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**WW** Cosmo Cricket - Matilda - 6 winners!!

Well I am starting off this winners post - by jumping up and down with excitement because the All Blacks won the 2011 Rugby World cup!!   I think quite possibly it was one of the best games I have ever watched.   Adding here - I am now at the store - on just 3 hours sleep!!

Talk about down to the wire - we won 8-7 - the whole game was nailbiting - in fact I could hardly bear to watch when the score was SOOO close - I am sure I needed my heart restarted several times.   

Okay - I could go on and on - but I will put you out of your misery and announce the 6 winners of the 6x6 paper pads!

 

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

11
12
1
16
5
17

Timestamp: 2011-10-23 16:53:55 UTC

 

and the Scrapgrlz World Cup winners are......

 

Satyn

Jingle

Sallie

Ngan

Margie

Nadine

 

Get thee to your computers girls - and send me your snail mail address so I can get these shipped out to you in time for Halloween!

 

And just because I can - another photo of the All Blacks -in full force doing the Haka before the game. 

  The French really stood up to the challenge, formed an arrow shape and then walked right up to them! OOOH

MOvember update

Well I wouldn't quite say that.   It is definitely bringing something though - flies??  *LOL*

Anyway if you feel like donating to the cause - and it is a good one - Men's (or any) cancer is not a joke - click the pic on the left to take you to the donation page.   Course if you feel like posting me a dollar to buy a razor for 1 December - all donations accepted *LOL*

I am going to keep this post at the top for a week - so daily blog posts will be underneath this one!

Now for your enjoyment - a selection of photos of MOMike.

 

Day 0, Week 1

It's all about to come off

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 1, Week 1

ARRGGHHH... who is this man/boy???

 

 

 

 

 
Day 14, end of Week 2

and I quote Mike -

half way there and the 'stache is looking good.

Applied for a part as a cheesy bad guy in a cheap western, not quiet long enough yet. Still need to keep the growing going.   Sadly enough my lovely and loving wife will not kiss me with the lights on.

he is right on that!!

 

Oh by the way - if you think the *stache has made his nose look a different shape - it's not the *stache... he broke it.. last week ... at rugby!

 

I had a dream.....

that it was Saturday, and I actually posted the **Wednesday Winner** on time.   Then i woke up... and realised ....

I did I did

I did see a puddy tat.. *LOL*

.... sorry I am falling over tired today... and several espressos, a vitamin B/D pill and a Berocca (magic normally) has done nothing to lessen the feeling of lead in my limbs and eyes and brain and and....

Things are sort of back on track around here.   i am still using the laptop, and hating the keyboard, and last night sadly said goodbye to my parents who flew back to New Zealand.   Seems very quiet around here today.   They have just landed in NZ - after the long flight, they will be pleased to be off the plane.. and have a short wait until their flight on to Christchurch .. my hometown.....moment of homesickness happening....

but never fear... as promised I am here... on the right day...

posting the winner of the wonderful WW prize for this week... 

the Scenic Route Appleton kit which is perfect for school photos.

I was pleased to see from the comments that I am not the only one that is YEARS (decades?) behind on school scrapping.

I think some have given up on me *gasp* because we only had 16 commenters this week - but that just means those 16 commenters have  better odds at winning.

So spinning the old R.I.G let's see what we get...

ooh... that is making me dizzy

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

10	

Timestamp: 2010-08-28 17:42:03 UTC

So who is lucky #10 then???

Shannon said...

we just moved a friend in to help in the hard times so we got 4 kids to get up and out the door in the mornings while it's a juggle it has it's benefits and i look forward to scrap booking our busy school year!

SHANNON!!... congrats!!   sounds like you will definitely be using up this kit!!   Email me using the link at the left and i will get this out to you.

Everyone that missed out I have some Scenic Route goodies left a giveaway prices so check out the store!

Okay I better get this posted, as in about 5 minutes I have people from the NZ/Aussie meetup group arriving to watch the next match in the Tri-Nations rugby series... and then tonight I have 12 people from Silicon Valley Scrapbooking Meetup group here for a crop.

ain't no rest for the wicked ... as they say!

HOLY MOLY - it takes a village!!

It takes a while to work that many winners out I can tell you - that is why this post is going up so late today!!    Well that is my excuse anyway ... and I am sticking to it. 

Well that - and the fact that I was up until 1am this morning - cos last night was crop night here.  We had a blast - we have such a great group - a lot of laughs, a lot of wonderful food and lots of scrapping!!

Then I was back up at 5am this morning.  Because at 7am we had a breakfast meetup for the New Zealand group to watch the first of the Bledisloe cup rugby matches - AKA the annual grudge match between Aussie and NZ - and we won.   No... we annihilated them... it was probably one of the best games of rugby I have watched in a long long time!    Ahhh Richie McCaw.. be still my heart!

THEN..

yes there is more ...

it was off to the airport to pick up my parents who flew in from New Zealand today and landed at lunchtime.    They are here for 3 weeks YAYYYYYY.   We should have been back home by around 1pm - but there were various stuff ups at the airport today and in the end we did not arrive home until 3 !!

Which put a bit of a kink in the plans as we had another NZer arriving over at 4pm to watch the rugby game - along with M&D who had not seen it cos they were on the plane!

So rewatching the game has just finished... and now I am here.... even though it is now Saturday night!!

As you can see it has been a rather busy 30 odd hours!

But without further ado... I will not make you wait any longer.

Ummm is there anyone still out there even listening to me????

I thought for sure everyone would be a winner - cos normally I only get around 20 odd comments - but this time we surpassed that and hit the 30's ... I am becoming the regular pioneer woman of scrapbooking contests ... hmmmm .. maybe not.. otherwise I would be giving away the new Cricut Imagine *LOL*

So here are the 28 winning numbers... and listed below that... the 28 winning names... if your name is listed - then click the little button over to the left there and send me your address so I can get your prize out to you.

Don't forget to send me pics of your craftiness when you are done either!

The numbers are......

Random Number Generator

Here are your numbers:

 4
14
12
30
29
19
23
28
35
32
 8
11
17
 1
24
34
 2
 9
20
 3
22
13
15
16
31
26
33
18

Timestamp: 2010-08-01 00:25:48 UTC

The winners are (and to help I have put them into numerical order)  

1            Tami Moore

 

2            Serenarepsold

3            Lara Carson

 

4            Christy Miller

 8           Marcia

 9           Annie Bannie

11         Jayne

12         Tonya S

13         Joey

 

14         Amanda Byrd

15         Nancy M

16         Julie

17         Shelley M (no not me... Shellbilly!)

18         Kroberts

19         Michele H

20         Jill

22         Sara L

23         Mandie

24         Angie

26         Brittney A

28         Sara Rossi

29         Becky

30         Lorraine McL

31         Kim R

32         Wendy M

33         Noelle

34         Carla

35         Real Rach

Well done ladies and thank you for all the wonderful comments you left for Caitlin - she had a blast reading them.

Don't forget to come back next Wednesday to play again

and check in every day not just Wednesday because I have lots of new goodies going into the Scrapgrlz store over the next week or so... as the orders arrive in from the releases at CHA!

HO HO HO - it's Shelley Christmas....

Well here it is nearly midday pacific time and I have not put up the post!!  ACK!    I actually started this at 6am would you believe, then stopped to watch the rugby with Mike while we had breakfast, then we started doing some tidy up around here - one thing lead to another and suddenly it was 11.45!

Obviously this Christmas giveaway was VERY popular and I can see I am not the only one that LOVE LOVE LOVES that time of year.   It is definitely my favourite by far - and I think when it comes to scrapbooking - Christmas scrapbooking goodies are also my favourite.    I have absolutely NO willpower when it comes to those, and buy them willy nilly - I am not sure I will live long enough to use all the papers and embellishments I have bought - and so many are so cute - I am not sure I can even bear to cut or use them!

Also many of you loved the Pohutukawa tree - so I thought I would post another photo - showing you a close up of the flowers that cover the tree when it is in bloom - they really are spectacular.

 

OKAY - on with the drawing!!    What would I do without the random generator???

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

17   

Timestamp: 2010-07-24 14:33:05 UTC

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checking it out.....

...................reading through .....

so who is #17 and going to be jingle-ing all the way to their mailbox then????.....

...

#17 is  

Deborah said...

Oh, I like all the Christmas stuff :)

Woo hoo Deborah - way to go - you will have lots of fun playing with this - and you will be UBER organised in plenty of time for Christmas.   I can't wait to see what you make with this stuff.   Remember to send me some pics when you are done - so I can post it for all to see!

For those of you who missed out on these yummy goodies - I have a FEW of the Little Yellow Bicycle items and the WeR embellishments, some of the Making Memories paper left, and a fairly good stash of the Cosmo paper left in the store.   Just click the links!!

So even if you missed out today, you can make your own wonderful things - send me pics if you do. 

 

Make sure you ALL check in next Wednesday

- tell your friends, your family and co-croppers

- because it is going to be...

another super sized giveaway!

so who is going to PARIS???

I mean I can't think of a better reason to go, than you won scrapbooking items for a trip like that - right??   It makes perfect sense - you have the scrappy items - you need to go to take photos so you can USE the items ;-)

I had a VERY busy and VERY long day yesterday playing nurse for Mike.   We were up at 5.30am to get him to the hospital.   We were back home by 9.30 - a little later than planned - as he did not take to the general that well.   A Whiter Shade of Pale comes to mind - cos that was the way he looked when I brought him home.   He slept on and off for most of the day - and finally got up around 4.30ish.   Had some light food which stayed down YAYY - and plenty to drink.   I am pleased to say he is doing much better - and came through everything fine - although is a pretty stiff, and swollen today.  I also had to get the youngest over to college at lunchtime, and then pick her up at 10.30pm last night when classes finished.    Then with the rugby on at 12.30 am - I did not get to bed until 3am!!   I am certainly running on empty today.  

But I digress - lets get on with choosing the winner of the goodies!!

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

21	

Timestamp: 2010-07-17 19:10:04 UTC

and number 21 is........

  

NEVIS

Nevis said...

Love the stuff...and the theme is great!

July 15, 2010 at 08:41 PM

Nevis click the little pic on the left there to send me your address so I can get these goodies out to you - so you can start booking those tickets for Paris.

Me.... well I will be playing Nurse Nightingale for most of the weekend - so I might even manage to get some crafting and scrapping in - yes I know you are shocked - I might shock you more and post things I have actually made with my own two little hands!!  

One thing I will be doing is sending away the goodies for a swap I am in.  It was fun - it was a turquoise swap.    I was surprised though - at how different that shade is depending on what you looked at.  After a while I was feeling confused as to just what the colour TURQUOISE was meant to be like!    I am pretty sure my partner in this does not read my blog, so here is a peek at what I am sending.    I just have to decorate a little birdhouse I want to send her as well - and then it is all ready to go!

oh yeah... and we WHOMPED the Springboks again 31-17 - will be interesting next week to see how the Springboks match up against the Wallabies!