Started a Yahoo Group! and finished my first Layout of the Year!

Whooopie!

Started a new Yahoo group for fellow Arkadelphia area (and friends, natch!) "Stamping71923".

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Stamping71923

Just a place to yak scramp! Plan for Scramp frolics (dontcha LOVE that word? it's quaint like the Amish!) and keep all our buds "in the know" about what all we know... and what all we can REMEMBER to tell one another! Along with the internet technology and all the advances in communication- comes the demon of "I thot I told you such and such"... when you may have actually given that information to the checkout boy at the grocery store-- but, not to your nearest and dearest stamp friends! AS IF- checkout boy is interested!!

Anyway-- it's a nice place for the locals to gather round the coffee pot... or tea kettle as the case may be... and forget about all the chores needing to be done and concentrate on the good stuff in life.... SCRAMPING our memories before they are all gone from us!

In other areas.. my studio was greatly enhanced today with the addition of new Twinkling h2o's a watercolor and mica product that is just as cool as it sounds... and some more new rubbah from the Queen of Rubbah herself-- Robin MaVinci! Woohooo... a banner day indeed when Mr Charley the mailman leaves goodies in the box!

Since I had all these new goodies--- well! I finished up my first l/o for the year! WHOA! First? Did I just say first? Oh- yes. I've been stamping and playing with scraps all these days since Jan 1-- but, havent' made a bona-fide lay-out this whole time! So... it was about time! view here... http://www.angelfire.com/art2/arkyangel/SallyScraps/

Am still waiting on yet another Janet Evanovich audio book to arrive so I'll have the complete set of the Stephanie Plum novels. Sister Nancy, (no she's not a NUN! but we do call her Nuncy sometimes!) lent me the first three in the series...Now, I'm hooked! And, I'm stuck! I have ALL but book SEVEN titled aptly enough "Seven Up" and I can NOT listen to them out of order! Why! I even got the Christmas novella entitled "Visions of Sugar Plums".... I mean- WHO could resist? Not me! Kim took the first three home to listen to on her commute-- hope she enjoys them as much as Nancy and I have! Oops. I just remembered something! I was supposed to have given her the Amish books by Beverly Lewis... oh- well.. another reason to get to see Kim! But, I'll sure be glad to see Mr Charley agan when he has THAT package in his mail jeep!

I actually have gotten to SPEAK to my little sister this week. She spends so much time out of the office and out to lunch-- that's it's a wonder I can ever find her there... but, most times I do actually... find her at work or on her way there. When she has free time tho- she takes Louie to the hospital and I can only hope that little Capio is getting better rather than worse with her little cold. Byron is sick (AND at home!) with bronchitis. YUCK. He called me in there earlier to let me know that I could sleep somewhere else! Guess he thinks I'll catch it. Hmmm... come to think of it-- I may just stay on the couch! Too cold to go start a fire in the front of the house and sleep in the guest room tonight!

All the more to contemplate! Well- keep your fingers inky and your heart merry!