Sally's Ponderings

A week of inspiration!!

Ohhhhhh it's December!! Can you believe it??? I have a lot to share with you today!! It's taken me two days to get it all photographed and edited so i can show off all of the eye candy!! wooohoooooo!!!

Let's start with a fun holiday pic!! Yes, we've almost finished all of our christmas decorating here in the house, so watch out for a lot of fun holiday LOs!! woohoooooo!! Don't forget you can click on pics to see them bigger!

ohhhh what is going on with our weekly Spotlight at OScraps????? We are featuring our new Site Creative Team called the VirtuosOs!!! Check it out!!

Soooooo here's my first LO for this challenge!!

ohhhhhhh now i have the coolest pictures!!! Guess what? I won a fun grab pack from Virginia over at Galloping Pony Studios!! Woohooooooo!! So here's some pics of what she sent me!!

 

so fun! Along with four bottles of Glimmer Mist (in the most perfect colors!! *sigh*), she sent a pack of stencils, chipboard, and bingo vintage card pack! And Virginia slipped some scraps of material from one of her latest projects. All of it is compliments of Tattered Angels and Galloping Pony Studios! wohooo!! love them!! Thanks, girlies!

And so I couldn't help but grab my baby girlie and create with this fun pack!! Here's what we did...we took the smallest scrolly stencil and placed it on a piece of random muslin I had laying around the craft room, and lillian picked the colors to spray on the material. I sprayed the Vanilla Breeze on one corner, and Lillian sprayed Coffee Shop on the other corner.

I then added batting and backing and started the mini quilting process which only consisted of Lillian's name embroidered in the middle and then a "crossstitch" pattern done by my phenom sewing machine...and then I printed out a mini pic of Lil (taken by studioRphotos!) and zigzAgged it onto the mini quilt!! Lillian picked out a cute button from my button box and I handsewed some ribbon on the back with which to hang the quilt. I love this!!!

Okay...so here's a fun special announcement!! (all digital designs by Holliewood Studios!!)

ohhhhhhh...you have to come and join us for our Annual Christmas Jazz Concert featuring BRT!! It's gonna be fun and festive, and we are throwing in a couple of originals to spice things up!! yup! It's gonna be fun!!

What else should I share with you??? how about my Thanksgiving quilt? ohhh and our Thankful wreath!! yes!!

Love that!! It took me three years to actually get it all put together and up for Thanksgiving...boy, I'm sure thankful for finishing this one!! :)

so every year at Thanksgiving I have some sort of project to help us to record what we are thankful for that year!! this year, i picked up these cutie little thankful acorns from the Hallmark store (*gasp!*) on sale, of course!!

Check out the sweet digital place cards I made using Danielle Young's turkey from her Mayflower kit!

and so everyone who came filled out a thankful acorn and attached it to my thankful wreath that I made using Club Scrap's collosal paper!!  

It's awesome!! :)

and for a last glimpse inside the keller house for the day, here is a pic of my one purchase to add to my christmas decorations this year!!!

When you pinch his foot, he says "For Behold, I bring you tidings of great joy...and peace on earth, goodwill to men. That's the true meaning of christmas, Charlie Brown." *sigh* i love Linus!!! :)

I hope I've inspired you a little today!! I'm off to scrapbook a little using some fun decorative pics I took today!! ohhhh one last pic...a fun little decoration I created a while ago, and now that it's Christmas, I've put it in my Texas tree...

 
 
  
 

  

I'm thankful for scrapping!

a quick LO share...had some fun scrapping last night!!!

 
ohhh this LO is in honor of a private joke mr gorgeous and i have about this really funny online video called the doghouse video!! it's hysterical!

anyway, love this man, love this kit, love that i stole some time to scrap this busy holiday week!! LOL!!

credits:
everything from Holliewood Studios Christmas Pop kit
except for the snowflakes from TaylorMade designs Christmas Collection
picture by studioRphotos.com
font - susie's hand

 
just a fun LO with some paper making fun...
credits:
background paper by me
wa by TaylorMade Designs
journaling card made by me using Something Blue Studios overlay
all other elements from Holliewood Studios Christmas Pop kit!
font - Kaileen (cora's fave font! heehee)

 

Okay...so I'm dabbling in textures and when I saw this, it screamed wedding!! so I'm excited that I got married in Dec, since I'm on a Christmas scrapping kick!! enjoy!!!

credits:
background "paper" by me
everything else from Holliewood Studios Christmas Pop kit
except TaylorMade Designs' signature alpha no. 1
font MB Blueberries and the Quickest Shift

 

Hope you enjoyed looking as much as i enjoyed creating!!! :)

 

  
  

 
OHhh we have another fun Spotlight for you over at the O...with a gorgeous FREEBIE!! It is spotlighting Mystique Designs!!! Brydka is a FABULOUS designer!!! Go and check it out and play with us this week!!! there are gift certificates involved!! yay!!! here's a preview of the freebie...

and here's my LO for the week...the challenge was to scrap looking into the window of your life...so here's "a glimpse!"

And I can't help but share three other LOs I've done recently (you may have seen them before, but I love them none-the-less!!!) using Brydka's products!!

OHhhhh I have to share, I have to share!!! I won a grab bag from Galloping Pony Studios!! I'll share pics when I get it in the mail...I can't wait!! I love glimmer mist and stuff!! sooo fun!! Thanks again, Virginia!!

Don't forget to be thankful!!!! I hope to share my Thanksgiving quilt with you before Thursday!! Keep checking back!!

FUN on FRIDAY!!!

ohhhhh it's an exciting day today...it's my baby Emma's birthday, so in honor of her today, I'm gonna show off a bunch of Emma LOs!! yay!!

I also have a contest going at Oscraps right now in honor of Emma...if you can post the most comments in the gallery before Nov 30th, you can win a 10$ GC to the OScraps store!! yay!! (click on previous link to see details!)

Here are some fun digital LOs of my dear, sweet one!! :)

Happy Birthday, my darling girlie!!!

 
Good Monday morning, my friends!! Ohhh I have a bunch of stuff to share with you today!! First of all, here are my gratitudes for today:

1. soooo thankful that today is Monday

2. soooo thankful that Mr Gorgeous has a job, even if it does take him to CA

3. soooo thankful that I'm going to live this week to the fullest and not just try to "get through it!"

4. soooo thankful that I have a beautiful extended family and wonderful friends to hang with this week!

5. soooo thankful for the internet so i can show and tell all my fun stuff today!! :)

It's such a wonderful feeling to start a day off with being thankful, right? I'm living the "abundant" life (whether or not I may feel, see, hear, taste, or think I am!! LOL!!)

So to start out with, Oscraps has a wonderful challenge to get your scrapping MOJO going this week!! It is fabulous!! :) It is a member spotlight on two sisters who are members of our site...

I have done one lift last night of Annika's LO called 5 Things (which can be found HERE!!)

here's my take on it...

Be sure and spend some time in these girlies' galleries! They are super inspirational!

Soooo, wanna see something new from me??? How about some stamping??? Most of you know that I gave up my stampin' Up demonstratorship on October 1st because of conflicts of interest with their digital scrapping products and my promotion of Oscraps products. But that doesn't mean I don't still love their stamping products!! They are probably my very favorite place for papers, inks and definitely for stamps!!  So I've been attending my friend (and former downline - who i orphaned...she knows I still love her, though!! LOL!) Bev's Stamp club. Here are the three projects we did in October:

Be sure and check out her blog and email her (bug her!!) about how to create these cards and projects!!

Here is a close up of the very cool Big Shot embossing we did and then added shimmery paint with a small sponge dauber on the raised part!! Very cool!! :)

and then I went this month, too!! So here are her November (christmas) projects:

Love the topiary (back right) and those cool sweet cups with the ornament holder embossed on top! But my fave project was definitely the reindeer on the tag sweets holder!! soooo fun, easy and inexpensive! I had told myself back in Sept that I had all the stamps I needed...boy, was I wrong! I slapped my cash down on that table and bought that little reindeer set!! (it comes with a santa, a tree, a reindeer and something else that i totally can't remember!!!) Soooooo cute!!

Wait!!! That's not it yet!! (can you believe???) I know that I've told you about my favorite booth at the Quilt Festival...Galloping Pony Studio. Soooo fun...she likes to do mini quilts and put them on linen with cut-out words from books and antiquey stuff like buttons and other stuff all around. Well, this next project I'm going to show you is inspired by Virginia's style!!

 

I used Moda's Mistletoe Manor charm pack and just sewed little blocks together (not really straight or anything!! LOL!!). Then I used a pattern that I got at the Quilt Festival called Little Country Quilts and reduced the size of the Christmas tree and cut out three trees to applique (fusible) to the mini quilt. I added some batting and tea-stained muslin for backing and just quilted the mini quilt with straight (well, kinda straight! LOL!!) lines. I added some fun song lyrics from some Cosmo Cricket paper (very cool!) and some old buttons from my button box that my grandmother gave me when I was little!!

This is one of the coolest projects that I've enjoyed making lately, and i hope to do many more!! :)

and here's a sneak peek at the mini sheep quilt that I've been working on...Watch for a post coming SOON that details how I made this...btw, it's not done yet. I still have to bind it! yay!!

Well, I hope this post has inspired you to have a wonderful MONDAY!!! I know I'm going to skip around and sing all day!! (ohhh my poor children who have to watch and listen! LOL!)

Let me know what your favorite project is today!!

 

it's the weekend!! yay!!

I've found that I tend to type the word "yay!" a lot!! This is me...excited about life, excited about the little things...so I want to share that with everyone around me!! Thus, all of the YAYs and the exclamation points!!!!!!!

So what did you do this weekend? I went slow this weekend so far...(I still have Sunday to speed up a bit!). I haven't been on the computer except at night, which for me is a little different!! But this weekend, I got to hang with one of my dear friend's children. My dear friend, Megan, has her own photography business, and as it grows, she is learning all she can about photography. To do this, she assists a local photographer with her sessions. This weekend, Megan needed to spend it away from her kids and hubby to work. Her hubby has a great job with the railroad (you know it's great, Megan!! LOL!!) but his schedule is sometimes up in the air.

So, Mr Gorgeous and I said we would be glad to have their kids spend the weekend with us!! BTW, her kids are 1 and 4...let's recap...my kids are 15, 12, almost 10, and 7...plus a 4yo and a 1yo!! Needless to say, I'm tired!! But it was really relaxing to just walk away from the computer and just sit upstairs in our gated-off playroom/mediaroom and watch the wee ones play and play. It was uplifting to watch my darling son pseudo-babysit since R was sleeping in his room...My only begotten son was very conscientious about what R could touch, where he could go, and whether or not he (my son) would change a poopy diaper (uh...that would be a NEGATIVE!!!). It was sooo wonderful to watch Mr Gorgeous with this fun, sweetheart of a boy. R would go running to Mr Gorgeous!! (He is irresistable, you know!! yup...they both are!) And everytime I sat down on that comfy chair holding that baby boy with a bottle, I got that hankerin'...luckily for my sleeping schedule, stick a fork in us...we are done!!

Otherwise, not much but some crafting tomorrow!! That'll be a fun Sunday afternoon...just a lazy day in the craft room! yay!!! I've got some fun pics to share with you from my adventure in stamping this week at Bev's Stamp Club...I'm gonna save them for Monday's crazy post!! that'll be fun for you! But here's another fun picture for you from Quentin's birthday party...at the park - these girlies are inseparable...and stayed in the wagon most of the entire party! enjoy!! See you here Monday!!

 

OHhhhh welcome to my Monday blog posting!!! I've got a bunch of COOL layouts to show you! And just a wonderful shout out to my girls over at the O!!!!! Thanks to Laura for getting all of the coupons together for us for our chats!!! Thanks to ALL Of the designers for giving such awesome treats for us to give out!! Thanks to ALL of the CHEERYOs who helped with all of the chats, especially LindaW and Kat and Dawn!! you guys are making me look really good!! hehee!! And thanks to all of the CheeryOs, VirtuosOs and the Designers who participated in a wonderfully successful blog hop!! yay!!!!

So have you scrapped with all of your Digital Scrapbooking Day goodies??? Don't worry!! I've got a wonderful chance for you to WIN some more GOODY coupons!! Go here to our Style Spotlight for this week!!!

Here are two LOs from me with what I picked up this past week!! ohhh I really have several, but they are going for other challenges, too!! So I'll spill about that in a minute!! (click to see the LOs bigger!!)

credits:
TaylorMade Designs - Christmas Collection
photo by studioRphotos
action by TaylorMade Designs - Bliss in Action/Pale comparison
font: never let go

credits;
Lotta designs BLOG HOP QP freebie!!
Jodie McNally's Old Stuff papers
Vicki Stegall's Acrylic Alpha
photo by studioRphotos.com
font: Typewriter
actions from Pioneer Woman and Lomo from act central

soooooooooo what other kind of challenges do we have at the O right now??? Well you've seen my OStash Challenge and my Style Spotlight from last week!!! Now, how about our Quote Me challenge? LindaS gave us two wonderful quotes to scrap, so i did!! here are my two LOs for the quote challenge!

credits:
paper from nina scraps designs read.and.relax kit
present from Taylormade designs Christmas collection
laugh wa from Taylormade's awakening kit

credits:
paper from Sue's each and Everyday kit :#
everything else is from Sweet Genevieve Designs' football stuff #since retired!#

Then there is our Web Inspiration Challenge that Dawn posted!! Here's my take on it! I worked on this LO with Quentin....he drew out a real defensive plan so that I could copy it onto my LO!! wasn't that helpful of him?? I love it!!

credits: paper by Sue Cummings from the Oscraps latest collab, Otoño (recolored just a hair!!)
photo mask from nina also from Otoño

Love love love it!!!

So I've got some fun quilty things to share, but I think i'm gonna have to save those!!! Keep checking back here, though, because I've been working on a new look and a new header to reflect some quilty stuff, too!! :)

Come on over to Oscraps.com and play with us!! we would love to leave you some love in our galleries and forums! I'd love to hear which LO you liked the best here!!!  and if you would like to leave some gallery LOVE for me, my gallery is right here!!

Happy Monday!!! :)

ohhhh we have a winner!!

I'm sooo happy to announce the winner for my BLOG contest I did last week!!

I loved all of the suggestions!! (especially silly sally!!!) but the big win goes to Yvon!! I loved her idea of a graphic with the word DON'T scratched out! So I created one and I'll use it every Monday!! :) thanks, Yvon!! I'll get you your GC to OScraps just in time for you to use it during this wonderful SALE week!! yay!! :)

Speaking of sales and challenges and chats, have you checked out our DSD forum at the O??? It's the place to keep you updated with cool happenings this week as we celebrate Digital Scrapbooking Day, which is Saturday!! Leave it to us party animals to celebrate a day ALL week long, huh???

So even though we are celebrating DSD this week, I'm going to leave you with a sneak peak of some fun quilting I'm doing right now!! :) Stay tuned for an awesome picture tour of this fun mini quilt I am loving!! :)

 

Welcome to the Oscraps DSD Blog HOP!!!

Welcome to the Oscraps DSD Blog Hop! This week we are celebrating digital scrapbooking!! This Saturday, November 7th, is Digital Scrapbooking Day, and we are having loads of FUN and SALES and did I mention FUN???? at OScraps this week leading up to DSD!!! YAY!!!!

Here are a couple of my LOs from a few of the challenges this week...you have to join in with us!!

this is for the STyle Spotlight this week...ohhh I am totally loving this challenge!!!

and for our OStash Recipe Challenge...I got to put together a creative challenge this month!! :) Here's my LO for this challenge:

Your word here at my BLOG is "ask" Collect all of the words to form a quote, e-mail the complete quote to bloghop @ oscraps. com to be entered into a drawing for the grand prize!!

I've made a fun freebie for you this weekend!! Hope you enjoy it!!!

Otoño QP by Sally Keller (click to download!)

 

Enjoy it!! and thanks for hopping around our O-Team Blogs. Your next stop is Shaui's Blog - FeiFei's Stuff Designs!! yay!!!

To go to the start of the Blog hop, go here!OHhhhh start here!!

We did it!!! day 40 - oct 30

OHhhh I'm sooo excited to still be thankful!! It has gotten me through some rough spots in the last month and a half!!

Here's today's scripture...the last one that I'm posting, but I am starting a new challenge...check out the Oscraps Challenge forums to play along!!!

yay!!!! i have to say...just a little testimony...today i was a cranky mom...just didnt want to get up, didn't want to think of everything i had to do, on and on...but I grabbed the guitar and started just randomly praising God!! kinda even wrote a song! love that!! then i did my bible study...you wouldn't believe what happened!! I got happy...i mean it! really and truly at peace and smiley!! Ohhh the Word of God is one powerful living word!! :) therefore, i will give thanks to my GOD and i'll sing praises to you, Jesus!!! for sure!!