Hi everyone;
just got home from a visit with mom. Made chili before I left, so that is supper for tonite. I'm out for supper tomorrow (a going away supper for a gal at work) and Tues., nite is bowling for Troy. Hopefully, there will be enough chili left for dh tomorrow and Tues. We've already celebrated Thanksgiving here in Canada. I usually do the traditional turkey dinner though

BingoLady: welcome and good luck at bingo

Teri: welcome also to you. I can't help you with the rollers either, but I think PaperKrafter's idea might work.

Angie: hope Layla starts sleeping better for you. Glad your recipe swap went well. Hope your Pintrest party goes well tomorrow.

Nancy: way to go with your Christmas shopping. I've only got stocking stuff so far for some of my kids. Waiting for gift lists from them.

Debbie: hope you are able to find your teddy bear cart. Why are places not willing to ship to Australia? Hope your ds has a good trip and stays safe.

Better run, and get a bit more done before supper

Take care and welcome to all the newcomers.

Yes, Joy, we got a hand written note on Saturday(our first!)...he said to send letters!!
He is at the USMC Parris Island, SC.

He has a great *bunk mate*. He said they keep each other in-check and help each other out!

He said he misses us all, but is hanging in there. I heard if he can make it through these three weeks...it will get better(home sickness wise)

Hi everyone. We had our Thanksgiving dinner at church tonight and it was very nice. We had a nice turnout and they were expecting that maybe we wouldn't.

This Thanksgiving me, my DH, and DS's will be going to Nebraska to my married DS's house for Thanksgiving. It will be a little different. He will be cooking the turkey and we will be going to the in-laws for the dinner.

My son and his wife moved to Nebraska the day after they got married last year. Her sister and husband were there but her mother is here in Missouri where I live. Well we are all going up there for Thanksgiving so the DIL's sister is hosting the dinner. It will be an interesting holiday. The first of its kind and I hope very enjoyable. I am hoping to have lots of fun.

Being a MIL is a new experience for me and I want to be the best one I can be. I don't want to do anything to cause problems for my son or his wife. I love them both very much. I have seen MILs that are difficult and cause lots of problems for the family and I don't want to ever be one of those.

Kathy--It is good to hear from you. I haven't seen you on the MB in so long I wondered if you were ok or not.

I hope all you ladies have a great Thanksgiving. Enjoy all the good food and most of all your families.

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Quick good morning to some and a good evening....

Baby is here and wide awake so i am going to feed her breakfast then a nap

sounds like everyone had a great weekend

Hope to chat later

HAPPY CRAFTING EVERYONE

Morning everyone!! Hope everyone had a great weekend. I did not get anything done on Saturday I set out to do. Instead, one of my daughters came over and we went fabric shopping. I forgot I told her we would go. She needs 4 baby blanket sets for people at work that are expecting. So we went and picked out fabric for me to make the blankets and burp cloths. I embroider the baby's name on the blanket and then my friend hemstitches them for me so I can crochet around the edges. I have one I am doing as well. So I have 5 sets to get done along with other projects before we leave in 2 1/2 weeks for our cruise.

I saw some cards this weekend made from Snow Angels and Santa's Village. Well, I just had to have them and Santa's Village isn't cheap! But I splurged and got them. Probably won't come in time for this year, but maybe I will get inspired and do them early for next year! LOL!!

I always plan too much, don't get it done and then SAY I'm going to work on stuff during the year. But I am so sick of Christmas stuff, I never do.

SANDRA Chili sounds good! My husband can't eat it anymore, so it is rare I fix it, but I sure like it.

LUV2SCRAP02 You are lucky to get to watch your baby everyday! I love my GS to come over. He is 18 months, this week, and so fun! Each new stage is a lot of fun.

Hope everyone has a productive day!

Hello ladies!

Joy how exciting...your DD found her dress!?

Nancy, hope Abigail is getting a nap in so you can have a breather!

Had to go for mammo and lab work this am. Having my first physical the end of this month.

Our family has been invited to our son-in-law's grandma's home for Thanksgiving.
I am in charge of bringing pies. Thinking a pumpkin, an apple and a pecan.(DH's fave)
Its going to be a hard Thanksgiving without our Marine Recruit!

Hope to get to some crafting later this weekend....the rest of our kids are going camping till Sunday night!

Debbie, that does sound expensive for a puppy! We have been browsing online & looking at purebread bichon or poodle puppies (as DH has allergies, so has to be a purebread, not mixed breed). Seeing around $400+ for those puppies. Some are around $400-$500, others that come from a pedigree fancy family line of show dogs are going for closer to $1000. If & when we get a puppy it would just be for a family dog, not to show, so we would probably get one at the cheaper end around $400-$500.

Cathleen, I am also a CTMH consultant! Whereabouts do you live?

I think most people on this thread have the CTMH Artiste cartridge and/or the CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge already. But if not then feel free to contact me too. I can get it delivered to my house, gift wrap it & remail it back out to whomever. Or it can get shipped directly to you (with no gift wrap). You can PM me or e-mail me at NJsharon@hotmail.com.

Today was an easy day. My student was in school, yay! So I was with the kindergarten class all day... well, half a day today. We had to do testing with them, which was interesting. LOL Some were falling behind, so as well as helping my student I was running around to others helping them to play catch up & follow the directions. So tough for such little kids to do these tests. I think they have a math test to do tomorrow too.

Was so nice to finish early though & be home to relax! Emily has gymnastics later, other than that I am just relaxing the rest of the day!

Abigail took a almost 3 hour nap I was starting to write out some Christmas Cards half done...

My order from HSN came Martha Stewart newest products really some nice scrapbook pages and decorations can be done with this. It also came with 2 gigantic punches looking forward to playing with it.

Chat later

Hello Everyone! New User here!
I bought the circle something to remember cartridge, yet I am trying to purchase right now but I don't see my benefits! (discount, free shipping) Can anyone help me? am I supposed to do something to get the benefits? I already linked my cartridge through CCR

This is really annoying. I tried to log in about a dozen times using internet explorer (what I normally sign in with) & it wouldn't work. Had to use Mozilla Firefox to sign in. Grrr!

Wanted to post one photo of one of my girls. This is a sneak peak that the photographer posted, of Emily.



Makes me excited to see the rest. I really liked the photographer & can't wait to see the other pics!

Good evening everyone, had quite the day here because our water heater pooped out & leaked all over our basement floor! Yuck wet, wet! My dh & ds spent quite a few hours down in the basement getting the new water heater hook up this afternoon.
I guess I'm not surprised that the water heater went out on us because it was about 20+ years old. I was on pins & needles watching my dh & ds hauling the old WH up the basement stairs. those things are heavy & big.
Anyway dh took the water heater tank out to our local waste site which also has a section for scrap metal & they gave him a check for $22.00, I was surprised, thought he'd have to pay to get rid of it.

I'm glad I didn't have to wait a couple days before getting the new water heater hooked up etc. I was going bonkers just those 6+ hours without water...

Makes me think of all the poor people out on the East coast who have no homes, let alone water etc. I should be ashamed worrying about not having water for one day.

Hi- from the Pacific Northwest.. i'm in Everett, WA which is just a little north of Seattle. Today.. it's raining.. no surprise of course..lol It's mother natures payback for 80 blissful days of no rain this last summer.

I started scrapbooking about 7 yrs ago. The company I worked for sold and moved everything to Canada- so my husband told me to get a hobby to keep myself busy.. little did he know what I was getting into.

I have 2 kids, my son (20) and my DD (12). I'm also a Girl Scout leader for the last 6 yrs. I love the girls in my troop. They are my little extended family. I'm also an ATA mom- (american Taekwondo association) my DD has been taking lessons for almost 2 years- so when i have time inbetween working, girl scouts, and TKD classes and competitions, i will try to squeeze in time for scrapping.

I've recently discovered Smash books.. love them.. it's my quick fix when i want to scrap but don't have a ton of time to make my pages look organized and pretty.

I also have 2 chihuahuas that are currently snuggled on my lap. They are my crazy little redheads (Izzy & Lucy)

MaryAnn

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Looking for the spot where I can go to search for an item and it will tell me which cartridges has it. I know it was somewhere before, does anyone know what I am talking about?

Thanks.

Hi Janis, so glad to hear that you got you got your new water heater installed and a DH and DS that could install it! Definitely makes one appreciate having water!(HOT water, too!)

LadyinRed I use this one: Cricut Search

Hi MaryAnn its nice to meet you!

I was so proud of myself that I finished all my Christmas cards, signed sealed and stamps and then i remembered i forgot to take pictures. I only have 1 style of the kids cards I will take a photo and upload it.

Waiting for little one to take a nap ...

Welcome all the newbies...

JeanneLee.. thanks for updating the names of everyone...

Debbie those prices for cartridges are crazy... Acutally flowers in a supermarket go for 19.99 and over in a Florist (flower shoppe) you are talking anywhere from 39.99 and up.

usually Valentines day the flowers sky rocket to over 100.00 a bouquet

Debbie if you want tell me what bears you want and I will cut them out for you and the outfits