Wake Up Toria

We've spent the last few months reorganizing our house and have now reached the stage of updating the kids' bedrooms. Lexi's and Nick's rooms are 85% done (Nick's not getting much, sorry bud!), so now we're tackling T's room. We found this fabulous website for tween & teen girls room decor, called Wake Up Frankie. It's all fun and funky, and not badly priced at all.

Toria picked out this bedding set for her room:

Except that we chose a purple bedskirt instead of the orange. Right now, we only have the duvet, bedskirt, pillow shams and matching window valance, but we hope to add more pieces in over time.

Not only did we find some great stuff for her, but I was super impressed with how quickly I received my order. I ordered late on Sun night and the box arrived early Wed morning! The quality looks great too.

So now we have to decide on a paint color and get that done, so I can get her bed all put together. And in a few months, after Jim gets over the sticker shock from Lexi's furniture purchase, we'll be getting new furniture for T too (I think the same set we got Lexi).

It's definitely a work in progress, but we're getting there!

The 2007-2008 Piggy Tales DT

The PT team was announced Wednesday night. I am totally thrilled to be staying on for another year, along with Celia, Melanie and Ruthy. And very excited to get to know the new girls!

CONGRATULATIONS to the following people on making Piggy Tales' 2007-2008 Design Team!
Lacintha Naidoo
Celia King
Julie Overby
Beck Heisler

Amber Winward
Tracie Hudson
Melanie Douthit

Ruth Clarke

Barb Pfeffer
Teresa Tyree
Trina Linford

A little something for all the members, new and returning alike:

Here's to a great year!

Grease is the Word

Yesterday I decided to tackle our Grease photos from last summer, in my continuing quest to finish up the kids books so I can move forward to one album only. Doing the same set of photos 4 times usually isn't that much fun, but I really had a blast with these. I don't normally post more than one version of a LO. I just pick whichever I like best and go with it. But I really loved how both the 12x12 and 8.5x11 version ended up, so wanted to show them both (the 2 other 8.5x11s are the same, only the pic is different).

I might very well be in a Scenic Route rut, but man do I love the stuff. It seems to make my LOs come together so easily. And you can't argue with that, right? ;)

Batting .500

So yesterday I had 2 layouts picked up by Scrapbook Trends. Funny that ... I hadn't submitted to them in 6 months, maybe more. And I submitted these ahead of the deadline since we were going to be out of town so much this month. So I'd forgotten all about it. I got quite a little shock when I saw the first email come in, and even more when the second came. I even had to check my spreadsheet to see what I'd submitted. Turns out I sent in 4. And 2 got picked up. Not too shabby, right?

This Blogging Thing

I guess I will try this whole blogging thing. Again. I'm not the best at coming up with topics, but eh, here we go.

If it's not obvious, I decided to title this blog after the classic children's song. Because that's pretty much the story of my life ... everything seems to lead back to the beginning in one big circle.