many really busy designers at that time, that we bumped our first one to October. Now it is FINALLY Here!!!!

We are also having some fun challenges and other happenings at our new forum. It can be found at www.scrappinfreestyle.com/forum. Please excuse the stealth status it has at the moment, we are in the process of adding the buttons to our site.

We are also planning a store-wide sale and 2 chats being held at DST on Digital Scrapbook Day. I hope we see a lot of scrapbook enthusiasts at our chats. We will have freebies, a challenge or two, and a gift for participating in the challenge, with the layouts posted in our gallery at ScrappinFreestyle. More will be posted closer to the date. Also, we have a site blog now, if you want to keep up on the happenings at SFS don’t forget to visit it. You can find that at http://scrappinfreestyle.blogspot.com.

Enjoy the Grab Bags!!

BAD Blogger!!

Man oh man, have I become a bad blogger….lol. I can’t believe that many days has gone by since I posted last.

I have had my head in our store, or at work so much the last little while..lol. It got to the point where my Husband requested that I don’t go on the computer at all over the Thanksgiving weekend. He usually doesn’t ask that of me…so I know I have been on the computer a LOT and very focussed on what I was doing for him to request that of me. OOOps!!

We have had a ton of new submissions at SFS, thanks to our new designers and new products from others. That has kept me busy too.

I just realized that I haven’t had anything to eat today and my tummy is yelling at me for it…so I am off to make a bit of lunch now (at 1:30 pm EST….this site stuff really takes up my full attention…but I love it).

Crazy Couple of Days!

Wow, have the last few days been busy and crazy for me. I had my first ‘crash course’ in when something doesn’t work properly at our store…..eep.

I have been working more hours this week, covering for the other two I work with. It will be nice on the paycheque, but hugely bad timing with the site changes that have happened, and the gallery giving me grief. Thankfully, after tomorrow, I am off till Wednesday night…wooohooo.

Can’t write too much tonight, I have to squeeze in my mega kit contributions to my other two stores still…..gotta take every minute that I can before going to bed.

HAGN!

Freebie Link….Fixed.

Sorry to anyone that tried to get Berna’s freebie and the link wasn’t working for them, I have fixed it.

Two Freebies in 2 Days!!!

But, this one is not mine.

I am on the CT for the wonderful Berna Datema and she is holding an event called Bollywood Festival this week.

Here is the Freebie link from my Blog!!

Freebie has EXPIRED!
You can see all of the previews of her Release of ‘Best of Bollywood’ at SBG at DigiShopTalk

And, don’t forget to go by the rest of the blogs that are part of this.

Amanda’s Blog

Amy’s Blog

Anne’s Blog

Berna’s Blog

Ingeborg’s Blog

Jessica’s Blog

Kelly’s Blog

Kerstin’s Blog

Ria’s Blog

Sonja’s Blog

Here is the preview to the freebie.

First Freebie on this Blog!!!

Hey everyone,

I just put up a new kit in the stores, you can see a preview of it in my previous post. It is Summer’s End.

I made a quickpage using one of the papers and some elements. Here is the preview of the quickpage.

EXPIRED!

Summer’s End 35% Off at DigiByDesign

My Summer’s End kit is on sale today only for 35% off, both the paper pack and element pack.

http://digibydesign.com/cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=855&zenid=da54e0982cfcbd2c7058ab8302323a96

and

http://digibydesign.com/cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=854

Here are the previews:

Yahoo Group for our Members!

I finally created a yahoo group for our Members/Customers…yes, I know ABOUT TIME!! lol. I had originally wanted to do this in the google groups, but I think more people are familiar with yahoo groups, so I went with yahoo.

I have a button on the side bar for you to click to join the group if you want to be a member of it. I am going to try….key word try…to put it in this post as well, but I am still learning about what can and can’t be done in wordpress…LOL.

Okay, so it didn’t work, blah! Well, you can still join using the button in my sidebar. I hope to see you there!!

HAGN!

Bannerwoman Designs 40% Off [Everything]

A Designer at my site is having a great Sale!!!! You can see her products here:

http://scrappinfreestyle.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=4

Here is her AD, with the coupon code that will give you 40% off EVERYTHING in her Store!!!!

An Email from a Friend…..

A friend of mine that lives in Alberta and NEVER get to see her (online much anymore or offline cuz of distance) sent me this email….and I LOVED it….so I had to come and post it.

The Cowboy

Lady went into a bar in Waco and saw a cowboy with his feet
propped up on a table. He had the biggest boots she’d ever seen.

The woman asked the cowboy if it’s true what they say about men
with big feet being well endowed.

The cowboy grinned and said, “Shore is, little lady. Why don’t you come
on
out to the bunkhouse and let me prove it to you?”

The woman wanted to find out for herself, so she spent the night
with him.

The next morning she handed him a $100 bill. Blushing, he said, “Well,
thankee, ma’am. Ah’m real flattered. Ain’t nobody ever paid me fer mah
services before.”

“Don’t be flattered… take the money and buy yourself some boots
that fit.”

I had to hold in my laughter at that one, it is 12:30 am and Dh is sleeping across the room….but I really got a good chuckle out of this one.

HAGN!

Advertising Position - Income Opportunity

Our site is looking for a dedicated person who doesn’t have a lot of online commitments to become our Advertising Coordinator. Here is our AD.

If you cannot see the image, the info on it says this:

‘YOU Could be the One for us!’

Do you like being part of a great team? Do you like helping people find great sales, chats & Challenges?

Paid in $ not in Product.

We are looking for someone to advertise for our site. We are looking for someone dedicated, and able to give our site’s advertising needs the time it requires.

Interested? Apply to: [Please include: All teams you are on and their requirements. Tell us of any advertising experience or positions you have held, but it isn't mandatory.]

Please send applications to: admin@scrappinfreestyle.com Attn: Dawn with the subject Ads Position.

Applications will be taken till the 15th of September.

Sweet Harvest, ScrappinFreestyle’s September Mega Kit

Our New Mega Kit is Availabe NOW!!!! Here is the full kit preview. This image is clickable to go to it in the store. It is 40% off right now, making it only $5.99.

Here are the Papers!

And, the Elements!

I just love this kit, the colours are amazing and it can be used for a lot of different layouts, because we didn’t focus on ‘fall/autumn’ for our elements. You won’t be sorry with this purchase!

HAGD!

HILARIOUS!!!!

This was posted by one of  the co-owners of Digital Candy in the Forum, and I just had to post it here too.

How To Properly Place New Employees:

1. Put 400 bricks in a closed room.
2. Put your new hires in the room and close the door.
3. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours.
4. Then analyze the situation:

a. If they are counting the bricks, put them in the Accounting Department.

b. If they are recounting them, put them in Auditing.

c. If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks, put them in Engineering.

d. If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order, put them in Planning.

e. If they are throwing the bricks at each other, put them in Operations.

f. If they are sleeping, put them in Security.

g. If they have broken the bricks into pieces, put them in Information Technology.

h. If they are sitting idle, put them in Human Resources.

i. If they say they have tried different combinations, they are looking for more, yet not a brick has been moved, put them in Sales.

j. If they have already left for the day, put them in Marketing.

k. If they are staring out of the window, put them in Strategic Planning.

l. If they are talking to each other, and not a single brick has been moved, congratulate them and put them in Top Management.

Finally, if they have surrounded themselves with bricks in such a way that they can neither be seen nor heard from, put them in Congress.

On a personal note…

We had to say Good bye to our niece and nephew over the weekend. They were here for 5 weeks. WOW!! They had a great time though, mostly due to making a few friends on the street here. I think they would have ended up going stir-crazy if they hadn’t. There is only so much that uncles/aunts and grandparents can do to keep kids occupied after all. It was really nice having them around. Their family moved back out to B.C 4 years ago this week. They lived in Ontario originally, and right around the time I met DH, they were moving out to B.C. the first time, that was 12 years ago. Then after being in B.C. for 4 years, they came back to Ontario and were here for 4 years. That is when the parents (dh’s sister and BIL) decided that they liked B.C. life much better and packed everyone up and headed back out there. So we haven’t seen any of them since then. Here are a few pictures I took of Katlyn and Josh while they were here. I didn’t get too many though, cuz they didn’t really go anywhere and not much happened around the house either that I could get pics of.

MIL/FIL & Katlyn/Josh

Introducing….Mrs. Erkle

Mr. Sleepyhead

We had a visit from the oldest daughter back in March. She came down for 2 weeks. She was here alone, hubby and baby stayed back in B.C. That must have been a nice break for her and I think she enjoyed getting together with all her friends from here.

My brother is still visiting with us. Makes it a bit hard to do my work on the computer like I should, because he is constantly asking me to spend time with him. It is after all his vacation. I can appreciate that, but it isn’t MY vacation…haha. I have loved having him around. But, you can tell that he is getting a little on the bored side with how much more he is bugging me about my computer time.  He says that it isn’t that bad…he doesn’t want to go home yet, so I guess he isn’t THAT bored yet. Hopefully we will be bringing him home not totally bored out of his skull…lol. I believe that he is going home either Wednesday or Friday. Maybe Thursday night, but if it is then, it will be after I am finished work at 9 pm. I kind of don’t want to do it that way, cuz I would like to visit with my Dad a bit the day we bring him home. But, we shall see right?

Well, I think that is it for now.

HAGN!

I have been here..

3 times today, so I guess I should take the time to post in here.

Well, today was pretty busy getting a few things set up and done around the site (www.scrappinfreestyle.com). We have added one new designer to the store, with another one hopefully joining too.

The designer that put products up in the store today was Jessica Dixon. She retired from designing earlier this year for a few reasons. But, she missed it too much and our requirements for our store were something she thought she could handle, while being a mom to 3 kiddos (3rd expected in October). I am so happy to have her as part of the team.

We have some stuff in the works at ScrappinFreestyle that I am so excited about. I can’t wait till they are implemented.

Another thing is that our Mega Kit for October is going to be another Designer’s Resource Mega Kit. We should also have our Advertising Coordinator position filled by then, so the advertising for that is going to be GREAT!

That is it for SFS news…lol.

HAGN!

Well, today was a bust!

I ended up not being able to get to sleep till 4 am this morning. Partially from wanting to work on stuff on the computer, and partially from my dh and Bro playing video games on the t.v. which is not far from the foot of our bed. The volume wasn’t loud or anything, but I was sort of hoping they would quit playing and I would go to bed then. That didn’t happen.

Needless to say, I didn’t wake up till 12 pm today (after my usual 8 hours) just in time for my Dad to arrive for his visit and to bring the tables to make up my new corner ‘desk’. They were his, but he got a new (to him) set from a friend for his computer room and passed this on to me. It isn’t the best looking, but it is better than what I had before. It was tiny and no room to do anything (writing etc) on the surface infront of the raised monitor area. So, by the time Dad leaves, I have just enough time to get my shower and get ready for work. BLAH!

I had a great shift. My first closing that I did on my own. The girl that is preggo that I am hired to do her mat leave hours was there to help if I needed it, but it was pretty smooth going. I needed to ask a few things, just to make sure I put it in the right place instead of having to fix a mistake..haha. But, overall I felt like I knew what I had to do. We usually work the 6-9 shift on Wednesdays together. Today was pretty busy too for that 3 hour span. Made it go by quickly that is for sure.

I must say ‘I’m Sorry’ to Jessica and Sandra. I told you both I would be around today, and I wasn’t. I thought of you both while at work and the fact that I was a no show online today. I don’t have even the smallest chance of a pop by visit, needing to go out (until later I believe) so I will be around tomorrow (or should I say today..LOL).

Like the new Blinkie!!! If you are seen sporting it around Digital Candy or anywhere at other sites that allow blinkies from other sites, you could get RAK’d. This is the message from the owner of the site when she posted the new blinkie at www.digitalcandy.ca.  So come on over and check out the site, I know you will fall in love with it and will want to sport the new blinkie.

That’s all for now!

HAGN!

Been Busy

Well, it has been a few days since I posted on here, sorry.

My brother came up to our house on Friday night to go to the race Saturday night with Dh, FIL and nephew. Well, he is still here…haha. We went down to Toronto today to visit with my Dad for a bit and so my brother could change from the clothes he had with him and grab new stuff. We have had a great few days having him around. My dh and brother have such similar senses of humour and witt about stuff that I laugh constantly with them both around.

We also still have our niece and nephew here till Friday night, their flight leaves very early on Saturday morning. I will be sad to see them go. As crowded as the house has seemed at times from the extra people (my brother included), it will be VERY quiet after they go. That will take a bit to get used to again.

Even though there have been many situations where they didn’t behave, and show the respect us adults thought they should in those situations, overall it has been great to spend this time with them.

I am hoping that dh and I can make a trip out to B.C sometime soon (hopefully within the next year or 2) so we can see the whole family and where they live etc.

Thursday we are supposed to be going to the Bowmanville Zoo (2nd attempt), lets hope the weather cooperates with us. Then, out to dinner on Friday night at a restaurant called Teddy’s here in Oshawa. It is FABULOUS. It is also strictly a family restaurant, they don’t serve any kind of alcohol, I like that about it.

Anyhow, although I haven’t done much that has been terribly exciting to write about, I have been busy with the company we have had around here the past few days.

I have work tomorrow evening, so I won’t be around during that time, but I should be around much of the day prior to that to try and get some computer things done.

HAGN!

Super Saver Sale

I have my kit ‘The Look [of Love] on Sale today. Both the Paper Pack and Element Pack are 35% off for today only.

You can find my Store by clicking on the Blinkie to the right for DigiByDesign.

HAGD!

I need to VENT for my friend…

I just got home and I started talking to my best friend on msn…..and she told me that she was declined for a job because she didn’t have a driver’s license, passport or proof of citizenship.

WHAT THE HECK!!!

She doesn’t drive, like a lot of people living in Toronto, with the tranportation system (TTC), what is the point. She has never been outside of Canada, so she has never needed a Passport, and with that same statement (as she said) if she’s never left the country…..then she was born here right?

Well, it is one thing for these to be reasons, but if they are…..FIND OUT IF THEY HAVE THESE THINGS DURING INTERVIEW #1….not at the end of INTERVIEW #3. Plus I might add, it was quite a jaunt for her to travel to from her house to where this place is.

Also, I don’t see how any of those three things really come into play with what this job is??? It was for a Staple Business Depot, in one of the stores. You don’t drive to do that type of job, you don’t travel for that type of job…..so you don’t need a license, passport or proof of citizenship.

It just made me go AAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH for her, cuz she has gone to 3 interviews, which anyone would think after being called in for #3 and meeting the person you do at #3….that she would be offered a position.

IDIOTS!

Okay, I finished my rant, thanks for reading.

HAGN!

I am so happy…..over something so little…haha

I was really ready to scream over not being able to get my blinkies to ‘blink’ the other night. But, I found out that it works much better (and should have done this from the beginning) if I use the link from photobucket.

So, now I have my 4 blinkies, 1 for my love of Newfoundland , and the 3 stores I am selling in at the side. The stores are clickable to my shops at the 3 sites too. Wahooo!

Okay, I am done…haha. Thanks for reading.

HAGD!

Been a Few Days….

I didn’t even realize that three days have gone by since my last post. Time is flying.

I had my 3rd shift at my new job tonight. It is pretty easy, and I like it. I won’t get many hours really until end of October/beg of November when the one girl leaves on Mat leave. But, I will be happy with the hours till then.

The site I co-own with 2 friends is going to be looking for a new position to be filled with us next week. It is an Ads Coordinator position. The duties are going to be a lot ‘when reading them’ but I am sure that it won’t be too terribly time consuming once the person gets a routine down. The will be earning 5% of our weekly sales, so the better they do, the better the sales will be, which will make their pay cheque that much better also.

Watch for the AD if you are interested.

We are also working on getting a Newsletter going, a Blog for our site events and chats and challenges will be coming shortly as well.

Also, a NEW site design. I gave a sneak peak to one a little while back, but one of the other 2 owners (who does most of that stuff at our site) ended up not liking it enough to use, so she created something BETTER. I can’t wait for it to be switched over. I am not showing a teaser shot of this one though, you will have to see it when it is up on the site..LOL.

DH and my Brother are really bugging me to ask for my next shift off work so we can take a trip for a week to the states. They want to see a few Busch races and of the truck races of the Nascar series. The races are on Saturday the 18th, Wednesday the 22nd and Friday the 24th. So we would leave on the Friday night, and come home the following Saturday. I want to do the trip….BADLY! But, I am hesitant to ask for the day off, although it is only 3 hours and a training shift (not mandatory for someone else to be there if I am not). So, it is making it where I might talk to the store manager and see what he says. If he can’t do it, then they will either hate me for a bit and not go themselves…..or they will go without me. Which would really SUCK because none of them will take many pictures of anything they see. Whether it is while driving, at the track or elsewhere. How can you document your life if you don’t take pictures…haha. So, I ‘need’ to go…don’t I? haha. We shall see.

A thought about freebies. I don’t know how many people read my blog but it probably isn’t many since I hardly ever get comments on my posts….so do I need to start offering them here? Probably and then posting that they are here, right? I guess I should…lol. Another thing to add to my list of things I have to do regularly….yay! I hope that the people that do download them, like them and come and check out my designs that are for sale (I still need to put up my store blinkies).

HAGD!

New @ Digi By Design

I have uploaded two products to my Digi By Design store. I didn’t even realize that I hadn’t put these two up there yet.

They are on Sale for a week at 25% off. Here is a link to MY STORE!

Stupid Airplanes!!!

They didn’t make it out to the house. SIL/BIL’s flight was delayed and they didn’t get into the airport till almost 3 am. With the hour+ drive to our house, then back to the airport, there wasn’t enough time before their connecting flight at 6:30 am left for them to come.

MIL/FIL got to visit with them a bit anyway, since they had driven out to the airport to be there when they landed.

Our Newfoundland trip is not going to happen either. DH and I had to let reality step in and look at although we could squeeze the money out for the trip, it would leave us too tight for the month following the trip, so we had to tell my Dad that we couldn’t do it.

BUMMER!

We are thinking about taking a night or two trip to Niagara Falls though, probably just one night though. Drive down early one day see some sites, catch a motel room and then see more the next day before heading home. I want to do the maid of the mist run. I have never been on that.

Anyhow, that is my update for that stuff. Hopefully we will get to Newfoundland next year, a bit earlier in the year though. May/June time is when I would like to go there again. We would have a lot better chance of seeing icebergs then.

HAGD!