Killing trees?!?!?!?

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At work we received a achievement award about our use of paper. Then one of my co-workers said that we shouldn't have received the award with the amount of killing trees she did last week. I burst out laughing, and I wasn't because of what she said it was because of what my mother had me doing this weekend.

Yesterday, I was cleaning my scrap area, shuffing off all the old stuff and such. When my mom asked me to come with her to Walmart. I said sure as she had hurt herself last week and I didn't want her lifting anything heavy or pushing the cart.

So we did our shopping and loaded the trunk once we were done. As we were pulling out of the parking lot my told me that we were going for a drive. Well, I should have guess why she wanted me to come. You know when you have that little inkling that something isn't right.

Well doesn't my mom hand me the shears. She wanted me to cut some boughs for her baskets at home. So here I am at the side of the road trying to cut these thick branch while my mom is screaming "get in the car, get in the car!" She didn't want anyone to see us.

After I had got her her boughs we started home. I looked over to her and said, I felt like I was selling drugs and the cops were coming down on us.

It certainly was an interesting day.

Well I hope you enjoyed the craziness of my family.

Debbie Doncaster

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This lady has now reached 200,000 visits in 17 months. Her work is truly amazing. Click HERE to visit her blog.

Hope you enjoy her work as it is truly awesome!!

She is also offering some Blog Candy to a luck winner.

Here is what she is giving away.

Noah Biorkman

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Hi Guys,
Me again!

I came across a post in the Splitcoast Stamping forum about a little boy who is very sick with cancer. You can check out the article on him HERE. It is very sad. Everyone is sending him cards for the season. If you want to send him one too, you can send it to:

Noah Biorkman
1141 Fountain View Circle
South Lyon, MI, 48178

This is a very moving story. I am sending mine tonight.

Remembrance Day

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In Flander's Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flander's fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, tho poppies grow
In Flander's fields.

Liet. -Col. John McCrae

got the image from: http://steeb.wordpress.com/2008/11/

Secret Sister's Crop Day

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Hi Ladies,

It's me again. So yesterday the girls got together for a little crop. We also had vendors in for Close to my Heart and Pampered Chef. We also had two jewelry vendors in. I got to see Katie and her mom again, which was great.

I also worked on some cards. I love House Mouse stamps. They are the cutest little mice ever.

I used the Bella paper by Close to my Heart. I coloured the image with my copic markers.



I got this stamp at Scrapping Turtle in St.Jacobs.



Here is my card.

Enjoy.

Scraps, Scraps and more scraps....

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So I decided today that I would make a card entirely of scraps I had in my scrap box. This was a huge challenge for me as I haven't been into this box in about 3 years. It contains all kinds of bits of patterned paper and cardstock.

I decided that I would find a sketch from the Splitcoast Stampers website. I decided to do their newest posting from November 4, 2009. This is what they posted.



This was certainly different for me. So I pulled out some paper and decided to use one of my Close to my Heart stamp sets. I used "Reach for the Stars". It is a great little stamp set for those of us aiming for the stars and beyond.


The copic colours I used in this card are as follows:

BG05 - Holiday Blue
YG23 - New Leaf
RV69 - Peony

It turned out awesome. Here is my card. I changed the landscape of the sketch.





Here is the close-up of my card.

I also accented the spaceship with glitter.

Blog Candy from Jacque's Joie de Vivre

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Hi Guys!!

It's me again!! WOW two posts in one day.

Just wanted to post a link to Jacque's Joie de Vivre blog. She is offering some great blog candy for her six month blogging anniversary!!

Enjoy.
Muah