More Sale-a-Bration samples and a New Job for Hubby!

It seemed that Pink Passion and Tempting Turquoise was a popular choice amongst some of the other swappees :)  It also just happens to be the colours used in the Sunny Day Scrappin' Kit too!

I have added a couple of layers to each of these cards to make them into "full" cards again but the centre squares were made by Monica, Julie and Debbie. 

Monica has used the Happy Moments set and watercoloured the image in.  Julie has used the Good Neighbours set and Debbie used the heart from the Love You Much set together with the Whimsical Words greeting.  All gorgeous bright colours!

And on a fabulously happy note, hubby finally got offered a job today after more than six months unemployed (well he was temping but that's not a "proper" job!).  I am sooooo thrilled and relieved for him, it's been very very tough over the last few years but I have a feeling about 2010 and it's a good one.

Keep warm and well,

Sale-a-Bration samples

Remember that I said I was taking part in a Sale-a-Bration swap around Christmas?

Well I had them back the other day and they were great.  It's always good to see what other people do with the same four Sale-a-Bration sets of stamps.

Normally most people do a "card front" rather than a folded card so you can do twice as many with the same card and most of us use them for display boards or in display books, however, this time I wanted mine as cards, so I've added a couple of layers of colours and made mine into cards so they are a little different from when they arrived but only a little :) 

Anyway, above is the lovely Kim Fee's card followed by her downline Steph's card.  Kim has used the Whimsical Words set for her card and Steph has used the Good Neighbours set - aren't they great?

Do you want to get these sets for FREE?

Have a look HERE for how you can get these stamp sets for free.

I'll be back tomorrow with another couple of my swap cards!

Swollen gums and chocolate cake!

Well having struggled into work last week with all the snow, we finally managed to get back to some kind of normality on Monday with the schools being back open and finally being able to get our car out of the driveway.  Hurrah - it lasted two days!

Tuesday was a good day in that I could catch up with a few bits that I hadn't been able to do for the previous week without a car.

Oh and get the heating fixed after a weekend of staying in one room all weekend :)

And drop the computer into PC world.  To get fixed.  Because of course, it's one week out of warranty!

And then it snowed again :(!

And then Ethan's cheek started swelling....

So I stayed home yesterday and rang the dentist.

They were closed!

So I rang the doctors.

They were closed!

Arrggghhhh!

So the only thing for it was - make and eat chocolate cake!

So we did - with smarties and chocolate stars!

Today is a better day.

Still Ethan and I are at home but been to the dentist.

Tooth fixed.

Antibiotics got!

Wii game rented.

And peace :)

Keep well and warm,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0aR23c29PA


Okay, this is the first ever video that I've put on a computer, edited (badly as you can tell from the title :) ) and put on my blog.  I can't work out to have a picture here instead of the link either but I'll work on that!


Today I got my 11th Stampin' Up! Sale-a-Bration order so unless I get another 11 orders in the next 3 and a half hours that will be it for the prize draw.


Here is a video showing you the winners, if you've entered the draw be sure to watch it :) and come back to me with your requests.


Congratulations everyone!

Off to Hollywood :)

It's excitement all over the place here at the moment - first my blog excitement and now I'm off to Hollywood :)

Well that might be a little bit of a lie (or not, I'm not sure yet!).  In three weeks off I am off to Anaheim, Calafornia, to stay in a hotel just opposite the entrance to Disneyland to go to CHA.

For those that don't know, CHA is a Craft Trade Show and I've been asked to go with my old boss Michelle!  Of course, I'm such a great friend that I couldn't possibly let her down :) 

I was very lucky in that my old Editors job allowed me to travel to New York, Atlanta and Las Vegas twice, so you do get used to travelling half way across the world for just a few days.

Am really quite excited and this time in 3 weeks I will be there :)  Can't tell the boys how close I will be to Disneyland, they won't let me go LOL!

Anyway, after all our fun in the snow, we are still unable to get the car out of the driveway, the kids schools are still closed (with more snow forecast!), our main computer has stopped working even though it's just a year old and our boiler has packed up, so it's all good fun here at the moment.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend,

We're walking in the air.......

We're flying in the moonlit sky......

So this was us last night :)  To say that I ache all over after rolling those snowballs is an understatement LOL!

The boys loved it though and whilst he's not the best looking snowman, he provided all of us with an hour of family bonding time.

I'm lucky enough (not!) that my boss is coming to pick me up each day so I'm still at work whilst these three are spending the days snowballing, sleding and generally having some snowy fun!  Schools closed again tomorrow too and we're forecast a heavy downpour on Sunday so goodness only knows when they will eventually go back......

Nevermind, got to make the most of this weather.

Have fun!

Well, what do you think?

I love love love my new blog layout!

What do you think?

Michelle at Laycock Design provides graphics for alot of US Stampin' Up! sites, so I got her to cheer mine up :) You can click on her logo at the bottom of the right hand column if you want to see what else she does.

Now I really do have to update this regularly :)

In other matters, we have 6 - 8" of snow here - enough to close the boys school but not enough to stop my boss coming to collect me to go to work in her jeep - great!!!!!

I promised the boys that I would build a snowman with them when I came back from work and we did - he's over 6 foot tall.  Got some photos and will upload tomorrow.

Off to bed shortly - some of us have got work tomorrow!!

Have fun x