September Company Stash

I'm a day late... but you have to check out this month's Company Stash at Pixels & Co. So many great kits to build your stash & we even have a few guest designers in the mix too! Seriously awesome. They're all 30% off through Sept. 5th. Here's what I have for you...

by {kelly mobley}

by {becca dickson}

by {me} yay! I scrapbooked! It's been a while :)

hope you have an awesome Labor Day, that you get some well deserved time off to spend with your family, friends, or even just some time to yourself.

{robyn}

dollar days at p&co

So, the first of July began dollar days at Pixels & Company! I know many of you have already filled your carts with tons of awesome goodness... but just wanted to give you an update on my 3 releases so far... {I have 4 more to go!}

by {claudia harvey}

by {kate christensen}

by {lisa breuer}

by {melanie call}

by {mandi buchanan}

by {robyn meierotto}

by {robyn meierotto}

happy shopping :)

{robyn}

catching up

hey everyone. I've been taking a little break from the blog, in both personal & my shop. Working on lots of kits for July & a few other things on the side, trying to give my kids some attention... you know, just being summer lazy. Here's the basic highlights happening around here since I've been here last, we finished Lydia's tball "season" {4 games}, we finished Evan's regular baseball season {they finished 3rd in their final tournament}, we celebrated Evan's 11th birthday & Dan & I celebrated our 19th anniversary! Oh & lots of hanging out at home & swimming in our pool.

not too exciting. We usually don't get around to too much until the baseball season is over & we're now scrambling to fit in a mini vaca with the kids to a local waterpark with some friends. It's kinda hard for Dan to get away from work right now, so a few days is all we're going to get this summer. Should be lots of fun though.

Something else I'm personally working on is cleaning up my eating. After a couple months of baseball & some celebrations with beer {& a few martinis} my stomach is looking a little more "eh" than I'd like. Not that it's ever been super model quality... haha! But seriously, after working hard in the early part of the year to do more whole foods & not so much processed, I could tell a pretty big difference in my ab area. Not so much soft & more definition. I've been back at about a week or so & am definitely starting to see the change. Hopefully over the next few weeks I'll be back to where I started. No more beer for me for a while ;)

not the best illustration, since I have 3 different suits on here, but the first was in January, the second in March when I'd been doing my "clean eating" for a while & the third was mid June. In all the pictures I'm either the same weight or within 2 pounds.

So it's lots of oatmeal, chicken, greek yogurt, fruit & veggies & smoothies for this girl! Oh & I've been really consistent over the last 6 months with doing 3-4 miles at least 5 days a week & have recently been trying to add more ab & leg work also & sometimes some jump rope added in!

My fave treats right now: oatmeal with peanut butter, honey & cinnamon mixed in or frozen bananas blended with PB2 {powdered peanut butter}, cocoa, whey powder & almond milk {it's like a milkshake!}

ok, enough randomness... have a great day!

{robyn}

featured designer week

I'm excited to say... this week I'm the featured designer along with the ever fab-u-lous Gennifer Bursett. Wait til you see what we've put together. I think it's pretty awesome. Since Gen is awesome with elements & I feel most inspired in the paper department, we split it up just like that.

by {becca dickson}

by {claudia harvey}

by {robyn meierotto}

by {melanie call}

hope you love it! I think it's lots of fun & I'll be using it over & over for many layouts of our summer. make sure to keep an eye on my pink trike design facebook page for some fun stuff daily throughout my featured designer sale!

I'm trying my best to hurry & get my work done for the day so I can hit the pool with the kids for a bit before stuff like a run, a shower, making supper, taking Evan to baseball practice & a school board meeting. We're at the beginning of another busy week. The last week of baseball, ending this weekend with a tournament & Evan's birthday on Sunday. Also a family reunion that we need to figure out how to make it to in between games. Should be lots of fun, but we'll be ready for some less-busy time soon {just in time for my busy July of design work!}. Have a great week!

{robyn}

new releases 3.8

Sometimes when I get in a funk, I need to change my normal routine a bit. I'm not one to be a downer... more of a glass half full kinda gal, but I don't know, this week I was just feeling poo-ish. Since I wasn't feeling the paper kit thing, I thought I'd do something I haven't done for a while... templates! The plus to this {for me} is that I always do a layout with them! Yay for scrapbooking! So take a look... these are layered .psd photoshop templates with stitched elements included.

check out what the girls did with this one. I love seeing them with both my kits & with our other fab designers' kits as well.

by {sandy henderson}

by {claudia harvey}

by {becca dickson}

by {carole house}

by {marjo bene}

by {shelley haganman}

by {me}

by {sarah hemmert}

by {wendy christensen} love how she made the double pager with this!

by {arielle gordon} she's resized this to go in her 6x8" Studio Calico album.

yep. think they pretty much rocked that out. now for the next...

by {becca dickson}

by {anna drozd}

by {sarah hemmert}

by {me}

sooo, there ya go! I'm so glad I was in a template type of mood this week! Hope you are too. You can pick these babies up though the weekend for 30% off.

Speaking of the weekend... what are you up to this weekend? We have our teenager off to a youth lock in {swimming, games, food, fun}, NO BASKETBALL, but the fun will come on Sunday when we celebrate Lydia's 6th birthday with our family {her official day is Tuesday}. She's chosen spaghetti, fruit salad, chocolate cake with chocolate frosting & chocolate ice cream. Hope you all have a good one!

{robyn}