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Coming up in March (tomorrow) in Honor of National Craft Month Scrapbook Trends will be doing fun things every Wednesday. Put it on your calendar.

Coming to Newstands March 15th. Put it on your calendar too Paper Crafts Magazine 350 Cards and Gifts

Creating Keepsakes Blog  for a really cool way to jazz up an old suitcase, and a prize too !

If you haven't done it already, sign up for the My Mind's Eye newsletter here . You won't believe what they are doing ! BUT YOU HAVE TO DO IT BY END OF DAY TODAY.

Another for the calendar tomorrow Bella Blvd

And that's all I have for now.

A Little Facebook tip and other stuff

I kind of stumbled on this, but thought it important enough to re-share in case you hadn't heard it. Are you missing posts from your friends and companies on FB ? Do the dates seem wonky sometimes? Here's how to stop that. Go all the way down to the bottom of your page. About two thirds of the way across, you will see "edit options". You have 2 choices : Friends and pages you interact with most, and all of your friends and pages. By default, FB will show you the things and people you interact with most, so you may be missing things. You may want to choose the "all of your friends and pages", as this will get everything onto your newsfeed.

Be very careful about all those cute little apps they have to tell you who your favorite friends on FB are and personality tests and quizzes. I found out today that something I clicked on for one of those apps started shooting full sized webpages of garbage (not nasty, just annoying), and before I knew it, there were 16 pages piled up. It took starting up a Norton Scan and then doing a restart on my laptop before it went away.

Playing games on FB - I am a full on Bejeweled fan. For no reason, it got really slow and didn't work right. Cure : Have no other windows or apps running when you try to play a game.  NEVER EVER shut down your antivirus program, and always make sure it is updated. The games on FB can be very graphically intense and suck up alot of memory.

Get rid of things on your desktop you don't need. Put it on a CD, and save it there. A CD will save MUCH more than a memory stick. The only problem is that you don't have instant access until you pop the CD in, but it makes a speed difference. Go to your temporary files and delete them. You don't need 90% of what's in there. And as for FONTS !!! OMGoodness, I had 450 different fonts on my laptop when I checked. I'm probably going to mess something up, but the space they are taking up is stupidly large.

Make sure you empty your deleted and junk files in your mail programs. Another big space waster. Set up folders so all the mail from, say, Addicted to Scrapbooking always goes into whatever file you want it to. Your Aunt can have her own folder, you can set up things to go wherever you want. Have you ever used the sweep function in Hotmail ? It is so cool - you select one message from ABC company, click on sweep, it gives you options, and then it picks up all the ABC messages and sends them where you want them to go, instead of having to click all 147 messages you got from them in the last 2 months.

I have a more detailed listing of ways to improve computer speed, and I will look it up, and will email it to you if you'd like. Norton has it built in somewhere, and any other antivirus will likely have the same thing. Whatever operating system you are on should have something similar.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming, and hope to find some more giveaways shortly.

Hello again - more links

Going to try the Post-It-As-I-See-It today. So there may be one more post, or 10 more posts, orseveral giveaways to a post, or just one. Here ya go !

Here for the goodie from Scrapbook and Cards Today - a brand spanking new copy of their NEW & LIMITED edition of Card Maps Today !! Winner announced Friday.

Here  TOMORROW May Arts is having a big surprise, and announcing the March Challenge. Mmmm - a prize maybe ?

Here  for Moxie Fab World's new fabness for today. "Fun House" by GCD studios is the collection up for grabs. Leave a a comment by midnight EST on Sunday, March 6 saying what you like most about this line and why and they will draw two luckies to win it!

Here  If you haven't already, leave a comment to get in on the 25 prizes that Paper Crafts is giving away.

Early Posting

Here  Imaginisce and Glue Arts Goodies - winners announced on Friday, March 4th.

Gosh - that's all there is this early !

Finally Back Home

I was supposed to be home Friday night, but I was just too tired to drive, so I stayed at the hotel one more day/night and did nothing but sleep. Woke up to a little snow, maybe an inch, and once I got on the road, it got ugly. On an interstate that you can drive 75 on, I was lucky to go 50. On the positive side, it made my gas mileage go up to 40 mpg. So I get home, and brought my stuff in the hoouse, went out to get a pizza, then  mom and I had dinner, and back into bed I went. Have even had a nap already today !

I had everything I needed to take pictures of my cards -- except the cards ! Boy, did I feel stupid. I did get lots of goodies, which I will tell you about Tomorrow.

Trips take alot out of me, and I got another one of those lovely steroid shots in my hip. It's working very well, but as for my back, there are 4 vertebrae that are acting up, and I found out that one or more of my meds is causing me (along with me) to gain weight. Looks like a big conference to change things again to see if it works.

Bear with me, and I'll get this blog going again.

Thursday, just before breakfast - Oh, and I won again !

I made it to the hotel, even after the blizzard of the weekend. The highways were amazingly good. I headed straight to the hotel, ate the complimentary cookies and some decaf coffee. Usually I drink my coffee as strong as they can make it, but I've given up on caffeine after noon.
Today, I get to go for an orthopedic appt, probably shots in the knees and hips. They work wonders, but you can't overdo it right afterwards........or you do pay for it !!! Depending on how things go, I will get to do all my quick stops at the shops, and then late lunch, my nap, and a quick runthru of what's out there.
And I won again ! It was thru CraftCritique.com, and the did a review of Quick Snippers. Basically the Swiss army knife of decorative scissors...1 straight blade, and 5 fancy ones. I think it will be very handy to take to card class and make a quick edge so mine are a little different. (Please excuse me if I already posted this, not trying to make a big deal about it - I forget what I do and don't post sometimes) I should get it in the next week or so.
I'm very excited to go and pick up my Sew Easy heads. They do have gorgeous shades of threads, and they are about $3. I have tons of embroidery thread from my cross-stitching days, so I'll do some of that first. OKAY.....on to the posts....sorry I missed them yesterday.

Moxie Fab "Stamp" of Approval Comment on the site, tell them which you like best, you could win all 4 !!

Imaginisce - Berrylicious Hop on this one quick, I expect they will announce a winner tonight or tomorrow. They were having a release party, and today was the last day. Point to remember - release parties usually involve a give away. Go back to the other posts by looking down the left side for February posts, and comment on the others too ! You could win the entire Berrylicious Collection, and it's going to be just darling for spring and summer. It may not be too late to change your FB profile pic to one of their 3 darling avatars, they're going to randomly pick someone who has changed their pic.

May Arts has been doing alot with Graphic 45.........delish ribbons and divine paper. Leave a comment on the May Arts FB page.

So far that's all I see. Will take time later to update.

Getting ready to go

Trip to the VA hospital for follow ups and probably shots in the hips and knees. I got my partial plate for my upper teeth last week, and am getting useed to those. I have several cavities, 3 of them pretty bad, that will be taken care of in the next six weeks Want to see pix of those ? LOLOL !

I dug my car out of the new foot of snow we got in our weekend blizzard, and we have a wonderful neighbor who has a snowblower and takes care of our front walks and driveway. Another neighbor in the back, takes care of the back driveway and the back walk. By now, the highways will be pretty clear, but I have to leave on Wed for my Thurs appt because it is at 9:40...NO way am I getting up that early and driving 125 miles. I will be in a town that has a Michael's, a Joanns, a Tuesday Morning, a Hobby Lobby, a TJ Maxx, and my favorite LSS - R Scrapbook store. Is there anything you want me to look at - to see if it is in stores yet - or if it is as pretty in real life as in the mags or online ?

I get to get the rest of the new heads for my Sew Easy - and I hear there are 6-8 new, larger heads coming out too. I'm also going to purchase the 7 Gypsies Binderie. They haven't been selling well at Hobby Lobby, and they were marked down to $23.99 a couple weeks ago. I think I have a pretty good chance of getting one. And then some more Tim Holtz bits and pieces, some more Black Magic Core'dinations, some springtime colored Bazzill papers, and a few other things that catch my eye. Full report on Saturday.

Now it's time for a quick nap before supper, then pack to leave in the morning. Two nights in a hotel.....I just love hotels for some reason. I'm sure my cats will snub me when I get back.

Later, xoxoLiz

Really lzy poster today

No energy today - none at all. Fell asleep at the desk last night, sitting up in my chair, for SIX hours !!! At least I didn't go face first into the laptop as I have done before. Had fun at CTMH card class today, but there's not a speck of light coming in the windows, so will rig up a light tonight. Promise !!

Have fun with the links, they will take you to where you need to go. ALSO....would LOVE some FEEDBACK on my site PLEASE ! And send me some of your friends. As soon as I hit 25 followers on Google Friend Connect, I will have BLOG CANDY !!! Have them list you as a referral, and the one with the most referrals before I close the candy eligibility will get a little something for themselves. Candy will be open to current blog followers as well. Love you all, it's what keeps me coming back to post, especially my friends in Germany and Canada !! Now GO !

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fes5iCY&h=c3f8f

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/GLUE-ARTS/118333407462

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Coredinations-ColorCore-Cardstock-Paper-for-Scrapbooking/187498550362  may be a repost - but good thru the weekend, watch the video

Reminder - they will be giving away a (new, I think) Cuttlebug in March. Sign up for their newsletter, scroll down, down, down http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=169452283100348&set=a.142071505838426.28929.139562436089333&theater#!/MyMindsEyeInc

Friday Night - a BUNCH of stuff being given away

If I counted right, there are 14 giveaways in this post. First of all, I am going to apologize because it is entirely possible that I may have duplicated something from earlier. I usually note the time when I finish my last post and go from there, but I think FB is a little funky with what is getting posted where. That being said, which style of posting do you prefer ? The "there's a pony in there somewhere" - where I give you a number or a letter that takes you where you need to go, or this "style" in this post, where I give you the names of who has the giveaway, with some of them having explanations behind them?

Another thing I am contemplating is adding a tab with all the sites I follow, with a link to their FB page and to their blog, so you can check the spots yourselves, OR do you prefer that I hunt things down for you, OR a combination of both ?

This blog is for you (and of course I enter the giveaways too), so if you want something, you have to tell me.

So now, get yourself something to drink and prepare yourself to sit awhile to enter all these giveaways !

create: Blog

Sizzix  not a giveaway, but a great sale !

Xyron

May Arts Ribbon

Club CK

Roberts Crafts  scroll way, way, way down

Making Memories

Glue Arts  scroll, scroll, scroll

Lindy's Stamp Gang  involves making a project and submitting it (online, I think) by Feb 20) for chance at prizes

AC Moore  Only works if you have a "smart" iPhone. I'm not happy with the premise, but if you want to and can do this, good luck.

Roberts Crafts different than the earlier offer at the top of this post. As with most giveaways at Roberts, you can get 8 - 10 entries, which gets pretty time consuming, but if you have the time and patience, go for it !

Scrapbook and Cards Today Did you know that this fabulous magazine is from Canada ? And did you know it is absolutely FREE ? Online, that is...but you will love it, follow it on FB and read them regularly on the SC&T website !

Paper Crafts Connection  This is a HUGE prize package. Sometimes the place to click for comments is at the top of the post, sometimes it is at the bottom.

The Crafting Chicks Another HUGE basket-o-craft supplies. Make sure you like them on FB first, or you won't be able to comment. Opportunity for up to 3 entries.

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