{"id":2021,"date":"2008-09-26T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-10-21T05:27:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T05:27:05","slug":"happy-birthday-blog-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/happy-birthday-blog-train.html","title":{"rendered":"{HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLOG TRAIN}"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\" ;font-size:18px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(153, 51, 153);\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCRAP MATTERS!!!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Today we are beginning the 1st Birthday Celebration for my digi-scrap home, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrapmatters.com\/\">ScrapMatters.com<\/a>!  It&#8217;s hard to believe that its been an entire year already since we first opened up our little shop.  But look how we&#8217;ve grown!<\/p>\n<p>Well &#8211; you&#8217;re here on your 3rd stop on the Birthday Blog Train.  If you&#8217;re following the train, you just came from <a href=\"http:\/\/andilynn.wordpress.com\/\">Andrea&#8217;s blog<\/a> and now you&#8217;ve arrived here in Utah!<\/p>\n<p>At each stop on our Birthday Blog train we&#8217;ll be telling you about  a birthday tradition that we enjoy!  One thing my family  does for birthdays is to sing &#8216;Happy Birthday&#8217; in what has become known as &#8220;Rodee-style&#8221; (Rodee is my maiden name).  What is &#8220;Rodee-style&#8221; you ask? Well &#8211; no one in the Rodee family is particularly talented in the singing department, so instead of struggling through an akward attempt at singing nicely, we just started singing &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; in the most horrible off key bizarre way possible.  It&#8217;s pretty awful sounding but ALWAYS cracks up the birthday boy or girl.  We&#8217;ve been doing it for YEARS.  I can&#8217;t even remember when it started, but its a lot of fun!  It just gets more awful sounding, louder, and crazier as the years go by.  We used to not sing Rodee-style in front of anyone that wasn&#8217;t family, but in the last year a few &#8216;out-siders&#8217; have witnessed &#8220;Rodee-style&#8221; and we even sang it in a RESTAURANT this summer for Josh&#8217;s birthday!  THAT WAS SO EMBARRASSING AND TOTALLY NOT MY IDEA!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Ok &#8211; enough about my goofy family and our random traditions!! On to what you came here for &#8211; your FREEBIE!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i70.photobucket.com\/albums\/i104\/designerbrittney\/sm_birthday_bragbook_PREVIEW.jpg\" width=\"540\" \/><br \/>Download your free brag book page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4shared.com\/file\/64335796\/a8de5f54\/sm_brittdes_birthdaybragbook.html\">HERE<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At each stop along the blog train you&#8217;ll be picking up more brag book pages AND some other little goodies too.  This brag book was created by ScrapMatters&#8217; <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">huge<\/span> new collab kit <a href=\"http:\/\/scrapmatters.com\/shop\/product.php?productid=721&amp;cat=6\">&#8220;You Say Its Your Birthday&#8221;<\/a>, which is FREE with a $10 purchase in the SM store now through Monday!  It&#8217;s ENORMOUS, and so versatile.  I&#8217;d DEFINITELY pick it up if I were you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scrapmatters.com\/shop\/product.php?productid=721&amp;cat=6\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i278.photobucket.com\/albums\/kk105\/ezane888\/sm-ysiyb.jpg\" width=\"540\" \/><br \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/scrapmatters.com\/shop\/product.php?productid=721&amp;cat=6\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i278.photobucket.com\/albums\/kk105\/ezane888\/sm-ysiyb-papers.jpg\" width=\"540\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the page I created with it!  This is my little nephew at his first birthday party.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i70.photobucket.com\/albums\/i104\/designerbrittney\/CryIfIWantTo_BLOG.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i70.photobucket.com\/albums\/i104\/designerbrittney\/CryIfIWantTo_BLOG.jpg\" width=\"540\" \/><\/a><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrapmatters.com\/gallery3\/showphoto.php\/photo\/8452\/ppuser\/4\">{full credits here}<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Be sure to stop in at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrapmatters.com\/\">ScrapMatters<\/a> during our fun birthday celebration.  There&#8217;s a great chat planned for tomorrow (Saturday, 9\/27) at 12 noon Mountain Time.  Lots of prizes and goodies up for grabs for those attending the chat!  Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/scrapmatters.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=594\">this thread<\/a> for more info!<\/p>\n<p>OK &#8211; its time to roll on over to the next Birthday Blog Train stop!  Your next stop is all the way in RUSSIA! &#8212;> It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrapmuss.blogspot.com\/\">Muss&#8217; blog, ScrapMuss Designs<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Happy travels! \u00a0(I&#8217;ll be posting my own grab bag and Show Offs in a couple hours). \u00a0So have fun on our blog train and then check back later. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/BlogSignaturesmall-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136120997058580338\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCRAP MATTERS!!! Today we are beginning the 1st Birthday Celebration for my digi-scrap home, ScrapMatters.com! It&#8217;s hard to believe that its been an entire year already since we first opened up our little shop. But look how we&#8217;ve grown! Well &#8211; you&#8217;re here on your 3rd stop on the Birthday Blog Train. 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