Halloween Hunt

There is something that will be happening at Deco-Pages next week, and I just had to share it with you! The ad (made by Dana Conditt with her Ghouly Grime kit - available at Deco-Pages) says it all...starting on Halloween Day and all week long, you will be able to search Deco-Pages.com for all kinds of fun treats.

Our designers have made some wonderful things for you! I'll be posting a sneak peek of some of them in the next few days. This is sure to be lots of fun! I hope you can join us!



Just Ramblin'

Marcee

11/09/06 - Thank you for your interest in my freebies, but this link has been disabled. Check back soon for more freebies!

I am literally just about out the door to go to work, but I thought I would post this FREEBIE sampler for you. It is a collection of items from my Bobbing For Apples kits at Deco-Pages.com. The brown bag paper is EXCLUSIVE to this FREEBIE, though. It is not in the kits.

Have a great day!
I'll have more to say soon...but it's off to work I go!

Just Ramblin'


Marcee

ZZZZZZZ! Just a quick note!

Hi! It's been a few days. It's really late for me...who was awakened at 3 AM by the rosebud pictured above...so I won't be typing much. I made this layout tonight for a crop I attended. The template is by Victoria Feemster and the kit is Mod Club by Saskia Bokkers (one of my top three fave designers!). Anyway, back to the rosebud. I have the most wonderful hubby. He got up and fed her and played with her until she was ready to go back to sleep...and he's playing with her now. Yes, the little one had a long nap early this evening to make up for her 3 AM romp, and so now...yes, you guessed it...she is up and ready to roll at 10 o'clock! It's my bedtime, though! I usually get up by 5 AM each morning, so I'm curled up in bed drowsing to a DVD by 10:30 most nights. I've been catching up on Frasier, but I have a few pet peeves about those DVD sets - at least the ones I'm watching now.
#1) No Subtitles! We live very close to a bahnhof (train station), so we get frequent loud rumblings passing by the house. This is horrible for TV watching. But, at least with subtitles you can read what the people are saying. I know most US TVs come with closed captioning, but our TVs here dont' have that. So, no subtitles means I have to press pause or rewind to get the whole story. I really hate that.
#2) No Play All feature! Okay, so I am lazy. Okay, so I usually watch TV right before I fall asleep. Okay, so I want my TV to keep broadcasting well past the time I actually fall asleep. If the DVD plays only one episode at a time, this kinda gets messed up! Even when I am watching TV on the weekend, I hate having to scroll through two or three menu screens for each episode - Star Trek DVDs are famous for this!

I have other DVD pet peeves, but I shall save them for another time. It's time for sleepy bo-bos (an obscure Black Adder reference - cheers to Rowan Atkinson!). I'll try to post again soon, and maybe I'll have a freebie for you soon.

The More Just Deserts freebie and the Victoria II Alpha freebie won't be up much longer so get them soon!

Just Ramblin'

Marcee

What's On TV?

Good morning!
Yesterday was a fun day. We took our students to Mainz, home of Guttenberg and his moveable type press. It was a great trip! The weather was perfect, the kids were good (mostly), and I was able to pay homage to an invention that has literally changed the world. I don't read as much as I used to or as much as I would like. I am currently re-reading Margaret George's The Autobiography of Henry VIII - one of my very favorite books! But, even though I have read it numerous times, it is a little slow going this time. But, that is probably because I am trying to read it during the students' silent reading time - and they are usually not totally silent. So, I have lots of shhhhhhhh-shing to do! I hope to have it finished soon. I'm not sure what my next book will be...I think I might try to find out what books by Stephen King I have unread on my shelf. Which brings me to the reason for my blog title today...
I am watching Season 4 of The Dead Zone on DVD. It is a sci-fi series based on the King novel of the same name. It stars Anthony Michael Hall (who aged pretty well, actually - so far from the geeky kid in 16 Candles). It is a pretty good show. Just enough "what will happen next?" to keep me interested, but not so much that I am going crazy trying to figure stuff out. But, my favorite part of the show is Sean Patrick Flanery. I've had a little crush on him since his Young Indiana Jones Chronicles days. His character in TDZ is so charmingly sneaky, so deliciously crooked...and just a lilt of a Southern accent...my, oh, my! I really hope YIJC comes to DVD soon!

Just Ramblin'

Marcee

A Freebie for You!

11/09/06 - Thank you for your interest in my freebies, but this link has been disabled. Check back soon for more freebies!

As promised, here is a freebie for you. It is a few things that I could not fit into the November PTP kit, and it wasn't enough to make a whole kit by itself either.

I am trying something new with the downloads. The folder has a password. It is winter3 ...just like that...all lowercase and no spaces. I am going to be removing some of the older files in a few days, so if you like any of the early freebies, you might want to get them before Friday 20 October.

11/09/06 - Thank you for your interest in my freebies, but this link has been disabled. Check back soon for more freebies!

Just Ramblin'

Marcee

It's been a while...

Well, I have been really busy this week. I have a couple of new kits in the Deco-Pages store -- matching boy and girl kits called Little Royal. There are lots of fun things to use for pages of your "royal darlings" or any fun kid layouts. You can find Little Royal: Girl HERE and Little Royal: Boy HERE. Many thanks to Atomic Cupcake and Scrap Girls for tools that helped me with these kits!
It is also PTP kit time. The designers are Deco-Pages are working hard to get another fabulous kit ready for our members. What I have seen so far is wonderful! If you are a Club Deco member, you are in for such a great kit...and if you aren't a member...WHY NOT??!?!?! LOL. Find out about this super scrapbook club HERE.
I will be back later with a freebie for you!

Just Ramblin'
Marcee

I Want a Fancy Blog!

I have been looking at some blogs (Traci Sims and Rina Kroes as well as SkyeScrapz), and they are all so nice and stylish. As much as I appreciate the free template I am using...it's just not really what I want, so I hope to change the look of my blog soon. I did make a slide show, but I want it over on the right side along with some other stuff. I'm not sure if I should be playing around with the html, though. I know just enough of that to really make a mess. So, I'm sure this weekend I'll be searching for blogging for the new-to-blogging websites.

I also hope to get a freebie or two to you very soon!

Just Ramblin'
Marcee

It's Tuesday!

The only thing I really like about Tuesday is that it is not Monday, so there is one less morning for the work week. I am not a morning person. I really do not enjoy getting up at 5 AM. And, it really doesn't have much to do with sleep or how early I go to bed. I just dislike being up while everyone else is still asleep. I do enjoy the quiet, though! I sometimes get some quality thinking done...but usually I'm just waiting for the rest of the household to get up. And, if they don't, I have to be the one to get them up...so I am not a favorite sight in the morning!

Now that the mad rush of getting the October things ready is over, it is time to concentrate on some new things. I am working on a kit called More just Desserts that will work with the Color Challenge kits, Just Desserts. The kit names come from the colors I chose...my favorite dessert flavors. If it is raspberry, strawberry, chocolate or coffee-flavored, I probably like it (maybe too much)! This kit is already pushing into the 250 MB range, so I may have to make some decisions about what goes in it, or break it into smaller kits. I am also continuing the Basics series with upcoming kits in brown and pink (or whatever color I feel like working with - LOL). I'm pretty sure brown will be next. I think it would be a great kit to have for the fall season. It would pair nicely with Basics: Orange that has already been released.

Helen has tagged me! I am supposed to write 5 weird things about myself and then tag 5 people. Well, I think I can come up with a list of 5 weird things, but I am not sure about tagging. I still haven't tagged anyone from the first time. So, I think I will save all of that for another post sometime soon.

I hope to have a new freebie up this week. I hope you have a great day. I am one day closer to a three-day weekend...LOL.

Just Ramblin'
Marcee

Club Deco October Members' PTP Kit!!!

It's October 1st....and that means a new kit for Club Deco Members! Here is a preview collage of my contribution to the kit. You will not believe the size of this MEGA kit. It is really MEGA MEGA!!! The name is Autumn Expressions, and there are lots of fall and Thanksgiving goodies in this kit!

It is available for FREE to all Club Deco Members this month! Then it will be in the Deco-Pages Store. So, if you would like to get this awesome kit for FREE, just join Club Deco now! For a yearly fee of just $20.00 US, you will get a free MEGA kit just like this every month for a year...BUT WAIT...THERE'S MORE...

You will also get lots of EXCLUSIVE FREEBIES from our designers, and these are NOT just little things. Club members have received things like full kits, quick pages, alphas and more just for being members! Plus, Club Deco members get our Color Challenge Starter kits for free! So, that kit I posted earlier...YUP...members get it for absolutely nothing extra!!!!

This membership is a SUPER deal at $20.00! How much would you pay for just 12 MEGA kits, anyway? It would be definitely be more than that - and you get a lot more!

Here's a layout I made with one of the Quick Pages I included in my kit creation for the PTP kit this month. I hope you come by Deco-Pages soon and check it out!

The kit should be up for members to download really soon!

Just Ramblin'
Marcee

Here is a FREEBIE for you! It matches the October Color Challenge Kits (The Challenge is going on now at Deco-Pages) and my More Just Desserts kits I am currently working on. The release of these kits won't be until November because of the Color Challenge, but until then you can enjoy the FREEBIES!


11/09/06 - Thank you for your interest in my freebies, but this link has been disabled. Check back soon for more freebies!

Don't forget to check out the Color Challenge at Deco-Pages.com!

Marcee

October Color Challenge at Deco-Pages!

It is time for the Color Challenge! I have created some kits I am really proud of for this month's color challenge at Deco-Pages. You can earn the reward kits by submitting layouts using this month's colors. Find out more HERE.

There is also a Starter Kit available for the super price of just 99 CENTS through the challenge! You can get it HERE.

If you post 1 qualifying layout you get Reward Kit 1! If you post 3 qualifying layouts, you get Reward Kits 1 & 2! If you post 5 or more qualifying layouts, you get Reward Kits 1 & 2 PLUS a 15% OFF COUPON to use in the Deco-Pages Store! How fab is that!

These three Color Challenge Kits total almost 300 MB! After the Color Challenge, they will be in the Deco-Pages Store for an awesome price of $1.99 - so you can still get them if you don't get a chance to enter the Challenge!

I hope to see your layouts soon!

I'll be back later today with information about the Club Deco October PTP kit for Club members and a FREEBIE that matches the Color Challenge Kits and my Just More Desserts kits coming in November exclusively to Deco-Pages!

Just Ramblin'

Marcee