Great Give-Away from Cosmo Cricket!!! Hurry!

While web browsing today (looking for something to spark my imagination as I am in a scrappy-rut and not even finished with my darned Christmas cards) I found this great contest from Cosmo Cricut.  You can win 6 kits, stickers and die cuts, 2 packs of blackboard, ribbon, several sheets of different stickers, a blackboard mini album and rubons! All you need to do is go here: http://lifeaslou.blogsome.com/2008/12/20/christmas-mini-album-pages-6-7-plus-150-give-a-way. Sorry the link isn't clickable; HTML is kicking my butt tonight.

Oh - and you'll also get to see this great Christmas mini-album that Leah Killian is making.  I think I'm going to try and make one the week after Christmas. Good luck and have fun!

Goofin Around

Here is a layout I made with a fun kit from Designs by Crazy Diamond, called Goofin Around. This is my oldest son when he was around 4, playing with his Dad. This is great for scrapping those Disney photos, too!! This kit is on sale right now at Ahhh Scraps.com... here is the link: http://ahhhscrap.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=10&products_id=306&zenid=67e78777b4647474f9eb116b7595c9e9

Loving My Garden

Love the new kit "An Enchanted Forest" by Angelfaye. It is full of lovely papers and elements, and my favorite things, unicorns. Here are a couple of flowers from my garden. Don't you love the ribbon with the sparkle buckle? How about those too cool staples? This kit can be used for just about anything. Hurry over to digitalscrapping.com and grab this awesome kit!

Another Toot For Me!

No kidding, I'm on another CT team, too! Wow - I'm so darned happy! I am now a member of Angelfaye's Cherubs CT Team. Here are the two layouts I created from her kits as my application. I am having a lot of fun doing these. Check out Angelfaye's kits at: http://www.digitalscrapping.com/shop/

Toot For Me

I have been asked to be on the DT for Designs by Crazy Diamond. Of course, I graciously accepted. What an honor and such a great opportunity for me. I'm so excited!

Here is the first layout I did with her kits:

Scrapwords - Huge Online Crop July 12!!!

Scrapwords is having an online crop! Join us July 12 10am-10pm for lots of challenges, fun, games and prizes! Did I mention prizes? The top prize is a $75 gift pack! You've got that right - $75 of scrappy goodness!

Challenges will be posted throughout the day. Every challenge that you complete on Saturday will get full point value, but feel free to keep working on your entries Sunday too for a reduced point value and even MORE chance at that big prize!

I'm hosting 2 challenges - one at 12 pm and one at 1 pm (EST). I sure hope you stop by and play!!

In a Bit of a Funk

The weather is just plain weird. It's been overcast with thunderstorms for over a week here in CT. My pain level has raised exponetionally. It's also depressing to see gray outside every single day. My peonies didn't last as long as usual this year. It's beginning to really give me pause - this weather... I suspect there may be something seriously wrong. I don't know what, and I sure don't know how to fix it. I am doing what I can in my little universe. I have switched out all my light bulbs, I hang my laundry outside to dry, I purchased an energy efficient boiler system with a tankless water heater, I redid the electricity panel in my basement, I plant a garden and can some of my own veggies, and all electronics of any sort (tv, fridge, etc.) MUST be Energy Star qualified to live in my home. Oh - and let's not forget my reusable grocery bags. So - that's what I've done so far. But it's not enough. And I'm really worried. And I can't afford to purchase the technology to use solar power for my home. Or wind power. And I'm getting frightened. Because it's just not enough. What if every single person in the US did everything that I have done? Would that be enough? I don't think so. I think perhaps we waited too long - and wanted too much... too fast... with no thought of the consequences. And therefore, I am in a bit of a funk...