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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 […]

Six Years Old – Documenting Birthdays

Hi everyone!  Today is my oldest daughter’s sixth birthday!  She woke up bright and early so that she could see her presents, and was super excited to get a new watch (an aqua Swatch that she picked out the other day in the airport Swatch store).  One of my favorite things about birthdays is to […]

October Portfolio Bonus Challenge : Cookie

Oh, hi! Happy Tuesday everyone! Brook here with something special. I baked up a COOKIE for you… use this template to earn 1 easy-peasy extra point on your October Portfolio!   ( Sorry this Cookie download has expired)   All you have to do is download this cookie, create a page with it (here’s a […]

I <3 Fall Decorating

Happy Monday everyone! It’s me, Erin, here today to chat with you all about one of my favorite parts of fall – the decorating! I just love the colors – burgundy, yellow, orange, green, and aubergine. This year I’ve been a bit slow in getting my decorating out – I usually have everything out by the 1st of […]

Sweet Shoppe Saturday 10/6

Sweet Shoppers, your favorite day of the week is here and I gotta tell you, prepare to have your mind blown because this week’s newest releases are absolutely spectacular! I can’t wait to share our latest sweet treats with all of you, so let’s get right to it with your first look at this week’s […]

Little Sew & Sew Leaves

Hello everyone, Erica Zane here.  I hope your October is starting out fabulously!  We’ve had some pretty warm weather here so far, I think tomorrow is supposed to be in the 80’s.  But I don’t mind – I know the cold is coming & I’m trying to stock up on warm sun rays!  😉 Well, […]

The Land of Dora

Hey hey Sweet Shoppers! It’s Tronesia here with today’s post. Back in September, I had quite a time taking my daughter Aida to meet Dora and Diego. We stood in line for about an hour just for a quick photo with them. While we stood and waited…and waited… two ladies walked around with different animals […]

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