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Product ReleaseZ | Store Upgrade

I have been very busy lately with the blog and creating! Its been amazing to be back blogging and designing and figuring out where I want my business to go and grow. So I am in the process of re-organizing and adding to MY STORE, but I wanted to inform you of what products are going to be available. Some might be available now, but I’m still working on getting stuff set-up, so thanks for your patience! Please check it out and keep coming back for more!  🙂  

So when you go to MY STORE you will see the following categories (there are sub-categories as well):

    • Art | Here you will find downloadable printablez and professionally-printed items of my designs, like art prints, mugs, shirts, etc. that are shipped and printed from Printly.com and/or PrintAura.com.
    • CuttableZ | I am excited to be now offering SVG cuttable files to download and cut using software and your favorite cutting machine! PNGs of the design will also be included with the SVG file.
    • Digital Scrapbook Products | This is where you will find all the old and new products that I create for Digital Scrapbooking. There are lots of categories and collections to look at.
    • Digital ImprintZ | I’m excited to be starting a shirt (and other wears) shop with my designs. These will be professionally-printed by PrintAura.com and will include my Mouse WearZ (Disney-inspired)!
    • Graphic Design | If you have need of some custom graphic design, like logos, branding, flyers, invitations, posters, brochures, ebooks, etc. You will now be able to purchase my graphic design services from my store.
    • Illustration | Here you will find wonderful illustration products from typography to character illustrations.
    • Podcast TherapyZ | Hopefully you saw my new blog series. I am so excited about it! Here you will find the products that I create to help us understand, remember, and HEAL!

 

So what do you think?
What other kinds of products would you love to see?

Sharing my recent product releases, so that you are in the know!

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Life 2013 | Reflections

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Beth entered some artwork in the Reflections program this year. I was so proud of her for coming up with her own art.  The theme was “Magic of a Moment” and Beth came up with a couple on a balcony holding each other and looking at the stars. She drew and colored it all herself and I just helped a bit with the glitter. She had a great time and even though she didn’t win – she still got a participant medal that she was really proud of!  I’m excited that she has been getting into art lately – she told me she wants to learn to design – a very proud mommy moment for sure!  Now that I have this new computer, she can’t wait to start learning some Photoshop!

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Life 2012 | Doodley Names

We have really been having a great time with our @Home Summer Camp!

Our first Make-it-Monday was really fun. I taught the kids a little bit about Negative Space and I blocked out each of our names in the negative space and then we filled in the other space with doodles and coloring! They turned out really cute.

I found the idea HERE.

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Life 2012 | Line Drawn

drawingBeth can get pretty particular about things and she enjoys bossing her brother around. He’s pretty good about letting her get her way, although sometimes he has to break free and do his own thing. Both of my kids can go through lots of blank paper, drawing their little hearts out.

One day, as I saw we were getting low on paper, I just tore off a big sheet of my brown butcher paper and let them have at it. It keep them busy for a couple of hours, filling every inch of the thing. But the first thing, that Beth had to do was draw a line down the middle. She had to make sure that things went her way and that the drawings were separate. Silly kids.

Life 2012 | So Interesting!

bethbook1My daughter loves to read. That should come as no surprise to my family since her parents are both read-a-holics. I have really enjoyed seeing Beth come into her love of books. She has her favorites – she’s really into the Rainbow Magic Fairy books and the Magic Treehouse books right now. But she also loves when a new issue of the Friend comes and she basically reads it from cover to cover.

But there is something that she doesn’t enjoy reading as much – Baggie Books. Her school has a reading program where they achieve different levels of reading by bringing books (in ziploc bags) home to read to their families. She gets a new book every weekday to bring home and read. These are small readers that get harder/longer as they level up. Actually Beth is on the higher achievement now and brings home 2 books to read every day. Anyways, she’s never really too enthused by these book choices. She still reads them out loud and does a good job and sometimes she does enjoy some of the stories. But a few weeks ago, she brought home a book that interested her so much. It surprised me a lot – enough for me to stop what I was doing (making dinner) and actually sit down next to her and discuss it.

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The name of the book was Telling Stories Through Art and she kept reading it and exclaiming things and showing me the pictures. Almost every paragraph ended with “Wow. That’s so interesting!” It was adorable to hear that coming out of her mouth. I probably shouldn’t have been so surprised that the history and paintings of indians would interest her. Growing up, many of my family vacations were to visit historical sites and indian ruins. It’s something that my Dad really enjoys and I always enjoyed it too. But its also something that I haven’t really shared with my children before. I’ve never really visited with them about historical sites and stuff and obviously its something that I need to remedy. Beth hasn’t stopped talking about the indian carvings and paintings and how she wanted to see some “for real.” I am definitely going to have to do some research and see if there is some places we can visit. How neat to see that Beth is experiencing a new interest in history. I can’t wait to visit some new places with her and I hope this love just grows. I think it will be really fun for her to learn and grow through the history of our country and the history of the people on earth and even the history of the people in the scriptures. I’m excited to share more of this with her!