WooHooo!! Big Snow & my first Video!

I am so excited....it is snowing big time here! I am so sorry for those of you in other parts of southeast who have more of this stuff than you ever want to see again. But I cannot hide my excitement, as we very seldom get a good snow that will stick for more than a day. It gets ugly and yucky as it melts. I have been wanting to see the good stuff and we are having a full force...Big flakes snow storm today!!! Woopeeeee! We are suppose to get 6", which is quite a bit here.

The other thing that I am so excited about is that I made a video of it and figured out how to post it with my little digital camera!!!! It een has sound, but I kept my mouth shut. LOL! I am soooo excited about this! I have been trying to figure out how to load videos (still have a lot to learn) for so long. My camera won't take more than a minute at a time, so this is my minute!!! I hope you can view it with not problems. I would love to receive some blog love in the way of comments on it.

Now I am gonna go watch the snow!!!! Have a fabulously blessed and creative day my friends!

Sharing a Fabulous New Stamp Company!

You see this cute banner here! If you click on it, it will take you to a brand new stamp company that just opened this week! All four of their first sets, include Dawgs, Hawgs, Frawgs, and Brawds! They are whimsical and hilariously funny! I am sure the creators Joycelyn and Becky would love to have you come and check them out! Don't forget to bring some spending money to help these ladies get a roll on!

Hugs Lori

5 Hours later...Ugh!

It took me 5 hours today to figure out how to get the Feedburner box added here to the right side! Boy, am I wiped out! So if you like me....please sign up for my feeds! sniff! Sniff!
Hugs Lori

Locks of Love!

I just wanted to share with you what I did yesterday (Friday)!
Went and had the hair all cut off to donate to Locks of Love so that Cancer patients can have real hair wigs created for them!

I did this to honor my friend Sally, in the hopes that her cancer is still in remission. God Bless you darlin and I am praying for you.

The cut was free because of it being for LLL! But I did give the sylist a good tip and still spent $10. on a hair care product, so the salon still made a little $$$ from it.

This first picture is how long it was before it was cut.

This one is the hair that was cut off! They took 10-1/2 inches!And below, you can see the final result. Oh.....look at the Gray! Won't be there long though!
I really am glad to have it short. My hospital stay a couple of months ago made it really aggrevating to have and my hair grows so fast that it will be back in no time at all. I did this 3 years ago and they took 12 inches and left about an inch and a half left on my head. So you can see how fast it grows. I average about 4 inches a year. That is a lot of growth!

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs Lori

Hubby Thinks I need Exercise ~ Therego my new toy!

I just had to share this with you! Last week hubby sold my beautiful non running Buick Park Avenue and down..er upgraded me to a Nissan Pathfinder 4 wheel drive that does run. I went from total luxury to a 5 speed. Even though I miss my Buick, I have no problem with driving a stick. This is not the end of it though! As if that is not enough new exercise between clutching, shifting and almost no power compared to the Buick, he thought I needed more exercise! LOL! A few days later he came home with this......

I was absolutely thrilled! This is a 1962 Huffy Bicycle! One of the reasons I am so thrilled, is that I had one when I was about 9 years old. It was stolen from the side of our house and my mother swore she would never buy me another bike because I left it on the side of the house to be stolen. I felt horrible and my mother never bought me another bicycle! I loved that bike so much too! Hubby did not know this and the funny part is this bike looks exactly like the one that was stolen! How great, huh! Now I just have to get my 51 year old body out and get the nerve to ride it! Thanks for stopping by! Hugs Lori

Convention Loot!

Hi Everyone,

I went to Convention in Greenville, SC yesterday! I had so much fun...met with old friends that I haven't seen in quite sometime, did Make N Takes and of course shopped til I was ready to drop! LOL!

Here is what I have wanted for a whole year (at least)! Yea!!! Now I have 2 sets of Nestibilities!!

I just love all of the designs made with scallops and did not want to buy a bunch of punches. They take up way to much space and overall you get more Bang for your buck with the Nesties! It would have cost me somewhere in the range of (or maybe more than) $200.00 to buy 6 punches and then I doubt that you could find all of these sizes in punches. Can you see the price I paid for these? Fantastic!!! Only $20.00 from Rubbernecker! I think this was a convention special! Marco's paper had them too, but they were $25.00 a piece. I must say they had a better selection though! I really wanted the larger scallops, but this was more in my budget (which was almost gone! LOL!)

Marco's Paper had a wonderful selection of both Nestibilities and Cuttlebug Folders. They didn't have any of the New Nesties, but they did have some of the Newer CB folders and if you know me, you know that I love my CuttleBug! They had some great paper too! Teehee!

Anyway, I could not resist...I bought 1 of the already known folders and 1 of the newer ones (which is actually 5 in 1) at Marco's!

I have wanted this "Diamonds in the rough" for a long time and whoopie! Now I have it!

The newer one I bought is called "With Love" and it is 5 boarders

in 1. They come apart and you can put them anwhere on your card that you want to! I am going to have so much fun with this one!

Isn't it amazing the things they keep coming up with to make our craft so much easier and even more fun all the time!

I will post later with the Make N Takes that I made and hopefully (If time allows) get some cards made to show you with my new goodies! Thanks for stopping by and Happy Sunday!

My very 1st set of Nestibilities!

I am so stinkin excited! A wonderful friend (who wishes to remain anonymous) has gifted me with my very 1st set! Here they are......are they cool or what!

I am so blessed by Jesus to have such a wonderful friend, aren't I.

She spoils me rotten and has sent me other amazing gifts, like the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder and so much more.

This is not what makes her my friend though. She is a loving, supportive and talented person. I am so honored to have her for my friend. This is why I respect her wish to remain anonymous!

She also sent me this great ATC! I just love ATC'S, don't you! I told you she is talented!

Thank you my sweet friend for just being my friend!

May the love of Jesus bless you!

Love & Hugs Lori

Something about me you didn't Know!

I know this is odd, but I just started thinking about something I want to share with you that I don't share with many people. It kind of holds some mystery to it! As long as I can remember, since I was a little girl I have loved boxes.....not your everyday box, but Hat Boxes, Decorative Boxes, Cigar Boxes, Trunks and especially any that had hidden compartments. I like the ones that have secrets or surprises in them. I also love old houses that have hidden rooms, rooms with hidden doors and strange rooms. Is this weird or what? Does anyone else feel like this?
Do you ever have moments where things like this just pop into your head? Would love to hear your comments on this.

A Tribute to Charleton Heston

A TRIBUTE TO CHARLTON HESTON
10/04/1923 TO 04/05/2008

This is not the normal type of post that I would send to the group, but do you ever feel like you have a personal connection with a celebrity? I believe this is the only actor in my life that was a true lover of God & Jesus. He was (in my eyes) a good man and true Christian.

Charlton Heston passed away last night. Being my one & only favorite actor, this has had a deep affect on me this morning. I was so shocked when I turned on my pc to see this.

Charlton my prayers are with you as you sit at the right hand of Jesus and your family who loved you and grieves for you. For those who loved him and are interested in reading about him here is the link to a news article about his life and passing. Hugs Lori

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080406/ap_on_en_mo/obit_heston

How the Name came about...short funny story!

Hi Stampers,

I wanted to share how I came up with the name for this blog.....besides the fact that I am hopelessly addicted to stamping!
It started when DH, Mark went to buy my first new pc. I had to work that day, so he went to Staples to get it and since he purchased it and they set it up there, they asked him what the main e-mail address would be. Well I had told him Stampninklady and he told the tech Stampninclady. See the difference is I look like I am a corporation!

Well that is how they set up my very first e-mail address and try as I might, I could not change it. I wanted to spank him for getting it wrong....LOL! So when I started this blog, I finally got my original name! Kind of cute, don't you think!
I wanted to share that I was recently gifted with a new toy.....It arrived in the mail yesterday.....A Score-Pal! I just love it so far and played it some last night and today one of my dear House Mouse friends shared a great tutorial on it at Gina K designs. If you like the Scor-pal, you really must go there and see her tutorials. There are 2 parts and both fantastic!
Another thing I wanted to share is that last week I ask Dawn Griffith to do a video on making bows for our cards and the sweetheart that she is did it and it posted today! You will just love it, she did a great job! Thank you so much Dawn! You are so talented and I love all of your videos!
Thanks for coming to visit and I will try to update more often. Hopefully, I will have some artwork of my own to share with you soon. Big Hugs Lori

What a busy day ahead!

Tonight is my stamp club night and I have been running around like a nut. I have been trying to get enough Valentines done to take with me so that everyone will get one. We have a few new people arriving and I am not sure how many, so I am making extra. I don't want anyone to feel left out and I hope I can get them all done in time.

Tonight we will be working with Alcohol Inks. This is something that has not been the easiest from me to work with. I have about 16 colors and have tried to work with them,but am never happy with the way they come out. I am hoping to get over that after working with others on them.

I am also taking my Cuttlebug and my friend is bringing her Cuttlekids which I haven't seen yet! My other friend that will be picking me up is bringing some of her CB folders and some scallop punches for me to play with, so I have to get all the papers I want to use for all of the above, get the cards finished, blah, blah, blah! I have to be ready to go by 3:30, so I am off to try to get done in time......................

Have a wonderful Friday all! Lori