Time Flies...

Well, I realized that I never posted a picture of the FREE MAke & Take at my Open House, so I need to get on the ball and get that uploaded.

I've also uploaded a picture of gals who came to my Open House on Saturday Night. I forgot to get a picture of the Friday night gals! There's Faith (from New Castle) with her new puppy. He was a real cutie pie! Dawn (from Morristown area) is in the red and Davinna (from New Palestine) is on the right in blue.

I really enjoyed having you here gals!

Christmas Card Kits, Month 2

Hey there,
Here are the 2 Christmas Cards for our Club for month 2. If you'd like to purchase the kit, it will be $23 and that includes shipping.

I will have everything stamped and the kit will include everything needed to put together 5 cards. You will have 6 cards total and this will include stamped envelopes and sayings on the inside of each card.

BIG Announcement!!!

Can you BELIEVE it??!!

Wow, is Stampin' Up! ever moving into the 20th century. You can NOW place an online order any time of the day or night 24/7! I think that is AMAZING!

This is a GREAT way to buy your favorite SU! products from me while never having to leave your home!! All prices are the same and remember... if you purchase $150 or more you get to be your OWN hostess and earn HOSTESS REWARDS. This includes a FREE Hostess stamp set and FREE Hostess Awards which is good for FREE merchandise! What could be better than shopping from the comfort of your own home in your jammies? Well, maybe Mr. Brown bringing you some chocolate to go with that lol.

I am offering a special program to online shoppers... Loyal Shoppers Card. For every $35 you spend online (before taxes and S&H) you will get a punch on YOUR Loyal Shoppers Card (I will update you regularly). After 12 punches, you will get $25 in FREE merchandise. You can spend it on whatever you want!

This is to reward my LOYAL customers and show my appreciation! You might also get a card or product in the mail after placing an order... you NEVER know! woo hoo!


To start shopping, just click HERE to go to my Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Website and click on the SHOP NOW button under my name in the top right hand corner of the page... see it? Click on it! You will set up an account with Stampin' Up! and then start shopping! It's THAT easy! You can pay with Visa, Mastercard, Discover or a Debit Card.

If you already have a demonstrator, then please order from her! I don't want to be taking anyone's customers.

**Stamp club orders do not count towards the Loyal Customer Card.

Woo hoo!

Lookey, lookey! Dana's back from the 'arbor' world! hehehe Sorry, that's a private joke and yes I am a tard.

'I'm not only a member, I'm the president!'

I love this gal to pieces and I miss her even more! Check out her blog. She said she's going back to a food blog but I DON'T CARE... JUST AS LONG AS SHE'S BACK!!!

And are those cupcakes not to DIE FOR??!! Send them my way girlfriend!

MORE Open House Fun

I also made those water bottle thingys. You know, the ones that hang on the neck and hold a single serving of Crystal Light powder? T

hey are cool! Not to mention I had colors behind the water bottles that made them rather colorful! I thought that was neat too!

Here's my display too of my cards from swaps at convention and some that I made. I was trying to showcase the new sets from the catalog. I had new items also laying out in front of that (like new ribbon, brads, simply scrappin' kits, etc.) as well as new catalogs and specials.

Making Me Ill...

Okay, I need to change my blog colors! I was waiting for the RGB codes for the NEW In colors so I better go find'em!

Also, I forgot to change my email for the when someone posts and apparently the forwarding has ended. So I wasn't getting my comments (all THREE of them!) hehehe.

So feel FREE TO COMMENT AWAY!

Open House Fun

Hi there!

I'm getting so busy... and I don't want to neglect my blogging buddies as I have been doing lately, so I am going to try and post more regularly by writing 2 or 3 posts at a time and having them scheduled to post about every other day. Does that sound good?? I hope so!!

I had my Stampin' Up! 2008 Fall/Winter Idea Book Open House (now that's a mouth full!) last weekend. I wanted to get some pictures posted for you guys... I had 3 gals come Friday night. **Waves HI to Traci, Teresa and Barb!** I was thankful it wasn't more as I was a bit unprepared plus my DH had to work so I had to keep an eye on the kiddos too.

I had 7 gals come by on Saturday. I was definitely better prepared! **Waves Hi to Dawn, Libby, Stephanie, Faith, Kathy, Melissa & Davinna!!**

Thanks so much for coming girls... it was so nice to finally meet some of you! I appreciate you taking time out of your busy schedules and coming to play with me!! And they can attest that I am CHEAP entertainment! I crack myself up sometimes and I'm glad I can make others laugh!

I am sorry I missed some ladies that wanted to come but couldn't. I hope we can meet up again in the future!

I was going to make those cute little purse candy holders that are the rage, but decided to change it up at the last minute! I used the Inspired By Nature set (FREE from Convention!!) and stamped up some gift bags. LOVE them! I used the Green Tea DSP too and they turned out so nice. Even if I did stamp the main image with the paper turned wrong way. So I had to improvise because I didn't want to redo them. Here's a picture...

Then I was trying to figure out what to put in them. A light bulb went on and I thought, 'Who wouldn't LOVE fresh picked peaches??' I picked some peaches Friday a.m. and every person who came to my Open House received a gift bag w/4 peaches in it.

Is that not just an AWESOME peach? I pick them at David Storch's farm. If you live locally and would like to check out his Upick (and he can pick it for you too) Farm, email me for his address and phone #. I love his farm. I have gotten GREAT produce from him! I've picked it all for myself and for others. We picked raspberries, blackberries, peaches, plums, apples, green beans, spaghetti squash, tomatoes, strawberries and corn! woo hoo.

THis post is getting a bit long so I will continue the Open House Goodies in the next post...

Diaper Cake

Here's a picture of the Diaper Cake I made for a baby shower last weekend. It was a lot of fun to make and I will be offering these for sale. They will be custom made and the price range will be between $25 - $40. They can be either 2 tier or 3 tier and have hidden 'goodies' on the inside or not! The sky's the limit. If you are interested in one, please don't hesitate to send me an email!

My girlfriend, Kelly, LOVED it! I hope you do too! I found how-to videos on You Tube and also got directions from Susan... check out her blog!

2008 Convention Sightings Part Deux

Hey there,

I have been getting ready for my open house this weekend. I didn't realize it was this weekend until Sunday... VERY SCARY!! Last year I was really excited and I think no one came, so I assumed it would be the same this year... well I've got around 8 ladies coming. Yikes!!

I made a Flip Book (REALLY AWESOME) to display as a Workshop you can sign up for. It's sooo darn cool. THough I only had a Simply Scrappin' kit from years ago so there's no double sided paper. So it would be even COOLER with a current Simply scrappin' kit! I can't wait to make another one! woo hoo.

Any how, here are the other sightings at convention:

Here's Corinne, though I always think of her as Roxy as her Blog is Stamping with Roxy! hhehehe She is so DARN SWEET!! And I love reading about her kids too. Her girls both just won both their soccer finals this past weekend. What a GREAT way to finish off the season woo hoo. She's so nice in person and a sweetheart to boot. I really wish I was closer so I could come to some of her classes lol.

This is me and Shelli Gardner, yes, the co-owner of Stampin' Up! My upline, Tracy G, and I waited 2 hours and 15 min to take a picture with her and it was worth every minute! She is very sweet and oohh so kind to sit thru pictures with hundreds of gals. Even the ones that won't leave, I think even had a couple of those ahead of us in the line. I told her hubby, Sterling, that he needed to have the Jeopardy music playing in the background so people knew when their time was up. heheh

This is Roseanne, part of Tracy's downline. She's really cool and I've even met her mum who is also a Demonstrator. We all drove up to the Milwaukee Regionals together in March. And she still wanted to take a picture with me at Convention! How sweet!

Last, but certainly not least... is my upline. I love her to death and I wish she lived closer so we could stamp together. I miss her bunches and we had a GREAT time at Convention. We were roomies and she's (now) 8 mon preggers with a boy! woo hoo. She's very inspiring to me in more ways than one.

I did see and meet Patty Bennett of Patty's Stamping Spot and Carrie Gaskin of Artistic Avenger. I didn't get a picture with Patty because I didn't want to interupt her lunch and I met Carrie at the airport while checking in to get home. I didn't want to bother her at all either. Maybe next time I WILL bother them and get a picture.

The only other demo that I would have LOVED To meet is Angie Juda (Chic n' Scratch)... I am hoping the next time I go to Convention (in 4 years when I will get to walk across the stage for my 5 yr anniversary) I will hopefully have a 'date' to meet her and get a picture with her! One can dream! hehehe

Convention '08 Sightings!!

Hey there,

I was finally able to go thru my pictures from Convention and post my 'Celebrity Sightings'!!



My VERY FIRST SIGHTING was at the SLC airport... can you believe I was so lucky?! I spotted DAWN GRIFFITH, she's got a GREAT blog and loves purple and bling just like me! She was soo sweet too. I told her I loved her blog, her daughter, her dog and the pictures of her hubby. And that he DID look like Jesus! heheh

Pardon how I look... kind of scary when I fly. I like to fly in comfort so no makeup and my glasses. Nothing worse than flying with super dry eyes! Yikes!!


I spotted DANNIE GRAVES during General Session... I honestly didn't recognizer her until she smiled. I'd recognize that smile anywhere! I told her she needed to update her blog picture as she's much THINNER (wish I was lol) in person. Her blog picture was taken while she was preggers. VERY sweet!


My next sighting is probably my favorite **sigh** KRISTINA WERNER **squeeeeling**. I actually saw her the first day after picking up my Convention Bag but on my way to Momento Mall. I sent her an email saying that she might hear dolphin-like screaming and not to worry because it would just be little ole ME! I did scream her name and I think I scared a few gals. I barged right in and took a picture. I totally forgot I was in my yucky 'travel attire'.

I 'spotted' her multiple times as the prize patrol had to run out prizes to the winners. On the 3rd day of Convention, my upline, Tracy, and I spotter her again and took a picture with her. So here it is in all its' glory! LOVE the pick and I LOVE that girl... she's got so much creativity. Not to mention GREAT tips on makeup and such. Shoes too! Kristina, you should definitely check out those Jessica Simpson shoes, they are AWESOME! And I can't even wear high heels but Tracy's were remarkably comfortable! heheh

All these gals are GREAT and a huge source of inspiration for me... check back tomorrow when I post more Celebrity Sightings!