You asked yesterday for a star flourish, so here’s one I did this morning:

You like? You can get it here!

Don’t forget about the DSD Grand Reopening tomorrow! The two kits with the swirlies as well as some other great stuff from me and our other fabulous designers will be 20% off through the weekend and you’ll get the megakit FREE with a $25 purchase!

I’m also still working on stuff for the shop there. I have reworked one of my older kits, Greet the Day, and am working on a few of the others. The papers are still great, but I’m reworking some of the elements and adding some more current stuff. I’m also cutting out some of the papers because honestly, I used to make some HUGE kits!

Okay, gotta get ready to run errands today. Oh, if you happen to be one of my loyal few that attend my Thursday night chats, I’m going to have to put them on hold for a while. My class wanted to do a study group and the only night we could all do it was Thursday, so I have to give that priority.

Have a great day, all! See you tomorrow!

These will be for sale individually at DSD for $2.50 each…get all six sets now for ten bucks!

The stamp set is in black .png files, but also includes a brush set for Photoshop.  It only includes numbers, letters and an exclamation point and question mark because the font didn’t have any of the other fun characters .  The others, however, include brackets, the @ symbol and all lowercase letters and 0-9.  These are so truly versatile and for $10 for the whole package, you just can’t beat it!

In other news, two kids with a summer cold (well, almost fall cold) makes like a bit more difficult. I’m trying to get some stuff put together for the Grand Opening on Friday, waiting for an upgrade on our new cart, then we have to do a little server move so that we can have a secure certificate for our credit card payment options. Busy, busy, busy…I’m out!

This is the first in my line of Essentials, the Backpack line. This is 8 sheets of kraft paper with varying degrees of wrinkling, painting, etc… The set will sell in the store at Digiscrapdivas for $2.50, but you can get it here for only $2!

Ashley has been doing this and it makes sense, especially since I’m closing my personal shop and selling only at ACOT and DSD now. She puts a link to purchase her new kits on her blog. Easy to buy, easy to see, easy to do. So, I’m giving it a whirl.

This is my Li’l Man Kit, formerly an ACOT exclusive, but now available here for at least a few days:

Love it? Gotta have it? Here you go:

Because I am so pissed right now, I can’t even say it.  Not at anyone in particular, I guess maybe at the fact that this industry is so freakin saturated that you can’t have an original idea, I don’t know.  I’m just pissed.

Yesterday, the kids and I had chinese food for lunch and as I read our fortunes, I thought, what a fun thing to make for scrapping!  Different fortunes appropriate for different things, sold in little sets.  What a great idea!  And then, dang it, I go to Holly’s blog this morning and lo and behold, there’s my idea!  So much for being original.  Even though I totally thought of it yesterday before she put these up on her blog, I’m going to be viewed as a copycat if I do them.  Well, tough.  My kids know it was an original idea. Seriously, I told Bailey sitting at the table at the restaurant yesterday what a fun idea it was, she’ll tell you!  So, I don’t want anyone to think I’m ragging on Holly, I’m not at all.  It just gets so dang old not being able to have an original idea in this industry.  I sure hope the next year sees some major changes including a reduction in the selection of stuff out there because it is so hard to do anything in this oversaturated market…ugh.

Okay, end of profanity.  And again, I want to stress, I’m not in any way knocking Holly’s idea or what she did.  I know it was an original idea for her, too.  It’s just so frustrating to think you have come up with a new and exciting idea only to see it put into action the very next day by someone else.

End of whine, vent, whatever it is.  Oh, wait!  I have to tell you that this is just the perfect end to one of the worst possible starts to anyone’s day!  Get this.  First, I go to get in the shower and the water is literally a drip.  Then, while I’m trying to shave my legs under the drip, the dang power went off!  Geez!  So I finish my shower in the dark, under a dang drip, then finally get dressed and take the kiddos up to the little store to get some breakfast.  I tell Scooby (Casey), let’s wait ’til we get home to open that milk so it doesn’t get spilled…but NOOOOOO, he has to have it right now.  So what do you think happens?  The whole dang bottle is spilled in the seat of the vehicle!  GRRRRRRRR!  So, I’m going to get back in bed, cover my head and hide so that nothing else goes wrong today!

gosh, I must seem like the most fickle person on the planet!  Well, this time it isn’t me.  PDW decided to make some changes and I have decided that I am just not able to comply to them so I left before I even got started.  Crazy, huh?  Now, I already turned in my resignation at TDC and am so dang wishy-washy about that, the best check I’ve had there was the most recent one which came after I gave Laura my notice.  Isn’t that crazy?!?!?  The girls there are so nice and so is Laura, but I’m just trying to decide if I should change my mind (again) if Laura would still have me or if I should just go ahead and leave and concentrate on my stuff at A Cherry on Top and Digiscrapdivas.  I hate decisions, I really do.

Ooh, I’m going to be a tease!  Here’s just a snippet of an upcoming kit which you’ll find in the DSD store for the Grand Opening on September 1st:

Hee hee, aren’t I a tease?  I know.  I so LOVE this kit, I can’t wait to be able to show it all to you, but if I show it now and you can’t buy it for another week, you’ll forget!  Meanwhile, I have another that is this style that I am working on and a fabulous idea for something that I THINK is truly original so I hope to get some stuff done over the weekend.

DH and I had a talk and I told him how I feel about working for him.  Of course, we have differing opinions, but I am going to try to deal with it.  We’re building a sale facility in a few months and I’ll have my own office so that will make things much better.  Right now I have to sit at his desk and use his computer to work and it’s just hard not having my own space plus the kids’ area is in there, too.  When we move, my office will be about the same size as the one we’re sharing now so I really think it’ll be better.

I had a great idea for a challenge for my crop tonight but I haven’t had time to do the layout myself so I don’t know if I want to use it this week.  I may go find something else.  I know that unless I start having something to do on a regular basis and advertising, I’ll continue to have a small crowd.  That’s really okay, I enjoy visiting with those who do come, but I would like to see more people simply because that’s more of an opportunity to promote my stuff.

Okay, the coffee cup is dry and I still have a few things to do for DSD so I’m out.  Have a great day!

and I don’t know if I will.  I’m not having the greatest day ever, so at this point, I don’t care if I walk or not.

How much crap would you take to be able to stay home with your kids?  I’m almost at the breaking point with my DH.  I’m trying to work for him, but I don’t think I can do it much longer.  He gives me half-ass instructions and expects me to understand and follow them, never shows even one inkling of appreciation for what I do do, takes it out on me and the kids when we’re down there and he’s having a bad day.  I put up with enough of his crap at home, I’m not sure I can continue to do it at work, too, but we really need the money.  I don’t know what to do anymore, it’s really hard.  To top it off, after reading of the evil effects of Effexor and especially the horrible withdrawal symptoms, I decided to get off of it.  A friend of mine is attributing her weight gain to being on an anti-depressant and I certainly have gained some serious weight since I’ve been on them, so maybe that’s part of my problem, too.  So, anyway, I quit cold turkey, no sense in dragging it out.  I haven’t been on Effexor that long, so I’ll be okay.  For the most part, I’ve felt really great emotionally, a little weepy now and then, but mostly really good.  Except when I have to deal with my husband who seems to be able to make my day turn to crap with one sentence or less.  I don’t deserve it, but I don’t know what to do about it.  I love my kids too much to give up my last year at home with them.  Still, I’m almost to the point of telling him to hire someone else to take his crap at the office, I get enough of it at home.

Grrrr…sorry for the vent, but I gotta get it out somewhere and I don’t have anyone else to tell it to.

I have said countless times that I am in desperate need of weight loss.  So, this morning, Bailey and I went for a walk.  Not a long one,  not really sure how long, I’m going to check it later when we go to the post office and see.  Anyway, the thing is, at least we did it.  Day 1 is a success.  Now, I’m looking on to day 2.

Man, did we do some traveling this weekend.  Saturday we drove about 4 hours round trip to a birthday party and then yesterday, I went the same trip to see my new great nephew.  He’s such a content baby, I hope he stays that easy when they get him home, but he probably won’t .

Nothing new on the designing front, still trying to put the finishing touches on the new DSD shop and get ready for the grand opening.  I really need to get a few things up at PDW, but I don’t want to rush it and be sorry that I did it.  I need to do some great stuff for that shop and start things off on the right foot since it has the potential to give me and my designs some good exposure.

Well, haven’t even had a cup of coffee, yet, so I’m off to get one.  Enjoy your day!

and I just wrapped up my new Arctic Frog collection, so I think I’m going to crash.  I’m so happy to have that done and I’m really pleased with how it came out.  Let’s just hope the boss is, too!

I also got my baby photo sent to PDW for my bio page and got a new logo made.  You guys convinced me to go with Kathy Moore Designs so I needed a new logo for my packaging.  Here it is:

You like?  I do.  Simple, but me.  I think it can also be adapted to grayscale and used on the back of my AF stuff.  Alannah suggested that after we did the first two collections and I just think that would be pretty darn cool.

So, later this week, I’ll be trying to create a set or two for PDW and repackaging some stuff to put up at ACOT.  Once my stuff comes down from The Digi Chick, it will be up at DSD and ACOT since neither requires me to be exclusive.  Then I’ll have exclusives at PDW.  I hope to do more designing again after the move is complete and DSD is open again.  I’ve gotten some things wrapped up and hope to continue to make progress and get back to some kind of normal, though I’m not really sure what normal is anymore .  Anyway, I’m off to bed, I really HAVE to work for DH tomorrow.  Enjoy your night (or day since you’ll probably read this in the morning)!

I have enough name recognition with Digidiva Designs to keep using that?  That shop will be closing as I move all (or most) of that stuff over to DSD.  So, the question, as I browse fonts and graphics for a more recognizable logo for my new stuff, do I stick with Digidiva Designs or go with something else, like, well, simply Kathy Moore Designs?  Bree said there’s someone else out there using something close to Digidiva, like Digital Diva or something, and that people might confuse me with her if I keep the Digidiva name.  So, your thoughts?  Please?