It all starts today!!!

Oh how exciting this Spellbinder’s 5th Anniversary Party is! It starts today with Debbie Olson’s blog and continues for 15 more days. Here are the official rules, and here is the schedule:

Jan. 5 Debbie Olson

Jan. 6 Michelle Wooderson

Jan. 7 Holly Craft

Jan. 8 Sherry Cheever

Jan. 9 Heidi Blankenship

Jan. 10 Becca Feeken

Jan. 11 Jennifer Ellefson

Jan. 12 Sharon Harnist

Jan. 13 Jeni Calkins

Jan. 14 Wendy Weixler

Jan. 15 Beth Pingry – right here!

Jan. 16 Keri Lee Sereika

Jan. 17 Sally Lynn MacDonald
Jan. 18 Donya Schroeder

Jan. 19 Linda Duke

Get your wish list ready and good luck on the prizes!!

Here we go again!

Spellbinders is at it again! Its their 5th anniversary and they’re practically giving away the farm! Starting next Monday the sneak peeks at the new release die templates are starting. Just like last summer, visit the blog, send the email from the link to register to win the die. But this time you will win not just that day’s die template, but each die that has been show up to that day. So every day the prize package gets bigger. If you go to each designated blog on the designated day, and enter to win, you will be entered for the jumbo prize. Here are the official details.

See that tiny little sneak peek die template at the above link? I’m doing that one! And its super cool and fun and so versatile! I can’t stop playing with it! But you’ll have to wait until January 15 when I get to reveal it. I’ve been playing with the other new die templates too, and when I first got them I thought, hmmmm, this is interesting. I grabbed some scrap paper, started cutting and embossing, and DING DING DING, how cool is this? So very cool! You all will love these new releases, and the artwork too!

No cookies for breakfast today, I had leftover pizza. Cindy had a bite too, but now she’s back upstairs by her daddy. He’s been home for almost 2 weeks on vacation and she couldn’t be happier. Me, I’m about ready to throw everyone out. These vacations bust up my routine and nothing gets done. I’m ready for work and school when I can finally dig out of the holiday decor, laundry and clutter. And I’m soooooo done with this weather! And 2008. OK, so it’s ending on a better note than where it started, but I’m ready for 2009. Enough venting.

Here’s to a great 2009 with lots more cookies, artwork and Cindy stories!

Cindy says Happy Holidays!

Spellbinders DT contest!

Spellbinders is on the hunt for their 2009 Design Team! All the details are on the blog there!

I’m back from Florida and wondering why I live in the frozen tundra. Its 4 degrees, with a -15 windchill, the garage door was frozen shut, and the salt I put on the driveway blew away. I had to drive Sparky and Spunky to their bus stops. I think its time to move to the Caribbean. But first I have to clean up the house. The boy’s bathroom is almost done being retiled. When its done I can ride the vacuum around upstairs and tackle the dust and clutter downstairs. And someone is going to have to decorate the Christmas tree before Santa comes. Yikes, that ‘s next week, I better get going! This morning, I think I’ll have fudge for breakfast!