Happy Easter!

Happy Easter, my bloggy friends!  Here's the last of my Easter projects! :)

Finally broke my Cricut free from it's hiatus!  Cut the bunny from the Live Simply cartridge.  Paper, cardstock, ribbon by SU.  Stamp by Scrappy Moms. 

Entering this into Fantabulous Cricut's egg challenge.  Also Crafty Sentiment's Bunny challenge.  And Craft Your Passion's dots and stripes challenge.

I know there are no jelly beans in this goody bag, but I really wanted to use this cute stamp by Scrappy Moms!!! :)

These Cadbury eggs are a favorite of mine and my bestie.  I bought a big 1 pound bag and put half of it in a cello bag (the other half I ate... muhahahahaha!)  The sentiment is another one by Scrappy Moms.  Really got a good use out of this stamp set!

Entering this goody bag into Kaboodle Doodle's Anything but a rectangle challenge and Cute Card Thursday's candy challenge. Also entering the whole kit and kaboodle into Scrappy Mom's Easter challenge, since I used the stamps on all my projects!

Hope everyone had tons of fun today and eats lots of CANDY!  I know I will!  Love you my crafty friends!

Re-constructed Easter card

Have you guys seen the Hallmark line of cards that are made to look like they were made by hand?  Obviously, they're not the stuff that all of us create... you can still see that they're partly mass produced with factory machines.  But last year my MIL sent us one of those cards for Easter.  I thought the pop-dotted eggs were cute, so I saved the card to re-constuct one this year... AND THEN I SENT IT BACK TO HER! Lol!!!

I just cut out the panel with the eggs.  The Happy Easter "stamp" was already printed on there.  I added a white card base, some SU Rich Razzleberry card stock and paper, and a Crushed Curry polka dotted ribbon.  The colors matched the eggs perfectly. :)  Wish I took a picture of the "before" card.

Entering this in the following challenges:

Love to Create: Easter

Outlawz: Twisted Thursday - Easter

'Till tomorrow! :)

Simple Easter Cards and a Thank You!

Thank you so much for replying to last night's post about the crap bar/restaurant.  It was nice to hear that I was right.  I DID write that bad Yelp review!  Link to my reviews here: http://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=eQz9DWK9PAo9r9ZJ6vsFKA

Add me if you're on there!

Whew! Well, not going to let that ruin my Fishy Friday!  I only do fish every Friday from Ash Wednesday to Easter and this is the last Fishy Friday! And what better way to celebrate than to show you some CAS Easter cards I made? :)

Everything is Stampin Up.  I used watercolor paper, SU ink, and blender pen to color.

He's super cute in yellow!

Another variation on the first one using the two different Designer Frames embossing folders.

Entering the first card in these challenges:

Fantabulous Cricut - Egg

Digital Tuesday - Easter

My Mum's Craft Shop - Easter

D.L Art - Easter

'Till next time!

Worst Customer Service Ever!

So, I've been going to this place called Lisa's House for pau hana (means finish work... we like to go to a bar, have some drinks, eat some pupus).  It's pretty much a dive, but my friends and I like it.

Anywho, we had a party in their private room tonight and I just had to come on here to let you know about the worst customer service experience ever!!! In the middle of playing darts, the waitress asks me to step outside in the common area and tells me that there is outside food and I need to remove it.  Apparently, the birthday girl's Mom put some musubi in a box for the birthday girl.  Simple mistake, just a Mom being a Mom.

Well, a few minutes later, I hear a commotion in the room and it's the birthday girl talking to a frustrated waitress.  She apparently is not going to give back the deposit I put down ($50) because there is outside food.  WHAT?!  Since when does a deposit pay for that???  Her voice got shrill and she yelled to my husband, "you're not allowed to come back here ever again!!" She stormed off, muttering obscenities under her breath.

A few more minutes later, the owner storms in and asks to speak to me outside in the common area.  Here we go again!  In front of all of her customers, she starts talking down on me like I'm a child.  She said, "LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION. DO YOU KNOW HOW TO RUN A BUSINESS?!"  Craziness, right?!  She tells me she loses money when someone brings outside food, yadda yadda yadda.  I calmly explain to her that it was an honest mistake and I wasn't aware there was such a rule and that no one told me anything about the deposit being taken away if that would to have ever happen.  She showed me a contract that I have never been shown before.  Even so, the contract said nothing about losing a deposit over bringing in outside food.

Keep in mind that we probably spent more that $500 in food and drinks tonight.  And thousands in past patronage.  We are regulars at this place!

She kept continuing to yell and me and my husband until he mentioned writing a bad Yelp review and THEN she changed her tone and decided to let us keep our deposit.  Let me tell you, it was the waitress, the bartender, the owner, and some guy whom I didn't know all trying to argue with us.  It was ludicrous.

After that bit, we were avoided by the waitress, and we kept having to go outside to the bar for drinks.  PLUS we heard her mutter all kinds of things under her breath!

And the sad thing is that they totally ruined the birthday girl's night.  Oahu peeps... Never give your patronage to Lisa's House!!!

Is it just me or was this really totally off the mark?

RAK's from last week!

Last week was my lucky week, I swear!  I got so many cute things in the mail! 

 My FIL and his wife sent us a beautiful gift basket from KY for my husband's birthday.  We used the "Sissy Sauce" (barbecue sauce) tonight for our dinner, BBQ pork chops!  There were all kinds of other things in there too... Derby pie, candies, bath products, KY blue grass seeds, and a mini Louisville Slugger! LOL!

My pal living in Turkey sent me about a half a pound of SAFFRON!  Oh my goodness! I did an exchange of pickled mango. :)

Susan from Cricut and Grasshopper sent me this awesome blog candy.  A gift card holder with a Michael's gift card in it!

Closed!

Opened!  Can't wait for my trip to IN/KY/TN in August so I can use it! Wheeee!

Thank you girlie! :)

Also got my Shirl swap from Leanne at Finding My Groove.  How adorable is this?!

Love the stenciling! And she's colored perfectly.

This was in the box too!  A decoupaged photo frame!  She looks like me!  I have those glasses and everything! LOL!  

Leanne also put in a cutie patootie stamp.  Can't wait to play with it!  Thank you girlie!

I'm very blessed to have all these wonderful people in my life.  LOVE things in the mail and LOVE you guys! :)

'Till next time!

New challenge at PTT - Flowers!

There's a new challenge at Party Time Tuesdays and the theme is flowers!  This week we are sponsored by Bugaboo and the Stamping Boutique.  

Here's my card featuring  a digi from The Stamping Boutique:

Inked with Copics and distressed with SU ink.  Cardstock, paper, and ribbon are all SU.  Flowers are some loose ones I got out of a scrapbooking kit.

Can't wait to see what you guys create!

In other news, I got a new car!!!  Woohoo!  I used to drive a Mustang GT convertible and my husband used to drive a Charger with a hemi.  Gas guzzlers!  With the ridiculous gas prices, we decided to trade our cars in for hybrids!  I do miss my Mustang (her name was Emily), but It's been almost a week and I'm not even at a half tank yet.  My pocketbook sure is smiling right about now! :)

'Till next time!

Easter for the kids

I try to make something for my students at every major holiday.  Easter is no exception!  I figure I gave them a lot of candy for St. Pattys and for Valentine's so I was on the hunt for pencils and erasers.  Found some cute ones at our "dollar store" (everything is MORE than a dollar. LOL!) and packaged them up:

Used SU cello bags to hold the pencil.  

The topper is just super simple.  A SU stamp, SU punches, and a little Easter eraser added with a glue dot.  I should have no more excuses of "I didn't do my work because I didn't have a pencil."  >_<

Entering this in the following challenges:

Decorate to Celebrate - Easter

Creative Craft Challenges - Anything but a card

I work with 3 other teachers as well, so I made them this easy goody bag filled with sustaining treats!

'Till tomorrow night when the new PTT challenge goes live! :D