Happy Halloween!!!

So my daughter tried to get away with a skimpy Minnie Mouse costume this year...uh-unh! No way, Jose! Until the costume meets approval, no trick or treating...so I'll leave you with some pictures of last year's fun in the neighborhood:

I hope there are new pictures to post later! I bought some really cute accessories for the costumer. It'd be a shame for them to go to waste!

Happy Candy eating day!! :)

The pumpkin is colored :)

more challenges:
SU stamps, chalk inks, DCWV patterned paper, scalloped punch, orange rhinestones from Michaels, Ribbon is a nice soft one, but I don't remember where it came from :( I think it was in a set of 3 or 5 coordinating ones.















The butterfly image is from Karen Lockhart stamps, greeting is SU. Paper is CTMH, ribbon is VELVET (and very, very soft) from Oriental Trading catalog. Prisma pencils colored the butterfly and a couple brads from Bazzill finish it off.


With the last card, I had already posted it without coloring the pumpkin. Since several of you wrote that it would be better colored in, let's see if this helps a bit. I was afraid the ink would smear if I colored the pumpkin which is why I left it. I'm also just not that great at coloring sometimes, lol.

I"m off to go and get into bed. Feeling a bit tired today and it's chilly out. I think the electric blanket is already on high....better catch those cozy covers right now! ;-)

Happy Autumn, Everyone!

10.27.07 cards

It's still nice and sunny but cold in Seattle! :) Hope it lasts through Halloween. I have a few more cards to show, but need to get working on my kid's Halloween costume. She is going as one of the characters from Disney...their group is all going as a Disney character. I hope I get some good pictures of them to share! Last year I got a really great series of pictures and made a really cute little Halloween mini scrapbook...If I get a chance I'll take some pictures later today.

The Hawaiian card is for a challenge - Tracy's Birthday card challenge! You could choose either Disney or a Hawaiian theme. I was too lazy to dig out Disney stamps, so this is what was made.


















Day #17 challenge - The rose & gold colored card is made with a Cuttlebug embossing folder and gold pearl ex applied to the raised portion. (I used Versamark to make the Pearl Ex stick). Simple and easy - under 10 minutes from start to finish...except I added the brads which were embossed with gold e.p. - it took me a while to find my tweezers to hold the brad while it was heating, so that actually doubled the time it took to make the card - but still under 30 minutes!


















Also, I wag tagged by Nitestamper. I'm supposed to tell you random things about me...and then tag 7 more people. I'm pretty lame when it comes to these tagging games especially if they involve doing a lot...this one I think I can handle though. Except I am not sure that I know 7 people who have not already been tagged....I will give it a shot anyway.

Randomness about me:

1) I've worked for one company more than 17 years (now that's a LONG time!)

2) I would rather stay home than scurry around for vacation - that way I can do whatever I want, whenever I want to! - no planes to catch, deadlines, or anything else....just hangin out stampin & visiting friends and family!

3) Little kids are drawn to me and always want me to play with them!!

4) Favorite foods - Bruschetta, Open faced crab sandwich from Cutters Bayhouse, ice cream - Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia, and homemade macaroni & cheese

5) I watch HGTV or TLC at bedtime almost every night....

6) I love to entertain and make special meals for friends and family, but have done very little since we got our Westie...she makes my life stressful at times with all that barking...but hubby and the kids love her...

7) I LOVE color - in my house, in my wardrobe, in nature, everywhere...I love to see color!!!


Thanks for stopping by

More Cards...

From Day #13 (another Challenge at Angelosity):


















From Day #9's Challenge
Question: The pumpkin - should I color it?



















From the Challenge on Day 18:
The sentiment/greeting is a rub on that says "Thanks" - it came out really blurry in the pic :(



















From the Challenge on Day 3 at Angelosity:
stamps are from SU, flower is a leftover Jolee's embellishment


A few more from challenges that I was playing with during the week will be uploaded later today :)

Having Fun, Keeping Busy!

A few more cards for the challenges at Angelosity:
I think I will add a prima flower on the left of the horizontal card.

I took the musical set out because there was another part of the challenge that it needed and I just realized I didn't finish that part! You'll see it again later on! ;-)

I do like the others - the green/pink/guava argyle & striped papers were from a CK convention class with Cathy Zielske (I think it was last year).

That's all for today! Goodnight!

Sneaking a picture of my daughter in here!

She is growing up so fast!! She's pictured on our deck with two buddies! Aren't they cute!?

A couple more cards

These were made over the weekend. The set is from the SU Holiday Mini catalog. It is called Season of Joy. I added Martha Stewart Glitter to the silvery one, and some other light blue glitter on the second one. There are red dewdrops from the Robin's Nest (aka baubles from stampingbella.com) on the tree and a chipboard piece covered with patterned paper and stamped with Merry Christmas. Thanks for stopping by! Have you started any holiday cards yet? Don't wait! It's just around the corner!

Seattle's weather was a gorgeous and beautiful 77 degrees today!!! Wooo hooo!! Now if we could just get the wildfires in Southern CA under control, I'd be happy! We have a lot of friends and family there - and we're praying that everyone is ok! My neighbor who was in San Diego this week is coming home early tonight...but she said the airport is very crowded! Revise on airport - she said is WASN'T crowded...I must have needed a hearing aid that day!

Angelosity Challenge cards

I had time this weekend to stamp & do some sketch challenges at Angelosity! Here's what I ended up with. There will likely be more cards this week! In case YOU want to play along, check out Angelosity! (the link is right below--) http://angelosity.blogspot.com/

Be sure to click on my acorn card so you can see the top of the nut where I did the crosshatch in tone on tone - the stitching isn't my favorite but oh well, too late now.

Good Luck card is just one of the dollar stamps from Michael's...it was the simple card and uses staples at the edges - they're hot pink - can you tell?


The yellow striped card uses Dotted Autumn from Stampin Up, the free hostess set called "Party Punch" (that stamp would the the little tab saying on the left, and is a pull out card so you actually can see the pretty scroll design), and the fun whimsical set called "Autumn Fest".

The challenge was to use these Stampin Up colors: Pumpkin Pie, Bravo Burgundy and Summer sun as well. I got the colors out, but was out of Pumpkin Pie Cardstock, so there's just a little tad of it on the 'pull out card. But the ink is Pumpkin Pie! ;-) I had a hard time not adding MORE to the card....

Oh yea, I had to go with three little tiny rhinestones at the bottom - two of them just weren't enough! They are from K & Co./Brenda Walton and also have black and clear rhinestones in the same package! I bought mine from Frugalities.com - yes, even after the bad episode with the broken Prima bottle....they paid for my order, so I gave them another chance; and another and another...well you can see where that leads....to the poorhouse! lol. I'll put more up in a little bit! Thanks for stopping by!

A Gorgeous card by Zindorf

WOW! This person is uber talented and creative is ooozing from her all over!! LOL That card is my FAVORITE!!!!

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/690910?cat=500&ppuser=5224

Someday I hope to have even half of her creative talent! Ellen had posted another card that she liked on her blog and said to check out Zindorf's gallery - so I did....and jaw dropped on this one! I LOVE her style!

A few new cards

Here are a few new cards:

The green paisley background card uses our old designer paper, May Arts Ribbon, and the tag alphabet set that was in one of the mini catalogs from either a spring or summer issue a couple of years ago.


One of thecards is supposed to be able to be viewed in two ways....can you tell which one? I sure hope you can tell! LOL. The stamps are from SU. Flowers were embossed in black then colored with chalks - lots of people have done that - I thought it was really pretty when I saw other cards, but it just didn't do much for me when I put my own card together...

The cow card (It's a birthday card and inside says, "You're aging very well!") However the challenge for this card is that it cannot outright say Happy Birthday! Stamp is SU, the background oval is A-Muse, felt flowers & brown grossgrain ribbon from American Crafts.

Clown card: I just won the clown set in an Ebay auction and wanted to make the chocolate chip, bashful blue and certainly celery card - the second challenge for Jen's blog. Flowers are cute little felt dealies from American Crafts. I got all three sizes!! :) I know I shouldn't have but I was justifying it because they were meant for another project. So I killed two birds with one stone! YAY! The background paper is actually a large sheet that has glitter centers on the flowers. I love the colors and it just happened to have the same colors as Jen's challenge! The background paper is from K & Co. one of the Amy Butler patterned paper pads.







I'm going to watch Grey's tonight, so that's all I've got! I hope to craft again this weekend and get packages off to people (like my blog candy winner who did email me her address!). I hate the post office - it's such a stinkin hassle around here to go and drop packages. Actually it's the parking (or lack of) that is the pain in the butt.... Good night, ladies!

Jan Scholl, email or pm me please~~

I posted that you won the blog candy, but am not sure if you saw that you won! If you don't claim it soon, I won't be able to get it over to you before Halloween!! Should I re-draw if I don't hear back by Saturday the 13th?? Or should I wait until the 20th?

Jan, my email is eyp963@msn.com....

Happy Tuesday ladies! I am missing Boston Legal!!! ACK!

I think I have a new favorite blog.....

Look here at Pink Petticoat....I think these are sooo flippin cute!!! I love it!

http://pinkpetticoat.blogspot.com/

Two more cards!

These challenges were for the Earth card and the one layer card! Looks like I didn't clean the stamp very well after the orange flower! yuck!

The little tree card didn't upload :( Here it is....

I may work on this one some more- because I forgot that I wanted to add a little frame around the bubble thing - either some 'frosting dots' or a twig frame - not sure if I'll actually do either, but that's what I was thinking!

Take care!

Cards from WCMD

So I never made it to the event with my buddy - Bad friend, I know. I had an eye thing going on - I wear contacts and one of them just was NOT cooperating! So I stayed home and did stuff on my own. Not nearly as much fun as stamping with friends, but it beats cleaning house and doing laundry!

Here are some cards that were inspired by the challenges from Just Johanna:

First my 'recycled card' - this used the packaging from some metal photo corners from my shopping spree last week. Patterned paper is DASHER from Stampin Up, and I thought it was a new pattern for SU, yet the little trademark says, "Stampin Up 2006" -- shouldn't that have been 2007? Maybe it was available in 2006 and I didn't pay attention to it. The cardstock is the basic Red that I had sitting around - just waiting to be used on Christmas cards. (I don't think it is SU though). Images are stamped on Paper Trey white (which I love, love, love!!!!!! WOW! If you haven't tried it yet, you really need to!) Though the little deer from Merry & Bright (SU) was colored with copics, the white paper trey paper does not 'shred' when you use the blender pen and chalks on it! Get some today - you won't be sorry!

Second card is the same thing - recycled packaging from my scrapbook spree, and a tree instead of a snowman. Oh, yes! It does not show :( but I also stamped tiny white snowflakes on the bubble thingie with Staz on Cotton white, and added some glitter to the inside (I was hoping for a snow globe-ish effect but that's not what I ended up with). My eye was having trouble yesterday, so I can't help if it turned out kind of wonky!

The next card was for a challenge that used:
Pink & Green
Polka Dots
A button or buttons
Clear overlay
& Scallops
The color on the dress came out in the picture wayyyyy offf.....I would not have matched them up if it were this far off, ladies!


There was also a challenge for NO Patterned Paper!! That was fun - I used an old stamp set from SU - I love how rich the colors came out - the background is the old weathered wood BG, and it has antique brass pearl-ex all over - it's shimmery and pretty in real life!


And last, I have a card made with my current Favorite stamp: It is the one that I got from the SU order last week...The colors look so pretty together in real life - not something I'd normally put together, (in fact, I don't like the guava at all)....but I like it in this combo! Image was colored with chalks and blender pen. Notice there's no pilling/shredding on the white? That's because it is PAPER TREY WHITE!! ;-)

That's it for me. That's what I did in between bouts of spending sprees yesterday on World Card Making Day! Later I will show you some of the goodies that I bought the other day and some of what I bought today too....my aunt came over to visit and we spent the day looking at cards and then shopping at the craft stores! Au revior!

Saturday's are lazy days around my house....

...and days to announce the blog candy winner!

I couldn't resist sleeping in late this morning - so I'm not at the all day WCMD event yet. (Oops!)

The closest guess for the blog candy was Jan Scholl who guessed 266.66. I should have known better. I used to go in every Wednesday at our local scrapbook store and do their free class which was a mini-album or something similar. That free class always ended up costing me $50-$100! No wonder I was getting free punch cards and other goodies! I ended up spending 293.32 last Saturday and then came home and place an SU order of 354.36 before midnight. Yep, I'm in trouble now....

Places where the crimes were committed: Starbucks, scrapbook event raffle tickets (for a good cause!), a Taco place, Scrapbook store, Micheal's, and lastly another Starbucks. I also had not ordered any new stamp sets from the holiday mini catalog yet, so I got the ones I wanted, and then realized I missed a couple of things that I was supposed to get....not sure if I can afford to buy anymore stuff at this point though.

Jan Scholl, please email me your address and I will get these off to you asap so you can have fun with them for Halloween! Also let me know if you want a blank mini accordian book or if you want the one that is semi-made up with Halloween schtuff on it!

Just a few more hours to enter for some Halloween blog candy!

It's been nice to see all the kind comments!!! Thanks much for taking the time to stop by and post and peek at what I've been up to! Saturday I've got another 'date' with my buddy for an all day WCMD event. (WCMD = World card making day).

You have until 11:00 a.m. to leave your guess!

Hope you all get to have fun creating!

Our weather is cold and wet - surprise, surprise....

Candy pic uploaded.

I finally finished the candy pics. I hope you can see what things are...it won't include the little tin container, but it does include a batch of goodies for Halloween projects: May Arts ribbon in Halloween colors (the black one is a cool swirly braided design!), 3-D stickers (really cute, from Michaels), Primas (Daisies, 'Got Flowers', sweet n sassies, etc., 3 little Halloween tags that I made, glitter in purple, orange and green, 5 little rhinestoney bling sticker things in halloween designs - a bat, a ghost, candy corn, spider, and the word, "BOO!" (I used them on scrapbooks and cards- you can do whatever you want with them), a cute little ghost cookie cutter (I like them on our little spooky black Halloween branches), and a little accordian book for Halloween pics. If you'd prefer a blank accordian book to decorate yourself, just let me know! It wouldn't offend me a bit if you wanted to do your own instead! Happy guessing!

Scroll down a little for the blog candy post...

Sorry, I started writing it on Saturday and posted it today....still don't have the pics taken yet! But will soon....Please put all guesses on the post below - that's where I'll look for the winner! :)

Scrap Scene...great place to go for ideas!

What have you all been up to this weekend?

I have some reporting on my daily activities, but no time to post much right now. Hold tight though, I do have some pics to upload later on!

Back to the great place for ideas....I really like this place that I found on the web. Check it out~~ I am tempted to make some little birds and hang them on a branch in my window this winter!

http://www.scrapscene.com/

Happy Sunday everyone! It's cold and really wet here in Seattle! Blah!

P.S. I just found out I won this blog candy from a local stamp place here in WA (Redmond & Poulsbo):
http://stampedinhisimage.blogspot.com/
I always check out this site because Julie has some amazingly creative and gorgeous ideas! Thank you so much, Julie!

Saturday's at Susan G Komen croppin event...and blog candy!!

On Saturday my friend Tammy and I drove more than 1 & 1/2 hours to reach Olympia, WA for a 12 hour cropping event. Normally we would not go that far for a one day event - and this time we knew we needed to leave well before the event was over for a prior committment. (One cannot pass up a chance to crop, right?)

Since I was lucky enough to win the tickets for the crop thanks to Deanna Shain at www.dw-shain.blogspot.com and www.creative-outlet-retreats.blogspot.com we decided to GO! (I think I was one of two people that entered...what are the chances? oh yea, 50/50...I'm so glad I got it though!)

We had a FABULOUS time and met a mother & daugher scrappin 'team' who sat across from us. Team Ardelle and Stephanie were up on ALL the latest and greatest stuff! These ladies were HOT on the scrappin scene I tell you! I only wish I had thought to bring a camera! DANG! Anyway, it was an entire day of fun, laughter, creativity (there were two WONDERFUL make n takes, a great auction with benefits proceeding Susan G Komen breast cancer awareness, lots of snackies, and a yummy pizza dinner!).

We had a chauffer for the day who drove us back and forth to the sponsoring store, "Sharin Memories", in Olympia - WOW!!! I thought I was lucky to have Lasting Memories scrapbooking store right here near my home, but BOY OH BOY - this new place was AWESOME!!! I keep trying to talk them into opening a store closer to me (so I can go and work there and buy them a mansion with all the stuff that I would be buying!) If you are EVER in WA and get a chance to stop by this place, you GOTTA check them out!! They carry a bunch of great stamps and there are tons of super great, top-notch creative samples all over the store! Thank you so much to Deanna Shain, Patti, Sharon, and all of the ladies and especially our wonderful chauffer!! I am sorry Mr. Chauffer, but I never got your name! :( We dearly appreciated the extra special attention that we got!

I will put some pics up hopefully later tonight showing you all what I made! And I will also get the blog candy up. Here's what the blog candy deal is: The all day crop was free, right, because I won the tickets! However, you all know what happens when you get something for free....that means you saved a lot of money... and when you save a lot of money, it means you can buy other stuff!!!! Well, anyone want to guess what the total for my buying spree was that day?? Let's include the coffee and muffin at Starbucks when I started the day...all the way to the end of the day when I finished up with a latte and espresso coffee-cake. The person who comes closest to the penny without going over will win the blog candy! Picture with the blog candy to come....I have to gather it all together first!!! :) I'll take guesses through Saturday morning at 11:00 a.m. Pacific time. As always, no one is to share the final answer with my husband...he knows the crop was free...and that's all he needs to know!

P.S. I've also gone PINK for October!! I hope you all share information on breast cancer awareness with the women in your lives!! And give them a little love kiss and hug while you're at it!

And check out these VERY fun, very cute little witch shoe treat holders from wiggydl on splitcoast:
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/678913?cat=500&ppuser=90421
WOWZERS - CUTE and FUN!!

Halloween Cards

Here is a series of cards from a swap that the gals in my office like to organize. I took some of the pics with these little country bean bag critters that the kids used to play with when they were little. I got them from the Gift Show years ago - there used to be more of them...hmmm. Wonder what happened to the other ones? Perhaps their bean filled guts were sprayed across the floor when the kids went wild?

The paper is from Memory Box (bought it last year on sale a few days after Halloween - can't beat 50% off!)

Ribbon is by May Arts - it is double faced satin in yellow & orange - very nice! I have plenty of it if anyone wants some! Email me for details at eyp963@msn - and put ribbon share into the subject line. I'll sell it for my cost + whatever shipping was.

Stickers are from the Michael's dollar bin, other embellishments were just in the collection of stuff that needs to be used up!

All other paper is from Memory Box Spooky collection, but bought last year. Not sure if it is still available! I've seen the new collection for this year, but I think I will wait until they are on sale. I am going broke with all of the stuff I've bought lately!

Also, you may know that I love A muse stamps and that they are right here in Seattle. BUT,, did you know that they're also in Autin, TX? THat's right! Check out Crafty Engineer's blog for a listing of classes!

You heard it! Check out the info on Crafty Engineer's blog here: http://papercraftingengineer.blogspot.com/2007/09/20000-hits-blog-candy-and-self.html">http://papercraftingengineer.blogspot.com/2007/09/20000-hits-blog-candy-and-self.html">http://papercraftingengineer.blogspot.com/2007/09/20000-hits-blog-candy-and-self.html

My first SCS Challenge card - DONE!

This was from a challenge last week (when I was on vacation from work)....

Though it was sunny, the temps are definitely cooling down! The kids keep wanting the heat turned up - I can't stomach another oil bill (the last one was almost 2 grand...yes, TWO thousand dollars!!! That is a lot of stamps ladies!

Anyway, this was for the Splitcoast Sketch Challenge SC142. I put some sparkle on it because I saw a blog this morning that said if you make a sparkly card and combine challenges you'd have two entries for her blog candy and now I can't remember where that was! Oh well, I had fun anyway! The stamp is from Memory Box - I bought it off Ebay at Anna's store. She ships very fast and has been really helpful!! I had not done paper piecing before, but this one had all the right colors so I did it! I used Copics for the beak and webbed feet, but they are hard to use in small spaces! I did my best. The background papers are from Flair Designs and Memory Box. Thanks for stopping by to see my latest upload!

Cruisin'!!

Ok, I got Gina's email tonight and wanted to post this so that I can dream about going....I really really, want to go, but I don't think it is possible with work.....sigh. Maybe you will get to go in my place and will report back on all the fun that I'll miss out on. Details for the cruise sponsored by Gina K, Stamping Bella and PaperTrey are here: http://www.cruiseandcrop.com/SB_Craft_2008.htm

Thank you cards!

Did you get a lot done today? I felt like I did!

Long overdue, I finally made time to pop out a few thank you cards. These are going out to people online who have sent me blog candy, other treats (stamped images, ribbon and cute cards), or helped me out in some way!

Happy Sunday!

Oh, goodness! Every year at the end of summer, someone holds a big bash on the lake and they set off fireworks like it was the 4th of July again! I just heard them and looked out the window - sure enough, there is a GREAT BIG fireworks show going on!!!!! Luckily it's dark earlier in the day now! THey usually do this on a Saturday evening, but not this year....it's romantic to look out over the lake and watch more fireworks -especially when it is chilly outside. Too bad my dh was being a bh and I am not cozying up tonight! lol!! Enjoy the cards, ladies!



Vase/flowers stamp by Memory Box. I used watercolor paper and SU watercolor crayons. The corners are some K & Co. glittery pieces that tied the colors together nicely. The flowers on the medallion are primas and in the center is a little acrylic bauble just like the ones from the site that has Bellas!!





Bee Stamp by Stampendous. You can't see it but I glittered up their wings. It was colored with Prisma pencils and some copic sketch markers. The patterned paper is from one of those stacks at Joanns - this one had touches of glitteratti all over it! :) Primas in the corners and I used EYELETS because they have been neglected over the past few years!

Snow kids image was stamped for me by Ashley Bowen (thank you so much for all the images, Ashley!) Her blog is at www.ashleyscreativecorner.blogspot.com. She is a great inspiration and very talented! Colored with copic markers, I had some trouble with the ground - it looks kind of poopy-ish - I should have stuck with a grey or blue on the ground. It was still fun to play with Copics though.

These two photos dropped out of the other post:

This is the football shaped layout.

And there is the one with the sign that swivels up to say, "Win".

Thanks for stopping by!

Finally loaded some projects to share!

The new camera is GREAT!!!!!!! (...when it focuses right!)

I am not sure how or why the two shots on one project came up so poorly. I use the auto setting and all of the other pictures came out nice! But I took those two pages over and over and they still look blurry. DH said it was because I was shaking the camera or moved it when I shot...8 times in a row though?? .... I think it could be more than that! The other 45 shots came out much clearer!

In any case, here's one of the projects: It is football season and some of the gals that I work with have sons who play football so I did a couple of mini albums. This is the first one, for Zachz pictures. I forgot there is also a little plaque that has his initials, "ZG" that I'll add to the ring and hopefully remember to take a picture of before giving it away!

First pic is the front cover and a little extra chipboard card that I attached with the ball-linked-chain stuff (the chain came off a pair of jeans that my son got- and it was free! I wish I could remember which jeans they were - we'd go buy more of them!). Does anyone know where to get this in the dark bronze color? I need more for other projects!

Second picture is the back of the card and another shot of the cover.







































Next are the inside pages - there is an interactive chipboard that swings around and says "Win" on one of the pages. Since these are small coaster sized pages I didn't have a lot of room for too much stuff. Mostly it is stickers and some patterned paper. Most ribbon seemed a little too girly so I kept it to a minimum. The only part that I really struggled with were the eyelets. On the back side of the eyelets it looks crummy. I may go for some punched reinforcements to cover up the unsightly eyelets on the back side. If you have any suggestions on how to fix them, let me know! I'm not giving this to her until the end of the week.

So there's today's project. I will try to re-take the bad pages on the other projects. All are mini-scrapbooks thus far - no cards. Sorry!

Long time no see!!

Well ladies, it's been a busy month!

Summer appears to be over in Seattle. The weather is cool and not very pretty outside. I have been on vacation this week and we had my daughter's birthday, nephew's birthday, brother's birthday, our anniversary and my birthday! WHEW....ya know what? We're not done with birthdays yet!!! -- December must be a really good time of year for our families, huh?? heheheh!

The REALLY good news: I got a new CAMERA!!!! And that's not all! Hubby also ordered a new camera cord (again) for the first camera. SO, I can take pictures of all the things that I made this week! I've been on a roll with mini scrapbooks!!

My Papertrey replacement tin arrived, and I realized that I had not yet ordered my new sets from the latest release! I did buy candy to fill the tins, and wouldn't you know - it never made it to the containers - just disappeared, right from the bag that I brought it home in! I don't know what happened, but it may be time to get a detective to figure out who's eating all the candy in the house! Time to get cracking on those little cute containers so no more candy disappears!

Oh yes, and I think some blog candy may be in order soon. Probably closer to the end of the month once all these birthdays have passed! yikes~ This is worse than Christmas time!

Labor Day!

The last official weekend before summer....a signal that the long lazy days of summer are coming to an end....time to go back to school....and a busy month ahead!

We just came home from visiting my sister-in-law at the lake. The weather could not have been better. Upper 80's and very dry. We spent 95% of the time sitting around the pool or on the boat in the lake. We're all a little more tan now! (and hubby is looking good!!! - Oh, yessss!) The kids want me to take them to the mall for one last shopping trip which means my bank account and credit cards will be burned even further...

I did make a couple cards while we were at the lake, but it was hard to want to do anything other than sit and relax while in the sun...and some people kept splashing anyway!

I hope you all had an enjoyable summer! My order from May Arts is due in any day -- and my birthday is coming up so maybe, just maybe I'll get a new camera or a new cord so I can start putting my cards and things up!!! :)

Happy end of summer, everyone!! For those of you that love fall festivities, time to get ready for pumpkins and feasts!!

I finally got Copic Markers!

Copic Markers -- They've been all the talk on the best blogs for about the last 4 months now. I have been debating whether to get them or not...and tonight I guess I decided with the stroke of a key, that I was getting them! I won a set of 30 copic markers on Ebay. I sure hope they make my stamping as wonderlicious as everyone else that is using them! We'll see!

This weekend we're off to visit my sister-in-law and her family at Moses Lake (about a 4 hour drive from where we are now). It is always sunny and warm there on the eastern side of the mountains, so I hope the kids enjoy that! The weather though very mild and warm, has already started to turn. Mornings when I wake up are starting to darken, and it isn't until about 6:30 or so that I see the sun coming out...sad but true. I miss the morning sunshine of a summer's day.

I will also miss weather that is nearly perfect! Today was one of those days. I think it was about 80, but there were nice breezes and it was a cool-ish kind of 80 degree day. Not the typical 80 degree 'hot summer' day. I think only a Seattleite would know what I mean by that!

I hope to stamp this weekend while we're out of town....maybe we'll even get a new camera since no one has the right darned cord for mine! ARGH!!

New card posted: "Thanks for the card"

I made this with the Stampin Up sell-a-bration set that I didn't get, but that my friend Michele was kind enough to give me. It is stamped on Watercolor paper which made for really nice results with the wonderful watercolor crayons....I hate that long name, but I love using the crayons! Anyway, there is some pink sheer dotted May Arts ribbon and a Prima daisy. I think the center is a big black brad from Joanns or Bazzill....

The saying is made with Karen Foster Snap Stamps that I ADORE but wasn't smart enough to get until they were no longer manufactured, and couldn't be found except for this set on Ebay. I've been told they will re-issue the snap stamps in early 2008 though...so I'm hoping this is one set they will bring back in many sizes! The center of each flower has some glitteratti (Dazzling Diamonds from SU).

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Another blog candy chance at Blessed a Latte!! (what a cute name for a blog!)
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The Excitement is builidng.....

This coming weekend is the Seattle Gift Show! I am going to see May Arts and place an order!! I can hardly wait!! :)

If anyone is interested in ribbon in bulk, please let me know what you want. If you are local we can arrange for you to pick it up so there won't be an additional shipping charge.

There are soooooo many pretty new ribbons out!! If you want me to order and just get 5 - 10 yards or so, I can do that too if it's a ribbon that others will get. I've got a lot of extra ribbon on hand, but I am a ribbon hoarder and that is what you are supposed to do if you hoard ribbon - keep lots on hand, right? LOL It usually goes pretty quickly when I post a message on Splitcoast stampers about any excess! :)

Sooooo, if you want something from May Arts Ribbons, let me know!!!!

A CHANCE to win WHAT? $2500?? For Real?

Yes, it's for real! At least I hope it is!

Hi People!
It's been a long week. The weather was gorgeous...so much so, that I think I had a little too much on Thursday. While out and about, I got caught up in traffic. My normal 20 minute drive turned into an hour + commute. Since the sun was out and I was on the bridge and the Blue Angels were practicing over head, I thought I'd turn off the A/C and open the sunroof...the A/C had been giving me a scratchy kind of feeling in my throat anyway. Well, about 45 minutes into the traffic jam, I felt a little warm so I closed the sunroof (bye, bye, Blue Angels). Still feeling overheated, I turned on the A/C again...after being off for so long, it takes a while for it to start working....so I was blasted with more WARM air. By the time I got off the bridge, I was so stinking hot, I had a headache and felt dizzy! I was still in work clothing (shirt & sweater)...took off the sweater, and could not get cooled off! I had the worst headache all night long and into the next day. AGH!!!! I thought I could handle the sun!

So feeling better today (finally!). I wanted to share this with you all since I found it very interesting. Hopefully it is really true!

Over at Ashwin’s blog, you will find one crazy blog owner!! You can win $2500!! To enter just copy this text and paste it in your blog!! But hurry, this competition will not last long! So get posting! Ashwin's blog is at http://www.ashwinkhanna.com/archives/19

I say you just never know....what if it IS true and one of us wins that $2500 to spend on new fall catalog goods?? WOOOHOO!! I would send a nice little something to the person that notified me about the contest/drawing, and then the rest would be put into stamps/paper, and more stuff!

What are you all doing this weekend? We are heading to a friends house for a party today and then visiting with our next door neighbor for an afternoon/evening barbeque! We'll see if any stamping happens! ;-)

Take care and hope you're all staying cool!