Allison Connors Creations

Playing with Art!

Having fun and playing with my art supplies today. First I collaged with patterned paper. Then it was cool to take a photo and merge it with an image from a clip art CD in Photoshop. Using my Silhouette SD, I cut wings and a crown. Put it all together with a little Mod Podge, black and gold ink...and WALLA--my artsy creation! FUN, FUN, FUN!

Now it's time for some pizza!

Woot-Woot, My Designs Are Up @ Daisie Company!

Horray! My designs are finally available @ Dasie Company! Right now you  can choose from Frosty Digital Backgrounds Backgrounds and Frosty Digital Elements. Use these designs to create digital scrapbook layouts, digital cards...or download and print them out for making scrapbook pages, cards, paper crafts, even stickers! Below is a greeting card I created using the two kits.

Heather's Sweet Confections

Do you like sweets? Do you like homemade sweets? Do you like homemade gourmet sweets? Than go check out my daughter's newest adventure...Heather's Sweet Confections! I can attest to their taste and quality, because I have tried a few myself--VERY YUMMY!

Back to School

Since it's back to school time and I have no more opportunities to take that "first day of school" photo...I figured I'd share an old photo in a Back to School layout. Ahhh, memories and the innocence of childhood!

10 Years and I Will Never Forget!

Ten years ago today our lives changed as we knew it. Innocence was no more. Of those brave men and women who perished in the Twin Towers on9/11, I personally lost my cousin FF Eric T. Olsen and a dear childhood friend FF Richard Muldowney, Jr. This past Friday I attended a beautiful memorial boat ride in celebration of Richie's life and today I went to a memorial service at the East Islip Fire Department. Both were very moving and between that and watching everything on TV, I am drained! My emotions and my heart are still raw with pain. A few years agoin order for me to help myself deal with all that happened, I started a scrapbook to capture the events of 9/11 and the days after. My husband went into Ground Zero to help. Below is a scrapbook layout of him on the "pile" as they called it. I am very proud of him and he is still my hero! I thank God that at the time of this horrific day, he was already retired a year from the NYPD--I know that he would have been there that day and he would have gone into those buildings not thinking of himself. So, on this 10 Year Anniversary I want to thank all of those men and women who thought nothing of themselves to touch another life, to save another life, who gave the ultimate sacrifice. I would also be amiss if I didn't thank all of our military for giving of themselves to protect my freedom and the country that I love! GOD BLESS AMERICA!

 
 

Cleaning Up After Hurricane Irene

 While raking up the massive amounts of debris in my back yard from Hurricane Irene, I made multiple piles of stuff. Jade was out in the back yard running around. Each time I would make a new pile of sticks and leaves, Jade would pull a stick out of the pile and run around with it. As soon as I caught her, she would go to a different pile and grab more sticks. She was so cute and she really made me laugh! In ths photo, she was trying to take the big pine tree branch that fell in the yard. The branch was about 15 times bigger than her...but that didn't stop her from trying. I never was a dog person...but I am in love with this one!

Allison's Country Craft Creations For Sale

I am now offering my country home decor  for sale on my blog. Look to the right side of my posts to see all that I have to offer. Click on the album and then on each individual item. I will be adding new items as time allows to create them. Prices are on each page. If you would like to place an order for the item, contact me at: allisonconnors61@aol.com

If your style is country decor...your going to LOVE these cuties to adorn your home!

Allison
(PS-Please note, I need to replace some of the photos...as they look blurry when you enlarge the thumbnail)

Back On Line Again--Finally!

I'm finally at peace right now. My computer crashed a little over a week ago and I have been computer-less since. I was freaking out because I thought I lost everything! Thank God that was not the case!So, now everything is backed up on my external hard drive and I am looking into another back up system somewhere else. Looks like the only thing I lost were my folders in Microsoft Outlook--so I lost emails I was saving, I can live with that. It all happened because I was trying to update my version of Family Tree Maker and purchased the 2011 software. While trying to install it, I kept getting error messages. After working through all the suggestions ancestry.com told me to try...I was still having issues. So I turned to the Geek Squad remote services. I paid for their 1 year services and they started working n my computer remotely with a tune-up and installing FTM 2011--all while I went to the beach. When I came home, my computer was crashed! The ironic thing is that they would not take responsibility for crashing my computer! I was told to take it intoBest Buy Geek Squad and they would fix it at no cost to me. LIES, LIES and more LIES! I got a refund from the remote services (which is a separate entity from the in store version) only after my computer became hostage in Best Buy and I had to pay for a service plan with them as well as pay for them to back up all my files before they wiped out my computer to fix it. So, after much aggravation and anxiety...my computer is finally back in my hands. I am just spending time fine tuning it to my specifications again and reloading software. The moral of this true story...DON'T TRUST GEEK SQUAD, especially the remote services department! A hard lesson learned by yours truly!

I've Signed my Contract!

So, now I can let it out of the bag...my designs will be offered digitally from Daisie Company! I don't know exactly when the artwork will be available, but I am sending them my Frosty line from Creative Imaginations this weekend.There are MANY talented artists with Daisie Company, so go check it out!

I had a little issue with my external hard drive today and I am crossing my fingers that I have not lost anything, as that is where much of my artwork as well as ALL my pictures are stored. I am having it looked at as I type. Please say a prayer for me that all is well--I don't want to even think about the negative possibilities. Think positive...think positive...think positive!

 

Updating My Blog

Well, it's been over a year since I posted on my blog. I have decided to update it... give it a fresh look, a new name and a few new items to add to it. It is still a work in progress though. I have been tinkering with a few new things and want to not only share my creativity, but perhaps sell a few things too.

I am waiting for a contract to sign (from an undisclosed company at this time), but my designs that I have created for scrapbooking and paper crafting through Creative Imaginations are going to be available for digital download--as well as a few new designs. So, keep posted and I will link to that once it gets finalized.

Stay tuned for more to come...as soon as I figure out how to work this new typepad!