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Halloween Activities

EEK!!! In a week’s time, we will be on the door steps of Halloween! I, Rebecca, thought it would be fun today to talk about some fun activities we can do with our kiddos for Halloween.  Outside of the whole knocking on doors and asking for candy – which my kiddo thinks makes this the […]

Does anything ever go right?

I often ask myself this.  My life has been compared to a sitcom/dramedy more often than not these past few weeks, but in all reality, I am really blessed.  Today I had to go to the big, scary city of Chicago for mediation for a car accident I was in 2 1/2 years ago.  Now, […]

The BEST surprise EVER!

Happy Sunday Sweet Shoppers! This is Nikki H. here today and if you could see through your computer screen you’d see a great big smile on my face. As most of you may know my husband is Active Duty National Guard and has been on deployment since Dec. 1 of last year. My kids and […]

Sweet Shoppe Saturday 10/20

Hey Hey Sweet Shoppers! Your favorite day of the week is here, and can you believe it? Halloween is just around the corner! I’m a bit blue because I’ll be away from my kids this year for the celebration, so I’ll need to live vicariously through all of you and your memories! Luckily, we have […]

Birthday invites

I have two daughters whose birthdays are in October and November, so for the last little while I’ve been sorting out invitations. (They have several friends with birthdays around the same time of year, so I have to get in quick). I thought today I’d show you my latest invites, and also share some others […]

Community Highlight: Tutorial Blog

Sheri here putting in a plug for our fantastic tutorial blog! Within our community there are always lots of inquiries about how to scrap, how to use features within certain programs or simply how to navigate the site.   With that said, I would like to take this opportunity to feature our tutorial blog and […]

Hybrid Spotlight

It’s Juli here with another installation of Hybrid Spotlight.  I’m a hybrid girl at heart…yet my glue sticks seem to be hiding in the cupboard these days. 🙁  This time of year always inspires me to get crafty so I thought I’d take a browse through the gallery to see what you other crafty girls […]

20 Questions with Rubia Padilha

Every once in awhile, a designer comes along who shakes things up around here and adds a bit of flavor and flare to what we do here at SSD. This year, that designer is the brilliant Brazilian, Rubia Padilha, better known to many of you as Studio Basic Designs! Rubia fits in perfectly here at […]

Fall means Festivals…

One of my favorite things about the Fall season is all the cute little festivals and carnivals that are put on by the community, churches and schools. This year I got to help chair the first Fall Festival at my son’s school.  First, last spring we decided on a theme to help get the teachers […]

Life of a Teenager

It’s hard to believe my daughter is already twelve and getting braces.  Everyone told me that once she started school time would just fly by – and it certainly has.  I look at her think who is this darling young lady?  It was just yesterday that she was asking for help for me to tie […]

Sweet Shoppe Saturday 10/13 – The Ultimate Undead Weekend

Hey Hey Sweet Shoppers! Last weekend I hinted that I’d be back in your inbox tonight with a frightfully fun new promotion. As promised, here I am with all of the details on our first ever Ultimate Undead Weekend… As you know, retiring products in our annual Going, Going… GONE sale is a tradition here […]

Trip of a lifetime…

Hey sweeties! Sorry this post is late today… I think I am still getting back in the swing of life. I am going to share a little about the trip of a lifetime that my sweetie and I got to take to Kenya Africa this past month. My inlaws are serving a mission there, so […]

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