What a wonderful surprise! I received this award from Tosh and Juliana! How nice is that especially when 2 ladies as talented as them to give you this honor!!! Thank you Tosh and Juliana, I really appreciate it!!! According to rules of award (and you all know how I am about following directions), I'm supposed to name some others who deserve the Excellent Blogger Award. There are so many wonderful blogs that I just love and I hope you will enjoy them too! Of course I cannot list them all but will definitely bestow this honor on a few!!! Be sure to check them out as they will amaze you!
Lauren Meader ~ Mytime
Lindsey Botkin ~ Embellished
Laura Fredrickson ~ Scrapnextras
Tamara McKlveen ~ Mothers and Daughters Creations
Jennifer Meyer ~ Jennifers Sweet Designs
Sharon Johnson ~ No time to Stamp
Anna Wight ~ Sweet Miss Daisy
Maria Levine ~ RiaCreations
I will be back shortly to post a card! Today has been a crazy day ~ again, so I haven't much stampin' time! Luckily, I have a card already done that I haven't posted!!!! See, I'm not ALWAYS a procrastinator!!!
~Lynda
Hi Everyone!
I want to thank you all so much for leaving such nice comments! I enjoyed reading each and every one! I wish you all could have won but only 1 person will receive the Crab & Company set and the winner is ~ Beth M (ematson on scs)! Congratulations Beth! Send me an email with your mailing address and I will get it out to you ASAP!!!
I am working on some things to post but I was just pooped today and didn't finish a darn thing!!! I am going to go to bed early tonight and get my beauty rest (I should have gone to bed around 5 pm yesterday!!!) so I can be up and at 'em early tomorrow morning, all fresh and ready to create!!! If this is not the case, I will go on SCS and CASE something!!! LOL!!!
I know this is a repeat but since I last posted this tutorial in August, I have gained a lot of subscribers so I thought I would post this again so you all can run out to your local craft store this weekend and get started! I really want to add a 2007 charm on the "hat". I found some on line but before I order I want to check Michael's and AC Moore. I am going to make them for all family members this year and having the year on them will be the perfect touch!!! If you have made some, let me know because I really enjoy seeing the different ideas people have!
Here are the ornaments and the tutorial is HERE. Check out the darling ornaments Corinne AKA ~ Stampin with Roxy made.
Here is a closer look ~
Wouldn't it be cute with a little 2007 charm? Can you tell I am obsessing about a stinkin' charm???? If you have any ideas, let me know!!!
Thanks so much and I hope you all have a great night!
~Lynda
You are wondering what in the heck I am celebrating aren't you! So am I!! LOL!!! 
I haven't given anything away for a while and I have an extra, BRAND NEW, UNMOUNTED, stamp set called Crab & Company by Stampin' Up! This set is on the dormant list so I am assuming it will be in their January catalog but that won't do you any good to make some really cute Christmas cards with it THIS YEAR!!!!
This set is so stinkin' cute and is perfect for any occasion so now you are wondering, what do I have to do to win it.... well..... All you have to do is leave a comment at the bottom of THIS post. Friday night I will use the random number selector and it will choose a winner for me and I'll post here on my blog!!! See, how easy is that??
Now, I have a favor to ask. You may remember me posting a while back about some cards my friend Lisa and her Tri-Delta Sorority Alumnae Group made to donate to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. You can see that post HERE. They want to send the cards (5-6 per person) and envelopes (stamps too if needed) to some of our heroes overseas who won't be fortunate enough to be home this Christmas. Once received, the recipient can then use the cards to send to their loved ones back home. Does this all make sense????
I am asking you, do you know someone that these cards could benefit? We will send them and the way time is flying, we need to send them right away! I am finishing up a few more cards but we only have about 55 so I think about 10 names and addresses would be great!!! Please email me with any information or questions you might have (my email is under my LOVELY 
picture at the top left of my blog!! LOL!!).
I do want to take this opportunity to thank you all for visiting my blog! I REALLY appreciate it and hope you have enjoyed it. When I first started blogging back in June, NEVER in a million years did I think I would actually have 160+ subscribers and over 25,000 hits on my blog! Thank you SO much! 
Hi Everyone!
Sorry for the lack of posts but I have had lots of Mommy duties to do!!! I hope you all had a great Halloween! We had so much fun! It all starts at my kids school and their lower school costume parade. OMG, this is so much fun! The kids get so excited and it is so neat to see the costumes and to witness the pure happiness these kids feel. What an awesome school we have! Here is a picture of a couple of the ladies that work at the school ~
You know, you can't find quality people just anywhere! What role models my kids have to look up to!!! LOL!!! Actually, this picture is of my very "special" friends Lisa (in pink) and Cathy (with the dead animal on her head and birth control glasses on!). They are fantastic friends and I am lucky to have them. They really do work at the school and they dressed up as Hillbillies. I couldn't even look at Cathy without laughing. You can tell that we had a great time! Halloween night we (Lisa, Cathy, Lynn and I ~ oh, the kids and some of the husbands came too!) went trick-or-treating in Cathy's subdivision. When you live in the middle of no-where, you must drive to "some-where" to trick or treat!!! We had the best time! The four of us met when our kids (now in 2nd grade) were in the same class in Kindergarten and have been friends ever since! It works out great because Cathy and I don't cook but LOVE to eat and Lisa and Lynn LOVE to cook so it was a match made in heaven!!! LOL!!! So now you know, I have been hanging out with my Hillbilly friends and haven't had time to be crafty!
Here is a picture of my High School Musical cheerleader ~ Mary:
She has advised that next year she wants to be a football player! Why can't she be a princess or a fairy??? I want to dress her like a girl!!!! She cracks me up and I just love her hair in piggy tails. I do wish her other top tooth would fall out because she is starting to look like a Hillbilly!!! Now, here is a picture of my festive son. He is so funny! He has NEVER liked to dress up and does not like to have birthday parties. I used to think it was pretty weird but now I find it quite endearing. Joey is Joey and he still has a great time laughing at his friends in their costumes and goes to their birthday parties but he does not like the attention on him. 
This shirt is so perfect for Joey. His Grandma got it for him! Not only was it Halloween but yesterday, November 1st was Joey's 10th Birthday! I took him and Mary to IHOP for breakfast and then we went to the store so he could use his money and buy a few things he has wanted. I made him a cute balloon vase using Cadbury candy bars. I also made one for Mary and boy was she excited! This is what they looked like:
These are so easy to make and you can make them for any occasion. I made a Valentine one HERE but made flowers to put in it . You can also use Hershey's chocolate bars but I found that the Cadbury are bigger so it is more sturdy. The way you make them is you take 3 candy bars and wrap them with wrapping paper or cardstock. Just wrap them as you would a present.
Here is a close up of Joey's:
After you wrap the candy bars, use sticky strip to stick the sides together. For the base, I put a small amount of Elmer's glue on the bottom of the candy bars and then stuck it down on top of a coordinating piece of cardstock. After it was dry, I trimmed it. SO easy and really cute! You can decorate these any way you want and for any occasion! I am making a Christmas one using 4 candy bars. I hope to upload it at some point this weekend.
I have a couple of cards to show you and will upload those shortly! Thanks for looking!
~Lynda
I've been tagged by Diane at My Little Stampin' Spot!
This smiley really doesn't apply but I thought it was so funny and can't think of another time I could use it unless my friend Lis finally has the sister's put back to where god intended them to be!!!It has been the BEST week ever for my blog so to thank you all, it's because of you ~ of course, I am going to give a couple things away. Have you seen those info~mercials that "for only $19.95" you can purchase all kinds of junk and then at the end, they always say ~ BUT WAIT!!!! and then try to sell you more junk and explain to you what a deal they are making for you and how fortunate you are to be sitting in front of your T.V. at the same time that they "happen" to be offering YOU this special deal??? Well......this won't cost you anything BUT WAIT!!! In order to get in to my drawing, I would like you to leave me a comment with an answer to the following question! Now how easy is that???? It will not cost you $19.95 and it will only take a minute of your time!!!
Back on September 5th, Peata, left a comment on one of my cards asking what I do with all of them. Well, my answer to that question is that I have finally stopped hoarding them! I now will give a group of 5 or 10 all occasion cards and envelopes for gifts. Most people like to give cards and now that I am OLD and my friends are REALLY OLD (just a little joke girls), it's hard to come up with gift ideas so the cards work perfectly! I will sometimes make a purse or wrap them in a nice cellophane bag with ribbon.
I need to send more RAK (random acts of kindness) cards but I have sent a few. My intentions on some of my cards are to keep the one and duplicate it but I get bored doing the same cards so I guess I need to just part with them. I do have pictures so it isn't like I can't copy them later...... OK, so that is what I do with my cards. Now, tell me what you do with yours!!!
I will pick 2 winners. If you subscribe to my blog, I will enter your name twice!!! Don't worry Non-Subscribers, you will still be included with 1 entry. I will pick the winners on Friday after 8 pm (East Coast time)! Oh, I almost forgot to tell you what you could win!!!
One of the prizes is a brand new, unmounted stamp set from Stampin' Up! called Merry & Bright. It is in the current Holiday Mini and is so stinkin' cute!!! I have not had time to use the reindeer but I will and I am excited about it because he is darling!!! I will also give you the card I made using the set so you can have a little inspiration! This card also has the Crystal Effects & Dazzling Diamonds glitter icicle technique so you can have a close up of that too!
I will also give away a card I made the other day AND I will stamp you 6 of the Thomas Kinkade images that I used so you can use them to make your own cards. I will stamp the images just as I did for the card using Whisper White cardstock and Black Stazon ink. Is this a dumb give-a-way??? I hope not. I figured that since I am not asking you to pay $19.95 and all you have to do is leave a comment, well, what do you expect for FREE???? HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! This is the card and Thomas Kinkade image.
Whoever wins this will have to supply everything else but in case you don't have this stamp, I will give you 6 images to work with and you can see the card close up to copy ~ if that is what you want to do!
I am going to use these for some of my Christmas cards this year. I am working on a Criss~Cross card and may use that too because a photo will work perfectly on the insert! I will upload when I am done. I have a few other things in the works as well so check back soon!
Thank you all again! I REALLY do appreciate your comments and have had so much fun blogging. Now, if I could only have this much fun vacuuming..... hmmmm......
~Lynda
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