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That song has been going through my hand a lot lately.  Why?  Because we just got -

Close Your Eyes – The Shushybye Dream Band

and

Shushybye Sleepover Surprise

Let me start off by saying that you know something is good when you see this night after night -

Even Jordan comes in to listen to the book.  It’s become our nightly routine.  The Shushybye book comes with a CD that reads along with them.  I sit in front and remind them to turn the page. (Though when Jordan is there, he usually remembers that part.)  Getting them all doing something, night after night, that they enjoy that settles them down for bed is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G.  Every parent knows that routine is huge for a consistent bedtime.  With 4 kids and a husband who works long hours that isn’t easy.  I’ve struggled with bedtime since I had Alyce and it only got more chaotic since I had Christiano.

The Shushybye book is based on the Shushybye series that you can find on BabyFirstTv.  Unfortunately, we don’t have cable.  (I blame it on our apartment manager, they have a contract with a cable company that is outrageous.) When we got the book it was my first peek Shushybye.

Here’s a little clip from the show -

I catch myself singing along with the music all the time.  Alyce gets rather offended if she’s listening to the CD and someone dares to turn it off (ie: daddy).  She comes running to me.  MOM! Daddy turned off my Shushybye-bye.  Of course, Alyce wants to listen to Shushybye all day long and night, but that’s beside the point.

We have really enjoyed the book and the CD they sent us to try. The message in the book was so cool!  Friends do things for friends for no reason at all!  Is that not a great lesson to learn?  We seem to be living in a society of me me me me, to have help enforcing the message of help others, that’s a wonderful thing!  I think I’m actually going to get the Shushybye Baby DVD for the youngest 2.  I think it’s something they will really enjoy.

Shushybye gets a big

from me for helping me get a consistent routine for all 4 of my kids – most nights (sometimes Jordan goes off to read on his own, but more often than not, he comes to spend time with us and Shushybye).

Make sure you go spend some time at the Shushybye website.  There is so much fun information along with their products (books, dvds, cds, dolls, sleepwear, and more), plus tour dates for the Shushybye band, information on child development, meet the characters, and yes, there is even more over there! (Don’t forget to email your child’s dream wish.  They might just get a response back!)

Shushybye has offered a copy of Shushybye Sleepover Surprise (the book and the read-along CD) to one of my readers!

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Thank you to Shushybye for providing us with a copy of Close Your Eyes – The Shushybye Dream Band and Shushybye Sleepover Surprise.  We have all enjoyed both the book/cd, but the family time together it has given us!

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I ran across LT Creations’s Etsy Shop a couple of weeks ago and I loved her jewelry!  Such a talented artist!  I’m getting to be a tad addicted to Etsy if you haven’t noticed. (I just think all of these gorgeous Etsy artists need all the recognition we can give them!)

Just take a look at her fabulous products!

Cleopatra Bracelet

Outrageously Fab Ring In Cherry Jubilee

Goddess Earrings

Imagine Necklace

Aren’t those gorgeous?  And those are just a few samplings from her FIRST page.

LT Creations has offered to give one of my readers one of her Unlimited Personalized Squiggles!  What’s a squiggle?  Let me show you!

Isn’t that pretty?  You could use it as a book mark, as a hair charm, as a cell phone charm, maybe even attach it to a necklace for a fun dangle!

How can you win this fun Squiggle with your name on it?

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Go over to LT Creations’s Etsy Shop and tell me what other product you think is just fabulous!

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Thank you to LT Creations for hosting this giveaway.  I have not received compensation for this post. Just a beautiful giveaway for my readers!

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I can’t believe this year’s Amazing Digiscrap Race is over for me.  Unless they sneak in a #13, which would be A-W-E-S-O-M-E! I need to find a site that has lots of challenges that I can do.  I know ever site has challenges.  I need to find one that is good for me.

Challenge 11 was found over at Polka Dot Plum, which you have to love, just for the name alone.

Welcome to Polka Dot Plum’s ADSR Humpty Dumpty Challenge. The designers here at Polka Dot Plum created this plum gorgeous template, a really unique layout for you racers to use, and then our kids got a hold of it. Yes, 5 minutes away to answer the phone, and this is what was left of a beautiful layout. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to take this template and put it back together again. Now, how you do that will be entirely up to you and your partner. Each team must take these template parts and create 2 entirely different layouts(one from each of you). Each piece must be used at least once, and you are welcome to resize, recolor, transform, use as a clipping mask, but the basic shape must still be there. The grey "photo spots" do not necessarily need to hold the pictures. You may also add anything else you feel fits your artistic vision. These come as a layered PSD file and separate png files, so any program should be able to use it. We can’t wait to see what you ADSR creative geniuses create for us!

Click here to see the template we needed to use.

And my take on it –

Credits –

Credits –
Heaven Gate’s Design – Little Angels
font – Darcy Baldwin – DJB BRITTANYscript

I’m not used to making “white space” layouts.  That’s what I started with.  Did I add too much to call it a white space layout?  Either way,  love how it turned out!

#12.  Oh #12.  The drama.  I bet Aimee had no idea that her challenge would cause grown women to panic the way they did.  Challenge #12 was found at Aimee Asher Elite.  The instructions –

Welcome Racers!  We are so happy to be a stop in the race this year. We wish each of you luck!  Here is our challenge….  Download these templates and create your own card and matching envelope using any digital or traditional scrapbooking elements and papers you already have. We welcome you to post in our gallery as our members and guest love to browse for inspiration.

Then she had to add this

**** this is not a hybrid, this is either digital or traditional or hybrid**** Just be creative and have fun. No printing required.

and this

My apologies for any confusion… you do not have to print. Just want you to have fun and create something wonderful and enjoy!

What was the drama about?  In the preview picture for the challenge, the card is shown printed out. People were upset that it was a hybrid challenge.  See my note on hybrids below. I suggested, as did others, that you just make the card digitally, then layer it on a 12X12 sheet to show it off.  I didn’t think anyone was going to have to BUY a printer to complete the challenge. 

If just printing something makes it hybrid, each and every once of our layouts would be hybrid once we printed it for our albums.  According to The Hybrid Chick, hybrid is –

What is hybrid scrapbooking? It is a fusion between “traditional” and digital scrapbooking. It is combining physical supplies that you might pick up at your local scrapbooking store, and the digital supplies that you purchase at your favorite online shop. It is mixing two art mediums to create one unique project. And, it is a BLAST!

I guess if because when you print the card out you have to use scissors to cut it out and a little glue to seal the envelope you want to call it hybrid, that is cool.  To check out some really awesome hybrid projects, hit Digishoptalk’s hybrid gallery.  Those ladies can rock it!  This here is an awesome example of a hybrid card.  See how there is lace?  Things standing off of the card?  It’s beautiful!

Ok, sorry to my non-digi-friends visiting, I was just a tad frustrated at the response to challenge 12.  We were making it so much harder than it had to be.  The ADSR rules state that we would never have to buy anything to complete a challenge.  That includes a printer, I would think.  In fact, for this race, I haven’t bought one new thing.  I have reached back to kits that are eons old.  Ok, like a year or so.  (That’s eons to me I guess.)  I haven’t digi shopped for awhile and have just been working from my stash that pretty much takes up an EHD.  I’ll shop again on the next scrapping holiday.

So, on to my card – which I didn’t print out BTW.  I am planning on printing it, but I am out of cardstock.  My children seem to think anything that is white and in my desk drawers is for them to draw on.

I actually was really excited about this challenge.  Now I have a template to make all kinds of cards.  Not that I couldn’t have gotten one before, but I never thought of it.  So woohoo!  look out family, I’m not buying any of y’all birthday cards anymore.  You’re stuck with my creations.  Unless of course I’m out of ink and cardstock.

Credits –

Anna BV Designs – SYTYCS week 1
Font – Darcy Baldwin – DJB AngelBaby

The whole point of the ADSR is to stretch yourself, try new things, learn new techniques, HAVE FUN!  This was my 4th race, 3rd that I’ve finished, and it was a blast!  I say if everyone decides to race next year, don’t take it so seriously, have fun with it!  The ADSR was not created to be a source of stress to the racers.  NDISB does the digiscrapping a great service by hosting the race every year and I’m grateful to Theresa and Ernie for it.  It gets bigger every year as more racers join and it cannot be an easy event to host, but they do each year with such an enthusiasm.  I’d like to thank them both for the Amazing DigiScrap Race.  I love participating each year!

On to other news.  New Moon comes out March 20!  Woohoo!

Either Pato or I will be at Walmart at midnight to grab it. 

I didn’t share about Tuesday night.  Tuesday we had gone to Walmart (where I received the mother of the year award) and the lady told me that New Moon was being released that night.  I was sure it was coming out March 20.  I thought she had to be mistaken.

Pato came home from work and said, New Moon is in Red Box already.  I was all, huh?  No way!  He said yes.  I said, I’m going to go to Walmart and grab it.  Needless to say, it wasn’t released yet.  I almost bought myself an Edward t-shirt so that I wouldn’t have made a wasted trip to Walmart, but then I thought you know, I’m 35.  How cool would I look walking around with Robert Pattinson on my chest?  So, I didn’t get it.  Came home all disappointed and went to bed.

Have a great St Paddy’s day and may the luck of the Irish be with you!

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