No turning back now

I had been a little undecided as to keeping French Manor or not.  Well I really needed just the perfect circle to make my bughead, so after much debate and time pondering, I have not only opened but linked French Manor to my Gypsy so I will be keeping it.


Here is my bughead, we used it to make our album cover for the boys.

The Circle of LOVE

These little guys are so lucky to have such a Circle of LOVE surrounding them.  With the help of their Bug Angels and Mana and Papa we had a shopping day.  I am also going to try to add a video we will see how that goes.

I just wanted to show you some of the items the designers did this week for the store

The designers this week have used the UltraFine Flower soft and I think they did a super job showing how many different ways you can use this product.

Cricut Circle special opportunity

If you are not yet a member of the Cricut Circle NOW is the time to join.  From now until Sept 13th I can send you a special invitation to join.

If you love your Cricut, if you love to be inspired, if you want to know the upcoming news before others then the Circle is the place to be.

Just let me know and I will send you a special invite, I will need your email address though.

Toy Story is packed and labeled

However FedEx did not show up until 5:10pm so it is too late for me to drop them off today, but they will be going out in the morning.  Those that ordered should all have a shipping confirmation sent to you by now, please let me know if you did not get any shipping info from the USPS.

Snipets of freedom

Some pictures of a few minutes at the lake yesterday feeding the ducks and laying on the grass.  And then we went home today and played for a few minutes outside.

Not the best pics, but a little crafting done

Sorry for the darkness, the kiddos were sleeping but I did get a start on my 3x3 circle card holder.  I have 2 sides, one for the ones I get and one side to for mine to give.  I also added some post it notes, just in case and also a little gel pen.

I do have a cut file for the embellishment I am going to put on the front, just haven't been able to get that done yet.  But I did get something done LOL

New Stamps in the store

I got two new stamp sets in the store today.  One for the Toad lovers and a MUST HAVE for the Edward Cullen lovers.

Well it's been a long time

I have been so neglectful I am surprised I have not been reported to the blog police.

But today was supposed to be an all day outside concert that I am going to beg off of.  Instead I am going to spend some time doing some more organizing of the craft room.  I might even take pictures of it if I get it all cleaned up.

I have to straighten and tighten up spaces on the inventory shelves as I have lots of stuff coming in soon.  A grundle of TC stampmakers are on their way (but those are going back out the same day I get them)  I have my Epiphany Crafts order coming in with those cute little epoxy and button makers, I have some cute glitter fluff coming in, hopefully my Cinch order will be here this week too, I have some Gypsies coming in, I just placed an order for some Bind it All's and supplies to go with them and I have to order up some more UltraFine Flowesoft (I better do that before I start in the craft room).

Once that is done I want to FORCE myself to do at least one layout, one card and something altered.

I will try to post some pictures tonight after the kidlets are in bed.  Hope you all have a productive day.

A few minutes with the boys

So I have to do another study and will be in the hospital again for the night and I thought I would take this afternoon and spend a few minutes with the boys.

THE WINTER SEASONALS ARE READY TO BE PREORDERED

I just need to double check with PC tomorrow on the pricing and then the items will go up in the store for preorder.  We are talking Christmas and Thanksgiving folks. 

Winding down on a work day

So I made this card for an aunt who has been working far too much and finally had a Wednesday off to relax and wind down.

Background paper is some Dollar store paper.  Wine and glass cut from Summer in Paris at 2 in, all other cuts were at 1 inch.  Cheese and plate are From my Kitchen, Grapes from Preserves, font is from Lovely florals Lite cart and wine bottle label is from Lacy Labels

New store address

Ok folks the blinkie on the side works now to take you to the new store.  If you manually enter the address you will need to use dot org (.org) from now on, on August 17th you should be able to access the store using either dot net or dot org.

Sorry about any issues but I am sure you will love all the new features as much as I do.  And don't forget to sign up for the newsletter at the store so you can be notified of the new products, sales and any changes coming up.

Ok folks, let me have some input

I was thinking in order to help boost sales in the store that I would get together a team of designers, that would make some awesome projects out of the item of the month (now don't ask me what they will be, that will change often and it could be anything from a cartridge to a machine).  So my thought would be to get a small team at first, maybe 4 or 5 and then see how that works out.

I would pick an Item of the Month, place it on sale in the store, show some wonderful projects completed using the IOM by the design team and those designers that are picked for that month would be able to purchase the IOM for half price.  If all goes well and sales increase then I would think we could move to a free item. 

What do you all think?

Things to look forward to

So other than playing around in the Provo Craft booth I also did a little shopping for the store.  Three of the coolest things are:

The Cinch and all the new accessories for it, oh my word they have come out with easy to feed coils in the coolest colors and they are all going to be heading to ScrappySales soon.  Here is a link to the new colors and coils

Next is the new Teresa Collins Stamp Machine, OMG this thing is soooo cool, even my husband wants to play with it LOL.  I told him I ordered enough for the store and he said "oh no, we have to keep one"  LOL

And I think one of my favorite new things is from Epiphany Crafts, it is a little epoxy maker.  You cut out the paper you want to use and then place the epoxy on top and press, out pops a wonderful epoxy.  I know it doesn't sound so cool with my description but the minute it hits my door I will do a video of it, you will LOVE it.

Made it to Chicago, CHA here I come

Made it into Chicago Monday night around 10:30pm picked up Terrri (from the Cricut MB) at Midway and we were on our way to the hotel.  I will have to take pictures later around the hotel, it is different, but if you were not here with kids or an extended time I think it would be fine, we got a great rate, it's close to every place we need to be and it will do the job.

Here are some pics of the ride in from Muskegon, have to have my coke and twizzlers.

Will be heading to pick up Liza at the airport soon then on to CHA baby!!!!

Day with the boys

Here we went to Chuckie Cheese, wonder what they were thinking

Yoo hooo Circle invite

So excited, I got my invite today to attend the Cricut Circle/Provo Craft Event to announce the next great machine that PC is launching.  I was so excited you would have thought I won the lottery.

WOW it looks like I have been slacking

But the truth is that recently I was stuck in airports for almost 3 days trying to get to FL to pick up my grandsons who are now staying with us for an undetermined amount of time.  I got back on Wednesday and we have been busy setting up a crib, getting all the needed items back in the house for 2 little ones.  And the last two days we have been either at the beach or park all day keeping them from waking up my DH who works nights.

As we settle into a routine (Gosh I hope it's soon) I will have some time to get back to my crafting.  Right now though its all about full time Nana-hood.

A little Spring Tea Party

Using Wall Decor and More, BaseCamp and the Expression and Cricut Cake we had a little Tea Party

All cuts with the exception of the lower case letters in the name Helen and afternoon tea all cuts were from the new Wall Decor and More cartridge.  I love making things that all match from invite to cake.

Just a HINT.  When using WD&M you will find all kinds of wonderful swirls left on the mat after removing your cut.  You can use these to dress up other items - such as I added some left over swirls to the "t" and "n" in afternoon.

What a busy few days

We didn't really do much for the holiday, DH has been working almost everyday so he needed the rest.  Then I had the Fall Mini order come in and needed to be packed and shipped.  I have to tell you for a while there my living room looked like a cardboard recycling center.

A few orders that came in today will get packed and ready for shipping in the morning, a little errand running then I am hoping to get home and finish up a mini book I am working on.  And load all my new carts on the Gypsy now that the update is HERE  can we have a YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

How did you spend your holiday?

It's here, I am Officially a Cricut Circle Member

After waiting not so well all day for just one little box, not ONE but TWO FedEx men show up within 5 minutes of each other.  The first one notified the second one that there was a crazy woman waiting for him with video and regular cameras LOL

FALL MINIS WILL BE HERE ON JULY 6TH

Got my shipping notice from ProvoCraft, the fall mini's will be here on Tuesday and I will be up all night sending out requests through Paypal for the balance due for those that paid deposit only so be watching for this so that I can get your package out to you the same day it gets here.  Those that paid in full, your shipment will go out on July 6th also.

Thank you so much for making my first pre-order run smoothly.  From this point out all future pre-orders will run through the store.

Toy Story is expected to ship mid-July still.