hi. youre cute. did you know that we are having a wicked sale over at pink ninja addicts. do you know why?? because we ♥ you. yep, simple as that,,, here are a few of the kits you can find,,, check out the shop for more or the blog for inspiration,,,

love you love time,,

theyre here ~ theyre here!!!! yay ~ our first set of july kits are up are ready for special vip style delivery,,,, the first main kit is *please play this song on the radio* and you can read more about it here,,,

then the add on kit is *electric youth* read more here,,, i cant wait to share projects with you,,,

alright ~ im off to go get my hair did,,,, so happy!! have a perfect day!!!!

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.

over at candy shoppe designs, the new prompt is up and ready to rock!!! red hot and blue ~ use the color combination as well as the sketch,,,

here is my take, *san diego fair*,,, such an adorably old photo of the dude and ricardo,,, awwww,,, precious!!!

where to start, where to start?? playing catch up is hard coming back from vacation,,, especially during summer when the kiddos are home and needing constant entertainment!!! so, moving right along, moving right along,,,, thursday, the newest collage for nvs went up and surprise, surprise, i loves!!! the colors and the details are so much fun and so totally my stilo,,, loves,, here is the collage,,,

and my take on the collage, *girly girl*,,,

i cant wait to see what you create,,, you gotta play along and be nerdy with us!!!!

im back from hawaii. i totally miss you. and i totally missed my blog. i brought my laptop, but didnt have internet in the room, i had to go to the *wifi hot spot*,, too much work, im sure you understand. :-) so many fun announcements going on,,, so after i share my fun family photos from maui, please read on, ive got important goodies to share with you.

*first up, because im feeling emotional and a tad bit selfish,,, {it comes when im stressed},,, my birthday is coming up,,, the 16th of august i will oficially no longer be in my *ahem* late twenties, but full fledged into my thirties {oh my}!!! so, my girls and i are celebrating with a little scrapbook party that im so excited about. we will be spending the day and well into the evening scrapbooking photos of my life,,, from birth to, well, whenever. i get to keep the album, and all those pieces of art that my girls have made for me. im so, so, so excited about that. and because my best friend is the sweetest, cutest and pretty much shares my same train of thoughts, she thought itd be an amazing idea to offer this up to my friends and loved ones i have met here, in blogland. i feel so connected and drawn to so many of you, so she if offering to extend my birthday wish and ful-fill my album with bits and pieces that you have all created for me as well. so, you can email her for all the final details, or go to her blog here if youd likey to add to my cute little album {not to be rude or anything, but id loooooooooove it if you did,, like a lot, a lot i would, it would mean the world to me for my birthday}, you can email her at mnbarger@yahoo.com and she will give you more of the details, as well as some photos of meeeeeeeeeee!! honestly, what an amazing birthday gift. thank you nely for putting this together, and thank you to those of you thatd like to participate!!! love you long time!!!

*next,,,, our ninja in the spotlight is a doll. love her. she and i were on the dream girls design team together and she always blew me away with her talent, her resume is a mile long including designing for my little shoe box and purple cows. you gotta check her out, {if you dont already know her},,, shes amazing and oh.so.sweet. thank you again, tanisha. {hugs}

*yesterday was mine and ricardos seven year wedding anniversary,,, {oh my}. we had such a sweet and low key day, it was magical,,,

*i missed my puppies a lot, a lot when i was in hawaii,, logan was so happy when he saw me he peed!!!!! theyre so perfect, i want another bulldog,,, and a mastiff. loves.

*there is a rad promo going on over at pariscreativity.com. for every $25.00 you spend, you get free shipping on your order,,, how rad is that?? they have a totally fun travel line that i cant wait to put some of my hawaii pictures to good use!!!

*i love etsy a little bit more and more every time i log in. if you have a favorite etsy shop, do share!!!

*i have new music, arent you happy?!?!? ;-)

love you, miss you, love ally