Happy Wednesday, Everybody! Barb here with another Humpday Lift challenge for you.
First, we’d like to congratulate the winner of the last humpday lift!
Congrats nanda, we LOVE your take on the challenge…
Nanda - don’t forget to email lauren AT laurenreiddesigns DOT com for your prize!
This week I thought we’d challenge your MAD SKILLS out there with a bit of extraction. I was totally inspired by this gorgeous layout by mrocas:
Here are some of the twists that our team have come up with!
by Alice:
by Kelly:
by Jen:
by Karen:
by Kellie:
by Keely:
and finally, from me. I saved mine for last because this is my “Congratulations on your new move” to Lauren and her family and their brand new home. I missed last week’s post, so I thought I’d catch up this week.
Good luck and be sure to link us up so that we can see your fantastic twists this fantastic layout!
Have a great week!
Barb
Archive for February, 2008
Happy Tuesday, everyone!
We have a fabulously fun * C O N T E S T * planned for you…
Here’s how it works:
To enter, scrap a layout using at least 50% product designed by the fabulous Miss Lauren, post to a gallery of your choice, then link us up here.
AND
Please email your link to: lauren[at]laurenreiddesigns[dot]com no later than midnight on March 9.
We’ll pick one lucky scrapper to win a one-of-a-kind prize…
An entire album of your photos (20 layouts) scrapped by Lauren and her creative team!
How cool is that?!
Remember, the deadline to enter is Sunday, March 9th, so get scrappin’!!!!!
(Please note that Lauren’s products will only be available at Oscraps until the end of this month. Keep your eyes peeled to learn where Lauren’s headed next!!)
We’ve been cooped up and I’m going a bit mental I think. My family and I have been fighting various flavors of sickness for going on two weeks now. That, and the fact that we hit the 90 degree mark today, have me looking towards spring. Even though I hate to cook, rarely entertain beyond the casual grilling on the patio type affair, I love the idea of “hostessing”. I frequent The Hostess with the Mostess blog and today had me drooling and satisfied a bit of that spring itch. The vibrant colors, the lines and textures featured in the tabletop and decor are luscious. Make sure you check out the invitations and favors for some great hybrid possibilities too. Asian Affair
Okay, remember on Valentine’s Day when we gave away the cute lovey word art? Anyone who left us love on the blog was entered to win a little prizey!
And the Winner’s are…. (and to avoid you guys getting mad at me, i used a random number generator at: http://www.mdani.demon.co.uk/para/random.htm )
post# - name
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13 - Megan (meganmecrazy)
48 - Brynn Marie
25 - Kate
87 - HaleyW
105 - sarah (my3hens)
51 - Audra
47 - moon
5 - Kresta
60 - vickyp
101 - ~Steph
Congrats!!! You can each pick out 1 product of your choice from my store! Email me at lauren [AT] laurenreiddesigns [DOT] com w/ your choice and i’ll hook ya up w/ a coupon code!
PLEASE EMAIL ME ASAP!!!!!!!! I will be leaving Oscraps at the end of the month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats again and thank you to ALL who left us love, you made us feel all warm and fuzzy inside!!!!
xooxoxoxo
Lauren
It’s time for another You Rock Friday!! I love going through various galleries to spot layouts using Lauren’s goodies!
This layout totally jumped right out at me…and the entire team all fell in love with it, too!! Bcnatty…you rock!
I LOVE how she used Lauren’s brackets to frame these adorable pictures of her daughter! She did such an amazing job of capturing the entire peek a boo process…and her journaling is so sweet!!
Thanks for the amazing inspiration…I think I need to do some peek a boo pics of my kids when they get up from their naps!
Have a wonderful weekend…I hope you all can find some time to sneak away and scrap some sweet memories!
Our dearest Miss Lauren has made the trip half way across the states! What an exciting (and stressful) journey she has taken and now has a new place to call HOME! The CT wanted to give her a big Welcome Home and shine some sunshine on her and her family in their new home! (and are hoping we can visit sometime!!!!!)
by Karen
by Kelly
by Cathy
by me
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
WELCOME HOME REID FAMILY!
We love you Lauren!
Stephanie
hey lauren here, bringing you a belated dose of Mojo kickin goodness!
today’s post is dedicated to all of you who are stuck in the gray, cold, snowy areas of the world right now!
Bring on the SUN!!!!
I have some Etsy goodness for you brought to you by the colore: YELLOW!
Yellow can just uplift any dark day, so try using some on an lo today and see if it lift’s your mood. 
Feelin’ happy yet!??!?! 
Have a wonderful week!!!
{PS… we’ll be announcing our winners from the Vday word art love feast tomorrow!!!}
xo
Lauren
We hope you’re all enjoying a fabulous Valentine’s Day with your sweeties… Just to show you how much we love YOU, we have a fun gift for you!
::the Download is gone, sorry if you missed it::
And
be sure to leave us some love, too. Everyone who makes us feel all warm and fuzzy with their Valentine’s Day comment (or poem…or love note…or serenade!!) will be entered to win one of a few gift certificates from Lauren!
Have a great day, and be sure to give an extra hug to the ones you love today!
Hi everyone,Erica (pne123) here to announce the winner of our last hump day lift. Thanks to everyone for participating!
Our winner is joelsgirl_Kellie and her Tiger Heritage layout.
Full Credits here
Congrats Kellie!!! Please contact Lauren at Lauren {at} laurenreiddesigns {dot} com for your prize.
This week we are lifting kelleymickus’s Simply You
Full Credits here
Here are the lifts our team were inspired to create:
Barb:
Kelly:
Karen:
Keely:
Nicole:
Erica:
Lauren:
Make sure to leave a comment with a link to your lift so you’ll have chance at winning a gift from Lauren!
In honor of Valentine’s Day this week, I wanted to share a story that moved me beyond words….
Yeah, yeah I know it’s a long post, but i PROMISE it’s worth it!
I originally saw this story on Oprah (which I rarely get to see w/ my crazy crew running around!), I sat….listened and cried… Ah the sweet power of true love….
When he was 12, Herman Rosenblat and his family were taken from their home in Poland and sent to a concentration camp in Nazi Germany. Young Herman was forced to work shoveling bodies into a crematorium. All the while he did not know if he, too, would soon be killed.
One day two years later, Herman walked up to the barbed wire fence and saw a girl on the other side. “She says, ‘What are you doing in there?’” Herman says. “I said to her, ‘Can you give me something to eat?’ And she took an apple out of her jacket.”
The girl fed Herman an apple every day for seven months. Then one day he told her not to come back—he was being moved to another camp. “A tear came down her eyes,” Herman says. “And as I turned around and went back I started to cry, too. I started to cry knowing that I might not see her again.”
Herman was shipped to Czechoslovakia. Just two hours before he was scheduled to die in the gas chambers there, Russian troops liberated the camp and Herman was set free.
Almost 15 years later, Herman was living and working in New York City. A friend set him up on a blind date with a woman named Roma Radzika. Herman says he was immediately drawn to her. When they began talking about their lives, Roma asked Herman where he was during World War II. “I said, ‘In a concentration camp,’” he says. “And then she says, ‘I came to a camp and I met a boy there and I gave him some apples and I sent them over the fence.’
“And suddenly it hit me like a ton of bricks. And I said to her, ‘There was a boy? Was he tall?’ And she said, ‘Yes.’ I said, ‘And one day he told you not to come around anymore because he’s leaving?’ And she says, ‘Yes.’ I said, ‘That boy was me.’
Roma and her family had moved from Poland to Germany, using forged papers to hide that they were Jewish. They lived on a farm next to Herman’s camp, posing as Christians to avoid being captured. Roma says when she brought apples and bread for Herman, he used to say, “I’ll see you tomorrow.”
“Well, what can I tell you? I proposed right then and there,” Herman says. “I said, ‘Look, I’ll never let you go anymore. … Now that we’re free we’re going to be together forever.’”
In 1996, on The Oprah Show stage, Herman and Roma gave Oprah a moment she’ll never forget. Herman stood and addressed his wife: “Darling, you’ve fed me when I was hungry. You fed me when we were married. You fed me…until now. But now I’m not hungry anymore, and I’m hungry for your love!”
Since that day their love has continued to grow. Herman and Roma have now been married for nearly 50 years. He says he’s learned a valuable lesson from love. “Every morning when I get up I say, ‘I love you. I love you. I love you,’” Herman says. “And not only [do you say], ‘I love you,’ but you mean it.”
Eleven years after their first Oprah Show appearance, Herman decides to honor his wife again—this time by getting down on bended knee. “Sweetheart, it was 64 years ago when I first saw you,” he says to Roma. “My mother came to me and said to me, ‘I’m sending you an angel.’ And a couple of days later you appeared at the other side of the fence while I was in a concentration camp. Then in 1957, 14 years later, I had a blind date, and it was you. Now our 50th anniversary is coming up. With this ring, my dear, I pronounce my love for you forever. And as this ring has got no end, my love for you doesn’t have any end.”
(text taken from the Oprah website found ::HERE::)
So how’s THAT for a love story?! See why I cried?!
Wishing you all a lovey dovey Valentine’s day and a lifetime full of love……..
xooxoxo
Lauren
PS… a special *smootch* to my CT chickies…. you inspire me each and every day by your love for your families, your compassion and heart w/ each other and by supporting the team “feel good” projects so graciously and with such heart! you are a special bunch and i love you to bits! xoxoxooxox
