Christmas came a bit early for our pets...thank you Hartz for sending us some Angry Birds dog and cat toys. To say my pets like them is an understatement! 

From the moment we opened the package, our dog was nuts about them.  Especially the Angry Birds Plush Piglet.  And when the sound chip goes off and it makes that well know laughing pig sound she dances around with it and growls at it.  It's hilarious to watch.

Our cat loves the Angry Birds - Birds Gone Crazy Cat Toy too!  She's batting them all around the house!

There are a lot of different Angry Birds pet toys to choose from, you can check them all out HERE, and purchase them on Amazon HERE.

Disclaimer: I received products from Hartz/Golin Harris

Today is my SITS Day!!! 

If you're one of my regular blog readers you're probably scratching your head and wondering what I'm talking about...well, be of no fear, SITS Girls is a group of women bloggers (over 10,000!) that support each other.  It's really great and I've met a lot of other crafty bloggers through it!

If you're visiting from the SITS site...welcome!  Let me tell you a little bit about myself.

I live in Southern California with my husband, a Golden Retriever, and a very fat cat.  I am a craft addict who loves to do something creative every day.  My current loves are mixed media/painting, scrapbooking, papercrafts, and sewing....and I'm starting to really get into embroidery too! {Basically, if it's artsy craftsy I do it!!}

I've been blogging for over 5 years about all my creative endeavors.  Since I work freelance for many craft manufactures I often post what I've created for them here, but I also love to share what I'm making that came from my heart and not an assignment!

Here's some popular blog posts:

If you still have Halloween candy around, you can make this!

These flowers are seriously quick & easy, you can make this!

Some more easy-peasy (and slightly dangerous) flowers, you can make this!

Need some DIY baby shower gifts? You can make this & other stuff!

If you're looking for a way to record what your family is thankful for this year, you can make this!

Also, if your into crafty things like scrapbooking, mixed media, photography, ect, check out True Scrap.  I partnered with 17 other teachers to give you a variety of classes and other goodies! 

I teach one of 17 classes, it is a mixed-media scrapbooking class...here's a peek at the projects:

Everyone was really excited to see how my niece would react to her new baby brother coming home from the hospital and being able to see her Mom again since she was gone for 4 days having the c-section & recovering. 

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She was super happy to see Mom...she got a huge surprise look on her face when she saw her...which of course made Mom start to cry and I was doing everything in my power to suck it up and not start bawling watching them.

She was also really curious about what her Dad was carrying in that car seat and was so gentle and timid with touching her new brother.  It was cute to watch!

She did have a bit of a melt down after awhile though...it was past her nap time and she was a bit confused about why Mom couldn't pick her up and what was going on with the baby.  Thankfully she got her nap and they are all now working at trying to help her deal with not being the sole center of attention....overall I'd say it's going pretty well!  (You should hear the horror stories my parents tell of when my brother came home...I was not a happy camper to say the least!)

Again for this layout I used one of the Simple Scrapper September sketches.  Love those! It makes it so easy to get started.  I also the Studio Calico kit "Boardwalk" for 99% of the layout. I think the only thing that didn't come in the kit was the tiny staples and tissue tape LOL.

Sponsor:  Simple Scrapper, Target

We had a great stay-cation here in Los Angeles...my brother & niece flew in and we all had a great time.  

I'm catching up on email & social media right now and hope to post some projects shortly.  (I flaked at writing them ahead of time and having them auto-post during this vacation.)

If I owe you an e-mail hold tight...I'll catch up soon!!  Hopefully!  ;)