Gosh was I lucky!

My latest article for Craft Critique was published today. It is about Perler beads and it appears HERE.

I spent hours writing it and I uploaded the final version for editing on Saturday night. On Sunday my editor sent me an e-mail: "Heather- You are going to kill me but after I edited your article it DISAPPEARED." My article vanished and I hadn't made a copy of it (my own stupidity.) EEEEEKKKKKK- a total nightmare for me! I told her that since I started my job this week that I couldn't reconstruct it until the end of the week.

I called my Mom tonight (HI MOM) and she raved about my article. What?!? Lo and behold- my article was published. I checked my e-mail and apparently by some miracle my article was resurrected by Sarah the owner of Craft Critique. I was so happy! I really didn't want to have to re-write that article!

Tonight my daughter and I finished her Valentine's for school. She designed them with a small bit of help from me (and a little coaching about stamping a large image crisply.) She is happy, I'm happy and they are done 3 days early! We also used 1/2 bag of sticky back felt hearts from my stash plus the red and pink cardstock from a Frantic Fran paper sampler from at least 5 years ago. I am using my stash slowly!

And to answer a question about the France stamps- My daughter's troop leader is going to use my Paris France postmark and "Merci" stamps for the World Thinking Day event.