Star Wars

My husband won 2 tickets to the Star Wars on Stage show from a radio station so my son and I went tonight. It was awesome. They had a lot of exhibits and souvenirs and characters to take pictures with. The show was a full orchestra and choir and C3Po (Anthony Daniels) did the narration while scenes played on the huge screen behind them. We had awesome seats and got a great parking place. All-in-all, it was a great night and I really enjoyed it.

Obligatory scrapbook reference - I took a lot of pictures so I can use my new Star Wars scrapbook kits.

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Sorry to be AWOL

Got through Thanksgiving. My brother was here with 2 of his kids. We had a nice visit. Ended up having turkey with all the fixin's on Tuesday and delicious prime rib on Thanksgiving. Went to Wally World at 4 am Friday to try to score some deals. Didn't get the TV I wanted but found some other gifts and got a Cricut cartridge. Went to Michael's and got two cartridges there super cheap. Didn't find the one I wanted but I did not go home empty handed.

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Almost Turkey Day

so, it is almost Thanksgiving. One more day of work then a nice break. My brother and 2 of his kids are coming up to celebrate with us. Then of course there is Black Friday. Yes, I am one of those nuts out at 5 am looking for the deals. Not sure what the game plan is yet but I will be out there with the rest of you.

Actually got some scrapping done today. Did 5 12x12 layouts. I get much more done out of the house because there aren't as many distractions. Trying to work my way through several months of kit club packets. I am SO behind.

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2012

My son and I just got back from going to see 2012. It is a long movie. The special effects are quite cool and there are a lot of them. The drama at the end was kind of hokie but not unexpected for that kind of film. Why is it that all disaster movies end with some drippy happy ending. No chance of a sequel....

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Adding Gypsy files

I will be adding a few Gypsy files to my blog file list shortly. Two new word books. One is Grandkids. I made it in CDS and saved it as a Gypsy file. The 2nd one is another word book for Puppy. I made this one before the Gypsy update that gave us multiple mats so there are multiple files - basically one for each letter, one for the puppy, and one to print all the letters. Leave me a comment if you have any problems with them. This is my first time sharing so I am sure I have a lot to learn.

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Been down for the count

Well, we got the "piggy" as my mom calls it - swine (H1N1) flu. Much better now but had several rough days there for myself, my husband and my son. Between the 3 of us, I think we had every symptom. Working on getting some Gypsy files posted.

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Whew, it took a while but I did it...

I got my Gypsy, Design Studio, and Cricut all updated. The update that didn't work and was pulled has now been updated and seems to work. We can share CDS and Gypsy files between the 2 systems and can now share Gypsy files. Woohoo. Some other improvements are great too - like multiple mats for one design, welding flipped images, and all my cartridges are now green in the cartridge list. Sweet.

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And so it begins....

Apparently Halloween really does mark the start of the Christmas season. I was out to my local big box craft stores and POOF all their Christmas stuff was out. Before now, I could find very few Christmas scrapbook things in my local stores (though there is a ton of it online). Today there were tons of paper packs and punches and all kinds of other goodies. Of course I bought some things so...

Tomorrow I am going to put together all the projects I have underway and get everything pulled together so I can finish them. I have several word books underway, a wedding scrapbook album, Christmas cards, two trips to Disney World, blah blah blah. SO much to do and so little time. I really need to finish this stuff before I get another bright idea to start something else.

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Back home and making cards!

Back from my trip to Disney and working on making Christmas cards. It was a quick trip for Halloween but we had a good time. It was chilly, though. Stayed at Animal Kingdom Villas. Absolutely beautiful.

So, I have been playing with my Gypsy (took it with me - great for plane flights). I am going to post a .cut file I made of a word book (once I can figure out how to do that). I made it with Design Studio. I have done several word books with the Gypsy and each time I figure out a better way to do it so I can do them pretty quickly now. Unfortunately, I can't post any Gypsy files until Provocraft delivers that functionality.

Enjoy.

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6 days until Disney!

In 6 days I leave for Orlando with my kids to visit Disney World all decked out for Halloween! I have been collecting Halloween themed Disney embelishments but hope I can find something when I am down there. We are going to Mickey's party and have costumes to wear. I hope it isn't stifling hot while we are there. Taking my friend Gypsy with me - I need to give her a better name.

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Do you like my new blog?

OK, this is going to be tough for me - I spent all day playing around with templates for this blog. So many choices, I will have to stop myself from changing what it looks like all the time. It is fun though and provides another opportunity to be creative and spend hours of time...

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Slowly but surely...

I am figuring this out. I found a super cute image on the Cricut boards for "I Love my Gypsy" and I was able to add it to my blog. I am so excited.

I have been playing with my Gypsy. I created a LOVE word book last night while watching football and will try to cut it today. It is very easy once you get the hang of it. I still have to look at the manual to figure out some of the buttons.

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Cricut Gypsy!

I got my Gypsy today from HSN. Have charged it, sync'd it, and did the first update. I can't play with it tonight but will tomorrow when I get home from work. I know if I start to play now, I will be up all night. Stay tuned.

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How does this work?

Just started this blog. Haven't figured it out yet.

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