So glad you have "stolled" back again for day 2

Welcome to day 2 of the Falloween blog stroll at the Scrapping Garden.
I hope you enjoy all the freebies you will get this week. Come and join me tonight in the chat room of the Scrapping Garden for Who's that hiding in the Pumpkin Patch. You can find out all about it here.

And don't forget to pick up todays blog stroll freebies sorry link has expired and at each of the participating blogs listed below.



Make sure you don't take to much time on your stroll though, because each link will only be available for 24 hours. Have fun.

Here are the blogs participating in the blog stroll for Falloween, Visit each day to get your treats.

Pammy
Cheryl
Pat
Marsha
Caz
Diann

And don't forget to come and join us for the Falloween celebration with games, crops, challenges, and prizes at The Scrapping Garden. Find out all about it here.

The Scrapping Garden Falloween Blog Stroll begins today

I am so excited and nervous all at the same time. I have joined in a new adventure. During the days of the Scrapping Garden Falloween celebration, October 21 to 27, you will find freebies on this blog and others. We are calling this a blog stroll. I can't think of anything bettter than a stroll out in the crisp fall air with the trees all yellow, orange, and red. I must admit though, we have already had snow here, but still it is nice. So, take a stroll with the Scrapping Garden among our blogs and get some great freebies. Here is a preview of what you will have gathered up if you stroll here each day of the Falloween celebration.


Make sure you don't take to much time on your stroll though, because each link will only be available for 24 hours. Have fun.

Day 1 is sorry link has expired

Here are the blogs participating in the blog stroll for Falloween, Visit each day to get your treats.

Pammy
Cheryl
Pat
Marsha
Caz
Diann

And don't forget to come and join us for the Falloween celebration with games, crops, challenges, and prizes at The Scrapping Garden. Find out all about it here.

Boo Hoo Cry Cry

Ok, now that I have your attention let me explain. I have had computer issues again. This time it is the hard drive. It was going bad and so they replaced it. The good news is I had a service contract that covered it. The bad news is that means it is like a new computer off the shelf. All the programs and things I had on there are now gone and I have to reload them all. UGH. I do have some backups and they will try to backup the hard drive before giving it back to me, but of course there is no guarantee. In the meantime all the stuff I need to get done is not getting done. For now I am using my daughter's laptop to post this message. I just hope that I can get all the programs back that I had paid for. Some of them were sent to an email address I don't have any more and since the hard drive will be cleaned I don't know if I can access them in outlook express. On another note, I have been busy scrapbooking. We are starting an 8 week World Services push at church in Sunday School. We are going to "travel" to 8 different countries where there are officers serving from the Salvation Army western USA territory. These will include Kenya, Spain, Estonia, Switzerland, New Zealand, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Zambia. I hope to raise an awareness of the needs in these countries as we raise funds to help in the Salvation Army work around the world.
Praise the Lord my daughter has a full time job now. She is really enjoying it. She is working as an aide in preschool (head start). The job came about in a funny way and just goes to show that God has a sense of humor. Fall time only lasted a few weeks it has started to snow in Anchorage and I am sure it will be in the valley soon. Better get going, have a great day and God bless you

scrapping garden color challenge Aug 08

I went overboard on the kit this month for the color challenge. I found some real neat tutorials in a group I belong to called digitalscrapclass. Some of the things here I even drew myself after looking at something else. I did the sheep and the glass dragonfly on my own. Hope you enjoy this kit. Please leave some love if you download it and maybe a link to a LO if you use it would be nice. Hope you enjoy it.

You can download the papers
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VBS and other stuff

We had our VBS August 4-8 on the Custom Garage theme. The subject was love God, serve others. We had a great time and the kids enjoyed it. There favorite snack for the week was the cars made out of twinkies and oreos. The games were fun even though they only got to go outside one day due to rain. Hope you enjoy the LO's, they are done with Lise Lotte Sunesen's kit called Back to School
It is nice to have Jessica back home, she spent 7 weeks in the Northwest division traveling on their VBS team. She had a great time, but I really missed her. Bill and Grace Bearchell are up visiting in Alaska and staying for a few days at my mom's. Paul is working night shift right now, so at least 3 nights a week he is gone, and sleeps during the day. Kind of hard sometimes to have any time together, but he does not work on Saturdays or Sundays so that is good.
Guess I better get busy on some more scrapbooking. Check out my gallery here.

scrapping garden color challenge kit

Here is my mini kit I designed for this months challenge. I call it Summer Jewels. I have been learning all sorts of neat design tips and the most fun and easy one is how to use scripts. If you want to get some head over to scrapping garden and check out Lise Lotte Sunesen's store. She has some fabulous ones and oh so easy. Hope you enjoy it and leave a little love here or at scrapping garden if you download it. Anyway, you can download this kit at the following links.
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elements

I can't believe a month has past by

wow I did not realize that it had been a whole month since my last post. So much has happened since then. Let me start with the Salvation Army Western Bible conference. It was absolutely fabulous. The speakers were down to earth and inspiring. I enjoyed every minute of it. The next one being planned is in 2010 and I would recommend everyone to think about attending. The conference was held at Asilomar near Monterey California. We got to go to the beach which is one of my absolute favorite places to be. I love to hear the ocean come into shore. It was a great time and I am so blessed that I got to share it with my husband, mom, aunt Floy, aunt Dora, aunt Judy, and uncle Doug. Commissioner Gaither really challenged us to get out there and live our Christianity out loud and Bill Ury brought the book of Mark alive like I have never heard before.
This past weekend was our diviaional Family Bible camp held here in Wasilla at King's Lake, (the Alaska division Salvation Army camp.) Our special guest was long time friend Major Kelly Pontsler. The theme was come join our Army and even though I have been in the Salvation Army all my life, it was interesting and fun. I especially enjoyed the Salvation Army DNA and "are you smarter than a Junior Soldier" My sister, mom, and I did a workshop on Salvation Army Heritage. We split it in 3 segments. I did the part of the Salvation Army in Alaska, June did the Salvation Army in general, and we each did a little about our own heritage in the Salvation Army.
Now on to my scrapbooking. I have to say that one of my LO's done with all sorts of animals is actually a testimony of God's greatness. Recently it had been said that many times we pray but do not act like we believe God will give us what we are asking. My aunts and mom had been telling me all about the animals they had seen on the trip down to California and I wanted to see the animals also. I kept complaining about not seeing any and asking God to let me. But it was not until I acutally took my camera out of the bag and set it on the dashboard that I began to see them. You see, I had to act like I believed God would give me what I wanted. Here is the 2 page LO I did of the animals I saw on my trip home.