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OKAY I am loving Facebook!! I have a page there. Sara Drake Wise is me!! Go ahead and feel free to add me to your friend list! I have to say it's been fun connecting with old friends!!! And getting to know some new ones better as well!!

DIGITAL FREEBIE! Chipboard Alpha

Okay so I haven't designed digital kits in a while but I'm really getting into digital again. It really is relaxing and I LOVE the results!!! Anyway I designed this Chipboard Alpha like 2 years ago and recently found it again so to speak!!
SO thought I'd share with anyone interested in it!!


You can download it HERE!

Here are a few digi layouts I've done recently:

THIS One was for a blog challenge at www.the-lilypad.com and I WON!!! I was super thrilled about that!!




Another one using stuff from www.the-lilypad.com I love these pics of Tanner and his bear!




And here is one more with Tanner! These are photos taken of him on picture day! Isn't he just adorable?




Did this one the other day after visiting www.dailydigi.com They were featuring Miss Shabby Jenn and I picked up her ROCK STAR kit! It is SUPER!! The boys were playing Guitar Hero and it was perfect for this photo of Derrik on the drums!




And these 3 were created using kits from Sweet Blossom Designs. Sara has some super cute kits!! I love her Boys World and Boys Club!! They are freebies on her blog! I also used her Happiness kit for the layout of Jade. She is having a CT call and I tried out! Fingers crossed!!!!

TEACHING AGAIN!!!!

I am now teaching at SCRAPTIQUE!!!!!!! That is a scrapbook store here in Wasilla, Alaska. Lanita is SUPER nice and the gals there all seem really friendly!

We'll see how my first class goes!! January 30th is my first class!!! Created this book using the Cricut and lots of great Bo Bunny goodness!!!

Here are a few pics of my class:








I am super excited with how it turned out!!!! So my goal is to actually write 3-4 times a week and to have a following! (HA!!) We'll see how that goes! LOL!! But as I am doing more classes and stuff I'll have more to write about scrappy wise!

January Kit Sneak Peeks!!!!

Heather at www.3scrappyboys.com has put up some sneak peeks of the January kits!!!! This is the preview of the MAIN KIT ADDON!!! WOW!!! I can't wait to get my hands on this kit!! Ideas are already racing through my head!!!



And here are some pics of the MAIN KIT!!! Again -WOW!! AND YIPPEE!!!!!





I can't wait to see the Stamp Club Pictures and the TRIO KIT!!! Heather always brings us such AWESOME kits!!!!! And the design team does such a great job creating with them!! I'll share some creations here once I get these kits in my hands!! Until then I'm going to go through my pictures and pick out the perfect ones to go with these kits!!!

And not sure why the pictures are so small but you can see more at www.3scrappyboys.com

January 7th

Look at that Stacie!! I'm blogging!!! (Stacie is my sweet sister who says I don't blog often enough!)

So I am participating in the 365 Project! I really am excited by it! I've been taking my photos and journaling so when my kit arrives I'm all set! I think it will be really neat to have an album full of our everyday life photos! Some of these pictures would not normally be scrapbooked! We have a support group going at www.3scrappyboys.com and this week we're focusing on Daily Routines! I really like this theme. Kinda helps to document what we do daily/weekly etc....

So I got this picture of Derrik yesterday doing his homework. MAN does he have a messy room! I think it's funny that he has a desk but it's so full of stuff that he has to use his lap! I think it's time to dejunk sweetie!!




Here is a recent layout I completed. LOVE this one! This was such a fun trip!




Haven't really gotten that many photos outside recently. It's way too cold for that!! Today is negative sixteen and it's been like this for weeks!! SUPER COLD!!!! I truly hope it warms up soon. The kids really want to go sledding but I think we need a new fresh coat of snow before that happens. The snow we have now is all packed hard and windblown. Brrrrrrrr.

December 2008

Well according to my sister Stacie it is time for me to update my blog! I am no good at this blogging thing! I have tried and am failing miserably! So I'll try to keep family happy and blog at least once a month!!!

So before I share photos with ya Stacie (HA!) I have to share something else! I was shown instructions on how to "TWILIGHT" a photo! WOW it is so much fun! The only photo I could find with good eyes and such was one of Hayden eating an apple. OKAY I know that Vampires DO NOT eat but it will do for my first attempt! LOL!!

Here is the photo before:



Here is the photo Twilighted!



Isn't that just the coolest??! Okay a bit creepy but fun!!! I'll have to try it again with a photo where no one is eating anything! HA! But you know..... there is an apple on the cover of the first book! =)

So here are some photos from the last few months for ya! In Scrapbook Form since most of these photos have been scrapbooked already! here are a few favorites:

First one I'll share is a photo of me from this summer and then one from me now! Just so you can see Stacie the change since I've lost 36 pounds!!!





A few from our trip to Utah:







The boys are growing like crazy! Here are some recent layouts of them and a few photos:






Here are Hayden and Derrik's school photos and then one I took of Tanner. (I was the school photographer for picture day so I took these photos!) They are growing up so fast! Derrik is now NINE, Hayden is SEVEN and Tanner is FOUR.







So my dear sister Stacie! I hope those are enough photos for now! I'll add more of Christmas Time for you as well. We put up the tree and the boys had their christmas program. So when I upload those photos to the computer I'll add some here for ya!! LOVE YOU!!!!!

March 2008 already???

So Wow.... I have not blogged in a LONG time! Just been keeping busy and this week the kiddos are home from due to Spring Break so it's been Crazy Busy here. The weather is finally turning towards summer and I can't wait for it to come!!! I guess I don't blog much because I really don't ever feel like I have anything to say! LOL! Even though my dear Husband would tell you this is the opposite here at home!

been Scrapin away and have completed 72 layouts so far this year! Really having fun creativity wise! All of my layouts can be seen at www.3scrappyboys.com. LOVE that website!! I have been working on more sketches to share and will be doing so in the next month. Just wanted to update my blog a wee bit and perhaps I'll try to write more often on here!

REALLY excited to finally be able to say the Scrapbasket where I teach at here in Wasilla, AK is moving to a new location. She announced it today in an e-mail and it's going to be a good move! I hope all goes well and am looking forward to teaching there. I really enjoy hanging out there and if you haven't stopped by the Scrapbasket lately you are missing out!

Off to play Wii with the kiddos! We just got Mario Party 8 and it is really fun!

SO DARN EXCITED!!!

Okay so I can't believe I didn't blog about this! I guess I just wrote an e-mail to my mom and thought i blogged!! LOL! So I made the Design Team at 3scrappyboys.com!!! I am THRILLED about this!!! JUST THRILLED!! I love this website and Cindy puts together the most AMAZING kits!!! I get to start doing Design Team things starting in January so this new year is going to be just a blast! Can't wait to start working with this amazing team!!!

The most "wonderful" time of the year?! LOL!!

Well it's me again!! I am such a bad BLOGGER! But I am going to try and do this once a week so we'll see how that goes! HA!

Here at the Wise home we have all been SICK. It's been NO fun and seriously it's hard to get in the Christmas mood when all you want to do is sleep. Derrik and Hayden are finally both feeling 100% better! So that is a happy thing. Mike went back to work today and is taking it easy but still feels cruddy. And I feel like I have been zapped of all my energy! I have none! But today is the best I've felt in almost 2 weeks so that is a happy thing! Tanner still has a bit of a fever but is a lot happier and seems to have a lot more energy! SO fingers crossed we are all happy and healthy by Christmas. Luckily I got all my shopping done at the beginning of December!

We got up our tree and all our decorations and I just love the way our tree looks! It honestly is just glowing. We added a TON of lights to our tree this year. We wrap the center stick of the tree with lights before adding all the branches and so that makes it glow from the inside out! Here is a picture of our tree!




So hopefully I will blog again the day after Christams and share some christmas photos! Hope you all have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Cricut Fun!!!!

I have made the team at BITTEN BY THE BUG!!! A fun cricut blog that is hosted by the aweome Regina Easter! THIS BLOG is really awesome! A collection of ideas using the various cricut cartridges that are out there! And I am super excited to be able to be challenged to use my Cricut!!! I have the Cricut Expressions so all of my creations will be made with that. So be sure to stop by and see all of the ideas this team will come up with! I am sure it will inspire you to pull out your cricut as well! I'll also be posting my creations here after each challenge is posted there!

WOW.... it's been a while!

It's almost been a month since I updated my blog! That is horrible! I really wanted to write at least once a week! Oh well... here I am now! So my parents came to visit October 3- October 10th and it was a BLAST!!!!! WE had so much fun!

We packed a lot into those 6 days:

- Derrik turned 8 and we had a family party on Friday the 5th
- We had Derrik's 8th birthday party with friends Saturday
- We watched LDS Conference Saturday and Sunday
- Had Derrik's baptism Sunday evening
- Monday took off to SEWARD, Alaska and had dinner and stayed the night and then woke up and went on the Resurrection Bay Cruise Tour and that was AMAZING!! Such a beautiful day and I got the most AMAZING pictures! I'll have to share a few tomorrow when I go through them all.
- THEN we dropped mom and dad and my brother and sister off at the airport Tuesday night and headed home.

A whirlwind of a trip and I guess I'm still trying to recover and get my house back in order!! HA!! SLOW going but it will get there!

AND today I taught a calendar class at my LSS and it went really well. Part 2 of that class is next week so that will be fun as well!!

GOTTA run but I will update with pictures and new sketches by Tuesday!!!

Fall Photos

Took the boys outside yesterday afternoon for some fall photos. They cooperated as well as can be expected.... so I didn't get a group shot of them that turned out the best but I did get some cute individual shots! I am very happy with them! Here are 3 favorites from each boy!


Here is Derrik! He is going to be 8 in a few weeks. He probably cooperated the best!








Here is Hayden. He just turned 6 early September and is so silly! But I did manage to get a few serious shots of him!








Tanner is the youngest. He is 3 and just full of energy but he held still long enough for some good shots! What a ham!

New Sketches to Upload!

It's tuesday! Here are some new sketches to motivate ya! Hopefully they will get those creative juices flowing!

Just a note.... to see all of my sketches in one place you can visit my gallery at www.3scrappyboys.com I have a folder just for sketches. My user name there is sari55

EEEEEkkk! - Time to update I guess! LOL!

So with school starting I have totally gotten behind on my blog! The boys are so excited to be in school and truthfully I am too! They were starting to get bored of summer. They tend to need structure towards the end of summer! Hayden started kindergarten and as you can see he was super excited on that first day!



And Derrik is now in 2nd grade. I was in a digi scrappin mood the other day and did a layout for his first day.



Now Tanner is home with just me during the day and he doesn't know what to do with himself! I haven't had to be sole entertainment since Derrik was little so this is new for both of us. We're having a good time but the house is so quiet! The first day back to school Tanner was so excited when he saw the bus pull up. "MY BROTHERS'. He yelled as they got off the bus! What a sweetie! Here he is anxiously awaiting their arrival!







I was super excited to go to the fair and see my projects that earned ribbons! I only got a good picture of my bowl! This was made out of old magazines and I was super stoked that it won DIVISION CHAMPION! This bowl is also featured in Creative Techniques Magazine's fall issue!




The kids had a lot of fun at the fair! We rode a lot of rides, ate a lot of fair food, and had a wonderful afternoon! We were lucky that the rain never came and the weather was just beautiful! And I promise that it was not intentional to have them all wear striped shirts! Ha! It just kind of worked out that way. =)











Well that is good for now! I need to update my sketches and I'll do that this weekend. Tomorrow we're having a family gathering for Hayden's 6th birthday. So that should be fun! I can't belive he is 6 already! Happy Weekend!