Amazing!

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AMAZING! Amazing is the word my friends and co-workers have used to describe you guys all day. They are amazed at how you're reaching out and helping with the card drive for Sebastian. Personally, I'm not surprised at all. You see, the secret that I know and they don't is that crafters are the BEST people in the whole world.

I learned that Amy of Tsuruta Designs has offered up a challenge to her blog readers and is offering the chance to win a $25 gift certificate for anyone who sends a card and blog about the card drive. You can find the details here.

Why would she do this? Why would someone who lives on the other side of the country and has never met me or Sebastian go out of their way to help insure he has cards waiting for him on the 15th? Because she is a crafter and crafters are the BEST people in the whole world!

Politicians should become crafters. The world would be a better place!

Amy, I tried to email you but my computer wouldn't let me. It said something about the "default mail client" not being installed and then it laughed at me. (really!) Please send me an email! I have a thank you gift for you and would love to help pay for the gift certificate you're giving away as part of your challenge.

As I find the blog posts you're all making to help spread the word about Sebastian's card dirve I'm printing them out for his mom. She is saving them for Sebastian. Isn't that a wonderful thing to be able to add to a child's scrapbook?!?!

Please, let me know if you've posted on your blog. I don't want to miss anyone. Plus, Orange Croc Guy has kicked in some money to have another gift certificate give away here. If you would like the opportunity to win a $30 gift certificate to Bugaboo Digi Stamps just post about the card drive for Sebastian and leave a link here for me. I'll pick a winner on Sunday.

Sebastian is a big Justin Bieber fan and on Saturday I tweeted the link to my blog post to him. (Yes, my friends are still laughing at me for that one!) I figured I had nothing to lose ~ either he would read it or he wouldn't. I'm guessing he didn't since he hasn't tweeted me back. lol!

If you're on twitter and aren't too embarrassed to tweet Justin, please do. Maybe he'll answer you. lol!

Because I just can't say it enough ~~~ THANK YOU!


UPDATE:

Here are blogs I've found that posted about the card drive for Sebastian. Please let me know if I've missed yours or if you know of others I've missed.

1. Tsuruta Designs
2. Paper and Ink Playground
3. Gifts from deeyll
4. Chick n Scrap
5. Lauren's Creative
6. Jen's Craft Corner
7. Daizeefli's Flower Patch
8. My Little Slice of Bliss
9. Do More With Less
10. Homemade Cards by Erin
11. Creepy Glowbugg
12. It's All Rosie
13. Scrapcat Cards by Linda
14. Scrappin Rabbit Designs
15. My Happy Place
16. Sherry Gardner ~ Life is Good
17. Jen Shears Designs
18. From My Bungalow
19. Scrappy Pink Corner
20. Sylvia's Stamp Corner
21. Such Pretty Canvas
22. Arty Scrappy
23. Miller's Ink
24. Fresh Squeezed Designs by Ryann Salamon
25. Creations in Bloom
26. The Bald Dragonfly
27. Button Junkie
28. Yes, Virginia
29. Life with the Tucker and Wolek Clan
30. Cheryl June Girl
31. Paper Daydream
32. Cards Friends and Angels
33. Alice's Little Wonderland
34. Seabrook Designs
35. One Crafty Mama
36. Twin 2u2 Designs
37. ScrapClose2The Heart
38. Just Add Glue To

And Facebook postings that I know of...

1. Shelly
2. Karen Azeka Ladd
3. Susan Pearson
4. Sebastian's Mom

Today was loooooong!

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After staying up way too late last night watching the super bowl and The Voice then driving home from the party we were at morning came way too soon! I fell asleep on the couch as soon as I got home from school today.

Orange Croc Guy showed up and asked if I wanted to go out to dinner. When I said no he asked about ordering fajitas and was shocked when I replied, "Are you crazy? NO!"

You should have seen the look on his face when he asked, "Wait, is the cute fajita delivery guy not cute anymore."

I ruined any hopes he had of never being subjected the cute fajita guy when I answered, "Dude, shut up. He's cuter than ever. I just can't have him coming to the door cause I'm too tired to comb my hair and put on make up."

Yeah, we ordered pizza. lol!

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Just a normal day...

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Normal days are good for me, but they can make for boring blog posts. lol!

My photography class went well. There were no ghosts and I didn't feel the urge to throw my cell phone at anyone.

We went outside to take pictures of moving cars and only one person yelled at us. The most exciting thing that happened was when I couldn't remember how to change one of the settings on my camera and the instructor wouldn't tell me. He said he wasn't being mean and just wanted to make sure I would be able to do it when he wasn't standing beside me. I replied that I'm wasn't really dumb and just wanted to make sure that he earned his money. He laughed and said, "That's a good one."

Of course, now that I'm thinking about his response I'm wondering if I should have thrown my cell phone afterall. lol!

What do you think?

500,000, baby!

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YIPPEE! It's finally happened! At some point last night someone made the 500,000 blog view. I'm just sorry I was sleeping and missed the whole thing. Tell me, were there fireworks? lol!

As promised, I've got gift certificate goodies to give away! In honor of hitting 500,000 views I've got 5 gift certificates worth $5 for five people. I used random.org to help me pick winners and I picked a couple extra names so if I don't hear from someone within the week I'll give their GC to another blog follower.

I need the following GC winners to send me an email so I can get their prizes to them:

orit israeli
Ardilla
ding
Jane
Knowly

I need to hear from you by Friday!

Now, I must get ready for my photography class. Who knows what adventures await me in the basement this week!

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The Story of Me part 26

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Harmony ignored the knock on the door just like she had been doing all morning, but this time the door opened and someone entered the room. It was the lady from the hospital. The clipboard lady who said she and Harmony were going be friends.

“Hi. Do you remember me? We met at the hospital.” There was a smile on the ladys face, but it looked forced and Harmony didn’t respond. “My name’s Madelyn.”

The lady walked closer to where Harmony sat huddled in the floor and pulled out a chair. “I hear you’re having a bad morning.” She sat in the chair and placed her clipboard on the play table beside her. “I was hoping we could talk. You must have some questions and I’ll try to answer them if I can.”

Harmony looked up with the saddest green eyes Madelyn Wilson had ever seen. “They said bad things about Grandma Pat.”

“I know. I’m sorry you had to hear that. You loved your Grandma Pat didn’t you?” Madelyn asked hoping to engage the child in a converseation.

“I still love her and I want to see her. I don’t want to stay here any more.” Harmony cried.

“Well, I’m afraid you can’t see her now. She had to go away for awhile.”

“You‘re lying!” Harmony screamed. “She wouldn’t go away without me. She loves me and she would never leave me.”

“I know. She loves you very much, but you couldn’t go to the place she had to go. We can talk about it if you want to sit here beside me.” Madelyn motioned to the other chair at the play table and waited hopefully as she once again smiled at Harmony.

Harmony hesitated, trying to decide if she should trust this lady and her clipboard. She hadn’t said anything bad about Grandma Pat like the Harrisons had and she was smiling. She had promised that she would be Harmony’s friend and Harmony needed friends. Quietly the little girl stood and took a seat in the chair.

“I guess you’re kind of mad at the Harrisons, huh?”

“They said bad things about Grandma Pat.” Harmony kept her head down and spoke as she stared at her lap.

“Harmony, have you ever done something you weren’t supposed to do.”

“I didn’t stay in the yard like Grandma Pat told me to.” Tears began to flow freely from her eyes as she spoke.

“Ok, so one day you did something bad. Do you think that means you’re always going to be bad?”

“No, I’ll be good. I’ll be good forever. I promise. Just let me see Grandma Pat.” the little girl pleaded

“Well, a long time ago your Grandma Pat did something bad. She did something bad and then she decided to be good everyday just like you’ve decided to be good. She decided to be good and she was. She was very good for a long time. But there are people in another state who need to talk to her about the bad thing she did. They need to understand what made her do it.” Harmony continued to stare at her lap as she listened to the clipboard lady talk. “Can you understand that?”

“Will she come back for me after they talk to her?” Harmony asked hopefully.

“I don’t know, maybe she could come see you, but I don’t think that will happen for a long, long time.”

“Does she know where I am?”

“She knows you’re with the Harrisons and that made her happy. She knows you’ll be safe here.”

“Can I stay here?” Harmony asked hopefully. “Can I stay here so she’ll know where to find me?”

Madelyn smiled at the little girl. “The Harrisons would like that very much. They love you and they’re sorry about the things you heard them saying.”

“I told them I hated them.” Harmony looked back down toward her lap.

“They know you were just sad and didn’t mean it. I bet we could go out there and you could tell them you’re sorry and then we could eat some breakfast. What do you think?”

Harmony nodded her head then reached for Madelyn Wilson’s extended hand and followed her out of the bedroom.