Sizzling Summer

OK, so I know it's just about the end of May, but really, it seems like we skipped over spring and went right from winter into summer. It's almost 80 degrees here today. Not that I'm complaining.. not at all! I love summer, it's just that a bit more of spring-time would have been nice.

School's out here too. My son's last day was this past Thursday. I think this is the first year he's been upset that it was over. We got home thursday and he was all teary-eyed. Now I always expected that from my daughter.. but not from him. He was normally just thrilled when it was over. I think it's because he made a few more friends.. and also is more interested in girls.. lol Next year he'll be going to high school (9th grade) so maybe that had a bearing.. leaving the school and all. I did offer him summer school... HA!! Didn't think he'd go for that one!

Last few weeks I've been pretty busy, but the last couple days I have found time to play a bit in PSP.. and finally have something finished that I like. It's a bit bright, so you may need your sunglasses.... but I hope that you like it too.

It's another scrapper-sized kit... low resolution and smaller files. I honestly have tried the bigger scrap kits, and just can't seem to grasp that size, so I'll leave that to the pros, and just play around with the smaller stuffs :)

Special thanks for this kit include:
Babette for her commercial use papers.
Rachel for her commercial use bow.



Download HERE

Until next time....

Mini Rant.... Scrap Stores

OK... So I do realize that this past Saturday was NSD (National Scrapbook Day) so I was attempting to stay away from all the stores and their sales..

Well I caved... ROFL

And I'm happy to report that most of the experience went well, downloads included. Now I did expect a bit of slowness thinking there would be a lot of traffic, using bandwidth, etc... but I really have to say.. when 4-shared is 100 times quicker for downloads on their slow day than this particular store... something is really wrong.

I'm not gonna name the store, although I'd love to. But I'll just say that they've lost any future purchases from me. I don't care what designers they have, or what awesome kits... I won't buy there because this is rediculous. I've been trying since last night to download the few kits I got..even left some downloading overnight. And then today I have to RE-DOWNLOAD again, as the files didn't finish or were corrupt.

Now, any store that has an average download speed of 11KB/sec...yes KB/sec and the zip files are over 70MB... this poses a problem. I have cable internet so I know it's not on my end. (that and other downloads have went perfectly.)

This store has crashed my PC.... aborted downloads in the middle... reset downloads.. you name it, it's happened. If I wanted slower-than-dialup speed... I'd have dial-up. I can only feel sorry for those that DO have dialup if they're trying to d/l these kits. So all I can say now is if you have a sweet tooth for scraps...find someplace with less sugar!

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So that I end on a good note... I did find an awesome new scrap store, and their prices are very reasonable with really cute kits!

Scrap Orchard