November kits

November kits are now available!!!!

Kit contents:

5 x double sided LOVE, ELSIE 12 x 12 papers by K.I Memories in ROXIE & BETTY

3 x Bazzill textured cardstock in Beetle Black, Teal & Princess

1 x Bazzill round cardstock Edge paper in Watermelon

1 x Love, Elsie adhesive fabric 12 x 12 paper in Roxie Telephone

1 x 7 Gypsies Writer's Block seal stamp

1 pkg. Making Memories raw jigsaw chipboard alpha in POOLSIDE

1 x Junkitz stitched File Folderz tab book

1 x Luxe Designs black arrows rubons

1 x Heidi Swapp ghost XL arrows ( may be substituted with XL butterflies )

1 x Heidi Swapp chipboard shapes ( may be hearts OR flowers )

1 x 2oz bottle Making Memories paint

1 x foam paint brush

4 x Bazzill Bling Blossoms ( 1 pink, 1 blue, 1 black, 1 white )

3 yards co-ordinating ribbons ( 1yd-black loopy ribbon by Creative Imaginations, 1 yd turqoise fabric design ribbon, 1 yd- white crocheted style fancy ribbon )

ALL THIS FOR ONLY $29

Get one while you can!!!

thegriffs@mts.net

or comment in my blog for availability!!!!

HALLOWEEN!!!

whew...

all that chaotic RUSH for halloween, and now it's all over!!!

what a KILLING the retail industry makes off us!

the kids are already asking when we can take down the halloween decorations so we can put up all our christmas stuff...HMPH. i guess they forgot that mike and i just put it all up 3 days ago! and it's gonna stay up at least til the weekend...hahahaha!

tyler had a great little halloween party in his kindergarten class yesterday morning...he just loves his teacher so much! she had so many fun things planned with the kids! he came home so excited and full of classroom sugar!

thank you mrs.thomson for such a fun party!!

tyler dressed as a pirate for school today...and this is him with his little 'girlfriend' Alexi! they are sooo darn cute together! she always runs to give him a hug goodbye after school and calls out 'bye tyler' at least 20 times as we walk out of the school!! she's so cute!

...this is courtney ( i mean 'Jack Sparrow' ) with her teacher 'mr.d' ...she also just loves being in his classroom and thinks he's so funny! he really seems to be a great guy!! they also had a classroom halloween party in the afternoon!! courtney was excited because her classroom got to pick what the principal of the school had to dress as...A BABY!!! a few of the kids dressed him up in the morning at assembly ( i was also there so i have a few 'blackmailing' photos of him for backup!!! hahaha )

...and later at home ready to go out trick-or-treating...they lasted for 2 hours!! thank goodness for NO SNOW this year! there seemed to be a lot more kids out this year, maybe because of that factor? the kids had a blast...tyler was even running ahead of courtney this year in all his excitement...must have been from all those big spiderman muscles....!!!!

...once the kids had enough trick-or-treating, we did our traditional stop by at mom's house...we always went to see grandma and grandpa too, but since they are both living at mom's, it made it a lot easier this year!! the photo is fuzzy because i had my camera along with me to take pictures on our 'walk' so it was foggy when i took this!!! sorry!!!!! but they were all excited to see the kids and load them up with more goodies!!

( tyler was happiest and most excited about the TOONIE that nana had taped to his kit kat bar than ANY of the treats in all their bags...he is OBSESSED with toonies lately...he takes them from my wallet, mikes change compartment in the truck, anywhere he can find them...little bum! )

later when we finally got back home, the kids did there traditional "DUMP" on the floor of all their treat bags....mike and i went through it for our safety check and then courtney had to do a 'sorting/counting collection' for about 10 different items for math class today! mr.d was going to do some experiment with them involving their candies!!! COOL!

i hope you all had a FUN FUN HALLOWEEN!!!

:O)

it's halloween...

yep.

it's 12:01 A.M and it's officially Halloween!!!!

man, did it sneak up on me this year...are ya feeling it too?

i always try to be so organized and plan ahead ( buying classroom and dance friends treats and bags...getting all the house decorations up by the middle of October... ) stuff like that.

this year...HA!

i found myself with only the goodie bags for the treats ready in early October and yesterday and today was spent filling them with courtney and tyler for their classmates and dance friends! last night all the decorations went up, finally!

while i was in the states this weekend i bought some Wilton chocolate pumpkin molds and chocolate wafers and sticks to make suckers for the kids classmates as well....guess what i made today/tonight? ...50 chocolate pumpkin suckers wrapped in celophane bags and curling ribbon!!! whew!

AND....i also discovered a dilema early this morning....

WE HAD NO PUMPKINS TO CARVE TONIGHT!!!

yikes!

one of our favorite things about halloween is carving our pumpkins together and letting the kids pull out all the 'pumpkin guts' ( although tyler STILL hates getting his hands dirty... ) but they always look forward to it. soooooo, i spent 2 hours this morning driving around different sobeys, safeways, superstores, and shreimers trying to find a pumpkin or two the day before halloween...GOOD LUCK! no one had 1 single pumpkin in sight!

what to do? what to do?

i decided to wait until tonight after courtney's dance lesson to look in stores out by her teacher's house...same ordeal.

in desperation and willing to admit defeat that our house would have no carved pumpkins this halloween, i got mike to call Amaze In Corn out St. Mary's road about 20 mins. out of the city.

"yes, we do have some pumpkins and we're open til 10pm"

SWEET!!!

courtney and i zipped on over there and luckily found a couple homely orange and green pumpkins to save Halloween afterall!!

YAY!!!

Sooooo, it's now 12:16am and guess what i just finished doing?

yep, carving punkins'...

the kids, as per tradition, dug out the guts and mom got to work after they were tucked into bed!

what an ordeal!

...four pumpkins, 3 gourds and $13 later, we were on our way home HAPPY!!!

...ready to 'pull out the guts'...BLAH!

...TA-DAAAAA...

i'm going to bed 'cuz tomorrow's gonna be insane!

tyler has his kindergarten party in the morning...courtney's class party is in the afternoon...costumes, makeup, lunches, pictures...my head is already spinning!

what do you think of my carving job? they took me forever, especially the pirate...can't wait til the kids see them in the morning! they were sooooo excited when they went to bed tonight.

HAVE A HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!

( remember to take lots of pictures! )

:O)

#1...of three!

ok.

so for those of you who got my November classes email tonight, i will be posting some pictures over the next few days of some of the class projects.

These are some pic's i took before showing the 6 X 6 CREATIVE IMAGINATIONS ANTIQUE CREAM PAPERS AND BIND-IT-ALL MACHINE!!!

just so you get the idea....

i would also suggest since you have the time, that if you'd like the same effect with this beautiful paper line, that you get your pictures printed in SEPIA either on your own computer or even by taking your photos or negatives to either walmart or costco to have them printed this way. it really compliments the paper.

i took my wedding CD with my photos and went to Superstore and used their Kodak Picture Maker machine! i selected 'prints in seconds' and then also selected the SEPIA tone and printed them individually as 4 x 6 prints. i think it only cost like .29 each or something really insanely cheap like that!!!

...luv this paper line...

it's also now available in pinks and blues too...

( guess what? i ALSO have those in stock and will be available to purchase at this class! )

WHEN?

friday, november 16, 2007

...check out your class outline for more info...

please email if you'd like to be added to my mailing list!!!

thegriffs@mts.net

...keep reading for more excitement from today...

:O)

#2...courtney's new swimsuit

...took these tonight at courtney's manta lesson..

she's sportin' a new TYR suit since her last one was pretty much falling apart and lost all elasticity...she LOVES it and i think she looks great!

...she was getting ready to practice some dives off the racing block here..i was pretty far away so that's why this one is kinda dark...

...keep going on...

one more post yet tonight!!!

:O)

...#3...my friend nikki

...so, i came home last night from my weekend away in grand forks, nd, with my bestest pal nikki! we had SUCH a relaxing, fun weekend! we shopped, we ate good food, we soaked in the hot tubs, we had yummy drinks and lots of good times ( and good laughs at each other too...)

i won't divuldge ALL the silly details of our adventures we had, ( ahem, gummy bear fight, 'skateboarding' on target shopping carts in the parking lot, attack of the "burr" trees or reese pieces up the nose to mention just a few... )

but we had a fun weekend that's for sure!

...on our way...um, maybe you should be looking at the road? heehee

on our first night we treated ourselves to Endless Shrimp at Red Lobster for dinner...YUM! and then our second night we treated ourselves ( yes, again ) to Paradiso's...MMmmmm Mexican food! Oh ya. margarita's and enchalada's...so good. too full for mexican fried ice cream though...again! Dang.

uh, well, let's just say that the sillies seemed to come out when we were in walmart...
:O)

yes...this is me!!!

..and before we knew it, it was time to come home back to reality and our family's...which we really did miss of course!!!

Thanks for a fun 'girls weekend' nikki...just what i needed!!!

um...i think this one says how much shopping we did...we had MORE filled in the back seat too!!!

YIKES!!!

:O)

good times though, good times!!!

OCTOBER KIT PIC'S...

at last!

here's october's exciting colorful collection!

the kits sell at $29 plus PST.

i DID send an email out earlier in the month with a product list of what was in the kits, so if you're wanting that list again, please email me and i'll get one to you...hopefully before they're all gone!!!

thegriffs@mts.net

...have a good look here...

...i cannot even begin to try to tell you how much better and happier i really feel now that i have my camera back! being without it held up a lot of The Scrappin Studio's plans and other family memories now passed with no pictures...SIGH.

but, all is good now.

"IT'S GOOOOOD"

( Jim Carey-Bruce Almighty )

i am off to Grand Forks for the weekend leaving in the morning. I have had some requests regarding November classes and as you know, i am slow at typing and emailing it out...so, monday is THE DAY!!! i can tell you right now that i WILL be having a friday night class every friday of the month starting November 9th....and i will also be having another EXCITING Christmas card making class with MICHELLE VERNAUS from Stampin' Up in November as well....lots of fun things planned for your scrapping delight!

the HALL CROP is set for friday November 23.

More details coming on MONDAY all!!!

have a super, awesome smawsome weekend...

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