3.5.08 - So, you think I live in paradise huh? Oh! and a HUGE Digital Candy Freebie!

Ok, so many of you have commented on how lucky I am to "live in paradise". And I'll be honest, it's true! I AM lucky, however, I still have to deal with many things that you "mainlanders" just never have to face! I'll tell you about TWO such things today...

First - not much to say here, but as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. So, I'll simply say this:

Yes, it IS a big, a REALLY stinkin' big MOLTING (do you see the yucky skin falling off the darn thing!?) lizzard! Go ahead and click on the picture to get a GOOD up close look at it! I dare you!

Yes, that is the window DIRECTLY ABOVE my bed (my stinkin' inflatable bed...). THIS is what I woke up to this morning. I composed myself long enough to take a picture (because, seriously, who is going to believe that this thing is in my house if I don't??)

Then it began to hiss (yes, I said hiss!) Dh was already gone, my two girls were no help at all and the little one thought he was in heaven running and chasing the *bleeping* thing. Then Kea (my Jack Russell) got in on the action and HE's running around trying to catch the STILL molting (can we all say "gross"?) lizard. I'm screaming even louder now because all I can think of is my dog eating the darn thing (who's probably sick with some skin flaking disease) and ME having to clean up the "aftermath".

Little man finally caught the darn thing and took it outside (a much better fate than the numerous geckos we caught this weekend that my husband sucked up with our shop vac (all together now..."Eeewwww"! Or the HUGE (some as large as 6-7 inches) venomous stinging centipedes that we often find in the house and have to CUT IN HALF and then flush (because even when you cut them in half they LIVE and run in different directions) or the HUGE (like nearly the length of my pinkie finger!) flying (yes I said flying) cockroaches that are ALWAYS in the house (and everyone elses in Hawaii too for that matter!) who Kea thinks of a tasty treat and catches and eats them before I can even find the bug spray.

I swear on my MacBook Pro (I love my laptop now....) that I am NOT making this up... ask my dear friend Cari who nearly moved out of my house while she was here and moved into a hotel because of the critters! (Cari, leave a comment and tell them it's true, or no meatball sub for you!!)

Oh, and with the length of this post I'll have to tell you my second story tomorrow. Suffice it to say that it involves me, a HUGE Hawaiian monk seal and my husband running away...

So, still think I live in paradise???

What? The freebie? Oh yeah! I'm taking the day off again, BUT the fab Digital Candy Element Team has a HUGE kit for you, so stop laughing at me and download your freebie!

Click HERE to get your free kit!

Click HERE to check out my new Layout Gallery just for me and my designs at Digital Candy (come on...post your LO's here! Please??)

3.4.08 - Add on Mini Kit to Tiptoe!

So, while I haven't been getting too much sleep (read last post if you're wondering why!) I have been busy designing! I've been having some fun with my new kit "Tiptoe", doing some personal scrapping (with stuff OTHER than my own thank goodness!) and hanging out with the greatest group of gals that I've have had the pleasure to "meet" online in a loooong time (other than my fellow candy girls of course! LOL) They call themselves the "Sunshine Designers" or the "Collab Girls" and they have been responsible for those FABULOUS collaborative freebies that some of you may have heard of... Like Whimsical Wonderland and Love Actually.

If you're new to digi scrapping (or have been living under a digital rock since before December) you may not have heard of this WONDERFULLY TALENTED group of ladies, but Whimsical Wonderland was one of my very favorite freebie downloads ever (not to mention the BIGGEST). At any rate, this fab group of ladies has taken little ol' me into their folds and asked me to help with their Easter MEGA collab freebie...of course I had to say yes!!

So yippeee! I've been trying hard to make a freebie kit that will hold it's own with these ladies and we plan on "releasing" the as-of-yet-un-named freebie sometime this month (before Easter). I'll be sure to keep you all up to date on when and where you can get all of the freebies, so stay tuned!

Surprise TWO is my freebie for the day. I know that I said I was going to slow down with the freebies (and I am ....really I am trying) but I really wanted to spruce "Tiptoe" up a bit and add some pizazz (ergo the glitter, a first for me I think)! So here's the mini add-on kit, perhaps you'll like it enough to check out the full kit at Digital Candy (or not! LOL) I'm going to leave the link active for 48 hours here on my blog and then move the freebie to my store at Digital Candy - so get it now while you can!! The password is: tulips

Either way, have a great day scrapping (or, like most of us...just finding and downloading those freebies!)

Aloha!

Shauna

This post has been edited to remove this link.

Click HERE to check out Tiptoe at Digital Candy