A lazy Sunday & some freebies

Sarah, Linda - thanks!!! It always makes my day getting a comment & knowing there are actually people visiting :D Linda, we work on Sat but not on Sun :)

Doesn't look like this will be a productive weekend at all! Got home from work on Sat at 5pm at the same time as Mac from school and basically just lazed around the whole night. Today (Sun), we'd planned to go hunting in a few malls to try to find an outfit for Mac's end-of-year school event in Nov. His team is going to dance to Abba's Dancing Queen & we're required to get him white/black pants & a long-sleeved white/black "shiny" shirt before Nov. Doesnt look like we'll be going anywhere now - Mac & I woke up at 1pm, it's now 5pm and we've all just been sitting around feeling too lazy to do anything. I havent even read more than a few newsletters & havent started on a single photo. Oh well.. there's always next weekend!

My Four Hens has another photo action freebie up:-

She also has a tutorial and a 50% coupon on her blog.

Sara Schmutz at Design House Digital has this free for very limited time:

This week's free template & wordart inspiration from DesignerDigitals:

Kristen Rice has this QP free in her Catscrap store (requires store checkout). Not sure but it might be limited time.

New freebie collab at Digital-Crea:

Template from Amy Martin at The LilyPad for their Oct Template Challenge:

October's free challenge template from Peppermint Creative:

September's free kit from Amy Hutchinson at After Five. Scroll down for dl link.

Not suitable for me but just in case you guys have a use for it - October's free kit from Pink Lotty at Shabby Pickle

Atomic Cupcake free CU action:

The DST Insider is available for download now.

Lauren Reid is taking a break from designing - 35% in her 9th & Bloom store

Have a great weekend everyone! :)

Lilypad Sale

The Lilypad, my favourite store, is having their quarterly sale - 30% storewide, 50% off retiring items. Oct 1-3.

Hope to be able to read up some blogs and my mounting digital pile of newsletters this weekend after I work on my photos & perhaps will have more to post then.

MacQuote: But mama....! you already go to work today! why do you have to go to work again tomorrow??!

I'm off to bed.. Night all :)

NeeNee $1.35 sale & just me rambling

If you like Nee Nee's templates, she has a moving sale at SugarHillCo & all her templates are $1.35.

Worked full day today till 7pm (trying to make up for a dismal 1st day) but it was a good day results-wise. Mac has started a runny nose & slight cough (caught from me :( ) & today had a slight fever so I told Colin to skip school today. He's fine otherwise, not displaying any 'sickliness'. There's no school tomorrow being Friday (his school follows the govt schedule which has Fri & Sun off) so I'll work half-day & might even be home before he wakes up since he tends to sleep till at least noon. Hopefully I'll also have some time to finally finish editing his birthday photos from 2 weeks ago!

Linda, Barbara, Sarah - thanks for the visit & leaving comments! I didnt realise I never set an email address to be notified of comments so I missed them entirely. Wish I didnt have to put it on moderation but I got so fed up of all the weird comments I kept getting. Not to mention I would get all excited everytime I see I have a comment only to see it's spam~!  Linda, all those coincidences are quite amazing really! There definitely must be some sort of connection between us! :D

Have a wonderful day/evening, all :)

Cheers!

Wed shopping deals

Some regular Wed deals:-
DigiscrappersBrasil $1 Wed
Lilypad 50% Wibbit Wed
Catscrap 50% Designer's Choice

A freebie from Julia Fialho at her store (requires store checkout):

I have a terrible weakness for doodled stuff. Thought this QP is cute.

If I were doing P365, today would be one of the rare few days where I'd actually have something to write about myself. After almost exactly 4 years enjoying being a layabout, today I started working again. It's temporary, part-time (half-day but I can work full day if I wish) plus I don't get a salary, only commission. But the job offers the ideal compromise for me at this time (well, as long as I manage to earn something!) - some income without too much sacrifice of time with Mac. Wish me luck, please!! I really hope this would work out so I can delay a full-time job hopefully for another year...

Good night for now! :)

Templates Freebie

Bunch of templates from Lauren Grier's CT.

This one's a couple of weeks old but I think it's still available. Thought it was very cute & goodness knows I have plenty of photos of Mac eating / pleading for candy!

Night "all"! Tomorrow 's sort of a big day for me  :)

La Grier $1 Sale

Lauren Grier is celebrating her store's 1st year anniversary. 40% off sale and $1 deals (they change daily so check back everyday). Sept 27-Oct 1.

Shadow tute & some freebies

If you need help with your shadows, ScrapMatters blog has a "Shadow Spectacular" post, a detailed tutorial with settings.

Really like this free font from CK.

I love MyFourHens' photo actions. My photos are usually so technically sucky that they look weird whenever I use actions but that still doesn't stop me buying her actions whenever she has a major sale :) These freebies aren't new but in case anyone likes them & missed them.

Great free alpha from Holly Designs

Just saw DSA has a designer contest. Presuming most people know about it by now but I wanted to share my favourites.

Night now.. :)

Karla Dudley $1 sale & a couple of freebies

I still have no idea how to read all those visitor gadget thingies I installed just cos everyone has them but at least I did see from the traffic thingy on the blog itself that at least 5-6 people did drop by. Thank you for visiting :) I just hope that you weren't very disappointed not to see a list anymore. I actually spent a fair bit of time today browsing through my Reader and have to admit my fingers itched to start composing a list. I knew though that if I did start, it would probably never get finished. Plus there are lots of freebie list sites now & I'd just be doing a poor duplicate. At most, I'd like to just post a couple links & those would be things I think might be more obscure like stuff from a store/forum or from a designer who seldom does freebies.

I saw that Karla Dudley will be moving from The Digichick & has a $1 sale on some retiring products. Not a lot but I think they're really useful stuff, I esp like the Capture+Record kit. There's also a Retiring Section you can check out.



After 5 is celebrating their 2nd birthday with free QPs daily and giveaways.

If you make CD calendars, you might like this free template from Biograffiti at Oscraps.


Tiffany Tillman has this free icon set at CK. I really like the exclamation mark, I'm pretty sure I have tons of Mac's photos I can use it with :D Would be great with a Things You Say page.


Free Alpha from Lauraskathi at Mscraps


Just took this of Mac & Colin.


Wishing you a great weekend :) Cheers!

A bad penny :D

Anyone still out there? :) I know it's been a terribly long while since I updated, sorry for flaking out like that without any notice. I just kept procrastinating on posting & eventually, I just forgot..

After almost a year of silence, I guess it should be obvious but anyway, just in case anyone's still keeping me subscribed for freebie lists, I definitely won't be able to do it anymore, it takes too much time & while I might be able to do it for a while, I know I'll eventually flake out again cos I can't keep up. The lists themselves aren't too bad but going through hundreds of blogs daily got way too much.

I'd like to go back to my original intention for this blog - occasional posts of life updates (so people don't have to email me to check if I'm still alive :D), Mac's photos, LOs (admittedly far few & between these days!) & sharing any scrap news, freebies/sales I come across that I'm excited about.

Anyway, on to the main reason I finally remembered this blog again! I haven't been doing much freebie hunting since I stopped posting plus not so much shopping anymore. But I saw this freebie from Megan Fisher I really liked & wanted to share.



On the personal front, Mac has already started preschool since April and he's doing well there though he prefers to stay home and play cos "they don't have any real toys there" :D On the 1st day, he was perfectly fine until it was time for me to go & then the tears started and the desperate clutching at my neck, arms, legs :( My heart about broke & I waited in my car outside the school the whole afternoon just in case. That went on for 4 days and then on the 5th day, no more tears thankfully. 5 months on, he still gets the occasional separation issue when I drop him off but getting better.

About to leave for his 1st day at school.

Introductions to his classmates by the school directress. (He started late, school year begins in Jan).

Mac's also just celebrated his birthday last week, he's 5 now.



Wanted to post more birthday photos but it's past Mac's bedtime now, gotta go wrestle him to bed :)

If anyone has read this, thanks! :D & hope you have a great day/evening ahead!

Lauren Grier $1 Sale

Black Friday 09 Sales List

I'm here, alive & well :) I'm so sorry, the past few weeks have just flown by. I'm ashamed & guilty to confess that I've been lost in a rediscovered addiction - gaming, this time on Facebook. It's been 7 years since I last played & I should've known better than to start again. I couldn't believe it's already Black Friday, we went down to Miri last weekend instead of this weekend so I could be around for it & it feels like we just came back 2 days ago!

Anyway, I did catch a few freebie links here & there over the last couple of weeks, I think I have about 100+ but never managed to preview them so still no freebies I'm afraid plus quite a few are probably expired by now. I just wanted to link this one I saw from Gina Cabrera, I think it might be only for a day.
- Alpha from Gina Cabrera at DDE store

Be sure to also check out Weeds & Wildflowers blog these few days as they usually have giveaways.

Since Black Friday is already well underway, I'm not sure if this sales list will be of use to anyone. I rushed to put it together & it's far from comprehensive, still missing a lot of info as I still have a bunch of newsletters & 1000+ blogs to go through. If I manage to stay awake tonight, I'll add to it as I find more info. I hope I can get time to shop too. At least one good thing came from my playing games - I've actually spent less than $20 since DSD!

Once again, so very sorry for going MIA & thanks so much for your concern & messages!

After 5 20% & $5 off $20. 35% on select categories every 2 hours. Nov 27.

--added 2-- Catscrap 30% & some $1 & $2 items.Nov 26-29.
- Just Joyce 30-40%, $2 Bundle offer, 2 $1 deals
- Creashens Selected $1 & 50% offers
- Fizzy Pop 5 $1 deals
- Syrin $1 offers
This search result should show you items under $2.

--added 2-- Creative Mundi All $1 Nov 27-28

--added 1-- The Digichick At least 20%. Free Collab with $15. Nov 26-29

Digital Design Essentials 60% & addl $5 off $20 with coupon dde5off Nov 27-29

Digitals 30% off Fri, 25% or more off Sat & Sun

DigiscrappersBrasil 40% Nov 27-29
- Americo Everything $1 Nov 27-28
- Deca Designs 40% Nov 27-28
- Dream's Pieces Everything $1 Nov 27
- Dunia 40% Nov 27
- Elker W 40% Nov 27
- Fe Marini 40% Ends Nov 29
- no name?? 45% Nov 27-29
- Loreta Labarca 40% Nov 27-29
- Maria 40% Nov 27-29
- no name?? 40% Nov 29
- Studio Basic 40% Nov 27-29
- Thaty Borges 30% Nov 27-28

Dreamland Digital Designs Up to 70%, Store Collabs 60%, Special offers & 1Euro deals. Nov 27.
- Ann Designs 20-50%
- Cucciola 40% & 1Euro
- Damayanti 40%
- Design by Snoopy 40% & 1Euro kit
- El Dorado 40% & 1Euro
- Inulja 35% & 1Euro
- Sashinamama 40% & 1Euro
- Tatjana 45%
- (undecipherable to check) 30% ??

Elemental Scraps 50% off $5. Mega Kit Free with any purchase. Nov 27-30.

Funky Playground
- Amy Melniczenko Everything $1 Nov 27-29
- Daniela Austen 60% Nov 27-30
- Designs by Leah 60% Fri-Sun
- SarahJ 60% Nov 26-30
- Miss Tiina 60% Nov 26-29
- Tania Shaw 40% Fri-Sun
- Traci Murphy 60% & Spend $20 Get $100 Nov 26-30 EST
- no name??? 60% Nov 26-29

Gotta Pixel 30-50% Nov 26-30.

HM ScrapShop 40% & CU Grabbag free with $15. Nov 27-30

Inspiration-Lane 50% & $1 Super Saver Weekend, $1 Grabbag with any purchase, Free Mega kits with $5 or $8 purchase. Nov 27-30.

KimB 50% Nov 27, 35% Nov 28, 25% Nov 29. CU Grabbag $3.50 Nov 27-29.

--added 1-- The Lilypad
- Amy Wolff 50% with coupon awolff50off
- Angela Powers 40% off $5 at checkout
- Cori Gammon 50% with coupon BFcori09. Nov 26-29.
- Jacque Larsen 50% off $5 with coupon BF50. Nov 27.
- Kaye Winiecki 40% off $5 with coupon kwBLK40. Nov 27.
- Karah Fredericks 40% (shows on checkout) Fri-Sun.
- Jenna Desai 50% with coupon jd_blackfriday Nov 27-29

--added 1-- Miss Tiina 60% Nov 26-29

My Four Hens Photography Buy 1 Get 1Free. Nov 27 12am Eastern - Nov 29 12pm Eastern.

My Scrap Shop 60% Nov 26-27.

NDISB
- Free Mega kit with $5 with coupon: NDISB-SC-7yh6b
- Alessandra 30% Ends Nov 29
- Barb Speck 40% Ends Nov 30
- Beth Rimmer 30% Ends Nov 30
- Chili Designz 50% Ends Nov 29
- Cilenia Curtis 20% Ends Nov 29
- CJ's Dreams 50% Ends Nov 29
- Heather Manning 35% Ends Nov 30
- Nadine's Art Scraps 30% Ends Nov 29
- Papierstudio Silke 40% Ends Nov 29
- Shien Designs 35% Ends Nov 29
- Silvia Romeo 35% Ends Nov 29
- Theresa Hernandez 50% Ends Nov 29

Oscraps
- Christina Renee 31% Ends Nov 29.
- Cinzia Loosemore 40% Nov 27-28.
- Emily Powers 25%
- Holliewood 30% Nov 25-29
- Joe Designs 30%
- Kim de Smet Up to 75% clerance items, Up to 40% new products & Up to 30% CU. Nov 27
- Kitty Designs 30%
- Merkeley 50% Nov 27
- Ninascraps 50% Nov 27

Peppermint Creative 20% off $20, 30% off $30, 40% off $40, 50% off $50, 60% off $60 (coupon codes on store page). Nov 27-29 Midnight EST.

Pickleberry Pop
- Cara Mia 30% Nov 26-29
- Carolyn Kite 50% Nov 26-30
- Danielle Corbitt 30% Nov 27-30
- Dawn Inskip 30% Nov 26-29
- DYP Design 35% Nov 26-29
- ET Designs 40% Nov 27-30
- FruitLoop Sally 30% & $1 items Nov 27-Dec 1
- Fly Pixel 30% Nov 26-29
- Just Joyce 30-40% & $1 items Nov 24-29
- Kristin's Scrap Design 35% Nov 27-30
- Jasmin-Olya 30% Nov 26-30
- Lara's Digi World 30% Nov 26-29
- Lindsay Jane 30-50% Nov 26-30.
- LorieM 50% Starts Nov 27.
- PST Design 30% Nov 26-29
- Sunflowers 20, 30, 50% Nov 27-30.

--added 1-- Pixel Canvas 25% Nov 27-29

Polka Dot Plum 40% Nov 27.

ScrapArtist 35% Fri, 30% Sat, 25% Sun

Scrapbook-Elements 40% Nov 26-28 Central Time.

Scrapbookbytes
- Free kit with $10 purchase
- Armina 50% Nov 27-29
- Arti-bytes 60% off $20
- Designs by Laura 40% off bundle sets
- Dreamer's Magic Buy My Store $25. 25% off most products. Nov 25-28
- Jeanette Bollinger 40% Nov 25-30
- Kari Hentzelt 50% Nov 24-Dec 4
- Shawnery Mathis Buy My Store CU $50 & PU $35, 60% Individual items Nov 26-29
- Silvia Romeo 25% Limited Time

Scrapbookgraphics
Baersgarten Anniversary Grabbag, Kits 25%, Collections 40%, QPs 25%, Templates 30%. Nov 26-29
Natali 40-80% Nov 26-29

--added 1-- Scrapdish
- Candace Duffy-Jones 50% Nov 27-29
- Daniela Austen At least 50% Nov 27-29
- Jill DZines 50% & $1-$2 items Nov 27-30
- Kim Jensen 40-60% Till Nov 30
- Kristmess 50% Nov 27-30
- Melinda Staley Up to 75% Retirement Sale Till Dec 31
- Michelle Pieters 50% Nov 27
- Scrapshana $1 & $2 deals Fri-Sun
- Shelly Chua 50% off Seasonal Kits & Grabbag Nov 27-30
- Tahera 25% Nov 27
- Collab kits $1 Retirement Till Dec 31

ScrapMatters 45% Fri, 40% Sat & 30% Sun

ScrapOrchard Farmer's Market $1 Deals. Nov 25-29.

Shabby Miss Jenn New $1 kit & varying discounts.

Shabby Pickle designs 40% Nov 27-29

Sunflower Scrap
- Karakatuka 30-50% Nov 27-28
- ANJ Designs 20-60% Nov 27
- Jasmin-Olya 30% Nov 26-30
- IKH Designs 20-50% Nov 27
- Tiramisu 25-60^ Nov 27
- Sarah 20-40%
- Ann Designs 20-50%
- Cucciola 40%
- Damayanti 40%
- Volshebnica 30% Nov 27-30
- (undecipherable to check) 30% ??
- A-liya 50% Nov 27-30
- Juliya 30% Nov 27
- SheDevil 20-40%
- Jenny K 30% Nov 27-30

Sunshine Studio Scraps
- Cinzia Loosemore 40% Nov 27-28.
- LDrag 50% Fri, 40% Sat, 30% Sun & Mon
- ProjectB 50% Nov 26-30
- Shanmomto4 Designs 50% Wed-Sun

Sweet Shoppe Designs 40% Fri, 30% Sat & 20% Sun.

Tracy Ann Most products 40%, Clearance Section 50%, Free Kit with $18, Buy The clearance $500 Value for $49.95 or Half the Clearance $29.95 & Any 9 Patterned Paper Packs for $21.95

--added 2-- Two Little Pixels
- Ange Designs 40% Nov 27-28
- Deca Designs 40% Nov 27-28
- Jot & Scribble, Damayanti, Mia, Click Photo LiEN & Cherpea Unspecified

Vera Lim 45%

Weeds & Wildflowers 20-75%. Nov 27-29 Midnight MST.

--added 2-- Wenchdgrafix 50% Ends Sun.

Zigzag 40% Nov 27.

LIL BITS 4

Previous Posts
- Sales Alerts
- Freebie Finds Part 1
- Freebie Finds Part 2
- Lil Bits 1
- Lil Bits 2
- Lil Bits 3

Some more sales:
- Michelle Pearson 65% Actions/Presets/PSP
- Jen Wilson 50%
- Amy M at Scrappity-Doo-Dah. $1 PU & $2 CU Retirement Sale. Ends Nov 15.
- The French Frog 1Euro. Nov 7-8 CET.
- DSO
KimB 50%. CU & PU Grabbags. Ends Nov 15
Gaye 50%. Till end-Nov.
Charlie 39%. All Nov.
Jazzy 50%. All Nov.
Lynn 50% Ends Nov 15.

And some DSD forums:
- Sweet Shoppe
- Shabby Pickle
- MSA
- ScrapMatters
- After 5
- Funky Playground

---FREEBIE FINDS---

BLOG TRAINS / MULTI-PARTY / MULTI-DAY DOWNLOADS

1. Valarie Ostrom Blog Train

2. ScrapMatters Blog Train

3. Sarah Bennett Blog train. Kit.

4. Polka Dot Plum blog train

5. Digital Scrap Cafe & Ahhh Scrap Treasure Hunt

ALPHA & WORDART
1. Steel City Scraps
2. Viva Artistry
3. JennCK Designs

ELEMENTS
1. Jennifer Fox
2. Mystique
3. Joanne Bain
4. LivE at Jessica Sprague. Till Sun.
5. MaryPop

KITS, PAPERS, ETC
1-2. Michelle Reaves & Karen Maggie at Scrapbookgraphics
3. Emily Giovanni
4. Miss Kim
5. Manu
6. Malina
7. Soval & Genedes at The French Frog
8. Peta Boardman

TEMPLATES
1. Funky Playground forum
2. Sweet Shoppe forum
3. Sweet Shoppe forum
4. Dunia
5. Meredith Fenwick at Two Peas store

QPs
1. Catherine
2. ScrapDesafios at Digidesignresort store

MISC
1. Card from Randi Oh
2. WM[squared]
3. Card from The Ettes & Company store
4. Calendar stamps from Phuong Ton at SBG store
5. Dots PS Pattern from Helena Jole

LIL BITS 3

Previous Posts
- Sales Alerts
- Freebie Finds Part 1
- Freebie Finds Part 2
- Lil Bits 1
- Lil Bits 2

Updated:
- Elemental Scraps Tiered Sale 30% off $5, 40% off $10, 50% off $15. Grabbags. Nov 7-8.
- Sweet Shoppe 30%. GWP with any purchase. Nov 7.
- Moo Too Designs 50% Nov 7, 30% Nov 8, chance to win free kit every month for a year

LIL BITS 2

LIL BITS 2

Previous Posts
- Sales Alerts
- Freebie Finds Part 1
- Freebie Finds Part 2
- Lil Bits 1



- Digiscrappers Brasil 30-50%. Weekend. Free kit with $10 purchase.


- All from DigiscrappersBrasil store [not sure but might be limited time freebies]


- My Life and Scrap Blog train

LilBits 1

Previous Posts
- Sales Alerts
- Freebie Finds Part 1
- Freebie Finds Part 2


FREEBIES


- Little Dreamer Blog Hop


- My Four Hens Photo Actions


- Catherine


- Dido Designs

SALES/COUPONS (all sales & coupons info will be added to the Sales Alerts page)
- Little Dreamer Designs 30% Nov 7-8
- Camila Designs 10% Coupon

MISC
- MSA DSD forum