Fin-Tastic!

There's nothing I love more than sending RAK & fun things in the mail to friends. One gal I'm always sending random letters to sends me the cutest and most thoughtful cards she's picked up at craft stores and other random places. As much as I love to sit and make people cards, I've never made her one, so I thought I'd finally make her a card. I fell in love with Amy's mermaids, and snatched up each one. When I was a kid i used to pretend and believe I was part mermaid. Splash was one of my favorite movies and I could swear I could always breathe underwater lol... funny the things we think up when we're kids huh? Anywho, since I've always had such a fondness of mermaids, after all I am one right? I thought this was too cute. I'm having a hard time sending this card off in the mail, but I made sure to take lots of pics ;) .... god I am such a dork! lol

1000 Sheets of paper!! Wow!!

Hang onto your hats and brace yourself - I'm back and posting and I'm alive!!! lol I've been away for awhile due preparations for our Wedding Reception we had in June. The planning and preparations basically took up all of my time and energy so I was MIA for awhile. Even while I was gone, I've been checking in on friends posts, so what better way to come back have my first post be about some great news that's extremely exciting to me!

On my list of the top 5 most inspiring people is Amy Young. Her constant creativity and work always leaves me in awe. I am excited to announce she is having a HUGE Blog Candy Give away like never before with tons of paper and stamps. You've just got to check this out!!

More Sweet November Candy!

Amy has done it again! More Sweet November Blog Candy!! Check out her newest stamps BFF's Darby & Bumble... They are Simply Adorable!!! I' sure hope I win this sweet set! :)

Joys of Baking

Kevin and I have taken up baking as one of our new hobbies. To keep from consuming millions of calories, we'll enjoy one thing of whatever we're baking, and the rest of the batch goes to work for my co-workers to enjoy. Tonight I made some homemade vanilla cupcakes with buttercream frosting. They were really good, and tasted like the fancy-shmancy cupcakes that we love from Crave Cupcakes ;)

Journal Books

My best friend Liz and I have been writing in these book/journals for years. We've maintained a long distance friendship over the past 20 years since I have a tendency to move around a lot. We write about what's been going on with our life and whatnot, to keep each other up to date on whats going on in each others lives. We decorate the book and then once we're finished writing in the book we mail them to eachother to read and keep. We make a due date of when our books will be due, so it doesn't take us forever to receive the books, and we work on it for a few weeks and then send them off in the mail. When they arrive a few days later, its really exciting to see her book, how she decorated it and then sit down and read all about what's been going on with her life. I get all the juicy details that aren't necessarily posted on facebook, myspace, twitter, or any other networking site these days so It makes me feel special, like I know parts of her life she may not always share with others. Anyway, last month I decorated the front of her book using Sweet November's Cookie Break stamp of Santa since our books were due December 15th.

This month our books were due on January 15th, and I was smart and quickly took a picture before rushing it into the package to ship it off. I wanted to make her a special twilight inspired book since I know she's seen the movies, plus I was dying to show her my TGF stamps of Flirty Edward and Camille that I got awhile back ~ I just love these! :)

Pardon the pics, but it was late and extremely dark in my kitchen when I was finishing up her book. I need to prepare more and take better pictures next time.

Thats all for now folks, I've gotta run and get some stuff done. See ya later! :)

xoxo,

Long time no see

It's been awhile since I've stopped in here to say Hi. We've been busy getting unpacked and settled in the new house and with the holidays come and gone, it's taken longer than anticipated. We've been busy looking into new ventures and hobbies to do together when we have free time and on top of everything else going on, We've also started planning our wedding reception, so I haven't had much time between everything going on on the home front.

Kevin and I started baking and Kevin has found he really enjoys it, and it's fun for both of us to work in the kitchen together. We've made a few things so far and keep thinking up new ideas of what to bake. We started off with recreating one of my co-workers decadent Chocolate cake that is to die for!!Then we made Mint Chocolate Brownies... I brought them to work so we wouldnt sit there and eat them all, and they were a huge hit!!

well, I'm off for now, but I just wanted to come check in and say hi to everyone! :)

xoxo,

Priceless

Blank Card................ $0.15 cents
Cardstock................. $0.70 cents
Digi Stamp.................$3.00
Embelishments........ $0.10 cents

For those times you need a handmade Christmas Card in a rush & you threw it together in 2 minutes or less..... PRICELESS!

Snow & Holly

Life has been so busy over here it's hard to catch up. Between work, the holidays that are quickly approaching, and just everyday life, I haven't had much time to craft and work on any cards. I've been coloring some digi stamps at work when things are slow so in hopes that when I actually have a free moment, I can put a card together. This weekend, I finally had the chance to sit down, relax and make a card. I used one of Amy's New Sweet November Stamps Holly Starshine I have a bunch of cards waiting to be made... If only I could find a way to sneak in more hours during the day :)

Let it Snow!

Hey Folks!
It's been awhile since I've had a post. Between work and trying to get settled in the new house, I've been lucky if I've had a chance to sit down and breathe. I thought I'd pop in since I was uploading photos from my camera cause we had quite an exciting day today. It actually snowed here in Houston!! Houston normally has two types of weather... Humidity & Rain... but what a delight as we had REAL snow!! It even stuck to the ground and didnt melt away :) This is a rarity so of course everyone was freaking out on the roads, but my co-workers and I had a blast with the snow. We made a few snow balls, took pictures and then they eventually closed the office early and we all got to go home! Hooray it's a snow day!

Amy's Sweet November Blog Candy!!

Amy's giving away another awesome stamp over her her blog. Be sure to check out all her stamps over at All that Scraps and Check out all her fabulous cards on her blog! I am so in love with her work, she truely inspires me to create :)

Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving! Kevin and I are spending the holiday here at our new house. We wished we could have joined our families to spend the holiday with them, but we weren't able to travel this year just after the move and all. We've cooked our own Thanksgiving feast and we're enjoying the day together. Wishing you all a wonderful day with your families and friends :)

Welcome Home

We made it! Omg we actually made it....wheeeeew! (Huge SIGH of relief) Kevin and I finally closed escrow on our very first house together! eeeee! It's been an exciting time watching this house being built from the ground up. And after months of anticipation, waiting and way too much stress one person can handle, we closed escrow this afternoon and got our keys today! woohoo!!

We were given a lovely tollhouse cookie from the fine folks at the mortgage company :) It's so cute and such a part of this new memory, I dont know if I can cut into it. But darn it... It's a HUGE cookie that looks way too delicious! hahah Also I'm just dying to get the new Greeting Farm "My House" Stamp set to make & send out announcements with our new address :) It came out just in the nick of time since we'll be moving into a new home. ...If I only had the money! After all is said and done, this house and move is going to break me LOL!!! Ahhh well, eventually right? :) I Hope everyone is having a fine Thursday! I'm off to de-stress :) Toodles!


xoxo,

3 Days!

We close escrow in 3 days! I am so excited yet totally freaked out. We've packed a total of 4 boxes and have so much more to do.

More Sweet November Candy!

I go coo coo for coco-pops... I dont know why thats stuck in my head, but It reminded me of Amy's New Stamp Line Sweet November... I go coo coo her stamps!! Another chance to win her awesome blog candy!! :)

5 Random Items

Show me 5 Random Items on your Desk (at work or home)

I got this from a friend of mine... It looked fun so I thought I would try it and pass it on... It's kinda fun to see the cute, weird & random things on people's desks.

Here are 5 random items from my desk @ work.

1. Flowers from Kevin

2. Bath & Body Works New Twilight Woods lotion

(it smells so good!)

3. Apples

4. A squeezable stress reliever toilet. (I know, you're probably thinking what the heck!?? This was given to me by one of my co-workers. We'll hang out after work and we tend to have "potty mouths" I got to work one morning and this was sitting on my desk in memory our hilarious conversations)

5. A cute miniature wooden doll from http://www.dolliewood.etsy.com/

She sits on my desk because she's small & cute!

Hope you've enjoyed seeing the random things on my desk.... Now lets see yours! :) Pass it on!

I'm alive!

I'm alive, I swear! I've been so busy lately, I just haven't made any time to post. Life has been movin along with stamping, work, keeping up with my Etsy shop, you know the same ol' same ol'.... But lately we've also been looking for a new vehicle, talking about and *trying* to prepare ourselves for another move. Our new house is finished being built and it's almost move in ready. We close escrow on November 12th. Time is flying and we literally haven't done a single thing to get ready. That's 2 weeks away folks, and we have a laundry list of things to do, that's been untouched. We haven't started packing, gotten our home owners insurance, scheduled a home inspection, contacted a painter, found movers, looked for a moving truck, gotten our paint supplies, we havent put in our 30 days notice yet at our Apt complex and we also have yet to order any of the appliances we'll need like oh say.... a FRIDGE, a WASHER or DRYER!!! AYE!!!! There's so much to do, and so very little time... It's exhausing just thinking about everything.

In other such good news, I've been preparing for Halloween, my favorite time of year. I've been making ALL 12 of my close co-workers Anya themed Halloween cards w/ candy goodie bags and cupcakes. Oh crap! I just forgot abut the cupcakes till right now! lol I need to get the ball moving and finish up my Anya Halloween cards. I have like 5 more witch hats to draw and color before Friday along with the million other things to do on my list.

Here's a Preview of the huge mess of halloween greeting farm frenzy going on in my craft space. Anya isnt shown cause she isnt currently camera ready lol


Nite folks... I'm off to bed to get an early start tomorrow! ~ Toodles!

Sweet November Candy ~ Week 2

Another fabulous week of Amy's Sweet November Blog Candy!!!

Feast your eyes on this my pretties.... Come on.... You know you want it... Go check it out!!

COUNTDOWN:

7 days people!! Aren't you so excited you could just spit? LOL Amy's Sweet November Stamps are being released at All That Scraps on November 2nd!!

Amy's Sweet November Blog Candy!!

Yesssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!! Right from the start I *knew* deep in my gut that Amy deperately needed to have her own stamp line & company, and I had no doubts she's get it! She is so darn talented it turns my stomach! lol So when the surprise came that all her faithful blog readers wishes came true.... Voila! Sweet November Stamps is born!!

Amy is giving away some amazing blog candy, and seriously.... I hope I win!!!! Her designs are amazing. I'm hoping for the chance that the random number generator picks me, but if not, I'll still be purchasing every single one of her stamps.

Visit her blog if you havent already... Amy is truly inspiring :)

Bewitchingly Cute

October has always been one of my favorite months. Falling leaves, crisp air, apple picking, pumpkin patches, Oktoberfest, festivals, and Halloween is approaching us coming soon. I've been out shopping for halloween goodies for some of my fellow co-workers. It's so much fun looking at new decorations each year. My halloween collections is becoming insane, which is good as it may help with decorations for next year. Kevin and I are hoping to have our wedding next Halloween. We want it dark, a little gothic, yet very romantic and elegant. We're hoping that if we can get the finances together and pull it off, we'll leave our guests with never forgetting our enchanting night. I've been working on halloween goodies and cards, and I just got this new cute digi stamp that I just couldnt wait to use. Isn't she cute!?