I'm in the Paper!

Our salon was featured in the business section in our local paper! Yish...I hate looking at myself in pics...but at least I was having a good hair day!! . Glad I colored it when I did! ***I'm the one on the right...in brown...LOL! Here's the article:
http://www.htrnews.com/article/20100407/MAN0101/4070712/1357/MAN01

Disney Autograph Book

The questions to ask are..."How long did I know in advance that my little great niece was going to Disney World this week????" Answer: A few MONTHS!!! Next question..."WHEN did I actually start making the autograph book that I wanted to send along with her????" Answer: THREE DAYS BEFORE THEY LEFT!!!! I am officially the Procrastinating Queen! Needless to stay after pulling off two consectutive scrapping till 3:30 in the morning and having to be at work by 8:00 am....running home on a lunch hour and feverously trying to put some sort of finishing touches on the darn thing before presenting it to the 6 year old...I got it MOSTLY done. With the promise I will finish, embellish, and mat the pics they take when they return home. Please be kind. There are a few "scarey" eyes on the characters...lol...and a bit of shakey lines drawn on a few pages because my body was starting to shut down with shear exhaustion! But here it is...I think it's pretty cute despite the limit of time I put on myself. I can only imagine how nice it could have been if I took all the time I had from when I decided I would like to do this.

I really don't like the pressure to finish in a short time...so when will I learn??

BTW...I cut Kamiko's name using my Make The Cut software! Such a cool tool! I found a free Disney font and uploaded to the software and within minutes I had it cut out...COOL! :o)

...these are extra pages for those characters I didn't get to...yet! ;0)

My New Pink E!!!!

***SQueeeeL!*** Oh My Goodness....I can hardly believe it! I got the Pink E that I kept drooling over since it's release. DH said back in August/September..."Get it if you want." I reply back..."But Honey, I have a perfectly fine Expression upstairs...it's just because of the color that I want it. It cuts the same." I let it go just like that and here I sit months later kicking myself I didn't take him up on the offer. So anyways...I address the issue again on Sunday...his reply..."I think you don't need to buy any more scrapping stuff." My reply..."Hmmphf...." When he asked if I was angry and I tell him no, I explain to him my idea about selling my first E and the cartridges that came with the new machine and how it will make up for the cost...and then some. Now the idea seems to be okay with him...and now I'm the one with the cold feet all of a sudden! What if this machine doesn't work right? What if it came from the batch of Pink E's with 'issues'...what if I sell my old one and I liked it better??? I'm PMS-ing...can you tell? I need some encouragement to open up the box and play!

My entry for the Cropping with the Stars Contest...

Well I did it again...I stayed up late every night that I could and designed, cut, tape and toiled over another acrylic 3-D book©. I stayed up all night on the eve of the deadline and entered this bugger, had only 2 1/2 hours of sleep before I had to go to work the next morning...only to find out that the contest was reopened and I could have taken more time on it, had a good nights sleep and entered 10 days later! Bummer. I wasn't going to tweak my book and then resubmitt my project because of sheer principle, but then on the {YES} eve of the final deadline, I stayed up until 3:00 am to retake pics, spruce up my instructions and resubmitted. And BY-GOLLY...I didn't win again! Next time...maybe. I think Admin put a big black check mark by my name and it wouldn't matter. LOL But it was fun, and I love the results. And my peeps that I know give me all the encouragement I need right now. Thanks everyone...Huggs to the bunch of you!!!

The first three pics are what I entered in the contest...and the last two are a few others that I took (sorry for the poor photography...) It is really hard to capture what it looks like in person, and the background lights reflected horribly in the acrylic. You can enlarge the pic by clicking on the photo for a better look at details.

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...and these two additional pics show more details of the first scene.

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Thanks for looking!!!

I'm entering my Cricut/YourStory project into the M's big contest!

Okay...after much praise from peeps on the MB and encouragement from Lisa (BugJunkie) I entered my project below in the contest Michael's is having!!! I know! Scary! If you have a moment to go over to it and vote for it, I would soooo much be appreciative! I already know what I want with the gift card if I so happen to score one...a PINK EXPRESSION! OOooooo...so pretty! LOL....thanks in advance for helping me out...here's the link:

http://www.michaelscontest.com/uploads/2540

...and the pic:

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My Cricut and YourStory Challenge Entry!

OMG...This was my first challenge ever...and I loved it! I told myself I was going to win this thing...but alas...I didn't. But I do love my project. I think it's pretty cool. I have so many ideas that I can do with this design. The idea came to me after waking up one morning after dreaming about the challenge. Funny. It's a 3-D Acrylic Picture Book©. From back to front...It Has Mickey and Minnie standing in front of the house (last page), then the next page in front of that is Pluto and his dog house and a tree in the front yard. The next page has Donald, Daisy, and Goofy, and the 2nd page has the fence and mailbox. The front page is the cover that you can see through. It is also to appear as if Mickey is in the distance....and gradually the characters get bigger in the foreground. It looks neat in person...just don't know if it came across that way.

So here are my pics that I submitted. Tell me please what you think. BTW...who really needs 100+ cartridges and a fully loaded Gypsy???!!!! HA! It would have been pretty cool to win....maybe someday.

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