Friends & Fridays

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Today turned out to be a beautiful day! I am so glad it's warming up again. The highs should be in the 70's this weekend. My friend, Terry, has flown to Minnesota for a long weekend. I think she's crazy because it's not going to be warm there this weekend! LOL!

With all the cold weather we've had lately and the fact that almost everyone I know has been fighting off colds it's been hard to get together with my friends. Tonight we managed to get together for dinner and drinks. It was a wonderful night! I can't believe how much I miss our get togethers when life gets in the way of our fun.

This weekend is the International Chocolate Festival. I'm hoping we make it down Coral Gables tomorrow. Afterall, who wants to miss a chocolate festival? NOT ME!

It's warming up!

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I'm so glad it's warming up! Nobody moves to south Florida to be cold!

Are any of you natural blondes? I am and I heard some sad news this morning. On our local news they said that natural blondes were a dying breed and that in couple hundred years there wouldn't be any of us left. The "blonde thing" is a recessive gene and both parents must carry it in order to produce a blonde child.

I say forget the cheerleader ----Save the blonde, Save the world! LOL!

We received some beautiful postcards today. They came from London, Germany, Denver, Santa Monica and Amsterdam. Thank you so much to Mrs. Dixon and her class, Sandra, Yaffa, Sebastian & Dante. We are having so much fun waiting for the mail everyday. It really does feel like we're traveling around the world.

Deanna of Flower Scraps was kind enough to honor me with an award.

It's the first award I've received and I am doubly honored that it came from Deanna! Make sure you check out her wonderful blog! I get to pass the award on and here's who I decided to give it to:

1. April - I have grown so close to April since I joined her CT that I feel like I've known her for years. April sells her sets at Scrap It Sassy and she also gives away some wonderful things on her blog

2. Shel - Shel is another amazing designer and I am so lucky that I get to work with her kits as part of her CT. Shel gives away wonderful kits on her blog and she has some great kits coming out soon

3. Dianna - Dianna has got some awesome tags on her blog. She's also been a big help in getting postcards for my class.

4. Rose - I don't really know Rose, but I love reading her blog. After reading her posts, you'll feel like you know her too. Plus, she was the first person to follow my blog.

Cold, colder & coldest!

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It's cold. I'm tired. I'm going to bed. LOL!

Half way there!

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Tuesday was our 90th day of school and that means that there are only 90 more to go until summer vacation! I love my class, but man am I ever looking forward to vacation!

More postcards arrived! We received cards from Australia, San Diego, Boston, Daytona Beach, New York and Houston. Thank you all so much!

Heather, the kids were so impressed that you knew how to make a postcard! I think you're their new hero!

We're cold again. It was cold yesterday and it's cold now. Today's high might be 70and it is supposed to get into the 40's tonight. YUCK! I just don't know how you guys that live up north deal with it all winter long. It's making me crazy!

I pulled out April's Winter's First Snow Kit and played with it today. I made a quick layout and you're going to get it as a quickpage. There's room for your journaling. Here's what mine look like...

And, here's where you can download the quickpage.

I'm going to get some sleep now. Enjoy your day!

Man oh man!

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My email has been running over for several days now. There is a certain message board that I used to visit quite often. I would share things I made there. I stopped visiting the site last summer after some of the ladies there stopped playing nicely. Then last October I learned that one of them was sharing a template I made and taking credit for it. Well, apparently, another template that I made and shared there has been getting lots of attention lately. I haven't shared anything on that site for over six months, but people are emailing me and asking for the template.

I'm honored that I made something people like, but I don't share there anymore. To make it all even worse, some of them are getting angry when I tell them that I don't want to share my work. It's my work. Shouldn't I be allowed to give or not give it out at my discretion? Anyway, it all just reminds me of how happy I am that I no longer visit that board. There are much nicer places to visit online!

Speaking of nice places to visit, have you gone by Shel Belle Scraps today? You can pick up another part of the Hope kit. Here's one more layout I made using the kit...


I just love the elements in this kit! Shel is awesome!

I also forgot to let you know that Deanna released the second and last part of the Winter's Spell kit on her blog, Flower Scraps Sunday. If you haven't picked it up yet, make sure you go by and get it. Here's another layout I made using parts of the kit.

Presidential Candy Wrapper

I know that some of you had trouble with mediafire yesterday. I even had a hard time getting things uploaded to them. Hopefully, everything is worked out now, but just in case I'll give you the mediafire and the 4shared links for today's wordart.

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Did you pick up the first part of Shel Belle's Hope Kit yesterday? You should be able to pick up the first part of the elements today. Here's another layout I made with the kit.



In honor of this weeks Presidential Inaguration I've used the Hope Kit to make you another candy wrapper. I didn't have a chance to put one together for you to see, but here's what the wrapper looks like...



I left the back blank so you can put your own info there. Download wrapper here

Enjoy your day!

Eye Candy

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So, Saturday turned out to be a beautiful day and I'm feeling a little better. We went over to Ocean Drive earlier and checked out Art Deco Weekend. Here's a picture of my favorite part of the parade...

LOL! These are some of the firemen that posed for the 2009 Firemen of South Florida calendar. How's that for eye candy?

If you visit Shel Belle Scraps today you'll be able to pick up the first part of her new kit called Hope. It's a beautiful kit. Here's a preview for you...


Isn't it awesome? I think it's the perfect release for this week. I made a few layouts using this kit and here's the first one...


Some of you are having trouble with mediafire today, so here's the 4shared link. Hope it works for you.

http://www.4shared.com/file/81318954/2fe3ea56/Game_1-18-09.html