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.
Wanna win?
Want to win some of these stamps? Check out "Show us your SheetLoad" submission guidelines HERE.In other news... I really like my new job ;)
I helped my daughter make her school valentines and she used 4 sheets of stickers and a package of felt hearts from my stash to make a class valentine for her teacher (she and a classmate). They did a great job!
France Stamp
I need to vent to someone who'll understand.
Tonight my daughter had Brownies (2nd and 3rd graders). Later this month they are doing some international day event and our troop is France. All the scouts will have a passport which will be stamped/ marked at the various booths. The leader mentioned trying to find a stamp to stamp passports.
Who jumps up wildly waving her hand, "I have a France stamp! I have a France stamp!"
She's happy and I am tickled that I can make this contribution to the troop.
Flash forward to when I get home and I start looking for the stamp from my special international stamp set. It has 10 countries as words: Malaysia, China, Japan, Scotland, Egypt, England, Spain, Africa and a few others.... Guess which country it doesn't have?
Bummer but I have a LOT of stamps and I was on an international kick in my stamp youth so I trudge on and go through all my UM's, mounteds and sets. Maybe I have an Eiffel Tower or something that will work. NO- I don't!
After all of my scrounging I have a Franc (French money) stamp- in French, dozens of cute French phrases like "Merci" (comped to me by a vendor) and a Paris, France postmark stamp. And 1 HUGE (2x4 inch) very detailed image of a can can dancer. I think we'll be able to use the postmark stamp... but it is not what I had in mind!
The postmark stamp is from Sunday International and you can see the sheet HERE It is on the bottom row 3rd from the left. And I know- you can't see it well. It is about the size of a nickel.
I swear if the kids had China, Japan, India or Egypt I would have had every option possible for them. I even have some faux postage stamps for really obscure countries. I have a mini bagpiper who would be perfect for Scotland and some other stamps that would be the perfect thing for passports... but do I have ANYTHING like that for FRANCE? Oh heck no!
Just had to share that story with you...
Tonight my daughter had Brownies (2nd and 3rd graders). Later this month they are doing some international day event and our troop is France. All the scouts will have a passport which will be stamped/ marked at the various booths. The leader mentioned trying to find a stamp to stamp passports.
Who jumps up wildly waving her hand, "I have a France stamp! I have a France stamp!"
She's happy and I am tickled that I can make this contribution to the troop.
Flash forward to when I get home and I start looking for the stamp from my special international stamp set. It has 10 countries as words: Malaysia, China, Japan, Scotland, Egypt, England, Spain, Africa and a few others.... Guess which country it doesn't have?
Bummer but I have a LOT of stamps and I was on an international kick in my stamp youth so I trudge on and go through all my UM's, mounteds and sets. Maybe I have an Eiffel Tower or something that will work. NO- I don't!
After all of my scrounging I have a Franc (French money) stamp- in French, dozens of cute French phrases like "Merci" (comped to me by a vendor) and a Paris, France postmark stamp. And 1 HUGE (2x4 inch) very detailed image of a can can dancer. I think we'll be able to use the postmark stamp... but it is not what I had in mind!
The postmark stamp is from Sunday International and you can see the sheet HERE It is on the bottom row 3rd from the left. And I know- you can't see it well. It is about the size of a nickel.
I swear if the kids had China, Japan, India or Egypt I would have had every option possible for them. I even have some faux postage stamps for really obscure countries. I have a mini bagpiper who would be perfect for Scotland and some other stamps that would be the perfect thing for passports... but do I have ANYTHING like that for FRANCE? Oh heck no!
Just had to share that story with you...
February SheetLoad
The February issue of SheetLoad is now available HERE. The issue was sponsored by Unity Stamp Company. They have some really fun designs and a forum on SCS.And congrats to Cadnileb who won SheetLoad's January "Show us your SheetLoad" contest. You can see Belinda's winning card HERE. I have been a fan of Belinda's blog for a long time and I was so excited to see that someone I "knew" had won!
In other news.... I got a job! As some of you know, being a stay at home Mom was not for me! I was offered a part time job (compatible with my daughter's school schedule) and I start next week. It was exactly the kind of job I was looking for and I really like my new manager.
2009 I'm not buying craft supplies challenge status: I'm doing great. I did buy my daughter air dry clay last weekend but it was because I threw away the old stuff before we moved. And the new clay is HERS.
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