OH MY GOSH!!!

What a busy month April was! Sheesh! I feel like I'm just now taking a deep cleansing breath and getting ready to start something new.

I've got some new custom orders to fill and I'll be going back to NY for a few days this month. You all know how behind I get when I go away! I'm excited to see my friends and family but I know I'm gonna have so much to do before and after. Stressing doesn't help, I know.

My parents are arriving tomorrow for a visit. I don't think we have anything planned for Mother's Day - maybe church and brunch? I guess we'll play it by ear.

I'm gonna go get to work on more orders. TTYL!

AND THE WINNER IS.....

Joi-c of SHMILY Design!

Yay Joyce! Thanks so much to all who participated! Look out for another giveaway...one of these days LOL.

Many of you know I was in KY this weekend where I met my beautiful friends from the Life Preservers Club message board. I had SUCH a great time!! The ladies were all as wonderful as I'd imagined and it was just a blast. I miss them already and I can't wait to get together again! I didn't get ANY scrapping done. I kinda figured I'd be gabbing the whole time so I only packed my two LP kits but I forgot my ATG!! (that's my tape runner) OMGosh I was so MAD at myself. I had to buy one of those stupid herma dotto tape runners (blech). Thankfully, it was on sale - but still! The other ladies had EVERYTHING so I guess I could've been productive if I'd wanted to :)

I did get some stuff done after I got home. Here are some projects that I got done with the LP April Alternate Kit:

GIVEAWAY!

It's finally here! LOL To celebrate my one year etsyversary and 200th heart (although I got a bunch more this week YAY!) I'm giving away one of my mini coin envelope journals and a set of 5 bird tags. All you have to do to enter is leave me a comment telling me what your favorite item is from my shop. A winner will be chosen on April 30th using a random generator (to make it fair).

THANK YOU to all my wonderful customers, blog readers and supporters.

OK OK

I missed my Monday deadline! Ack! Why did I even SAY Monday? Mondays are ROUGH for me! So, I got my camera but have yet to load the disc onto my laptop. I did install the batteries and card though. That's a start, right? OK, so we're gonna change the giveaway from MONDAY to THIS WEEK! LOL Check back! Love you all for coming to see ;)

HAPPY ETSYVERSARY

to me! It's been one year today since I signed up with Etsy and today I received my 200th heart!! Yay me! For those of you unfamiliar with etsy.com (gasp!), when someone likes your shop they 'heart' you. It's like a favorites list. So, I'm psyched about that.

In honor of my etsyversary I'm offering FREE SHIPPING on anything in my shop for TODAY and TOMORROW ONLY (4/12 & 13)! You don't have to do anything but wait for a revised invoice. So, shop away!

On Monday, I'll be having a giveaway so be on the look out. I wanted to do it today but my camera died :( . So I'm hoping to get a new one later today or tomorrow.

Visit my etsy store today for free shipping!

PS I love Michael Johns and I can't believe he left AI!!

MINI ALBUMS

You know I hate to throw anything away. So, I made these with some smaller pieces of paper I had left from another project :) I listed them on etsy and I'm thinking a giveaway might be in order soon. It turns out my ETSYversary is April 12th! Who knew? I opened the account last year, sold one thing and never went back till a couple of months ago. Ah, I was such an ebay fanatic. If I'd only stuck with etsy who knows how much money I would've saved in fees! Be on the lookout for a giveaway coming soon!

APRIL SHOWERS

It feels like the rain hasn't stopped for the last couple of weeks! I love a rainy day - I only wish I could just curl up with the kids and watch a good movie. But, I'm swamped! I hadn't even noticed it's been almost a week since my last post.

I'm trying to clean up my space as I've finally finished the first of four custom albums. I took advantage of the stuff I had lying around a made a few things for etsy but the weather isn't cooperating so I could only get a few good pictures. Here they are - the tags and diorama were such hits, I did them again:

I finally signed Ethan up for his webkinz account. I figured I might as well give in. He has 3 and is always on my computer anyway. We really need to get him one - I don't like to share ;)

I'm off to finish cleaning my scrap space. I'm itching to rearrange it so I told dh and he says 'Why don't you wait till I give you my office'. Grrr...I think he's toying with me. And besides, I want to do it NOW not four months from now!! *sigh* I'm off to clean....

Have a great week everybody!