A dear friend of mine - Jenny from Jenny's Designz - has an absolutely beautiful little girl, Veronica, who was diagnosed with Alopecia Areata when she was just 2 years old. Veronica suffers with this disease on a daily basis, but through it all, she keeps a smile on her face and is one of the sweetest little girls you will ever meet!

Alopecia Areata Awareness

Jenny has put out a Designer Call to anyone who creates digital scrapkits, templates, quickpages, masks, etc. to collaborate with her on creating an Alopecia Areata Awareness kit.

If you would be interested in participating, you can find more information HERE on Jenny's blog.

Thanks again everyone for chipping in to help out with this collaboration and for spreading the word about Alopecia Areata to make more people aware!

Mye de Leon is a member of one of the Facebook Blogging Groups that I belong to. This is what she has been dealing with the past week:
"I gave birth to my boy on Dec 27. That day was supposed to be the happiest. Until they told us the news. Alphonse has Tetralogy of Fallot - a heart disorder wherein his valve has to be closed by a surgery. He needs to have it done in Feb. We need to have $12,200 by that time which we don't have at the moment :( I am losing hope.
As if that isn't heartbreaking enough. He is suspected to have Down syndrome too. We will have a chromosome test done on January 2nd.

I cried a lot already and i have become the pessimist i never thought i'd be. Please pray for us. We need the surgery. Doc says there is a 98% success rate and it is curable.

Do I need help? - I am a blog designer http://mycreativezone.com/ , please if you need a makeover - please please order from me. I am willing to work hard.
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Her little baby needs our help.

They need $12,200 by 1st week of February. If you can help her, any amount will be appreciated.

You can send it to her paypal : admin@myedeleon.com
I'm sure she and her little Alphonse would greatly appreciate it if you would send some work her way.

Gothic Inspirations October Blog Train starts tomorrow, October 1st!  This month's theme is PICK YOUR POISON.Previews of the Designer creations are below.  Be sure to follow Gothic Inspirations Blog Train to start blog hopping tomorrow!  Please remember to leave some love for the other designers that are so freely giving you their hard work, it is always appreciated!  You'll be able to snag for two weeks!

Here is my portion:

Kimmi with: My Creative Muse

Keep going and visit the rest of the fabulous designers!

Jo with: A Taggers Scrap

Muriel with: Creative Disorder Scraps

Stuart with: Creative Crazy Scraps

Sarah with: Designs By Sarah

Nika with: Devilish Dezines

Miriam with: Ellanoir Design

Jessica with: Gothic Inspirations

Victoria with: Maitri Scraps
 
Jennifer with: Perfectly Imperfect Creationz
Tiffany with: SSCC Graphic Solutions
Kara with: Sweet Cravings Scraps
Tasha with: Tasha's Playgrounds
Alyson with: Tyger’s Tidbits

Christina with: Tragedy's Creationz

Finished up a cute little tag the other day using the artwork of Robin Pushay which you can find at Artistic Dreams Imaging.  Included in the zip file is a collection of sayings that you can use in your emails.  I hope that you like them!

Anyone else out there sick and tired of being taken for granted by the men and children in your life?  Put this on your computer and GO ON STRIKE!

(just click to download the size you need)

If that doesn't work ... email, text or Facebook this to 'em!

Created a set of extras to use with alone or with the fall-themed letters I posted this morning.  I hope that you like them!

I have three new letters for you today that are fall-themed for Incredimail.  Just click each of the previews to download.

I have just had the pleasure of working with this beautiful kit for Myst and loved it!  I have always held a fascination with the ocean (probably because I'm a water sign), and I could spend hours and hours creating with this kit.

Told you it was beautiful!  Here are the two layouts that I've created this afternoon with this kit:

Please join us this evening at 8:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) Thursday, September 13, 2012 for 10 Minutes of Facebook Silence to pay tribute to Elric Childress, an amazing young man who lost his battle with cancer this past Sunday.

No child should spend their childhood fighting catastrophic diseases of any type, please join hands with us and continue to help bring awareness to cancer and fighting for a cure.

Greetings everyone!  I am "almost" to the point where I am ready to begin creating and designing again and offering you some awesome freebies!  Stay tuned by signing up to our newsletter - because when My Creative Muse hits - it hits in a BIG way!

I have a beautiful freebie to offer you today - well I think it's beautiful anyway!  My youngest son, Tre, was playing outside a few weeks ago - running around our apartment complex here, there and everywhere - so I had given him my little cheapo tracfone (could only make phone calls and send and receive text messages on it) to keep on him so I knew where he was at.  Well, he lost it - or so we thought.  An entire week went by, couldn't find my phone - so I had to call and cancel the service and ordered a replacement phone.

I know that I have been quiet since Dad's passing and haven't posted here.  I've been dealing with Dad's passing in my own way - I've literally buried myself in my Facebook games (Cityville, SimCity Social, Chefville, and The Ville - should any of you wish to help feed my addiction and become my neighbor in those games lol) and have cut myself off from the rest of the world except for family.

You never really fully comprehend how much family means until it is taken away from you.  Monday evening, my husband was injured when a truck fell on him, crushing the bones in the top of his right hand and destroying his index finger knuckle and breaking his index finger.  He spent the entire evening at the emergency room and did not return home till 9:30 a.m. Tuesday morning.  He was in severe pain and utterly exhausted.  I was worrying and fretting over him when the phone rang.  It was the county coroner's office calling to regretfully inform me that my father had passed away in his sleep.

Good Sunday to you all out there on the internet!  Have a new creation that I finished up the other night to share with you all (finally).  I also wanted to announce that there will not be a Friday Color Challenge this week.  I've spent the entire weekend working on trying to repair my son's computer.  The eldest downloaded a slew of crazy toolbars and what-not to his brother's computer and just totally fooked it up.  No matter what I have done to try and clean it - nothing has worked. 

Today's Friday Color Challenge is a beautiful summer sidewalk photo with beautiful daisies and lavender and lush green trees.  I am in the process of putting together a summer sidewalk kit to share with you all and will post that momentarily.  I'm in the midst of organizing and getting caught up on season 4 of Ugly Betty (which I've missed watching terribly) so who knows ... we might even get a few tacky flowers and Ugly Betty fashion in the kit - one never knows with 'my creative muse'!

For those of you in the United States who will be celebrating the 4th of July on Wednesday, a few free timeline covers to share with you!  Just click to download the full-size version for Facebook.

Are you a newsletter subscriber?  You should be!  I have a huge tagger size kit (personal use only) available for newsletter subscribers exclusively!  In addition, we are hosting a 75% OFF everything in the store sale now through July 7, 2012.  You must be subscribed to the newsletter though to receive the discount - and it only takes a moment!  Don't forget that we offer a convenient layaway plan as well - break up your payments into 2, 3, 4, or 6 payments - whatever works into your budget!

My daughter has an iPhone with the Instagram App and I love the border that it puts around her photos - so I decided to see if I could replicate it and make a script with it today.  I've tried it out on several different sizes and, while the script will work on most any size photo - it works best on those that are 2000px wide or less.

I know - I'm late with the Friday Color Challenge but its all Mother Nature's fault!  We've been dealing with some wicked thunderstorms this week here in Virginia.  We've had high winds, hail, tornadoes, torrential rains, thunder and lightening - all I can say is I think Mother Nature is a bit peeved at Virginia LOL!  News reports yesterday (before last night's storm that knocked power out for approximately 8 hours at our place) said that over 2 million people in Virginia were without power and that the Governor had declared a state of emergency after Friday's storm.  Yeah, it's been that bad.

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I don't know about the rest of you creative types, but there are times when my creative muse needs a jump start.  So I've come up with the idea for a Friday Color Challenge.  I'll supply you with a color palette ranging from 6 to 9 colors, and you have one week to create anything you would like using that color palette and then post it on your blog or Facebook page.  Come back here and add your link to the list below so that everyone can check out what you've created and leave some love for you!