Cute Michael's Find

So, we went to dinner out Outback Saturday night. I LOVE Outback. I even like their salad & I HATE salad. Well, darn the luck, Outback just happens to be very near Michael's. So we stop. When I walked thru the door, what was the first thing I saw? New Clear Stamps!!! Woohoo. I don't think I've ever used any of the other Michael's clear stamps I had but they were too cute to pass up. I was trying to be good so I only bought 3 sets. Aren't the adorable? I love this little "family". Should have bought more of those.





I went to Michael's in hoping to get a new embossing folder or die for my Cuttlebug. They had the CUTEST set of flowers that would be PERFECT for Thanh's CJ. They also had the b'day embossing folder so I bought both.


Yesterday morning, I was working on the CJ & cut out coordinating flowers. They won't come apart. WHAT?? So I try again. Still not fully cut in the middle. I notice the die is a little bent (but so are ALL my dies after I run them thru the maching) and my "b" plate is seriously bowed. I tried turning over my "b" plate & ran the die thru twice and still it won't cut all the way thru. The other 3 dies in the pack work just fine. Bummer that I have to run back over to Ms but, I GET to go back to Ms. Maybe they'll have some other new die I need & now I have another 40% coupon!!

Happy Monkeys

Robyn posted the CUTEST card using these monkeys. She said she found them at Hobby Lobby. Pam, smileycollector at the Shack, posted an eBay seller who had them. I was going to order but Ms. InstantGratification stepped in & said no, I'd go to HL first. Well, I never made it to my HL.

While driving around Sprinfield, MO this week, I found a HL here. And, I found Changito & his buddy there. Woohoo!! I can't wait to get home & play w/these guys. My son is monkey crazy (ok, I guess technically, they are not all monkeys, I think one is an Ape) and my niece says she loves monkeys too. I'm gonna make them both monkey b'day cards.

It's official

I'm done w/bloglines. I love the IDEA of the service, it shows you only the blogs that have new posts. But, for the last few days, I don't get the new posts as soon as they're posted. Sometimes it will tell me there is a new post (or 2 or 4 or 10!) and then, when I clicked on it, it pulls up a post from several days ago. Plus, I miss reading the comments on blogs. I'm going back to the old fashioned way of doing it.


Haven't stamped anything for too long. I hope I'll have the energy to do some tonite. I got the COOLEST acrylic stamps last week. Imperession Obsession. When I first used them (see the b'day card below) I thought, ick. They aren't very deeply etched & didn't seem to hold a whole lot of ink. But, when I stamped an image, it was crisp, clear & beautiful. I want to play with these some more!

Where is my shack????

Argh!! The shack is down. I hate it when this happens. I miss my buddies soooo much. Maybe I should do some work since I have a REALLY good excuse not to be online. Yeah, right.

Bought 24 clear $1 stamps yesterday at Michaels. I couldn't believe it. They had all but 1 of the designs. Of course, I got the last one of 3 of the designs. If things go well today, I may run (back) to FH today to see what thier M's has.

On other Michaels' notes: The revamped the ENTIRE store. It's like a "real" Ms now!!! Everything is better organized and they have more stuff. I actually SAW the Cuttle Bug for the first time!!! Woohoo. After watching the video that someone posted and hearing that it will cut chipboard, I'm IN!!! I'm gonna get one of these bad boys as soon as I'm done going to SU partys and/or my muse returns.

I swore I wasn't going to buy anything more stamp related until I got my groove back but, that went by the wayside yesterday. Somehow, I spent $40 at M's. Wowser. I need to justify that money by MAKING SOMETHING!!! ANYTHING!!! I think I'm gonna try to work on Christmas stuff today & see if that gets my MoJo going.