Winner of my 3rd Blogaversary blog candy!

I figured I'd open up my giveaway for one more day and ship the candy when I get home.  :) Thank you so much to all my followers for entering and for being my bloggy friends and Facebook friends!  If it weren't for you guys, I don't know where I'd be! :D

Here is our winner!

#14 - Denise!!!

Congrats Denise! I already emailed you, girlfriend!

Aloha my friends and I'll see you in a week! (I do have a few posts scheduled though :))

100 Subscriber Giveaway on YouTube!

Hi Friends! Apparently my YouTube channel hit 100 subscribers while I was moving from coast to coast! Eeeks! I've just filmed and uploaded a giveaway video!

You can watch it here on my blog, but if you want to enter, you MUST go to my YouTube channel (HawaiiPaperParty), subscribe and comment on the video there! No entries here on my blog will count. See you on YouTube!

The Great American Road Trip 2014! Moving from Coast to Coast!

So... I've been traveling for awhile now. LOL. I know it may not seem like it because I've had my posts scheduled since the ending of January, but the Navy moved us once again and this time we went from the east coast to the pacific northwest! Wheeee! We DROVE it.  Crazy! I call it my Great American road trip! I've never seen these places before and I was super excited to see the sights and eat the eats! Here are some photos of where we stopped and what we did!

We started off in Connecticut with America's best pizza - The Clam Pie at Frank Pepes. 

We did the Cheesesteak Shuffle in Philadelphia.

I even ran up the Rocky Steps!!!!

I tried out some Iron Chef eats at Lola in Cleveland.

Had a cheese pie at Lou's in Chicago.

Checked out the shiny bean there too. :)

Went to see what the frozen Souix Falls looked like.

And traveled the Bad Lands.

Made it to Mount Rushmore.

And went dog sledding in Montana!

Had a sleigh ride.

And went snowmobiling in...

Yellowstone Park!

Well-traveled Sabotage! He enjoyed every single hotel room we stayed in!

And when we finally got here... I found lots of Hawaiian food! YES!!!!

Hope you enjoyed my pictures! You can see videos of me and my trip (like me running up The Rocky Steps) on Instagram.  I'm vampyra1 on there. :)

Now I can go back to blogging, Etsy-ing, and commenting on all your blogs! Whew!

Aloha, I'm back!

Aloha guys, I'm back from my mini trip... from LAS VEGAS!

My bestie in the yellow blazer, me in the middle, and her sister in the leopard print.  Fresh off the plane!

It was my bestie's birthday, her sister's first time to Vegas, my nephew's birthday (he lives there), also visited my brother and aunt who lives there, and the in-laws came halfway into it too (also their first time).  Lots of family, lots of friends, lots of good times!  I didn't gamble or anything (I wanted to save my money for craft stores!), but Grandma won $6000 at Keno! Woohoo!

Anywho, it's back to cards, back to my cat, and back to blogging!

Can't leave you without a card, so here's the card I made for my October birthdays! (I send a card to all of my customers/class members on their birthdays. :))

All Stampin Up!  CASE'd from Mary Fish.  Uses basic grey, summer starfruit, and primrose petals.  

'Till next time!

I'm back!

Hey everyone!  I'm back from my trip!!! It feels so good to be back in the land of technology... I only had a couple of sporadic internet moments... just enough to turn in a paper or two for school.  I can't wait to see what everyone has been up to on their blogs and I promise to get back to all the commenters who have left me love on my posts while I was gone.  I really do appreciate you and the time you take to share a thought with me!

I received a couple of blog candy packages while I was gone so I'll be sure to post them up sometime this week.  I also hit up a couple of Hobby Lobby's and Joann craft stores... WOWIE!  I'm so envious of those of you that live near one!  The prices were about half the price of what you would see at our craft stores here in Hawaii and there is so much selection.  And on top of that there are insane sales like 50% off paper and 40% off any one item!  I died and went to craft heaven!

And of course I can't leave a post without a picture.  So here is the Kentucky family!  Even though the trip was for unfortunate and sad reasons, we took a day to go do something fun together.  White water rafting!

Yup, that's me in the front.  The only one that looks like she's being tortured...

'Till next time!