Hellllllllllloooooooooooooooooooo sistahs!

Sorry I have been MIA but with the reveals last week, I thought you would survive. Guess What? There’s LOTS more coming!! Let’s try to recap my half week here.. First I need to mention my GIRLZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.. stamping GIRLZZZZZZZZZZZZZ that is.  They came to visit last Thursday.. Donna, Hannah, Irene, Nicky and moi.. lunch was brought and lotsa blabbing.. SO MUCH FUN!  I am thinking that my neighbour in the building thinks I am running a stamping brothel (LOLOL) as women are coming in and out and in and out.. always the same ones, mind you… OMG.. I bet he thinks I am the MADAM and my GIRLZZZ well, are, my GIRLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ you know what I’m sayin?  I had Donna picking orders, Hannah was organizing, Nicky and Irene were reading off orders and checking off if there was anything missing.. Ahem.. so anyone that has a mistake on their order??? IT WAS NICKY AND IRENE”S FAULT n’k?  LOL.  Things are moving at a bit of  a quicker pace but I am still at the 5-7 business day turnaround but now with different shipping levels, things should be bettAH.

Funny anecdote of the week… LOL.. I laugh even before I begin.  So I am at my desk TOTALLY concentrating on the task at hand (phone call/order/email.. you name it) and I hear someone coming down the hallway.. actually BOUNDING down the hallway.  I hear a gentleman go to my neighbor and asks him if he is EMILY.. can you believe?  Not dealing with a full deck and I am PETRIFIED at what is about to enter my office… sure enough the most neurotic, clumsy, SWEATY delivery man comes with the most amazing bouquet of flowers.  He asks me if I am Emily.  I say yes.  I asked him if he bought these for me.. after wiping his brow he says NO (what a sense of humor).  I signed for my flowers and he tripped across my office and left.  So here I am a little shaken with the delivery guy experience and I am thinking that my HUB is a SUPERSTAR.. I mean honestly.. flowers??? for MOI??? what did I do to deserve them?  Then I am thinking (better thought here) that I have a secret admirer!  Could it be?  COuld it be that someone is admiring me from afar and wrote me a love letter professing his love for DA BELLA?  nope.  It was even BETTAH than that.  You remember the beautiful cousins Maralyn, Esther and Karen I spoke about in a previous post? (check out STUFFED PICKLE).. they sent me the  most BEAUTIFUL bouquet.. OMG OMG.. just for being me… OMG OMG.  ARE THEY THE BESTEST IN THE WORLD?

 OK, does anyone else want my address? LOLOL

MWAH!

EM

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[photopress image=”binder_front.jpg”]First, I need to tell you how much I hate my brand new 8 million dollar camera.  I am thinking that it isn’t the camera but the user in a rush with no props.. what do you think?  Anyway, I wanted to get the stuff up so you could see… let me ‘splain how I decided to come up with the buildabindah k?

 Once upon a time a loooong loooong time ago (about 1 year) I decided to go into the rubber stamp biDniss. UNMOUNTED rubber stamps.. I was scared at first cuz I was SO USED to the wood mounted and LOVED the fresh wood you would get with a pristine stamps… mmmmm…. yummy!  Anyway, I wanted to make sure that the quality of my stamps were good enough to stamp without wood and sure enough, the Bellas were born! ok enough about that history.

I didn’t know how to store them and I thought of a solution.  I bought this CLUNKORAMA binder with a zipper around it (of course pink) and I bought about 17 million sport card pockets to fit into the binder to store my stamps.  It worked great!  Thank goodness for the zipper though cuz stamps were sliding out of the pockets!  Don’t forget, I am a little rough and klutzy… for those daintybellas out there, it probably never happened to you.. OK so having said that.. you all know I love storage and I love portability of storage (although I go NOWHERE but I just need to know that storage is portable! LOL)

  So first I knew in my head that I wanted a binder I wanted to build a binder to my specifications hence… the BELLA BUILDA BINDA  — is that cute or WHAT?

Ok, so why it took so long is cuz I am a perfectionist.  So first I had to design the front, spine and back

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 I am not sure if you can see but on the front in the four corners and on top of the “i” in “stamping” are glitter stickers that were hand applied by Ruby my wonderful right hand.. then I designed the spine which I think is adorable as Stamping goes vertically and Bella goes horizontally… cute cute cute and not typical which is what I like.. and the back is just a shower of daisies!

Ok now for the design of the inserts!  I wanted to make an insert where sloppy people like me can ‘shake’ the binder and stamps won’t fall out soooo… there is a flap built in covering the pockets so that nothing can fall out!  How’s that for engineering.. huh huh huh?  I have one pocket that is just a deep cavity with a flap. I put colored pencils in there, blocks in there, stamp pads, card fronts that I am working on.. you can also put a piece of cardboard in cut to measure, stamp your images on it, slip it inside the pocket and if you ezmounted (new verb) your stamps, you can just stick on top of the image in the pocket!  Ok, I also made a pocket to fit your standard 4.25*5.5 cards.. they are side loading so risk of them falling out are slim to none.  I dunno if it makes sense or not but the cards look so beautiful in them and imagine having a binder devoted to all of your bella cards in a BINDAH?  cute!  Ok, made another refill to fit bellas (2.5*3.5).. it has 4 pockets and it is amazing.. then I designed one that has 2 pockets 4*4 for bigger stamps.  Next I have one with 2 channels and 2 smaller pockets.  THe channels fit my borders and 3 line borders perfectly and 2 bonus ones that fit smaller stamps…I also designed one that has 16 pockets to fit words.. all facing inwards with a flap so they won’t fall out!  Ok.. So I think that is it.  Then Nicky came up with some “paypah” that I designed for the bindah… if you are going out with it you can pack everything in there!  And the paper is for sketching, phone numbers, doodling etc.. and the bellas on it are placed SO CUTELY that it is just cute to look at! LOL.

 I do hope that this is descriptive enough and please if you have ANY questions at all, email me and let me know!

I LOVE this system so much and the binder in person is top quality and just so pretty and you do know they were made with LOVE to the sistahs and lots of MWAHS.

Love to all

EMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

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and she is TO DIE FOR… I mean, I don’t garden but I so want to now! LOL

There are sentiments to go.. AND a charm which I will try to post later

 
DO YOU LIKEY?????

I hope you do..

MWAH to da sistahs!

Em

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or so she thought… (bwahhahahahahah). 

I was so excited today.. got lots done and of course came home with homework.. but that’s besides the point.. Another reason to be excited?  My 2 year old is getting into this toilet training thing!! “MUMMMMMY PEEEEPEEEEE”, I know too much information but it is SO CUTE!  She is on the toilet and a few drops fall and I scream or Ruby screams “ONE peeeepeeee”!  she laughs hysterically and sucks it back in.. then she lets a few more drops and we shout “TWOOOOO PEEPEEEEES” and at this point, she is hysterical, the two of us are hoarse and exhausted from screaming and dancing etc.. you get the picture but HOW CUTE IS DAT?

 See how I jump from one subject to the other?  hmph.. this is how my brain works..LOL.  Ok, back to the Nicky thang.  She told me she would bring me lunch today and just hang out so she called me that she was downstairs and to meet her.  I met her at her car and she looks at me and says “WHAT?? NO SSSSMARTTTT CARTTTT?”… I respond back to her “for lunch??” “How much lunch didja bring???”.. she then starts ‘unloading’ her car.. We brought all these bags upstairs to my office (aka ‘digs’ ‘crib’) and she begins to unpack… How sweet is THIS?  She bought me a tea kettle (she drinks tea, I don’t LOLOL), a COFFEE MAKER, a tin of coffee and some tea, 3 stackable containers (NEED I SAY MORE?) for sweet n low, stir sticks, tea bags etc.. pink forks and green knives (my colours) and matching funky napkins AND a little kleenex pack that matches the napkins, cuz she said THE BELLA needs cute kleenex.. and a pink ceramic mug that plugs into the car lighter to keep your coffee warm (CUTEST IDEA).. I almost cried.. that was THE NICEST package I have ever gotten.. oh and some paper towels (do ya think she thinks I need to clean a little?) but no windex? hmph.  Was so happy.  So she sat down and I put her to work.. she did a wonderful job and the company was PHENOM..

I had a great day.. still trying to catch up but I see the light!

Today was a great day.. got lots of goodies and felt so loved.. I be so happy

oh, did I mention there will be a reveal on Friday?  huh?  did I?

MWAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

love to DA SISTAHS

Em

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or so she thought… (bwahhahahahahah). 

I was so excited today.. got lots done and of course came home with homework.. but that’s besides the point.. Another reason to be excited?  My 2 year old is getting into this toilet training thing!! “MUMMMMMY PEEEEPEEEEE”, I know too much information but it is SO CUTE!  She is on the toilet and a few drops fall and I scream or Ruby screams “ONE peeeepeeee”!  she laughs hysterically and sucks it back in.. then she lets a few more drops and we shout “TWOOOOO PEEPEEEEES” and at this point, she is hysterical, the two of us are hoarse and exhausted from screaming and dancing etc.. you get the picture but HOW CUTE IS DAT?

 See how I jump from one subject to the other?  hmph.. this is how my brain works..LOL.  Ok, back to the Nicky thang.  She told me she would bring me lunch today and just hang out so she called me that she was downstairs and to meet her.  I met her at her car and she looks at me and says “WHAT?? NO SSSSMARTTTT CARTTTT?”… I respond back to her “for lunch??” “How much lunch didja bring???”.. she then starts ‘unloading’ her car.. We brought all these bags upstairs to my office (aka ‘digs’ ‘crib’) and she begins to unpack… How sweet is THIS?  She bought me a tea kettle (she drinks tea, I don’t LOLOL), a COFFEE MAKER, a tin of coffee and some tea, 3 stackable containers (NEED I SAY MORE?) for sweet n low, stir sticks, tea bags etc.. pink forks and green knives (my colours) and matching funky napkins AND a little kleenex pack that matches the napkins, cuz she said THE BELLA needs cute kleenex.. and a pink ceramic mug that plugs into the car lighter to keep your coffee warm (CUTEST IDEA).. I almost cried.. that was THE NICEST package I have ever gotten.. oh and some paper towels (do ya think she thinks I need to clean a little?) but no windex? hmph.  Was so happy.  So she sat down and I put her to work.. she did a wonderful job and the company was PHENOM..

I had a great day.. still trying to catch up but I see the light!

Today was a great day.. got lots of goodies and felt so loved.. I be so happy

oh, did I mention there will be a reveal on Friday?  huh?  did I?

MWAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

love to DA SISTAHS

Em

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So my little Jay formally turned two yesterday.. if you ask her how old she is she hold up 2 little fingies and shouts “TOOOOOO”.. so cute.. she had a blast.  I, on the other hand, amd completely and utterly EXHAUSTED.. we entertained family from out of town all weekend.. between cooking and cleaning and eating and cooking and cleaning and eating (you get the pic) it was really hectic to say the least!  It is a long weekend here so tomorrow is off.. I was ABSOLUTELY forbidden by all to go to my office or work.. hmph.  However, LOL, I managed to say “I must show my parents my new digs” sooooo I managed to squeeze in a coupla hours and you will be seeing some updates throughout the next coupla days (even if I am not ‘allowed’ to work)… I will be tackling the 12-13th of may right now so still within my 7 day processing time… I will try this week to really boogie harder (is that possible???) and get lots sent out and then by the end of the week both storage and reveals will be up!! I hope you understand.. actually I KNOW you understand and I do appreciate it so much.

 So off to make dinner (food AGAIN??)

Love to da SISTAHS

MWAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Em

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Yes yes! You remember a little over a month ago I stayed up late to create my daughter, Jayden’s birthday invites?  Do you remember how much I fell in love with this invite and couldn’t wait to replicate it a million times and send out to all close friends and family?  Do you see where I am going with this?

Jayden’s 2nd birthday is on Saturday.  Yes, 2 days away. So what do you think the organized queen stuffed pickle did 1.5 weeks ago ?  Yes, you got it… I CALLED EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON MY LIST and told them all the info about the party cuz I didn’t have the time to make the invites! LOLOL.. I guess there is always next year?  So sistahs, block this card from your mind in case I resurrect it next year and want a kajillion comments on how original and specfabulous I was in creating such a card.. n’k?  It’s like the shoemaker and the shoes.. he makes em, but has no shoes on his feet (I hope that is how the story goes.. if not.. it fits so well so don’t correct me.. LOL).

I have my son, Tyler’s, 5th birthday in a month.. what do you think I did?  Yup!  I went to the indoor gym place where we are hosting it and they have FREE invites with maps on how to get there etc.. HOW CLEVER AND CRAFTY am I? *giggles*

That’s my story for the day.

Digs or “crib” as someone mentioned which I LOVED, is great.. still bringing stuff everyday and slowly getting organized.  I am getting my speed back .. still behind but promise will get there and once I am done I will reveal  something JUIIIICYYY! (or 2 things)

MWAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

love love love you

Em

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well, kinda.  I gotta tell you this funny little anecdote.  A few days ago I was visiting one of my favorite suppliers (which one ISN”T I ask you!).  Of course my partner in crime (nickabella) joined me and we both spot this cart.  Yes, a shopping cart. (please don’t roll your eyes.. I KNOW YOU ARE).. ANYWAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY, this is the cutest shopping cart you have ever seen (you are now asking yourselves.. a shopping cart?  cute?  WHATEV- ).. I will snap a pic tomorrow and show you and I am SURE you will agree.. Ok so anyway, we spot this cart.. called the ‘smart cart’.. so that sold it to me.. I admit it!  Anything with that name has got to be purchased, no?  So this cart is teeny relative to the normal supermarket cart (if I say CART one more time….).. there are 2 levels to this ‘C'(art) and 1 basket fits in each (both top and bottom) that you can remove.  Nicky and I immediately stare at eachother with the understanding that it is ABSOLUTELY necessary that I own this cart.. for work of course .  I can keep it in the car… I can take it out and put stuff in it to make it one trip to the office.. I can use it to pick and pack orders.. OMG. the places I would GO with this cart! (think Dr. Seuss book.. ‘oh, the places you’ll go’ (OMG wouldn’t that be a GREAT sentiment for DIPLOMABELLA???? just thought of that).. So I BEG.. I mean BEG the woman to sell me 2 of these carts.. you know in case one breaks down?? (I am laughing out loud just writing this).. she goes to ask the manager and sure enough, yes! I mean they’re thinking if this idiot wants 2 shopping carts, who am I to stop her from spending?… Anyway I ended up taking one.  I put it in the bella’s minivan and Ryan takes a look in my van when I get home and I am surprised his eyes did not remain crossed when he looked at this ‘thing ‘ in my car.. I went into my list of why this is the best thing on earth and he just held his hand up to STOP as he really wasn’t interested in the reasoning.. *giggles*… So of course I had TONS of stuff to bring to the office and I send him to home depot to buy a dolly to bring the big stuff up.. and what do you think he said??? no no no.. I think we should use your sssmmmmaaartttt cart (well at least he listens, no?)… I said to him to stop being a *()$*(%* and to buy a dolly.. of course he did.. SO.. he took his lunchhour and then some off.. I had packed my van up all morning and we met at the office.  He proceeds to take out this dolly that has trays, and the handle can pivot and you can lift it and squash it.. the only thing it doesn’t do is give you $$.. this was HIS smart cart.  So  I must admit there was a little bit of competing going on.. I whipped out my smart cart and he whipped out his “smarter” cart.. We loaded them up (mine fit 3 stamps..LOL) and his fit a fridge, 18 miliion boxes and 4000 acrylic blocks–ok I am exaggerating a little but I just wanted you to get the visual.

Well, the next step was to get to the front door.  They are repaving the parking lot and the path to the door… YOU SISTAHS woulda been HYSTERICAL.. the two of us wheeling our smart and smarter carts over PEBBLES.. can you just imagine?  We couldn’t go in a straight line.. things were threatening to fall.. we basically had to LIFT our carts over the pebbles… I knew I was smarter with my smart cart and loading it with 2 stamps.. less to fall!!! SEE? I WIN afterall! LOLOL.. (I so am really laughing as I write.)

So we get in my new digs and I have to tell you.. I SOOOO HAPPY there.. Hannah came to help me.. she will be with me a couple of times a week and we finished unpacking everything.. I can’t wait to go back tomorrow!  It’s MY place.. MY place to share with my sistahs when they come and visit where I will have MY goodies to serve and MY KETTLE to boil and of course MY COFFEEMAKER to make… It’s really nothing fancy at all but it’s MINE!

So tomorrow ladies, I will be hibernating in MY NEW PLACE, packing orders, listening to music and emailing you guys 🙂

I so happy I could just bust!  Stressed but happy!  Things should be getting back to normal soon!  I will try to take pictures and Natanya will be picking the winners to the contest by Friday!

Ok, now whomever recommended that labeler to me in the last competition, please email me privately.. I would like discuss your prize!! THAT THING IS THE BESTTTT THING IN THE WORLD.. well besides my smart useless cart, that is!

MWAH MWAH MWAH MWAH!!
love you

Em

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I did SNEAKILY put in 2 new stamps..!  I love when I do dat.  My Happy Peas honestly make me so happy!  They look so SNUGGLY and cozy and they are a little bit of a bella and fella combined to keep with the theme!  I watercolored them (I have no clue how to watercolor but own EVERY SINGLE watercoloring medium out there) and they look specTACular!  They give me the warmest and fuzziest feeling EVAH.. how about you?  do you Likey?  I have sentiments to go with them.. just click on the magnifying glass! A little bit of a note about how the peas came to life?  My right hand Ruby ( I say RIGHT HAND cuz If I didn’t have her by my side every day and on weekends I would have never coped and would have probably given up).. Anyway, Ruby’s daughter Robyn (not only the most BRILLIANT 9 year old little girl but STUNNING..) said to me one saturday… “PEAS come to my birthday party.. and she said, Em, why don’t you have a stamp of peas???.. well that was it.. the next day, they were created thanks to Robyn.. the cutest story that goes with that one is that I told her to think more more more so we can design more stamps and i hear her muttering to herself “hmmm what rhymes with carrot?”  LOL! 

Oh and there’s a new fella.. SHHHHH.. you all asked for him.. so ya HAPPY NOW? LOL

Processing time is now about 8 ish days and I have moved all today and will bring my inventory over there on Monday so will try to get everything cleaned up and organized for Tuesday which will be PURE processing day… Hmph.. As you all know this is SO frustrating for me.. I can’t stand making you wait and I do know that you understand and your supportive and lovey dovey comments mean so much to me.. HONESTLY!
MWAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Love to all

Em

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Is anyone aware of the “crocs” phenomenon?  Crocs are the UGLIEST shoes you have EVER seen in your life (actually they are coming out with cuter styles) but they are SOOOOO comfy womfy.. you never want to take them off!  About 2-3 years ago I was in Montreal shopping and spotted BRIGHT pink crocs in the window. I went nuts.. didn’t know what a ‘croc’ was then but bought them and wore them proudly all over the place… Ryan thought I was a PSYCHO.. my friends had no idea what had landed on my feet etc.. but I continued to wear them..(would you doubt it??).. Toronto still didn’t have the crocs at that point.. well.. wouldn’t you know it.. a year later, it becomes the latest craze and EVERYONE and their grandmother had to have these shoes! ALL the people who made fun of me are now wearing them ..LOL.  Well, I bought Tyler a pair last year and he wore them to death last year.. I swear it is like walking on two mattresses!(giggle)…  Ok, so then I am watching Oprah while working and hear the most incredible story about a stay at home mom who was at the pool and created these croc ‘charms’ that everyone went NUTS over. These charms hook on through the holes of the crocs.. kinda like an accessory.. Sure enough this woman who created these croc charms, made it on Oprah and BAM.. the rest is history.. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE stories like that.. you know about what people invent and sell kabillions of? I saw a story about a young girl who wanted pastel nailpolish so she took nailpolish and mixed it with white and called her company HARD CANDY, made it to Oprah and bingo bango.. the rest is history once again!! LOVE IT!

Ok, I digress (what else is new?).. the whole POINT of this post was to show you these legs

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 I mean HONESTLY.. could you take these legs and SHOVE them in your mouth whole???  And of course, checkout minibella’s crocs with all the charms.. THEY ARE SOOOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE!!! 

Ok, that’s all I had to share..LOL.. sorry I got off track yet again! And Winners will be announced for the contest early next week

MWAH

TOODLES

Em

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