WINNER of the blog hop

Hi all,
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24 

Timestamp: 2010-04-22 11:31:57 UTC

This makes April my winner! Congratulations! And thank you to everyone who came by and made comments.

Please email me at melissa.eschler@gmail.com with your mailing addy and I'll get your goodies out this weekend!

"Spring in my Step" blog hop

Welcome to Scrapbook Heaven's "Spring in my Step" blog hop!! Thanks so much for joining us! We are excited to be hosting our FIRST ever blog hop!

If you just happened by my blog and didn't realize a blog hop was taking place, please go back to Scrapbook Heaven -http://scrapbookheavenga.blogspot.com/ and start the Hop. Our members have some wonderful inspiration to share with you..... and also, some prizes :-)

Our theme is "Spring in my Step". We'll be sharing a variety of Spring-y projects with you.

I put together 2 "springy" cards and used some homemade goodies as my embellishments.
On both cards I used party crepe paper to form flowers (so easy and cheap!) and topped them off with homemade polymer clay buttons. Can you guess where that paper is from?




I'm also hosting a little giveaway. Just subscribe to my blog (on the right)
and leave me a comment that you've subbed. Earn another entry for my giveaway
by posting about this giveaway and the blog hop on facebook. (please leave a second comment)

Our blog hop will run from today, April 17th until April 20th. Invite your friends to play along! We'll be drawing for prizes on Wednesday, the 21st.

Your next stop in our Hop is with Char at http://ccundy.blogspot.com.... hop on over and check out her project!

Just the cutest

Adorable huh?
Check out Chickie Eggs at http://justjennrecipes.com/
She even has a little giveaway going on!

Couple things I made this month

layouts from this week

Pretty in Pink
photos of Lukas wearing my bathrobe.
I did this for a challenge in a group called
TheScrapbookMafia.














Big Flirt
Photo of Lukas a year ago at is birthday party
in the park. (w/ Hannah)


















Love You
Photo of Jacob right before his
first birthday. (he's 7 now)

BTW, I made those cool green
buttons out of polymer clay.

Couple things I made recently

something I read today

"I am suffering... I am not ashamed, because I know Whom I have believed, and am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him for that day."

-2Timothy 1:12

Too Funny

So each week Jacob gets a list of spelling words and as one of their activities they will divide up a piece of drawing paper and
draw a little picture of the word.
This one totally cracked me up!
Lean! LOL!
Ok, maybe I'm the only one who thinks this is funny?

Stuff made so far for Dixie Pieces crop

recent stuff

3rd Annual "Beat the Winter Blues" Crop!

Go to Dixie Pieces to check out the Online crop being hosted this weekend (Feb 5-7).
The grand prize alone should entice you enough to crop a little this weekend.
Here are the details:

--Challenges & Games will be posted on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
--Deadline for completing and posting will be January 18th at 11:59pm PST (SO you've got plenty
of time)
--Designs may only be used once -- must have a new design for each challenge posted here
--May use sketches (My Sketch World - http://mysketchworld.s2.bizhat.com/viewforum.php?f=75&mforum=mysketchworld - is having a sketch a thon --- you can combine your challenges and post at both sites!)Designs must be newly created for this crop.
--Entries into the Grand Prize Drawing will be awarded for completed challenges (amount of entries may vary and will be announced with challenge)
--Random winner will be chosen and announced no later than Feb 24th

Go here to check out the grand prize package
http://dixiepieces.com/forum/topic/6350

Scrapbook Heaven Online Sketch Crop

Hi Everyone!

Come on over to Scrapbook Heaven and join me for their JAZZY JANUARY SKETCH CROP!!!

You won't want to miss this weekend of SKETCHES, FUN, GAMES and of course, PRIZES!
Get an extra ticket for the grand prize by bringing a friend.

When: Jan 29th & Jan. 30th
Time: Friday 6pm est
Where: http://www.scrapbookheavenga.com/boards/
Challenges due by: February 5th

This week's Sketchy Thursday attempt

The sketch for this week.




















My layout for this week.

Online crop and CHA pre-orders available at Serendipity Scrapbooks

Hey.. check this out:

NEW CHA WINTER products are now available to pre order at http://serendipityscrapbooks.com/

15% off these pre orders with a code: Winterchagoodies This code must
be redeemed in the code box at the VERY BOTTOM of the shopping cart.

Right now they have Sassafras Lass, Cosmo Cricket
and Pink Paislee... BUt soon to come will be Basic Grey and Maya Roads.

ALSO they are currently hosting their annual Project Runway Crop.
Challenges, games, Blue light specials! Seriously, I love their crops!

Somebody is Mad

He didn't pick out the best pen to write his
sign. It says "No Mom and Dad"
LOL! Jacob is a little mad this morning because
we stopped him from running and screaming
throughout the house. Imagine that! It's 8:30am
on a Saturday!

I love me some Etsy

I'm thinking of starting my own little Etsy shop and I found this article on how
to start your Etsy shop, what to name it, what to sell, etc...
(http://dailyworth.com/blog/265-a-beginners-guide-to-starting-a-shop-on-etsy-)
So they share some links to a few successful shops and the first one I click on... well, let' s
just say I fell in love... very cute and off the wall.

Here's the shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/picardcreative
They sell function art with an attitude.
I really dig this:

It's a tin can lid magnet:



If this isn't me, then I don't know what is!
If you ask my husband, he will agree!

Cool new site -- Paper Crafters Corner

I found this cool new site that advertises scrapbooking events, stores, sales... all kinds of
things. They are currently advertising in the states of Alabama, South Carolina and Georgia.
Check them out : http://papercrafterscorner.typepad.com/papercrafters-corner/

AND looky here...
http://papercrafterscorner.typepad.com/alabama/2010/01/2nd-annual-mobile-crop-for-the-cure-june-2010.html

SketchyThursdays 1/14 sketch

Here is this week's sketch from Sketchy Thursday's. I'm really enjoying this new sketch site. Go check it out: http://sketchythursdays.blogspot.com/

This week's sponsor is Sweet Scrap Deal, and
they are giving away a cool Unity stamp set!

Here's my take on the sketch.

Sketchy Thursdays

Earlier today I stumbled across this new Sketch Challenge site and
thought I'd give it a shot. Check it out.
http://sketchythursdays.blogspot.com/

Every Thursday they post a new sketch. You can complete the sketch
and share, then you will be entered in a random drawing for a prize
offered by one of their sponsors.

So this past week they posted this:



















and here's my take on the sketch

Couple more things

Photos of the boys working on their Gingerbread house.



















Couple photos from Thanksgiving (Nov 09)


















Photo of Jacob at the USS Alabama park



















Very old photo from when Jacob finished 4 year old Pre-school.