Pinecones & Roses

Friday, May 29, 2015

Focus Friday

    Another little 'something new' for me to try... today I'd like to focus on the CONTINUED GROWTH of Youngevity, as it acquires more and more companies, allowing us to easily find, buy, and use over 2,500 products!
     I was told earlier this month that Youngevity (Ygy) had already acquired 7 companies this calendar year. Yesterday it was announced that yet another company has been added. Mialisia, another jewelry company, will soon be part of my store!
     I've been doing some financial research on Ygy, and it is growing like WILDFIRE. Last year it had a growth of 48% , while many others had negative growth. The reports I read stated that it grew from $86 Million to $134 Million last year alone!
     So... that is yet another reason why I am 'investing' in my family, expanding my business with "Anthology by Lisa Bearnson". I originally signed up as a distributor because I LOVE what Lisa has done in the past, and I TRUST her judgement. During her May 2nd business gathering, (link listed below) she stated that she had been approached by SEVERAL companies over the years, asking her to put her name on a product, but they never 'felt right'..... until she met with the people from Youngevity, listened to their philosophy, and realized that she could help her own family and friends reach health and financial goals through this business relationship.
   Here are a few links that I have been researching and wanted to share with my family and friends, to help them realize the OPPORTUNITIES available for us as distributors of Youngevity, Anthology and so many other brands and products.

     http://www.businessforhome.org/2015/04/top-100-global-direct-selling-companies-2015/

     http://directsellingnews.com/index.php/view/youngevity_acquisition_is_the_name_of_the_game#.VWjclbXbL7I

   https://www.youngevity.net/category/dwj.html

     https://www.facebook.com/groups/1602695176634945/search/?query=ustream
             This is a (non-professional) version of the business opportunity presentation that Lisa and others presented on NSD (National Scrapbooking Day), May 2nd. The first few minutes are vital, as she shares WHY she finally put her name on a product. Then, if you choose, you can skip to approximately 1 hour 10 minutes, where JERRY (Millionaire business man) who now not only takes the 90ForLife supplements that I take but, along with his wife, has had amazing results. He is now also a distributor and INVESTOR in the company. After researching the company, he says it's a 'SURE THING'.
      If Youngevity is good enough for Lisa Bearnson AND a millionaire business man, it's good enough for me! And I KNOW that the products are already helping me with less daily pain.
     PLEASE, family and friends, seriously look into this and contact me so I can help YOU succeed and be healthier as well.
                 Dale Rose Stream   231-845-2906
                 www.scrapstreams.youngevity.com
                 scrapstreams@yahoo.com
                 https://www.facebook.com/groups/ANTHOLOGYwithDaleRoseStream/

Thursday, May 28, 2015

TBT... some earlier kits presented by Lisa Bearnson

This is one of my first attempts at a TBT (Throw Back Thursday) post. And yes, I'm still learning cyber abbreviations lol. I thought that I would share some of my previous layouts that I created utilizing kits that Lisa Bearnson presented on HSN over the past couple of years.

I love how this black and white layout works so well with most of the colors in these two pages, especially Dakota's thick, beautiful black, gray and white coat, as well as some of the winter wear and sleds used during the sledding part! On the left page and the lower right page, I dry embossed some swirls/flourishes to help carry out the snowy weather theme.

The top of these two photos is the page kit as it came. I've been mixing and matching a lot over the past several years. Above, I replaced the light blue with darker blue cardstock as the base, to match some of the colors in my photos, specifically the birthday boy's winter coat... I also left out the striped borders as well.

This layout is somewhat a mirror/upside down reflection of the suggested layout. The 3 photo frames are on my lower right page, theirs are on the upper left, and so on. Again, the colors of this layout kit went well with the photos, as we had a Star Wars themed party this year!
The 3 layouts above documented the long and fun packed day of Wesley's sledding birthday party. Yes, Dakota enjoyed it as well!

When I saw the colors in this kit, along with the layout suggested, I knew it would work really well these photos! Again, the black, gray and white draw attention to Dakota's coat, but Wesley wears a LOT of blue, which until this past year, was his favorite color. In this case, he was wearing black, gray and red, but his mini dirt bike is blue... I love to scrap not only by theme, but by color!
I love to document how Wesley & I (and yes, Dakota too) spend our summers together. On weekends, Wesley has a lot of what I used to call "Daddy dates", and now refer to as "Guy time". Michael works a lot of hours, especially spring through summer, including 5-6 hours on Saturdays, because it is his busy season at work. Once he gets home on Saturday, if the weather is right, they usually take off to the State Park or other local spot for MAJOR bike rides (which I can't do lol), fly kites next to Lake Michigan, etc. Therefore, I have several "me and my dad" and "me and my mom" mini albums. These 12" pages will have to go into a different album.

You will see bits and pieces of this 3 Birds "All About Fall" kit in the 2 page layout below, again mixed with another Top Pages kit! Both kits even have chipboard.

These are some of the pages that I completed or started during one of our local Crop For A Cure, a 12 hour crop that we have twice a year in one of our local churches. I apologize for the glare on some of the photos above. Hurrying to get things photographed while trying to catch up on household chores is not a good thing lol.

This kit ended up being used on TWO different layouts already! Immediately below you will see a two page spread that I tried to complete, covering two different days and topics, because of the colors. Ultimately, the mint green still called out to be only used on the ice cream layout because of my mint chocolate chip blizzard, and the pink/purple ended up on the separate layout about my studio pellet stove.

I ended up converting my photos to b/w because of Wesley's sweater, but still wanted to use the mint embellishments. I NEEDED (lol) to include that adorable photo of Dakota enjoying our trip to Dairy Queen, therefore it became part of a second page of that layout.

Wow, those covered a fair amount of time, both in the events, and the time period over which they were scrapped. I think I may be doing this on a regular basis. Have a wonderful TBT!

Thursday, May 21, 2015

My new venture with Anthology by Lisa Bearnson, and Youngevity products.

     With one local event on the records, and a busy summer ahead with ( a surprisingly EARLY Memorial Weekend this weekend, our son's cub scout campout next weekend, the end of the school year with all it's activities, graduations, etc., I will be trying to fit in progress on my little home based business.
     Merging and/or expanding fb pages, updating my blog, contacting friends and family as well as the public in order to tell them of the wonderful opportunites with Anthology, as well as the Health and Wellness benefits of the 90ForLife products that we are now utilizing, wow... it's a bit overwhelming. Thankfully, there are SO many people in the Anthology/Youngevity FAMILY, yes, it feels like family, who WANT to HELP us succeed with this venture and transformation!!!
     Speaking of transformations, I have also signed up for the Healthy Body Challenge, and hope to lose 20 pounds, and rebuild some of the muscle that I have lost from no longer wading upstream for hours a day while streamshocking for Salmon and Trout, or setting and lifting nets every day. Those nets were loaded with the wonderful bluegill, pumpkinseed, perch, large and smallmouth bass, dog fish, etc that we are so blessed with as part of our natural resources here in Michigan, which I was BLESSED with helping to manage for over 10 years.... How I miss my job with Fisheries Division.
     But as people say, one door closes (my former relationship with a beloved scrapbooking and paper crafting manufacturer) and another one opens.... the new relationship with Anthology by Lisa Bearnson and Youngevity's family of products.
Okay, am I getting a bit too sentimental? Oh well, that's me. What can I say? I'm a mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend, and SCRAPBOOKER.
If you would like to learn more about Anthology by Lisa Bearnson or Youngevity, please contact me at:
                                                               231-845-2906
                                                   scrapstreams@yahoo.com
                                            www.scrapstreams.youngevity.com
                  https://www.facebook.com/groups/ANTHOLOGYwithDaleRoseStream/

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

I'm part of Team LISA, ANTHOLOGY & Youngevity!

     Lisa Bearnson has teamed with Youngevity, the 'Amazon of Direct Sales', and for the first time, is adding her name to a line of scrapbooking products! This was in the works for over a year, and we are expecting to have the product line launch the first week of August.
     My gal pal, Chasity Sivanik, formerly with 3 Birds, was my referral, and Lisa's son Kade Bearnson is our upline! I was able to talk to Kade to sign up as a distributor, and LISA CALLED ME (twice... I was half asleep the first night lol) to welcome me to the team!

     This past Saturday was my first public event as a new distributor for Anthology and Youngevity, during the 12 hour Crop For A Cure in my home town. It was a great day, as always, with a lot of scrapbooking, stamping, and socializing going on all day!

If you know anyone who would like to benefit from the Health & Wellness Products, such as the 90ForLife supplements that my family is now taking daily (I have already found some relief of my daily Fibromyalgia pain in my shoulders and neck), scrapbooking and memory keeping products, along with over 2,000 other products offered by Youngevity, please contact me at:

231-845-2906

scrapstreams@yahoo.com

or on my Anthology fb page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ANTHOLOGYwithDaleRoseStream/

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

A weekend crop continued... and my layouts that I completed or started while there, 14 pages in all! Utilizing mostly Inspired Inc and 3 Birds Design products.

Our AWESOME hostess, Jan! Great smiles from a great lady! The poor girl didn't get to play much, because she was always catering to us all weekend!

Sorry about the exit sign, Norma! lol Great shot of you.

A highlight of the crop, for me, was when I was told Dakota could come for a quick visit! I always miss my best cropping buddy when I'm away. Thank you Michael and Wesley, for bringing her by on your way to the beach.

2nd evening's dinner... yum! Pizzas and ice cream sundae bar.

The brownies with frosting were also killer! How many hours do I need to walk, in order to 'walk' this off???

Mary hand colored some gems to customize them to her project.

If I haven't said it enough yet, we had a TON OF FUN during Jan's crop. It was awesome that we had a variety of things to keep us not only crafting and enjoying a lot of great food, but throughout the weekend she held a lot of door prize drawings, plus a GRAND PRIZE drawing, a bag chock full of goodies! She was also really generous with awarding us 'extra' tickets if we demoed a technique or a product, if we made something for someone (thank you teenagers!), if we brought chairs or snacks, and on and on.

Guess who won the GRAND PRIZE DRAWING... the scrapbooking NEWBIE! I'm JEALOUS!

Now for the layouts I completed, and some that I started...14 PAGES total!!! Can you say "Who completed the most pages?" HMMM?

Skating at Johnny's with the Cub Scouts.


The kit I used, which won't post in the correct orientation lol

Another Inspired Inc kit, this time for 4th of July, 2014.


Another celebration memorialized with a kit from Inspired Inc. This time, it's Dad's birthday!

This still needs a little somethin' somethin'.... perhaps a doily, lace, and a few flowers. It's in my bag for the next crop.

Thanks to Jan, who helped me amend my title.

I mixed and matched products for the layout above, "Cats watching birds watching birds". Some Prima flowers and branched embellishment, 3 Birds red tickets and flourish (more classics) on first page, and I believe the papers are from Around The Block.
Now for some 'classic' (as in more than 5 years old?) 3 BIRDS products used to complete a few pages! I used a sticker from the BLING EXTREME kit, one of the FIRST 3 Birds kits I ever purchased, and papers from the SO MUCH SPARKLE kit. The newest 3 Birds product that I used here was the white lace type border on the first page. Even that is from a couple (or perhaps a few) years ago lol. Let's just say I have a hard time parting with my 3 Birds products. If you still love it, why sell or give it away, right?

The photo above shows one of the papers I was considering for the layout below. I wanted to feature Oreo. the tuxedo kitty we chose to adopt out after 13 months of trying to help him get along with our other 2 cats, and vice versa. It still hurts my heart that we had to do that, in addition to the fact that the new family LOST him after only 2-3 days! I reposted his adoption flier as well as other photos I had of him, Michael looked for him near their home on his way to and from work, he and Wesley looked on their way to their outings, and Michael and I looked on our way from Christmas dinner with his coworkers. Finally, HE returned to them, nearly 3 months later! The husband had seen him 2 weeks earlier but thought it was the neighbor's cat. I pray that if he is not comfortable with that family, that he finds someone who he IS happy with.
Because I wanted to feature Oreo here, I chose to go with a black and white layout. I knew I had a fair amount of papers and products from 3 Birds that might work well with the photos and story.

Yes, some CLASSIC 3 BIRD products!

More CLASSIC 3 BIRDS products used.

I decided to add a splash of orange to draw your eye to Squirrel, who Oreo was 'dusting' during his excitement!

I also wanted to work more black and white embellishments and a feather to help tell the avian-loving story.

The only non-3 Birds products used on this layout were my adhesives (Hermafix repositionable dotto, and Glossy Accents for the heavier items, black pen for journaling, signing and dating my layouts, craft feathers from WalMart, and the perching chickadees which I cut out from a My Mind's Eye paper. Even the foam adhesive that I used to lift the chickadees came from a 3 Birds kit.

My last 2 page layout goes back a few years, to when Wesley's artwork was chosen to be used in the local library's CALENDAR! More 'classic' 3 Birds products helped me document this, covering both the celebration theme and the topic of his artwork, our local CAR FERRY, which is the LAST coal powered ship on the GREAT LAKES and our LIGHTHOUSE. I wanted to use the colors from his clothing as well as his sketch. The "Celebrate" diecut title called out to me, plus it was RED, which worked perfectly for his shirt and artwork highlight colors. I also had a BLACK version of the same diecut, so I layered them, again to highlight colors in the photos. The marine life paper also contained the blue of the water in his sketch, as well as the blacks and reds. Although it's not an artistic themed paper, I think it works well here, as it relates to the aquatic nature of his artwork.

And there you have it... 14 pages! Ten were completed, 4 were started before I left! WooHOO!

Here are links to some 3 Birds Design and Inspired Inc products, currently available on HSN.COM .

http://www.hsn.com/products/3-birds-studio-all-seasons-themed-page-mat-kit/1826433

I used a 'classic' version of one of these kits just a few weeks ago, on my "MY HERO" Cub Scout layout.

These can be used in either pocket scrapbooking or standard paper scrapbooking:

http://www.hsn.com/products/3-birds-studio-for-all-seasons-themed-card-kit/7426366?query=7426366&isSuggested=True&

Some of the kits that I've been using during crops to get a lot of pages done without having to search through my stash as much:

http://www.hsn.com/products/inspired-inc-top-page-layouts-kit/7310252

What can I say? I have a weakness for 3D embellishments, and 3 Birds and Inspired Inc have some great ones!

http://www.hsn.com/products/inspired-inc-3d-sticker-embellishment-kit/7426378

Monday, March 9, 2015

A weekend crop with local friends, old & new.

I was invited to a crop at our lss (local scrapbook store) and had so much fun that I went back for the 3rd day, which was unplanned. It started at 5pm Friday and ran until 11 that evening; Saturday 10-10. When I arrived an hour late Saturday morning, I found out that they had been discussing coming for a THIRD day! THAT'S how much fun we had!
Jan, our 'local' CTMH consultant hosted the crop, provided a lot of goodies and door prizes, and some great food. We received extra door prize tickets for bringing chairs or snacks, plus random tickets for good deeds, ideas, etc.