We have a winner!!

Congratulations Deborah King!!!

I sent you an email through friend connect...so please contact me!! It is all ready to be shipped to you. Hope you enjoy everything!!! If I don't hear back by May 5, Thursday at midnight I will choose someone else.


Thanks everyone for following. I am currently getting organized to do a monthly challenge...of course with a chance to win something. Feel free to join in!

Signature in Postings

Have you ever seen everyone's signature at the bottom of their postings? Here is the link on how to make your own..and FREE!!! After you complete it google how to add signature in blogger postings and follow directions on how to edit the footer in HTML. I also added mine to my email!

My Live Signature

Canvas...Creating art beyond your scrapbook!!

I had seen this done and I was blown away and how wonderful they looked!. Do you have a special moment, or want to create a beautiful piece of art for someone? Here is the solution - take your scrapbook page and move it out of the scrapbook to create a one of a kind piece of art that can be hung or displayed. Not sure where to begin, the let Canvas Corp show you supplies and how to create your own masterpiece. While they are giving their site a make-over you can head over to their blog Canvas Corp for even more idea, challenges and prizes. The possibilities are endless, and with ideas being shared and all of the resources here - your new passion is just a click away...what are you waiting for??

With a complete online resource nothing should hold you back now!!  Here is a peek at what you will find with them....I got lost on their site looking around!!

With a feature Friday, you will see something new every week to try - and with a list of supplies and photos. Here is the current Feature Friday...with all the details on the site.

In the Let's Get Creative section you will find ideas and projects to get you started and keep you going!! Are you wondering how to move from your paper to canvas...they have a number of helpful hints and ideas to get you there...check out this amazing piece!!!

Let's Craft - more ideas and projects along with contests like this one - making banners!! Already thinking about the projects you can create??? Learn how to using other mediums like burlap here!

You have taken the plunge and have decided to create your own art...In the section Let's Decorate you can find even more ideas and and learn how to display it! I just love this photo wreath!!

Don't miss out on Let's Design, where you learn how to transform your area with help from professionals..they even have a kit you can buy to learn HomeSpacing. IMHO I thought this was great!! I don't know how many times I have rearranged and decorated so I could get the right look and feel in a room!

And don't forget to check out Love It! where they will showcase projects from all over!

With all of this at the click of a mouse....what are you waiting for??

Tips on your blog

I just erased my page on places to shop and I was going to figure out a way to get a copy somehow...well I had hopped over to Cheryl's blog Artful Creations  and she had these two amazing tutorials!!! And I am sure you have learned by now, I love amazing tutorials!!

alternate access to your blog in case of emergency.

I managed to lock myself out of my You Tube account a few months ago, so I apologise to those people who asked me questions or left a message. Before anyone asks, no my You Tube account is not connected to my blog, I used another (can’t remember) email address to join.

Anyway, after this event I thought I better investigate how I can prevent the same thing happening with my blog. My solution was to use one of my other email accounts and give permission for that account to have admin privileges on my blog. Well, to be honest I have a few email accounts for various reasons and I gave each account admin privileges. Surely in case of emergency I will remember one of them, plus this time I had the sense to write down the details in a notebook.

1. Open the blog Dashboard and select the Settings tab
2. Select the Permissions tab
3. Click on the blue button, ADD AUTHORS

A new window will open and lists any current authors.

4. Enter your alternate email address in the empty box as shown below and press INVITE.

5. After selecting INVITE an email will be sent to the new email account. Follow the instructions and the hyperlink.

I will admit I had a bit of trouble getting access through the link in the email. If you have problems sign out of your blog and try again. If you have Internet Explorer on your computer and choose to use Firefox for internet browsing this is even easier to set up. Stay signed into your blog in Firefox and paste the hyperlink provided with the new email in Internet Explorer. It is the method I used to set up new email accounts and allowed me to be signed in with both identities at the same time, one in Firefox and one in Internet Explorer.

When you first access the blog with the new email identity you will find you have very limited access on your blog. Basically you will be able to add a new post or delete your new identity, as shown below. I wanted full access so I went one step further.

6. I signed back into my blog using my original identity. Once again I opened the Settings tab and then the Permissions tab. I located the new email account which currently has author privileges and granted admin privileges. If you follow these steps you will be able to sign in with either email account.

Don't forget when you sign in using your new email account to use the password you normally use for that account and not your existing blog password.

I got this from Aussie Carolyn

Backing Up your Blogger Blog

I am may be the last person to know about backing up a blog but just incase I am not the only one I will show how easy it is to back up a Blogger blog. Now I know this is so easy I plan to back my blog on a regular basis.

1. Select the tab Settings
2. Select the tab Basic
3. Select Export Blog

4. A new window will open, click on the orange tab DOWNLOAD BLOG

5. Select Save File and click on the Ok button.

Compliments of Aussie Carolyn

Cricut Cartridges info with samples

I have been pondering over what to do about Cricut cartridges. When deciding which ones I want like everyone I look at what is on it, then I try to find examples of what others have made with it (hehe I also always want to know how many points I can get), also any unique things such as limited, full cart, seasonal etc... So I decided to do a post for every cart and include all of these little tid bits. I will also include any videos that I run across - I know Christina makes some excellent ones which really help you decide if you really want it, and if you do they are great for ideas! The labels will obviously be name of cart along with Cricut and cartridges and whatever else it may fall under such as Christmas or flowers etc and I since this is to help me keep organized I decided to label ones I have or my forever long wish list LOL... So I hope someone finds this helpful in some way, if so please let me know....if there is something that you look for let me know I am always looking for ways to make this place more end info!!! Be sure to check back occasionally as I will be adding to the original posting new ideas I find - I opted to do this so that all of the info and ideas are all in one posting to help make it all easier to find. Any images will be linkable to original site with credit underneath.

Have a GREAT day everyone!!!

25 Followers!!

Wow thanks everyone for being followers!!! When I started this blog of course I had hoped to eventually (over a very long time) get some followers - I refreshed and saw 25!! I am so excited and thanks to everyone. I am definitely doing a drawing once I hit 100 followers!! I just have no idea how to do it yet LOL.

Hope everyone finds something they enjoy and please please if you have something to share that you think it would be great if others knew - let me know!!!  I will gladly post it - it can be tutorial, hints, tricks or a favorite place online!! Just please if it is something such as tutorial if it is yours make sure I know I have permission to post it.


Have a great one everyone!!
Jackie