11.30.06
Posted in Uncategorized at 10:53 pm by PaperDesigns
Well, the first contest was so great – we’re having another one! Starting tonight at Midnight (December 1, 2006) were opening up our Winter Holiday Cards Contest!!
The rules and guidelines are mostly the same – but please check them out. We’ve changed the topic for the new short paragraph. We’d love a response to “Why Do We Honor the Tradition of Sending Winter Holiday Cards”. There’s a lot of room for thought in that question. I know what I’m going to write for my sample entry.
The Winners List is official in the Fall Holiday Cards Contest! Congratulations to all who participated – the gallery is gorgeous!
First Place
Stephanie Ackerman – Fall Card
Second Place
Nicole White – Give Thanks
Jackie Peduzzi – Autumn
Third Place
Janet Evans – Autumn Pear
Linda Dotterer – Happy Thanksgiving
Tami Mayberry – Thankful Hearts
Kim Hughes – Thanks Card & Envelope
Sharon Hallsworth – Fall Card 1 & 3 (tied)
Cynthia Kerslake – Sweet Treat
Karen Seifert – Orange Kitty
Jodie Goodwin – Autumn Blessings
Andrea Weibe – May Your Blessings Abound
Kelli Holman – Tag Pumpkin
For the Blog Challenge – My Mantra is: May You Count Your Blessings Everyday.
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11.29.06
Posted in Uncategorized at 1:07 pm by PaperDesigns
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Christmas Critters, PC Hugware
We love Christmas. With all of DHs deployments, we decided early on that Christmas would always be just the four of us. We don’t mean any disrespect to any of our family and friends (and they all understand) we just like to hang out – the four of us – for the holidays.
We love to watch Christmas Movies, and we watch them all (Thank our lucky stars for the Family Channel and the Hallmark Movie Channel!) We’ll watch new ones old ones, it doesn’t matter – we love watching others find the joy that is the holiday spirit!
But our all-time favorite, bar none, is the Muppets Christmas Carol. We just love it! We know all the lines “Thank you for making me a part of this!” “Even the vegetables don’t like him” and we laugh and cry (okay, only I cry when Scrooge is remembering his lost love) every time! So it is OUR movie.
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11.28.06
Posted in Uncategorized at 5:12 pm by PaperDesigns
The blog challenge is on daily planning and writing things down – and I have to say, that I don’t but should!! I would be so much better organized and much less stressed out if I would only do this! I even have a daily planner! Especially with the holidays upon us, the parties, the shopping, and the commitments, I really need to get a handle on time management!! I’ll make that my own challenge – write the stuff down, make lists and get the missions accomplished! I hate how I feel when I ‘drop balls’ – I really don’t want to let anyone down. I’ll start organizing – I promise!
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11.27.06
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:10 pm by PaperDesigns
Christmas Traditions, Kaelynn Winn
My husband and I go nuts, overboard, etc all throughout the holiday season. We have a lot of fun, but wrapping the gifts for family and friends is the job that belongs to the kids. When the grandparents receive gifts that were obviously wrapped with love from the children – they tell us that it meant all the more! Our children work together as a team to get all the supplies together and wrap the gifts as best they can. They fill out the tags, and help us get the presents in the boxes for mailing. It’s fun, and the kids really enjoy have a “job” that’s all theirs!
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Posted in Uncategorized at 2:52 pm by PaperDesigns
We want to welcome in all those who are looking into entering the Fall Holidays Cards Contest sponsored by Green Sneakers. Our Contest is closing at 11:59pm on 29 November 2006, and the winners will be announced the next day! There’s still time to get your favorite original Fall card entered!
Just a quick overview for the new people just joining in. You’ll see the links to the Card Contest over on the right, both under PAGES and BLOGROLL. Hop on over there and you’ll see the pink and white flower picture that says Welcome. If you look in there, under comments, you’ll see the:
Step by Step Instructions for Using the Gallery and Entering the Contest
1. Register (top right corner) – fill out the registration information. Winners will be notified via email. Please ensure that you have provided a valid email address in order to be notified. For information regarding our privacy policy please visit, http://www.greensneakers.com/privacy.asp. We value your privacy and do not share email addresses with anyone.
2. Once Admin has received your information, you will receive a confirmation email with a link to post your entries. “Log In” with your registration name and password.
3. Enter “Fall Holiday Cards” contest by clicking on the photo from the Gallery home page. Here you will see “+Add Item” (top left menu) – click on this and follow the directions to add your item (upload your photo).
4. Click the “+Add Comments” to type in your supplies list and your response to the Contest Question.
5. Save.
6. View your entry to ensure it is correct. (You may have to “Refresh” your browser first).
Please – DO NOT comment other than to add your supplies list and paragraph, and please, do not comment on other people’s entries. In the name of fairness, we’ll keep the format for all of the entries the same (no added comments) and after the contest concludes, we’ll open the “+add comments” permissions for everyone.
If you have further questions please see The Green Sneakers Blog or email your question to Barbara , if you prefer.
There is a lot of further discussion in the archived posts here on this blog – a few clarifications. Please feel free to browse through to read up on the questions that were asked previously.
The Fall Holiday Cards Gallery has lots of beautiful cards, and we invite you to add yours to it!
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11.26.06
Posted in Uncategorized at 2:54 am by PaperDesigns
Debbie Mumm, Christmas Tea
Thanksgiving is over, Black Friday was accomplished – and today Christmas went up! This is the busiest week on my year. We go to friends for Thursday, but I did get up around 5:30 and sneak off to Walmart to get the papers (6 different ones) and heavy whipping cream. Then after making bread and getting all the food I was bringing ready – we left around 11am. Had a great time, came home around 10:30pm – asleep by 11:30pm – up at 3am for Black Friday. At our first “hit” (store) by 4:20am, by the time we got home (3pm) we had made over 20 BF sales, and had an SUV load of goodies. We love all the planning and shopping, and we don’t even mind the sleepless adventure – but we’re not spring chickens, so I do wonder if we can keep doing this year after year. And to get up early this morning and get all of Christmas put – now that is a lot of work! But worth it, it’s all worth it!
Blog challenge: I make all my own Christmas cards and envelopes, and I will put in a ‘family letter’ about the past year. I feel very strongly about the people on my Christmas Card list, and if we are so far apart and this may be my only contact with them, I want it to be special.
Don’t Forget: Only a couple more days to enter your Fall Holiday Cards in the contest. Please get those pictures posted! There are cash prizes!
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11.22.06
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:26 pm by PaperDesigns
Bountiful Harvest, Carolee Jones
Happy Thanksgiving! What a wonderful holiday! Family, Friends, Food, and Football! All of my favorite things! The blog challenge was about what Thanksgiving food can I just not wait to taste again. Boy, the list is long. My husband and I often ask ourselves why we only have turkey on Thanksgiving – especially when we love it, it’s inexpensive, we really enjoy cooking it, and left overs are the greatest thing! But we don’t tend to… so I am really looking forward to a great turkey! I also love sweet potatoes cooked with apples, pecans, and maple brown sugar! YUMMM! Many of the items on the menu are things I love, but also have year round – so these are the favorites.
If you didn’t know, Green Sneakers is hosting a Fall Holidays Cards Contest – it closes on the 29th – so there’s still time to enter, and so far there are more prizes than contestants! (And we’re talking cash prizes!) So feel free to put your cards in! There’s a link for it under my Blogroll!
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11.20.06
Posted in Paper Crafts at 5:31 pm by PaperDesigns
Tea Party, Carol Halm
Here’s the challenge:
1- your worst habit?
2- your best feature?
3- what you like most about your significant other/spouse?
4- if you could travel anywhere, where would it be?
5- what do you admire most in a dear friend you have?
Here’s my reply:
1. I talk too fast (too much?)
2. I’ll go an extra mile (or an extra thousand miles) for a good friend.
3. HoneyBear – there’s too much to list, he reaches for my hand in his sleep.
4. Scotland.
5. I have a friend who has been beaten up by life, and she still is the most unassuming, unjaded person I know.
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11.19.06
Posted in Paper Crafts at 12:52 pm by PaperDesigns
Kaelynn Winn, Christmas Traditions
Holiday Sparkle or Traditional Mistletoe? Blog Challenge
This is an easy one for me – I’m Traditional Mistletoe and my husband is Holiday Sparkle (ala Clark Griswold)! After 20 Christmases together, we have come to a happy arrangement – I do the inside of the house, and he can use the whole outside for his luminary arts! Now the inside will (today) be completely renovated into Christmas – pictures come down, all the couch throws and pillows will get changed out – and then Christmas goes up. 10 trees, wall hanging, swags, throws, pillows, bedding, and my favorite – the village! It’ll easily take me a few days working straight through – but I love it, I really do! The outside has already gone up. He likes to plan it in waves. The first wave is up, and each week he’ll add more.
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11.17.06
Posted in Paper Crafts at 5:43 pm by PaperDesigns
I do love to go window shopping. There’s so little I need/have room for – but it is fun to look. The only thing this year that really caught my eye was a Tablet PC. I do not need a laptop, and the idea of spending that much money on something I don’t need is ridiculous. BUT, it is really cool, and the technology of it just blows me away. I love working with computers and their peripherals (funny, because I’m not much of a digi scrapper) but I love the cool new gadgets. This one really made me look twice!
I think the one “window shopping” item I’ll have to actually get – some frothy gorgeous evening gown! I’ve got a formal event to go to in a couple of weeks – so I’d better get out there and start Window Shopping!!
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