Chocolate, Stamps, Scrapbooking ~ [SALE]

" Giving Chocolate to others is an intimate form of communication, a sharing of deep dark secrets" ~Milton Zelman

Annual For Sale Event

A lot has sold. However, I dug deeper and found quite a few more items. I've updated the listing for your to review. I've got lots of Chocolate left and I'm including a FREE Mom's Pack with every purchase. What's a Mom's Pack you may ask yourself...well go to this website and check it out! I include a FREE Mom's Pack with nearly all my events. They chance continuously too...and if you ever want to include something from your business in my Mom Packs please contact me for details.

So you are probably wondering why I've choose a chocolate theme for my annual big product sale this year...ok maybe you aren't wondering...but I'm gonna let you in on it anyhow.
Dare I say it, but I am not a Chocolate Connoisseur. Now living in a world where 99.99% of the people I come into contact with are CHOCOHOLICS and not being one is like being a an ice cube in the Sahara. You just don't count because your existence is limited anyhow!

I am constantly being given Chocolate and have even hosted a Chocolate More to Adore open house thinking that maybe someone would notice the contradiction...but like I said before, my lack of chocolate appeal is just not memorable...but I accept all chocolate gifts just that as gifts and then pass it onto my CHOCOHOLIC Husband or Daughter!

"Relax, it's alright. I understand what you want. Rich, Kind Chocolate." ~ Eric Winter

Wooden Stamp Sets
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If you are interested in set but want to see a scan of the rubber/wood quality please feel free in emailing me and I'll send you the scanned image. However, please note all sets are either stain free or have limited staining.

Scrapbooking Kits
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Albums
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Acrylic Stamp Sets
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I accept Checks, Money Orders and Cash for these items. There is no tax on them as it has already been paid but if you need me to ship anything I will charge across the board shipping for the actual weight of your items from my zip code to yours.

"The Chocoholic 12-Step program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!" ~ Terry Moore

Hope you find something you need/want.

Nina

Card Sketch Challenge #1 ~ And Our Winner Is

I'm happy to announce that I have tallied our votes for the cards submitted for the challenge and the winning cards was Submission #4

Created by: Cheryl KVD of Engineered Expressions

Congratulations goes out to Cheryl for her winning Card Sketch Challenge Submission. Send me an email (nperrin3@yahoo.com) with your mailing address and I'll get those out to you right away.........

You will have to share what you end up creating with your Blog Candy!

Thank you all for playing...I had a great time getting to see your submissions and meeting you all. Awesome work ladies!!! Look for another Challenge coming in the near future.

Lofty Goal ~> I'm calling it the Scrap-a-mania 500

I've set myself a real LOFTY GOAL of creating 500... yah that is right 500 scrapbook layouts. Now what in the world possessed me to even think of this challenge for myself? Got me...probably that last insomniac 'bout I had. No sleep generally puts me in total OVERLOAD with "NEW" projects. So with the excitement of the up incoming Close To My Heart Autumn/Winter 2007 Idea book release,I though this would be a great time to concentrate on getting my backlog of photo's onto pages.

So in true Italian fashion...er ok so maybe it isn't an Italian thing but just a my Italian family thing that I choose the number 500. Long story short there are over 500 of us when we gather for family events...instead of trying to develope a name for the event we just call the events "The Castaldi 500".

Time frame is from Sept. 1st, 2007 (Autumn/Winter '07 Idea book release date) to January 1st, 2008 (Spring 2008 Idea book release date) That is 4 months to create 500 pages (125 pages a month or 4 pages a day for the next 4 months) eh what have I done? This is to include any size sb page using any products and including digital pages.

Anyhow ~ I've been stocking up on my coupons and today I took the kadoodles out and used all my 40% off coupons to buy page kits, combined with my once a month 4 page sb group, sb workshops, team meeting projects....and by the grace of God I'll get it done.

Root me on as I will be posting them all...er ok only the decent ones. I'm also going to try and either do a project highlight or a technique highlight on the "Good One's". I've installed a ticker at the bottom of the blog to show my status.

Card Sketch Challenge ~ #1 {BLOG CANDY}

Alright, here is the blog candy being awarded for the "Vote" winning Card.

1. Michael's polka dot ribbon - 3 Yards
2. Darice Finishing Accents circular (matches the ribbon beautifully)
3. Darice Finishing Accents Square (also matches the ribbon beautifully)
4. American Crafts dimensional elements (including ribbon slides, frames and shapes)
5. American Crafts mini MARKS rub on's

Now I hope that whomever wins this blog candy shares what they end up creating with it.