Good MORNING.

Oh what a beautiful morrrrning. Oh what a beautiful dayyyy.

I just want you all to know I got up at 4 AM and here I am blogging away. I'm addicted. Not to blogging, but to just plain the whole shebang lately. I have been designing like mad. I have been playing like mad.

What's going on for you???

With the holidays fast approaching, new projects and exciting activities are going on everywhere. I am currently involved in 2 collaborations, plus developing a few side projects. I can't wait to show them to you, but I have to wait to show them to you, get my drift?

The hubby and I went to KMart and did a layaway for Christmas last night. Everything was for Maia, and she will have a decent Christmas even though mommy isn't working as long as we get that sucker out in time lol. I love to layaway Christmas, especially with us living in a small apartment. There's nowhere in this place to hide gifts, that's for sure! This is the first year Maia has really grasped the concept of Santa, gifts, and that Christmas is coming. She knew about Christmas last year but didn't sit and anticipate it all month in November. Maia tells me every day what she has on her Christmas list lol. I won't lie, my kid is extremely toy motivated. She's 5. I am letting her have this year be her year to just enjoy the heck out of presents, and "Me me me". Next year, we will start doing something a little more meaningful lol. Every kid should get the whole big BAM on Christmas morning at least once. Now, I say this with discretion and should clarify... no animals were harmed in the creation of this Christmas.

I posted part 2 of an inspirational series on the MSS Blog today. If you are into inspirational scrapping and "digging deep" this series might be a good one for you. It's kinda... scrap therapy lol.

OK back to the designing board. I got lots to do to prep for the great Christmas of 2008 here on my blog and at MSS hehe.

One last important note: I am rotating the 50 cent items this week in my store at MSS. If you want any of the 50 cent items that are there right now, you might wanna snag them today. You can see them in the Fab 50s section at the store here.