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And I was Run-ning.

(If you can name that movie – points for you!) I just have to brag – I made it to week 8 in the Couch to 5K program. (Insert wild applause here!) The reason why I am bragging is that I started and stopped and started this program so many times before that I never […]

Planning for the Tooth Fairy

Hi everyone!  It’s Dana here 🙂  Have you all recovered from the exciting and fun DSD activities?  I think it’s going to take me a while to get my hard drive recovered – it’s overflowing at the moment 🙂 As many of you know – I have two daughters and my oldest has just recently […]

EZ Date Bits Freebie

I was going to share a recipe today (and of course, it would have been a dessert!) but I totally have the munchies right now and I’m afraid if I start thinking of recipes, I’ll end up making something and eating it all.  So, in an effort to still fit into my clothes tomorrow, I […]

DSD Bonus Challenge Round-Up!!

Hey Sweet Shoppers 🙂 Meg here to bring you a rundown on the fun games we have happening over in our special DSD forum. There’s bonus portfolio points up for grabs featuring old school SSD Challenges where there’s 2 secretly marked to win a $10 SSD GC!! There’s also some special contests run by individual […]

A Very Special Tribute

This week, our Sweet Shoppe family was devastated to learn of the passing of our friend and colleague Eva Kipler. Eva joined our team as a designer in the spring of 2008, and words can’t express how much we will miss her. Please join us as we pay a tribute to this beautiful artist. From […]

Digital Scrapbook Day 2012

Hey Hey Sweet Shoppers! I’m soo excited to be in your inbox early this week to kick off our annual Digital Scrapbook Day celebration! Due to my upcoming travels, my wonderful family here at the shoppe agreed to work extra hard so that we could get the sweet celebration rollin’ before my departure. We have […]

20 Questions with Jady Day Studio

Sweet Shoppers, I’m soo excited to be coming to you a day earlier than usual to introduce our newest featured designer whose AMAZING freebie is going to be part of our Digital Scrapbook Day promotions! Before our newest designers were brought onboard back in April, our community asked again and again for this designer to […]

Frankenstorm/Sandy bracing ourselves…

Hello my digital friends. Mary here bringing you today’s post on what’s going on in my neck of the woods. If you are on the East Coast you know all about what we went through last year with the Nor’easter it really pummeled us. Snow in October, power outages, down trees. It was horrible. Two […]

Sweet Shoppe Saturday 10/27

Hey Hey Sweet Shoppers! Another week has come and gone, and as usual, I have some yummy new treats to share with you tonight! It may seem a little quieter this week than usual, but a little birdie has told me that there’s a very special event just around the corner that our amazing team […]

October Portfolio Bonus Challenge: Non-Themed Layouts

Hey there Sweet Shoppers! I’m here today to offer you the chance to get an extra point for your October Portfolio. What’s more exciting than that?! I’m sure you’ve noticed that there’s an abundance of Halloween and Fall themed kits in the shoppe lately. Your task for this challenge is to take one of those […]

For the love of Pinterest

Hi everyone – it is me Darla and I have to confess I LOVE PINTEREST! lol 🙂 I have always had the love of finding new things on the internet and google used to be my go to for anything that I needed. Computer turns on with a blue screen – just google the solution, […]

Taking Chances

Hi everyone! 🙂 Today I thought I’d write a bit about our new home… We made the super tough decision a few months ago to pack everyone up and move interstate to a small beachside town and have a bit of a fresh start…  I have lived my whole life in Brisbane city and never […]

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