Daughters are Flowers

Finally Friday! Whoo! :)

The visit to Grandma's went well. She loved the keychain and we all had a good time playing with the little ones and talking. Today I am just glad it's Friday! I have bills to pay, errands to run. PLUS today is Joe's last day of work before his vacation next week! Yay! We're not going anywhere (couldn't afford to!), but he's taking off a week to work out finances, clean out the garage, etc. I have a honey-do list as long as my arm! LOL not really :) :)

One more thing I'd like to note, and a tip for y'all: Some of my past freebies were rather small. These days I like making them a full 11-12 inches across, so you can shrink them if needed, but can use them large if you want. So as I go through and arrange them into bunches for sale, I re-do the old ones larger. And today's had me stumped! I lost all my font files a few months back and didn't do a thorough job of replacing them. The "She will fill our lives with sunshine and our hearts with love" wordart was missing both fonts, so I couldn't re-make it! If you EVER have a problem figuring out a font, I recommend What the Font? It's a really easy service, you just upload the image with the font you want identified and go through some easy steps. Then, if the automated step-by-step procedure doesn't work out (as it didn't for me), you can submit your image to a forum and have other font-freaks help you out. I got an answer in less than 12 hours and both fonts were identified! Wow! It's a great resource, here is the URL: http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

Also, starting next week I believe I will leave my freebies up for two weeks instead of just one. An executive decision LOL. They will still expire, so be sure to grab 'em while you can.
Y'all have a good weekend! :)

Customers please note: I will be emailing the file to you as soon as I receive the confirmation of payment from PayPal. If the email you would like your file sent to differs from your PayPal account's then please let me know. You will receive your file within 24 hours (but probably much quicker). ANY questions, please feel free to email me, I know I'm working through kinks here :)
Today's bunch for sale:

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And today's freebie:

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Sons are Rays of Sunshine

Today I am going to visit with my Grandma. I know she loves the distraction, I can't imagine what it's like to lose your husband of (almost) 62 years. Actually, all of my siblings (two younger sisters, one younger brother) are going as well..

Earlier this year, my sister Kelley gave my grandfather a keychain with tiny pictures in it of his grandkids and great-grandkids (4 each - I printed the tiny pictures). He carried it around with him and showed it proudly at every opportunity, even to the nurse in the ICU unit where he passed. When he was buried, the keychain was buried with him. So my siblings and I pitched in to buy another one for my Grandma. And today we're venturing to Sweetwater to all be there to give it to her. :)

Customers please note: I will be emailing the file to you as soon as I receive the confirmation of payment from PayPal. If the email you would like your file sent to differs from your PayPal account's then please let me know. You will receive your file within 24 hours (but probably much quicker). ANY questions, please feel free to email me, I know I'm working through kinks here :)
Today's bunch for sale:

$2.00

And today's freebie:

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Are We There Yet?

Today is pretty dull. Dishes, laundry, and applying for a new work-at-home position that has opened up in my area. I attended a virtual job fair online this morning to learn more about it, I think it sounds like a great opportunity. Also I got my front flowerbed weeded (3" dandelions, it was overdue!). Now I need a shower! :)

Customers please note: I will be emailing the file to you as soon as I receive the confirmation of payment from PayPal. If the email you would like your file sent to differs from your PayPal account's then please let me know. You will receive your file within 24 hours (but probably much quicker). ANY questions, please feel free to email me, I know I'm working through kinks here :)
Today's bunch for sale (something I need! a VACATION! lol):

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And today's freebie:

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You are So Beautiful to Me

Ah I am so tired of the Salvation Army! It's a great place with real nice people, but I am just not up to being so active and on my feet all day. I'm glad to be done! Today I am popping a chicken in the slow cooker and: catching up on dishes, laundry, and wordart, applying for a couple jobs (I need a job!), and cruisin' the internet :)

Customers please note: I will be emailing the file to you as soon as I receive the confirmation of payment from PayPal. If the email you would like your file sent to differs from your PayPal account's then please let me know. You will receive your file within 24 hours (but probably much quicker). ANY questions, please feel free to email me, I know I'm working through kinks here :)
Today's bunch for sale:

$2.00

And today's freebie:

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Rock of Ages

Happy Monday. If you haven't already checked out my Monday Links blog, click HERE to check it out. Today I'm still toiling away at my Salvation Army community service hours to pay off my speeding ticket. It's probably the last day though, thank goodness. I'm wiped out!

Customers please note: I will be emailing the file to you as soon as I receive the confirmation of payment from PayPal. If the email you would like your file sent to differs from your PayPal account's then please let me know. You will receive your file within 24 hours (but probably much quicker). ANY questions, please feel free to email me, I know I'm working through kinks here :)

Today's bunch for sale:

$2.00

And today's freebie:

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Dancing with Daddy

Well, it's back to the Salvation Army with me for the day. I've added my customer information to every post I'm selling from, to make sure there's no confusion about where to get the files once you've purchased them.

Customers please note: I will be emailing the file to you as soon as I receive the confirmation of payment from PayPal. If the email you would like your file sent to differs from your PayPal account's then please let me know. You will receive your file within 24 hours (but probably much quicker). ANY questions, please feel free to email me, I know I'm working through kinks here :)

Today's bunch for sale, a Daddy bunch:

$2.00

And today's freebie offering:

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Family Fun Night

Ah yesterday at the Salvation Army wasn't too bad, lots of hanging donated clothes. I'm back to it today. Only a couple more days and I'm in the clear :)

Customers please note: I will be emailing the file to you as soon as I receive the confirmation of payment from PayPal. If the email you would like your file sent to differs from your PayPal account's then please let me know. You will receive your file within 24 hours (but probably much quicker). ANY questions, please feel free to email me, I know I'm working through kinks here :)
Today's bunch for sale is my old family acrostics:

$2.00

And today's freebie:

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Greater Love Hath No Man

Hi all! Today I am having to do some community service at the Salvation Army. I got a speeding ticket awhile back and then forgot all about it, this is my punishment. I have 24 hours to get done by next Tuesday, so it shouldn't be too bad. I hope :)

Customers please note: I will be emailing the file to you as soon as I receive the confirmation of payment from PayPal. If the email you would like your file sent to differs from your PayPal account's then please let me know. You will receive your file within 24 hours (but probably much quicker). ANY questions, please feel free to email me, I know I'm working through kinks here :)
Today's bunch for sale, bible verses:

$2.00

And a freebie:

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Friends are as Important

Today I am headed to visit my Grandma and help her write thank you cards. My handwriting isn't the best, but I'll do what I can :)

Customers please note: I will be emailing the file to you as soon as I receive the confirmation of payment from PayPal. If the email you would like your file sent to differs from your PayPal account's then please let me know. You will receive your file within 24 hours (but probably much quicker). ANY questions, please feel free to email me, I know I'm working through kinks here :)
Today's bunch for sale:


$2.00

And a freebie!:

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Check back tomorrow for some sweet Bible verses.

Hot Fun in the Summertime

Hey all! Happy Monday!
Well, I believe I've got it all worked out. Please let me know if anyone has any problems finding anything or buying/downloading anything.

Customers please note: I will be emailing the file to you as soon as I receive the confirmation of payment from PayPal. If the email you would like your file sent to differs from your PayPal account's then please let me know. You will receive your file within 24 hours (but probably much quicker). ANY questions, please feel free to email me, I know I'm working through kinks here :)

$2.00

If you participate in Jenn from Scrapper's Workshop's crops, you might have picked this bunch up as a freebie last month.

And here is a freebie for ya:

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Freebies are only available for one week, so be sure to grab it!
Tomorrow I'll have a friend set and freebie, so check back!

Best Friends Forever and Ever

Hey all!

I am feeling soo lazy today. In a good, stretch out on the couch and watch TV kind of way. Too bad I have laundry and dishes to do, LOL :)

Tomorrow is the day the majority of my freebies will expire, so be sure to download your fill before then! I'll be killing the old freebie links and will be sure to update my tagging system as well to make different categories easier to find and to enable y'all to find the fresh freebies.

Also, Monday I am going to try to have a Summer Tunes wordart bunch up for sale with a coordinating freebie to grab. For now I'm going to stick with trying to offer one bunch for sale with a matching freebie in each post.

So if you tune into my blog Monday and find a mess, bear with me! I should have it all up and organized by Tuesday. I hope!! :)

Today's freebie:

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Where Your Treasure Is

Saturday! Yay! :)

First off I must say (again!) thank you all for the kind words about my grandfather. It's been rough and going back to "life as usual" has seemed a bit surreal. Every thought and prayer is appreciated, I feel blessed to have such kind blog buddies :)

Last night we went to see the new Harry Potter at the drive-in. It was GREAT! It's funny, when Harry Potter first became popular, I was soo uninterested. It seemed silly and I was in my late teens-early 20's, feeling far "too old" for such "juvenile" fare. It wasn't until about the time the third movie (Azkaban) came out that I fell in love with HP. The ABC Family channel was playing Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone one day while hubbie was working and I decided to give it a try. I was immediately caught up. I recorded the movie to show Joe and ran out to buy the books. Since then we have seen every movie numerous times and when the Deathly Hallows book was released, we ignored the TV for days until we had it all read. Our dog is named Neville, after my favorite character (who didn't get much attention in this latest movie, to my dismay).

Never quite caught the Twilight bug as much.. I have read the books and seen the movie (and my sister is a die-hard Twilight fan). I would even go so far as to refer to myself as a firm Team Jacob member. But Harry has my heart :)

A HP-inspired freebie today (also a Bible verse if you want to erase the bottom text):


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Also don't forget that beginning Monday my freebies will only be available for a week from the date I post them. This means the majority of the freebie links I have up now will be be removed. I will start selling them in bunches with new designs, but will definitely continue to post up freebies for you guys. Stay tuned for that :)

Dirty Girl/Boy

Happy Friday, all :)

Hope you're all well. I'm feeling much better today. Still a bit of a cough, but I'm sooo glad it never got very bad. A minor head cold. Today I am at the computer again. Churning out wordart and looking for work-at-home opportunities. TGIF!

Today's freebies (there's 2!):

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I am Not Bossy

Still feeling a bit sickly. Not too bad for sitting at the computer, though, so I'm working on wordarts, ChaCha-ing and Facebooking :)

Today's freebie:

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A Grandfather is

Ah so I'm back again.

That was rough. I've never lost a close family member, so it was all horribly new to me. And my siblings, too. But the service was beautiful and none of us broke down during our memorials. He was buried at a new Veterans Cemetery that has been established just out of town and he got a prime place, right in front when you enter.

It was all so emotional, and I believe all the stress has made me ill. Stuffy nose, sore throat, and my chest burns when I cough. Blech.

Have been working on wordart bunches, so don't forget to gobble up all the freebies I have posted while you still can, I will be taking the majority of them down this coming Monday (the 20th) and beginning to offer bunches for sale. Don't think I won't still offer freebies, I will! But they will only be kept up for a week from Monday on.

Here is a freebie for today, I'll be back on tomorrow with another :)

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The Bridge is Love

I just wanted to say thank you so much to everyone who has commented, emailed, called, prayed, etc. It means more than I can express and every single thought is so appreciated. I was very close with my grandparents and he is the first family member I have lost, so this is quite a blow. We knew his health was poor, but the decline happened so quickly.. and I know you can never be "ready."

I am praising God now that we were all (both children and all four grandchildren) able to see him before the end. He held our hands in the hospital and told us he loved us. I am so blessed to have that moment to hold onto. Many of my family members (including myself) were able to be there with him when he passed and I know it gives us all great comfort to know he was not alone.

For now I am going to take a few days break from blogging. I will be speaking at the funeral and arranging photos for the viewing, as well as dealing with my emotions.. So I will be useless online for a bit.

I know I claimed I would begin taking down freebies this coming Monday, but due to the circumstances, I think it will wait another week until Monday the 20th. At that time I will be taking down the majority my old freebies and will begin the process of selling them in bunches. Freebies will still be posted often, but only left up for a week at a time before being incorporated into bunches. So get to downloading if you haven't already, just hit the FREEBIES link below this post to find them all.

A final freebie before I break.
In loving memory of my grandfather,
Judge Charles Weldon Kirk, June 1925 - July 2009.
He will be so missed.

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Grandpa

Well, he passed away today. And I am feeling lost.

All your comments, emails, and prayers are much appreciated at this hard time. I cannot tell you how much it means.

Rest in peace, Grandpa. I love you.

Bad Time

Well late last night I received a call, my Grandpa was hospitalized. So my family and I took off in the middle of the night for his hometown where we visited with him briefly and sat in the tiny waiting room all night. He is doing well enough to be transferred to my town, a bigger town with a better hospital, but it is looking right now like he might not make it much farther. I am absolutely wiped out with emotion and lack of sleep, so no freebie today, but prayers are always appreciated.
God bless.

Eternal Honeymoon

Ah hello!

Today I am trying to get ahead on wordart. I am putting together bunches of them that I will begin selling on this blog in the next couple weeks. Later on I hope to graduate up to a store, but for now the blog will do fine! :)

That said, here's a warning: I will be making my freebies available for only a week at a time starting Monday July 13. All my old freebies will expire to be incorporated into bunches to be sold. So if you haven't checked out my old posts, I'd suggest you click the FREEBIES label below this post and get to downloading.

I will still be offering freebies most days, so be sure and keep checking back for those!

Here's today's:

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Life is a Dance

Oh hey everybody! Didja miss me?
Thanks to everyone who checked on me through comments or emails, I appreciate y'all thinking of me. I am fine, really. I wasn't sick past the weekend, but I definitely had a lazy kind of week. Didn't get much of anything done, unfortunately, besides a bit of house cleaning. But I am back and back on track! :)

Today's freebie:

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Check back tomorrow for another freebie and a longer post :)

Land of the Free

Ah I know I have been MIA for a week or so. I'm back though and hopefully getting back on track, thanks for sticking with me! :)

Happy Independence Day, Americans! We're having a BBQ with friends and family followed by mass explosions out-of-town. Joe has devised a multi-shot fireworks contraption he's calling The Devastator. Should make for a good show! I'm ready to roll!

A freebie suitable for the 4th:

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I'll be back on Monday! Have a great weekend!