around here...

we're gearing up for a new school year starting next week.  

The boys start Thursday for 2 half days & Lydia starts preschool the next week.  Trying to get school supplies organized, making sure clothes fit, & that we have "real" shoes that fit.  We've been to preschool to meet Lydia's new teachers & although we knew who Collin's teacher was going to be, we weren't quite sure who Evan was going to have & were happy to get a note from his teacher this week!  I think it will be a challenging year, with Collin entering the 6th grade, he's just has one more year before he moves into jr high {really?} & with all 3 of them in school!  Somehow I'm not as sad about Lydia going to preschool as I thought I'd be.  I think it's because I see how completely excited she is about it.

We're moving the kids' rooms around.  

The boys decided to put the bunk beds up again that we had set up when we first moved in & room with each other again.  They're excited to make the room their own with a new color scheme.  This means that Lydia is moving into Evan's room & she'll finally have a real room with a closet {yay!} & a door.  Yes a door.  Oh & wall space {that I've already been informed will be pink} to hang lots of girly stuff on.  When we bought this house we thought we weren't going to have any more little  people besides the boys, but I guess someone had a different plan for us! This meant the only free room was my studio space, which was a wide open room at the top of the steps that really doesn't have a way to put a door on.  The room is big & I love it for her, but it's just not practical as a bedroom.  This room will again become my workspace, but will also become a family workspace, where everyone will have a desk or table space to do homework, projects, etc.  I think this will be nice & will hopefully keep our island & dining room table less cluttered {I can dream, right?}.

We're trying to get in the last of summer.

Trying to figure out how to stick a little more fun into the summer.  Hopefully we'll find a day or two to get to the pool before school starts.  Plus the boys are trying to get the most of video games, computer games, playing outside, riding 4 wheelers, relaxing on the couch... oh yeh, just not doing homework.  

Making lists.

Dan's got a list of things he wants to try to get accomplished around here over the next few months & a long list of things we need to try to complete this fall & winter.  He always has lofty goals of what he plans on accomplishing over the months when he has to be stuck inside.  Hopefully we can work together to complete several partially finished things around the house {heated floors, putting flooring down in the basement, trim, paint, etc, etc}.  

Getting ready for school/church sales.

Dan & I are on our final year of our churches God's Acre Sale committee.  It's been lots of work & lots of fun. All our local churches have these annual sales to support our church & Holy Trinity Schools {where our kids attend school}.  These sales are so great... charity auctions, great meals {ours is a yummy turkey dinner} & seeing friends & family that all come together for a great cause.  

Working, working, working.

Although I've been trying to spend some more time with the kids before they go back to school, I've been working hard on new digital products for my Etsy shop & new ideas for my blog/website.  The design work isn't the hard part... figuring out how to get people to the website & thinking about what advertising options are best are really what can be puzzling!  I'm sure anyone who has a website can relate.  I'm so thankful for everyone who has supported me so far :)  You're all the best.

Anyway... lots of work to get to today.  Cleaning closets & dressers & moving stuff around & hopefully some painting are in the works for this weekend!  Hope you all have a productive weekend as well.

{robyn}

lots of kits!

hey everyone... just wanted to let you know I've added some new digital paper kits to the etsy shop today.  I created this one the other day.  I've been really into the stripes lately.  I just think they're a really good thing :)  Plus I've been playing around with some new textures & wear to mix em up a little.  This one is called washed stripes... it looks sorta summery, but I can totally imagine this being used in some wintery, holiday layouts as well.  

you can get it here.  

here's the link to see all the digital kits I have on etsy right now.

I'd love to see anything you create with my digital kits... you can send me your layouts or projects to me at pinktrikedesign@gmail.com & I'll put them in my gallery!  Make sure you include a link if you have a blog, etc so I can add that too :)

have a great day!

{robyn}

creative challenges & new kit

so recently I had come upon this website called Colour Combos Galore & loved how they gave a weekly color combination challenge specifically for scrapbookers & gave inspiration from their design team along with it. Well, you could imagine my excitement when I saw on the Pencil Lines website this morning that they've teamed up together with a sketch & a color combo! 

So here is the sketch:

& here's my version that I created:

.... and the new digital kit I created with this color combo!  couldn't resist ;)

you can get it right here in my etsy shop!

have a fun & happy monday :)

{robyn}

it's all coming back to me...

my love for scrapbooking, that is.  It's interesting that when I started designing products for the scrapbook industry, of course I was scrapbooking all the time & was my favorite pastime.  I couldn't wait to get new pictures, new products & ideas flowed freely.  A few years in designing & it was harder & harder to find the time {or desire} to scrapbook.  I'm not sure if it was because I moved away from my own style or I just wasn't inspired anymore?  I've dabbled here & there with pages, but looking back in my pictures over the last weeks I've noticed how little I've scrapbooked over the last 5 years.  So many photos of the boys when they were not so grown up & the little miss as a baby that have maybe been put into frames, but as you all know... the photos that you capture that don't make their way to a frame are usually the most precious.  Well, I'm back people {in digital form now}... & I'm loving every minute that I can create a new page. I know to some it may sound silly, but I know you scrapbookers know what I mean when I say this is for my kids.  They'll have these memories of how I saw them, how I loved them & how important these little moments were to me.  So here you go, another page completed with photos that just melt my heart.  These were taken when Lydia was about 5 months old, Evan was 5 & Collin was 8.  They were soooo in love with their baby sister.

& here's the new kit that I used to capture this memory!  COZY. {I'll be putting it the store soon}

about the page:

layered template: guide no. 1: three paper peonies. {slightly changed}

all papers: cozy: pink trike design.

reads: i love the way you love her. 2+1=3. july 2007.

{robyn}

new feeling blue digital papers

I thought I'd share another digital paper kit I've put together... 8 12x12 papers with a steely blue & cream color scheme.  I think these will be a really versatile set to have!  you can get them here.

about the page:

patterned papers: ticking, gingham, stripe, damask: feeling blue kit, pink trike design. tan textured: fashionable fall, pink trike design. fonts: splendid 66 & deftone stylus.

journaling reads: this was your first year playing "real" baseball. you LOVED every minute of it too!  you played on the houghton team with a lot of your friends from school.  we all had a great time watching you & can't wait for next season to see all that you will do. june 2010.

{robyn}