I was voted into the poll!

For the first time, I was voted into a poll on Scrapbook.com!

This means that fellow participants picked me out of the group as one of their favorites, so I made it into the poll for the whole community to vote one. If you get the chance, please come vote:

http://www.scrapbook.com/forums/showtopic.php?fid/18/tid/1481287/pid/8963223/post/8963223/#8963223

You'll have to register for a scrapbook.com account before you can vote- registration is free. Thank you!

And the Winner is....

Thanks to everyone who played this weekend! Hopefully you all had fun with my little game. I put all your names on little slips of paper and had M draw one. So, the winner is...


















the lucky person is...


















































Marilyn W.! Send me another email with your address so I can get your RAK out!!!! Thanks for playing everyone!

~Alyssa~

Fun Game for Scrapbook Gals... with a RAK!

Okay ladies! Time for a game!

This is a simple play-on-words game where I give you the clue and you have to name the manufacturer. For example, a clue may be "chilly amphibian", and the answer would be Arctic Frog.

Anyone who sends me an email with ALL of the correct answers will be entered in a drawing for a RAK. Only ONE email per person, so make sure you've got them correct. When you get them figured out, send me an email with your answers at upordown777@yahoo.com. I will reply if you have them correct and let you know that you are entered into the drawing. Thanks to the gals at Color Me Daisy for letting me steal this from their recent crop.

DEADLINE is SUNDAY, Sept. 28th, at 8 PM EST.

Ready?

1. spiffy bloomers
2. flower consonant
3. starry insect
4. standard blah
5. small cowardly transportation
6. A girl in the Alps trading stuff
7. spicy lady
8. hog antecdotes
9. picturesque course
10. shaped paper with nice scenery
11. royalty and her entourage
12. clever fantasies
13. imagination road
14. fiddling pigment
15. A girl in the Alps and her forgiveness
16. artsy diner
17. carton of looseleaf
18. one more than six nomads
19. patriotic arts
20. fall foliage
21. three insects in a carpet
22. creating recollections
23. my brain's ocular lens
24. fall after lunch
25. rosy doodle

Have fun!

~Alyssa~

Some new scrapbook stuff...

Here's a few new pages. Nothing has gotten done this week... I've had scrappers block all week (think writers block) and nothing is coming together. I might need to take a few days off and stay away from scrapping to see if I can break through the block.

Anyway, here's what I did last week:

Thanks for coming by!

~Alyssa~

Mini Box Giveaway on Vanilla Joy!

Hey, ya'll, head over to Vanilla Joy and check out the giveaway this week! They are giving away a Minibox! ( http://www.theoriginalscrapbox.com/ )If you are a scrapbooker you know what that is, if you are a crafter of any kind, you will appreciate this organizational tool! I would lvoe to have this minibox... everything would fit and I would never have to dig around in a too-deep drawer for something again! :)

http://www.vanillajoy.com/

While you are at Vanilla Joy, check out the ideas for Childrens Face painting at http://www.vanillajoy.com/kids-face-painting.html, or the great original date ideas for you and hubby at http://www.vanillajoy.com/creative-date-ideas ! Vanilla Joy even has info about Obaji products: http://www.vanillajoy.com/obaji-skin-care-products .

Ok, now get over there and check it out. And check back here for another update and some new scrapbook stuff. I promise to get that done this week.

~Alyssa~

Time for a family update!

So, "they" tell me it's time to update again. Whoever "they" are! Slave drivers, all of "them!" LOL.

Here's what I've been up to the last few days:

• Don and I celebrated our anniversary last night! We were married 4 years on the 6th, but we just had our anniversary date last night. We went to our favorite restaurant and to Borders/Starbucks with NO KIDS! It was great.


• I had two more layouts accepted for publication in Scrap N' Art!


• Elijah has taken to crayons lately. He colors pictures that blow me away for his age!


• Milena is getting ever closer to being potty trained... almost there!


• We went to the local apple orchard (Dispennett's Orchard- http://www.cabapple.org/) about 10 days ago. It was tons of fun. Here are some pics from that time:

New Feature!

Now you can follow my blog and keep updated on all my new posts just by clicking the "follow" link in the upper right hand corner of my blog! What a cool new feature!

Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch 106

The first sketch that the new DT worked on is up! Check it out as soon as you can, it's cool. And there were some awesome interpretations from the new DT!

Here's the sketch:

and here are my interpretations:

Next time you are on MySpace, check out the group Scrapbook Challenges. There are also 1-2 DT challenges posted each week! Every challenge you complete gets you an entry in the drawing for the FABULOUS monthly prize! This months giveaway is a HUGE American Crafts pack!

So, get over there and get busy!