Meet Trinity

Okay, forgive the picture quality. It comes from my iPhone at a very early hour. (Note: anything before 10am is very early to me).  Remember I told you my kids pulled a little prank on me? This would be the second time.  They are quite funny and have great humor.  Sunday Morning I was super excited to sleep in.  After a week of school and non stop business  I just wanted to sleep.  Alexis comes to my bedside at 930am and says: "Mama, someone is at the door for you and they say it's important!"  Me: "WHAT? Who in the world comes this early on a Sunday morning!  Tell them no thank you, please!" Alexis:"Mama, they say it's really important!"  Me: "Okay, I'll be there in a minute."  I get dressed into decent clothes and throw a hat on my head.  I take a quick glance at myself and thought I looked pretty scary and quite possible this could scare the person at the door.  When I get to the door I see this little gem of a "girl" outside with a clipboard.  She says to me, "Hi Ma'am, would you like to buy some Girl Scout cookies? I look down at the box and my eyes are still blurry.  I notice the box is taped up with White paper but in the corner of my eye I see the letters "Stampin' Up!"  I look at the little "girl" again and it finally hit me!  That was NOT a little girl.  That was my BRANDON!!  At that point I started to laugh so hard I couldn't control myself and the kids did too.  They couldn't believe I fell for it at first.  Once we stopped laughing I started looking at the precious little details these two kids went through to pull this prank off. 

Here is what she did to him…

*Eyeshadow

*Blush

*Nail Polish

*Foundation

*He is wearing Lexi's clothing

*Her shoes

*Her purse

*Her Hannah Montana purse

*Her eyeglasses

*Mole on his cheek

*Her Necklace

*Her hat

When you start to factor all this "stuff" this was a lot to pull together. They were having the time of their lives while I was sleeping.  Oh Jeez. 

These are the things that I hold so dear to my heart.  They are so funny and their sense of humor makes me laugh out loud even when they are not around. I only worry that this is the second prank and they are only a ripe age of 8 & 10.  I can't imagine what's in store for me as they get older. 

Do your kids do these things?

Just so you know, Brandon was frantically taking off finger nail polish on Monday morning.  He almost forgot about it.  *giggle*

Have a fantastic weekend and do something fun for yourself and your family. 

XOXOXO

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And the Winner Is…

It's time to reveal the winner from my Holiday Mix Up post.  Thank you to all of you that responded.  Not only did you give me many great ideas but I also learned that so many of you suffer from my same syndrome: PSS!  It was great to hear that so many of us will be defeating this syndrome this year and making strides to get those Christmas cards out this year. 

The winner is:

Sep 8, 2011 – 05:09:35 | Edit

Thank you to all of you for taking the time to comment and tell me your story.  I loved reading them.  I think we should do this again! What do you think?

FYI: I used a plugin for WordPress blogs called And The Winner Is.  It's a slick plugin that randomly pics comments within your post.  It's pretty cool and easier to use than Random Number Gen. 

Have a BEAUTIFUL week!

XOXOXO

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Holiday Mix Up & PSS!

This time of year I'm the best at confusing my children over which holiday comes first over the next few months.  I start stamping Fall, Halloween, Christmas, Winter, and Valentines Day all at the same time.  I also work on Home Decor items for the different holidays so they tend to be totally confused.  Can you relate to this?

Today I thought I would have a Holiday Mix Up here. I've been showing you Fall and Halloween, it's time to open the Christmas vault.  If you are like me and you hand stamp your Christmas cards you should by now have at least an idea of WHAT you would like to stamp.  Make a plan and figure out how many you need.  If you can pick ONE day per week from now until the first week of December to work on your cards you will save yourself from PSS.  PSS in the stamping community means  Procrastination Stamping Syndrome.  I've had it for 8 years.  I am the girl who starts *thinking* about her Christmas Card design around the second week of December.  I stamp them all the way up to Christmas.  They are sent out around January 1st or so.  PLEASE someone tell me YOU have this syndrome!  Surely I'm not the only one? I am bound to STOP PSS and show my family I can be a good stamping girl and get my Christmas cards out on time. Possibly with a picture of my kids too.  YEAH!!

Here is my first Christmas card design of the year and it's more of a Winter card than Christmas.  Give me a few props… I'm trying. *Hee Hee*

Holy Cow! I love these felt little Snowflakes.  Here is what I did:

This card started off simple and then became over the top. I pulled out my sewing machine and sewed all the Snowflakes onto the Pool Party cardstock.  I took the prongs off of each of the Antique Brads and hot glued them onto the snowflakes.  I wrapped and tied a bow with Whisper White ribbon around the bottom of the Pool Party.  I then used a sentiment "Let it Snow" from the Punch Pals stamp set.  I mounted this onto Night of Navy Cardstock.  My card base is Pool Party cardstock again.  On the front of the card I used the Delicate Doilies stamp set with Whisper White Craft ink.  I mounted Night of Navy cardstock onto my card base using dimensionals.  I used my favorite Spritzer Tool that every stamper should have with a Soft Suede marker.  I lightly sponged around the entire card using Soft Suede ink.  Lastly, I used my Crystal Effects and Mica Flakes very lightly around the Felt Snowflakes. 

It may be a little over the top and I may not make 100 of them, but someone will be receiving this card!  It could be YOU! This card could even tip the scales over 5lb's in wt.  *hee hee*

Here's how:

I want to know when YOU start making your Christmas/Holiday Cards and HOW MANY do you make? Leave your comment by Sunday, September 11th Midnight EST.  I'll be choosing a name using the Random Number Generator thingy. I'll mail this card along with another on the following Tuesday!

Hope your day is FABULOUS!

XOXOXO

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Spooky Stuff!

Another quick post today. One of my favorite times of year to stamp is Halloween.  I don't know why but I love all the halloween fun stuff.  You can be so creative with this silly holiday and make so many fun treats.  I know there are many that do not prefer creating Halloween goodies and that is totally okay. BUT,  this girl *LOVES* it. 

Tomorrow is a big day! The Holiday Mini will go live and unleash all the new goodies that you can purchase.  There are FABULOUS Halloween ideas and products in this mini.  You will squeal. Here is a card I made with one of the new stamps!

This card used the Piece of Poison stamp set and the Pick Your Poison Quick Accents.  Love these accents.  They are fantastic.  The other great product is the Pick Your Poison DSP. WOWSER! It's all fabulous.  It's spooky but cute. 

Check my Online Store tomorrow as it opens up for you to purchase all these fun fabulous cool things. 

Don't forget to check out Stamps in the Mail.  Registration opened yesterday and will continue until Sept. 10th.  It's going to be a great round!

XOXOXOXO

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Shake, Rattle and Roll

What a day! With the many concerns from so many of you through email I thought I'd write a quick post and let you know the kids and I are doing fine after today's 5.8 Earthquake here in Virginia.  I have to admit that was a pretty scary 10-20 sec of my life!  I'm not sure exactly how long the quake lasted but I can tell you it felt like 2 minutes. A VERY long 2 minutes.  I was cleaning the foyer of my house (should have been stamping) and the kids were out in the front yard.  I had 3 additional kids playing with mine. I started to walk to the kitchen when I heard a rumbling and the house started shaking.  I thought this was the Marine Base, Quantico doing blasts which I hear and feel on a regular basis.  The shaking become really intense and I ran to the door to get the kids.  They ran inside and that's when it really started shaking.  The house literally was swaying.  It was the WEIRDEST feeling ever. Three of the kids were screaming and crying and two were keeping pretty calm.  Alexis was one of the three screaming.  You can imagine my thoughts.  I had all the kids as close to me as possible and just kept telling them it's almost done.  I knew then it was an earthquake.  I kept thinking to myself, "A quake in VA? Really?"  Once everything stopped I calmed the kids down and started to grab my cell phone to call my neighbor to let her know the kids were okay.  None of my phones were working.  That was an awful feeling and I was too dumb to think to text at the time.  DUH! We ran down to my neighbors and I could see other neighbors coming out of their homes with this look of "what just happened?".  I witnessed one of my neighbors having a crazy fit. Luckily the kids didn't see it.  LOL! Everyone was really shaken.  Once I got back to the house with the kids the news had blown up on the TV and reports of the damage was coming.  I did not find any damage in my house.  There are few things tossed around, but nothing broken.  SO GRATEFUL! I did think of our friends in Japan today.  Today our earthquake was only a 5.8. I cannot imagine what a 9.0 would feel like.  I would have to change my underware!

The rest of the day the kids and I were cracking jokes about the day.  I needed to lighten the attitudes in the house because Alexis didn't want to go outside.  By the end of the afternoon she was back out playing.  It helped that Russ Skyped in too.  He was able to tell the kids how great they did.  That brought a smile to their face.  However, as I'm talking to Russ on Skype he is dodging another rocket. Not kidding.  You hear the siren in the background and the "incoming, incoming" announcement.  At that moment I thought to myself, "My day isn't so bad!"  So glad the kids were not around to hear that. 

Now the rest of the week we are going to watch where the hurricane plans to go.  It's just another day in my crazy world. 

Let's pray the hurricane steers away from the East Coast.  It's been a whacky weather week already.

I'll keep you posted. 

XOXOXO

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