My First Kit is Retiring

Check out Botanical Kit at http://digiscrapstation.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_47&products_id=735. It's only $2 until Friday and then it's gone forever!

I'm Back

I just realized I haven't posted in a long time. I'd better get on the ball. Sorry folks, but the links to my things on 4Shared don't work any more.

More later.

CHECK OUT FRIDAY EXPRESS

Go to www.DigiscrapStation.com and check out the Friday Express. Part of my new wedding kit is in the Friday Express!

Look at what you get! This is an amazing value. You get all the papers and the frames for only $2! It'll make a great beginning on a wedding album for somebody you love.

Speaking of SALE!

How about something free? In honor of my son's upcoming wedding I have a bunch of wedding products. The word art is free!

Just go to:
http://www.4shared.com/file/101379196/15362a98/TibBits_OHD_WA_Freebie.html

Password is freeisgood

The word art goes with both wedding kits which are available at www.digiscrapstation.com and www.nuthouse-scraps.com.

DigiscrapStation has a preview that's worth at least $4 in their Friday Express along with 2 of my other kits.

Check it out.

SALE!

As a writer I counsel other writers not to use exclamation points. I consider them gratuitous. However, this is a big SALE!!! The Friday Express sale at http://www.digiscrapstation.com/.

You can get two of my older kits for $2 each--one is normally $8, the other $10--and a preview mini kit of my brand new, soon to be released wedding kit--Our Happiest Day.

And, in other news, my products are now available at a second store www.NutHouse-Scraps.com under the designer name Tib Bits Designs. You can click on the blinkies
and go directly to the stores.

BIG SALE!

In honor of our daughter coming to visit for a few days with our 4-month-old granddaughter, I'm having a Grandma Loves Hazel sale. You can get 50% off everything until the end of October. Such a deal!

Just go to www.digiscrapstation.com and get what you want.

I Have Arrived!

I really have. I put out a call for a CT and got a great person. What a thrill that somebody is going to use my things to show others what can be done with them. Here is a link to some of her work.


http://scrapbookflair.com/lanesmom

Welcome aboard the DigiScrapStation train!

Call for a Creative Team

I need a creative team person. Someone who will use my digiscrap designs and post them so that people can see how they look when they become layouts. You get my materials free as long as you use them and keep posting on websites. Just click on my blinkie to see my designs at DigiScrapStation. If you are interested, please go to Leave a Comment and find my e-mail. Send me link/s to your work.

Happy scrappin!

Woo hoo! New Kit!

My new and improved Botanical Kit has debuted on DigiScrapStation.


Use the coupon code for 20% off the whole kit: TibBitsBot0882165
One coupon use per customer.

All the elements are also available separately. There is a Freebie Quick Page and 4 other QPs.

This kit is composed of flower and leaf photos I've taken over the last year. Some even from a friend's day lily garden in Vermont. Thank you Debbie.

I'm a Grandma!

Our beautiful granddaughter Hazel Marjorie Foys was born last week in Baltimore. I'll have pictures soon.

www.DigiScrapStation.com is going great guns! All my designs are in their catalog except for my Happy Holidays Kit which will be there soon.

Thank you all for your support and encouragement.

Open for Business

I'm now at www.digiscrapstation.com. Check the Freebies for my Botanicals. They are no longer at 4Shared. I put my Shabby collection in the catalog and will soon have my Yesterday Heritage Kit. The Yesterday Freebie will also be in their Freebies section. Have fun!

Oh, darn!

LegacyScrapbooking stopped carrying their digital supplies. I'm in the process of changing to another site or sites and will soon post my new digs.

I've had the sinus yuckies for two weeks! I'm finally feeling creative again which means I'm getting better. Haven't done a thing for a long while.

Check back soon.

I'm Back with a Freebie

Hello, World!

I've been so busy I've neglected my Blog. I've been writing (new novel) and designing digiscrap things. My Yesterday Heritage Kit is almost finished. As you can see I have already changed the name of it. You can download the free Yesterday Heritage Page Kit (the elements are on my page just below) at the following link:

http://www.4shared.com/dir/6460386/48e0396b/HerFree.html

I decided not to make it a Plopper, but give away the elements. I even made my own torn/curled edge. Enjoy!

The whole kit will be available soon at: http://www.legacyscrapbooking.com/.

A New Freebie

My Heritage Kit is almost ready. You may download my Reminiscing Plopper soon. Here's an example:

It's my family. Check back soon and I'll have the link to this Plopper Page.

Happy Holidays

Our daughter is definitely pregnant. It shows. We are thrilled. We'll be good grandparents; we are practicing our spoiling!

Todd moved to Boston with Tracy. She's going to Boston College Law School, and he is a freelance Democratic consultant.

In the spring we saw Jen perform in two plays—one for children and one for grownups. She was great in both.

We enjoyed having good friends Gary and Carol visit us in the spring with their dog, Darwin. We also went to a resort in Lake Lure, NC, with friends Dottie and Rich, and had a nice, relaxing time.

This year we thought larger than last year's 4700 miles in the car, so in June we drove out West. In Nerinx, KY, we visited Sister Mary Alice Ely, Ken's mom's cousin who “retired” back to the Mother House. We loved visiting with her and learned a few stories about Marge we had never heard.

It rained so much we couldn't play golf in Kansas City, so we went to a casino. I won a little, Ken won more.

Jan in Colorado Springs gave us a lovely room looking at Pikes Peak. And, as you see in our photo, Todd met us for a couple of days in Estes Park. The mountains are spectacular, but the high altitude didn't agree with us. We went to Golden, where Todd was Best Man in his best friend's wedding. Tracy was there, too. We had a great time.

On to Glen Rock, WY, to see Jim and Sandy whom we hadn't seen in 20 years. They took us to Ayres Natural Bridge for a picnic. What a gem of a spot. A little park in a canyon that water had carved out of red rock. It was wonderful to see them, and we appreciated their hospitality.

After some scary weather in Nebraska we stopped in Auburn to visit family graves and met a cousin Ken didn't know—Bill. We visited with him and his wife, Barb, and Sister Mary's brother, Dick and his wife Mary Ann. Thank you, Dick, for dinner. We also saw a friend of Ken's mom's, Inez.

In Winfield, IA, we saw Plants' graves—Ken's great-great grandparents and some of their family. It's amazing what I have found on the Internet.

We bummed off all the friends we could in Michigan and had a wonderful time. Our real roots are there, and we always enjoy our time there with friends.

Both Jen and Todd came for a long weekend in the summer—different times. We are so lucky that we get to spend time with our kids and their loved ones, and they seem to think we're okay, too.

Martin and Jen will be moving next summer to Madison, NJ. Martin has accepted a professorship at Drew University where he did his undergrad work.

Our whole family is here for Christmas, including Ken's sister. Our upstairs neighbors have donated their condo again, so we have six bedrooms and four baths. Everybody has their own space. It's crazy but great fun having everybody together.

My mom is here for a couple of months to avoid the worst of northern Michigan winter. Then in March she's off to spend a few weeks with my brother Joe and his wife Carol in Omak, WA.

We're playing golf and enjoyed a warmer than usual December. I'm designing digital scrapbook materials. You can download my Freebie by following the link below:

http://www.4shared.com/dir/4269049/4a626811/Tibs_Botanicals.html

You can purchase my creations at http://www.legacyscrapbooking.com/.

My with for all is health, happiness and peace in the coming year.

Merry Christmas to All

I haven't posted anything for a while. I've been busy finishing a holiday kit for LegacyScrapbooking. If you click on the following link you should be able to find the whole kit. There are lots of stuff, including some ploppers.

http://legacyscrapbooking.com/catalog.php?category=306

Legacy is a wonderful website. They're just starting their digital presence and the folks there are big into family and heritage. My family keeps expanding with the genealogy resources available on the Internet.

Here are examples of my ploppers:
http://scrapbookflair.com/tibwriter/Christmas_Quick_Page/page1 (not available at Legacy yet)
http://scrapbookflair.com/tibwriter/Tree_Angels


FREE! FREE! FREE!

See my first kit called Botanicals on the right side? I pulled it from 4Shared and revised it a little and it's free. You can download it at this link:

http://www.4shared.com/dir/4269049/4a626811/Tibs_Botanicals.html

Please remember my Terms of Use. Like most artists, I don't want to see my hard work distributed all over the Internet. So please download it once for personal use.

The whole kit is made of bits and pieces of photos I've taken of green plants and flowers. While making it I learned how to use Photoshop Elements 5.0. Every day I learn something new.

My hubby and I had a peaceful Thanksgiving all by ourselves. It's worth being alone for once as we're hosting the entire family at Christmas. My mother, son and girlfriend, daughter and her husband, and son-in-law's mom. Even Hubby's sister might come. What chaos! What fun. My mom is coming from northern Michigan and staying for two months. Then she's going on to Spokane to spend a month with my brother. I checked with her to see if she had enough supplies for a couple of days. They're about to get a winter storm of 8-12 inches. Makes me very glad to live in South Carolina.

We played golf yesterday. It was cool in the morning and 65 in the afternoon with blue sky and only a slight breeze. It was 36 when I got up this morning, but now it's 60 and sunny. I have to put up the tree. Thought I'd start this afternoon while Hubby is engaged in football.

I have my Christmas card designed and ready to print. When I looked for the same great paper I bought last year, do you think I could find it? Nope. Had to order some. It's glossy photo paper on which you print two photo cards. It's laser scored so you just punch it out and put in the envelopes that come with the paper. Much classier than the card stock I've been using. They look just as good as the photo cards you buy and much less expensive.

I'm off to shovel out the guest room so Mom has a place to stay while she's here.

Tib

Wow, World, Look at Me!

I have officially become a designer of digital scrapbook supplies. Check me out at www.legacyscrapbooking.com.

I finished the grungy kit and called it Shabby. I also have a kit called Happy Holidays. They are both for sale at LegacyScrapbooking. They both have alphabets and lots of embellishments.

It's been cold here on the coast of South Carolina. Haven't played much golf. Hopefully soon. This will be our first Thanksgiving alone. The kids had plans and we decided to just stay home and relax. I'm not even making a turkey--we're getting the whole dinner from the Piggly Wiggly. Not much work that way. But my son still called to get my mom's mother's stuffing recipe.

My daughter's pregnancy is in the second trimester. Genetic testing was A-OK. Technician said the kid's a super star, posing for the ultrasound. Like mother--she's an actor.

A friend emailed me and said she looked at my scrap stuff but didn't really know what I was doing. So I made her a page just for fun with one of my own ploppers. Hope she likes it. I'm working on a frameable page for her and her husband for Christmas.

We're getting new carpet in the main areas of our condo tomorrow. Having laminate put in the hall. We discovered we're overloaded with stuff. Lots of tchatchkes we really don't need and gather dust. By the way I looked up the word tchatchke and discovered it comes from Yiddish, meaning trinkets or toys. I've used it forever and finally now I know it really applies. So Hubby and I are trying to figure out how to downsize some more. Maybe next year. LOL

Happy Thanksgiving to the world!

Sunday is Relax Day

Been a busy week. I've been working on designs. This is such fun. I have a sort of grungy kit ready to go and am working on a holiday kit. As you have no doubt deduced, I'm not into cutesy. I can't for the life of me design a cute butterfly, or flower. But I love nature. The darkest paper in the new kit came from a photo I took about a year ago at about midnight of a ring around the moon.

It worked great with a couple of photos of my son.

Here's the kit. Ta Da! I'm tentatively calling it Grungy Tib.

It will soon be uploaded to 4Shared.com. Check back later.

Had lots of rain her on the SC coast. Much needed. We're in the midst of a drought and because of so little rain inland, our rivers are very low. The tide comes up the rivers far enough that water intakes get salt water, so the water company is pumping from ground wells. Yuck. But, there are always a few clouds in everybody's paradise. I'm just feeling smug that it has snowed (just a bit) in northern Michigan and we're still wearing shorts. Although it is beginning to cool down. No short pants tomorrow on the golf course.

I'm teaching writing classes through the Lifelong Learning Program of Coastal Carolina University. I have many talented people in the classes. They inspire me. I've started a new novel, very different from the first one. Not a sequel. It's fantasy set in another world. World building is such fun. It's tentatively called FIRESONG. I based the main character on one I used in the very first novel I completed. The manuscript never made it out the door. So far it's coming along. I've discovered storyboarding for organizing. What a revelation. Much easier to keep timeline and characters consistent.

Happy days to all who happen on my site.

It's the Weekend!

We were out of town with a couples' golf group we run. We went to Rock Hill, SC, and had a wonderful time, even if my game was FLOG (golf backwards). I flogged myself into three awful rounds, but hubby and I had a great time. Lots of fun people.

I'm almost done knitting my first grandbaby thing. For my own grandbaby. It's exciting.

I finished my first kit. If anybody out there wants to download it it's at:

http://www.4shared.com/dir/4269049/4a626811/Tibs_Botanicals.html

I know, I didn't upload it as a zip file. I'm just learning how to do this. Enjoy and use it for whatever you want except passing it off as your own. That's not fair.

And check out Scrapbook Flair. The site is easy to use and a great community.

http://www.scrapbookflair.com/tibwriter

Big News

Our daughter called us yesterday and announced that after nine years of marriage she is going to have a baby. We are ecstatic. We've been saying for years that we thought we would be good grandparents. And my mom is thrilled about being a great-grandmother. It's so exciting. Now I'll have my own grandbaby to scrap. Meanwhile I can practice on our best friends' grandchildren: a boy who is five and twin girls born last December. My hubby thinks that if I go to a yarn shop and/or a scrapbook store and he goes to Toys R Us and Best Buy that we'll max out our credit cards. So we have to be careful and space ourselves. Now I know how all our friends feel since we're about the last in our group to have a grandbaby.

I haven't posted anything for a while because our son flew down from Boston and spent a long weekend with us. A couple of his college buddies bummed a room and breakfast on their way through. It was great fun having young people around, although the friends were only here a short time. Our son stayed until Wednesday. It's fun hanging out with your adult children when they actually seem to like us and have a good time. We are very lucky.

Hubby had cataract surgery on his left eye a couple of weeks ago and will have the other done next week. I'm jealous. It appears he won't need glasses when both are healed. I've worn glasses since I was ten and have always despised them. Finally got contact lenses about 14 years ago. No problems, except that I'm so near sighted I don't need anything for up close. Expecially digiscrapping. It's much easier with glasses as I can take them off to see the small stuff.

I have more family heritage photos to scrap, so I'd better get something done there. I did a new page about my dad. He was a bomber pilot during WWII. He died in 1999. I always thought he would like the coastal area of South Carolina where we now live. He was an avid fisherman. We recently discovered that when he was very young he flew into the Air Force Base here in Myrtle Beach and taught other young pilots how to make bombing runs. Right after we moved here an unexploded bomb was found in the Inlet. So I made the page with a quote from the poem "High Flight" that is beloved by fliers everywhere.