Busy times! Blog Candy reminder, and news too!

Wooo, so sorry I haven't posted in a few weeks, it has been crazy busy here! Besides working on a gazzillion things, we have been planning the garden. I want spring to get here so badly! To console myself, in my free time I have been working on flowers and tags like a mad woman. Lots finished, but I still want to finish lots more! Seriously, I am addicted. :) Don't forget about the blog candy we have going on. **EXTENDED** until March 1, since I was a slacker and did not do a weekly post. :) I will choose three winners to make up for it. DEETS - Just sign up to be a follower of my blog and you are entered in the contest. Post about it on your blog and you are entered again! Already a follower? You are in the contest too! Don't forget, I will draw THREE winners, and the winners will receive boatloads of fun flowers or tags such as these -



or these (excuse the mess, for some reason I am really a messy scrapper right now, not sure why)-



I have a few projects I am working on now too, including three projects for Zutter. I'll show you those in a few weeks. I can show you this card I made for Sketches Creatively Yours though -



Here is the faboo sketch if you would like to whip a card up yourself -



I am also excited to announce that I am the new Altered Art Group Leader at Challenge Maasters. Come check it out, we will have loads of fun. I am working on a special altered art challenge for March, so stay tuned. In the meantime, please stop in and say hello and check out the other challenges and groups. There are some AMAZING and fun challenges posted right now. It will get your mojo going for sure! Hope to see you there.

There is gonna be a fun crop at Citrus Tree Studio in March! It's the Going Green Crop March 13-15, so make sure you save the date.

The DT at Zutter is planning a fun blog hop for March too. Put these dates on your calendar - March 26-28, with the drawings held March 29. There are going to be fun prizes too, WOOO HOOOO! Hope you hop along with us.

We just got a fun little camera to replace our older than dirt little digital camera. I have been playing with the new camera a bit, and so far it is really easy and fun to use. I took a few pics of my handsome hubs, our back yard, and back, back yard where we will be enlarging our garden this summer.

This first pic is from my back patio. I am looking out towards our first back yard (a large portion is fenced in for the dogs) -



You can go through an opening area in our pine trees to get to our back back yard. This pic is looking back toward our back yard (see the fence?) before going around the trees to the back back yard -



Next is a picture of some deer tracks in front of our barn -



This shot is of my hubs as he is walking toward the garden (the sun was nice and bright, we were definitely squinting!) -



Now I have walked down the little hill toward the garden house and garden and am looking back at our barn -



This shot is of the garden area. We are going to increase it in size by about 2 times. You can see the wire fence that is there now, we will enlarge the area to go all the way to the wooden privacy fence and to both ends. Last year the garden was almost 40 x 40 (and we canned 167 quarts of dill pickles alone, woo!). Hopefully we will have lots more veggies and fruit this year, as we have promised to donate the extra produce to a local food pantry (which is why we are making the garden bigger)-



Here is a pic of our poor little swing, located under our apple trees. As you can see, it is covered in snow. Can't wait for the warm weather so we can swing in it again!



Well, that is about it for now. I am off to work on a few more tags and flowers. :) Hope you all have a safe and warm week, and happy crafting!

Helllllllllllooooooooooo!!! Are you almost ready for Christmas?

I am not really ready, but that is OK. After all, it isn't about if I am ready or not! :) We had some company for an early Christmas gathering on Friday, and ended up with a house full of sickies. The flu hit us bad over here! Alllllllllllllllll the way through till today. I have been worrying that I will get sick too and I can't get sick, I have things to finish up at work, but I can't worry about that anymore either. I did not get all the things I wanted to get done finished, but those things happen. I did manage to get two and a half trees put up last week though, and my class in Chicago area is finished, and I am done Christmas shopping, including the gifts for the giving tree at work. So I am pretty darn happy about that. Other good news for me is that next week I only have to work Monday and Tuesday, the rest of the week is FREE!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOO, creativity, here I come!!! I am going to get started on a tag swap and an ATC swap I am in over at Scrapbook News and Review. If you haven't checked that place out yet, I highly encourage you to do so! It is fabulous.

I did finish up some more fun and festive tree placemats in the last two weeks, but did not get a chance to take pics. I will share the pattern I created for these placemats after Christmas, so you can work on some for next year. Alrighty? Here is a pic of one I did in September to remind you what I am talking about -


I also finished up some projects for Zutter, but can't share those quite yet. Even though I had very limited creative time in the last two weeks, I am pretty happy with the projects I did get done.

A reminder too, don't forget about the faboo crop at Citrus Tree Studio on December 31- Jan 2! It's gonna be awesome!!!


Well, I need to finish addressing my Christmas cards. I am so behind this year, yikes. Hopefully I will get them mailed before Christmas.

Have a wonderful and blessed week! Merry Christmas to you all!

Check this out!!!! WOOO HOOOO!!!

Hellllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooo!!! I know I have been remiss about posting much lately and I am going to try to get out of that habit. Here is a little fun info I thought I would share, super fun and super deals from Citrus Tree Studio -

We hope you will join us for the CTS Super Bowl Crop! This will be our first on-line event for 2009! We have lots of inspiration to share with you and lots of prizes to give-away!

CHAT & CHALLENGES
Saturday, January 31 & Sunday, February 1st

Three Grand Prize Giveaways
For participants (registered board members and CTS designers) who complete a minimum of five challenges will have their name included in the Grand Prize drawings. Winners will be announced the afternoon of Monday, February 2nd.

Grand Prizes:
1. Ott-Lite TrueColor Portable Lamp (Value: $79.95)
2. Creative Options Hard-Side Shoulder Tote 13x13x3.75 (Value: $34.95)
3. Making Memories "Paperie" Embossed 12x12 3-Ring SB Album (Value: $19.99)

"Super Bowl" Check-In Thread
Registration will be open on Saturday & Sunday!
Come by the "Super Bowl" Check-In thread starting Saturday at 9:00 a.m. (eastern) and get your name entered into the drawings for one of five RAKs!!! You can come by the forum any time on Saturday the 31st or Sunday, Feb. 1st. All you have to do is say "Go Team" in the designated forum thread and your name goes into the drawings. EASY BREEZY!

Challenges
Posted Saturday, January 31st (throughout the day).
We will be hosting 10 Challenges in the forum on Saturday (running through Sunday). You can qualify to win RAKs from CTS by completing these projects and uploading images of your creations into our Gallery and linking them to the appropriate Challenge thread. There will be a drawing for one winner for each Challenge category so if you complete all 10 projects then you have 10 chances to win one of our fabulous RAKs! All finished projects will be due by 12:00 noon (eastern) on Monday, February 2nd. Winners will be announced that afternoon.

PLEASE NOTE: Challenge instructions and pics will be posted on Saturday the 31st throughout the day. Since some of these projects require specific supplies, we will be posting a sneak peek of the projects along with supply lists on Friday, January 23rd to give you a chance to prepare!

Sale and $2.99 Shipping*
Starts Sat., Jan. 31st!

Product Spotlights (Albums and Frames) = 50% Off
Previous Kits (August - December) = 40% Off
Add-Ons (Embellishment and Cardstock) = 30% Off
Current Kit (January: Mocha Kisses) = 20% Off

Above discounts valid beginning Saturday, Jan. 31 at 12:01 a.m. eastern and ending on Monday, Feb. 2nd at 12:00 midnight eastern. $2.99 shipping applies to the Continental U.S. only. All other destinations will receive a 15% discount on shipping charges.

*PLEASE NOTE: The merchandise discounts and reduced shipping charges will be returned to purchaser's PayPal account/credit card within twenty-four hours of purchase.

See you Super Bowl Weekend!!

You will have to join to participate, but it is a super friendly group and we have BOATLOADS of fab stuff going on this w/e, so head on over and check it out!!! Love to see ya there!