Craaaaazy

Ok these are just mean!!

Australian ads about NZ!!   This one won...

2 were made... This is the other one...

but we got 'em back...

and this one..

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

Happy Birthday Rachie Rach!!

Populating the SCRAPGRLZ shop...

I have been busy over the past few weeks (inbetween computer crashes) - getting my store into one storefront and *populating* it with all the items.   It has been lots of fun - inbetween - nearly going blind.

There is lots of new fun stuff - from various manufacturers

interpersed with some Breezy Designs stuff

as well as lots and lots of fun new embellishments and add ons

   

not to mention gift certificates in lots of $$ denominations - for those scrappy friends who are hard to buy for - or for you to tell your friends to give you!!

Although I now have all the products there - more are being added all the time from new manufacturers.   There are some HUGE DEEP DISCOUNTS on some TLC items - but some of that is down to the last dribble - so if you want it - do not delay!   

I still have some prettifying to do....but for now

GO CHECK OUT THE STORE

I haven't even read the books *LOL*

so I don't know if this is good or bad!!
Take the Quiz and Share Your Results!

Post it... like you stole it!!

and that is exactly what I have done!   Saw this on Betsey's blog - so I nicked it.   The idea is that the things in bold are things you've done.

It is going to be fun to see what everyone has done!

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band (does the comb count?)
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you're not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run **in softball though not baseball**
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelos David
41. Sung karaoke (many many times!)
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris –( ok I am claming this even though I was a woosy and only went to level  1!!!)
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check – hasn’t everyone???
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar  bleech!
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone **many many times!
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone's life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Read an entire book in one day (many times!)

AND by the way - I am RARE!!  (thanks Sonja for the link!)

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 2 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

the plan... again

back to exercising.. I have been a slack arse!

Plan 1 - I have FINALLY opened the box on my Polar heart rate monitor.. the one I asked for as a birthday present - a mere 6mumble months ago!! Anyway, I opened it up, set it all up, RTFM even!!! and now I am wearing it.  Yes of course it is green!!

   

So far I have burned a whole 39 calories!! 

Plan 2 - Start swimming again - i always find that the easiest to get back into fitness.   I even bought 2 new pairs of togs and some snazzy new goggles!

Plan 3 - A fun little scrappy project - which might even get me back into scrapping - a mini album of sorts - with a page for each 10 pounds gone.

Plan 4 - I only need to lose 10 pounds... I wish.    But I saw this somewhere the other day and thought it was a great idea.   I just have to lose 10 pounds.   When I have lost it - then I just need to lose 10 pounds etc etc etc until i reach my goal.   Sounds much better than I have to lose ***toomanymumble*** pounds - cos that task seems a little insurmountable at the start!   10 pounds is a much easier goal

Plan 5 - STICK TO THE FECKING PLAN FOR ONCE

WOW   - just typing this .. sitting on my fat ase,.... i am now up at a whopping 57 calories burned

thanks Wendy!

for giving me this Award!

The purpose of the "Proximidade"----one creates one's blog and one makes posts to it---over the course of time, one receives comments and develops regular readers, and via reading each others pages and exchanging comments one grows "closer" to these people, ---so via blogging one moves into closer proximity to some individuals than one might not otherwise have come into contact with----and acknowledging this "friendship", this proximity---one earns a "proximidade".

I have certainly *proximaded* quite a few people in the blog world.   Some I know IRL - some I know only through the powers of the internet.    My morning pleasure is always to sit down with my brekkie and read through the goings on of my friends.

So without further ado it is my pleasure to hereby award "The Proximidade Award" to the following people. They must post the award on their Blog and wear it proudly:

(fake) Shelley
Rachel
Kim

Chanel
Sonja

Please don't forget to select 5 other Blog friends to give this award to.

Gobble and crop!

Our Meetup group is on today here - and as Thanksgiving is just around the corner - I decided to make it a gobble and crop!   Everyone is bringing along a yummy nibble - so we can stuff our faces while we scrap.

I am not quite sure what I am going to work on.   I was going to make my Teresa Collins "'tis The Season" book - like this one - so that I was all ready to do photos for the month of December.   It is BEYOND adorable.

I had sent out an email blast late last month getting orders for these - and I ordered an extra one for myself.   However yesterday - someone emailed me as she had seen her friends one.  For some reason she never got my newsletter (even though she is on the list)  and wanted one.    So I sold my very last one and posted it out yesterday!    ACK!!

So now I have to come up with something to do.    I am thinking I might write my Christmas cards - then that would be another job done.   I had made them all at the last retreat - so they are all ready to go...

hmmm

think I have talked myself into doing that!

Coming into winter you say.....

then why am I still wearing tanktops!!     Just look at this

and it is meant to get even hotter today... and last for the next few days as well. Looks like it is going to be a lovely weekend!!