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30 Days of Gratitude: Day 4

SugarBabe Trish shares something she is grateful for. I am thankful for my breastfeeding relationship with my youngest child, Mason. I didn’t ever think that breastfeeding would be something that I would be thankful for, but then again I also never thought that it would be something that I would be doing after my child […]

30 Days of Gratitude: Day 3

SugarBabe Brook talks about what she’s thankful for! Today I am thankful for… hmmm, let’s see if you can guess. It’s brown, it’s hot, it wakes me up (no it’s not a dog), it smells good (see), it’s especially nice on a cold morning, it goes in a mug… If you haven’t guessed it yet, […]

30 Days of Gratitude: Day 2

SugarBabe Tracy is grateful for Dance Party Fridays! Every Friday morning, our local hip hop radio station plays old school 90s “booty shakin’” dance music. It’s become a tradition for my son and I to jam out in the car on the way to school. We can’t wait to crank up the tunes and really […]

30 Days of Gratitude: Day 1

Introducing 30 Days of Gratitude—Sweet Shoppe Edition I’m sure most of you are familiar with the annual 30 Days of Gratitude project that normally takes place in November. Here at the Sweet Shoppe, we thought we’d do our own version and take turns posting on the blog each day, telling about all the things we’re […]

Homemade Costume Ideas

Tracy gives us some super fun ideas for homemade Halloween costumes. Tracy here with some of the cutest costumes I’ve seen while searching for do-it-yourself ideas.  Babies are the ones I think are really fun because they have no say in it, and you can make them whatever you want (insert menacing “I’m gonna blackmail […]

Photo List for October, November, and December

Rebecca gives us some great ideas for must-have photos to take you through the end of the year.   Hello, my sweet friends!  Can you believe we are in the last quarter of the year? For me, the these last three months of the year will just fly by . . . first Halloween, and […]

School Year Photo Checklist

Meg shares a checklist of must get photos during the school year It’s that time again–every parent’s favorite time of the year. Back To School!! As scrapbookers we know that means a full nine months of photo opportunities. Here’s a handy checklist to get you started on the moments you make sure and capture this […]

Getting There Is Half The Fun – Entertaining Kids While Road Tripping

Julie shows some ways to entertain the kids while on the road! Is this you? You’ve spent weeks researching the perfect place to take your family on vacation.  You found a place to stay and entertainment that fits in your budget.  You get it all booked and then you realize that the worse part about […]

TRAVEL-August intro and Bonus Challenge

Meg introduces August’s blog theme and bonus portfolio challenge   Hey readers!! Welcome to August’s blog theme of TRAVEL. Just a note that like July, this month the blog is going to be a watered down version since so many of us are vacationing and just busy winding down summer. With summer vacations wrapping up […]

Be Free to Explore Your Dreams

Darla encourages us to follow our dreams. “I am thankful to all those who said no to me. It’s because of them that I did it myself.” —Albert Einstein In celebration of Amelia Earhart day, today’s post is about letting yourself be free to explore your dreams. Earhart was the first woman to fly across […]

Encouraging the Men in Your Life to Help Scrapbook

Natalie shows us the different ways that the man in her life helps with her memory keeping and scrapping. I spend a lot of time scrapbooking. It would be very easy for my husband, Curt, to start blaming our messy house on my time spent scrapbooking instead of cleaning. However, he likes that I’m so […]

About the Boys

Lydia introduces our blog theme for June . . . including a bonus challenge! Since Father’s Day falls in June, we thought this would be a great month to focus on the men and boys in our lives. Whether we’re talking about our fathers, grandfathers, husbands, or sons, we all have men in our lives. […]

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