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Buffalo Gals - Let It Snow - Wide Right......

Last weekend we flew up to Buffalo to put on a Scraptique Holiday Class for our favorite Buffalo Gals (and Canucks, too)!  We had a fantastic weekend working on projects, layouts, wall hangings in a Christmas theme, using products from Kaisercraft, Fancy Pants, Prima, Basic Grey.  The girls had so much fun and we ALMOST finished everything this time, except the Basic Grey Wassail card kits.  We love doing our classes up there and can't wait to go back again soon!

Monday night we went to the Buffalo Bills / Cleveland Browns game (surprise, surprise...) where Super Bowl XXV took on a new meaning to me.  If anyone follows football, they know that Buffalo played in their very first Super Bowl in 1991 which was Super Bowl XXV.  We had a fantastic season that year and I had just met my now husband in August prior to that.  I invited him to the Super Bowl which I had no tickets to, but it was in Tampa and how hard could that be??  I emptied my entire savings account of $1,100 out (which I'd been saving for probably two years) and we went to Tampa.  We finally, about 2 hours before the game, found someone to sell us tickets for $950 and got into the Super Bowl.  What an experience - the first time for my team, the first time for me - it was awesome.  We, however, lost the game at the very end when our future ex-kicker (yes, they fired him after that) kicked the game winning field goal wide right of the goal posts and we lost.  Devastation.  My husband also found out after that I had I used my entire savings and wasn't pleased - he had a great job and would have bought!  But...he married me, so he's paid ever since!

Anyway, to make a long story longer, on the Monday night game last week, we went to the last second of the game and had to kick a field goal to win and what was it - wide stinkin' right.  Different kicker - he'll stay, because he doesn't usually miss - in fact he kicked four field goals yesterday as we romped the Chiefs 54-31, but wide right took on a new meaning.

The good thing is that it snowed on the way back to the hotel, which put me in the Christmas spirit.  Since we've been back home, the temperatures are in the high 60's / low 70's which is gorgeous. 

Here are a few pics of the Buffalo event along with the game.  I'll be posting our new Scavenger soon and it's full of holiday bliss!!!

 

Scavenger Hunt - Bind-It-All Package - Congratulations.......

GINA ORTIZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations, Gina - you are the official winner of the Bind-It-All contest!!!!  Better known in the entries as GG Loves Matthew, our winner picked by my little nephew, Jaden, gets the Grand Prize from our contest.

I hope you girls have enjoyed this - Gina - please e-mail me with your address so I can send out your box!!!  I hope you will send me pictures of you opening your box and what projects you do with your new toys, so everyone can see!!!

We'll begin another awesome contest like this one in late November (the week of Thanksgiving) - I plan on doing about 10 of these a year - I've had so much fun with them and have really enjoyed reading all your responses.

Congratulations again, Gina - enjoy!!!!!

Happy Birthday again, Daddy - I love you more than life!!!!!

Kim

Challenge #7 - Scavenger Hunt - Last Challenge!!

Okay, girls - we have SO MANY entries into our contest - I'm so excited about the response that we've had.  Remember that you have until midnight on November 11 to post any of your responses and everyone's names will be put in a huge bucket.  I'm going to take a photo of my little nephew, Jaden, pulling the winning ticket at my Dad's birthday party on Wednesday night and will announce the winner when we get home (about 9PM).  Good luck to everyone who entered!!

Here's the last challenge for "Extra Credit" entries....We want YOUR Christmas Wish Lists!  Name the top five things that you want to get for Christmas from family, friends, husband, etc., for Christmas.  I'm going to use those lists to make sure that we have all the great items you're looking for available in our on-line store for the hoidays!!!  Everyone who enters gets there name in the pot one more time!

Can't wait to see what's on YOUR wish list!!!!!  Have a great Sunday.  Go Bills.  Kim

Challenge #6 - Bind-It-All - Name That Class Contest

This one is going to be fun!!!!!  We are going to be teaching a class at the National Conventions next year that features the Bind-It-All machine.  It will be two hours long; the first half hour will be a tutorial and hands on instructional period of time where we will demonstrate the proper way to use the machine, give everyone in class a chance to use it (there will be 1 machine per 2 people in class) and basically a tutorial for people who own the machine or are looking to see if they like it enough to invest in it.  The next hour and a half of the class will be putting together a 3" x 4" notebook to carry in your purse and putting together a 5 1/2" x 7 1/2" mini album using the new Cover-Alls from Zutter and various papers that we carry in our booth (to be designed yet!). 

The challenge is that I need a really great, catchy name for the class.  So.....send 'em our way - let me know what you think would be a great title for the class.  Everyone who submits gets their name in the pot toward the contest (ending next week!!) and if we choose your title for our class next year, you receive a Bind-It-All tool kit valued at $29.99!!  Even if you don't own a Bind-It-All, the tool kit is awesome - I carry mine everywhere - it has a 6" stainless steel ruler with cork on the back side, a ball point pen, mini pliers, small precision scissors, mini wire cutters, a scoring tool, paper piercer, large sewing needles, a craft knife with replacement blades and a measuring tape.  All of this comes in a compact zippered case and is so handy when cropping!

Okay, let me know what you think we should name our class!!!!!