happy Monday, everyone!

How are y'all doing today?

Are you ready for a new week?

I am excited this morning because I am taking my two oldest girls (and the baby) to do some school shopping! I've been checking some things out online and have a couple of coupons printed out and can't wait to help the girls find some cute new things for school. Hailey will start second grade and Sarah will be in kindergarten. They are growing up way too fast. We won't buy TOO much because they have plenty of clothes already but it's always fun to find a few new things for the first days of school.

(here's a new pic of the girls- we took some family pics while in Houston a few weeks ago; I'm sure Ginger got some better pics- here Sarah is the only one looking at me while the other girls are looking at Ginger!)

Aimee is going shopping with my husband for some things to take to the local food bank tonight. Our church has partnered with the South Plains Food bank for a food drive this summer, the second year running now, and it's neat to buy some things and show the girls that WE can do something to help those who are in need and to think about someone else instead of just "me, me, me" all of the time. Everyone from the church in our area has been invited to go tonight for one final drop-off .  http://www.spfb.org/site/c.lgLQIVOyGpF/b.5475427/k.5CCB/South_Plains_Food_Bank.htm

I can't believe that school starts in a couple of weeks! I am excited (I think the girls are ready to get back into a routine) but sad at the same time because it's been fun to have the girls around so much. I know that they miss each other when they're off doing the school thing.

Today I have some more projects to share with you, things I created for the online store, A Walk Down Memory Lane. Last week I shared some Little Yellow Bicycle/Unity Stamp projects:

and today I have some projects featuring the Bella Blvd. "Tail Waggers and Cat Naps" collection. 

I don't often use themed collections but thought it would be fun to show how you can use themey collections for other things, like this card: 

You can see two more projects that I created with this collection here:

http://www.awdml.com/?main_page=wordpress

Have a great day!

p.s. I'll post the My Little Shoebox giveaway winner later today!

a fun guest DT spot #1 and mixing it up with My Little Shoebox

I got an email a while back from someone asking me if I'd like to guest design for an online store - A Walk Down Memory Lane- for the month of August. I took a look around and liked the selection of product so I told her I'd do it and had a lot of fun preparing my projects.

The first of these projects is up on their blog today and here's a sneak peek:

You can see the rest here:
http://www.awdml.com/?main_page=wordpress

I will have some other projects on the blog a few more times this month and some other great designers will be featured there as well so be sure to check that out, too.

Have a nice day!

p.s. this post is up on the My Little Shoebox blog so I thought I'd go ahead and share. For our projects this month we are mixing up different collections both old and new. Here is a peek at my page:

Click on the link below to see the rest of my page and to check out the other designers' work on the MLS blog: http://mylittleshoebox.typepad.com/my-little-shoebox/2011/08/lets-mix-it-up.html