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Handy Household Tips & Tricks

We all know that perusing Pinterest can lead to great dinners, desserts, layout ideas, party favors and funny posters to share with your friends.  But the one thing that I have enjoyed the most about using that site is all the great household tips that people post.   Here are just a few of my […]

Growing Up and Changing Tastes

I’m sure we can all relate to how fast time goes by these days. My oldest, Ashley, recently turned nine and I cannot believe how much older she is looking in some of her photos lately. So I went through my photo stash and pulled out a photo of her from each year since the […]

Memory-Making Apps

Hello, Sweet Shoppers! It’s Lex here, and I admit that my topic for this blog post is largely inspired by this and this episode of The Digishow (LOVE that podcast. What? You’ve never heard of it? Go download an episode and listen to it! I’ll just be right here waiting when you’re done :))Anyway, my only yearly scrapping […]

Sweet Shoppe Saturday 3/10

Hey Hey Sweet Shoppers! Another week has passed, and that means your favorite day of the week is here! Tonight I have lots to show off to you and babble about, so let’s get right to it with your first look at this week’s sweet new stuff from our amazing Designers and inspiring Babes… There […]

HELP!!!!! What have we gotten ourselves into…

Seriously, I’m asking for your help! I know you all love pretty designs since you’re all here at Sweet Shoppe, so I’m asking for your help in helping me design my kitchen!!!! Oh my… it has been a whirlwind of a month since I’ve last posted here… Hubby and I were talking about what we […]

Stories That Reach Across Generations

Nothing brings generations together like a good story. Over the past couple of yaars I have had several ‘full circle’ moments as I read stories to my kids that I remember my parents reading to me as a child and I wonder if someday they will read their children the very same stories. Here are […]

One Ringy Dingy, Two Ringy Dingy…

Hello Sweet Shoppers!  It’s Kresta here, with a little bit of a history lesson for you.  Ready?  Good!  Well, on this day in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell, who was 29 years old, received a patent for his new invention – the telephone. My! How far we’ve come in 136 years!  What in the world would […]

Neapolitan Challenge

Hey there Sweet Shoppers!! Today I am giving you an opportunity to earn an extra point for your March portfolio. One of my all time favorite Sweet Shoppe challenges has always been the Neapolitan challenge!! I just love taking parts of different layouts and incorporating them into my own layout!! So inspiring!! Today I’ve picked […]

Year-Long Projects Check-In

If anyone of you are like me, March seems to always be the point when I either give up, stop, or unknowingly let slide my year-long project goals, be it scrap-wise or in any other areas of my life. I always start the year with the best intentions, all fired up, only to have the […]

Back to School

Hi sweet shoppers! Jacinda here to take you back to school for a moment. OK, not really, but my topic today is going to be all about school. Here in New Zealand, our school year begins early February and finishes mid December. I was searching the galleries here at SSD and around the net looking […]

Sweet Shoppe Saturday 3/3

Hey, Hey Sweet Shoppers! March is here, and we hope you enjoyed our 6th Anniversary Celebration – it was such an amazing reminder of what an incredible community we have here at SSD. Thank you so much for being the best fans in all of digi-land – we love you! Now it’s time to give […]

Whatcha Reading?

Hey Sweet Shoppers! Nikki here today and I thought I’d focus on books for today’s post. I’ve always been an avid reader, but it seems that when my husband is deployed I jump into my “to read” pile like I need it to survive. And in all honesty I do. After the kids are in […]

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