There is no rest for Charlie, NSD is here!

Oh my, this is one busy day! You should be warned! there is so much here...wowzas! Charlie has been working us hard with all her designs (5 brand new products), just in time for NSD. Whether you are a scrapper or Designer or both, there is something for everyone! Plus her entire store is 50% off(discount at checkout) from the 1st to the 4th of May!Charlie has teamed up with Mel of A+ Designs to make this collaboration, Just For Mom. It's just in time for Mother's Day with its beautiful bright and cheerful Hues. This Collab contains 23 papers, 56 elements and an alpha. I am telling you it is huge and beautiful!
I loved this kit...and love my mumbly, so here is a great shot of her in all her glory...her laugh is from hearing Anna find an Easter Egg and seeing there is money in it. My mom hide the eggs and the kids had no idea! It was wonderful! Please click on it for a larger view! I love you Mumbly and your laughter is my life, memories of it and growing up are full of laughter. I am indeed a lucky woman!
Don't stop reading now! Charlie has MORE! Now this is for the designer that is in so many of you scrappers...Charlie's felt actions are remarkable...I even did a few, with some help from a tutorial from Flergs!

I played with the felt and it was fun, the masks, oh how I love masks, here is a picture of my dear daughters and hubby, I so love this picture...I used Charlies kit both Paper Princess (a bit of recoloring to match) her Paper Prince and Flergs new kit Tangerine Twist (freebie on MSA flourish newsletter) also with a bit of recoloring!
Thanks for reading!

Anne


Never lose your joy!

Blog Train of Freebies and Chance to Win Kit!

Claudi has been filling her stores;
Divine Digital,
Faith Sisters,
Inspiration Lane
and Digital Freebies
to the brim!

This is just one of her new kits; Purple Dream!

Her CT and QP ladies got together and did some brags from the kit to give out for
National Scrap booking Day!
These ladies have totally astounded me!

Here are my two:
Click on Image or Here for Download Link

Please stop by the following ladies blogs to pick up their contributions:

Penny

RoseFire

Janarae

Scrappy Charmer

Anne of Alamo <-----------You are here! Click for link to download!

Crazy Keira

Please have patience as we are all on
different time zones,
continents
and real life duties! lol,
they should all be up Friday sometime!
Enjoy and thank you for all your support for Claudi and her lovely designs!

oops I almost forgot, you can go to DST
and post a comment and have a chance to win the whole kit!
Go here and post that you want it, and one lucky winner gets it Friday night!

Thanks for reading!

Anne


Never lose your joy!

Wednesday Bible Study-Record Service

I know it is crazy when the kids in nursery are climbing the walls! ha ha...we have a rock back wall, and it screams climb me...so don't let the safety patrol know, we are pioneering and you do what you can to keep the kids happy, content and parents in church listening to the word of God! We were beyond excited to have 20 people out for Wednesday evening bible study! Seeing folks touched is just amazing, we continue to love them up, preach exort! It was so so so encouraging to us...they just kept coming in! We had to put up another row! Our faithful Colleen was home sick! Poor thing!
Tony is at the church now taking out the little cubby. (you can see it in the right corner of the picture), so we can get a few more rows out before we take those back walls out!

I went out on a limb!

and fell off!
But I have to tell the story, cause well that is what I do! I applied for a CT position for Holly Designs at Shabby Pickle! Now, I have this weird little quirk, I don't want to CT for folks who sell where my other awesome designers are at, and I really look for designers that are different from each other also...styles, colors, genre' etc....blah blah...
so I look at the calls for CT, and read the ad, and look at the ad stuff, then go to the store and see their kits. Well, gosh this Holly is really talented, I am not a shopper, I am cheap, there fore I CT...so I don't know the digi shopland very well. I applied. My goodness, she had 100s apply, 100s! she is very talented, and I come to see much sought after, so I figure if I am picked I have arrived..ha ha...
then Holly dropped her walcom tablet on her keyboard and it was wonky, I told her how to fix it! and reminded her I was a dork and applied for her CT! I am a dork and I did apply..ha ha
so today, I recieved the sweetest and most kind letter of nope not picked I have ever read! I mean class act this Holly, so please Friday is the big NSD! Drop by her shop and buy something, she is a top act!
I so enjoy the folks who scrap and design and all the ones inbetween who make this little community just a kick!
Thanks for reading!

Anne


Never lose your joy!

Go Charlie! Woo HOO! I hope you all have cleared your EHDs, because National Scrapbook Day is coming! In celebration, Charlie throws out a 50% off her whole store! That includes her CU stuff. WOOOOW! Do you realize how many hours this woman puts into her CU? This is a deal! Jump all over it!

Thanks for reading!

Anne


Never lose your joy!

Why we are here!

This past Saturday, the church in Santa Rosa sent a HUGE impact team to labor all day, then do a complete music scene in our parking lot! Here is a pic of the set up and our sign! woo hooThis is Pastor Hernadez' daughters whose voices and spirits are just so clean and beautiful...PK rock! They had like 15 people who were in and out of the bands and just ministered and testified about Jesus Christ all evening!

And our people were there, here is our faithful Colleen, who doesn't miss a thing, she comes and is there and encouraging the new people. What a joy to have her!

Yeah! Amber is doing so good! You can see a like spirit between her and myself! lol, She is really making great decisions! Pray, pray, pray for her!


This whole family are another of our faithful, from the back, William, his wife Helen, Helen's mom, Sandra (eating hotdog) Connor (their nephew) and Albert, who came to church 1st time this past Sunday!


Okay, my heart was torn to see this family, kinda hard to see, but a white shirt man in a wheelchair. Jeremy and his dad, Donald. Lisa, his wife is not in the picture. All three gave their lives to Jesus at the altar call, and Jeremy has Muscular Dystrophy, my 1st time talking with a person with this body altaring disease. Jeremy is 21 and his mind is perfect. This family has a full load, and want to live for God...the disease is very demanding on them and pain a constant battle for Jeremy...I ask each one of you to contend for healing for this man, he NEEDs a miracle and a touch from God. I can't tell you how much this family affected me...they so want Jesus...
Thank you dear friends, and I hope you are getting a glimpse that we are here to preach the Gospel and that life is right where we should be!

Spotlight on AnnaBo

I was goin' thru the April pictures and I have to put these in here! These are Anna's glasses and yes, that is blood all over her glasses. The turmoil of her splitting her eyebrow open was over, and cleaned up, and I picked up her glasses and we saw this, and of course we take a picture, wouldn't you?
The story, Sunday after church, I am at my desk talking to Tony who is depositing the offering money and trying to manipulate (no I mean convince) Tony into taking us to Wendy's for lunch! Anna comes screaming down the hallway, hand over eyes, blood all over hands and face..."I split my head open!" over and over. I drop the phone, Tony still on the other end to hear the drama...and my emergency mom kicks in, grab towel, wet it and place on darkest area of blood. Anna is yelling the fan cut my head, the fan split my head open. I am calming her down, totally lost how a fan got her eyebrow?
It was a small cut. She was on the top bunk, leaning under the ceiling fan to turn the light off and leave the fan on, and she put her head into the spinning fan. Ouch!

The above is a rare picture of Anna without her glasses, to prove it, she is sound asleep here and yep, has her glasses on!



Here is both girls, Abby in forefront and Anna in back. This is the usually look of joy on these girls, they so make me smile. I can't believe I have girls, I was so scared to be a mom of girls!
Thanks for reading about our life, and please enjoy!

Anne