The 1st five get a goodie

So I stumbled across a posting on one of my favorite blogs to visit for ideas for paper crafting. There I found this great idea to "pay it forward". This sounds like so much fun.....I thought I would give it a try.


The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you! This offer does have a few "rules of play":


1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make --- but I hope you do!

2- What I create will be just for you --- one of a kind!

3- It'll be done sometime this year (most likely it will be in the next month).

4- You have no clue what it's going to be. Well, a pretty good bet it will be made of paper!

5-The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog!


The first 5 people to leave a comment wins a handmade card or gift (or both!) by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!

Ready, set.....who will the first five be??

Baby it's cold outside!

Today we got a spring blizzard. Brrrr is it cold outside. But how fun to get to have a snow day off from work! Well, I went into work today....and then walked back through the door around 12:30p. Of course I had to stop at the store on my way back home and grab chili fixin's. What a great day for chili. :o) I shoveled a bit in the back yard for the dogs and then let them out to play for a bit. They LOVE the snow! Derek got home at about 1:30p. Thank goodness. I guess it was pretty bad where he was at today. He got to shovel the front driveway and walkway. Haha (I think he secerectly doesn't mind.)


Well I made my chili. I think that I will make some apple squares next. Mmmm so good, I can hardly wait. Now if I just had someone to peel the apples for me. Oh honey....... :o)

Ellie girl....you got snow on your head little luv

Oh Chubbs...you sweet little guy

Can you guess who is who? Chubbs is facing you! :o)

Run Ellie......run!

Kick-off Workshop

Friday night I hosted my first Stampin' Up! workshop to kick off my new business. I had a bunch of girlfriends over and we all made 2 cards and a 3D project. We ate chili and some of us had some wine and then it was time for some stampin' fun! All the girls had so much energy and kept things pretty entertaining. In fact I think most of them pretty much ran my workshop! Heehee Most everyone was pretty familiar with stamping and card making.....so everyone was pretty eager to jump in and get creative. I was exhausted by the end. It was a lot of work getting everything ready and getting things set up.....but every minute was worth it. I was a little nervous for my first one......but I think that it went really well. I hope everyone had as much fun as I did. Thanks to all my girlies for helping me get off to a great start. Cheers ladies! Or shall I say....happy stamping! :0)

I just have to tell this little story about Derek. This is such my husband and it makes me laugh. So Derek knew I was having a bunch of girls over. He had planned on going over to the neighbors house to hang out while everyone was there. That didn't work out so Derek stayed home. About 1/2 hour before everyone arrived Derek ate a bowl of chili.....packed up his lunch cooler with beer and ice......and headed off to the bedroom to hide out for the evening watching tv. My workshop lasted 4 hours and he didn't come out once for anything! He is too funny!

Check out the cards we all made. Everyone did such a great job! Some of the girls used their own creativeness and changed things a bit on their own cards they made.....but here were my cards to use as inspiration...... Awwww :o)

This one is was done with the "Loads of Love" set.....

This one was done with the "Polka Dot Punches" set....

Here is the 3D project that we made....the box is made out of cardstock and inside holds 3 peppermint patties embellished with cardstock as well.

Super cute!!! : ] I LOVE this.

My new love....

Yes I know I am a dork....but I have a new love.......my cookie dough scoop! Oh my goodness I love this little gadget. Oh how it makes me so happy to see perfect uniform cookies come out when using this little guy. I am not exactly sure why....but it just made me smile and I even think that they tasted just a little bit better. No, not really.....that was probably the overdose of vanilla. : ) This new found love made baking cookies even more fun and quicker I must confess. But I guess really in the end.....who doesn't love warm cookie straight out of the oven? Right?!

Happy Valentine's Day

This year is our first Valentine's Day as a married couple. You might think that we would be all romantic and do something super fun to celebrate this day of love. Nope....we are an old married couple now I guess. Heehee : ) A girl wants her dishes and that's just what I got! Derek got me new everyday dishes that are just perfect for entertaining as well. I love them!

It's official!

I just joined Stampin' Up! and will have my own little side business. How fun! I will get to be creative and earn some extra money on the side. Well.....we shall see just how much extra money I will earn. My plan on joining was to actually be able to buy the product at a discount. So basically I am what you may call a "Discount Demonstrator". I Like the idea of buying stamps for personal use at a discount and occasionally sells to friends and family. This whole idea got me started when I made our Christmas cards last year. I had so much fun doing it.....that I want to get into making cards through out the year. And I am also wanting to get into scrapbooking. I have always wanted to do that. You should have seen all the different stamps and inks that Kim had when we were over at her house making Christmas cards!!! I have never seen so many in my life and she had EVERY single color of stamp pad. Every single one! All Stampin' Up! of course. I was in such awe over it. You would of thought she sold this product.....but nope, just bought it for herself. Wow! I want to be just like Kim! So, fast forward a few months and here I am. A Stampin' Up! demonstrator on my way to building my very own collection of stamps and ink pads of every color you could imagine. Oh I am so excited I can hardly stand it.

Check me out. Here is my website:

http://www.kellienorton.stampinup.net

Phew! January is over. What a month. There has been so much going on at my work.....there has been no time....for anything. Hopefully things will start to turn around. I hope! It can only get better...right? Derek is still working nights most weeks. Which leaves us little time to spend together. On the weekends it is not much better. His sleep habits leave him exhausted by the time the weekend rolls around and he spends some time trying to catch up on sleep or just simply wanting to hang out in his pj pants and relax. It's been really hard to get him motivated to do much. I can't blame him though. There is no way that I could work his schedule! His schedule is really starting to interrupt my sleep as well. I was startled awake this morning around 4:30 am to find him underneath the house dragging out his weight set that he tucked away some time last year. It was the loudest sound right underneath our bedroom. At first I thought someone had gotten into the garage and was getting underneath the house. It scared me so I went out to the living room to get Derek and figured out it was him! He talked all weekend about getting back to lifting and working out. I guess he decided this morning was it! Eyi yi yi. I really hope he goes back to working days soon. I am not sure how much more of this I can take. We are thankful that he even has a job right not......but my goodness! Ugh.....