My husband is in Mexico City until Friday night for his father's retirement from the Air Force. Hi dad is retiring as a Colonel with a little over 28 years in the service. Congratulations to him and I thank him what he's done for our country in that time. So that means that I have very limited time at the computer. I did notice that my hits went over 25,000!!!!!!!! Yippee!!! That means blog candy for you! I will definitely be giving away a stamp set and I'm thinking of giving the winner their choice of one of these two recent Sell-A-Bration sets. I have So Very and Very Punny. So, a stamp set is one of the items. I will include some die cuts from my Cuttlebug Dies, some 6 x 6 patterned paper, some ribbon and one other stamp set, Warmest Regards (a current level one hostess set) as the rest of the goodies. I will try to get a picture sometime over the next few days and will add it to this post. Because my hubby is gone I won't post until he gets back, which means on Saturday. So, you have from now until Saturday at 11:00 a.m. central time to enter into this contest. Just leave a comment on something fun you're planning to do this summer - i.e. a vacation, re-visiting a hobby, relaxing, etc. I'd love to hear what you will all be up to. For me, something fun we'll be doing is adding a new little one to our family and adjusting to that ;) Take care, and I can't wait to hear what you have to tell me about your upcoming summer plans!!! MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR NAME WITH YOUR COMMENT - if it's anonymous it will be hard to find you. I'll be using the random.org number generator to pick the winner. One comment each, please :)
P.S. - Some venting here. I am SO ANGRY!!!!! I have a friend who's moving and we wanted to combine her going away party with a little baby-shower-like activity because she's having a baby. She didn't want a shower because it's her 3rd girl (also her 3rd child). We were waiting until last Thursday to plan this event because that's when she found out if it was a girl or a boy. I figured that was plenty of time, too, to get what I needed in town. Well, we were going to use some stencils and fabric paint on some white onesies and have each guest make her one to kind of sneak a baby gift from each of us in there. Of course I have stamps, but we want it to be user friendly and with stamps those individuals who haven't stamped before have a high likelihood of messing up their onesie since they can't see the rubber through the wood, and they might over "ink" the stamp with paint, etc. Stencils are much easier. So, I got to our local Wal-Mart where they supposedly have them, and they have NOTHING! Their fabric paint section (normally has hundreds of bottles) is down to TWO bottles and both are ugly colors. So, do I drive 3 hours to San Antonio to get stuff? No, not with me and the girls and no husband to help make the drive easier and safe (plus almost any expedited shipping rate would be cheaper than round-trip gas costs). So I decide to get on the internet and pay extra for some 2nd day air shipping. I find a company called PLAID that makes lots of stencils and has paint and everything at really decent prices. I look at their shipping options in the drop-down menu and they have regular mail, 2nd day air, and next day air. I figure, "it's Monday, I don't need the stuff until Thursday, and that's 3 days away not counting today, so 2nd day air should be fine," and click that, and then the next step is to finalize the order. I do, it doesn't ask me anything or tell me anything before clicking submit. After I hit submit, this page comes up with my order and all kinds of shipping info and lo and behold, it says 2nd day air actually takes FOUR FREAKING DAYS!!!!! So, I call the company and they're already shut because they are on Eastern time and aren't open very late. I call this morning and she says there's nothing she can do. She can't cancel the order, or change it in any way. All I wanted to do was pay the extra shipping to get my "next day air" THREE days later. Isn't this so stupid!?!?! I think it's very misleading that they would call something 2nd day or next day, and not have that "fine print" that it takes them TWO DAYS to process an order right next to it so that you can plan/pay/select your shipping accordingly. Anyway, no husband here to vent tow about it, so you all will have to bear with me :) Now I have to send the stuff back since it will arrive after the party and I don't need it for anything else, and suck up the $20 or so I paid in shipping for 2nd day- four days later - airmail. Learn from this - I sure did!!!!
Stamp Sets: Noteworthy (with "s" added)
