Fall Is Here!

Yes, Fall has arrived!  The trees are gorgeous and we actually have nice weather today.  It is warm and sunny instead of the usual cold and cloudy with threats of rain.
I've upgraded to a new computer and a laser printer.  Now I can print digis that won't smear if I try and colour them.  I've got some Bic Mark-its, but there doesn't seem to be a way to blend them like I see folks with copics can.  I do have watercolour pencils that I will probably play with.  I guess I'll see.  I have a Boot House image from Make It Crafty that is behind the desire to try digis and colouring and I'm dying to play with it.  If I make anything with it, maybe I'll actually post it.

Ink Cut & Fold has some blog candy to give away, so check it out:    http://taylordconcepts.blogspot.com/2010/09/come-fly-with-me.html

Summer's End

Well, August proved to be a little busy.  We hold a family reunion every five years, so we spent the long weekend catching up, eating, playing games, etc.  It was a lot of fun.  I also spent a week visiting my sister and her family since they were too busy renovating to attend the reunion.  That trip included LOTS of shopping, so now I'm tired and broke; isn't that what holidays are for though?

Going back to work after my holiday and the recent cool weather sure sends the message that fall is on it's way.  I'm glad to see that the kids are going back so there will be fewer of them in the store, but it's bittersweet.

Some new candy is up for grabs at Make It Crafty and Crafty Fox Cards, so see the sidebar.

Inked Inspirations Blog Candy

To celebrate her birthday, Jodi's giving away 5 different candy prizes.  I was going to add it to my sidebar, but there are 5 different pictures, so I'm posting instead.  Here are the pics:

So if you want to check it out, head to: Inked Inspirations

Poor posting

Well, as it says at the top, I started this blog because there's some things you can't do without one.  As you can guess, I mainly wanted to enter candy draws and they almost exclusively require applicants to link to the candy and follow their blogs (kinda hard to do without a blog of your own).

I noticed some of the bloggers I now follow say they like to check out their followers sites.  I resolved to upload some of my work to my SCS gallery so people would have something to see.  A card a day, I vowed.  Well, that didn't last long since our internet is sooo slow that uploading even a single pic takes over 10 minutes.  I don't have that kind of patience and it is so easy to procrastinate, so I doubt I'll ever have much to  see, but who knows?  I might feel inspired to try on occasion. :)

I guess the big thing to see on my blog will always be that I update my sidebar links whenever that blog has a new candy.  So the links will always be as new as the most recent offer, on the ones I follow at least.

So enjoy the fine weather that has finally arrived and to those that have actually ventured here, thanks for stopping by!

Blog Candy Time

Holy Canole!  I was catching up on all the blogs I follow and a blog candy link on Penni's site, Lazy Cats Cards, caught my eye.  As you can see, I do love candy and it looked delicious, so I decided to check it out.  One of the requirements is to look at three posts and pick your favourite.  The mechanical paper carousel was going to be what I considered to be a hands down winner based on the thumbnails, but when I got to the third one and saw all the fussy cutting in making the pop-up card, I was smitten.  I'm a bit anal myself when it comes to fussy cutting and this just blew me away.  Great cards, so I guess I'll be adding another blog to my follow list, even though it's not a requirement, 'cause I want to see more from this talented lady.  If you want to take a look for yourself, the link is: www.makeitcrafty.com.au.  The candy is:

 http://www.makeitcrafty.com.au/news/big-news-giveaway-candy

More Candy

More blog candy by In2Stamps:

New Toys!

I finally got my Shutterfly book.  There are a few "oops" in it because it is so hard to see it on the computer screen.  Some backgrounds were a bit too busy for the amount of text I had on the page.  Also, they put the cat backgrounds in the dog section as well as the cat and I accidentally picked the cat one instead of the dog one but it was so small on the screen I couldn't tell.  All in all I am very happy with the book.  It will probably be the only scrapbooking item I ever do that anyone else in the family will treasure too (it's tough to have an appreciative audience when you don't have kids of your own to leave it to).  Anyway, I prefer making pages with real paper, so I don't know that I will ever do another one.

New toys? Yes. I spent my extra money from my tax return and got stuff for my Big Shot.  I am still waiting for my Stampin' Up! order, but my two orders of nestabilities have arrived and they are fabulous!!!!  I bought fourteen sets and I can see that I will be investing in all four of the basic shapes in plain and scalloped.  I tried making my niece's birthday card and all the stamps I wanted to use were the wrong shape for the circle and sqaure ones that came in the first order.  I was happy when the ovals arrived, but that was after the deadline for the card.  I'm so loving them and can hardly wait to make more things so I can use them again.

Yes, I did say I was going to upload more cards to my Splitcoast gallery and I haven't really done much.  Too many other non-stamping projects to complete.  I will eventually have a gallery I can be proud of, but I can see my goal of one upload per day was a bit much.  I have enough trouble keeping up with the blogs I'm following in my stamping time to get much creating or uploading done.  Sigh!  Someday I'll get my act together :) .