Sunday, April 25, 2010

An added bonus...

Hey every one.
Sharon, one of the grab bag designers this  month, Added a perk for those on the fence about purchasing this month.

You can only get it through today with your purchase of the April Grab bag


This file has a title "My Favorite Recipes" that has 2 mats. a chef hat, apron, and container of utensils and a rolling pin. Then I got to thinking, I needed a title for the spine of the 3" 3 ring binder, So I added that one as well.

Here is link to get this file if you purchase the grab bag this weekend. Purchase will include download link for bonus file.
April Grab Bag


So stop on by and grab one! You’ love it…

Also, you can see the other previews for the grab bag in the store as well. Lots of yummy goodies in this set.

 And for those who already purchased... You can download the additional file in the store... Visit your order history in the cart and download. There is a download tut on the front page of the store if you have never done it this way.
Enjoy!
Chris


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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Walking Walking

Well my son and I went for a walk yesterday it was quite entertaining. I need to walk every day. He can come with me and provide entertainment. So here is how it goes…

 

As I walk with my son by my side Sometimes holding my hand. Sometimes not. And his Freckles chasing along behind us. I wish my hubby had had a camera to watch us go. We just walked the drive around our arena, but still it was interesting…

 

Kiddo: Are you Ready?

Me: yep, ready…. As I tie my shoes.

 

Kiddo: Okay lets go ten laps.

Me: Okay yeah. I was thinking 4 today and I will work up to more each day.

Kiddo: look of disappointment… hmmm. Okay

 

So we walk.. we make it around the lap with the border collie dragging her ball. She is dragging it and bouncing it all over the place because it is actually a horse ball tied to a rope. She runs behind us once and almost wraps it around our legs. But we made it without toppling over. Wew.

 

Kiddo: Okay I am thinking one is good.
Me: What? What about ten.

Kiddo: Sheesh. You said only 4. Hold on.

Me: standing and waiting. Hm. Hm. Hm.

 

Kiddo: Okay I got my soccer ball. I’ll kick that.

Me: Okay good.

 

Kiddo: Did you see the tulips over there?

Me: Nope but you can show me.

Ends up the tulips were a cactus flowering brilliantly in a shade of purple that outdoes the sunset. Beautiful

Kiddo:  It’s beautiful huh?

Me: Yep sure is. Pretty impressive.

 

We continue walking as he kicks the ball and the Freckles monster grabs it and runs and grabs it and runs. And the kiddo runs after her.. giggling and screaming at her to stop. Stop. Stop. Every giggle every scream seems to make her bounce up and gear up in delight even more.

 

We come around the bend of lap two.

 

Kiddo: Wew. Well I think that was like a mile. I am done. How about you?

Me: Yep. Almost a mile. I have a few more laps to do.

Kiddo: okay I’ll wait for you.

 

So as I walk around the laps of the arena my kiddo yells across.

HOW YA DOING MOM? Are you COMING MOM? Did you See the Tulips again MOM?

How many laps is that mom?

 

To cute.

Well at least I had a walking partner for the first few laps and then a coach for the last two.

On to another day of walking today.

 

Hope you are having an awesome day!

 

Enjoy!

Chris

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Monday, April 19, 2010

Just some pics and visuals from the fair...

A visual post today with some pictures from the fair. We got to hang out
with lots of friends & family and chat the day away. And if you look in the
tractor picture my son is really make it go with noise. Haha. To cute.
Well I hope you like the pics I am back to workin' on some files for the QMCthis week. More details stories and pics tomorrow. :)
Have a wonderful rest of the week.
Enjoy!
Chris

Friday, April 16, 2010

Wow...

I know I have been out in never never land.. but it has really been a busy and topsy turvy week.

 

But those moments of clarity are when my son comes up to me and says… “In this family, love is forever huh?” And I say “yes sweets. For forever.”  Misty eyes. Beating heart. Really truly I am blessed and love my life!

 

Okay.. have a fantastic weekend and don’t forget to check your BINGO Words in the forum. or sign up for the challenges we have going on…

Did you miss the newsletter from the 15th? What?? Really??… well here is the link so you can catch it.

http://hosted-p0.vresp.com/628938/279a43b15e/ARCHIVE

 

 

 

 

Enjoy!

Chris

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Thursday, April 15, 2010

April grab Bag Reveal!!!

Visit our Store Page to Grab It!

The Grab Bag Reveal... We started our Challenge early

in the forum to win next months.

Most now, but just in case...The $7.00 Sale is running out of time....

To see more of the files included. VISIT HERE!!

These are some of the items created with the Grab Bag Files for April.





If you want any of these files, visit our store page today to "grab it quick"

Chris Durnan, designer at www.visualdesignsbychris.com
GSD KNK WPC AI SCUT files for your personal digital cutters for use with scrapbooking, cardmaking and other hobbies. Whatever your creative mind can come up with!

My files work on many machines. Some of them are: Klik-n-kut, Pazzle, Wishblade, Silhouette, Cricut, Craft Robo. Some of the software involved with these machines are: Funtime, Scrapbooking, WinPC/Signlab, Inkscape, Create & Cut, Illustrator, KNK Studio, Robomaster, DesignMaster and the list goes on..... Enjoy!


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Monday, April 12, 2010

Sunday, April 11, 2010

his father's finger...





Tomorrow is my son's 6th birthday. So I will be either resting today from all the festivities yesterday or getting ready for tomorrow and celebrating some more.  I apologize if I am slow to respond.

I took this picture when my kiddo was just teeny as you can tell. My husband blessed me with a child and we became a family.

Love my life.

Enjoy!
Chris

Friday, April 9, 2010

Birthday Sale... he is turning 6. Wow! Woohoo!!

It’s my kiddos birthday weekend. I am so excited for him to turn 6. He is super duper excited he tells me.

 

We plan to go roller skating for his birthday. I hope to get lots of great pics. But for you I have a sale…

 

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This weekend I will be offering a sale 40% off $5.00 in your shopping cart.

 

You can get more information …

http://www.visualdesignsbychris.com/store/manufacturers.php?manufacturerid=1

 


Just put $5.00 worth of digital cutter files in your cart and the store will take 40% off of it.

Cupcake Wrappers. Word Books. Collections… any digital cutter file of mine you can find in the store…

 

This DOES include any sale items in the specials category of mine that are digital cutter files,

 but does not include the Quarterly Membership Club or Rhinestone Patterns.

 

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Also if you are a QMC Member I uploaded files to the membership to 4shared and at the forum.

We are on our way! There are 4 up and I hope to get the 5th up before the hubby gets home.

 

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Off I go!

Enjoy!
Chris

 

 

Monday, April 5, 2010

Wow there's a porcupine in here....

Welcome to Monday! It is gonna be a great week! I can feel it. I have been working on all kinds of files for the QMC. I am in that anxious have a ton going on and can't create or test cut or get them going fast enough. Wew! So this week the first of the files for the QMC will be up. Two ladies asked me to wait to take the QMC early bird files down from the store until late today. They didn't have access to their computer over the Easter weekend, but wanted that bunny butt file for rhintestones. So you have a few more minutes to grab the Apr-June membership with those files.... If you want to see the rhinestone pics.. visit here.

On to life...
And on to some pictures. I have a ton of pics from this weekend, but I thought I would share these first. These are from one of my favorite past times. Being out here  brushing our horses, hanging out with my guys, and watching my hubby ride (which I could do 24/7, but we do have to work some) So here are a few pics and I'll upload more later in the week.
This is Tulips my son's horse. We were working on a few other things so she had to wait for us in the round pen. It seems no matter where my son is she has to be leaning on the fence looking at him. He walked away and she pushed her head on the fence. and then he walked around the arena a ways to look at something and she pushed on the fence some more. at first I just thought it was the gate. But she does it on all sides of her stall too. She is cute. She will challenge him as he rides and means he will have to ride correctly, but really good for him.

I am not sure what this conversation was about? Maybe like...
See this stick horse... You can be replaced if you don't listen.
or See this stick horse.. this is what happened to the last horse that didn't listen.
hahaha. Okay just teasing. I asked him what he was doing. He said
"DESENTIZING. You know mom where she won't be afraid of anything &
needs more experiences. She hasn't seen my rodeo stick horse"
 "Oh yep. you're right" was my come back before I got..
you guessed it... the eye roll... for interrupting his training. haha.

So some people ask me if I am afraid for my son to ride etc. Yeah at times it makes me nervous, but I am also not willing to live in a box nor make my son live in a box. My son is around animals all the time and takes precautions and knows where to walk and stay away from them and pay attention to the subtle signs. We do our best. I know many who have children who ride bikes right on the street in front of their house and dash off the road every time a car comes. Kinda the same thing. Can't live in a box of protection. Have to test the waters and have fun.  Just have to Enjoy life.

Here is my handsom hubby. This first picture was actually my last one. As My hubby came over to grin for me. He gives me this grin to make me week in the knees. The camera will never catch it, but well... yeah... weak in the knees... Back to the pics.  I like to get pictures of him moving on the horse. I love to watch his concentration and energy. And I love to watch the horse and the form. Some think I am nutz, but I could watch horses all day.


And this is my "Ruby Girl" she patiently waited for me to stop paying attention to the boys and then got her picture taken and an ear rub.

Comments from my son this weekend that just made my Handsome Hubby and I just giggle.

" Wow there's a porcupine in here"
explanation: My son was trying to get the strawberries out from behind a pineapple in the fridge and kept getting poked. But he yelled it like there really was a porcupine. just made us giggle and try to keep straight faces.


Setup: Watching a John Wayne movie and my son is cramming some toys down on the floor and lays his head on them... "What ya doing?" my kiddos response "Well I am pretending this is a saddle as you can't take a pillow out on the range or you'd be called some Fluffy Cowboy" This time I was in the kitchen and heard this and my eyes were watering I was trying so hard not to giggle. My HHubby response was "You're right" and on they went to watch the rest of the show.

Things to make my hubby just beam...
"Hey Dad Wanna Watch a John Wayne movie"
This left Rays of sunlight coming out of the room from my hubbies big grin.
I, myself, started to clean house. I have seen them all. so I was good. haha.

"Hey Dad. We should go on a roundup and take the horses and go. Wouldn't that be fun"
Again my husbands beaming grin light the sky more then the sun.

And for my beaming moment....
Setup: I was making shishkebobs with pineapple and chicken out of that porcupine in the fridge. I was carrying some wooden skewers into the kitchen and I get this.. Hey Mom Hey Mom Hey Mom. And he's reaching for the skewers... mom Mom mom. . I stop and wait... " are you gonna use all of those?" Nope is my response. " can I please have some?" Sure. he runs back to the table where he has been cutting foam into a hundred pieces all day since he got his "craft cutter" from the easter bunny (which is really just a mini scroll saw. And he loves, but I find very irritating that doesnt work right. I'll review it later in the week.). And he takes the skewers and adds them to the craft project. Ahhhhh... yes you guessed.. My son being creative and crafting and using the things around him to create.. biggest beaming grin to light the sky ever from Mom.


And if you made it this far in my ramblings!

Have a wonderful week. Enjoy every moment of it! It will be the weekend soon. Yikes. This weekend is my son's birthday party. Turning 6 is pretty major. I better go. Lots to do and I am out of time to ramble.

Have a great week!!!!
Toodleroo
Chris





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GSD KNK WPC AI SCUT files for your personal digital cutters for use with scrapbooking, cardmaking and other hobbies. Whatever your creative mind can come up with!

My files work on many machines. Some of them are: Klik-n-kut, Pazzle, Wishblade, Silhouette, Cricut, Craft Robo. Some of the software involved with these machines are: Funtime, Scrapbooking, WinPC/Signlab, Inkscape, Create & Cut, Illustrator, KNK Studio, Robomaster, DesignMaster and the list goes on..... Enjoy!


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Thursday, April 1, 2010

April grab Bag ... Yum Yum

Also a few digi stamp files. Wow. Packed Full.

Chris Durnan, designer at www.visualdesignsbychris.com
GSD KNK WPC AI SCUT files for your personal digital cutters for use with scrapbooking, cardmaking and other hobbies. Whatever your creative mind can come up with!

My files work on many machines. Some of them are: Klik-n-kut, Pazzle, Wishblade, Silhouette, Cricut, Craft Robo. Some of the software involved with these machines are: Funtime, Scrapbooking, WinPC/Signlab, Inkscape, Create & Cut, Illustrator, KNK Studio, Robomaster, DesignMaster and the list goes on..... Enjoy!


And our cutter file "freebies" are kept in the forum. We add to them as we can.



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