Today is National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day!!

May 12, 2010

National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day

Sending gentle Hugs to all my
wonderful Fibro Friends!

Always hoping for a cure!

Happy Monday ! Happy Creating!!

  Just a quick little update today, as I have been very busy over at Colorful Creations working on my very first 'Card Challenge' which will be posted later today!

  I am very excited to be a member of their newly created 'Design Team' and very much looking forward to having fun creating!  If anyone wants to come over and join me, I would LOVE that and be thrilled if you all want to create a card for my first challenge.

  For those of you who want to get started, it will be a 'Sketch Challenge' and will run for two weeks.   The winner will win a special prize from me and will be chosen by Random Drawing!  This is the sketch I created to inspire you --

    It's a pretty easy and basic sketch and you can use any colors you want.  It's all up to you!   This is the card that I created to help inspire you a bit more.  I used a cute Digital Image from Meljen Designs and went with a bright pink motif.  Are you shocked that it's NOT all Purple?  LOL! 

   I colored this cute little guy with my Copics and chose some simply white pearls as my bling.  I created two scallops circles with my Cuttlebug, and my card borders were created with an EK Success punch.  Easy!!  My cardstock is from American Crafts.    And if you are missing seeing Purple... don't worry, I also created a second card that I will post later this week, that has lots of my trademark PURPLE!

   My special thanks to all of my wonderful friends, many of you and have already stopped by and joined the group, thank you!!  I think it will be a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to this fun new venture.   I also owe a huge thank-you to Sharon, for inviting me to join her in the group.  It was because of her, that this position was offered to me!  Thanks girl...you're awesome!!


   Hugs,

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NEWS FLASH !!

  Good Morning  --   First, I want to WISH all of the Moms a very Happy Mother's Day.  I hope you wonderful relaxing day and have the day to do anything you want.  I have already visited with my Mom and had visits, calls, cards and gifts from my Hubby and my AWESOME Boys!   I am truly proud to be a MOM to Brian and Alex and they are my greatest joy and always make me happy!   I love you both with all my heart  and thank you for being two awesome sons!


    And now for some more exciting NEWS - I found this morning that I was chosen to be a Design Team Member over at 'Colorful Creations'...!! YIPPEE!!  

   I will be hosting my very own card challenges and my first challenge will start tomorrow!   I am thrilled and also very honored to have this opportunity and hope all my wonderful friends will stop over and support me.   I look forward to having a lot of fun in this new challenge group.  I want to thank my dear  friend 'Sharon Scheydt-Rittler' of  Scrappin Fabulous, for inviting me into the group and also for encouraging me to go back to designing.   I will be working hard today to get my challenge put together and would LOVE for all of my crafty friends to come over and join in my very first challenge.  There is be a RAK too and it will be awarded my me at the end of the first challenge.

    I think it's going to be a fun group and I am truly honored to have this opportunity!  You can find HERE over on the NING Network and I hope you'll join and support me in this new adventure!


   Hugs and Happy Crafting,

Woohoo! I won the GRAND PRIZE at SSC!!

  After a long week and lots of down days, fibro flares and lousy days.....I found out just now that I WON the GRAND PRIZE from the huge Crop that was held last weekend over at Simply Scrapping Crafts (SSC).    It was announced this afternoon!  I came home, logged onto to my email and found the notice saying the winners has been posted.   I went right over to the site and this was the post that I found when I logged on --

NSD CROP WINNERS ANNOUNCED!!!

Our GRAND PRIZE WINNER of the DISTREZZ-IT-ALL and 25 sheets of BAZZILL KRAFT CARDSTOCK is........ 

LISA (PURPLE PLACE)!!!!!!!

Congratulations to Lisa and ALL of our crop winners and participants!!!  Thank you for making our very first online crop a smashing success!  We look forward to more parties with you in the future!

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    I am totally thrilled and so excited -- doing a little HAPPY dance up in my craft room !!  DH and Alex and wondering why in the world I am up here yelling -- WooHoo!  I WON!!!   And a fabulous prize and something I had been wanting too!   I had even been browsing the online stores this week looking for the best price on a Distrezz-it-all!  And that is what I WON!!  

   I want to also say Congratulations to ALL the winners of each of the individual challenges!  I am thrilled for everyone and think we are ALL very lucky!  The weekend events were all awesome! 

Challenges are my favorite thing and I LOVE them, so winning is simply a bonus for me, such a wonderful ending!   I am still shocked...and very very HAPPY!!!   THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH!!

 

Happy Saturday!!

....and it's a nasty, rainy and stormy day here in Massachusetts!  YUK!  You know it is NOT going to be a great day when you wake up at 6AM to the sounds of pouring rain and thunder!  That's how my day started and I am not at ALL a fan of thunderstorms.  I hate them and if they are bad, they really scare me.  Luckily, it was not a big storm and there was not a lot of lighting, and I fell back to sleep and actually slept until 8AM, a record for me.

    Alex woke me up just before he left for work to tell me he was on his way out.  DH is also working, but they both did a lot for me before they left - thanks guys!  Alex took all our trash/recyclables to our Transfer Station and DH had put in a load of laundry for me too.  Alex finished the first load for me, (You rock), and even had the second load in the dryer, but the time I got up!  Yaay!  How nice was that?  ...and it's not even Mother's DAY, until tomorrow.  Yippee!

     I had a nice leisurely morning and took my time getting things done.   I only made one card today and that is one I am taking to a Surprise 80th Birthday Party/Luncheon that I am heading off to this afternoon.  I wish it was a nicer day, as I do NOT care for driving in this miserable weather, but since DH and Alex both are working, I'm stuck and will be heading out shortly. To be honest, I'm not a person who likes a big lunch..., heck, I hardly ever even eat lunch, so this is NOT my favorite thing to do!  I would much rather go out for dinner and wish we were...then everyone could have joined in!  Oh Well!  I'll bet you know how it goes...sometimes there are things you just have to do, even when you don't want too.    The things we do for family...if you know what I mean!! LOL!   If I felt better, and had enough energy I would hit the craft stores and wish I could but I don't want to push my luck.  I'm going to be in the same town, as Michael's and AC Moore, but I know I won't make it. 

   So that's it for me -- It's now pouring again and we had another round of storms about an hour ago, but luckily they were not TOO bad.  I sure hope this is not a sign of what Summer is going to be like...hoping for MUCH better weather!

    Bye bye! Hope you ALL have a great day!!