Heading Home!

Friendship, Get Well Soon, Hello, Just a Note

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Good Morning!  We are headed home today from West Springfield, MA where we had a fabulous time. Fun to see regulars…Nancy, Pat, Claudia, Helen, and so many more!  A super BIG thank you to Susan for helping with the Make n Takes !  She was a great help!

Today brings a simple card using our new stamps!  I’m hoping to get them on the website soon!

We only have one other show this month in Minneapolis, MN which is my home town.  I have a nephew graduating from high school Father’s day weekend.  Between his graduation and the Minneapolis show I’m going to paint my Mom and Dad’s kitchen cabinets. I love to paint!

Birthday, Father's Day, Friendship, Hello, Just a Note, Winter

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Good Morning!  We had a fabulous time in Sayner, WI this weekend.  Now the mad dash to Portland, OR.  We leave this afternoon after we frantically make all the stamps we sold out of this weekend.  🙂 it’s good to be busy!

Stamps Used:  DD78 KB’s Pete Penguin,  E273 You are Cool, A240 KB’s Ar row Snowflake

Here is a really cool Pinwheel my sister made me!  I love it! It shouts spring/summer is here!

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Live Every Moment

Hello, Just a Note, Thinking of You, Uncategorized

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Good Afternoon…we have had some full and wonderful days with our family!  Did a little shopping today…got another pair of shoes today!  They are so cute.  That is one thing when I buy a pair of shoes…I never take a pair of shoes out.  With other things, like shirts, one goes in and one goes out…not shoes:)  Love shoes!  Bought red shoes today. 🙂

Notice that today’s card has a bead on it?  On the ribbon!

Stamps Used:  J35 Live Every Moment, D299 Trio Butterflies

Well back to work…not quite ready yet for Akron.  If anyone is interested in helping us at Akron on Saturday, please email me at beth@shopec.com.  Thanks!

Beautiful Day

Friendship, Hello, Uncategorized

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We are off and running on this bright and beautiful spring day!  We are expecting temps around 55 degrees!

These calendar pages make me look in the discounted calendars to see if any would make good cards.  Can’t seem to find a Kraft one 😦

We changed the saying of this stamp a little from “the bright” to “a bright”.  Hopefully the new stamps will be on the website later this week.  Orders first 🙂  New Easter stamps will be showcased later this week.  Sold well in Allentown so that is always a good sign.

Good Evening!

Friendship, Hello

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After 15 hours and 36 minutes in the truck we are finally save and sound at home!  So happy to no longer be in a moving vehicle.  Happy to have 44 degree weather in WI too!

Stamps Used:  G337 KB’s Lightbulb Lg, B285 You brighten my life!

Allentown PA certainly brighten our lives this weekend!  It was so fun to see those fun and fabulous friends that we have made there over the years.  Our Make n Take Tables were so much fun!

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so I’m off to get a good nights sleep so that I can hit the road running in the morning.  Emails to answers, special orders to get out, internet orders to get out, wholesale orders to get out, paper work to do, toy haulers to clean up…I think we’ll be busy!

More Calendar Cards

Friendship, Hello, Just a Note

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Ok so it really helps to have a really cool calendar to cut up!  Love the craft paper calendar.  This card makes me think of spring!  I believe today is the first day of spring.  Not that New England area feels like spring but WI is feeling a little springy!

Stamps Used:  A190 Tiny Heart, BB56 KB’s Birdbath bird, C229 Happy Day to You, GG35 KB’s Primrose Lg

Thurs March 5

Friendship, Hello, Just a Note, smile, Thinking of You

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Good Evening!  I hope you are all warm and cozy somewhere because it seems like most of us are in very cold weather.  We have arrived in Lebanon, IN so we are very close to Indianapolis.  It was 32 degrees in the trailer when we stopped but we got the heater turned on and went in for some supper. When we came back it was already up to 50 degrees so I think we will survive 🙂

I accidentally left my cards for the blog at home but luckily I had already taken the pictures…I just don’t have the numbers of the stamps 😦

Wednesday’s Card

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hello!  A couple of new stamps to showcase today 🙂  Sometimes when we have good selling stamps or stamps that we really like we make them in different sizes.  Our C213 KB’s Lightbulb is one of our best sellers and so we made it a little bigger and a little smaller.

Stamps Used:  G337 KB’s Lightbulb Lg, E277 Bright Spot World.  We do plan to make this stamp again but instead of the word the…we will use a…  you are a bright spot in my world.

love the new stamps…just want to stamp instead of making stamps 🙂

So just a little side note…I have been having trouble with pain in my thumbs and my sister had thumb surgery  8 years ago and the symptoms were mimicking hers.  Today I went to the hand surgeon.  Although I do not need surgery now…I will at sometime in the future.  Today I was given an injection of cortisone in the thumb joint.  This will help hold off surgery.  I was hoping it was all in my head but I knew the pain was getting worse.  But glad to know that it can be fixed!

Water & Walls

Friendship, Hello, smile

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Good Evening!  Whew, we have been busy!  BUT I have walls agains without water pipes showing.  It is looking awesome.  Today’s card will be added to our make n take selection at the conventions…So Enjoy!  The card base is one of The Paper Cut’s square scallop triple cards.

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and my new wall!  So exciting!  Now we have an incredible amount of work to finish floors