Congratulations to Charlene I., she was the winner of my Mystery Hostess Workshop - Online Ordering for April using the Hostess Code. I love this and will totally be doing more of these. Everyone that participated will be getting the April Mini Masterpiece in the mail.
Thanks to everyone that ordered, I really appreciate it.
Enjoy the rest of your Saturday.
Hugs, Di
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My Mum said " Poppa and Granny are once more side by side." I know their souls have been catching up but now their ashes are together.
This is one of my favorite pictures of Granny, I got it from my sister Jacqui.
Added since original post: My Mum said "I love that picture too. That was taken at Swiss Chalet in London on her 80th birthday with Anna, Jacqui and I, and remember you called Jacqui's cell phone and talked to Mum and wished her Happy Birthday and she was so excited. Despite the fact that she lived for almost 14 more years she really didn't look much different in her pictures."
Both Mum and Jacqui emailed me all the details of Granny's ashes being buried and it sounds so beautiful and they played one of Poppa's favorite songs (below), and I can't listen to it without crying. They buried Granny at 11:11 which puts a smile on my face even though tears are streaming down it.
I know I should be thankful that we had Granny for almost 94 years when so many lives are cut short, my little sister Ashley died shortly after she was born so it is one short life and one long life. But lives that we all miss very much and will forever.
I'll close this post with The Rankin Family singing Fare Thee Well Love. I hope you love it as much as I do. I hope Poppa and Granny dance to it whenever it plays.
Have a great Saturday and thanks for stopping in.
Hugs, Di
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Mystery Hostess Online Workshop Ends Today - Don't Miss Out!
Well maybe more like 200 to convert all my wood mount....oh and yesterday was my 2000 post! Wow, whoulda thunk it eh?
But check out this fun video (love the music and Eek! sneak peeks!) I can get all matchy matchy with my clear mount and wood mount...love it!
So I didn't give my 2 cents on The Voice or Survivor so here goes...(you would laugh I have a little note book I keep notes in...)
The Voice:
Night 5 of the blind judging, yet the judges are all wearing the same clothes, figure they have several of the same outfits so that when they tape the show we might not really see it in order and we won't know cause the clothes are the same...so if Shakira had on a red dress and then a black dress, and through out the episode it went back and forth that would be weird...that is what I am thinking anyway, cause I am sure this all was not taped in one day.
So to the singers...
Jeff (nice name) - he is a golfer guy, and they waited till almost the last minute and final Usher spun around - Usher Team
Shawna - lots of facial expressions while she sang, so raspy and Janis Joplin like, I can't wait to hear her sing other stuff - Shakira team
Caroline - so cute, and I loved her voice and I so hoped that she would pick Blake and she did.
So my crazy DVR was jittery...do they go bad or was perhaps the show jittery the first night? anyway, I missed a bunch.
Cameron - he should apply for so you think you can dance, cause no one spun around, yet he entertained the audience with all his wiggling around.
Micheal - the tat man...oh wait, he is a deputy, wow he didn't look like it...till they showed him in his police dress. He was pitchy what I could hear between the tape jitters - Adams team
Sasha - very good she sang a Dixie Chicks song - if I remember right all the judges wanted her and I was suprised she picked Adam over Blake.
Matt - he should have sang a different song and maybe someone would have picked him
Mary - sang spanish, loved the beat and she is adorable - Shakiras team
Grace - she is channeling Priscilla Presley or Loretta Lynn's hairdo from way back then, and then she sang and old song, she is odd and unique sounding. She would play guitar and strum but not use her other hand for the notes half the time. - Blakes team.
Jane - another old fashioned looking hairdo. She had a sad back story and she was so sweet. No one picked her. While she sang her microphone spread her lipstick above her lips and under nose, by the time she want back stage someone must have told her cause it was gone.
Ryan - Zac Brown look kinda, I was trying to think what he was going to sing before he started, he was awesome - Ushers team
6th and last night of Blind judging -
Mark - he looked kinda Three Muskateers like - he had a cool back story and no one picked him, I think he might have been fun for a while
Jacqui - OMG so she has a nose ring like a cow (my cousin had one...he even still might), noticed when she sang she had pushed it up inside her nose so the judges couldn't see it. Well if you tilt your head enough its like you have shiny boogers. She is very unique and her song version was fun, I am going to enjoy watching her. - Blakes team.
Amber - sad back story, she looks so much like her Mum - Adam's team
Dustin - like a nerdy Clark Kent, it was pitchy and not the best song, how sad to sing to chairs that never spin around.
Luke - Nice voice and I loved the song, I swear Shakira would wait to see if someone would spin before she did a lot of the time - Shakira's team
Jessica - adorable and awesome song...and she ended the auditions - Ushers team
So next week looks interesting. I have never watched the whole show before, I only caught the last three people last year, so I guess you can steal singers and it looks like a bunch will go home next week.
OK so if I have not bored you here we go onto Survivor...
Although I like that Malcolm got picked so soon to be on the show I do believe he thinks he is all that and a bag of chips. Needs to be cut down a peg.
So they were showing this little monkey and then a snake and then the monkey and I was like if he falls out of the tree and the snake eats him...but if it did they didn't tape it.
So Phillip starts his nutso Stealths R Us thing and naming more people, I don't know how he remembers who is who and how people don't laugh in his face.
So Sherri had this paint on the side of her arm and I was wondering where she got that? No one else had it. Oh and where did all these head bands suddenly come from? This one has on one, this one has on two.
They did the first challenge and I thought gee is Phillip purposely going to lose it like he said he did before? So a bunch of the guys one and off they went to rapel down a waterfall and eat. I had a hard time hearing what they were saying cause of all the background noises. Someone must have given Cochran 200 SPF because he is not burning anymore.
So then there was lots of flirting to figure out who wanted to vote who and scheming and how they know what lie they told this person and that person, yowza!
So the final immunity challenge had me cowering in the corner just listening to what they had to do, too clostraphobic for me. They had to be in the water under a metal grate while the tide came up and then if you came out from under the grate you were out. It was making me panic watching that water go over their faces and in their noses, they slowly started quitting but the two girls were left at the end, and Brenda, never moved once she used her hands like a funnel and hung her leg on the grate and kinda floated, she must have really practiced at home or something.
So the immunity trial and Phillip talked a whole big spiel and totally confused me. Then they voted and then when Jeff Probst said if anyone has an idol and wants to turn it in and Reynolds stands up to turn his in. Then Malcolm said give it to me, its my name being voted out, so Reynolds gave it to him!!! What the heck? Malcolm has the other idol and no one knows...well Corrine did and she got voted off last week. So this was sneaky. Then Malcolm's name was not even written down once!!! Poor Micheal got kicked off but he is the first jury guy. So now he probably stays at a hotel and eats food without bugs in it now. So next week looks good, Dawn is freaking out and I wonder when/if Malcolm will play his idol and the people will be so surprised.
OMG! what a long post...of me blabbering about silly stuff, keeps my mind off it being Granny's birthday today. She would have been 94. I miss her.
Well I'm gonna hit the hay.
Have an awesome Friday and thanks for stopping in.
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Country Dozen Rewards - Free Stamps
Mini Masterpiece for April - Collect them All!
Mystery Hostess Online Workshop - Ends April 12
Thanks for all the Birthday wishes today, they mean so much to me. I have to get my comments counted and figured out so I can contact the winners.
What a fun day, I did a lot of running around. Computer started to die in the house so had to go get one, had to run by eye doc for contacts so I can snorkle, then I wasted a little time shopping at Rod Works, if you live in AZ you really need to go there, it is Ray/Higley and they have adorable stuff. I also had some more time to kill till my nail appointment so I went to two antique stores but didn't get anything...eek! What? Yes getting a new computer will do that to your pocket book, but I still looked. Then Jeff and I went to dinner, Joe's BBQ lets you have $10.00 off when it is your birthday, we had never been there before so we tried it out. It was ok, we much prefer Dave's BBQ. Which is funny cause we were right beside Dave's BBQ and drove to Joe's...ha!
I also don't think I showed my April calendar I made in MDS that I stick in the Desktop Display Calendar Case.
It is hard to believe that it has been one year since my Mum was here. Sure went fast. I love you Mum.
This is what the MDS tells me I used for this calendar page: Background: Lemonade Stand Kit, Embellishments: Paper Doilies, Fan Fair Kit, Downtown Grudge Kit, Always elegant, Stamps: Back to School Kit, Greatest Moments, Punches: 1 1/4 square punch
Todays card is another one from my 10/10/25 Birthday card class, it was from a swap I got at Founder's Circle by Deb Snyder, thanks Deb! I just love that Print Poetry DSP Stack.
Stamp Set: Bring on the Cake
Ink: Midnight Muse
Paper: Whisper White, Print Poetry DSP Stack, Polka Dot Parade DSP
Misc: Elegant Butterfly punch, rhinestones
Well this old girl better git off here. Lots to do tomorrow since I never got any work done today, but I guess that was ok right?
Have an awesome Thursday and thanks for stopping in.
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Eek! What? Yes Stampin' Up! has unveiled another new photopolymer stamp set today (these are the truly clear stamps) and it is a Birthday set! What? Yes! How cool is that and on my birthday too. So I thought how about I do some blog candy?
Here is the adorable set. Here is the flyer.
Download Bombs Away Birthday
How would you like to win a set? What? But Diana, it is your birthday? I know and I wanna give a few away...4 in fact...since my age starts with a 4 (for at least a couple more years anyway)...that is all I am saying...ha!
So leave a comment on this blog post (comments are now closed...thanks for everyone commenting) - the one named Birthday Blog Candy not the post underneath that says Happy Birthday - I posted twice today so it might be confusing. and please make sure to add your email address (and what state you live in) so if you win I can get a hold of you, only post one time as only one comment will be accepted.
Oh and I can only ship within the US, so I apologize for anyone that lives outside of the US (that is why I ask you to list your state in your comment).
I will give each comment a number (please note I have to approve of your comment so it might not show up right away) and tomorrow I will use that random number generator thing and have it pick 4 winners!!! Sound fun?
Have an awesome rest of the day and thanks for stopping in.
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Country Dozen Rewards - Free Stamps
Mini Masterpiece for April - Collect them All!
Mystery Hostess Online Workshop
...well to me. It kinda creeped up on me. I had a few people say Happy Birthday already and I got a few beautiful cards in the mail (thanks everyone!! mwah!), and I was like oh yeah, it's coming up. Not sure if that is old age and the memory going...or the age I am getting to be and just wanna fughetaboutit. Plus Granny's birthday is the 12th and that is the day my family is going to bury her ashes and that makes me sad that I am not there. I can't tell you though how many times I see 11:11 now...you know how that makes me think of Poppa and now Granny too (Granny always read till 11:11 and then she would turn out the lights, when Poppa died after we buried his ashes the clock said 11:11 when we got in the car to leave), but I see it not just in the clock...the other day I was doing an email and it said members 1111 and I was like OMG! and I took a picture and sent it to my sister Jax. I was reading emails today and one was sent at 11:11 even though I was reading it later.
I wanted to show another cute card from my 10/10/25 Birthday card class. (oh and 10/10/25 means 10 cards, 10 envelopes, for $25).
This is based on a card I saw on Pinterest by craftycreationsbybeth. Thanks Beth.
I used Sale-a-Bration DSP and button though and I flared out the fish tailed banners. But I love the look of it.
Stamp Set: One in a Million
Ink: Rich Razzleberry
Paper: Pool Party, Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White, Sycamore Street DSP
Misc: Sycamore Street button, White bakers twine
Don't forget today is the last day to join Paper Pumpkin to get your package in April. If you joined last month it will automatically renew and you should have got a little special present from me for joining...I can't wait to see what we get this month.
Well this birthday girl is going to go watch The Voice that I have taped so I can give my two cents tomorrow...ha!
Have a sweet Wednesday and thanks for stopping in.
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