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Making a room into a PLAY-room!

Sheri here to tell you about how I turned an all-purpose room into a play room!  Some of you may remember a few months ago when I posted in the forum for suggestions on how to convert a room into a playroom (thank you for your suggestions).  I’m proud to present our new playroom.  It’s […]

winner winner chicken dinner!

Thanks to everyone for playing along with my giveaway! The winners are Marla, Natalie, and abm234(Amy). Congrats! Please email me at celestefsmith AT gmail DOT com to claim your gift certificate! xo, Celeste    

Spin-a-Lift Extra Point

I just love to browse through the Sweet Shoppe gallery to get inspiration.  One of my favorite scrappers is Laurie (LibbysMommy).  Her gallery has close to 900 layouts! She is extremely creative so her gallery has a bit of everything…..layouts with lots of clustering, white space, clean designs, templates, lots of journaling, no jouraling, amazing title work,  […]

Sweet Shoppe Saturday – 1/7

Hey, Hey, Sweet Shoppers! It’s been an amazing week here at SSD, and I wanted to take a second to thank you guys for all of your kind words and feedback throughout the past week. It’s been great hearing from both old and new faces and we hope that you guys will stick around during […]

Six Years!

Hola, Sweet Shoppers! Lex here, and today’s an amazing, special day for me: six years ago, I married my best friend, Mark. I can still remember the strange haze of anticipation that I had throughout that whole morning and afternoon. This was despite a sudden, heavy downpour that happened right when I stepped out of […]

In the meadow, we can build a snowman…

Tracy here to talk about snowmen.  Wait…Tracy…the one from Florida?  What do I know about snowmen?  Not much about the real ones as I’ve only built an actual snowman probably 4 or 5 times in my whole life.  But what I do enjoy is building them through craft projects and activities, especially with my son. […]

Pucker Up – Hybrid Lip Balm Gifties

It’s Juli here with a fast little hybrid winter gift that is quick to make and oh so cute!  I don’t know about all of you, but I love the after Christmas sales.  Every year I pick up packs of lip balms to have on hand in my gift box not only for my family […]

Operation Organization

Happy new year! This is Aly, and I am determined that 2012 will be a wonderful year. For me, the new year makes my mind spin with all of the possibilities. It is like a brand new start… a clean slate. One of the major things I think about in my head constantly is organization. […]

2012 Year-Long Project for Memory Keepers

Hello 2012. For us memory-keepers, the start of the new year always means two things, 1) Tis the season to wrap up last year’s memories and 2) Set goals for memory-keeping for the new year. Which projects would we like to try? Which projects did we fail to finish and would like to give a […]

Let’s Try This Again – Giveaway

Well the site being down kind of crimped the giveaway didn’t it? Sorry for any frustration that caused. I hope that you enjoyed the holidays with your family. Let’s try this giveaway again! I’m giving away three $10 gift certificates to the store. (Robin graciously offered to split the cost with me, she’s really fabulous […]

A New Year, An All-New Sweet Shoppe Designs!

Hey, Hey Sweet Shoppers! Can you believe we’ve been offline for a week now? It seems like it’s been forever, but we are soo excited to be back with you guys in our brand new sweeter-than-ever spot on the web. I have soo much to show off and tell you about this week, so let’s […]

20 Questions with Lauren Grier

We’re kicking off a brand new feature here at the Sweet Shoppe by putting Lauren Grier in the spotlight as one of this month’s featured digital scrapbook designers. Lauren has been at SSD longer than anyone else which makes her a wonderful place to start, and not only is her style one of a kind, […]

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