So you ask ...

Where the heck is Challenge #2, well that one is Challenging me. So I will have to work it out this week and post the details later. I do have my pictures printed and the theme is still GS Cookies and All About's, so I know what I am going to do, now just to crop and adhere it paper.

Challenge #3, Mni VSBN

Continuing with the Girl Scout Cookie theme, this time it was Do Si Do's. So for Challenge #3, it was all about sandwiches, notice how the center picture is "sandwiched" between the outer two .. So I decided to make a DPS (doubel Page Spread with Challenge #1) for Easter 2008 and Maddy's pretty new dress. Again using the SU Island Blossoms Kit, it was so easy to put this together.

Mini VSBN Challenge Day

Our lovely host, Lela aka LMN, decided to challenge us group of scrappers on Girl Scout Cookies.
So for Challenge #1, it was all about Samoas, and ultimately using layers. I decided to scrap Easter 2008 and the Big Egg Hunt.
Using the SU Island Blossoms Kit, it was so easy to put this together.

Great time to be a SU Hostess

because ..... when you Host a $350 workshop between March 18 and April 30, you will earn an EXTRA $25 in hostess awards!

Free Wheelin'

Here's a great new special beginning March 18 - April 30, 2008.

Purchase a select set and receive the coordinating wheel for free.

Item Number Description Price

112848 Wonderful You bundle $33.95

Includes Wonderful You stamp set and free Stems & Silhouettes jumbo wheel

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112851 Life's a Breeze bundle $29.95

Includes Life's a Breeze stamp set and free Something Fishy jumbo wheel

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112850 Pun Fun bundle $30.95

Includes Pun Fun stamp set and free Sweet Stars jumbo wheel

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112847 Year after Year bundle $30.95

Includes Year after Year stamp set and free See You Around jumbo wheel

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112849 Stitched Exotics bundle $33.95

Includes Stitched Exotics stamp set and free It's Beautiful jumbo wheel

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112853 Enjoy Every Moment bundle $29.95

Includes Enjoy Every Moment stamp set and free Daisy Dash jumbo wheel

Another card from my Big Sis

Isn't this just the best card ever. My big sis sent this to me and she managed to use so many of the new accessories featured in the Ocassions Mini. I really think she did a great job putting all of the elements together and I am so excited to share it with you!

The other reason I am excited to share it with you as well, is it means that my scanner is hooked up and working too!! We recently purchased a new computer with Windows Vista, little did I know nothing would be compatible, but through some savvy googling this morning, I was able to get my ancient HP P1000 printer hooked up and my 10 year old scanner. I am back in business (hehe I didn't mean to hijack my own post, but I just can't stop beaming, I am so thrilled to have these things available again!)

Maddy visits the Easter Bunny

While Maddy has been spending time with her grandparents in Seattle, they decided to take her and her cousin Rylee to visit the Easter Bunny. Our little pumpkin looks so grown up compared to her cousin Rylee who is more than a year older than Maddy.

We sure do miss her!!

Water for Elephants ..

So I live in a new neighborhood, and luckily quite a few of the neighbors have become good friends, and great people to count on. Recently a few of us got together and had a game night, that night, the ladies decided to start a book club. We are having our first meeting Sunday, at a Granite City - not sure if the other ladies have been there, but I have and I think we will have a great time.

Well the book chosen was "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen. If you have never read this book or even heard of it, I suggest you go check it out from your library, it is actually in high demand right now, so I had to wait a couple of weeks, but it was well worth it. I am normally more of a mystery/thriller, trashy romance kind of reader, oh and don't forget my favorite - Janet Evanovich, I can't wait to read "The Last Chapter", but anywho, I highly, highly recommend Water for Elephants. It was so engaging and so well written, I am hoping to read it again before we meet tomorrow night.

Well that's pretty much all I have to say for today, at least until I get more comfortable with this blogging thing :)

I think I may start to blog

Yesterday morning, I decided to give up my SU website in favor of a blog instead. I just found that it wasn't working for me, so hopefully I can use this vehicle instead to share my love of Stampin and Scrappin' with Stampin' Up! products.

So please bear with me as I learn how to use a blog effectively and efficiently to share my life and what I love most.

You will eventually find that much of my inspriation is gleaned from my favorite Stamping/Scrapping site http://www.splitcoaststampers.com affectionately known as SCS.

There I have met a lovely group of people, and enjoy sharing with others through having a Secret Sis and also joining in many of the thread forums and discussions regarding everything stamping and scrapping.

Enjoy, and I hope this will be a great tool for my customers as well.