I'm Baaaaaack!!!! And I'm TIRED!!!!!

I had more fun in Denver than I can even begin to put into words. Everything was FAB-O! I will now spend the rest of the week trying to get caught up on sleep and stuff around here.

I got about half unpacked today and did 4 loads of laundry. There are 2 or 3 more to be done tomorrow. Did all the dishes that SOMEONE left in the sink.....

Once I get my swaps all sorted out I will start posting some of the fun stuff I got! Right now, I will post the cute little sterling charm they sold at the convention store this year.....



Isn't it cute? On the back it says 2007. I like it way better than the megaphone they had last year. They sold some darling ribbon sampler "charms" this year that they sold out of. I think it was WAY poor planning on their part to let people buy so many. I heard of folks getting 10 to 15 of each color so when the 2nd Session folks got there this morning they sold out in less than an hour. They really should have limited those to 2 or 3 of each color per attendee..... This is how stinkin cute they are tho....



I have about 200 photos to download from the memory cards to the computer. Hopefully I'll have more fun pictures to post later this week!

testing....

this is being posted from my pda. hope it works!

ALMOST done!

Big bag is packed. Weighs 45 lbs.

Still haven't finished a few of the cards/gifts. Got my hair colored and got to Trader Joe's.

I'm feeling REALLY tired.... not sure whether to go to bed early or keep to my up-late-up-early "schedule" going.

Got a LITTLE more done.....

Almost done with the Roomie gifts.
Got one of the other projects I was working on done.
Got all my swaps packed into a plastic file box that will be my carry-on.
Got the card candy packages all labeled and put them in their Priority Mail box.
Went shopping and got another bra, a pair of jammies and a belt.
Ran another load of laundry to wash the SEVEN new shirts Russ bought today.

Still haven't colored my hair. If I don't do it tomorrow, I go grey to Convention.
Still haven't done Peggy's card.
Still haven't finished the altered item.
Still haven't made it to Trader Joe's.

I'm getting there..... slowly.......

Making Progress!

I see light at the end of the tunnel!

I have the Spammy gift baggies done.
Spammy Cards are half done.
Went to the Post Office and got my Priority Stamp for the Card Candy swap.
Printed the labels for all my swaps and have those set aside for later or to do on the plane.
Laundry is running now.
Coloring my hair tonight.

I even had time to run to Home Depot and get new nozzles for two of the sprinklers on the front lawn. Unfortunately, as I discovered when I went to install them, the DORKS that owned the house before us mixed brands on the sprinkler heads..... most are one brand, but of course ONE of the ones I needed to replace the nozzle on was DIFFERENT, so back to Home Depot I will go to exchange for the right brand.... sigh.... that can wait till Monday now.

All I have to do now is finish roomie gifts and the altered item I'm working on for someone. Oh! And I still have a card to make for Peggy (which I can mention here because I know she doesn't have time to read my blog right now! LOL!).

I may be done by Sunday afternoon at this rate! YAY!

Then I can start packing..... Think Taz has recovered yet from the trauma of having me gone last week? She is gonna be SO miffed when I bring out a suitcase.... that's why I'm waiting till Tuesday to start that..... Poor kitty.....

Well, I *DID* get unpacked.....

Does that count for anything?

I also got all my swaps sorted out and have a sample of each one by my computer so I can work on the labels. I also got half of the part of the Spamily gift that required the computer done....Of course I just realized this morning that I have been working on SEVEN Spamily items when I now need EIGHT... forgot we adopted Cherie.... I *was* done with the card images for their cards last night... now I need to do another one.... oh well - that shouldn't take TOO long!

Well, I'm off for my caffeine fix.... Have a great day!

I'm back and my head is spinning.....

Looking at my "To Do" list that needs to get finished before next week..... I leave EARLY Wednesday morning.... at what Russ calls "O-Dark-Thirty". My flight leaves at 6:30AM, meaning I have to be at the airport by 5:30. Well, he leaves for work around 5:15, so he is taking me and we are leaving at 5, meaning I will have an extra 15-20 minutes to kill at the BEAUTIFUL and EXCITING Sacramento Metro (Oops! Sorry - INTERNATIONAL) Airport....(ok - we all know I will still be working on convention stuff)

Good news is that the swaps I signed up for are DONE. As are 20 cute little tins I made to trade on the general floor and some little bottle collars. Nothing is labeled or put into clear envelopes yet. I will print out the labels and save that for last, since it can get done on the plane if I need to. This is the SHORT list of what I still have left to do.....

• I need to check and make sure all the clothes I am planning to wear still fit.
• I need to break in the shoes I am wearing.
• I need to do roommate gifts.
• I need to do a couple doorprizes still.
• I am working on another project that needs to be done.
• I am making little cards/mini-gifts for my "Spamily". I need to have one of them DONE by next Tuesday since it is getting mailed to our Spamily member who isn't able to make it to Convention.....
• I need to dye my hair and get it trimmed.

If I get it all done by the end of the weekend, I may reward myself with a manicure on the 24th. Of course, then with my luck, I'll break a nail while I'm packing.....

I got a FABULOUS birthday present in the mail from Julee (Shadowcatcher) that was in the mail I picked up on the way out of town last week..... She gave me a 6x6 pad of Basic Grey "Infuse" papers (which I look forward to playing with AFTER convention!) and some cute little phrases that are the perfect size to fit with the SU! Word Window punch. Here is my birthday card.... she knows I LOVE Hula Sprinkle!!!!! This card is just covered in glittery goodness too!



So that's all I have for now.... I need to unpack the 5 little boxes of stamp stuff back into the stamp room and get some work done in there.... Wish me luck!!!!!

I've been tagged!

Unfortunately, all the bloggers I know have already done this, some more than once, so I am afraid I will not be tagging anyone, but I will play along:

1) I must post 7 random things about me:

1. My favorite color is purple.
2. I probably don't even watch 5 hours of broadcast TV a week.
3. I am lactose intolerant.
4. I am an incredibly picky eater - I don't like my foods to touch.
5. I have more friends online than I do within an hour drive of my house.
6. I spend WAY too much time on Splitcoast.
7. I’ve never lived more than 100 miles from where I was born.

2) Tag 7 other bloggers: Sorry - all the bloggers I know have done this already!

3) Post Rules & the bloggers I tagged here.

4) Leave tagged bloggers comments on their web sites so that they know they have been tagged

Greetings from Sea Ranch!

Isn't he cute????? There were 4 or 5 of these little guys running along the water's edge yesterday. I was going to attach this in the SCS thread, but I neglected to install the photo editing software on the laptop, so I can't resize this small enough to upload on SCS. And since it's a 3MB file, I thought e-mailing it wouldn't be good either!

Considering I forgot to put on sunscreen yesterday, I'm surprised that I only got a tiny bit pink and one freakish spot of sunburn on the side of my neck. Not bad!

Going, Going.......

And tomorrow morning I'll be GONE!!!! No blog updates (probably) until the 17th! The cabin has no internet access, I have to drive up into town and pay to get online, which I will probably do once just to dump e-mail, but not sure if I'll update here... depends on how my swaps are coming along!

I got my first order from the new catalog today.... so tormenting to get it, open it up, look at it quickly and then close the box back up and put it in the car! I knew if I mounted my new sets, I wouldn't get any of my packing chores done.... So I resisted temptation by packing up the stamp stuff in the car and putting other stuff on top of it. Too much trouble to get to now! LOL!

Man, I'm taking a TON of stamping stuff..... and I just KNOW I'm gonna be calling Russ before Friday and asking him to bring more stuff. I always forget SOMETHING! LOL! Hopefully it will be because I finished all my swaps and need the stuff to work on roommate gifts..... Yeah....

Here's a close up of the new Taffeta Ribbon.... Vanilla and White. It's a lot lighter and silkier than I thought it would be. Makes a nice bow....




Everyone have a fabulous week.... "see" you all again next Tuesday!!!!!

OK... this is for Janice

Now, it may change, but what is on my order sitting in OEX waiting to be sent tomorrow:

*Silver Brads

Groovy Guava Stamp Pad

Purely Pomegranate Stamp Pad

*Wild Wasabi Stamp Pad

*Taffeta - Very Vanilla

*Taffeta - Whisper White

So Swirly Jumbo Wheel

*Double Stitched 3/8" x 15 yds- Groovy Guava

*Double Stitched 3/8" x 15 yds- Pomegranate

*Double Stitched 3/8" x 15 yds- Wild Wasabi

*on board art journal

*flowers for you DP

*Little Flowers

Snow Blossom Punch

*Spiral Punch

*It's All Good

*on board blossoms

5 petal flower punch

Scallop Circle Punch

*Big Flowers

Uninked Jumbo Cartridge

*Stampin Dimensionals

Porcelain Prints DP

*Sidekick Sayings for my Level 1

Stuff with stars is needed for convention swaps and doorprizes and roomie gifts....

THREE WEEKS FROM TODAY I WILL BE IN DENVER!!!! WHOOP!

Bad e-mail and bad back do not a happy day make!

I have been around and around and around with Tech Support from Comcast and my virus software. Comcast is blaming my virus software for my inability to download my e-mail. They say that I must set the firewall to let Outlook have Internet access to certain ports... blah blah blah.... WELL, it already IS set that way and if Outlook was being firewalled, one would think it would prevent me from getting my other servers' email, but I get those JUST FINE. So after yet another day of getting nowhere with these yahoos, I decided to go around them. I set up a new gmail account that mines my e-mail from Comcast and conveniently delivers it to me via Outlook. With no problems. Imagine that. LOSERS!

To make my day even more entertaining, I totally tweaked something in my back. Not sure if it was putting the water bottle on the dispenser, hauling the water bottles in from the car or hauling the new, full, propane tank around, but OW! So now my fat butt is spending some extra time in the computer chair and I am not getting up as often as I normally do. Ouch.....

I think I have my SU! order figured out. I have all day tomorrow to tweak it before I have to place it at 11AM on Thursday. I also printed out the Convention map and my confirmation letter today. Our Convention packets with our bag vouchers and name badges have been mailed, but mine hasn't arrived yet. SIGH.

Oh, my.....

I am getting SO excited about Convention!!!! Only 23 days till I get to meet Peggy and Melissa and Kristi and Lori and Heather and Janice and Amy and a whole lot of other Splitcoaststampers LIVE AND IN PERSON!!!!! OH THE SPAMMY MAYHEM we are going to unleash on Stampin' Up! and the city of Denver!!!! I just can't wait!!!!

Last night in one of the Convention threads there was talk of syrup and beavers and moose...... I can't even begin to explain.... Poor Peggy is just not quite prepared for our wild Spammy Humor, I think.... Love ya, Peggers!!!!!

OK. When I got up this morning there was a new message on my cellphone from one of my Spammy Sisters, Lori, who is off camping on the North Coast, about 100 miles from where I'm gonna be next week. Now, when I go camping, I "civilize" the experience by camping only at facilities near showers (even if they are coin operated), I bring a french press for REAL COFFEE, and my tent sports a double high, queen sized Pillow Top air mattress complete with down comforter and body pillow along with a small folding table and chair for stamping. Yeah, I know... hardly roughing it. WELL... Miss Lori sent me this picture last night....



Yes, that is a LIGHT UP FLAMINGO in front of her Travel Trailer! Lori, you are my Hero of the Day!

That's all for today.... I'm in a pretty good mood for Monday, even if I did spend most of my day arguing with my ISP and tech support.... grrrrrrr...... I think I need to plug into my iPod and UNWIND after that! LOL! Have a great week!!!!!

This is hard!

OK. I have been through it what seems like a million times.

I have highlighted and tabbed and moved stuff around in Excel and I still have NO CLUE what I am ordering on Thursday. I have a budget, it's just prioritizing what I want NOW and what I can wait for.

Some of my order is being dictated by the swaps I still have to finish. Ribbon, ink, paper, a couple stamp sets. Then there are the wants.... some of it I've been wanting for a year now and it just keeps getting pushed to the bottom of the list (can we say "watercolor wonder crayons"?).

It's a sickness, I'm telling you......