Thanks so much for all your patience and prayers!! Hugs to you all!!! TPE Challenge #22 Project Winner is # 3 Stacey CONGRATULATIONS Stacey, we will proudly showcase your winning project in Ella's Hall of Fame for the next 6 months and you are awarded Ella's...I am a winner banner award To place on your blog for all to see you are a Pink Elephant Winner!! ........................................................................................................

Ah, the end of the week, or the start...how do you see it? It's the end for me! lol Tomorrow is a fresh week and I get to run the shop floor while Kelly is outta town. Keep thinking positive thoughts and no problems with the parts in stock. This morning I took a quick look at who is gonna be at our local stamp convention in Novi. I have never gone to one so I am excited to check out supplies geared more to stampers and not scrapbook pages. Then I went to finish up this card for today's post

Good morning Sunday....hope you are all enjoying your weekend. Yesterday I cleaned and cleaned and cleaned and it felt so wonderful after a few weeks of being under very tight deadlines....I am feeling the happy sense of slipping back into my happy, ordinary routine....have I ever mentioned how I love "ordinary"...we are friends :) Anyway....my little house needed some attention and now I feel like life is back on track....my new scrapbook goodies have been staring at me for weeks and I've had

Shimelle Laine is running a series of classes on Two Peas in a Bucket that are designed to take the stress out of your hobby. The first class is called Go to Press and explors ways that you can use your printer in your scrapbooking projects. The class starts August 3rd and runs for four weeks. Included are 20 PDFs of prompts and printables, and the resulting scrapbook pages form an album all about your family’s Simple Pleasures. Class cost is $25. Click here for more information.

Pazzles Inspiration Creative Cutter – The Scrapbooking Die Cutting Machine with the Edge by Jenny JamesThe Pazzles Inspiration Die Cutting Machine gets nothing but rave reviews, so why aren’t we all using it?In the world of scrapbooking die cutting machines, Pazzles doesn’t have the wow factor of some of the other machines. Is this perhaps just due to bad marketing? The Pazzles Inspiration Cutter is a truly fantastic machine and when being compared to the well known Cricut Machine, some