Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Take Time to Love the Little Things

These jars sit on my desk and I love to look at them filled with little goodies. The goodies are for paper scrapping, which I haven't been doing ANY of since I started digi scrapping. But I still love to look at the jars. The colors. The light reflecting off the glass. The happy fat little shapes.


Credits:
Paper: Raspberry Road Flea Market Kit
Flower Overlay: Bridget
Frame: Ellie Lash
Word Art: Daniela Peuss
Font: Inkburrow

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Mr. Fix It

Daniel likes to fix (he calls it "fick") things. Hubby was putting in a new dishwasher and Daniel jumped right in with his tools from his Home Depot tool box. He started really showing off when I pulled out the camera. He is so funny because he's SO serious about his "ficking."

Credits:
Template: Stacey Jewell Stahl
Papers: Rise Up Paper Pack, Dahlia Co Designs
Hammer/Screwdriver: Scrapping_foryou
Wrecked polaroid: Scrappypony
Ribbon: SugarSnapScraps
Date Stamps: S.J. Wright Creations
Alpha: Monika69

Indescribable

I created this layout to showcase my favorite song of the moment, sung by Chris Tomlin. The picture was taken in my back yard and shows our golden rain tree in bloom. A tree like this one was blooming in my mother's yard 14 years ago when Jay and I got married. I had my bridal pictures taken there. Seeing these blooms makes me remember getting married and all those feelings . . . sort of indescribable . . . so when I look at this picture and then hear the song talk about the colors of fall . . . it all comes together for me. My favorite line of the song is, "You see the depths of my heart and You love me the same." Love it.

Credits:
Paper and embellishments: Morning Sunshine May Mega Kit/Digital Diva Designs
Overlay: natashaw
Alpha: Little Dreamer Designs
Date Brushes: Rhona Farrer
Font: problem secretary

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Cookies for Santa

This layout was created for a challenge at the Raspberry Road yahoo group that I recently joined. The kit we used was Raspberry Road's Crystal Skies. I also created two Christmas card templates from the kit as well, which I thought turned out pretty good.


Faith Prevails

I created this layout for a challenge at faithsisters.com. The challenge was to create a LO that shows a difficult struggle or challenge that I have overcome and that strengthened my faith.

My son's first surgery was in April '06. He had a calcified cephalohematoma removed. The surgery went well, recovery went well . . . until June and then we started having problems. Parts of the skin around the incision weren't healing. We discovered that his body was rejecting the bone wax that was used to seal the skull to limit bleeding during the surgery. In August '06, we went back into the hospital to basically have the area debrided. We weren't prepared for the wound care after this surgery. After his first surgery, we basically kept the incision site cleaned. After this surgery, we had open wounds that required sterile (as close as we could get) packings three times a day. A nightmare. It required one or two extra people to hold him down while I tried to keep myself calm enough to remove the old packing and put in the new. It was physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually draining. I didn't think I would ever be able to do anything like this, and yet day after day, I was plodding along. Crying, praying, weeping, praying, hoping, praying. It was finally over in October '06. I did experience depression following this, and got some medical help. Looking back now, I see that God was carrying me and my heavy burden each and every day, each and every moment. With Him, all things are possible.


Credits: Krystal Hartley's True to Yourself kit; Krystal Hartley Word Art/Weekly Verse; font 1942 report; glitter dust My Emma Doodle; brushes (date and lines) Rhona Farrer 2PS Celebration kit

Friday, November 9, 2007

Welcome!

Welcome! I have recently become OBSESSED with digital scrapbooking (my husband says VERY obsessed). I want to share my digital scrapbook creations and my favorite things in the digital scrapbooking world. Here we go!

Books I've Read

I love to read.  Some years I read more than others.  Some years I was better at recording the books I read than others.  I actually started tracking the books I was reading in 2007 when I started this blog.  The earlier years, from the 1990's to 2006, were taken from a journal where I recorded the books I read.


1990's:

A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
A Widow For One Year, John Irving
Babylon Revisited, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beach Music, Pat Conroy
Beet Queen, Louise Erdrich
Bluebeard, Kurt Vonnegut
Green Dolphin Stret, Elizabeth Goudge
Grendel, John Gardner
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Leftover Dreams, Charlotte Vale Allen
Love Can Build A Bridge, Naomi Judd
Mama Day, Gloria Naylor
Margaret Mitchell & John Marsh:  The Love Story
  Behind Gone With The Wind, Marianne Walker
Picturing Will, Ann Beattie
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Rain of Gold, Victor Villasenor
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
Saint Maybe, Anne Tyler
Schindler's List, Thomas Keneally
Stella Landry, Robin McCorquodale
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett
The Day Diana Died, Christopher Anderson
The Heritage, Frances Parkinson Keyes
The Last Tempation of Christ, Nikos Kazantzakis
The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy
The Robe, Lloyd C. Douglas
The Unvanquished, William Faulkner
The Vines of Yarrabee, Dorothy Eden
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

2000:

A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
A Man In Full, Tom Wolfe
Before Women Had Wings, Connie May Fowler
Body of Knowledge, Carol Dawson
By The Light Of My Father's Smile, Alice Walker
Chalktown, Melinda Haynes
Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns
Cry To Heaven, Anne Rice
Excuse Me For Asking, Janis Arnold
Fay, Larry Brown
Fortune's Rocks, Anita Shreve
Gap Creek, Robert Morgan
Home Town, Tracy Kidder
Housekeeping, Marianne Robinson
Howard's End, E.M. Forster
Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
Jewel, Bret Lott
I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb
Lasher, Anne Rice
Leaving Cold Sassy, Olive Ann Burns
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
Message in a Bottle, Nicholas Evans
Mother of Pearl, Melinda Haynes
My Last Days as Roy Rogers, Pat Devoto
Object Lessons, Anna Quindlen
Poachers, Tom Franklin
Servant of the Bones, Anne Rice
She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb
Taltos, Anne Rice
The Inn at Lake Devine, Elinor Lipman
The Long Home, William Gay
The Love of a Good Woman, Alice Munro
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
The Witching Hour, Anne Rice
Welcome to the World, Baby Girl, Fannie Flagg
White Oleander, Janet Fitch

2001:

Anastasia, James Blair Lovell
Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
Blood of the Fold, Terry Goodkind
Cavedweller, Dorothy Allison
Chocolat, Joanne Harris
Decorations in a Ruined Cemetary, John Gregory Brown
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Keeping Faith, Jodi Picoult
Midwives, Chris Bohjalian
My Antonia, Willa Cather
Paper Wings, Marty Swick
Stone of Tears, Terry Goodkind
Temple of the Winds, Terry Goodkind
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, Oscar Hijeulos
The Most Wanted, Jacquelyn Mitchard
The Pact, Jodi Picoult
Use Me, Elissa Schappell
Wizard's First Rule, Terry Goodkind

2002:

A Day Late and a Dollar Short, Terry McMillan
A Map of the World, Jane Hamilton
An American Summer, Frank Deford
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Blackbird, Jennifer Lauck
Back Roads, Tawni O'Dell
Drowning Ruth, Christina Schwarz
Entering Normal, Anne D. LeClaire
Go Ask Alice, Anonymous
Harvesting The Heart, Jodi Picoult
House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus III
Icy Sparks, Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Kate Vaiden, Reynolds Price
Lake Woebegon Summer 1956, Garrison Keillor
Larry's Party, Carol Shields
Leaving Alva, Victoria Lipman
Light Sister, Dark Sister, Lee Walmsley
Make Believe, Joanna Scott
Miss Nobody, Tomek Tryzna
Nights in Rodanthe, Nicholas Sparks
Open House, Elizabeth Berg
Pigs in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver
Plain Truth, Jodi Picoult
Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
She and I, Eileen Lottman
Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
Still Waters, Jennifer Lauck
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas, James Patterson
Switcheroo, Olivia Goldsmith
The Bridges of Madison County, Robert James Waller
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
The Extra Man, Jonathan Ames
The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
The Guardian, Dee Henderson
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
The House of Gentle Men, Kathy Hepinstall
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
The Manikin, Joanna Scott
The Negotiator, Dee Henderson
The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
The Shopkeeper's Wife, Noelle Sickels
The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather
The Sunday Wife, Cassandra King
The Tattooed Girl, Joyce Carol Oates
Vinegar Hill, A. Manette Ansay
When Kambia Elaine Flew In From Neptune, Lori Aurelia Williams
While I Was Gone, Sue Miller
Women and Horses, Candida Baker
Young Wives, Olivia Goldsmith

2003:

An Echo in the Darkness, Francine Rivers
Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging:  Confessions
     of Georgia Nicolson, Louise Rennison
As Sure as the Dawn, Francine Rivers
A Voice in the Wind, Francine Rivers
Backpack, Emily Barr
Behind The Scenes at the Museum, Kate Atkinson
Blackwood Farm, Anne Rice
Blessings, Anna Quindlen
Bloomability, Sharon Creech
Come and Go, Molly Snow, Mary Ann Taylor-Hall
Danger in the Shadows, Dee Henderson
Daughter of Fortune, Isabel Allende
Disobedience, Jane Hamilton
Eden Close, Anita Shreve
Father & Son, Larry Brown
Fiona Range, Mary McGarry Morris
Holes, Louis Sachar
Isabel's Bed, Elinor Lipman
Lay That Trumpet In Our Hands, Susan Carol McCarthy
Leota's Garden, Francine Rivers
Little Odessa, Joseph Koenig
Move Over Victoria - I Know The Real Secret, Nancy Kennedy
Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand
Sea Glass, Anita Shreve
She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb
That Old Ace in the Hole, Annie Proulx
The Bestseller, Olivia Goldsmith
The Book of Hours, T. Davis Bunn
The Book of Ruth, Jane Hamilton
The Brethren, John Grisham
The Center of Everything, Laura Moriarty
The Dive From Clausen's Pier, Ann Packer
The Last Girls, Lee Smith
The Last Time They Met, Anita Shreve
The Next Step in the Dance, Tim Gautreaux
The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters, Timothy Schaffert
The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren
The Runaway Jury, John Grisham
The Smoke Jumper, Nicholas Evans
The Summons, John Grisham
The Truth Seeker, Dee Henderson
The Virgin's Knot, Holly Payne

2004:
All He Ever Wanted, Anita Shreve
All Over But The Shoutin', Rick Bragg
Crazy Ladies, Michael Lee West
Good Faith, Jane Smiley
Rosie, Lesley Pearse
Songs of the Humpback Whale, Jodi Picoult
Sutter's Cross, W. Dale Cramer
The Bondwoman's Narrativve, Hanna Crafts
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
The Lady and the Unicorn, Tracy Chevalier
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
     The Fellowship of the Ring
     The Two Towers
     The Return of the King
The Nanny Diaries, Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
The Weight of Water, Anita Shreve
A Virtuous Woman, Kaye Gibbons

2005:
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
And The Shofar Blew, Francine Rivers
Awake, Elizabeth Graver
Breath, Eyes, Memory, Edwidge Danticat
Crow Lake, Mary Lawson
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells
Durable Goods, Elizabeth Berg
Girl With A Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and The Prizoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
I Been In Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All The Pots, Susan Straight
I Killed Hemingway, William McCranor Henderson
Joy School, Elizabeth Berg
Little Altars Everywhere, Rebecca Wells
Magic Elizabeth, Norma Kassirer
Mary Anne, Daphne du Maurier
Mary Called Magdalene, Margaret George
Never Change, Elizabeth Berg
Scarlet Feather, Maeve Binchy
Sights Unseen, Kaye Gibbons
Simply Divine, Wendy Holden
Stones From The River, Ursula Hegi
The Amateur Marriage, Anne Tyler
The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn, Janis Hallowell
The Art of Mending, Elizabeth Berg
The Big Picture, Douglas Kennedy
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
The Lake of the Dead, Carol Goodman
The Laments, George Hagen
The Pollen Room, Zoe Jenny
The Rabbit Factory, Larry Brown
The Turtle Warrior, Mary Relindes Ellis
The Way The Crow Flies, Ann-Marie MacDonald
The World Below, Sue Miller
True To Form, Elizabeth Berg
Willem's Field, Melinda Haynes

2006:
A Million Little Pieces, James Frey
Child Of My Heart, Alice McDermott
Digging To America, Anne Tyler
Drop City, T.C. Boyle
Evening Class, Maeve Binchy
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Just Listen, Sarah Dessen
Quiet-Crazy, Joyce Durham Barrett
My Legendary Girlfriend, Mike Gayle
Shoot The Moon, Billie Letts
Someone Like You, Sarah Dessen
Sweet Ruin, Cathi Hanauer
That Summer, Sarah Dessen
The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown
The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler
The King of Torts, John Grisham
The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards
The Monk Downstairs, Tim Farrington
The Rapture of Canaan, Sheri Reynolds
The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
Three Junes, Julia Glass
We Are All Welcome Here, Elizabeth Berg

2007:

A Breath of Fresh Air, Amulya Malladi
Adelaide Piper, Beth Webb Hart
Around The World In 80 Dates, Jennifer Cox
Baby Proof, Emily Giffin
Battlefield of the Mind, Joyce Meyer
Circle of Friends, Maeve Binchy
Citizen Girl, Emma McLaughlin & Nichola Kraus
Creative Counterpart, Linda Dillow
Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
Flabbergasted, Ray Blackston
Get Out of That Pit, Beth Moore
Goodbye Jimmy Choo, Annie Sanders
Harry Potter Series, Books 1-7
IDOLeyes, Mandisa
If You Lived Here, Dana Sachs
Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
Jemima J, Jane Green
Joe, Larry Brown
Lady Luck's Map of Vegas, Barbara Samuel
Life With Strings Attached, Minnie Lamberth
Little Beauties, Kim Addonizio
Love Walked In, Marisa de los Santos
Me & Emma, Elizabeth Flock
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Naked, David Sedaris
New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell
Shem Creek, Dorothea Benton Frank
Shopgirl, Steve Martin
The Brambles, Eliza Minot
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
The Ghost Orchid, Carol Goodman
The Kindess of Strangers, Katrina Kittle
The Land of Mango Sunsets, Dorothea Benton Frank
The Memory of Running, Ron McLarty
The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd
The Pig and I, Rachel Toor
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, Lauren Willig
The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
The Whole World Over, Julia Glass
Trading Up, Candace Bushnell
Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
We Are All Fine Here, Mary Guterson
What Do You Do All Day?, Annie Scheibe

2008:

A Density of Souls, Christopher Rice
A Song I Knew By Heart, Bret Lott
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
A Voice In The Wind, Francine Rivers
All Families Are Psychotic, Douglas Coupland
American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld
An Echo In The Darkness, Francine Rivers
An Unlikely Cat Lady: Feral Adventures In The Backyard Jungle, Nina Malkin
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Best Friends, Martha Moody
Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer
comeback, Claire & Mia Fontaine
Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn, Kris Radish
Dry, Augusten Burroughs
Florida, Christine Schutt
Her Last Death (a memoir), Susanna Sonnenberg
I'm Not The New Me, Wendy McClure
In The Hope of Rising Again, Helen Scully
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
love the one you're with, Emily Giffin
Miss Invisible, Laura Jensen Walker
Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh
Not Tonight Honey, Susan Reihardt
Notes from the Country Club, Kim Wozencraft
parched, Heather King
Persuading Annie, Melissa Nathan
PREP, Curtis Sittenfeld
Rhett Butler's People, Donald McCaig
The Absence of Nectar, Kathy Hepinstall
The Cape Ann, Faith Sullivan
The Danish Girl, David Ebershoff
The Dress Lodger, Sheri Holman
The Feast of Love, Charles Baxter
The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio, Terry Ryan
The Ruins of California, Martha Sherrill
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters, Elisabeth Robinson
The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green, Joshua Braff
The Wonder Spot, Melissa Bank
Ursula, Under, Ingrid Hill
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
Wish You Were Here, Stewart O'Nan
You Remind Me Of Me, Dan Chaon

2009:

A Home At The End Of The World, Michael Cunningham
All Is Vanity, Christina Schwartz
Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons, Lorna Landvick
Big Stone Gap, Adriana Trigiani
Boy Proof, Cecil Castellucci
Celeste Ascending, Kaylie Jones
Chasing Harry Winston, Lauren Weisberger
Deep Dish, Mary Kay Andrews
Eleven Minutes, Paulo Coelho
Fat Girl, Judith Moore
Flower Children, Maxine Swann
Firefly Cloak, Sheri Reynolds
Girls In Trucks, Katie Crouch
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and The Prizoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
Home Safe, Elizabeth Berg
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
House Rules, Rachel Sontag
In The Company Of The Courtesan, Sarah Dunant
Love Warps The Mind A Little, John Dufresne
Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, Linda Berdoll
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
One Fifth Avenue, Candace Bushnell
Pink Slip, Rita Ciresi
Pocketful of Pearls, Shelley Bates
Raising Hope, Katie Willard
Sacred Hearts, Sarah Dunant
Second Glance, Jodi Picoult
Semiprecious, D. Anne Love
Swimming Sweet Arrow, Maureen Gibbon
The 19th Wife, David Ebershoff
The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant
The Condition, Jennifer Haigh
The Drowning Tree, Carol Goodman
The Garden of Last Days, Andre Dubus III
The Girl Who Stopped Swimming, Joshilyn Jackson
The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb
The Invisible Circus, Jennifer Egan
The Keep, Jennifer Egan
The Last Summer (of You & Me), Ann Brashares
The Masque of the Black Tulip, Lauren Willig
The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart
The Piano Teacher, Janice Y.K. Lee
The Reading Group, Elizabeth Noble
The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes, Diane Chamberlain
The Shack, Wm. Paul Young
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley
The Ten Year Nap, Meg Wolitzer
The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education, Craig M. Mullaney
Twilight Sleep, Edith Wharton

2010:

A Change in Altitude, Anita Shreve
A Fierce Radiance, Lauren Belfer
Anybody Out There?, Marian Keyes
Arcadia Falls, Carol Goodman
Backseat Saints, Joshilyn Jackson
Commencement, J. Courtney Sullivan
Eva's Cousin, Sibylle Knauss
Fallen Skies, Phillippa Gregory
Firefly Summer, Kristin Hannah
Fragile Beasts, Tawni O'Dell
Ghost Country, Sara Paretsky
Grace, Jane Roberts Wood
Heart of the Matter, Emily Giffin
Honolulu, Alan Brennert
How Clarissa Burden Learned To Fly, Connie May Fowler
How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez
Lasher, Anne Rice
Last Chance Saloon, Marian Keyes
Let The Great World Spin, Colum McCann
Little Bitty Lies, Mary Kay Andrews
Little Heathens, Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Lock and Key, Sarah Dessen
Lowcountry Summer, Dorothea Benton Frank
Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married, Marian Keyes
Miranda Blue Calling, Michelle Curry Wright
Noah's Compass, Anne Tyler
Promises To Keep, Jane Green
Red Hook Road, Ayelet Waldman
Romancing Miss Bronte, Juliet Gael
Room, Emma Donoghue
Savannah Blues, Mary Kay Andrews
Savannah From Savannah, Denise Hildreth
Secret Daughter, Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Secrets of Eden, Chris Bohjalian
Songs Without Words, Ann Packer
St. Burl's Obituary, Daniel Akst
The Empress of One, Faith Sullivan
The Fixer Upper, Mary Kay Andrews
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
The Irresistible Henry House, Lisa Grunwald
The Night Journal, Elizabeth Crook
The Other Queen, Phillippa Gregory
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender
The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy
The River Wife, Jonis Agee
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
The Swan Thieves, Elizabeth Kostova
The Three Miss Margarets, Louise Shaffer
The Uses of Enchantment, Heidi Julavits
The Weight of It (A Story of Two Sisters), Amy Wilensky
The Witching Hour, Anne Rice
This Charming Man, Marian Keyes
Twelve Rooms With A View, Theresa Rebeck
Under The Dome, Stephen King
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
Welcome To The Great Mysterious, Lorna Landvik

2011:

11/22/63, Stephen King (Dec)
All The Finest Girls, Alexandra Styron (Jan)
Almost, Elizabeth Benedict (Feb)
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Betty Smith (Apr)
Cutting For Stone, Abraham Verghese (Jan)
Empire Falls, Richard Russo (July)
Falling Together, Marisa de los Santos (Nov)
Feeling For Bones, Bethany Pierce (Mar)
Freedom, Jonathan Franzen (Oct)
Georgia Bottoms, Mark Childress (May)
Gone With A Handsomer Man, Michael Lee West (May)
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling (July)
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling (July)
Harry Potter and The Prizoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling (July)
Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (July)
Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling (Aug)
Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling (Aug)
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling (Aug)
Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger (Nov)
Hotel Du Lac, Anita Brookner (Sept)
How Green Was My Valley, Richard Llewellyn (Jan)
Kaaterskill Falls, Allegra Goodman (Oct)
Life of Pi, Yann Martel (May)
Light A Penny Candle, Maeve Binchy (July)
Light From A Distant Star, Mary McGarry Morris (Nov)
Look At Me, Jennifer Egan (Apr)
Made In The U.S.A., Billie Letts (Sept)
Novel, George Singleton (Feb)
One Mississippi, Mark Childress (Nov)
Rachel's Holiday, Marian Keyes (Aug)
Redeeming Love, Francine Rivers (Feb)
Savannah Breeze, Mary Kay Andrews (Jun)
She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb (Nov)
Sushi For Beginners, Marian Keyes (Sept)
The Art of Fielding, Chris Harbach (Oct)
The Dovekeepers, Alice Hoffman (Dec)
The Emperor's Children, Claire Messud (Feb)
The Evidence Against Her, Robb Forman Dew (Jun)
The Future Homemakers of America, Laurie Graham (May)
The Help, Kathryn Stockett (July)
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (Jun)
The Miss America Family, Julianna Baggott (Apr)
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern (Dec)
The Patron Saint, Ann Patchett (Jun)
The Pleasure Of My Company, Steve Martin (Jan)
The Toss of a Lemon, Padma Viswanathan (Mar)
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Maggie O'Farrell (Sept)
The Virgin's Lover, Philippa Gregory (Sept)
The Widower's Tale, Julia Glass (May)
True Colors, Kristin Hannah (Jun)
Turtle In Paradise, Jennifer L. Holm (Jan)
Watermelon, Marian Keyes (Nov)
What Girls Learn, Karin Cook (Sept)

2012:

A Clash of Kings, George R.R. Martin (July)
A Feast of Crows, George R.R. Martin (Nov)
A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin (Mar)
A Storm of Swords, George R.R. Martin (Aug)
An Available Man, Hilma Wolitzer (June)
Autobiography of a Fat Bride, Laurie Notaro (June)
Baker Towers, Jennifer Haigh (Apr)
Bloodroot, Amy Greene (Apr)
Bright Shiny Morning, James Frey (Oct)
Carry Yourself Back To Me, Deborah Reed (Sept)
Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins (Feb)
Kushiel's Dart, Jacqueline Carey (Apr)
Lisey's Story, Stephen King (June)
Lucky, Alice Sebold (Feb)
Matched, Ally Condie (Dec)
Me and Mr. Darcy, Alexandra Potter (May)
Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins (Feb)
Raising Wrecker, Summer Wood (Sept)
Sarah's Key, Tatiana de Rosnay (Feb)
Some Kind of Fairytale, Graham Joyce (Dec)
Son of a Witch, Gregory Maguire (Jan)
The Brimstone Wedding, Barbara Vine (Sept)
The Exceptions, David Cristofano (Dec)
The Falls, Joyce Carol Oates (May)
The Flight of Gemma Hardy, Margot Livesey
The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson (June)
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (Apr)
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls (Oct)
The Heretic's Daughter, Kathleen Kent (Oct)
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (Feb)
The Last of the Honky Tonk Angels, Marsha Moyer (Mar)
The Mind Readers, Lori Brighton (Sept)
The Raising, Laura Kasischke (July)
The Rest of Her Life, Laura Moriarty (Aug)
Townie, Andre Dubus III (May)
Twelve Gates To The City, Daniel Black (Feb)
Weeping Underwater Looks A Lot Like Laughter, Michael J. White (Feb)
While I'm Falling, Laura Moriarty (Oct)
Wicked, Gregory Maguire (Jan)

2013:

A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon (Apr)
An Echo in the Bone, Diana Gabaldon (May)
Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery (May)
Anne of Avonlea, Lucy Maud Montgomery (May)
Anne of the Island, Lucy Maud Montgomery (May/June)
Doctor Sleep, Stephen King (Oct)
Dragonfly In Amber, Diana Gabaldon (Jan/Feb)
Drums of Autumn, Diana Gabaldon (Mar)
Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver (Jan)
Flowers in the Attic, V.C. Andrews (July)
High Plains Tango, Robert James Waller (Aug)
Home, Marilynne Robinson (Aug)
Jacob Have I Love, Katherine Paterson (Aug)
Lit, Mary Karr (Sept)
Outlander, Diana Gabaldon (Jan)
Petals on the Wind, V.C. Andrews (July)
Ruby Red, Kerstin Gier (Sept)
Summer Rental, Mary Kay Andrews (July/Aug)
Sweet Tooth, Ian McEwan (July)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (Nov/Dec)
The Double Bind, Chris Bohjalian (Dec)
The Fiery Cross, Diana Gabaldon (Apr)
The Invisible Bridge, Julie Orringer (Oct/Nov)
The Night Strangers, Chris Bohjalian (Dec)
The Orchardist, Amanda Coplin (June/July)
The Passage, Justin Cronin (Sept)
The Perks of Being A Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky (Feb)
The River of No Return, Bee Ridgway (July)
The Rock Orchard, Paula Wall (Aug)
The Shining, Stephen King (Oct)
The Twelve Days of Dickson (short stories), Allison M. Dickson
The Woman Upstairs, Claire Messud (June)
Voyager, Diana Gabaldon (Feb)
Wool Omnibus, Hugh Howey (Oct)

2014:

A Gracious Plenty, Sheri Reynolds (May)
A Hole In The Universe, Mary McGarry Morris (May)
Allegiant, Veronica Roth (Feb)
Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout (May)
Augusta, Gone (May)
Blue Asylum, Kathy Hepinstall (Feb)
Divergent, Veronica Roth (Feb)
Emerald Green, Kerstin Gier (Jan)
Emma, Jane Austen (June/July)
Into The Free, Julie Cantrell (Feb)
Insurgent, Veronica Roth (Feb)
Labor Day, Joyce Maynard (Mar)
Mad Girls In Love, Michael Lee West (Jan)
Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline (Apr)
Sand (Omnibus Edition), Hugh Howey (Apr)
Sapphire Blue, Kerstin Gier (Jan)
Sweetwater, Roxana Robinson (June)
The Bell Witch, John F.D. Taff (Feb)
The Bird Eater, Ania Ahlborn (Mar)
The Debt of Tamar, Nicole Dweck (Apr)
The Doctor's Wife, Elizabeth Brundage (Jan)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (Mar)
The Fault In Our Stars, John Green (Jan)
The Golem and The Jinni, Helene Wecker (Jan)
The Right Thing, Amy Conner (Aug)
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin (July)
The Widow of the South, Robert Hicks (Apr)
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls, Anton DiSclafani (Apr)
When Mountains Move, Julie Cantrell (Feb)

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Gallery Standouts

Featured on the Gallery Standouts Blog:

May 26, 2008
July 14, 2008
August 14, 2008
August 27, 2008
September 8, 2008
October 6, 2008
November 14, 2008
April 14, 2009
June 23, 2009
July 13, 2009
July 19, 2009
July 21, 2009
July 24, 2009
August 1, 2009
September 2, 2009
September 11, 2009
September 26, 2009
October 19, 2009
October 21, 2009
November 10, 2009
December 20, 2009
January 24, 2010
February 3, 2010
February 21, 2010
February 26, 2010
March 5, 2010
March 7, 2010
March 17, 2010

Featured on Faith Sisters Made Ya Look Monday Gallery Standouts:

July 14, 2008
July 21, 2008
July 28, 2008
August 18, 2008
August 25, 2008
September 8, 2008
September 15, 2008
October 6, 2008
October 13, 2008
October 27, 2008
November 10, 2008
November 24, 2008
December 1, 2008
December 8, 2008
December 15, 2008
January 12, 2009
January 19, 2009
January 26, 2009
February 2, 2009
March 2, 2009
March 9, 2009
March 16, 2009
May 11, 2009
May 18, 2009
May 25, 2009
June 1, 2009
June 15, 2009
June 22, 2009
July 13, 2009
August 3, 2009
August 10, 2009
August 17, 2009
August 31, 2009
September 7, 2009
September 14, 2009
September 28, 2009
October 5, 2009
October 19, 2009
October 26, 2009
November 23, 2009
November 30, 2009
December 7, 2009
December 14, 2009

Log Your Memory Story Board:
November 11, 2009

Digi Shop Talk Gallery Standouts:

December 24-25, 2007, Post 2
February 22-24, 2008, Post 59
February29- March 2, 2008, Post 22
April 18-20, 2008, Post 33
May 14, 2008, Post 58
May 16-18, 2008, Post 12
June 3, 2008, Post 16
June 6-8, 2008, Post 98
June 10, 2008, Post 7
July 14, 2008, Post 31
August 14, 2008, Post 3
September 19-21, 2008, Post 19
October 25, 2008, Post 43
January 19, 2009, Post 34
January 29, 2009, Post 4
May 2, 2009, Post 295
May 16, 2009, Post 16
May 30-31, 2009, Post 87
June 24, 2009, Post 128
July 4, 2009, Post 49
July 17, 2009, Post 99
July 19, 2009, Post 212
July 20, 2009, Post 76
July 20, 2009, Post 81
July 23, 2009, Post 4
July 23, 2009, Post 60
July 27, 2009, Post 60
July 29, 2009, Post 91
July 29, 2009, Post 137
July 31, 2009, Post 57
August 5, 2009, Post 130
August 10, 2009, Post 85
August 13, 2009, Post 65
August 20, 2009, Post 131
August 22-23, 2009, Post 3
August 25, 2009, Post 127
August 26, 2009, Post 81
August 28, 2009, Post 148
August 30, 2009, Post 65
August 30, 2009, Post 78
September 1, 2009, Post 86
September 1, 2009, Post 115
September 3, 2009, Post 149
September 3, 2009, Post 168
September 4, 2009, Post 91
September 5, 2009, Post 106
September 6, 2009, Post 83
September 9, 2009, Post 117
September 10, 2009, Post 146
September 10, 2009, Post 182
September 19, 2009, Post 58
September 23, 2009, Post 96
September 24, 2009, Post 157
October 15, 2009, Post 233
October 16, 2009, Post 171
October 17, 2009, Post 23
October 24-25, 2009, Post 35
October 28, 2009, Post 203
October 29, 2009, Post 163
December 12-13, 2009, Post 140
December 12-13, 2009, Post 144
December 12-13, 2009, Post 146
December 16, 2009, Post 177
December 17, 2009, Post 223
December 17, 2009, Post 237
December 19-20, 2009, Post 161
December 21, 2009, Post 206
December 23, 2009, Post 139
December 28, 2009, Post 152
December 31, 2009 - January 4, 2010
January 21, 2010, Post 78
January 25, 2010, Post 35
February 3, 2010, Post 157
February 5, 2010, Post 132
February 5, 2010, Post 344
February 6-7, 2010, Post 43
February 8, 2010, Post 158
February 8, 2010, Post 173
February 11, 2010, Post 123
February 18, 2010, Post 100
February 19, 2010, Post 69
February 25, 2010, Post 77
February 25, 2010, Post 89
February 28, 2010, Post 28
March 1, 2010, Post 97
March 8, 2010, Post 88
April 2, 2010, Post 67

Resume

Cheryl S. Ashcraft
Digital Layout Artist and Digital Template Designer


I am currently a stay-at-home mom with a previous career as a certified legal assistant. I have always been interested in crafts, but as a new mother, that translated into traditional paper scrapbooking. I was a paper scrapbooker for 10 years, and have been designing digital layouts since August 2007.  In addition to creating digital layouts, I began designing digital templates in February 2010 under the name Fiddle-Dee-Dee Designs. My template designs can be found exclusively at Scrap Orchard.

I currently create digital layouts for the amazing designers at Scrap Orchard and for the following designers:

Jenn Barrette @ Sweet Shoppe Designs
Ju Kneipp Designs @ Sweet Shoppe Designs
Studio Lorie @ Scrapbookgraphics

Contributor:

Staff Writer for My Scrapbook Art's digital magazine Home Is Where The Art Is

Recognized and Featured:

Digi Shop Talk 2008 Scrapper's Choice Award Winner ~ Best Use of DST Gold Member Kit

My Scrapbook Art Ultimate Artist Contest Winner December 2009

Digi Scrap Addicts 2010 Scrapoff Winner January 2010

ScrapMatters Queen of Scrap 2010 Winner June 2010

Gallery Standouts at various sites and blogs

Featured in the following publications:

The Artisan Notebook (stopped publication in 2013)

Digital Artist Magazine (stopped publication in 2010)


My most complete gallery is at Digi Shop Talk, but you can also view all my layouts here on my blog or on Pinterest as well.

Follow Fiddle-Dee-Dee Designs's board My Digital Scrapbooking Layouts on Pinterest.