Well I did it!

LenaGardner

LenaGardner

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I decided TEN days before the end of the month that these challenges sounded fun and that all the lifting and inspiration could totally help me through Nathan's baby album that I'm way behind on....

And I did it! 25 points baby! And think of how much easier it will be when I have a whole month to space it out over!

I just wanted to say thank you to EVERYONE who has made me feel so welcomed here (not like most of us haven't crossed paths before...) and answered all of my questions :)

You girls are awesome! :D
 
Whooo hoooo!
Congrats Lena...The Sugarbabes keep me scrapping and I get the BONUS of saving some MONEY!
LOVE it...Way to go hon!
 
I bailed on them this month, with too much going on with skating, but I am looking forward to restarting today/tomorrow. I find they get me scrapping, and keep me scrapping instead of being lazy.

I'm glad you like it here with us!
 
I am VERY impressed! When I did it the first time, I decided with 20 days to go, and I near went plum crazy trying to get them all done! Hope you still have your sanity!
 
Congrats Lena, That is really great. I did not even come close to 25 but hopefully this month I will!!!!!
 
Congrats Lena! :thumbup: The inspiration here is awesome!!! I was a slacker last month but I'm hoping to make the 40% again this month. :)
 
woohoooooo Lena. Me too!

Too bad I don't think I have any money to spend. Lol

This is a great place to hang out and get some scrapping done.
 
Yay LENA! congratulations!! I know how you feel..I earned 9 of my 25 just yesterday..I was pushing so hard for that 25! LOL This really is a special place though and I LOVE it here!
 
Girl, I don't know how you did it! I never get all the points - I guess I just don't have enough scrappin' time. Any secrets you want to share?
 
Yay! Congratulations!! I did it too, 2 months in a row. And I so loved my discount last month that it gave me to ambition to do it again.....:)
 
Do I have any secrets to share? Sure! There are three! (But I'll probably write a novel, I'm warning you!)

1. Illness! I'll spare you the dirty details. But between nausea, vomiting, backache, contractions, swelling and downright lethargy, I don't have any energy to do anything but lay around with my laptop during the last bit of this pregnancy....so I might as well DO something while laying around. I do like some shows but I'm not a "TV on for the background noise kind of gal." so the computer it is :)

2. Guilt! Poor Nathan's noticeable absence from my scrap albums. I've scrapped plenty during Naomi's 18 months but when I was pregnant with her, I was finishing up my undergrad and I was too busy to scrap. So....no baby photos of Nathan scrapped (as I wasn't scrapping back then!) AND no photos scrapped during the year I was pregnant/pp with Naomi....poor Nathan got the shaft! LOL! I recently (2 months ago) gathered up every roll of film pre-digital camera I could find of him. Put them all on CD....and I have 25 discs of photos sitting there staring at me. On one hand it's like Christmas (look at that little baby boy!, kwim?) but on the other hand, it's a chore....the pics are small in resolution (around 1200x1800 uncropped)...I was a bad photographer back then....it was a cheap camera....needless to say, the photos are a PITB. A lot of work to scrap. But...with another baby coming in less than two months....if I don't make some head-way on Nathan's backlog, how am I going to scrap Parker's pictures? I will feel soo guilty!

3. Money! 40% is a great motivator for me. I am a girl who has been on lots of CT's at once, up to 6 or 7 at one point....and I had to cut back to *just* one--Manda Bean! I know that there is no way I can commit to another CT right now. Not with another baby coming...I'd be too flaky. And ask MB, when I was the sickest with this pg, I disappeared for liek 3 or 4 months. I can't do that to people. While I love MB, a girl can't live on beans alone (heeheee) so in order to get my backlog of scrapping done, I have been spending obscene amounts of money (for ME.) I think I've spent about $150 in the last two months' scrapping frenzy. That's not much to some but to me it's a lot. But....it's the law of nature...if I'm not getting the products for free via CT...well duh...you have to spend the money! And it's getting to be a bit much! I may not even have enough in my budget to do the kind of damage I'd like (LOL!) but I figure even if I can just put $20 worth of stuff in my cart and walk out spending $12, it made the effort worthwhile! Plus, I'll always have my team bean goodies to play with too!
 
Was it only in 10 days? Wow - that's impressive!


LenaBrandenburg said:
Do I have any secrets to share? Sure! There are three! (But I'll probably write a novel, I'm warning you!)

1. Illness! I'll spare you the dirty details. But between nausea, vomiting, backache, contractions, swelling and downright lethargy, I don't have any energy to do anything but lay around with my laptop during the last bit of this pregnancy....so I might as well DO something while laying around. I do like some shows but I'm not a "TV on for the background noise kind of gal." so the computer it is :)
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{{HUGS}} I didn't have PG too bad, but I did have all-day sickness during my entire 2nd PG. Yuck.

So funny though...I find that when my girls are sick I tend to stay home more...thus eventually giving me more computer time lol.
 
Congrats Lena! I decided last month to actually try for a coupon for the first time too! I didn't manage as many as you did, but I did earn myself a 30% one... I'm so proud of myself! I've been "homeless" online for over a year now, but I think I've found my new home here at SSD! So many friendly scrappers and familiar faces here!
 
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