Thompson Family-Life

New Inspiration using Curated

I've been meaning to share this Family Album that Kitschy Digitals Creative Team member Ranie O'Dell created with Curated. It's pretty stunning. And so is her family. : ) She put together these photo spreads and plans to add her journaling later on. She will be uploading these to an online book publisher and will have them printed for holiday gifts. *LOVE*

Did you see that Shutterfly is doing a buy one get the rest 50% off deal? I plan on taking advantage of that myself! (Offer ends tomorrow.. yikes! Better get on that. ; )

And here's a gorgeous spread by KD Team Member Marie Lottermoser that I somehow forgot to share! It is SO pretty. I love the photo of the aprons blowing in the breeze...

And spotted.. this GORGEOUS vintage quilt that I have NEVER seen the pattern for before.. have you? Does anyone know the name of the pattern? Would love to make one of these! It's obviously a vintage pattern.. if you know the name, please share! : )

gorgeous photo shoot by Team Rhodes

it's a sale (or two), baby : )

I hope you all (Americans that is!) had a lovely Thanksgiving! I'm doing a lot of catch-up around these parts, but we had such a nice time with Ethan's family. I have LOTS to blog about in the coming weeks, but wanted to cue you in on some sales that are going on right now!

I'm having a CYBER MONDAY SALE, 40% OFF, in my Etsy shop, Tiny Bazaar.. today only of course! My shop is partially opened for the holidays with only downloadable products, but get 'em at this amazing price today! Lots of embroidery patterns and printables.. great ideas for those handmade gifts you were thinking of making!

Use the code: "cybermonday40" at checkout!

(yes, Etsy FINALLY has a coupon code option! Let me hear ya say Hallelujah. : )

Here's an ADORABLE pillow that Kitschy Digitals Creative Team Member Amy Bindel made with my Vintage Cameras Embroidery Patterns. Been meaning to show this to you guys for ages. It sits very cutely in the boys' room! Aren't her stitches beautiful?

Also! The folks over at JessicaSprague.com have made EVERYTHING 20% off from now until December 31st. For real. That means STOREWIDE. : ) So everything in my shop is on sale for 20% as well!

ALSO, if you spend $20 at JessicaSprague.com, you get this new Holiday themed collaboration digital kit for FREE (retail $21.99). That is a helluva deal. Don't miss it. : )

Here's how you do it:

Fill up your cart with $20 or more, including the collaboration kit, and enter the code JSCWW2010 in the coupon code box.

Be back soon with:

- Some thrifty and vintage finds

- A cool charity project

- My little day-trip to Helen, GA with Campbell this weekend (think kitschy - and possibly tacky - "German Alpine Village" in the North Georgia Mountains. ; )

- More inspiration from Curated

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving from my family to your's (the human and inanimate creatures alike. ;-)

I'm off to eat, drink and be merry. Have a lovely day!

Curated: for Travel & Hipstamatic Albums, & Thanksgiving Crafts!

Sorry for my delay on sharing these! Cooper has been very sick with strep since Saturday.. so sad! He is feeling better though (crossing fingers) so hopefully he'll be well for the holiday this week.

I wanted to share some more ways that you can use Curated, from the Kitschy Digitals Creative Team.

Here, Georgia used the kit to highlight her travel photos.

Aren't her photos gorgeous? : ) Have you ever been on a trip and felt totally overwhelmed by the hundreds of shots you took? I've felt that way many, many times. This kit provides a fast way for you to put an album together full of all of those travel pics, and it shows them off in such a beautiful way! We've had so many meaningful trips that I'd hate to just slap into one of those boring templates they have on photo book sites. And printing individual photos is just not an option anymore. Who wants a bunch of single prints lying around the house?

Here Tania made some album pages to highlight the many hipstamatic photos she's taken! I have not been able to hop on that iphone train, but it's obvious that people LOVE the hipstamatic photo app! I love the look and I love the way Tania used Curated to serve as a placeholder for all of those fun, everyday memories you can capture with an iphone. I could see a whole album dedicated to these photos.

Next I'll have a gorgeous album that Ranie put together. Come back tomorrow for that!

Some randoms:

I released my Monotone Fresh Feathers kit yesterday. This kit used to be in my other digital shop, but now it's here and at a permanently reduced price! You might remember this CA-UUTE craft my sweet friend Karli put together last year with this kit...

Some kitschy turkeys for your Thanksgiving table! Hop over to one of my favorite blogs, Modern Kiddo, for the details on how she put these together!

And have you seen this *AMAZING* printable that Pilgrim over at draw!pilgrim designed for all of us Thanksgiving-Celebrating-Americans? (she's from Australia ; ) 

She also has a line-art version that can be colored in by your Littles! EEK! They'll be very busy at the kiddy-table at Thanksgiving Dinner. (p.s. SO glad I don't have to sit at the kiddy table anymore. I swear I sat at it until I was college age at my grandparents'. LOL. It was quite humiliating. My cousins would agree.) :P

adorned

Hope you all had a nice weekend! I wanted to share with you some more Blythe pretties that I've made. The first is a variation on the ones I shared with you here. The one above is definitely one of my favorites. They are so much fun to make!

The other headbands that are like the ones I usually make, I made for a friend of mine for a trade. : ) But I will be making more of these over the next couple weeks. I'm hoping by the end of next week, I'll have ALOT of these, along with the feathered crowns, in my Etsy shop. Life gets crazy busy, am I right? What is that saying?

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

-Ferris Bueller

p.s. Come back later today. I'll have more layouts by the Kitschy Digitals and Paislee Press Creative Teams using Curated!