Introducing Ethan Thomas

Just wanted to post on here to let everyone know I had my baby! Ethan Thomas Gorny was born on August 27th and weighed 7lbs 8oz, 21 inches long. He has a full head of dark blonde hair and everyone says he looks like his mama :)

I've got some cute Baby Cakes Papers up at PBP to celebrate. I've got them priced at $1 (AUD) but that won't last forever so hurry if you want them!

New Stuff and a Freebie!

Yeah, I've been a bad blogger. This pregnancy really kicked my butt in the beginning but other than being ready to have this baby I'm feeling better now. Hopefully I'll even start updating the ole blog more.

Pregnancy News: I'm 36.5 weeks now so after Monday this baby can come at anytime and I won't mind one bit! My doctor was a little worried baby was breech so I had an ultrasound yesterday and all is well. Baby (its a boy!) is in the head down position, ready for take off! My most recent belly shot is 34 weeks, but I'll post it for you all to see the whale.

Designing News: I've got a few new things in my store at Pickleberrypop and everything is 25% off for PBP's 2nd birthday celebration! We also have $3 (AUD) grab bags up that are not included in the 25% sale but certainly a steal of a deal!

Two new kits in store, Boy on the Shore and What a Bang! Each only $4.50 AUD and 25% off making them $3.38 AUD

Some commercial use overlays that make super cute papers. The dots aren't the same old boring perfectly round dots your used to, pick up What Dots? for your commercial products today! Only $5 AUD and 25% off making it $3.59 AUD!

And finally! My PBP Lolly Bag! there are 5 brand new products in the bag and you can pick it up for only $3 AUD! Be sure to check out all the other lovely Lolly Bags and celebrate PBP's 2nd with us! These bags are only available until Aug 5th so grab em quick.




Freebie News: I'm part of the Teacher's pet program over at Funky Playground Designs. The first challenge was issued and we had to create mini-kits to give away in the FPD Gallery that were what we considered to be trendy in today's scrapping world. You need to head over to the gallery to pick up my kit for free and check out all the other contributers too. Each zip file is password protected and you need to sign up for the FPD Newsletter to get the password to unzip them. I hope you like my kit :)

Its been awhile

I know its been awhile since I made a post but I have a pretty darn good excuse! We found out mid-December that we are expecting another baby! The newest addition to our family is set to arrive August 25, 2008.

I set up a guessing game and I'll give some background too

Caitlin was born 6 days late at 5:36am weighing 6lbs 12oz and 19 inches long
Austin was born 11 days early at 2:52pm weighing 6lbs 7oz and 19 1/2 inches long

both were normal deliveries, no c-sections.

Black Friday Teaser and a Grab Bag!

Are you ready for your holiday shopping? I know that I will be hitting the stores at 4am on Friday morning. I know I'm crazy but I can't resist the deals! Of course I'll be back later in the day to do some digital shopping too! There are so many great sales out there and I'm no exception. I'll be having a weekend sale, 50% off all my goodies all weekend long. This even includes commercial use! All three stores, One of a Kind Scrapz, Pickleberrypop and Digi by Design!

I have my November Scrapz Sack available for sale at OAKS now! This is four brand new products that will be sold individually for $9 or you can grab it now through the weekend for only $2! I know I love grab bags, and I hope you will love mine. I really do put a lot of thought and time into them.

Happy Scrapz Kits

There are two new Happy Scrapz kits in the Digi by Design Store! Woodland Pixies and Winds of Change are now available for purchase if you didnt get a chance to finish the Happy Scrapz challenges. Remember that all of the past HS kits are up for sale there too if you were interested in any of them. Amy and I make a great team, I've really loved all of our kits.





Amy W. put together this quick page with the Winds of Change kit and its yours free!


Get the QP here!

Dad's X-Ray and a Freebie

My mom sent me my dad's xrays and yikes. I don't think I realized how large the nail really was. The metal plate with the scres in it is from when he broke his arm last year.

Now for the freebie. I started making this as an element pack to sell but kinda lost the motivation to finish it so now I'm just going to give it away for free. I hope you can use and enjoy my little Sequinies

Download Here. Comment if you download please, I like to hear from you :)

Halloween Pictures...at last!

OK, I would have had these up sooner but I loaned my camera to a friend and didnt get a chance to download them first. Here are my kids on Halloween! Caitlin was a Medieval Princess and Austin was a Vampire. The little girl in the black outfit is Caitlin's friend Amethyst who was a fallen fairy.

OK, now on to the true horrors! On Saturday my dad was at work (he does construction) and him and his partner were nailing some stuff with the nail gun, the partner was nailing and my dad was holding things in place. Well they got going a little too fast and my dad put his arm across right as his partner nailed and this is the result.

The nail went straight through the clasp of his watch and into the bone. The doctors are trying to pry it up with a crowbar there... that didnt work. They ended up stabalizing it with vice grips and hammering it out. Now I'm not really sure how that would work but it sounds yucky and painful to me. Dad is OK right now though, he is a tough guy.

New Releases and a Freebie

New at Pickleberrypop and One of a Kind Scrapz. These Frilly circles are sure to add a special touch to any layout!

Includes: 12 paper circles with a scalloped graph edging overlayed with glitter.

Also, don't forget about my two newset kits "Kasey" and "Play on Play"


Grab this great Desktop Calander made by my Fab CT member Dodo Using my Fallen Kit. Please leave a comment and let Dodo know how much you appreciate her :)





Download Here

I'm having a CT Call!

Do you want to receive all of my designs (new and old) for free? Can you complete at least 3 layouts every month with my designs and post to 3 different galleries? Are you fun loving and playful? Well then this is the place for you!

I’m looking for three new members for my Creative Team to help promote me and my designs. If you are interested please send an email to rykku1@yahoo.com with the following information:

*Your name and a little about you.

*Number of CT’s you are currently on.

*Link to your main Gallery.

The call closes on November 1st so send those apps in quickly! I look forward to hearing from you and announcing my new team!

Love,

Jessica Gorny

A Steal of a Deal!! Freebie too!

Head on over to Digi by Design and check out the Super Saver Saturday sale. This week there are tons of items, all fall themed/colored for 50% savings! This includes my new kit "Fallen"!


Today is the last day of the Fabulous Mid Month Madness Sale at Digi by Design also. If you were looking to grab some of these $0.98 items you better run and do it soon! I'm not sure whats happening to the products once the sale is over so this is your chance!

Its not all sales and deals today. I also have a freebie for you. These glitter borders match my Fallen Kit. There are five 12x12 borders for you here. I hope you enjoy. And please, if you have time check out the awesome DxD sales!


Download Fallen Borders Here

New Fall Kit

I put out a new fall kit today. I really love the look of this, even though it isnt entirely traditional. Its kinda girly and whimsy but in a fallish way lol. Anyways, you can pick fallen up at either One of a Kind Scrapz or Digi by Design for $4.00 :)


In other news, your's truely will be debuting in a new store soon! Stay tuned for that exciting news! (the store is new to me, not new in general.) I'm so looking forward to this :)

Mid-Month Madness!

Check out the events going on at Digi by Design right now! There are some crazy deals and fun games for you!



Check out Amy's blog for the blog party freebie info. I didnt have time to participate this time around.

I've got 3 items up in the 0.98 cent sale! Check these out. You can find them in the Mid-Month Madness section of the store along with a ton of other 0.98 cent items from the other DxD designers! Or you can click on the pictures to go directly to the item. I hope you enjoy the sale and celebration :)

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

I think that most people have somebody close to them that has been diagnosed with breast cancer, and if you don't, consider yourself lucky. Its rough. I have a friend who was diagnosed a few years ago. At the time she had 7 children and went in for a mastectomy where they removed one of her breasts. She has since gone on to have her 8th child (7th son) and is now pregnant with #9 a girl. She is a survivor, and like many, she continues to fight every day.

I am very pleased that this month Scraps for Charity is benefiting the Breast Cancer Foundation. Our kit is now for sale in each designers individual portion or as a mega. Please help support this cause and head on over there to get this great kit today.

Mega Preview

My Contribution

Happy Scrapz Challenges

OK, its the beginning of the month and time for new challenges again so I wanted to show you guys the kit you earn for doing the four Happy Scrapz Challenges. This kit i s rich and beautiful and such a steal. 4 Challenges really isnt a lot, especially with all the layouts we do every month anyways. I tell you what, if I didnt make part of this kit I would be all over trying to earn it. Hope to see you at Happy Scrapz and the challenge forums!

$2 Grab bag, 35% off sale, New Commercial Use Items

For one week only buy my newest grab bag at OAKS for only $2! There are no surprises here, seeing is believing! 4 brand new items totalling over 75mb. These items will be put into the store at regular price next week so this is your chance!



My newest commercial use item Wing It is 35% off through Oct 2. This set includes 5 .png files of the wings shown in the preview and the individual .png files of the top and bottom of each wing for easy layering and shading as seen in the sample image below.



Everything in my OAKS Store is 35% through Oct 2nd, you don't want to miss this amazing sale which includes both personal and commercial use items!!

Brand New Collab Kit - Simply Me

I ventured into the world of collaborations...Amy started it with our Happy Scrapz kits but now I'm really enjoying working with different people and seeing what we can come up with. Today I would like to introduce you to "Simply Me" a beautiful and peaceful collaboration kit by Danielle Engebretson and myself!

The Kit Includes:

12 patterned papers
5 solids
2 butterfly embellishments
1 daisy flower
1 painted and glittered flower
1 eyelet
2 frames
1 bent
1 journaling strip
1 journaling tag
2 spa labels
4 poem stones
1 thin wrapped ribbon
2 polka dot sloppy bow tied ribbons
4 buttons
5 different patterened straight ribbons
2 circle stitches
1 border stitch

Unique Embellishments:

two glass bottles of bath salts
1 pack of bath salts
1 wrapped set of washclothes
and bath salt package

1 full set of alpha and number, punctuation and brackets painted

There is also an 8x8 quick page album available. This albumn includes a front and back cover and eight pages for $4.99

I have another collaboration kit in the works, stay tuned to see what it is :)

Do my eyes decieve me? A Freebie!

Yes, thats right! Today I tossed together a little freebie for everyone. Its small but its cute! This is a set of 3 Solid-ish papers and not just recollored copies of themselves, each paper has an individual look and texture to it. I hope you can find lots of uses for these babies, I'm quite proud of them myself :)

Download "Island Watercolors" Here Please leave a comment on the blog if you decide to download these, thank you!

Scraps for Charity September Kit!

Our SFC Design team has got together to collaborate on an AWESOME kit to benefit The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation! Available now in the SFC shoppe! It is PACKED with lots of great papers and a TON of different elements!

On sale now for just $7 until Oct 6th! You can also buy each mini designer kit individually for just $2.50! Be sure to stop by our gallery for inspiration and our forum for some fun chit chat and games!

25% off Coupon!

Just wanted to make you guys all aware of a coupon for 25% off at Digi by Design. Head on over and check out the store!

New Computer at Last!

Yes its finally happened! On Friday the hubby and I went out and bought a new computer. The 6 year old ancient thing I had been working on has been replaced at last!!! I'm so excited! I got a Gateway 6000+ with a dual processor and upgraded to a 19 inch HD Monitor. I'm in heaven!! Photoshop runs like a dream.

I havent gotten any work done this month, its been nothing but visitors and going out all month. During the beginning of the month while my brother was here we went to Six Flags Great America, that was a blast.

Then we went to the Hard Rock Cafe in Chicago. The food wasnt anything to write home about but the service and atmosphere were fun. I can't totally dis the food either, their chocolate chip cookies are to die for! Our waitress gave us a dozen on the house. Caitlin was running around being really cute, we convinced her to do that rock symbol thing with her hands and the whole tounge out thing for the waitress, totally adorable! For her efforts we bought her a pink Hard Rock Shirt that says "Rock Angel" on the front and has little angel wings on the back.

When my friend Andrea came into town we went to the Bristol Ren Faire. It was fun, we saw some shows that we missed last year and I got my hair done up. It was miserably hot that day though so I ended up with a headache, probably dehydration.

We went to the Blue Man Group in Chicago. I must say that was the funnest thing I've done since moving to this area three years ago. If you have a chance to go see them I totally recomend it. Their show is interactive and just all around fun and exciting! The theatre they preform in is completely done up in this cool industrial look, with pipes and tubes everywhere. They don't allow photos in the show and afterwards it was so crowded we didnt get our pictures with the Blue Men but it was still fun fun fun!

My house guests start clearing out next week and I'll finally have some computer time to get some designing done and really dig into my new computer. I'll miss my sister and my friend but it will be nice to have my house back!

Oh, I completely forgot to mention! I also got a dishwasher!!!! That has been a long time coming and desperately needed. The dishes just pile up here and with me being the only one doing them it seemed like a never ending chore. Now its fairly simple to keep them under control.

Caitlin starts kindergarten on Friday. She is really excited and has been asking me almost every day if she has school yet. The whole registration process in this area kinda sucks. It actually cost me $133 to get her into public school and would be an extra $90 if I wanted her to ride the school bus. I thought public schools were open to everyone with no charge unless you lost or trashed the books. I know that back in WA there are no fees to start school or ride the busses. Its just weird! How do the schools work where you are? I know the $133 is supposed to be for book rentals and supplies. I assume its because the schools werent seeing fees paid for destroyed books but as far as I know we don't get that money back even if our "rented" books come back in great condition at the end of the year. Another way to weasle out money if you ask me. I could be completely off base though, I don't know!

Well, thats it for me today, I hope to get some new stuff out to the world soon!