~BIG Announcement & Stamp GIVEAWAY Day!!~

Good morning....

I am finally home and I came home to
a wonderful surprise.
All new storage for my scrap goodies and a clean
scrap room to boot!!

I wanted to share for those of you whom
have emailed me and asked and congratulated.
Yes, it's TRUE! I am on the New CRICUT CIRCLE Design Team
I was so honored to be asked and am very excited
with this new fantastic endeavor!
Thanks for all the emails, I was surprised it was public LOL

I have a couple shout outs to my friends at CHA.
They touched my heart...
this is what Betsy and Merlene
made for me and brought to me while
I was working, they were so sweet.

And this is what Karen *LadyDoc* did.
She was telling me about the Scrapbooking Royalty
Charity (we love them) and she told me
if I donated 1.00 I would get all the pins...
a while later she came back and had donated 1.00 in my
name and I received all the pins...*AWWWW*
I went back to donate the gesture was so sweet!

On the last night of CHA I met some amazing
people, do you know Katie Cotton??
She is the owner of Paper Makeup Stamps
*How cute is that name?!!*

Oh she is not only adorable but so kind and
she passed me some stamps to giveaway!

They are unmounted rubber stamps that are so cute!

SOOOO be sure to check her out
http://papermakeupstamps.blogspot.com/
Leave a comment for HER then
leave a comment here...and I will randomly choose 2 winners!

I have some Monsters & Aliens, Fairies, and Moody Girls to give away
If you win you will receive 2 stamps!!!!!

*Yea* for amazing new friends who are in the same
mindset as I am "It is more fun to give then to receive"

I will be honest with ya, I have more
giveaways I could go for another week,
but tomorrow I will begin drawing names and
we will begin WINNER week before we hit
more giveaways :)

~Thanks for popping by~
~I am so truly blessed with friends like you~
~Have a wonderful day~
~Pinky~

~Shout out from Chicago!~

Hey crafty friends...due to internet issues and
busy travels I am running behind on my blogs.
I have no CHA pictures yet...becaue it all begins tomorow!

But I have bumped into Pink Paislee, October Afternoon,
Sizzix and of course Imaginisce.
Its buzzing with creativity!

I had to make a shout out to my Fiskateer peeps!Check out this makeup case my fiend Shelly had.
It had Fiskateer written all over it!
As a true scrapbooker I had to take a picture of it in the hall
of the hotel on a white towel for clarity LOL
And I wanted to share one of my and Shelly at Navy Pier,
she is just as cool in person as online...having a great time.
will get back to prizes tomorrow I promise!

I have prize scuts out at CHA as I type LOL
Have a great night, I start CHA booth tomorrow.
Thanks for popping by
~Pinky~

Hi crafty friends!

~The Snooky-Poo & Fiska-Peep SHOW!~

Evening my crazy fun crafty friends,

I am chuckling in my room tonight.

I just got back from an amazing weekend with some amazingly
generous and sweet crafters.

Many of you know that I drove to West Virginia this weekend in order to
attend a charity crop for Lupus.
What an amazing cause and what an amazing group of crafters I met
this weekend. I don't think that people who don't scrap really understand
how genuinely heartfelt and generous that the scrapbooking/crafting
community can be. Honestly this crop was a joint effort
of all the girls in West Virginia, and Fiskateers combined, from the home made food
to the handmade, bought, and all donated charity auctions.

I will be sharing through the week but tonight before I headed to bed
I wanted to share the "Great Chicken Run" story and introduce you to

Snooky-Poo and the Fiska-Peeps!Let me share the story behind the name (hehe)
Yesterday the sweetest Fiskateer JEANNIE came up to me
and she said "Pinky, I have something special for you!!" as she brought over
a white cardboard box. Here is sweet Jeannie and the famous Rebecca! :)
Hope you don't mind ladies, but your both my friends and I cannot resist!
And honest to gawd I had no idea what in the world
she had in the box (chicks were the furthest thing from my mind! LOL)
She opens that box and the CUTEST most adorable chicks were inside!!!

I want to introduce you to Fiska-Cheep and Fiska-Chirp
I was overwhelmed and it touched my heart so much, that #1 she knew
I was raising chicks and it was an exciting new venture, and #2 this woman
took the time and went to the trouble to get me chicks, FEED, and a watering
dish too! How sweet is that? I was just blown away!!!
But then it hit me..."what in the world will I do with the chicks tonight?
I am staying in a hotel!" LOL That is when the fun began!

We checked in to the hotel and I kept trying to figure out how
I was going to explain a cheeping box to the check-in chick
(she was so lovely I probably could have told her outright)
But we went REBEL on this trip because that's how PINKY ROLLS! bwhahaha

We checked in and she directs us to our room, and how lucky
are we?? We are by the back door WAAAYYY down the hall
perfect for the "Chicken Run", so I park at the second door
and start unloading and sneak those peepers in
saying "SHHHHH fiska-peeps" the whole time...
which BTW just so you know (in case you wondered) Shhh Shing chicks??
Yea, it does NOT work LOL They cheep louder I think.

I set them up in the bathroom with their food and a lamp.
Later that night we were chatting with Rebecca and looking at the
Fiskateer pictures from the crop and we ran across the picture above
(the chicks and I) I don't know if it was the exhaustion setting in
but we were DYING laughing about sneaking those chicks in and
how my hair looked...I told Rebecca "I look Snooky-fied!"
If you don't know what that means there was a silly reality show
called Jersey Shore and it was a big hit this is Snookie
She always wears her heair in a bufont style and the first picture
I saw of myself it reminded me of that...
so Rebecca said "It's Snooky-POO and her Fiska-Peeps!!" hehehe
and then we named the chicks Fiska-Cheep and Fiska-Chirp.
We were hysterically laughing and it was so much fun!

Silly I know I know...thanks for bearing with me, I really am
exhausted tonight LOL Maybe you won't find it funny,
but you have to admit these chicks are so gosh darn cute, it was
wroth stopping by! LOL
I had a great time!
Maxine from Scrapbook Page in WV was amazing, she brought
tears to all of our eyes as she passionately spoke about Lupus.
They raised over 3400.00 to donate and it was WELL WORTH the drive
over and meeting people I had never met was wonderful!
Maxine and Rebecca

I hope to go back again and visit the girls, what a great group of
crafters, and what a welcoming bunch!
I will see y'all tomorrow, back to your regularly scheduled blogging.
(I might be a little late though)
Have a blessed evening,
~Thanks for sharing in my adventure~
~Pinky~

~Wonderful Wednesday!~

Good morning fellow crafters!
I am so excited this morning, after a few tries
I finally found a drop off location for Conkerr Cancer!!!
It just made me smile so much this morning!
The new drop off location for this area is going to be

Quilt Connection

1011-A Memorial Blvd.

Murfreesboro, TN 37129

How amazing! She said yes right away! If you are in Middle TN and want to help Conkerr Cancer by making pillowcases then you can drop them off there.

This is the Conkerr Cancer website http://www.conkerrcancer.org/

This is a new top I made for myself :) I had some scraps left and wanted to make myself a top for this weekend, so I whipped one up.

And this is a VERY special Fiskateer Apron I made for the Lupus Crop in WV! If you are anywhere close by you could bi on it! :) It is going to be up for auction!

I am so excited to get away for the weekend with girlyfriends :)

That's about it for me today, I have been crazy busy with the boys
and today poor little J is sick. I tell you they run through sickness
always one after another....but that's ok, momma's here. :)

~Thanks for popping by~

~Have a beautiful Hump Day~

~Pinky~