What a response and a freebie template!

Wow! I added one little line to my siggie that said, "check out my digital scrapbooking layouts here" and in the past two days, I have gotten 6 PM's asking me about digital scrapbooking! Wow! I am blown away (I never get PM's!)! All of these PM's were from the DIS, BTW. I want to blog more about digital scrapbooking, especially since I use Creative Memories StoryBook Creator Plus software. I LOVE this software (and no, I don't sell it). I want to help people learn how to use it and have FUN creating digital works of art. To that end, I'm offering the first or hopefully many freebie downloads that can be used in SBC+ to make pages. It is a blank template version of this layout:

You have to download the file, unzip it and save it in your StoryBook folder in SBC+, then you can open it as a project and add your pictures. You can then move the LO to any of your albums in progress. Make sure to save the new file with a new name, so you can keep the blank template for future use. If any of this isn't clear, let me know! This is the first time I'm trying this!! So, without further delay, HERE is the download link!!

Mickey Plates

This may seem silly, but today I'm talking about Mickey Plates. These are the plates that kid's meals are served in at Walt Disney World. I posted about them on the DIS and it turns out that I'm not the only crazy person that saves the plates and re-uses them at home! My 3 year old loves to eat his snacks out of these Mickey plates and I love how deep they are, so they keep the snacks in place, especially if I give him something he's allowed to carry around the house!

Anyway, someone requested a picture of the plates, so as I was uploading it etc, I decided to take the opportunity to test the Blog This! button in Picasa. It seems to work! I love Picasa. I'll write about that another day.

A Good Day for Freebies!

I found some really cute digital scrapbooking freebies today. I found them all through DigiFree, but I thought I'd share the ones I decided to pick up here. Sometimes that DigiFree can be a little overwhelming! Here are the kits and things I thought were worthwhile today:
Budding Artist -- adorable! I was sure this was one of those that wasn't really a freebie when I saw it on DigiFree, but it really is free and I love it!!
Cherry Bomb. It has red, black and white, so I think it might be useful for some Disney pages, if nothing else!!
Cherry Lemonade I got the rest of this one the other day, but here's a link to all the parts that are up right now. This looks like a fun kit for summer stuff
I snagged this Word Art, too. It cracked me up and I can't wait to scrap it!!
I had to have this Fourth Of July kit, too. Not sure what I'm going to use it for yet, but it caught my eye.

Well, that's what I downloaded today. I hope the list might be helpful to someone!!

The Furminator (AKA the $50 dog brush)

I can't believe I spent $50 on a DOG BRUSH. Dog crate, sure! Dog show, of course! Do brush? Not so much. But I have to say, after one day of owning the Furminator, i already believe that I got my money's worth. This thing is AMAZING! I have two Labrador Retrievers, one yellow and one chocolate and they are shedding like crazy right now, so I splurged for the Large, $50 version of the Furminator. I read a few reviews of the product online and I decided that I had to have it. The piles of dog hair on my grass outside tell me that I made a good decision. Well, buying it was a good decision, I'm not sure if brushing them outside on a windy day was the best idea, my neighbors downwind might not have been so thrilled!! Oh well, at least there is a HUGE pile of dog hair outside instead of piling up in the corners of my house. If you have a shedding dog, and are wondering if the Furminator is worth the price, I say go for it. And if you have neighbors that you don't like, brush the dog when the wind is blowing their way!!

Nerdiness

I found this fun quiz on Britt's blog and i just had to try it. Since my group of friends in high school referred to ourselves collectively as the "Nerd Herd", I guess it isn't surprising that the quiz deemed me slightly nerdy (well, actually low-ranking nerd to be precise)! The quiz was fun! Check it out here (if I can do this right, I might not be nerdy enough to get this to work!)