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The Journey: Where You Came From

Ideas for recording the experiences in your past that helped make you who you are today I’m sure we’ve all heard the old saying, “The only thing constant is change.” Life is an ever evolving journey, full of twists and turns. And, where you are right now in your life’s journey is the product of […]

Scrapping Your Journey

Darla shares some of her favorite products for scrapping your goals  Before the new year started, I was already thinking of what my goal would be for 2013 – what would I do to change the way I lived my life now and start a new journey? While I was at a party with friends, […]

Let’s Get Artsy!

Hi everyone – it’s me Darla with today’s post. I won’t lie I thought about what I was going to write about today and my topics changed a few times until I started browsing through the gallery and came across some of the most beautiful art journal pages. You ask what is an art journal […]

Four Years Ago Today…

…we welcomed our sweet baby girl Claire into our lives. I honestly cannot believe that my baby is four today!! These past few years have completely flown by. It has been an amazing journey watching her blossom into the beautiful, spirited little girl she is today. I have honestly never met anyone like her. She […]

Gearing up for Thanksgiving – Cranberry Recipes

Happy Monday everyone! It’s Erin and I apologize for not getting this post up earlier – it’s been your typical Monday! 🙂 Today I thought I would share some cranberry recipes with you all since Thanksgiving is right around the corner.  If you remember back in June, I posted about my connection to cranberries. So I […]

Disneyland Paris!

Good morning Sweet Shoppers. Hope everyone is having a great weekend, and recovered from DSD last week! I unfortunately missed all the fun and excitement of DSD this year because we were away (must remember in future to check upcoming scrapping holidays when booking vacations!). We spent a week in Disneyland in Paris for the […]

Sweet Shoppe Designs | 8 Ways to Enjoy Pumpkin without the Pumpkin Pie

8 Ways to Enjoy Pumpkin without the Pie

Hi, I’m Darcy, and I’m a Pumpkiholic. It’s no secret that I ♥ Pumpkin as any of my friends and family will tell you. I won’t admit to having a tremendously large stockpile of canned pumpkin in the pantry. I try to keep my habit controlled, but it doesn’t always work, and this time of […]

And I was Run-ning.

(If you can name that movie – points for you!) I just have to brag – I made it to week 8 in the Couch to 5K program. (Insert wild applause here!) The reason why I am bragging is that I started and stopped and started this program so many times before that I never […]

Frankenstorm/Sandy bracing ourselves…

Hello my digital friends. Mary here bringing you today’s post on what’s going on in my neck of the woods. If you are on the East Coast you know all about what we went through last year with the Nor’easter it really pummeled us. Snow in October, power outages, down trees. It was horrible. Two […]

For the love of Pinterest

Hi everyone – it is me Darla and I have to confess I LOVE PINTEREST! lol 🙂 I have always had the love of finding new things on the internet and google used to be my go to for anything that I needed. Computer turns on with a blue screen – just google the solution, […]

Taking Chances

Hi everyone! 🙂 Today I thought I’d write a bit about our new home… We made the super tough decision a few months ago to pack everyone up and move interstate to a small beachside town and have a bit of a fresh start…  I have lived my whole life in Brisbane city and never […]

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 […]

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