Some things obviously do not change. Still playing favorites at the sb.com. One of my friends has now been banned for 3 months. For what? For standing up for herself and other women on the board? So what? It's not like anyone else has the balls to do it. I swear, I'd rather poke a hole in my eye than go back to that board. Things are so less stressful at the other boards where I belong. Those would be Two Peas, SplitCoastStampers, and my home board, Yakkity Yaks.

I don't get why a bunch of women have to act like they are in high school. Their little clique is annoying. Their belief that they act in a Christian manner is ridiculous. They are the biggest hypocrites I've ever had the displeasure to post on a forum with. Come on! Spout a Bible verse or two at me. Shoot, I'm a Christian and I don't treat people as badly as they treated quite a few posters I've known and cared about.

But that's all beside the point. I'll stop about them now.

I went to Hobby Lobby today and finally got some Memento dye ink pads. I needed these because I discovered that the pigment ink doesn't dry very fast on the alcohol ink. Well, you have to make mistakes before you can correct them, if you know what I mean? So I'm going to be trying these out and see how things go. I bought the cutest little stamp of a bunny holding Easter eggs. Just adorable!

So this weekend I'm working on my swaps. I know I've promised to post pictures, but for some reason I just can't figure it out at this point. But I will! I have some neat vampire, werewolf, witchy ATCs to show before I mail them out. And I'm going to be working on some gift tags as well. I can hardly wait to see what this new ink can do. I heard it was pretty good.

Later gators!

Another day

Well it snowed 7 inches on Friday. I think snow is beautiful when it falls but I really despise driving on it.

I've been working on some ATCs for a swap I'm in. I've entered a ton of swaps at splitcoaststampers. com because I love doing ATCs and I want to branch out from doing scrapbooking to other paper crafts. Now I've joined a swap for something called "scraplings". These look like leftover scrap cards. Kinda cool! I know it's just one more thing I will become addicted to as I get to working on these marvelous little mini-cards.

I've spent most of my time in my scrap room trying to get my brain to function around what I want to do. Right now I'm working on vampires, werewolves, witches ATCs for a swap. Such a dark subject around Valentine's Day, but I love it. I just finished my fantasy ATCs for another swap and plan to mail them out this coming week. I love it when I get so many neat ones back. I keep them in a binder in those baseball trading card sleeves. It will hold 9 ATCs and works well. Then when I want to, I can just flip through the book and look at the ATCs I've collected so far.

I'm going to upload some pictures. I swear I am. I've just gotten lazy about doing it. And then, of course, I'm always over at Yakkity Yaks playing games in the arcade. That usually takes up a lot of time.

Well, toodles people!

Well, I went to Michaels yesterday. They had the cutest Easter stamps in the $1 bins. They were so adorable that I couldn't resist purchasing some. I think I bought about 5 Easter/bunny stamps and one penguin stamp. They also had some cute small clear stamps (3 on each form) for New Year's, Christmas, all kinds of things. I didn't get any of those, but I might.

I plan on making some Easter cards and other things and I'll post them here and upload them at splitcoaststampers.com which is one of my favorite forums.

I also found a new place called Paper Craft Planet where I'll upload pictures as well. There are so many different forums where you can talk to others in the craft of paper, stamps and scrapbooking. You don't have to be stuck with just one place. And one may fit what you need better than the other.

I've found that Two Peas in a bucket is a pretty remarkable site as well. Plus you can shop there with reasonable prices and wonderful customer service. There are very knowledgeable people and you can talk about anything on that forum.

But make sure you check out Yakkity Yaks. Now if you're looking for a fun forum with GREAT people and various opinions on everything, that IS the place to be. It's a marvelous, new place. Like I said in a previous post here, they even have an Arcade and run tournaments. No, you don't get money, but boy it's fun. And highly competitive!!!

So that's all for now, but stop back by. I'll hopefully have some more pictures up when you do.

It's Friday night and I'm playing games on my computer. I have tons of ATCs and cards to make this weekend. Plus I'm going to do some decorating of some glass bottles with Ranger Alcohol Inks to see what I can come up. My daughter is going to do them too and that will be a ton of fun.

It's always nice to have someone to create with. Sometimes her ideas are so much better than mine. Sometimes we both have the same idea at the same time but envision different color schemes.

So the weather this weekend will be pretty nice on Saturday and rainy on Sunday. But that's pretty cool. At least we'll have one good weekend day since Thursday and Friday were nice but I had to work.

As soon as I get some more stuff finished, I'll post it up.

I'm tired. By that, I mean that I'm tired of Republicans. I'm tired of Democrats. I'm tired of conservatives. I'm tired of liberals. I'm tired of being denigrated because I don't agree with far right wing conservatives who believe God is going to come down and rule our world. I'm tired of far right wing conservatives who think they can interpret the Bible to fit the situation. Whatever. I'm tired of far left liberals who go too far in their need to be the "saving" grace of all people no matter what.

I'm tired of Congress bickering among party factions. The Republicans act like babies. Then the Democrats act like babies. Hel-lo! We elected you. Quit worrying about party idealogy and do something for ALL the people not just those who support your party. Sorry, I'm an American. I'm not someone who walks around and says "Yo, I'm a Democrat" or "Yo, I'm a Republican". I'm not anyone's "party". I'm an American. If you can't do something for me because you're stuck in your party line, then I'll do something for you. I will vote you out of office next time you come up for election. If you can't compromise with different parties, I'll vote you out. If you can't get passed your party line, I'll vote you out.

I will hold a sign up and say "What are you doing for us? You know, the Americans who WORK for a living? You know, the Americans who are losing their jobs while you bail out banks but don't ask for any showing of where the money is being spent or hoarded? You know, the Americans who pay their mortgages on time even though they are exorbitant and based on over-appraisals?"

Ok, it's been a pretty good weekend. I went to Michaels yesterday and picked up some things that were new products. I almost purchased the First Blush paper pad, but I have so much paper on hand right now that it's best that I just wait for that one. It is gorgeous paper though.

I don't have much to say today. It's Super Bowl Sunday and I think our son and his family are coming over after church later, but I don't know for sure. Either way, I'll be working on more ATCs and some greeting cards. I found the directions for a small box to put small candy in and I thought I'd try that. I'd like to give some treats to my coworkers for Easter as a surprise.