{Winner winner!} for December's Final Friday Giveaway

Hello all!  Hope you are enjoying your holidays.  I just wanted to pop in with a quick post to announce the December winner of my 2011 Monthly Final Friday Giveaway.  You guys ready?  The lucky winner this month is....

Lucky #41, who is none other than Cheryl M!

Congratulations to you Cheryl!

Thank you all for playing along with me this month and throughout the year!  Wish you all a wonderful 2012 and hope you'll keep visiting my corner of the world! There are lots of fun things coming up in January...namely the new Occasions Mini Catalog and Sale-a-bration!  Enjoy the rest of the year and hope you have a fantastic New Year ahead :)

Ciao for now!

{Merry Christmas!} to you

Hi there blog friends!  I wanted to wish you all a very merry Christmas from our home to yours.  Hope you enjoy spending time with family, friends and loved ones over the holiday season!  Also wanted to share our Christmas photo this year.  I have succumbed to going digital, but I am such a big fan of MDS, I had lots of fun making this card of my little Santa Baby :)

Holly Jolly Christmas to you all!

Stampin'Up! Clearance Blitz!

Hey there! Are you looking for some gifts for your crafting friends or some fun crafty goodies for yourself?  Now's a great time to check out Stampin'Up!'s Clearance Blitz - punches, dies, ribbons, stamps and a variety of accesssories are on sale now and up to 80% off!  The sale goes on from now until January 5th, 2012 while supplies last, so if you're eyeing anything specifically...now's the time to scoop it up!  You can shop at my Online Store anytime..no waiting in lines!  Enjoy!

Paper Crafters Sampler: Adorned Holiday

Hello there blog friends!  How are you all?  Hope you are enjoying the holiday season so far and getting all your preparations completed.  If you'd like another resource to check out to keep you inspired and in the festive spirit, I invite you to take a peek at the Paper Crafters Sampler "Adorned Holiday" issue that's chockful of holiday ideas for you!  Here's a sneak peek at the project I created:

Can you guess what it is?  In any case, it was my first attempt at creating one of these and I was really pleased at how quickly and easily it came together.  That's as much of a hint as I'll give you :)

Hope you all have a wonderful rest of the week and I will catch up with you guys soon!  Toodles for now :)

{stamps and ribbons} for December Final Friday Giveaway!

Hello there blog friends!  I know we just finished with the Blog Hop and Blog Candy announcement, but tis the season for giving, so that means it's time to announce this month's Final Friday Giveaway! You could be a winner of the Afterthoughts wood mount stamp set and some pretty Stampin'Up! ribbon!  I love the sentiments in the Afterthoughts stamps - they're in such cute font and all are nice and practical sentiments you'll use throughout the year.  All you have to do to play along is leave me a comment on this post (for my Facebook friends viewing this post on my Facebook page, you'll actually need to get to my actual blog post here.

Here's what you need to do to play:

1. Leave me a comment on this post by midnight Pacific Time, Wed, Dec 28, 2011.
2. On your comment, please make sure to include a valid email address or a blog URL (where I can leave a comment or have a way of contacting you). For those of you that are uncomfortable with leaving an email in a post, you can write your info like this: yourname at emailaccount dot com.
3. One comment per person please. :)
4. Anyone can play - international visitors welcome!

I'll announce the winner on my blog on Friday, December 30th, so be sure to check back!  You can leave me a comment about anything, or you can tell me what one craft item you would love to get for Christmas.  Who knows - maybe Santa's one of my blog readers, so he may even get it for you if you've been on his "good list" ;)  {heehee!}

Hope you all have a great week and are enjoying the Holiday Season!  I'll catch up with you guys soon. Bye for now.

Check out Shelli Gardner on the TODAY Show!

Hello bloggie peeps!  Just wanted to pop in with a quick share - Stampin'Up!'s Shelli Gardner was on the TODAY show today!  You can see the clip here:

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How cute is Shelli?!  Her presentation was great and her outfit was adorable, too. :) Love that she's sharing the Sweet Pressed Cookie stamps and I also love that Stampin'Up! is donating $500,000 worth of products for the Toy Drive!  What a wonderful way to give and share in the Holiday Spirit.  On a side note...how funny are Hoda and Kathy wth their random banter and commentary - too funny.

TIP:  To mute my Playlist so you can listen to the video, you can scroll to the bottom of my blog, and click on the volume icon (looks like a megaphone) in the top right corner of the pink playlist box - that will mute the music.  To unmute, you can click it again and the music will resume playing!

Blog hop winner!!

Hi all! Hope you guys had fun on the Up on the Rooftop Blog Hop! It's time to post the lucky winner...and that person happens to be:

Lucky #32, who is none other than Terry Duncan!  Congrats, Terry! :)  I'll be emailing you soon to get your snail mail addy.

Thank you all for hopping on by and leaving me a sweet comment.  I'm glad you guys liked the wine charms!  I don't know if I've told you guys before, but my dear hubs is a total wine nerd, which is a good thing because I get to benefit from it, too!  Anyway, so that was the inspiration for the wine charms.  We've had many a party where there have been mixups with glasses, and since then, I've implemented handmade wine charms.  What I love about the 25 & Counting set is that it's perfect one for a Holiday party - definitely enough to go around!  Hope you guys enjoy!  Have a great week and I'll catch up with you all soon.  Ciao for now.