You turned off your TV? But how? And why?

After about 2 years of talking (more like arguing at some times) and negotiating, I finally got Xaver to agree to turn off our Satelitte TV service. We had gotten a bundle, years back, when Verizon had started bundling services. We bundled the max – home phone + cell phone + internet service + DirecTv.
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Doodlebuggin’ Out for Halloween with Xyron!

Xyron has teamed up with Doodlebug all week long to bring you Halloween inspiration! Thanks for stopping by today – I am sharing two cards and two scrapbook pages. Since I have young kids, Doodlebugs paper collection make it easy to create whimsical, fun pages without a ton of effort. The coordinated collections with stickers,
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Halloween Decor for Grown-Ups – No Carve Pumpkins

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays because I love to decorate. But all too often the decor goes too far to one extreme or another – it’s too cutesy or too gory or too bright or too “vanilla”. Who is making Halloween Decor for Grown-ups? Guess we gotta do it ourselves… enter Craft Attitude. 
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Believe – An ICE Resin Bracelet for the Emmys

Exciting news!!!! The ICE Resin team and a few special guests (like Misty Grosse and I) are featured in an eBook detailing ICE Resin’s road to the #CraftingTheEmmys gifting event with Celebrity Connected, CHA, and the North American Bead Association.  I am honored to have some my work featured in this ebook – it is
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World Card Making Day 2013 – Hopping with Clearsnap!

Ink, stamps, foils, and glitter… yeah!! We love card-making here at Clearsnap so our Creative Team decided to throw a card-making party today, during World Card Making Day 2013! Hop through the list of our Creative Team’s blogs, check out their fab projects, and then leave a comment on each blog post. This card is
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A Snowy Necklace for the Ice Princess

My niece is a super diva princess. She has a taste for the finer things in life and she LOVES to look “pretty”.  A few months back, I got a necklace base from Prima Bead that I knew would be perfect for my niece. The only problem was, what beads would I string onto it?
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Craftin’ Pencil Canvases with Craft Attitude

This past weekend I had the pleasure of teaching a fun, a la carte style class at Cool Scrapbook Stuff in Poway, CA in which we used Craft Attitude and pencils to create a home decor piece in the style of an altered canvas. I printed a variety of clip art from The Graphics Fairy
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