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I never do a christmas list, but I kinda love birthday wishlists.

And as you can see, I have a thing for yellow and gold. I'll take one of each above. :)
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Since clothes are out of the question for my birthday on the 20th, I'm in the market for some girlie accessories. And I'm in the mood for a girlie, special day. Since my birthday comes up so fast after the holidays, I usually get my gifts wrapped in left over christmas wrapping. And since I share the birthday month with my husband (16th) and two brother in-laws (30th &31st), we usually all get gifted dvds and joint dinner gift cards, since my poor family gets hit with 4 birthdays celebrated together right after the holidays. And since I'm 7 months pregnant with a boy, living in a household of boys, and share my birthday every year with the boys, I'm dying to feel a little special and girlie this year. And let's just blame the pregnancy hormones for making me totally unrestrained in saying all this out loud.

So, I pulled these etsy items from my favorites list. And now I'm gonna go shop online at some of my favorite stores and leave an "anonymous" list for Jeff in his golf bag. :)

catching up... and being spotted!

My yahoo feed reader is out of control.

I'm finally sitting at the computer during naptime

(instead of taking my daily survive-the-first-trimester nap!)

and clicking on all the bloggys I've been missing for weeks.

Did you hear?! The Rockstars are adding a baby rockstar!

So cute! I've been waiting for that for those two lovebirds. :)

Bleubird Vintage welcomed their newbie in the house.

Ah-dorable.

A Beautiful Mess is engaged!

Yay for creative wedding planning details to come over there!

Much Love, Illy is also engaged!
And she's oh so cute and mushy-gushy over on her blog.

Bakerella is doing a book tour, and she's coming right here to Costa Mesa.

Who wants go be silly, blog stalker, baking fans together?

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Don't cha like how I talk about these bloggers like I know them personally.
Eh, just follow their blogs like it's my job. :)
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Loving all the wedding, baby, baking, engagement announcements!
There's sooo many more blogs I've been dying to get to and catch up on.
And while I'm at it, I have my eye out for homemade Christmas gift inspiration.
Time to get started. If I'm not too late already.

But yay for a new month! September makes me happy.
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My sis and her husband are celebrating their 2 year Anniversary on the 14th,
and are currently featured on a fabulous photographer's blog here.

Gorgeous!

And Jeff and I celebrate our 6 year Anny on Sunday, the 12th.

Wahoo for a night away together!
And our cake has already been ordered, ready for pickup on Saturday. :)

Oh and one last thing, I got a cute email this morning saying this little blog 'o mine was nominated!

Over at Just Spotted in OC, under the personal/family category... awesome!

I'm a 2010 Orange County Blog Award Nominee

which means I get to sport this awesome button. I know, I'm too cool for school. :)

Click here to see all the nominees, and then vote here... for me! Or my blog bff, Diane. Or any of your favs. :)

Voting ends Sunday, so do it quick. Fun, fun!

Feel free to utilize these buttons to spread the voting word for me via fb, twitter, etc.  Much obliged :)

did somebody say bubbles?

We now have a collection of two bubble machines and one new bubble gun.
Which makes us happy. :)

video song: owl city

digi frames: house of 3

kicks: see kai run

mood: happy :)
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digi downloads

As you've already noticed, I changed my header again. I change it a lot.

As a whole, I'm an indecisive person who likes constant change, variation, transformation, new direction, new options... you get the idea.

And you wonder why we move so much...? :)

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Anyways, this blog is a fun hobby and creative outlet.

I love changing it up constantly.

I've been asked by several how/where everything comes from.

SO many sites, SO little time. Here's a few I like a lot...

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Fonts and digital scrapping:

You'll find some freebies, but I always make sure my paypal account has funds available... :)

www.kevinandamanda.com/fonts/fontsforpeas

http://www.houseof3designdistrict.blogspot.com/ -Bought the love and heart banners used above.

http://www.elizabethkartchner.blogspot.com/ -She's great at referencing her digi scrapbook finds!

http://www.aliedwards.typepad.com/ -I use her personal handwriting font a lot.
http://www.designerdigitals.com/

www.twopeasinabucket.com/digital.asp

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Fun online photo editing:

http://www.rollip.com/

http://photoshop.com/express

http://www.photofunia.com/

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Video editing:

Windows Movie Maker

Flip Editor -Came with the purchase of the vid cam.

Roxio Creator 2010 -Bought at Costco. Lots of options, but not very user friendly. Can anyone recommend a better one??

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Header/Photo editing:

My own computer programs used...

Roxio PhotoSuite 11

MGI PhotoSuite 4

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Paint

Seriously, these all so old school but they work for somebody who doesn't have the big bucks for Photoshop. :)

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And I'll grab simple pretty things from here:
http://www.simpledesktops.com/ -Used for the first 2 headers above.

Found via How About Orange - love this blog! Click on 'Free Downloads' and you'll be in for a ton more free fonts, desktops, backgrounds, printables... super fun stuff.

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There is so much out there. I spend my late night quiet hours getting my digi find fill. Or in this case today... during the quiet nap hour. :)

augustin, carter, elliott, and eric

Just some of my favs over at See Kai Run.

So in love with their shoes right now after seeing them floatin' around in mags, articles, and ads.

In fact, I just came across them while ordering diapers, and thought I'd share...

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Diapers.com is having a sale on See Kai Run spring styles.

And if you tack on diapers to your first order, you get $10 bucks off.

Not to mention free shipping.

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I am a happy Diapers.com customer. I hop between buying diapers at Babies R Us and Diapers.com, depending on the current coupons or sales at the time. Always trying to save money. But there is something about free diaper delivery to my door that makes me do the happy dance. Especially since discovering that I can sneak in a pair of See Kai Run shoes. :)

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Use referral code KATR2731

and you're good to go for $10 bucks off.
and I get $5 bucks off thankyouverymuch :)
Happy shopping!
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Get $10 off

your first order of diapers

use code KATR2731$49 min. total order

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my desktop

Currently, my computer desktop setup includes

this old-school flip-clock screensaver

that I discovered a few weeks ago HERE.

And I've loved my wallpaper this month that I found HERE.

And he just put up the new one for February. Yipee!

Just wanted to share a couple good finds with friends. :)

Fonts

I had a font obsession a while back with this website.... here!

And I just discovered these posted on How About Orange... here!

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Let the downloading begin! :)

Can't get enough...

I'm obsessed...

I can't stop downloading fonts! :)

Testing... 1..2..3

Update: Here's the link... buzz.blogger.com... dated April 14th.

Blogger has a new feature... Blogging from your phone! Oh boy, am I in trouble now. :)

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