I went shopping today as a means of procrastination, and finally got the yarn I need to make my Christmas stockings. As a bonus, my sister finally sent pictures of our existing stockings. Unfortunately, the Blogger servers keep rejecting my image uploads, so you can’t see them just yet. UPDATE: Blogger doesn’t hate me anymore! Joy asked for a snowlady …
More Card Cupids
I’m interrupting your regularly-scheduled New Toy Tuesday to bring you two new cards I made for Card Cupids. If you missed my last posts about this charity, they collect cards to distribute to hospitalized children. They currently have three children on their list (two girls and one boy), so before I sent my first card I wanted to make sure …
Happy NaNoWriMo
Yes, it’s November 1, which means that for the next 30 days, every word I write on the blog is a word taken away from the book I should be writing. Current word count is 503. Only 49,497 to go (Take that, GMAT! I CAN do math!) I did take a break to draw this baseball in Photoshop for a …
And the Winner Is…
TRACY! And here’s the finished card based on her suggestions: Now, interestingly enough, Tracy actually voted for design number three in the comments yesterday. So, Tracy, I’ll give you the choice of this card or Design 3. Please send me your choice and your contact information via the form linked at the top of the page. Thank you to everyone …
Card Giveaway Finalists!
First, I want to thank everyone for their helpful ideals on the Christmas light card. There were so many great suggestions, that it’s going to be hard to pick a winner. Some of the ideas, while great, weren’t really workable with the supplies I have on hand. For example, several people suggested using smaller lights. Unfortunately, I used a Sizzix …
Bear With Me
We’re coming up on that time of year when everyone gets really busy. I have a few things coming up in November that are going to make daily crafting a bit of a challenge. First, as I mentioned yesterday, I have 2 Christmas stockings that need to be completed in under 2 months’ time. That’s not a lot of time …