My New Web Site and a little Contest!!

I have been trying to figure out a way to sell some of my digital kits, and possibly some of my paper projects for a while now. My dilemna was that being on Income Assistance every single penny of 'extra' income I make on top of my Assistance check every month gets taken off of my next check. So, I though, why bother?? Especially if I had to pay for webspace and all that fancy stuff. Well, I had a talk with the bf and we decided why not go for it? Who says I need to get paid in cash? The funny part about this silly system is that they will take any money I make away, but I can work for as much 'stuff' as I want! I'm still working out the details on how exactly I am going to work this out, but I will post with more details and of course add them to the site when I get it figured out.

So anyways, with this new venture I am going to be needing some digital designers, so if you are a digi scrapper and would like to send me some samples of your work I'd love to have a look-see! Check out the Digital Designers section of the web site for more details!


And now for the best part, a little contest!!! I made this little kit quite a while ago and have never really been able to come up with a name for it. So, I thought I would ask for a little help! Leave me a comment with an idea for a name by July 15th and I will pick my favorite in the next few days after that. Who ever posts the name I decide to use will receive their choice of a free download of the kit, or a small RAK from me!! Let's see what you can come up with!!



Here is a preview of the kit:

Oh, and I almost forgot!! Here is the link to the new website....http://members.shaw.ca/stephster17designs/index.htm

More Vacation Photos

Finally getting some time to post the rest of the photos (and a few stories) from our trip last weekend. We left Friday afternoon and got to Vancouver around 9pm. We checked into our hotel and pretty much tumbled right into bed. Saturday morning we got up and ventured out to the Greater Vancouver Zoo. Easier said than done! We had to take two busses plus a $10 cab ride to get there, and the same back again. Why they would not run a bus all the way out to something like that, I have no idea!! We got off to a rough start at the zoo, but it ended up being a great day. We rented this bike thing that was two bikes side-by-side- with a long basket in the front for kids and a roof over the whole thing. Well, we got on, I was putting all my things (camera, notepaper, pamphlets, etc...) into the backpack when Brian starts rolling backwards CRUSHING my foot under the pedal!!! The swelling has still not completely gone down tonight, 5 days later, lol! Then we got into an argument about driving abilities about five minutes into our drive around the zoo! But, we got through it and made it through the rest of the day without anymore mishaps! Here are a few photos from the zoo...

Saturday night Brian and I went out for dinner while Austin spent some time with Brian's parents at their house. Sunday morning we got up and headed to Stanley Park. We started at the children's petting farm. Austin was more interested in the tractor than the animals at first, but he did got around and give each little goat one pat on the back, lol!!! After petting the animals we went on a little train ride, which Austin just loved, he had this totally serious look on his face during the whole ride, just soaking it all in. Then we headed to the water park and Austin and I got soaking wet, and freezing cold, playing in the water. When we left the park we went to Granville Island where they were having a huge Canada Day celebration. Brian and Austin had a nap on the grass while I did some shopping. I got some stamps, stickers and a band-aid tin at a Stamping Store in the Kid's Market and a couple little wind-up toys for Austin. And I got some nice polished rocks too. That night Austin stayed at Brian's parents' house for the night and we went to watch the fireworks and went to the bar for a couple drinks.
Brian's mom had a free pass for five people to get into Science World so that's where we went before coming home on Monday. We went and picked up Austin from Brian's parents, had some breakfast there and the headed out. We asked a family walking in if they wanted to get in for free with us, since our pass was for five people and there was only two of us. They were so blown away and happy, it was so cool! Science World was very interesting, we didn't see even close to everything, it was so big and so many cool things to check out. After a couple hours there were went back to Brian's parents' place and had some lunch, a nap and got ready to come home.

Animal Photos

Just wanted to share some of the photos from the trip we took this past weekend. These are all of the animals from the Greater Vancouver Zoo and from the kid's petting farm at Stanley Park in Vancouver. I will share some more of other things later, with some stories from our trip. These are just some of my favorites of the animals.