Today is the last day to have  your cards in my hands to  count for Angie’s blog candy give -a -way … Stay tuned for tomorrow announcements girls  ITS GONNA BE A DOOZIE!.. LOTS of  goodies will be announced tomorrow  I can hardly wait ….  When I was making this  card I was actually thinking of all you wonderful  stampin friends ..  you all are just amazing ..  I used chocolate chip and certainly  celery CS.  The piece  that lays over the middle is actually  a piece of vellum  that I  colored  with my brayer in certainly celery ..   the small sayings  come from 2  stamps I had  recently  found again in my stamp  room ( it is truly  a miracle  what  we find when we  clean HUH? )  one was  about  girlfriends( friends forever )   and one  about  dogs.. ( faithful friend )  just thought the faithful friend  applied here   and NO I am not calling you all dogs either   Hee! Hee!  I also  used the brayer with certainly  celery  on to the Au Chocolat DS  paper also .. and of course added   a few doodles with my white gel pen ..

NEWS FLASH:

STAMPIN’ UP RETIREMENT LIST 2007 Its HUGE this year and  very sad  in many ways .. So many favorites  saying bye bye ~ 233 sets on the list with 45 wheels .  You have until June 30th  to get any of the retired sets ..

I received   10  wonderful packages of cards yesterday, HOLY MOLY was my mail man busy or what ? ..  I received  these   awesome  packages from

Vicki  Edwards, Jenna Coleman, Jodi Heusor, Aimee Foley, Lori Jane Mittlestadt ,Julie Purdum, Melissa Ferr, Heidi Kingery, Marci Cyphert and Lisa Bauer sent  a 2nd box of cards  also that I received yesterday  YAHOO!  Can you believe it ?  Thank you so Much girls..I am  in shock  with all the cards I have sitting in my living room .. you all are such a Blessing  …

Today is the day  that I must stop taking my Motrin 800 mg    for the next 10 days  to prepare  for Surgery,  and it may be  hard  since Motrin  seems to help me the most.  Good news  is that today my RA doc is going to give me samples  of Celebrex  to  help  take place of the motrin  for the next couple weeks .. Please be praying for me  and that I will be ok without the Mortin ..  It’s a scary thought thats for sure ..

Have a TERRIFIC  Tuesday  girls .. Thanks for peeking in today

and I will see you tomorrow ~  Its a Date!

Until later… Happy Stampin!!