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oh me ~ oh my!!!! the crop is right around the corner,,, eeeeeeppp!!! im so excited!!! we have a few spots left,, wanna join us?? find out the details here!!

oh hi. i woke up yesterday feeling sooooo inspired. it was a rad feeling. dont you just love it when that happens?? i wish i could bottle the feeling up and save it for a not so inspired day. summer has been great. spending as much time with my kids as i can. next year, after all, i lose them both to the school system. {sad face} the girl baby is off to pre-school and my little dude will be in kindergarten {oh my}!!! so sea world, pool time, days at the beach, and whatever might fall into our path. all summer long!!! but aside from that action, which i try my very hardest to share with you over here on my *mother of the year blog*,

aaanndddddddddd,,, i went into foamspring and had questions,, how much fun is that?!?!? so i updated that baby as well,,, thank you for playing along,, not to be weird,,, but i looooooooove answering questions,,, like a lot, a lot,,,

on top of that a rad prompt went up over an the pink ninjas. a little swapping action. the design team got paired up with one another, and we scrapped photos of each other. totally fun,,, i was paired up with my long lost, never met before in real life soul sister miss michelle, of twisted soda,,, love her long time. here is the awesome layout that created using my picture,,,

and she sent me this photo of her, isnt it amazing?? soooooo beautiful, sexy, classy, edgy & sorta breath taking, no?? what an honor, she had said shes never scrapped that picture before. so, i printed it twice. once on this eyelet paper on mine, {might be my all time favorite scrapbooking paper},,, and i printed it another time on regular paper. i wanted the layout to feel all that i felt the photo was, classy, beautiful, edgy,,, so, here is what i came up with,,, michelle is my soul sister,,,

and speaking of, my all time best friend is still taking on friends of mine here, in the blog world to scrap photos of me for my 30th birthday coming up!!! which by the way, all of you have been soooooo sweet about sharing kind words on turning thirty. im actually not scared of it,,, im ready for whatever. my twenties have been, lets say, interesting, to say the least. so im ready to move right along and embrace all that being thirty has to offer. thank you all, for being perfect and amazing to me. it makes me so happy to know youre all there feeling something similar to what im about to embrace,,, or at the least knowing that youre there. its perfect.

the pink ninjas newest prompt went up wednesday,,, *roots* what cha got?? what kind of roots are you rocking?? this picture of the five of us from my family was taken summer of 2008, right before my baby brother took off for the navy. crazy that its been two years already. and today, is his birthday. happy birthday to mitter man!!!! here are my direct roots, my immediate family. *these are my roots*

february is almost over,,, but before it goes away,,, please check out our pink ninja sponsor for the month,,, chook scraps,,, its such a rad site,,, go see for yourself,,,

and i sooooooo cant wait to show you all the new goodies for the pink ninja addicts,,, ahhh,,, dreamy,,, and a few new goodies ~ treats, really, to add.

annnddddddd,,, my blog is getting a cute make over,,, so if you check back at one point and its private,,, thats whats going on,,, im gonna close it down for a few minutes,,, to make is perfect and pretty {cant wait}!!!

love, ally

sooooooo,,, have you been following along with pink ninja addicts?? in case youre missing the bus,,, here are a few shots of the first kit we offered over at pink ninja addicts,,, here is *three little birds*

love, ally

the pink ninjas are bacckkkkkkkkkkk,,,,, our first prompt for the year went up this morning,,, *resolutions*. over at the pink ninjas, we arent posting every wednesday anymore,,, were going with the every other wednesday action,,, but so that we arent taking the easy way out,,, we went ahead and made the prompts three parts. fun. so, for the very first prompt of the new year,,, we got *resolutions* ~ black & white photo and the best part, a pink twist,,, {the pink twist always has to be pink ~ get it??},,, and the pink twist this time around is pink alphas,,, anyway, as my resolutions are the same as yours,,, lose weight, be a better person/wife/mama/friend, expand myself creativity, slow down, {although ive made that one before and it didnt last very long}, eat healthy, work out more,,, all of the above ~ seriously, the same as yours right? butttttt,,, i do turn thirty this year. yep ~ sooooooooo,,,, what id really, really like to do by the time i turn thirty is to master the skateboard, {skin board too}, but first things first,,, skateboard. ive always love it and thought that skater chicks are hot,,, so, what the heck. since the dude got his first skateboard for christmas, {and his mama has so gracefully and completely taken that over}, id love to be able to be the mom at the skate park with my little man. so far, ive landed on my head twice {one time after i got back up, didnt realize that i was rocking tree parts and flower petals in my hair till i looked in the mirror hours later,,,} i though that was pretty funny,,,, my knee has gotten the grunt of it as well, {i look like a toddler learning to walk}, but im not gonna give up. by the time i turn thirty, i wanna go down a ramp. yep, itll be awesome,,,, so, thats that. thats my heavy duty resolution, and here is the layout i created with that in mind,,, *sk8 or die*,,,,

love, ally

soooooo,,,, im hoping youve checked out the newest project weve got going one,,, maybe this last post was in the way,,, but nely and i have been working ~ working ~ working like crazy ladies to put together a kit company like no other out there,,, im gonna make this super simple for you,,,, im gonna break it down,,, read all about the new blog here ~ how it works, shows you around the blog,,, everything.

our first ninja in the spotlight was no other than my friend, and idol, elsie. you can check out her post on her blog right here ~ or you can check out our post on our pink ninja addicts blog right here ~ either is good for me. :-)

elsie played with the *three little birds* kit,,, here are all the details on the kit and here is where you can purchase it,,,, and here is a few shots of what she created with it,,,,

and a shot of the kit,,,,, *three little birds*

cute. then, because we are so excited and stoked and happy,,,, we created a second kit just for introductions,,, here is our wicked little kit we like to call *dont get it twisted*,,,, again, here you can find all the details,,, and here you can purchase it. :-)

loves. and then, last, but not by any means least,,, we have an amazing, i repeat, amazing design team over at the pink ninjas,,,, amazing. rocking. wicked. i love each and every one of these girls for their talent ~ ideas ~ photos {you gotta check em out ~ here} ~ their loyalty,,, such a perfect group of ladies. we really happy. :-) go say hi over at the pink ninjas and hi to the rest of the design team,,, love ~ love ~ love!!! yeah ~ and the new look,,, amazing,,, you gotta go to D if you ever need a blog makeover,,, stand in line though because this puppy need a makes over too,,,, im ready :-)

man ~ i just made you life easy,,, all you had to do was play along and follow all my links. perfect. have a great day!!! oh ~ two more links,,, the pink ninjas etsy shop ~ and add us to your very most loved etsy shops,,,

love you, love, ally*son

its timeeeeee,,,,

the only question is what are you gonna check out first,,,,

the newest born baby,,,,

the shop,,,

orrrrrr,,,,, the new pink ninja inspiration blog???

check em all out,,, lemme know what you think,,,,

love you, love, ally

oh ~ HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

geeeeezzzz,, sick of that etsy post or what?!?! i know i am,,, well, yes, ive been busy,, but the good part is that in just a few short weeks,,, youll know why,, and exactly what weve been up too,,,,, another rad thing,,, mama got a new laptop!!! yep, yep, yep,,, so stoked!! i got a mac, so *hopefully* those computer problems i have like every other week,, out the door. lets hope. so, have you checked out the newest {and last for the rest of the year} pink ninja prompt?? this month was my pick or the ninja star action and i went with a great and close friend of mine,,, miss gloria. go figure she shoots it outta the park,,, she went with an elsie inspired prompt. rad. love. stoked. perfect. who, in their right mind doesnt *love elsie* so yeah, i love this one and our design team killed this it. everybodys rocked!!! its actually funny, because ive been working with a graphic design chicky up in la as of late and she doesnt know me more than the emails we exchange. for some reason, she started calling me *ally*cakes*. funny. i dont know if she is at all familiar with *the elsiecake*, but i found that entertaining non the less,,, hence the name of my layout,,, *ally*cakes*. dont worry, although i look like a total elsie rip off in this layout,,, im not going down that path. elsie does the very best at being elsie, i could never compete,,, {geezzzz i sound like a freaking weird-o},,, {and im trying not to go off on what i often see on the web about people imitating her and very obviously coping her ideas and trying to pass them off as their own,,, and to make money from these projects to boot},,, okay, okay, okay, ally,,,, ally,,, alllllllllyyyyyy,, focus. focus. im just a big fan of giving credit where credit is due. period. love ya, mean it. please tell me you hear me and you agree!!! okay, go play with the ninjas,,, its the last chance before the end of the year,,, oh ~ which reminds me, once our design team call closes {the 21st i believe}, we wll be shutting down the ninja blog {making it private} till january,,, gotta give it a little make over,,, annnnnddddd {geez,,, talk about making up for lost posting time huh??} if youre interested in a sponsor spot for the pink ninja ~ email us, we can give you all the nitty gritty,,, thepinkninjas {at} aol {dot} com. its such a great way to promote your business. and im talking about sponsoring a spot on the blog,,, not a prompt. okay. :-) alright, im out,,, love ya!!! heres *ally*cakes*

love, ally

amy ~ i sooooo havent forgotten your blog award {thanks again} just trying to let time pass, so its not totally the same answers, {like, say for example, im wearing that same long sleeve blue t~shit,,, its kinda a staple} ;-)
here is the newest prompt over at the pink ninja. and this go around,,, torendi is sponsoring the prompt. i have to admit, im sick to death of looking at layouts of myself,,, i really should prove to you that im not that selfish of a scrapper,,, i do scrap my kiddos. a lot. but i do their pages just to do them, not for any prompt of anything,,, anyway, what im trying to say is this, im really not that vain!!! heres my *kawaii* prompted layout ~ *create* love, ally i have secrets