A Challenge

Hello dear friends


Now that we have purchased the bridal store......a cute little Dutch style cottage............well actually we don't own the building, but the business is ours free and clear, and once we make a name for our ownselves we hope to get the building too.

.......YES we now work for ourselves, but this too has brought on new challenges, I am very busy and I haven't much time for writing, scrapping or sewing.  Actually my scrapbooking supplies and projects have not even been unpacked from the April retreat.  We were nogotionating the purchase of the bridal store since the end of January and closed on the deal the end of May and have been non stop ever since with exception of a family vacation/reunion and a four day trip to visit my brother.

I have decided to take and combine my three blogs into one and since this is my first I thought I would use this one to host them all.  This blog has been geared to only my crafts so I will be spending the next few weeks on redesigning this blog to incorporate my other two blogs. "One day at a Time" (our Rving blog, which is a dream that has been put on the back burner since we bought a business instead of retiring) and "A Journey in Losing Weight" (my road on weight watchers, which really has slidden with the new responsibilities of the store).  I have some awesome research and files on each of these blogs that I really don't want to loose so thought I would re-work them into this one so I can keep all my stuff in one spot.

So here is the challenge................Since my blogging is going to be more of a daily/weekly/monthly journal, including crafts, travels, recipes and such and not just my crafts I think I need a new name.  What do you Think?  Will you guys help me?  I will take a list of prospective names and ideas and will award the winner, runners up and honorable mentions a little prize for their help.........sooooooooooo..........this means not only do you need to list the name but also what type of crafts you like to do and I will gear your award around your interest..........Now view my three blogs and get a taste of my personality and let me know what your thoughts are!  Between now and the end of the year I will photograph some awards and will post them here and will anounce the winners and their awards the first of the year!

Looking forward to hearing from you!  Until next time stay on the wings of angels!
Cyndi

Neat Video

Although financially I can't afford to through out what little Provo Craft items I have, I can say I won't purchase any more, and if I could get the cost of the new Black Cat Couger out of my current stock I would sell it all in a minute...........Got to watch this video if you are a MTC fan.........of which I am for sure!  Love the Program!  I bought my cricut expression and the MTC program all within 10 minutes of each other for the full entent of using them as a package, and that is what is upsetting me with Provo Craft!  They don't seem to understand that this little program sold their machines to several consumers!

I do think the day will come that I will leave Provo Craft behind and their cricut cutting machine that I actually had falling in love with because of Provo Crafts decision in filing a lawsuit against Make The Cut.  Although Currently I financially just can't do it.  They have made many crafters to make a choice between their product and the MTC program, and I will eventually choose to give up my cutter and the few carts that I have purchased.

Based on reviews I would say my next goal will be to purchase the Big Cat Couger

The description this little kitten is :High Strength aluminum body, High Precision Steel grit shaft to help prevent slipping on long cuts, 10 Silica Gel Buttons for easy control, High speed Processor, Supports all windows and Macintosh operating systems, Led laser light for precise print and cut, High pressure – 500grms for easy cutting up to cereal weight chipboard, Back lit LCD display, User friendly design allows adjustment of cutting speed and pressure while working, USB and serial interface, Max cutting width: 12", Max media width: 16.25", Operating system: Windows2000/XP/win7/ Vista/win7 x64 /Mac OSX10.2.8, Interface: Serial and USB, Control Panel: 10Silica gel buttons, Cutting Speed 600mm/s, 12 steps, Pressure 50g~500g, 160 steps, Dimensions: 24" x 10.5" x 10.5", Comes with ONE year warranty.  You can order this beautiful Lynx from Black Cat from Sherri, (Sherri is the individual I ordered my very first cutter from, the Blue Wishblade, and a very repretable business lady).

Organizing ideas!

In my quest for trying to get my life organized I have located some neat organizational items.  Check these out.
This Mobil Work Center by Get Organized really caught my fancy.

Mobil Work Center

Thinking thes revolving library shelves from Get Organized might be interesting for Cricut Storage..........Think! Think! Think!



Revolving Library Shelves

Lawsuit and Boycott

Well Provo Craft is doing it again!

Provo Craft's Lawsuit

Some crafters opened up a forum on facebook to show Provo Craft how disappointed they are in their lack of consumers interest!

Provo Craft Boycott Facebook Page

If you too agree click here  to vote your Like for the argument!

Provo Craft Boycott Vote

Provo Craft made the Tabberone's hall of Shame

Taberone's Hall of Shame

Kathy's Crafts has started a poll on her blog to find out why you might have bought your Cricut Product.  My purpose was to be able to use the MTC program

Product Purchase Poll

Organizing and preparing for the retreat!

I am heading out on a four day scrapping retreat at the end of the month with 22 other girls, all of which I have met, well with the exception of maybe four I think, that will be new to our group.

This is the year for our Gatlinburg trip, and oh, how we are all looking forward to it.  Sadley two of our girls has had some really bad luck, January 4th one of them had their house burned to to the ground with nothing savageable, then two nights ago another had her house burned to the ground and again with nothing savageable.  Please keep my friends in your prayers  Their names are Rose and Jindra..........our hearts goes out to each of them and prayers are lived daily.  They each were able to get their pets and selves out with no casualties but not much belongings.

Now back to my story... I was preparing my token gifts and while working in the scrapping room I thought, HUMMMMMMM should use some more time to organize...............got a lot done with weeding through stuff and made up a basket full of embellishments that I got for one page or another and never used, so going to put a sign on it for 50 cents each (some or valued at $6.00) but maybe someone can use them.  Then also put together three large ziplocks full of giveaways, and one of those bags are of page kits that I have swapped for and then I have never used them, there again, maybe someone can use them!  I did get about half of my token gifts put together and still need to work more on those, but I was able to tackle two chores within my time spent in the scrapping room.

Organizing!

As you all know from reading my blog I have been in the process of organizing and down sizing our home.  I came across this blog called Tatertots and Jello, this week that I love what she did to her command center.  Go and take a look at how she used her scrapping supplies........GREAT idea here.

New File

Ok, here I am, I have made a new file........Finely, now to make use of it! LOL
Chinese New Years Banner (MTC-file)