Where has the year gone??

Seriously!?! I know I'm not that great at updating my blog but it does NOT seem like it's been 6 months since my last entry! lol

Lots has happened since then, my baby boy turned 2! We had the most horrible summer weather ever (I'm still waiting to get a summer, somehow with Christmas around the corner and our days being below zero I don't think that will happen this year! lol). My oldest boy had a great soccer season (besides all the rained out games and practices) my husband got a new job, we've moved, and I got to take my dream trip to NYC!!! Yahoo!

Now December is here and I am in full swing with the Christmas spirit and all the activities that go with it!!! The interior of the house is all decorated, tomorrow we get to go pick out our Christmas tree and I have been busy making some handmade gifts for my family. Oh and how can I forget to mention how extreemely excited I am to follow along with Tim Holtz & this years 12 Tags of Christmas! I swear I wake up and check it out before I even think of my morning coffee I'm so excited. hehe Our calendar is filling up pretty quick with parties, events, and holiday preparations and I am so excited!!! It truly is the most wonderful time of year, full of lots of warm and fuzzy feelings!

Today I have my niece and nephew over for a visit, so I am going to hang with them while they are here, and hopefully I'll be back real soon with some more updates and some sneak peeks of what I am (and have been) working on!!

As always, Happy Scrappin'
~Jenn

Benifit of babysitting

This week-end we decided to hop in the van and drive to visit with family, since it was on the spur of the moment I didn't have time to think out any projects I could easily bring with me so I just made sure to pack up the laptop and away we went. When we got here my brother and sister-in-law needed a spur of the moment baby sitter.... how convient eh? I was all for it because it's been a while since I've spent a lot of time with the kids and honestly we had no other plans anyway, so I was pretty excited. They had a blast playing together all day, and once the night came and it got quiet I had some time to pull out the lap top and play with Candy's Treats new "June Collab" kit and came up with these two layouts.

I like the brown one so much, I'm thinking I might make a sketch for it before all is said and done.

This is a super cute and fun kit to play with.... I'm so glad I had some beachy pics to work with, but really theres so much more included in this kit that you could make pages of any theme. :)

Anyway, I better get back to these kids... one is asleep already, the big boys are still playing video gams but the baby is fighting going down so I need to try a lil harder with him. He's used to total dark and quiet when he is put to bed, so this place and the extra people are really throwing him for a loop.... and it's already 3 hours past his bedtime!

Hope you all enjoy the rest of your week-end!
Happy Scrappin'
~Jenn

I finally have a name here!

After a lot of thinking I have finally come up with a REAL name for my blog. To anyone who visits my blog you will remember this blog as being RJXRP designs. The RJXRP name was made by my husband and I as a "Family Creations" name. Each letter in the name was the first letter of every name in our family. Ric, Jenn, Xavier, Robbie, Preston. Although I loved that idea, I knew I wanted a real name for my blog and Creations from the Cherry Pit is what I have come up with. :)

I am a collector of all things with Cherries on them; jewelery, housewares, decor, stationary, all things scrappy.... you name it, I probably have it with Cherries on it. My favorite candy flavour is, you guessed it Cherry....but here's something funny, I can't stand to eat the real fruit... LOL I grew up with 3 larger cherry trees right outside my bedroom window, the blossoms were so beautiful every year and it was fun to watch the cherries grow and hang in the trees as if it were a pretty picture hanging on my wall instead of me just looking out my window. The town where I grew up has a festival every year called Cherry Carnival, so as you can see they've been a big part of my life for a very long time.

All my scrapping friends know of my love of cherries and I have received a lot of wonderful gifts over the years from them. They always say they can't pass by something with Cherries on it without thinking of me, and to me that's the best part of the gift :) So, because of my obsession, I did in fact name my Scrap room the "Cherry Pit", how suiting eh? so THAT is where the blog name came from.... it was kind of a "duh Jenn" moment, after all I create projects in my scrap room.... I post them for you to see.... so wholla, creations from the Cherry Pit was born. :)

Here are a few pics of the Cherry Pit:
So there you go, a lil' history lesson for you today on me and my love for that pretty lil' red fruit :) I spent most of last night making my new topper and then played around this afternoon and made a matching blinkie for my blog too, feel free to grab it and put it on your own blog if you want.

Have a Great Week-end!
~Jenn

Lil Gifty Creations

Well, yesterday I was detrmined to play with paper and I had a couple of bookmarks to make for a friend so decided to make those and a few extras while I was at it.

I forget the original website I got this idea from (I saw it over a year ago but still had the file she shared on my PC to cut it with my Cricut.... I'll update when I locate the proper blog)... anyway, these lil corner bookmarks are so cute and so very easy to make. The hardest part to making them is trying NOT to use bulky embellishments so they can lie as flat as possible.

So my best friend is going out west for the summer and asked for a few of these lil guys before she left, so I used her favorite Pink/Brown/Orange color combo and came up with these...

Then I just kept going and made these ones as a end of the year Teachers Gift for my sons Teacher.

...and this one was one I originally made for my sons Teacher but thought it looked too childish so I put an 'X' on it and gave it to my son...hehe
That was the first half of my day. LOL Then for the rest of the day, most of the night and most of this afternoon I spent creating this Paper bag album (PBA). I caught up with an old friend from high school that I haven't seen pretty much since I graduated 9 years ago, she has two beautiful little girls and mentioned she wished she had time to pick up Scrapbooking, so I instantly thought to myself I'm going to make her a PBA! ....and the rest of the story lies in the photos I guess :P

I did have a lot of fun making this album because I RARELY get the chance to play with girly papers, colors and embllishments, so I am very happy with the outcome of this project considering I had no idea what to do! LOL

So I hope you like what you have seen and hopedully with any luck it inspires you to start a few projects of your own. Thanks for stopping by and Happy Scrappin'!

~Jenn

Just Playin' Around

I was looking around the Candy's Treats website with full intentions of grabbing a freebie kit and trying out some of the awesome tag tutorials but I got side tracked and ended up making a Digi Page instead...go figure :P

Anyway, I used the taggers sized "Wicked" Kit and made this page of myself. I'm always loved Oz, and I've always love witches (kinda hard not to love them being from Salem, MA and all), so I snagged the kit and used my photo from Halloween last year and made this page just for fun.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by and checking in on things here. It's been a long week... and I'm ready to lay down and enjoy the rest of the evening before the next week starts.

~Jenn

New Kits To Play With & A new sketch by me too!

Two new kits have been created by Candy's Treats and I got the chance to sit down last night and play around with them. I've got to tell ya, there is so much packed in to the Enchanted & After Dark kits, I had a really hard time not using too much and over doing my pages! LOL So needless to say, I'm definatly going to be using these kits for more creations. :)

These pages I made using pieces from the Enchanted Kit

(the large frame came from the after Dark Kit)

For the next layout I first created a sketch then used the kit to create what I did. So heres my Sketch

and this one I made using pieces from the After Dark Kit and the Freebie Kit.
...AND as if Digi Kits weren't already a steal for their already reasonable prices you can get BOTH of these kits as a Combo for even MORE savings! So head on over to Stargazer Scraps and snag this awesome deal! Don't forget to stop by the Candy's Treats blog, theres a great freebie and some quickpages there too!

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

It's my birthday today! Woohoo, the day I get to travel all over the internet and visit all the different sites I belong to and change my age in all of my profiles....LOL

What will 27 bring me?? I dunno, but I'm gonna start this new year for me off by doing what I love.... SCRAPPING! I invited a friend over and we gonna scrap the day away, or at least the morning, I've also gotta fit baking a cake in the early afternoon, and an early supper along with Soccer practice for Xavier tonight, the work of Mom never takes a break, not even on her birthday! hehe

So with all that said, hopefully I'll be back later and have some creations to show you :)

Happy Scrapin'
~Jenn

********UPDATE********

Well I didn't get nearly as much scrapped as I had hoped, I guess that's what happens when A you don't plan your projects and B you haven't seen your best friend in a while and have tons to talk about and catch up on......LOL

I did complete these two layouts though. I really like how they turned out.


and just showing off my birthday presents I got on my birthday... a balloon flower from hubby, and a balloon mouse the kids picked out for hubby to make.

My birthday ALWAYS falls just before a pay day, so I never get anything on the actual day. It's all good I make sure to get something once pay day rolls around, hehe This year I put some new clothes on layaway to pick up next week, I'm very excited!