Wow – I so can’t believe it’s already the 1st of September! Today is a Holiday in the US – Labor Day – so my hubby is home from work, but is mowing the jungle outside instead.

I haven’t blogged in forever, so I have a TON of stuff to tell you! We’ll start with DSO first.  Today starts a new month of challenges; this time the Mega kit prize is called Delicate Romance – and it’s AWESOME!  Visit the forum to find out more and get started on all the challenges our Designers have for you this month.  Next, DSO is HIRING – yup – if you were thinking about joining our team, NOW is the time.  Bunny has posted all the information here, so check out – and come join us! Lastly, this week is GRAB BAG week at DSO!  For 1 week only, there are 7 Personal Use Grab Bags, all filled to the brim with new, never before released product!  Since I’m still new to the Designing World, Nikki, of Nikki Fabulous Designs, and I teamed to bring you Double the Fun – a collective grab bag of over 150MB of downloadable goodness for only $4.  Click on the preview to visit the store.

Let’s see, what else to tell you – oh Cate has joined Wench’d Grafix, so now you can find her fabulous templates here.  And, Digital Scrap Garden has lured in 3 of the Dancing Girls – Mojo, Diane aka CarJazi and Cate have all set-up shop there. The Garden is a really friendly place, so make sure you stop by their forum and say hi! While you’re out and about, check out The Wench’s blog – she has lots of fabulous new freebies that won’t last long!   Let’s see, while we’re talking about Freebies, Bunny has been BUSY! The hybrid bug has bitten her and she’s creating some fabulous cards and other goodies.  She has some awesome goodies on her blog too – but they won’t last long either..better hurry!

On a more personal note, we went to a birthday party this weekend for one of my lil one’s playmates.  It was there that we were introduced to the fun world of bouncy houses – the girls had a blast! This particular one combined all of Nadya’s favorite things – balls, climbing, and jumping!  She wore herself out – she took a 3-hour nap afterwards and still slept almost 12-hours overnight.  She enjoyed it so much that her Daddy and I started checking on prices and availability.  As luck would have it, Amazon had them ON SALE – big time! So, sometime this week, the newest addition to our house will be this (I can’t wait – and I think it’ll fit in our SunRoom):

I guess that’s about all for now!  Have a great Monday and I’ll be back soon with some pictures.

Shannon