Happy 4th to Our US Friends and Family! *MDS Share*

First of all let me send a big shout out to all of our friends and family in the US today, who are celebrating their 4th of July!  


I wanted to start off this week by sharing something new I created just this morning with our My Digital Studio.  It was so quick and easy that I'm almost ashamed to admit that I've had the software for over a year and haven't really taken the time to play with it much. This page came together so effortlessly that it almost created itself.  I can see many more pages done this way to be able to share with family and friends via e-mail - though for album use, I'd be more apt to hybridize them and add buttons to the flower centres to add a little bit of Pizazz.


This particular page features one of my favorite photos of the 3 little bears, as we have always called them.  In this photo they were only 2, 4 and 5..  Several lifetimes of "stuff" have flown by since then but it hardly seems like it was so long ago..   Time flies, right?


I still have some room in my Midnight Crop for this Friday night.  Let me know if we can save you a spot! 


Hope that you are enjoying this Sunny Monday, wherever you are!  

Scrappin' and Stampin' at the Family Zoo

It occurred to me today that while several crafty friends, and Stampin' Connection acquaintances and colleagues have been doing a blog-hop of sorts and checking out each other's blogs that when I started responding and watching them that I had used my "regular" Google account to do so.  That in and of itself isn't a huge deal - but it occurs to me that many of you wouldn't have any reason to equate Tammy of "iScrapNStamp" with Tammy of the FamilyZoo..  so I thought perhaps an entry was in order..   :)

When I met my teddybear, he was a single Dad with 3 kids - then 2, 4 and 5.  They had a cat, fish, hamsters, rats and degus that had not made the move with his ex. When we moved in together I added 3 more cats that I'd flown across Canada with me to join us as a family.  I'd found homes for my own fish and rodents before I left Vancouver as I didn't want to add to the menagerie I was heading into.

Unfortunately the cats didn't get along so well, and they were not at all hesitant in letting us know they weren't happy with their new room-mates.  In the end one ran away and was never found and the others we ended up finding new homes for as the daily destruction was a lot more than we could handle.

In any case, over the years we've had a variety of animals.  For many years I was also a home daycare provider - with Kindergarten kids in half days, as well as before and after school kids and summer vacation - well at different times of the day you might find up to 10 or so kids at the house.  I used to joke "I live in a zoo, I live in a zoo"..  I figured with that many kids and critters in one house you didn't have to be crazy, but perhaps it might help.. :)

I've always been a fan of the Family Circus comic strip of years ago and it was certainly with tongue in cheek that the Familyzoo became what I dubbed my household and now some 14 years later, the kids are all pretty much grown and my house is still known as the Familyzoo.

These days we have a pair of african fat tailed geckos, 2 cockatiels, 3 pairs of mated lovebirds and one of their babies, along with several tanks of fish and 2 small dogs.  What can I tell you?  It's usually interesting, rarely boring..   and it's HOME..

So if you happen to see Tammy @ The Familyzoo on your blog..  you know it's just another Scrappin' and Stampin' gal out taking a stroll through the creative minds in her midst.  Don't be afraid to wave and say hi..  I don't bite :)

Cheers!

Tammy