Just a quick update.

Yes, I know....it's been a month.  And sadly, I haven't done a bit of scrapping. :(  It's been, ummmm.... interesting around here.   I found out that I'm pregnant. Yes, you read that right. Pregnant.  Surprise!!!  Let's just say that since finding out there have been a lot of issues and talking and swearing and tears.  We'll leave it at that.
This weekend we are looking at a bigger house. (I hope!)  So, I may be moving by the end of the month.  No matter what, my scrappin' goodies are getting packed up for the time being.  If we don't move, there is going to be a shifting of living arrangements to accommodate the upcoming changes.  I've decided that if we don't move (or even if we do maybe)  I'm buying a Workbox to hold my stuff.   But that's off in the distant future. *sigh*  I have to wait for another free shipping promotion and save my pennies for it.
So thats the jist of what's been happening with me.  Just in case you were wondering.... :)

I'm behind already....

It's what, the 13th of January?  And I'm behind on my scrapping, lol.  The worst part about that is that I don't have any excuse for it.  I've been piddling around, but haven't finished anything.  I am waiting on a package that is being delivered today (yeah!) that contains a new cuttlebug folder and some prima flowers that will assist me in finishing up my projects, so that's a good thing.  And yesterday, I stumbled across some very cute $1 stamps at Joann's.  These pics aren't the best, but I wanted to share:

These are super cute!  There are some kid looking Valentines day ones, some Friendship ones and some general everyday ones.  I'm excited to use them!  And the kiddos want to use them for their cards for school. These ought to make some some ones.
Alrighty, I just wanted to share my find.  Be sure to check out the post below about Stampin' Up's Sale-A-Bration.  I am just so excited about this!  I <3 free stuff!!

Stampin' Up Sale-A-Bration!

Hello again!  I thought I'd post today about Stampin' Up's Sale-A-Bration.   Now, what is Sale-A-Bration you ask?  Well, it's your opportunity to earn free SU products. Order just $50 (before tax & shipping) of SU products and receive a free item from the Sale-A-Bration catalog. Place an order of $150(before tax & shipping) or more and start earning hostess sets, free product and free products featured in the Sale-A-Bration catalog.  Orders of $300(before tax & shipping) or more earn hostess sets, free product plus an additional free item from this mini-catalog: Sale-A-Bration. I know what you're thinking...."Wow, crazy girl, $300 is a lot of moolah right after Christmas."  And I have a solution for you!  Be a hostess to a virtual workshop!!  Get yourself a few friends, gather around the computer and shop to your hearts content.  Let me give you an example of what you, the hostess with the mostest, could earn with a scenario such as:

You have 6 friends who decide they cannot live without $65 worth of awesome SU products.  You yourself absolutely need $60 worth of product.  That gives your virtual workshop a total of $450.00.  Awesome!!  Now you get to pick out FREE product for yourself!  A party total of $450.00 earns you the following:
Either 2 Level 1 Hostess Sets or 1 Level 1 *and* 1 Level 2 Hostess Sets - Plus -
$50 in FREE SU products - Plus -
One FREE item out of the Sale - A - Bration catalog.

But that's not it!!  Every single one of your guests receive one FREE item out of the Sale-A-Bration catalog for every $50 they spend, including you!  So now you've spent $60 (plus Tax & Shipping) and you've received over $100 in FREE SU products!  Seriously!!!  Does it get any better?

But you're still thinking "Woman, you're still crazy!  I don't want to be a hostess."  That's cool too!  For every $50 you spend (before tax & shipping), you get to choose 1 item out of the Sale-A-Bration catalog, FREE!  You still get a great deal!

Sale-A-Bration is only going on now through March 31st, 2010, so take a look at the catalogs below and if you decide to place an order, here's how:

Step 1 - Make a list of the awesome SU product you would like to order - {Don't forget your free products!}
Step 2 - Send me an email at cassandra.ervin@gmail.com that includes your list, shipping information (including zip code so I can calculate your tax & shipping) and I will get back to you with your total.
Step 3 - You can pay me via PayPal
Step 4 - Sit back and wait for your goodies to arrive!


Download the Stampin' Up Catalog Here

Stampin' Up Occasions Mini Catalog ~ includes Valentines and Easter themed products!

Sale-A-Bration ~ pick your free products here!


Happy Shopping!!

Cassie

P.S. If you place your order of $50 or more before January 25th, I will enter you into a drawing to win a designer series paper of your choice.  I will hold the drawing on January 26th and notify the winner by email.  Your paper will arrive separately from your order.

My first project of 2010.

I finally completed my first project of 2010.  It is a little mini-book for Christmas 2009.  It needs pictures and journaling, but it's still kinda cute. :)  I used October Afternoon's "Nightlight" collection for this book. It was a kit purchased from Green Tangerines.  I got several of these little kits at the Scrapbook Expo back in September and I've vowed to use them, lol. I'm off to a good start.

And here is a sneak peek of next weeks project.  This is one that ought to be fun, even though I'm not a Valentine's kind of girl.... :)

















So, I'm off for now.  Everyone have a good week. :)

Starting off the New Year with a blog lift. :)

It's offically 2010. A new year, a new decade. So I revamped my blog.  My goal here is to post a project at least every week.  Which means I'll have to *work* on a new project every week, lol.  I'm also going to post sales and specials for Stampin' Up, if I decide to continue being a demonstrator.  And if I decide to open my etsy shop to sell my kits, I'll post a link. :-} Anywhozers, I just wanted to give a little explanation to the new look, new name and new feel of my blog. Just in case you were wondering....

I promised a photo

So here it is, spread out on a 5'X8' rug. The GT bag is stuffed full too. I had a little accident after taking the pic and am now sporting an ace bandage on my wrist. I guess it goes without saying that I'm not typing much tonight. Nor am I actually putting all this away, lol. Tomorrow I have an interview with the state, so I'm headed to bed. Wish me luck!

G'nite!

Whoa! What a weekend! Scrapbook Expo '09!

I had such a fun weekend! I went with my mom and Gayle (mom's co-worker) to Scrapbook Expo in Sacramento this past weekend. OMG! It was so much fun!!! We shopped at Green Tangerines, took lots o' classes and shopped the Expo until our credit cards melted.

Thursday was drive day and stopping by Green Tangerines. They were having a 40% off sale, so we did our shopping warm up there, lol. We got a ton of stuff. Seriously. And no, they are NOT closing, despite the rumors. They are actually still going very strong and resetting the store. I cannot wait to see what they do, although it will most likely be spring before we get there again. :(

Friday morning, we started off with Basic Grey's Eerie class. So much fun! Kelly G. is a riot y'all! :) My mom had to feed her addiction and cut class. I stayed until I got interrupted by family business and had to go find her. Ugh. Hopefully, we made up for being such bad students by taking Kelly to GT and The Cheesecake Factory. I'm pretty sure she believes we're crazy. Of course, she's right, but it's all good. ;) Kelly told the waiter it was our birthdays so our red velvet cheesecake was delivered with a candle in it. That's Kelly's arm. I took a pic with her, but I think it's on my mom's phone, so that will come later.

We took SEI's Clearly Fabulous, Quick Quotes This Boy Canvas class, Travel by Land, Sea & Air SEI class and Helix's All Mixed Up album. I didn't finish any of them but will have pics to share soon. :) Between these classes, we shopped, shopped, shopped. It was a whole lotta fun!

Saturday was more classes and more shopping. We took SEI's Expand It, Jacob's Ladder and Stamp & Page Expansion classes. I liked some of the techniques but wasn't thrilled by the paper lines used. I guess I'm just a butthead like that. We also took the Quick Quotes Dutch Door Album class. That was pretty cool, but I was bummed because I couldn't buy the paper pack to finish it. But I made up for that, lol. We bought more stuff. After the Expo, we went for margaritas. Our bartender was a scrapbooker too! And she made some really strong drinks:

And Sunday, we headed home. Of course we stopped at GT again before heading over the mountains. Anyway, here's the car packed to the gills:

What I got to see in the rear view mirrow:

And I know what you're probably thinking....Where are the pics of what you bought, woman? Well, I haven't unpacked yet. Tomorrow I'll get to that. Promise.

For now, I have to go make 24 invites for a Halloween party. By 8am. Wish me luck!

G'nite!

I've been a bad blogger, lol

But I'm back now to beg forgiveness. :) It's been busy busy with me lately. We are taking a much needed vacation to North Carolina. We left on Sept. 30th. I haven't been out there in 15 years. Things sure have changed. I'm going to post my adventures over the next couple of days. :)

We arrived around 11pm on Wednesday night. So of course, we didn't do too much except grab a quick bite at Wendy's and crash. Thursday, we were left to our own devices (as we were for most of the trip), so we borrowed my dad's BMW and checked out Knightdale. The only really odd thing was a lack of Starbucks. We did have breakfast at Hardee's, which now features such delectible menu items like fried bologna biscuits and pork chop and gravy biscuits. I opted for a steak biscuit and my son was enthralled with the idea that they served bacon biscuits. Sadly, spawn #1 was sick to her stomach and didn't get to eat anything. Spawn #2 stuck her nose in the air over what I dared to call food, lol.

Friday was when it really picked up. We rented a car and drove to my hometown. Aahhhhh..... Bliss. :) I drove by my old elementary school and stopped by my old house. It's for sale by the way...more on that later!

We went to my BFF Moment's house and then headed to Tweetsie Railroad. The spawn got to experience the opening night of "Ghost Train". Isn't that like the coolest thing ever? Okay, so I might be a little lame, but my son agrees with me. So we rode the train, we ate junk food, we played carnival games, we rode rides and had just an all around good time. Of course, spawn #3 got a tinsy bit scared by all the commotion aboard the train, but he came around in the end. We bought great little conductors hats and stayed out until midnight. That was a blast!

So that was a fun start to our vacation. :) I'll be posting more about our adventures over the next couple of days.

Flu Bug - BE GONE!!!

It has been a LONG couple of weeks in my lemon cupcakey world. We officially caught a nasty flu bug that has been going around the school for quite some time. It has run through the entire family, taking us out one by one and making me crazy. I still have the sniffles, but I think the worst has passed. So I haven't been doing much scrappy stuff.

I made some quick cards when I had a break from nurse duty. Some are my first experiment with heat embossing. Anyway, they were a nice break from the sicky-poos.

Alrighty, I'm gonna curl up on the couch and close my eyes. That or watch Bride Wars. :)

I spent the day in the scraproom

I have several projects in various stages of completion. I decided to get in a halloween kind of mood for two reasons. First, I saw Basic Grey's new Halloween line, Eerie. Oh.My.Goodness. They outdid themselves. I cannot wait to get my grubbies on this line!

Secondly, my mommy got this for me:

It's already hanging up outside my door, along with the skeleton above my scraproom window who's been hanging out since last year, lol. I'm so getting into Halloween this year.

Anyway, I have a long day tomorrow. More baby daddy drama. Oh well, I'm used to it by now.

G'nite!

Those two weeks just flew by.....

The kids have started back to school and I'm busily emailing every single job I see that I am even remotely qualified for. I haven't gotten any bites yet, but it's only a matter of time right? So anyway, we had a great 4th of July. We were able to watch fireworks from directly below the Nugget. :) And we saw the kids' cousins for a while. They really enjoyed that. :)

They started school on the 7th. It seems like the kiddos have some really good teachers this year too. And they're in classes with all their friends again, so that makes 'em happy. I'm letting them walk to school (despite the snakes, lol) and they seem to be enjoying it. I've been walking with them to get a little exercise in. It's about 2 miles a day, so it helps, right?

Poor Nate has missed 2 days of school already. :( He woke up early Thursday morning with incredible abdomen pain. We went to the doctor and found out he has/had an obstruction in his intestine. So he was given some medicine and we thought he'd just pass it. But Saturday, he had to go to the ER. He had a fever and was in pain like I've never seen. He had to be given fluids via IV, as well as pain meds. He was very good for his CT scan and other tests. Mama was a wreck however. (My mother says I need to sit all my kids down and tell them that they are not allowed to have any more hospital visits because Mom cannot handle it.) He's finally getting better and starting to act like his normal mischievous self again.

I'm going to go grab some popcorn and watch my DVR'd shows I need to catch up on. "Royal Pains", "Burn Notice", and "In Plain Sight" are just three of them. OOHH, I almost forgot "Ghost Hunters"! What a great way to kill some time tonight. :)

G'nite!

I picked up the scraproom today

And you cannot see the tabletop. However everything is out of the bags and off the floor. That in itself is an accomplishment. And tomorrow, I am going with my mother to Sacramento to go shopping. *sigh* At least I'm making a stop at Green Tangerines. :) And Chick fil a....mmm.....chicken nuggets. he he..... I am going to Joanns and Toys R Us and perhaps a side jaunt to the outlets in Folsom. I dunno. After cleaning up I am not feeling a shopping trip. I think this will definately be my last until mid -October when we go to the Scrapbook Expo. It's all good though.

Nothing to big and bad has been going on in my world as of late. Just hanging with the kids and cleaning house. I am reading "The Breathern" by John Grisham. I'm halfway through it, and so far, so good. I'll probably finish it this weekend.

Next monday the spawn go back to school. They all passed and have moved on to the next grade and I have earned another 3 dozen grey hairs. And now we get to start it all over. The plus side is my days will be free to job search. I'm really hoping that I don't have to do a whole lot more temp work. Seriously. I just don't like it. Sure it pays the bills, but just when I'm getting good at it, I'm gone, lol.

Alrighty, I'm going to bed. Tomorrow is Spawn #1's birthday. And we have to get up early to make that drive over the hill. I guess I better figure out something to do for cake tomorrow. Hmmm....Hostess cupcakes from 7-11? That'll work. :)

G'nite all!

Whew! That's over!

Last week was hectic. I got laid off again on Friday, but I knew that was coming. Saturday was Lizzie's birthday party and two parties from classmates of Nate & Allies. I had 3 kids' parties from 10 am to 5pm. That was exhausting!

Yesterday was kid's last day of school. They had a great time at the BBQ. Of course, they go back in two weeks, lol. (Gotta love track schools!) So we got the traditional pictures with the teachers.

So now, we're spending two weeks just hanging out at home with a little stuff thrown in. Movies, Wild Island, maybe even a trip to the Monterey Aquarium and the beach. Shh, don't tell them though. :) I'd take them camping, but I don't have a tent. Maybe I'll get one of my friends to let me borrow theirs. I should look into geocaching. I bet they'd like that. :)

So in my last post I was jonesing for my newest kit from MyGreenTangerines.com. Guess what finally came last week? he he....

Doesn't this just look like summer? I cannot wait to print out the pictures from Lizzie's birthday party. That or use pics from the upcoming two weeks.

Alrighty, I'm gonna park the laptop and get busy in my room. I have a ton of stuff to put away and I have some stuff I want to sell on 2Peas. Until next time....

Well, there goes the weekend....

I spent the weekend at home, not doing too much, except trying to clean during the hurricane. Why oh why do I continuously torture myself by thinking that while my kids live here I can somehow have a clean home? Yesterday it was rainy icky again, so we didn't do much. Although, the little kids' room is MOMMY CLEAN. Yup. I spent hours in there directing traffic so to speak, but they cleaned it. Today was laundry, dishes etc.... with a little bit of babysitting thrown in.

I did manage to finish my book, The Lace Reader, this afternoon. It was really good. I read it pretty fast and it held my attention. I'd recommend it if you want a good summer read. Now I need to find something new to read. Any thoughts? Hopefully I will have some time to read this week.

I'm still anxiously awaiting my May kit from Green Tangerines. *sigh*..... I really, really want it. I thought they were going out two weeks ago, but I haven't gotten anything. They haven't charged my bank account either so, I guess I'm just waiting. {insert the sound of my fingers tapping my desk} While I'm waiting I'm going to go through my scrap stash and selling some stuff on 2Peas. I've got wwaaaayyyyyy more than I'll ever use in this lifetime. It's a sickness I think because even though I have entirely too much I have stuff in carts on about 3 different online stores. And I'm planning a trip to Sactown for GT and a bigger, badder Joann's. I think a straight jacket might be in order.

Anyway, I'm gonna get to bed. I have to work tomorrow and the girls have their class fieldtrips to the waterpark. That'll be fun for them. I don't remember doing such cool things when I was in school. I wish they could take a camera with them. I'd love to see those pictures. Maybe I can get pics from the teachers. Gotta put that on my list o' things to do. That and buy milk and bread.

G'nite!! :)

Bizzee, Bizzee, Bizzee.....

That's my mantra for today, lol. And yesterday. And last week. I'm not sure where the time has gone, but it's *poofed* away. I've been working, we've had illness in the castle, and I'm trying to get my Stampin' Up business off the ground.

Tonight, we finished Liz's birthday party invites. She is having a Beach Monkey Luau, can you tell?

She loved putting these together. Big props to Judy for the die cuts. She's on eBay, but temporarily closing her store. I'll let you know when she's back. :)

So I've been reading the Lace Reader. It's pretty good and I'm enjoying it. I'm just getting to the "meat" of the story, so I'm anxious for the weekend so I can read without interruption. I finished The Host, another story by Twilight author Stephanie Meyer. It was, um..... long. I'm gonna go with long. The concept was interesting, but it was wordy. It never takes me long to read a book but I was reading that one for.ev.er.

Now, I have to confess my girl crush. My heart goes pitter patter over Tori. Yup. Tori Spelling. I've probably already admitted my little crush, but with the new season of Tori & Dean, I'm smitten again. Not in a wanna tear her pants of kind of way, but in a we could TOTALLY be friends kinda way. I could totally see myself scrappin' with her, just hanging out talking babies. Yesterday, I listened to her new book "Mommywood" while I was at work. She's so stinkin' cute and funny. There is just *something* about her.

Alright, so tomorrow is Thursday, then comes Friday. Whoo-hoo! The kids want to go see UP on Saturday, so I might indulge them. Maybe. ;) I want to do something special, but I haven't decided on exactly what. Movies, ice cream and who knows what. We were supposed to go to Wild Island, but the weather is iffy, so we'll wait on that.

Alrighty, I'm gonna go read a little and hit the hay. G'nite for now.

I scrapped!!

I spent yesterday out at County Purr Farm using all the tools and stamps to create some cool goodies. It was a lot of fun. Just me, my mom, Lizzie and the owner, Donna Jean. Very cool!

So I continued on in that groove and came home and did a little scrappin'. It's not much, but ....

I used the Feb kit from My Green Tangerines. I challenged myself to use just the product included with the kit. Check it out:

And here is what I put together:

So I had to go outside my "box" and use color combos that I've never really used, but I think they came out okay. The 6x12 layouts are going to be part of an album I'm going to cut out of chipboard. (LOVE my new guillotine paper cutter!) So, I'm in a scrappin' mood this Memorial Day weekend, and I'm going to work on some more cool stuff once I'm done babysitting and picking up my chitlin's. We're gonna have to rent a couple of movies and find something fun for dinner first though. I'm going to add stuff from my stash and use more of this cool kit. I promise to post more pictures! :)

Alright, the baby's momma will be here shortly so I'm gonna get all her stuff together while she's still napping. *sigh* I miss naptime, lol. Why do they have to grow up?