Michael's Super Weekend Sale

Get 20% off your entire purchase - including the sale items at Michael's this weekend.  The coupon is only valid for a certain time period on Saturday and Sunday.  Enjoy!  I know I'll be going by this weekend to get some goodies. :-)

nook

This post isn't craft related but I'm so excited right now I just had to share.  My Barnes & Noble e-reader, the nook, arrived today.  My mom and dad bought it for me as a combined birthday/Christmas present and we ordered it while I was home for Thanksgiving knowing they were on back order and I wouldn't get it until January 2010.  Well, after patiently waiting...and stalking the UPS site once mom forwarded me the tracking # yesterday, it finally arrived early this afternoon.  Unfortunately, I didn't get home until around 8 pm....all afternoon I could barely concentrate on anything but getting home to my nook.  :)

Organizing my Cartridges

I decided to start off the new year by organizing my cartridges and making them easier to transport to/from crops.  Carrying them around in their boxes gets to be too much...and takes up a lot of room.

On the cricut message boards there is a thread that has links to the handbooks that have been printed to pdf files with 6 pages per sheet.  I've started printing those out for the cartridges I have and am putting them in a binder with sheet protectors.  Thanks to Scubascrapper for the idea.

New Look....

I decided to start the new year off with a new look.  I'm not quite 100% sure that I'll stay with this theme...but I like it for now.

Let me know your thoughts!  If you have a template site to share or know a easy-to-use tutorial site on designing your own blog themes, I'd appreciate it if you would share.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! 

I hope everyone had a joyous and blessed holiday season.  I've been MIA on my blog for a while now....work has kept me busy and I haven't had as much time to "play".  I've still been doing some crafting but not as much.  Additionally, with the holidays, time was limited for playing also...I'm sure everyone can relate.

Our Thanksgiving was nice....we made the trip to Missouri to visit my parents and brother.  It was a long drive (about 14 hours) but well worth it.  I had a great time and enjoyed spending time with my family.  It was my husbands first trip back to Missouri since he left in 2001 (after getting out of the military).  I've always gone back home to visit alone...but when we got married 2 1/2 years ago we decided we would change our holiday's around a bit and instead of spending all holidays with his family, who also reside in NC, we would spend Thanksgiving with my family and Christmas with his.  Unfortunately, that didn't work out so well the last 2 Thanksgivings for various reasons....but all fell into place this year and it was fabulous.