Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 30, 2009, 6:25 am
I have not had any time to craft, first with Thanksgiving. And now... I accidently bought a website. By accidently I mean.. I just wanted to see how much it would cost and in Paypal I hit the wrong bu...
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 29, 2009, 6:55 am
Just letting everyone know I added a whole bunch of new digis on my other website (which has a whole new look). I'm adding some of the older ones back up today. Also I will be adding some freebies...
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 28, 2009, 11:27 am
http://www.shophandmade.com/store/creationsbypen
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 26, 2009, 6:42 am
A Few of the Things I am Thankful for: ~ my most Amazing husband Bryan, who was brave enough to fall in love with me and then marry me even though I was a divorced woman with two children. I am so th...
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Penny D. posted an article on My Life's Hiccups - Nov 24, 2009, 7:25 am
So I'm googling again. Which isn't making me feel much better. I'm freaking out. I don't have the symptoms of carpel tunnel. I don't have all the symptoms of rhematoid arthritis (...
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 23, 2009, 3:11 pm
I really do... as if little gifts weren't enough (I mean c'mon who doesn't like getting gifts?)... They also sent these cards... This is the first time I have received cards from some of...
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Penny D. posted an article on My Life's Hiccups - Nov 23, 2009, 8:05 am
In another time, another place, I would have married this man! lol Were you not all aware that I love John Lennon and the rest of the Beatles??? 'Cause I do.
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 23, 2009, 6:08 am
Actually I did do four layouts yesterday, I just didn't take any photos. And I have another double layout on the table in progress. Here are the cards I made before I started scrapbooking. This ...
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 22, 2009, 10:30 am
***SECOND POST TODAY.*** see Crafty Pad Challenge Card below The new stamps and flowers I ordered off Simon Says came on Friday so I made a few cards yesterday when I had some time. I really just wan...
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 22, 2009, 5:00 am
This week I am the Guest Design Team Member over at the Crafty Pad! How exciting is that!!!??? And on my birthday no less!! (Yup, today is my birthday. I know some of my posts confused some of you......
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 21, 2009, 7:21 pm
Honestly, I'm not a big cat person... but c'mon... how cute is this???
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 21, 2009, 8:14 am
My husband is totally clueless. Last year he wasn't here for my birthday, he was off training. Tomorrow is my birthday, so he is at the PX and he keeps texting me asking what I want. I said... a ...
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Penny D. posted an article on My Life's Hiccups - Nov 20, 2009, 6:01 am
I think that was the worst dental appointment I have ever experienced as a mother. One. I knew Matthew had cavities. His last dentist told me he had three of them. He still has three. However, even I...
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Penny D. posted an article on My Life's Hiccups - Nov 19, 2009, 9:30 am
I realize that next week I will probably know what the problem is with my wrists, but as next week gets closer I find I am freaking out. Today especially. I have no idea what brought it on. All I kee...
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 19, 2009, 5:46 am
**SECOND POST TODAY- scroll to learn about the newest blog in the blogosphere! Normally I pick one challenge and work on a card and then later check other challenges to see if my card will happen to ...
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 19, 2009, 5:13 am
There is a new blog/website being launched called Karen's Doodles that will be offering many original whimsical digital images and rubber stamps hand drawn by artist Karen Johnson. This blog will...
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 18, 2009, 1:35 pm
Here is a card I made using my Humorous Birthday Inkadinkado stamp set. I've used this stamp set quite a bit but I usually just use the images on it, without the sentiments. I used some CTMH Spar...
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 18, 2009, 10:57 am
So I think the problem with my computer is either one of the video cards OR the adapter for the monitor. Because last night Bryan plugged the monitor (without the adapter) into the second monitor slo...
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Penny D. posted an article on My Life's Hiccups - Nov 17, 2009, 7:22 am
This Thursday the kids and I have a dental appointment. All three of us (not Hannah though). I'm nervous as hell. Not about getting a mouth guard, but about what the dentist will say about my teet...
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Penny D. posted an article on My Life's Hiccups - Nov 13, 2009, 5:56 am
Just for fun here is my favorite theory about Friday the 13th: Friday was originally sacred to the Fertility Goddess Frigga or Freya. When the Norse and Germanic tribes converted to Christianity, the...
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 11, 2009, 7:29 am
My first project is Gillian's Girl Scout notebook. We are asking our parents to send their girls to every meeting with a notebook. We'd like them to do their homework in them, and when they wo...
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 9, 2009, 7:37 am
I'm posting this quickly... my computer broke down, it's very upsetting, all of my files are on that thing, so I'm using my husband's laptop to post this. After I post I'm going to...
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Penny D. posted an article on My Life's Hiccups - Nov 9, 2009, 7:07 am
My computer wouldn't start this morning. The monitor stayed black, so at first I thought it was the monitor and went thru Dell's support system. But then decided to plug the monitor into Bryan...
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Penny D. posted an article on My Life's Hiccups - Nov 8, 2009, 6:57 am
Our Girl Scout Troop Leader is so nice. Yesterday she gave me a card and she bought me the Girl Scout thingamabober. One I was going to have to buy myself but she went and got one for me! That was so ...
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 8, 2009, 6:50 am
I had to whip of seven cards and do it quickly so this is what I went with. It was super simple and super fast. So much so, that I sort of feel like I cheated. Challenges: Kaboodle Doodle: Fall Sple...
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Penny D. posted an article on My Life's Hiccups - Nov 6, 2009, 8:53 am
I'm not a huge television watcher. I'll admit, most of my time is spent in a closet making crafts or online viewing crafts others have made. But I do watch a few shows, a majority of which are...
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Penny D. posted an article on My Life's Hiccups - Nov 5, 2009, 4:08 pm
Have you heard about Fort Hood??? Three soliders shot up the place, 11 dead (including one shooter) over 30 injured. We're not at Fort Hood, thank god, but Bryan has texted me and said his Sgt....
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 5, 2009, 9:12 am
**SECOND POST TODAY** Since I am giving Gillian an art journal for Christmas I figured I better make one for Matthew too. This will also save me some printer paper, as he is always taking my printer ...
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 5, 2009, 6:02 am
Here is my second paper bag album. I had fun with it. I made this for Bryan's teenage sister. I was going to give her an art journal but I have since decided that she would probably like this bett...
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Penny D. posted an article on My Life's Hiccups - Nov 5, 2009, 5:52 am
Who would ever have thought? I did volunteer for four years when Gillian and Matthew were in Head Start (preschool), but other than that I'm not really a people person. The Leader seems sooo nice...
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 4, 2009, 5:45 am
Lorraine offered for me to be in the Designer Spotlight! She's so nice huh? Simon Says has got to be one of my favorite challenge blogs. It is one of the few I participate in. This week's Sim...
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Penny D. posted an article on My Life's Hiccups - Nov 3, 2009, 6:25 pm
Which I sent thru Facebook but I'm putting it here for my own record... lol. Someone told me once that I need to save everything, write everything down and keep track of dates. So this is that. I...
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 3, 2009, 11:25 am
Last week Angie asked her bloggy friends to send a card to her parents. You can read that post here. Here is the card I have made. Stamped inside sentiment reads: "You're a Star". I recycled on t...
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 3, 2009, 7:47 am
I won this candy from Michelle over at Mommy Time! See that Stickles? I read about it all the time but have never used it myself.
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 3, 2009, 3:48 am
You can find that here. The way I understand it will be running all month. So there are plenty of chances to win!
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 2, 2009, 12:17 pm
I heard about this thru Lorraine's Blog this morning when I was doing my daily blog reading. I'm sure you've all seen the story on the news, about those teenage boys in New Hampshire attac...
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Penny D. posted an article on My Life's Hiccups - Nov 2, 2009, 9:30 am
I do have TMJ but doctor's don't treat that so I was told to see a dentist. But I did get an anti-inflammatory prescription to hold me over until I do see the dentist. He did say not to buy a ...
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 1, 2009, 6:14 pm
**SECOND POST TODAY** This is my last altered frame until I can get back to Walmart to pick up some more. You know I was having the HARDEST time trying to figure out what to get people for Christmas....
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Nov 1, 2009, 9:38 am
I picked up these wooden photo frames at Walmart the other day for $3 and some change. This is the first time I have attempted to alter a photo frame. I think I might give it to my cousin Melissa for ...
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Penny D. posted an article on My Life's Hiccups - Oct 31, 2009, 12:57 pm
While I was at the PX buying candy today I also stopped and got myself an early birthday present :) That's right.... a new pair of sneakers. lol. Last time I bought myself a new pair of sneakers...
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Oct 30, 2009, 1:31 pm
This is the paper bag album for my pregnant neighbor. I scrapped the first one I tried because it just wasn't coming out right. Then today I happened to find paper bags at Walmart, so I bought a ...
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Penny D. posted an article on My Life's Hiccups - Oct 28, 2009, 10:06 am
So I had food poisoning Friday night. And ever since I just haven't felt 100%. Yesterday I was still feeling light-headed and nauseous. This morning too.... Until I realized that I was probably d...
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Penny D. posted an article on My Life's Hiccups - Oct 27, 2009, 6:13 am
No, no it's not. I wish it was because then I would be getting ready to go to the doctor's instead of sitting here writing this. Can you believe with all that vomiting I did my jaw was perfect...
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Penny D. posted an article on My Life's Hiccups - Oct 25, 2009, 6:45 am
And it's totally my fault. Thursday afternoon I took some pork chops out of the freezer and threw them on the counter to defrost. Then I forgot about them until I woke up Friday morning. Threw the...
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Penny D. posted an article on My Life's Hiccups - Oct 23, 2009, 9:24 am
Oh man... I swear some days being a mom is the WORST JOB IN THE WORLD!!! This morning I wanted to strangle all three of my children. But I love them.... so I didn't! This morning I also realized...
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Oct 23, 2009, 7:16 am
I made ten birthday invitations for Matthew yesterday. Some days I enjoy when I make the same thing repeatedly, then there are days like yesterday when I really had to push myself to finish because I ...
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Oct 22, 2009, 9:04 am
I have no artwork for you today. Seriously, I'm trying to find a decent card layout for Matthew's birthday party invitations... that is my job for today. But... here's the thing, music i...
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Penny D. posted an article on Scrappin' with Penny - Oct 21, 2009, 9:27 am
Normally I would wait until last minute to make a card like this but Simon Says this week is "Get Well Soon". I knew I would want a sketch for the card and The Crafty Pad has a sketch this week. And w...
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Penny D. posted an article on My Life's Hiccups - Oct 21, 2009, 6:27 am
One year ago today Bryan got in his recruiter's awesome Army car and left for Laconia to do paperwork. And that afternoon boarded a bus headed for Boston. And two days after that, he got on a plan...
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Penny D. posted an article on My Life's Hiccups - Oct 20, 2009, 2:22 pm
The assistant principal of Gillian's school called me today. I couldn't answer because I was at the doctor's office waiting to get my depo shot (oh yes, I am baby proof until January!!). ...
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