OH MY GOSH!!! WHAT A SUPER EXCITING DAY I HAD......

So yesterday on the 16th.....I woke up feeling great.  Had been having a really difficult time sleeping due to pillow issues.  Well it seems the night before I found the winning combinations of pillows and I slept like a baby.....it was so needed and I woke up feeling so refreshed. 

So normally I would go into the kitchen and grab some coffee and sit at the computer checking all the daily places.  However this time I decided to give my puppies a bath first and feed them etc.  I finally got that done feeling accomplished to have something done so early in the day.  Grabbed some coffee and sat at the computer.  I go onto You Tube where there is a comment on one of my videos from AccuCut saying that they were trying to reach me.....please email us at......

So I did that and a while later I got an email back stating that I was going to be very happy we made contact because...........................

I was their 4000 Facebook Friends winner and I won a GrandeMARK Multi-Craft Cutting Machine from their company!!  I had to read that email twice, lol!!!  I was so dern excited I was running around my house like a crazy nut!  Thank you so much AccuCut for such an amazing prize....I have wanted this machine for soooooooooo long.  Yay me!!!

This is what it looks like for those who don't know.  It is a giant die cutting machine.

So the next strange thing is that I went on You Tube to see a video on the machine I won and to my surprise I had not only seen that video 1 year ago, but out of 8,000+ viewers I was the only person to leave a comment!  lol  Have a look! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAvZg-RMKhg
Anyways, to say the least....it was a great day!  See ya next time.

Well I am going to try this yet again! bwahahaha

Ok, so I have so many different internet things to keep up with and I just have not had time for this blog.....BUT I will try againt to see if I can keep up with it.  Don't expect anything fancy....mostly just posts of projects I have created.  I think if I don't  make it this time I will delete this blog so wish me well!

BEEN AWAY WAY WAY TO LONG FROM MY POOR BLOG!

HOPEFULLY I WILL START HAVING THINGS TO POST HERE....I HAVE BEEN SO BUSY WITH MY WEBSITE WWW.MYSCRAPROOM.NING.COM AND LIFE THAT IT JUST SLIPPED AWAY FROM ME. HOPE YOU ARE ALL DOING WELL!

ROBYN IS GIVIN AWAY GOODIESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

You just have to see for yourself what Robyn of Injoy Stampin is giving away!!! awesome! Thanks Robyn!!! After watching click here http://injoystampin.com/

NEWS!! I STARTED MY OWN WEB SITE!

I am so super excited to let you know that I started a website where all of you "my friends" can come hang out and chat, exchange ideas, post your creative projects, ideas and vids, participate in swaps and raks....just a fun place to be! It is called My Scrap Room. I chose that name because each time you say it, it will be like you are talking about your place and that is just what I want it to be! So stop in and stay a while! It would be awesome to see you there and get to know you (if I don't already) http://www.myscraproom.ning.com/ Here was the video I made for all my You Tube friends and subbies.

~*~ PRIMA IS ANNOUNCING A BIG SECRET AND HAVING A HUGE GIVE AWAY!!

You have to run and read all about it and come watch the USTREAM to see what it is all about! You can read about it here http://prima.typepad.com/prima/2010/03/big-secret-promotion-winners.html

So come and see what all the fun is about!

Louise is giving away some goodies!!

If you would like the chance to win some cute goodies from Ireland then run don't walk to visit Louise's site http://www.zettibetti.blogspot.com/ !!! You will love her accent!!!

LIKE STUFF???? My friend Marlene is having a give away!!

and let me tell you it is full of yummy stuff!!!!!!!!!!!! So you need to run not walk to her blog and follow the rules and you will be entered to win!!!!!!!!!!!

http://uniquelyella.blogspot.com/


so what are you waitin for? get those fingers busy!!!!!!!!!!

~*~ Christmas Gift for my mom ~*~

Ok.......my mom has to be one of the hardest people to shop for, not just at Christmas but any time what so ever! She either has it or doesn't want or need it. Every year I hit the stores thinking this might be nice or that might be nice, and every time I walk out with nothing and end up trying to come up with yet another way to creatively give her cash (which I hate doing, but she LOVES it! lol!) Well here it is two days before Christmas, I have walked through all the stores I care to trying to come up with a gift and nothing! So how in the heck am I going to present her with money "this time"?

So I thought and thought and finally I could visualize what I wanted to do, but not sure how to execute it. So off to the dollar store I go in search of whatever I need to pull it together and I found this gift bag and knew that was what I needed!

So I bring it home and start cutting Santa out of the bag. I got a piece of foam core board and added some glitter paper to the bottom of the board to resemble snow. Then I found a piece of patterned paper that had a tree scene on it and cut the lower portion of it off so I could set it on top of the glitter paper making the trees look like they were in the snow. I glued Santa's legs to the snow area of the board and used foam dots to raise his upper part of his body to give it some dimension. I cut out his list from my cricut and added a note to it. I cut a place where his thmb was and hung the list from it. I also added white lace around the edges. And this is how that turned out....

Ok, so where is the money portion of this? Well if you look at his sack of toys on his back, there is a red bow :) and when you pull on the bow................

So that was what I came up with this time! I will wrap it up and give it to her Friday! Thanks for visiting me and Merry Christmas to you and yours. Be safe and cherish the moments.

~*~ Happy Birthday to meeeeeeeeeeeee! ~*~

Ok so today, Dec 17th is my birthday. My grandson (who just turned 2 on the 13th) learned to sing the happy birthday song and he says "Happy birthday to meeeeeeee" and raises both hands in the air! lol! So I figured I would steal the line from him...(can ya see me raising my arms? lol!)

Anywho, earlier this week I recd some advance money bday gifts and went (what else?) SHOPPING!!! :) So I thought I'd show you some of what I have gotten so far. I still have presents to open later today....I am so excited! This has really helped to pick up my spirits, but then again shopping usually does.

On other news I got hired to work at the Scrapbook Expo in Costa Meza, CA and CHA in Anaheim, CA in January and I am very excited and happy about that. I will be working for Scrapbooks N Stickers http://www.scrapbooksnstickers.com/ and I get to see some friends I don't get to see enough!

Well here is the video of my bday goodies....I'll be back soon! Thanks for looking!

~*~ Pretty Pockets ~*~

I hope you enjoy this tutorial for my pretty pockets. They are used to hold tags in your mini books and they look really great. I hope you like them and that you are able to use them in your next mini!

A couple weeks ago

I won a $20 gift card from Custom Crops www.customcrops.com for a post I made on one of their you tube videos. Check them out at You Tube and leave a comment they pick winners every week.

Anyways with the gift card I purchased a We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper (yay!) I have been wanting one! and Tim Holtz Adage tickets....They just came in todays mail! yippee!! Thanks Custom Crops!

Also happy birthday to my brother in law "R"!!!

Trudy's designs become stamps!!

Go over to True's Gifts From The Heart http://truesgiftsfromtheheart.blogspot.com/ and help Trudy celebrate her new clear stamps! Some good blog candy goin on there! Way to go Trudy!

Some yummy blog candy!!!

All Scrapbook Steals blog is giving away some pretty awesome blog candy!!!http://www.allscrapbooksteals.blogspot.com/ just have a looksie! So run don't walk to enter and check out their awesome prices too!

Fabric Tag Tutorial

Hi everyone! I made my first tutorial video (I suck at editing! bwahahahahaha) Hope you enjoy the idea and also that you can incorporate it into your next project.

Part 2 of my haul

Whoops! I forgot to come back and post part 2 of my bingo winning haul after I filmed it, so here it is! Come back soon!

STEPHANIE IS HAVING A GREAT GIVE AWAY WITH 2 CHANCES TO WIN!

All you need to do is stop by her blog WITH A GRIN. COM

http://withagrin.blogspot.com/2009/11/thankful-for-black-friday-giveaway.html

subscribe and leave a message and you could be one of two lucky winners! You just have to go there and check out what you can win!!!!!!!!!

I went shopping!!!

Hi everyone...I won some money at bingo and went shopping!!!!!! I found some really great deals at Michaels. You can see most of it on my video. This was my very first video and my very first time messing with You Tube and I really don't know how I got this far! lol! Guess I was pushing all the right buttons! Thanks for looking and have a good rest of the week!

I won! I won! Clip it Up Contest!

Simply Renee Inc (The fabulous Clip It Up company) had a contest and I won $75.00...waaa hooooo! I used the money to buy....what else....a Clip it Up!!! Waaa hooo! You can see the announcement here
http://simplyreneeinc.blogspot.com/2009/10/winner-is.html

I won! I won! Day 11 at Spellbinders!

I could not believe when I got an email from them telling me I won day 11!!! waaaa hoooo! I got so many goodies I cannot wait to play with them! You can look here to see what I won! Thank you so much Spellbinders!!!
http://spellbinderspaperarts.com/blog/day-11-winner-oh-my/