Happy Wednesday!

Wow, November is a really busy time for our family. Not only is there Thanksgiving to plan for, but two of my boys have November birthdays. We had a big party for them last weekend. One turned 15 (the youngest kid) and the other turned 18 - the day after our election, in fact. When he realized sometime last year that he would miss getting to vote in the election by ONE day, he was not happy, and even called me from school to complain. Who knew my kid would turn out to be so civic-minded?

I have a new kit called Musical Memories in my SAS store. It's on sale at 30% off - only $3.85 for the entire kit!

This is a great collection for all your musical layouts - everything from your children's recitals to music festivals to karaoke night. It includes 18 papers 10 instrument accents (piano, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, violin, bow, trumpet, clarinet, saxophone, trombone, and trumpet), 1 microphone accent, 1 curled 12" border, 1 musical staff accent, 3 bows, 1 button, 4 frames, 1 badge/frame, 1 journal mat cluster, 2 rose accents, 1 rose bouquet, 2 wraps, 1 lace trim, 1 word art, 1 tag, and 1 full alpha set (upper and lower cases, numbers, and commonly used punctuation).

I made this layout using Musical Memories with one of my favorite photos of David:

This week's freebie is a final sampler from my One Autumn Evening kit. This kit is also on sale for only $3.58 - a 35% savings!

Click on the preview below to download your freebie and remember, no hotlinking or sharing. Have a great week!

Friends-4-Food Project and More News

The holidays are around the corner and here's our chance to help feed the hungry, especially this time of year. My friend Bunny had a wonderful idea to get people involved in donating to their local food banks. You can read all the details on the Friends-4-Food blog. It's simple to do and you will be entered to win a TON of fabulous prizes, most of them digital-scrapbooking products that you won't even have to download (you'll get DVD's sent to you) - and also some paper scrapping items. The prizes are listed on the website as well. Please consider helping out with this worthy cause.

If you missed grabbing my Color My World mini on Halloween but decided you just can't live without it, it's available now at DSO and on sale for only $1.35 - and I threw a bonus Quick Page in the deal. Here's a layout I made using the Quick Page:

My Commercial Use Overlays - Mad About Plaids Set 1 and Mad About Textures Set 2 - are also on sale at DSO, 25% off. Hurry, sale will end soon!

I want to let you know that my Autumn and Thanksgiving kits are on sale at SAS. The full-size kits are 35% off and the mini-kits are 25% off. Check out Vintage Thanksgiving, One Autumn Evening, Falling Into Autumn, and Peaceful Thanks.

I have two new winter kits in my SAS store. Taste of Winter is a mini that will give you plenty of items for layouts, and One Winter Night is terrific for all your snow-day fun. Both kits are also perfect for cardmaking, too!

For this week's freebie, I have a template for you. No sharing or hotlinking, please. Click on the preview and have fun!

50% Off Sale and The 2nd Annual SAS Trick-or-Treat Party

Some exciting news first... SAS is getting ready to hold it's first chat ever, on November 1 - National Digi-Scrapping Day! You won't want to miss the fun, so make sure to read more about it here. What are we chatting about? All things related to digi-scrapping and SAS. Plus, you'll get a chance to "talk" with the SAS designers. Lots of freebies will be given out during the chat, AND there will be an added bonus to everyone who attends the chat - a special Chat Party Participant Challenge that will begin on Nov 2nd and last for an entire week.

Heads up!! Both of my stores will be on sale this weekend in honor of National Digi-Scrapping Day. The sale will run from October 31 - November 2, and everything (excluding bargain bin) will be 50% off! This includes commercial use items and designer tools. You can find my stores here:

Stone Accents Studio

DigiScrap Obsession

In fact, all of the SAS designers are participating in the 50% off sale, so make sure to load up your shopping cart and catch all the great bargains.

I know you've all been waiting with great anticipation for this blog party. Ready for some trick-or-treating fun? Download my freebie here, them make sure to check all the blogs to collect the rest of the goodies.

My treat for you is a mini-kit called Color My World. Grab it now because the link is only good for ONE DAY. Click on the preview to download and enjoy. Please, do not share the link - just send your friends here to download.

Don't forget to visit these designer's blogs for more fun stuff:


Brenda of Millstream Cottage
CanDesigns
digiMom Designs
Booland Designs
Lara's Digi World
Scrapsational Scraps
Stellarific Creations
Enaideel Scraps
Skrapper Digitals
Mamrotka
mISTYBELLE
Aneczka
Piggy Scraps
TerrellS Designs

Have a fun and safe Halloween. I'm off to do some blog-hopping myself now. :)

New Commercial Use Items on Sale in My Store!

I have two new sets of overlays in the Mad About Overlays series. These products are licensed for both personal and commercial use, and they are being introduced at 25% off.

Mad About Textures - Set 2

Mad About Plaids - Set 1

My freebie for you this week is a Quick Page made with my One Autumn Evening kit. You can pick up even more QPs using this collection here. No hotlinking or sharing the download link, please. Click on the preview and have fun!

There's an exclusive coordinating sampler to this kit in this week's SAS newsletter. Make sure to sign up at stoneaccentsstudio.com.



Remember to come back on Thursday for the big SAS Blog Trick-or-Treating party!

What's better than Halloween candy?

The entire month of October in the digi-world is better than candy because there are TONS of treats everywhere and you won't get tooth decay! Make sure to keep checking the DSO blog for the daily downloads and you absolutely need to check in on Halloween for a "mega" surprise.

The SAS team has a blog-hopping, trick-or-treat event planned on October 30 (one day BEFORE Halloween). You won't want to miss this one, either. Here's a peek at who's handing out the goodies:

By the way, some of you have asked how David is doing and I'm happy to report he is healing nicely. There was a lot of bleeding the first night but it finally subsided, he's doing what he's supposed to for after-care, and it's all good. The hardest part for him is not being able to play his trumpet for two weeks. Thanks for your well-wishes and prayers.

My friend Brenda has created a benefit kit and I promised her I'd mention it on my blog. Her new kit, In The Navy Now, is perfect for Veteran's Day (just around the corner!), or any type of military layout - maybe even for the every day hero in your life. Brenda has committed to spend all the proceeds from this kit on packaging holiday boxes of every day items for the sailors on the USS Ramage currently serving in the Persian Gulf. What a worthy cause and a lovely way to help make the holidays more special for the folks serving our country. You can see previews and read more about this on Brenda's Blog - where, in fact, you can download a free sampler. Thanks for your support.

My Falling Into Autumn mini-kit is available for only $1.50 and includes 6 papers, 1 frame, 3 colored leaf accents, 1 border, 1 golden leaf accent, 4 curly ribbons, and 1 BONUS Quick Page. It's a perfect little kit for this time of year and I want to show you this cute layout I made of my Labrador when he was just a pup. I just love these photos.



Today's freebie is a sampler from my What A Feeling kit. Vibrant, bold colors make this a really versatile collection, perfect for celebrations, kids and teens, and all of those everyday moments photos. Look what Nani made with this kit and one of my SuperSimple Templates sets:

Here's a preview of What A Feeling:

Click on the preview below to get your sampler and please, no sharing the link or hotlinking - send your friends here to download instead. Have fun, and by all means if you make a layout with any of my products and upload to a gallery, send me the link because I'd love to see it.

My Poor Baby...

Well, this Friday is David's oral surgery (and no, he's not technically a baby anymore at nearly 18 years old). He has not three, not four, but SIX impacted wisdom teeth. How did that happen? I told him we can sign him up for the circus and make some money off this, but he didn't appreciate that thought. Sheesh, no sense of humor. So you know how I'm spending my weekend. Yep, nursing said son back to health. I still have to get the bags of frozen peas to use as ice packs.

Are you logging on to DSO's blog everyday to grab the freebies? You won't want to miss the cool stuff! And speaking of freebies, I'll give you a little advance notice of SAS' Trick Or Treat Blog Party. We'll be handing out the goodies on October 30 - not the 31st - so make sure to mark your calendars now!

Did you check out this week's SAS newsletter? There are some exclusive freebies in there!

My Too Cute To Spook collection is marked 30% off through Halloween. You can also pick up the TCTS Bitsy Add-On for only $1.00 - what a deal! Here's a layout of one of my boys when he was just a little guy, using Too Cute To Spook. Ain't he a cutie?

Here is a layout I made using my One Autumn Evening Quick Page set. (Yes, I know "pennys" is misspelled but that's how it is on the sign.)

This week's freebie is a sampler that coordinates with Merry Sunshine. It's still sunny in the fall here in California, and the colors in this kit also work well for autumn layouts. No hotlinking or sharing, please. Click on the preview to download.

Don't Miss This Month's New Challenges!

October means new challenges, so check these out along with the free posting bonuses. The DSO Quote Challenge will help kick-start the creativity for your autumn layouts, using a perfect fall quote. The posting bonus for this month is a pretty quick page using Lemon Sage:

I made this layout using my Falling Into Autumn mini-kit for this challenge. These are my stepsons when they were wee ones...

The My SAS-y Self Challenge at SAS is a fun one this month. I'm challenging you to create a layout about about your hairstyles over time. The posting bonus for this challenge is a mini-kit called Friendship Brew:

Here's the layout I made for this challenge. I had a lot of fun (and some chuckles!) going through my older photos. I used my Sunshiny Day kit for this page.

Because Halloween is this month, there are tons of digi-world "treats" going around. Have you been checking out the DSO blog every day? You simply must - there is a new treat EVERY day through the end of the month. Today's posting is an adorable "emotibuttons" set by Livia, so get it while you can!

This week's freebie is a sampler that coordinates with Lemon Sage. No hotlinking or sharing the link, please - send your friends to my blog to download. Click on the preview to download.