Be Very Careful!

Word to the wise, check, recheck and triple check any online banking or bill paying transactions you might make. This weekend I was making some online bill payments and made what I thought was a $400 credit card payment....turns out I was careless with the 0's and made a $40,000 payment instead! The horrible thing is that for whatever reason both my bank and my credit card company allowed this payment to go through....despite the fact that my checking account has no where near $40,000 in it and I don't even come close to owing that amount on that credit card. I about had a hard attack when my checking account balance was roughly -$36,000! After two days, dozens of phone calls, about 10 customer services idiots, I mean representatives, and tons of stress later the situation is resolved....well, I'm crossing my fingers that it is anyway. My bank account is back to normal....still monitoring the credit card for fees, charges and damage caused by idiot employees. Seriously, this is stress one does not need during the holiday season!

Christmas Crafties

I figured it would be fun to play Christmas Craft time while Jessie was visiting for Thanksgiving. I bought two cones, two bags of buttons and a big variety box of pins to make button trees. We ended up needing to make a trip to Michael's for 3 more little boxes of pins, a trip to Scrapbooks Etc. for two more bags of buttons (well, that and Jessie NEEDED to go there and experience), and yet one more trip back to Michaels for two more boxes of pins. In the end, they turned out quite adorable I must say. Can you guess who's tree is who's?

During our trip to Michaels and Scrapbooks Etc. we also purchased supplies to make some ornaments. We bought one box of red balls and one box of clear balls and rub ons. We also raided my Christmas craft supply box for ribbons, more rub ons and beads to fill up a few of the clear balls. One box traveled home with Jessie on the plane today...here's hoping they arrived safely! I will post another picture of these lovelies on my tree, once the tree is up and decorated.

Stay tuned for a recap of the holiday weekend and our escapades full of pictures and stories....just waiting for someone to send me her pictures on hello....hint hint hint......until then, here's a lovely picture from Thanksgiving taken by my cousin Molly.

52 Card Scrap Up #6

This week's prompt was issued by me. I decided to be a bit predictable and went with the theme "Thanksgiving." Here's my take on this theme. A little card about things I'm thankful for this holiday. I was able to use a few fall themed items from my stash as well! This week, I also had the pleasure of making cards side by side with Jessie...a new twist on our online challenge group!


I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and were able to spend to day relaxing or playing or shopping, as we did. Stay tuned for some crafty posts...Jessie and I have been busy...and updates on our adventures.

Eat Veggies

HAPPY SIDE DISH DAY!!
Ok for those of you who aren't vegetarians....HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
I hope you all have a wonderful day full of good food and friends and family!

52 Card Scrap Up

This week's prompt was "Song Lyrics" and was given to use by Elise. I had a hard time with this one, because there are so many songs with great lyrics. I couldn't decide between mushy love song lyrics or inspirational lyrics or just entertaining lyrics. I decided to go with "With my own two hands" by Jack Johnson. I think it has a good message. Here's my card:

Getting Crafty

This past week or so has been pretty busy, but I have managed to get a lot of crafting done in the evenings after work. I finished my knitting project, a cute striped bag. It still needs to be felted, so I will take pictures this weekend after I wash it and attach the handles. I have also started knitting a blanket...not the crazy difficult one, a much easier one for now. I'm still overwhelmed by the other pattern.

A couple weekends ago I did these two pages for the BHG "Make it Yours" call....no luck getting selected, but I love them anyway and I was able to use a couple pictures that have been sitting in my to be scrapped pile for awhile.

Last Sunday I scrapped with my scrappy friends from SIS. We were pretty chatty and managed to spend a bit of time shopping...I'd never been to the store we scrapped at, so I found a couple things I needed to have...I did manage to get two pages done using the Cocoa Daisy kit from September, one I had yet to get around to using. Again, I used some photos I've been wanting to scrap for awhile.

I took Monday off, I usually don't take smaller holidays off, but I had lots to do. I spent most of the day cleaning and doing things around the house. I did manage to get the front garden dug out and hopefully got rid of the blasted mint that was overrunning everything...fingers crossed...next weekend I plan to plant some new flowers and herbs. After the garden work and a nice hot shower, I decided to do some Christmas crafting. I don' t know why exactly, but this year I am getting into Christmas earlier than usual. I typically don't start Christmas stuff until after Thanksgiving and even December 1st, but this year I'm already getting into a Christmasy mood. It's a wonder too, since it's still NOT cooling off here...It was 87 yesterday for goodness sake! Here's a couple Christmas projects I finished. This cool star came from Melrose Vintage. I covered it with Paperbox papers I've had in my holiday stash for a couple years now. I plan to hand this up and use it to store Christmas cards. I'll post a better picture once it's hung.

I've been stashing these cool page frame clear stars with the intent of using them to make Christmas ornaments. I just used the Hambly Christmas rub ons on them, poked a hole at the top and attached some ribbon. I think they turned out pretty fun! Again, I will post when the tree goes up and they have a better place to hang!

Happy Birthday Dad!

Here wishing you a very happy birthday today Dad! I hope you have a great day and a great week. Looking forward to celebrating with you later this week!