Wedding Maps

If you are interested in having wedding maps made to include in your wedding invitations, please contact me at meekerfam@att.net.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Probably the most funniest part in my favorite movie of all time.

Merry Christmas

From my girls Jasmyn and Lilly

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My Top 10 Christmas Movie List

My Top 10 Christmas Movie List

List of top movies to watch during the holidays.

By mjmeeker Published 12/19/2008

150 Halloween-Scrapbook and Greeting Card Sayings and Page Titles

Click the link below to view my list of scrapbook sayings and titles for Halloween. Hope this helps you when you get stumped on what to title your scrapbook page.

150 Halloween-Scrapbook and Greeting-Card Sayings and Titles

Creative sayings and titles for your Halloween scrapbook pages.

By mjmeeker Published 7/23/2008

Citrus Punch Non-alcoholic Drink

Citrus Punch Non-alcoholic Drink for a New Year's Eve Party

Snowman Poop Novelty Gift-Stocking Stuffer Fund Raiser for PH Central-SOLD thx

Help raise money for an excellent nonprofit organization for Pulmonary Hypertension by bidding on these cute little novelty gifts...SNOWMAN POOP! You will get a set of 4 different styles. They make great stocking stuffers, office gifts, or gift tags. Too cute! 100% off of money raised goes to WWW.PHCENTRAL.ORG.

Jasmyn's Favorite Song-The Sweet Escape-Gwen Stefani

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tEROk-Y27Q

Dog Christmas Presents-Doggy Treat Nut Box

I used Cricut's nut box from the Tags and Bags cart as well as the Paper Pups cart. These little doggy treat boxes are for all the dogs in our extended family. The tree is a Sizzix die that I embellished with fake snow, its 3D. The bag of doggie treats have a mix of 5 flavors.

 

Kid's are sooo cute!

My little Lilly fell asleep the other day watching a movie. It was so cute the way she fell asleep with her head propped up on her hands. Her sister Jasmyn and I were laughing when we saw how she fell asleep and Jazz wanted to take a picture. Thought I would share...

Baby Girl Announcements for my friend.

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A friend of mine just had a beautiful baby girl and she asked me to make her baby announcements to send out to all her friends and family. These are 5"x7" cards that I done using digital scrapbooking that were laser printed on white cardstock and had matching white envelopes. The baby was born right at Halloween so my friend wanted to incorporate pumpkins to honor the season. Isn't she a beautiful baby!?!

If you are interested in having announcements made for your little one email me at meekerfam@att.net.

You & Me Premade Paperbag Scrapbooking Album

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8x8 Christmas Vacation Premade Scrapbook Page

 www.dazzlingdesignsbymj.etsy.com

New PH Awareness Digital Scrapbooking Kit

This is so very exciting. Artist Joyce Paul (queenofscrapz) has created this beautiful digital scrapbooking kit to help raise awareness  and money for Pulmonary Hypertention. This kit can be used for to showcase those with PH and can also be used for many other themes as well. And it is only $5.

This kit includes:

10 Papers
27 Elements

http://www.divinedigital.com/boutique/product.php?productid=8401&cat=0&page=1

 

To my fellow scrappers...please add this information to your blogs and sites and help spread the word about this great kit with all proceeds going to PH Association. Help us get one step closer to a cure. thank you!

My First Turkey

I haven't blogged or scrapped lately. Just spent a week in the hospital not for my PH but with a mild colitis flair up and parotitis. Anywho, doing better now and getting back to everyday life. I made my first turkey the other day. It was my practice turkey for Thanksgiving. I must say I was impressed. Funny thing, I didn't take the packet of gibblets out of the bird because I couldnt find it. I just figured it didnt have one. After it was done and cut into it I found it. TOO FUNNY! Here's a pic. Wasn't she a beaut!

 

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Pink Martini - Lilly

Best Commercial on TV right now...

The Things Kids Do In Weddings...

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Ok so it has been a very busy couple of weeks for me and the fam so I haven't been scrapbooking much. I'll have a few things on ebay later this week. My husbands sister just got married over the weekend. We did the wedding maps, candy boxes and programs...I'll post pics later. We all crashed hard come Sunday when it was all over and unfortunately we all were sick too but that's ok it really didn't hit us until late Saturday night when all the festivities were over so I was thankful. We had the most awesome time we have all had in a long time. My girls were flower girls along with 2 other adorable girls. The oldest flower girl was the most precious, she acted like the big sister to all the flower girls. She helped all the other little girls and played with them. My girls had such a blast. Friday was the rehearsal and dinner. They rehearsed the ceremony twice. The first time everything went great but on the second take, my youngest, Lilly, decided to be stubborn and didn't want to walk down the aisle with her sister. All the other flower girls went but Lilly refused. She wanted to walk with Aunt Jen (the bride) and Grandpa. And of course, she got what she wanted. It was adorable but I worried that she would do the same thing on wedding day. And of course, she did. But the maid of honor, Aunt Mo, quick on her feet, went down the aisle and walked Lilly up. You never know what kids are going to do in a wedding. It was cute but I wish she would have walked with sissy like the first time in rehearsals. That would have been some cute pics of them two throwing petals together. Anywho, at the rehearsal dinner all the flower girls got gifts for being a part of the wedding. I just thought these were the best gifts I have seen and wanted to share. They are bride barbie dolls! They have a tiara and veil, bouquet of flowers, and a ring that lights up. Isn't this the greatest gift for a flower girl! The girls played with them all night and still play with them every day since. My sister-in-law aways finds the most perfect gifts. It amazes me. She should be a professional shopper for people.

If you have a funny or not so funny story about what you have seen kids do at weddings, I'd love for you to share. Post a comment and tell your story.

OMG...CHECK OUT THIS AWESOME CANDY BLOG

Ok, I'm a candy freak! I love hard candy, my husband loves gum, my girls love chocolate! If your one of the first 50 bloggers to contact them you can get a free 5lb bag of candy.  Sweets - Candy Blog has a lot of cool stuff including recipes, candy information, and so much more. They are a bulk wholesale dealer so this would be a great place to purchase candy for Halloween, Weddings, Christmas Parties and more.

What are your top 5 favorite holiday treats?

My top 5 holiday treats are:

1. Candy/Carmel Apples


2. Chocolate Covered Cherries


3. Christmas Hard Candy


4. Port Wine Cheese Ball Covered in Almond Slivers


5. Pumpkin Rolls

Post a comment and share your favorite holiday treats!

Cool Swap and Craft Websites

There was an nice article in the Sunday paper today about craft swaps. There were three websites listed that I just had to check out. They are really cool so I thought I would share them with my fellow crafters. Check them out!

www.swapdex.blogspot.com

www.swap-bot.com

www.craftster.org

Cards That Need Extra Postage

I thought I would post this on my blog as a quick reference to figure out postage on greeting cards using USPS. This was taken straight from their website. http://www.usps.com/all/mailingandshippingguidelines/postage-for-cards.htm?from=holidayhome&page=infoextrapostage

Is it square?

Square cards cost 17¢ more.

Because square greeting cards won't flow through standard postal sort machines, we charge a 17¢ nonmachinable surcharge to handle these special cards. So, you'll need a total of 58¢ in postage.

As well, square greeting cards more than 6 1/8" tall are priced as large envelopes. To determine how much postage you need use the USPS.com rate calculator and pick "large envelope" as the shape of your mailing.

Calculate the rate

Does it weigh more than one ounce?

The heavier the card, the more is costs.

Musical cards often weigh more than one ounce, and therefore cost a bit more to send. If your card is standard-sized, just weigh it and see how much postage you need.

1-2 ounces 58¢

2-3 ounces 75¢

3-3.5 ounces 92¢

If your card is also square, there's also a 17¢ nonmachinable surcharge.
And, finally, if it’s taller than 6 1/8", longer than 11 ½", or thicker than ¼" you’ll need to calculate the rate for a large envelope

Calculate the rate

Holiday Xmas Card

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Blank Card

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New Halloween Card

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Kiddies are so fun...

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My girls made a stuffed animal train in the hallway last night. It was so cute that I had to share. They made a perfect line of stuffed animals and was so proud of it. By the way, thats my new floor that is getting installed thanks to my FIL. Doesn't it look great, it's so perdy!

Christmas Card

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I used metalic card stock and dry embossing along with DCWV papers and Bazzill Bling Cardstock. Swarovski crystals are used on the reindeer on the outside and inside of the card to embellish the reindeers collar. I used metalic gold ink to embellish the tag on the inside of the card.

Birthday Princess Layout 2007

Here is a layout that I just made of pictures of my girls birthday from last year at Aunt Jen's house. I know, little slow getting around to scrappin'. Better late than never right? Anyways, they got these cool dress up outfits from Aunt Mo that were Disney Princess and they had a blast trying on the clothes.

My Monkey Baby Boy and Love Scrapbook Layout-SOLD thank you

New One Page Baby Girl Layouts on Etsy

Creating an embossing folder using your Cricut

I stumbled onto this blog today and found the coolest tip! You can make embossing folders using your Cricut. How cool is this! You have to check out this blog for the tutorial. I'm so excited to try this! Kudos to Cloe for sharing this.

http://cloesspace.blogspot.com/2008/07/creating-embossigng-folder-using-your.html

Chills and Thrills Halloween Scrapbook Layout

Chills and Thrills (Halloween)

For Sale on eBay now: My eBay Listings

 Don’t forget to check out My Etsy Store for more of my creations.

 

Autumn Days Scrapbooking Layout

Back to School Scrapbook Layout-SOLD thank you

 

For Sale on eBay now: My eBay Listings

 

It's A Girl Thing & Little LadyBug Scrapbook Layout-SOLD thank you

250 Christmas/Winter Scrapbook or Greeting Card Sayings and Titles

Click the link below to view my list of scrapbook sayings and titles for the winter season. Hope this helps you when you get stumped on what to title your scrapbook page.

250 Christmas/Winter-Scrapbook and Greeting-Card Sayings and Titles

Sayings and titles for your scrapbook pages or greeting cards for the Christmas and winter season. Pub. 7-22-08

New Layouts: Sweet Treats, Elementary School & Little Explorer-SOLDthank you

Here is a sneak peak at the new layouts that will post to eBay Monday night, July 21st.

Sweet Treats Scrapbook Layout

Elementary School Bus Scrapbook Layout

Little Explorer -Airplane-Boy Layout

PH Central's Creative Corner

Drop by PHcentral's Creative Corner and see all the beautiful
crafts that PHers are creating. Mary Meeker's work has
recently been added.

http://www.phcentral.org/creative_corner/index.shtml

Carnival/Carousel Scrapbook Layout

carnival/carousel scrapbook layout

Recently the girls grandparents took them to a local carnival. Grandma shot some great pics so I thought I would make a layout for the girls scrapbook to showcase their awesome day! I found these great carnival 3D stickers at Walmart!

Summer Fun, Licensed To Grill, & My Pet-SOLD thank you

These layouts will go up for auction on eBay tomorrow evening.

My eBay Listings

Sweet Summer Tear Bear Scrapbook Layout-SOLD thank you

Sweet Summer Scrapbook Layout

Master Grillsman Layout - SOLD thank you

Pets are family, too. Border/Page Set-SOLD thank you

Best In Yard Border/Page Set-SOLD thank you

I thought this was cute...

I was scrapbooking today and I caught my youngest, Lilly, playing in my garbage basket full of paper scraps. I yelled at her to stop and she said "But mommy, eyes!" I turned around to see she was making her own creation. She had adorn her beloved frog that never leaves her side, with paper scraps to make eyes and buttons on his shirt. I thought this was too cute and felt bad that I yelled at her for playing the scrap basket. I guess that saying is true...One man's garbage is another man's treasure!

Summer Tear Bear Scrapbook Layout

I just finished this yesterday. My favorite element are the sandle photo mats that I made. This "Sizzlin' Summer" 2 page-12x12 layout will be posted on ebay this evening. Ebay search word: DDBMJ.