Open House

Is the end of the year crunch just a little too stressful for you? Are you tired of shopping for everyone else and not having any “me” time? Do you wish you could find the time or inspiration to start or finish a project, scrapbook, or your Holiday cards? Are you in need of a little “art therapy”?

Well, what ever your reason, I’ve got just the cure! How about a free event just for you! Introducing my Stampin’
Holiday Open House.

That’s right, you did hear free! Come be my guest and have a look around at some of the projects I’ve been making all year. If just looking isn’t enough inspiration for you, then please make a project with me. I will have a fun and useful project lined up, so if you plan to stop by, or are bringing a friend, please let me know so I can have enough materials for you. The make and take project is free, and so are the snacks and
the fun time you’ll have visiting with other crafty friends. There will also be stamp sets, stampin’ supplies, handmade items, and gift certificates available for purchase.

When is it? you ask. Sunday December 13th from 2:00 until 6pm. Come any time, and bring a friend!

To let me know if you plan to come, please call me, 609 847 1470

End of the school year Final Friday Craft Meeting

yes that's right, another year is DONE! And to celebrate the summer (which starts today, can't you tell from all the Spring rain?) I am having a super special craft club meeting. We are doing this: (see pretty picture) We will make this cute box and 4 coordinating cards using two stamp sets.

We start this Friday, June 26 at 6pm this time and the class fee is $20.

Sign up today for the 5th Avenue Floral Class, and if you order either of the stamp sets used in this class, Fifth Ave Floral or Thank You Kindly (or both) I will give you 20% off of their prices. Fifth Ave Floral is on page 106 of the Stampin’ Up! Idea Book and Catalog. Regular price: $24.95, special price: $19.96 Thank You Kindly is on page 133. Regular price: $13.95,
special price: $11.16 Special pricing is available through June 30.

RSVP by posting a reply here.

Final Friday Craft Club Meeting May 29th

I'm starting to plan this month's Final Friday meeting. This photo is one of the exciting cards we will be making on Friday May 29th. 7pm at my house, in Burlington. This card is so much fun, two new techniques in one here, I can't wait to show you! This class is $15 and we will make 2 other beautiful cards along with this one. Let me know if you want to come.

Pre-school Craft Show Fundraiser

Tonight. Lisa and I are setting up a table at a pre-school for their fundraiser. I made a few of these boxes to sell, I think they are so cute, I hope they sell. They contain coordinating 5 cards, an acetate box filled with Hershey Kisses, a rubber stamp, and some chocolate squares.

Moving

So we can move in to the house anytime after noon tomorrow. However, we won't actually own the place until closing which has yet to be scheduled. The sellers screwed up (yet again) and delayed our closing (again) and we made them let us move in anyway since it is a 4 day weekend for us and we won't be able to move at a later date.

This is frustrating because while I get to move into my place, I don't feel as though it IS my place, and therefore my excitement is a bit trampled on.

BUUUTT.. here is a card I made this week, look at it and love it and send me so loves cause I certainly need it right now.

Front of Christmas card:


Inside top of Christmas card:
And I realized I had to do this because I was going to send out "We've Moved" cards, but it is also time to send out Christmas cards.... this way I can do both at one time!

Furniture shopping

Yesterday Peter and I went down to the house to measure the dining room. We CLOSE in a week and a half so we figured why not make use of the "Going out of Business" sale down at the local furniture store. We know we need a dining room set so we went to pick one out. I guess I had it in my head that we were actually going to BUY one, what a dummy I am. We get to the store and pick out one that, frankly, while the best of their selection, was not really the best ever. I start to get cranky (from lack of food) so we leave and get lunch. Next stop, another furniture store, this one not going out of business, but one of the ones Peter dragged me out to this summer. I really, really had issue with shopping for furniture when we knew we weren't going to buy it, like over the summer when we had no idea when the closing would happen, or if it would.

But I really thought we were going to get something today, and when Pete kept shooting down my pick, grr, I just don't know what to say! First he said he didn't want to spend a large amount of money when we didn't know what our closing costs would look like. Then he said that the quality of the furniture was not as good. But what drives me nuts is that the "leather like" chairs, aka vinyl, was his pick, and I thought we had a standard as a couple that fake leather was not allowed.

And he's the one that has to shop with a big brain! It makes me crazy, yet I appreciate it when appropriate. He wants the dining room table to fit in the room, with the maximum amount of pre-allocated walk space around it on all sides. He wants the table to fit in with the decor of the house, not the decor that we decorate it with, but the style of the house from when it was built. And since the house was "built in 1950, it suggests a Post-war consumeristic, hopeful outlook" and is the exact style of furniture we need to buy.

We can't agree on any table or sofa or bedroom set. I feel like I should just let him go shopping with whatever brainiac information he wants to base his purchases on, and I should stay home and not have a say on what our furniture will look like. Everything I like he hates, and visa versa. He really justs wastes my time dragging me around those furniture stores, with those annoying sales people that follow you around and listen to your personal arguments.

Either that, or we can just use the crappy shit furniture I have in storage and be done with it.

Here's the one I like:
http://www.raymourflanigan.com/catalog/details.asp?ID=99184#

Holiday Card Pre-Order

I have 3 cards that I am making in packs of 10 along with envelopes available for purchase. Choose from 3 different designs.

$25 for 10 cards





$20 for 10 cards