A Muse News: Guest Designer Rhonda Maynard (plus sneak peeks!).
I love a card that engages me--Rhonda's designs always make me feel like a delightfully cheeky banter is going on between the artist and the recipient of the card. Her personality and wit just shine in each of her designs. I hope you enjoy the series on her designs this month, as much as I am!
Freckled And Fun: FS100: Her Royal Rubberness!.
I'm so stoked! Bethie's such a dear--her fun-loving spirit always makes me smile waaaay big--she cracks me! I loved her adaptations of those designs. Go peek at what she did!
*mondo happy sigh*
A Muse News: It's Sneak Peek Time Again!.
SHAKE YOUR GROOVE THING, SHAKE YOUR GROOVE THING, YEAH, YEAH!--Peaches n' Herb
Sometimes, I could just burst--the coming V-day images are just such CUTENESS and FUN I can hardly contain m'self! For those of you that are lucky enough to have a LSS (Local stamp/scrap store) that carries A Muse near you, they should have received their shipment by now, and you can pop in to ogle and pet 'em first-hand! (I'm a touchy-feely chick, so for me, there's nothing like pettin' the product--I get all giddy-like, and start breathin' heavy, with heart palpitations--the whole 9 yards! I also tend to shriek happily, which sometimes startles other shoppers in the near vicinity . . . 
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I have one more sneak peek to share today, of a design I'll be teaching at my pop-up class down in Seattle this month:
SWEEEEEEET!!!
It's FRIDAY! YIPPEEEEEEEE!!! Hope you've got some special rubbah time just for you carved out this weekend--of the stampin' kind, sillies! You *know* very well what I meant! 
It's very rare that I copy another card, but, I was just so taken by this one, that I had to make a slightly modified version of it for my winter cards.
Look at these punches!! SO SO PURDEEEE!!!
I spied 'em at WalMart (we don't have a lot of options here on The Rock; I dream of the day Target might come, but, they tell me it's highly unlikely . . .
) where we stopped on our way home from our Christmas trip, and clutched them all through the store, debating . . . I mean, Christmas was over and I never got my cards for this year done--oh, I had the grandest of plans, but, like the last 2 years, I just never got to the finish line.
Got up to the check-out, and whaddya know--they were 50% off! I about fell down dead! I love unexpected surprises! Oh, Martha will prolly come out with others next year, and retire these, but, I don't care--they're so classic, so sophisticated and I know I'll use 'em GOBS!
And the sentiment from the Peace & Cheer set just complimented the whole design so perfectly . . . 
Now, I guess I better get some (postage) stamps!
OK, I'm a lucky ducky!!! A dear buddy o' mine rescued me, and explained ASPECT RATIO in QuickTime, in terms my poor pea brain could follow!!! Yippeeeeeee!!! Thanks, D! You are the bestest!
Looky-looky!
Oh yeah. There be lots o' gleeful chortlin' goin' on now . . . 
ROTFLMBO! These were some of the better shots I took of our holiday trip to Seattle. I was trying to make a slide show. With music.
Thumbnail looks OK, but, when you click on it, the full size window is GINORMOUS!!! QuickTime and I have issues . . . If anyone knows the secret to creating a player that is about 450 pixels wide, and nicely proportionate in height, do tell. Cuz, I'm about to stick a fork in my eye right now . . .
A Muse News: The Last 12 Days of Advent.
Merry Belated Christmas! I've been away from the computer, visiting family, and only just returned home to realize I had forgotten to post the contents of my box from our A Muse Advent project. Hope you can forgive me for the delay . . .
IT'S A MINI SLINKY!!! 
I know today's kids are prolly more excited about all things electronic, but I like to think a good old fashioned Slinky is still good fun! *chuckle* Do you remember the song? (click HERE to hear it and see the old TV commercial)
OK, yeah--there is an ulterior (stamping) motive for having a Slinky around, too . . . 
If you hook the ends together, and set it on a table top, you can slide cards that may have wet glitter glue on them into the rings; it keeps 'em upright to air dry, without touching each other or falling down, etc.
Cool, eh?! *wink*
I hope you had a wonderfully joyous Christmas--we braved the snow and icy roads to enjoy our annual trip in the city, just my hubby and I with our two kidlings. This year, we decided to try Seattle. The roads in downtown Seattle were HORRIBLE (total understatement)--we probably should have cancelled. And then, call us crazy . . . we decided to brave it even further and travelled down the state to spend Christmas with my parents, my uncle and Grams. We sprang it on them very last minute--we haven't had snow and ice like this on the west side of WA state in about 18 years or so--unbelievable!
It is literally "Over the river and through the woods" to get to grandmother's house--we crossed in the dark, or I would have gotten a pic to show. It snowed and snowed while we were there!!! Glorious! My parents thought we were totally NUTS to travel down in that, but, they were so SO happy to see us--we haven't spent Christmas at their place for quite a few years.
Anyhoo, if I get a chance, I'll try to share some pics in a few days of our Christmas Vacation Adventure.
Happy weekend!
