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is tempting me - if anyone reading has used it, can you tell me what you think of it? I love the idea of being able to scan things using a smaller, more portable device, especially now that I've been doing some digital designing - I think it would work much better than a desktop scanner on things like old books. {Yes, that's an affiliate link, but no, I don't actually know if it's a good product or not - I just think it sounds pretty awesome.} On a side note, does anyone know of a super-compact printer that is inexpensive and works well? We live in a tiny house so smaller is always better, and we don't print at home very much so I don't want to spend a lot...
For all you craft nerds {and yes, I include myself in that group!}, I saw some stuff about the CHA show. Here are some trend predictions, and a list of product sneak peeks with links to see them all.
This is just funny, a spoofy but smart blog post about the wikipedia protest last week.
My kids' current favorite bedtime book is Voyage to the Bunny Planet
by Rosemary Wells. She is also the author of the Max and Ruby books that my brother and I had when we were little {and my kids enjoy those ones too}. The bunny planet book is better for bedtime though, it's a sweet sing-songy book with kind of a dreamy illustration style, so it's more relaxing. The Max and Ruby books are funny, so they are better for daytime storytime.
And my favorite book to read when I feel like a failure as a mom is Go the F**k to Sleep
by Adam Mansbach. A word of warning: if you have kids who can read, don't leave this book lying around. The f word is on just about every page. Even some adults will be offended by the language. But if, like me, you've spent many, many evenings trying to get babies or young children to go to sleep, and you've experienced trying to be soothing while wanting to rip your hair out....you'll probably relate. There's a video on youtube somewhere that has Morgan Freeman reading it out loud, again, beware if you are around children or at the office because of all the cursing! 
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Here are my latest digiscrap elements - two frames and one tag, all in a scallop shape with a bit of glitter. They are free for personal use only, which means use them in your scrapbook layouts but not in anything that you'll sell, and don't redistribute them - if you know someone who would like them, please send them here. Thanks! {Contact me if you want to use any of my items for a commercial project.}
Download the high-res .png files here:
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. The writer of the review clearly has a personal reason to be upset by the book - but now I actually want to read it. Based on my personal experience as a yoga student, instructor, and as a general fitness instructor, I think reading about recent scientific studies would be really interesting. I love it when I can tell my students a scientific reason in addition to the yoga theory when they have a question about something. 
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I was playing with a brush and some glitter, and ended up with a cute little note card featuring a glittery tree. This one is free for personal use, just like my 
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This is the first time I'm offering a digital product I made, and it is free, with a couple of conditions:
1) Free for personal use only - that means not for any kind of commercial project - contact me if you want to use them for a commercial project.
2) I'd love to see what you make - so leave a comment if you want to share & I'll go look at your blog post. This isn't required, I'd just love to see something I made in use.
3) If you want to tell someone else about these items, please direct them to this blog post. Don't give away my images, and since they are for personal use, obviously don't sell them either.
I think that's about it. These terms apply to just the items in this post.
If you look at the image above, you'll see that I added numbers to each element so you can choose which one(s) you'd like to download. Click on the links below to get a high-resolution .png file of each one.
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I thought this snapshot from a trip to Death Valley needed and aged appearance, so I stuck it in a polaroid frame {courtesy of the fuzzimo blog} and distressed it a bit. Now it has the perfect aged look.
I love Death Valley - it looks like something straight out of a dinosaur movie {well, minus all the lush vegetation - maybe more like a movie set on Mars?} but it's a very dusty place. Everything man-made there looks old and dusty.
If you've never been, it's a great place to go in spring or fall, but avoid the summer - temperatures get up around 120 F on a regular basis, and it's extremely dry - but in spring and fall, with temps in them 80s and 90s, you can swim in the warm springs and hike in short and t-shirts, and there are things to see there that I've never seen anywhere else. I plan to take my kids in a few years, when they are old enough to enjoy the trip and not just complain the entire drive down and back.
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This tag was just a fun, quick thing I made to play with the steampunk brush set I downloaded from the 
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I like that my December pictures are a mix of holiday-themed stuff and random things we did that had nothing to do with the holidays. The app I'm using is Project 365 Pro. It was 99 cents, and I got some itunes gift cards for Christmas so it was free in a way ;)
If you aren't trying to lose weight and get healthy this year, I bet this 
If anyone reading my blog knows more about any of these books or has read one, I'd love to hear if you liked it or not! 
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At the time, digital cameras generally had 2 or 3 megapixels, so my photos from the trip are all very small by today's standards. I wanted to do something with this sunset shot though, because it's the best sunset shot I've ever taken. It actually isn't even quite sunset, so who knows where all the great orange came from. The photo is completely unedited - normally these kinds of photos are washed out, or the lighting ruins them, or something, so I never get good colors when I attempt sunset shots. I have no idea why this one, taken with a low-res low-quality camera, turned out so well. Here's a slightly larger version of just the photo:
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I made the layout using supplies by Charlize Creations. I got the kit, called "You are Loved," from the