the moments in between

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Timestamp: 2008-07-17 19:43:05 UTC

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Scallop Punches from fiskars? sounds awesome! Also looking forward to new Scenic Route papers. Reminisce has some great new lines. Always love american Crafts. Can't wait to get there and see it all!

Posted by: cindy | July 15, 2008 at 04:25 PM

 

click on that "Email Me" link over to the right, cindy, and send me your info. =)  i'll get these in the mail on monday!!!

took the boys to the park this morning in hopes of tiring them out so i could pack this afternoon. wish i had taken the camera.  sam kept picking up sand and showing it to me and then sticking out his tongue and saying "UCK!"  and then he'd try to eat it.  HA.

okay.  packing.  ugh. =P

i'm off on friday morning...

i am leaving omaha omg-early on friday morning.  taking a shuttle and meeting kelly noel for breakfast, then we're hitting the show!!!  hoping to hook up with doris and kp later in the day, too.  yay.  i'll do the show saturday morning, then film a thing for fiskarstv, then head home to omaha in time to read bedtime stories.

i'll have this bag (target.  $13.  seriously!!!!) + these orange shoes - if you see me, stop me and say hi. =)

whew + a giveaway

this weekend was a blur.  art classes and teeball picnics and cookouts at my mom's and people over last night and the zoo all afternoon sunday - and scrapping like crazy.  i finished up 11 more cha projects this weekend, eeeps.  and before that i had a few online assignments and that first round of cha scrapping.  i have 1 more project to wrap up before i leave on friday..  thinking i'm may need a scrap break soon. =) i cleaned my desk this morning, so you never know.  i'm feeling the need to clear out my stash and make room for new!! =)

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand.  i have some stamps to give away.  that set on the left is BRAND NEW and coming out at cha - it coordinates with the finley's estate line from cloud 9 designs.  i used it on the cutie pie LO a post or so ago. i ended up w/ two sets, so i get to give one away. =)  i also have a heidi grace baby set (so cute!!!) and a fiskars set that i can't remember the name of and can't go look up because sam's asleep in my lap.  but it's super cute, too - very versatile.  leave a comment telling me what you're looking forward to most from cha (come on, i know you've been stalking sneak peeks too, right??) - from any company, i'm equal opportunity when it comes to good product. ;)  i will draw a name thursday morning and throw them in the mail before i head off to chicago!! =)

we had fun today

(sam was SO not into the splash park.  but swings always = good.  he spotted them and started pointing and saying "ding! ding!")

more peekies..  this LO used some new cloud 9 stamps.

and here's a frame using the new fiskars ghost punch.

projects galore!

want to see sammy's first birthday bib?? click here. =)  *super* excited with how this turned out.  and a little bit in disbelief that he's ALMOST one.  three weeks. eeeps.

also, there's an article up on the fiskarscrafts.com site about mini albums - i contributed this album about ben's 5th birthday.  it's a simple little album, but i love it!


and sammy loves the new Heidi Grace Halloween line, so here's a couple more peeks at it. =)

i promised the bigs a trip to the splash park this afternoon, so i'd better go pack up our stuff. =)

summer fun

watching neighbors blow stuff up

swinging

monkey in the middle

gardening

swimming

cha scrapping. =) here's a peekie at the new heidi grace halloween line..  i used the pp, punchboard, chipboard, rubons & epoxy bats  so much fun stuff!!.

a couple of fiskars peeks

new halloween punches.  there's also a little ghostie, but he's just around the curve of the bucket.  and the cutest touch, these punches are ORANGE!!  heee!!

and.  this is what had me squealing yesterday.  i had to pull out some scraps and use them ASAP!!  SCALLOPS!!! =) =) =)  i'm going to be putting together a make and take for the fiskars booth using these.  so fun!

HOLY MOLY

when i opened this box i squealed.  then i called poor becky practically hyperventilating over the scrappy goodness that is in this box.  OMG.  it is HAPPY.  keep your eye out for sneaks.....  =)

eta: there are some sneaky videos linked from the fiskateers blog. let me tell you, i am in scallop heaven. ;)

totally disparate

(that sounds so much more official than "random", yes?)

this omg cute stamp is in the july it kit.  LOVE it.  it comes w/ several seperate leaf stamps, love that you can stamp it anyway you want.  AND..  kelly is having a moving sale - go check out the great deals!!!

sam's fever broke last night, but he was still craaaaaaaaaaaaaanky. all sorts of cranky.  so i called the ped after i dropped the bigs off at their zoo camp and got him an 11:30 appt at the ped.  i changed his dipe at 10 and noticed a rash on his belly.  ding ding ding, he's got roseola.  the ped ran a strep test just to be certain because his rash is slightly atypical and he had some spots on his tonsils, but it was negative.  he should feel beter soon, in the meantime we're keeping him on advil for the sore throat.  poor blotchy boy.

fiskars is kicking off our july "celebrations" month with an article featuring the entire design team sharing their celebrations.  i chose to do a page about dundee days, which is a fun thing our neighborhood does every year.  used lots of my fave heidi grace line - we are family - on this one. =)  keep an eye on the site tomorrow for the project a day to start.  my favorite one goes up on the 8th - i can't wait to share it. =)

stef + kids came up from lincoln yesterday.  the boys had a blast playing wii and riding scooters.  sam shared his swing w/ miss bailey, but wanted back in as soon as she left.  and then fell asleep in it.  i had a blast catching up w/ stef, despite the fact that i was about to nod off at any minute (um, sam hasn't slept since he got sick) and the fact that she wouldn't try dance dance revolution. ;)

and, apparently, 5 hours running around w/ zach wasn't enough, so the boys played w/ neighbor kids for another 2 hours after they left.  oy.  they were pretty well wiped last night.

and that, my friends, is the end of this very long entry.

this is not my house

but it's only 2 blocks away from me.  we had one *heck* of a storm blow through here late friday afternoon.  it was short but strong..  winds were 80-90mph. we lost power from 4:45ish-3:30am.  the strip mall at the end of our block just got power back this evening.  trees and limbs are down all over the city.  matthew posted some pics from our neighborhood on his flickr account.

we went outside after it died down and it was a shock.  the streets and sidewalks were flooded in places.   our next door neighbor's driveway was covered in a large limb from the next house's tree, and there were smaller limbs down everywhere on the block.  the streets and houses were all plastered with leaves.

we went for a walk last night and it was just staggering seeing some of the damage.  we really were lucky.

and just to add to all of the fun, sam woke up w/ a 104 degree temp on friday morning, so he's been a *tidge* clingy.  sleeping in an unairconditioned house w/ a fever-y baby snuggled against you is a bit warm.

in all of the craziness this morning of getting the fridge cleaned out and the yard cleared, we totally forgot it was saturday.  which means that alex missed his art class.  um, ooops.