Blog candy

Sally is giving away stamps every day this month. Her blog can be found here. Good luck!

More blog candy

Catt is celebrating her blogoversary and is giving away some blog candy. Her blog is here and while you're there, check out her gorgeous cards!

Val is giving away some blog candy as well to celebrate 2,000 hits. While you're there check out all the lovely cards Val makes.

Blog candy

Courtney is celebrating 60,000 hits on her blog and is giving away some fabulous candy. All you need to do is tell her what you are most thankful for, become a follower of her blog and post a link on your blog. Easy Peasy but ya gotta be in it to win it.

50 cards in 3 hours

My niece, Krista who is a CTMH consultant is hosting a workshop this afternoon. We will be making 50 cards in 3 hours. I am looking forward to this workshop. It should be lots of fun. I will stop in at Michaels on the way there as they are having a 3 hour 15% off event. I need to get card stock and envelopes.

When God closes a door.........

He opens a window. At least that is what my husband is hoping for. Steelcase, the company my husband works for is closing their doors here in Canada. Herb's last day was today. He has still not recovered completely from his ankle surgery and was working light duty for 6 hours a day. He said he only worked about an hour today but was there for 5 hours. He went around the plant and shook hands and said goodbye to a lot of people. He had been working there for almost 11 years and as a temp for a year before that. He and a some of his coworkers went across the street to the pub for a few drinks after work.

He has taken it in stride and will be looking for a new permanent full time position soon. I think he will be taking it easy for a bit. He goes back to see the surgeon on Monday. He is still wearing the air cast but does take it off and walks around the house without it. His ankle and foot still swell up and he is unable to wear his shoe on that foot. I can't see anyone hiring him until he is out of the cast and is able to walk without it. He says that there is very little pain.

The department he worked in before his surgery always bought lottery tickets together. Well, today was no different and he has a lottery ticket on tomorrow night's draw. It sure would be nice if he won!

I won!

I won some blog candy - 2 unity stamp singles - Love builds a home and With confidence from Brandi on her blog Barely Banana Days. Needless to say, I am looking forward to getting my goodies in the mail.

Now, if only I could win the lottery...........

More blog candy!

Vicki is celebrating 5000 hits on her blog and is offering up some holiday blog candy. She will pick a name on Nov. 26th.

Oops!

When I arrived at work yesterday, I put my car keys on the front seat and proceeded to pick up my coffee, muffin and purse. Got out of the car and locked the door with the keys still on the front seat! AARRGGHH! I worked the late shift yesterday (and will be doing it today as well) 11:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. and while walking to the parking lot, could not locate my car keys. Got to the car and since it snowed yesterday, I had to clean off the windows with my leather gloves and saw that I had left my keys on the front seat. I work in a huge building and our parking lot is humungous. After a 5 minute walk, I arrived back at my desk to call hubby to bring me the spare set of keys to my car. We live about a 30 minute drive from work so I had a long wait for hubby. In my defense, I have had this car for 4 1/2 years and it is the 1st time I've ever locked myself out of it. DH was not amused but took it in good stride and even had a big hug for me when I finally arrived home. Driving home was slow because of the snow that was falling. Some people need to take a course in winter driving - I got stuck behind someone on a major highway coming home who was so slow I was almost forced to exit before my exit as the lane we were in becomes an exit lane. We got 3 1/2 inches of snow (9 cm.). Let the fun begin! NOT!

More blog candy

Debbie is giving away some fabulous blog candy. She will draw a winner on Nov. 26th which just happens to be my big sis's BD.

Holly over at Hog Wild about Stamping is coming up to 20,000 hits on her blog and is giving away some fabulous blog candy to celebrate. The only catch is that she will be picking a winner sometime before Dec. 9th so you will have to visit her blog every day to see if you're a winner.

A stamp a day blog candy

Sally is giving away a stamp a day for the rest of November on her blog. Ya gotta be in it to win it! Better hurry though, you only have a few more hours left to get your name in her draw.

Oh Wow! I received an award!

I received my very first award! Wow! I am blown away! This is very special to me as it was given to me by the very talented Mina!

Now for the rules for this award ..........
The winner may put the logo on their blog. Put a link to the person who sent you the award. Nominate 5 blogs and put links to their blogs and leave a message for your nominees.

There are a lot of talented people in the blog world and this is going to be very hard to pick just 5! Here is my list:

My lovely daughter - Janice - she works full time and takes extremely good care of my beautiful granddaughters. I am proud to be her mother.
Beatrice - she is my very 1st follower and a very talented cross stitcher. She and I have a lot in common as we are both Dutch immigrants.
Tracy is a very talented card maker and I won some blog candy on her blog on Nov. 15th. I can't wait to get my hands on the CC designs stamp set that I won.
Dianne is another talented card maker and also one of my followers.
Karen who has some awesome paper projects on her blog.

Now I'm off to let them know that they've received this award.

Blog candy alert!

Lynsey is celebrating 5000 hits on her blog and is giving away the following candy:
Magnolia's Tilda with Wood Basket and she is from the new Winter 2008 collection. She has also included some stamped images, paper flowers, charms, die cut snowflakes and 6 x 6 K & Co paper pad. Lynsey will be picking a winner on Nov. 26th.

Fun Saturday evening

Well, as you can see for yourself, the cards I made for Sierra and Brooke were a big hit. Sierra walked up to me with her card and asked me to take her picture with it. I just love the cheesy grin on her face and the way she is holding it so as not to cover up the card. Opa and I babysat last night while my daughter and son-in-law went out on a much needed "date". Brooke cried for about 2 minutes when they left but we were able to distract her with a leap frog grocery cart. She had a ball with it; giving us "groceries" and then taking them away and putting them back in the cart. The girls had a lot of fun with us and even the "bath-shower" went well. Brooke normally squirms a lot when changing her diaper but she lay perfectly still for me when I got her ready for bed. Both girls went to bed readily and Sierra and I snuggled and played in her bed and then she went to sleep with her baby cabbage patch doll beside her.

More blog candy

Rina is giving away some fantastic blog candy on her site. She is celebrating 1000 hits on her blog! Go check out the fantastic creations of this Hawaaian princess!

Kristen is also celebrating 1000 hits on her blog with some great blog candy - 2 Martha Stewart punches and 2 really cute Whipper Snapper stamps! Ya gotta be in it to win it!

Gayle is giving away some Sugar Nellie stamps, hop over to her blog to have the chance of adopting these cute images. Sugar Nellie stamps are now available internationally. Whoo Hoo! I can already hear my Visa card groaning!

Lacey is celebrating her birthday and 30,000 hits on her blog by giving us the gifts! How sweet is that! She will be giving away some awesome blog candy on Nov. 21st.

Lara is also celebrating her birthday this month and is giving away some awesome blog candy to celebrate.

Cards for my little princesses

Here is the card I made for my granddaughters. They love dressing up and when I found this paper on Sunday, I just knew it would be perfect for a card for them. I made 2 cards exactly alike. Naturally, I couldn't wait to use my new cuttlebug! The papers I used are both from Imaginisce and is from the Fairest of Them All line. I cut out the castle and coach from one of the sheets of paper and then used a fiskars border heart punch on the princess tiara paper. I really like the way this card turned out. I did case a card that someone else made (the castle portion) and if it's your card I cased, please let me know so that I can give credit where credit is due. The rest of the card is entirely my own design. I also typed up the following poem that I found on the net and put it on the inside of the card:

Dressing Up

In the funny world of "make believe"
It's marvelous you see -
How you can be all of those things
You'll ever want to be:
A beautiful young princess, a cowboy, or a clown,
A lion from the circus that's coming up to town.
A graceful ballerina, a nurse or movie star,
A famous racing driver in a big, red shiny car.
You don't need many things you know,
Just a string of beads or two,
A floppy hat, a cast-off skirt
A cardboard box ... and
YOU!

I won!

I won some blog candy from Tracy. She will be sending me a set of CC stamps! She was offering some blog candy for making the All that scraps design team and I won! I have to pinch myself. I will be stalking the mail man (er- make that mail woman). I can't wait to get my hands on the stamps and do something crafty with them.

More blog candy

Sharon is celebrating 5000 hits on her blog with some fabulous blog candy. You can check out all the goodies here. She will be drawing a winner on December 1st.

Ria is also giving away some blog candy. You have until Nov. 22nd to get your name in on the draw.

Maria is also giving away some blog candy to celebrate 10,000 hits. She will be announcing a winner on Nov. 24th.

Another Maria is also giving away some blog candy. She wants to know approximately how long on average it takes you to make a card. She will be picking a winner on the 18th.

I did it!

After 2 other attempts; I was finally able to make a circle medallion! I am going to have so much fun making cards with them! I followed the instructions that Becca posted on her blog. She makes it look so easy but I tried 2 other times and then figured out I needed to make a slightly larger circle for the punch I was using. I used a CD to make the circle and then used an EK SUCESS corner punch that has hearts. As soon as I make a card with it; I will post it here.

Please help.

Cathy's daughter Ellie is entering the hospital and will be having her tonsils removed a week before her 4th birthday. Cathy is asking for people to make get well cards for her daughter.

Please go here for all the details.

More blog candy

It seems that there is an awful lot of blog candy out there - just wish I could win one! Go visit Cathy - she has some awesome blog candy to give away for 10,000 hits on her blog. She will be picking 2 winners on Nov. 16th. Good luck!