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  • Mai Lian!

    OMG pretend I spelled your name right, K? Anyways I really don’t belive you are 29 (and I know others are with me on this), but have the bestest day all the same!

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  • This is one of the best. But first, ode to Halfway.

    It’s back there some where, we were about half an hour outside of Halfway here, just checking that the car top carrier was on right. If you went over those hills you would see the valley covered in snow, beautiful twinkling snow. It started snowing right when we got to Halfway on Monday evening. It snowed all night and we woke up to snow everywhere, so pretty. Tuesday Sciarrino packed her stuff into the rig and we went into town (the really tiny cute town) later in the evening. We went out to dinner with her sister, mom, and best friend Morgan. We ate at this teeny little bowling ally/diner/workout gym that had just reopened. I had super yummy chili cheese fries… with a chili cheese dog (no self control when it comes to chili from an in-the-middle-of-nowhere diner. It was so good. mmmm. We drove over to see Morgan’s new house, a 100 year old farm house with the most awesome moldings I’ve ever seen. And also to see her little five month old Cooper. Cooper has the best facial expressions. When I first picked him up he looked at me all surprise, like, “who the heck are you.” I LOVE babies!!!  Sigh. Driving to Sciarrino’s that night the stars were so incredible when we broke out of the fog. The sky was absolutely covered in stars, and the moon was shining down making the snow twinkle.

    So the drive home was great too. And I couldn’t wait to get home because I knew I had a package waiting for me. I ordered these off eBay (I love eBay).

    Dudes, I paid under 25 bucks for a set of 163 of these stamps. And I am totally in love with them. They have all kinds of nouns, some verbs, adjectives (including all the colors), and even three presidents… I wasn’t thinking this is so cool until I realized one of the presidents is Wilson and that is Ceara’s last name!  You can bet I’m stamping that on everything I send her. Hehehehe. I had a little stamped out sample to show you all, but my brother nicked my fire wire cable so I can’t hook up my scanner. You can bet they will be on many layouts in the future. I’m going to try and update later today again because I feel like I’ve got lots to say. But another thing that made my day fantastic?  A Ribbon Jar order that was almost two pounds. That is a TON of ribbon people, a Ton. Oh and my velvet is going to be here by Monday, ohhhhh I can’t wait.

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  • Okay so I haven’t been posting. Yup, I know. First our Internet has been horrible (which will soon be fixed as I just signed up for Comcast Broadband Internet today), second I’ve been busy, and third Sciarrino has been here and we’ve just been having too much fun. This is just a quick post to tell you what I’m up to. Sciarrino got the job (yeah!!!), and will be living in Salem with me, I’m so excited. We’ve pretty much been scrapbooking non stop, oh and shopping a little. Here is my latest creation:

    Now I am headed to Halfway, Oregon (otherwise known as Half.com Oregon), to help Sciarrino move back here. Then I am expecting an absolutely huge shipment of ribbon, tons of velvet and yummy stuff, on Friday so I’ll be busy with that. Then Ceara comes, remember her?  My BFF who is all the way in Arkansas?!?!  Well her older brother’s wife just had a little boy and Ceara is going to come meet her  new nephew. I am so excited that I am going to be seeing her. So basically I probably won’t be on the blog much, but I’m grabbing the camera and heading out on the road, so when I do post it will be good, promise. Seacrest, out.

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