Sad Day...Happy Day...Very HAPPY DAY!!

   One of those days that is full of happy and sad.  The sad part actually started late yesterday when I started feeling really lousy.   I am not sure if I had a touch of a stomach bug or even possible a gall bladder attack, but boy did it come on fast and did I ever feel awful.  I ended up going to bed halfway through the Football game and fell asleep, only to wake up at the end to find out my team had won!!  Go PATS!!!    As much as I was happy about that, my stomach was still feeling awful and I could not get back to sleep or even feel comfy.  I ended up getting up and took some Pepto and went back to bed.  Needless to say, I did not sleep well and even woke up still feeling pretty lousy.  On a happy note, as the day has moved along I am feeling better, the pain is now gone and the nausea is much improved!   I had some crackers and tea and that seemed to help!   Phew!!

    Today is also a bittersweet day over at the CAS Class as this is our final day and I know I'll miss it.  I've had withdrawal from each of the classes and know that this week will be no different.   I am, however, very excited to about the new class which will be in March.  It's going to a HUGE hit and if you happen to like Tim Holtz, you'll want to be join in, as he will be teaching in March!  Woohoo!!  I was also thrilled to find out that I was one of the very lucky winners in this class and I won $30 worth of Stamps from Purple Onion Designs!   Can you say HAPPY!!   Yippee!!

    Imagine my happiness when I read this news on the class site this morning --

 
   Finally, we have Lisa Haines who wins $30 worth of stamps from Purple Onion Designs. Purple Onionhas some fabulous unmounted rubber stamps – all high quality and unique. We LOVE their alphabets!  Be sure to check out their blog HERE.   They have a great design team.

  I want to say THANK YOU again to Jennifer, Kristina and Julie for a fantastic class.  My thanks also goes out to Simon Says Stamp and Ellen Hutson for being class sponsors and for the great discounts they gave to all the students!!

  And now, I'd like to thank Purple Onion Designs for their prize too!   I'm very excited and have already been over to the blog to check out the adorable stamps!!   I have a feeling it's a store I'll visit often, as they have a wonderful variety of great stamps!!

  And back to more HAPPY things I have two new cards to share today and the first one, was actually once I had started yesterday.  It's based on this week's Sketch over at Operation Write Home's Stars and Stamps Blog.

   And I also have one more which was created for this week's CAS Challenge over at The Outlawz.  Our challenge this week was to create a CAS Style card to to use something NEW!  I decided to create my card with the awesome Card Kit I bought last week from Simon Says Stamp.  It's one of the new monthly card kits that are now being designed by Kristina Werner and offered by subscription at SSS!!   

      I am so happy that I'm now feeling better and that my day keeps getting happier and happier.  My mail lady was here while I was working on this post and I had three wonderful HAPPY Mail packages today.  The first was a pretty Hero Arts Stamp that I had been wishing for last week, after it was used one day in Class.   I lucked out and found it (brand new) on eBay for only $8.25!!  

     
And in the second package was my wonderful new Copics!   Woohoo!  I am very excited to be adding the newest release to my collection and LOVE that it has two new Purple shades!!!   Special thanks to Ashley at iCopic for shipping them out so fast!   You ROCK!!

   And my last wonderful goodie package is my most recent order from Simon Say Stamps!  I've had such great service from their have totally loved shopping at the store, during our CAS Class.   I bought the newest Corner Chomper to add to my collection, along with a cute little date stamp and I'm planning to use my Smash Book. 

  What a FUN and HAPPY day this has turned out to be and tomorrow should also be really awesome, as I'm heading to my LSS (Absolutely Everything) for the Monthly Card Club, which is a new card-making class I enrolled in for the Winter Months!!    Happiness is such a nice feeling!!