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OMG where has the time gone :(.. I guess I was still recovering from the hockey story from last weekend!  I promise I will be a BETTAH BLOGGISTA (not to be confused with BARRISTA cuz Im no good at DAT)…

Been stamping away and painting away over here.. and EAGERLY anticipating our new MOUNTED and SPECIALLY dyed new stampies.. if you ordered from our new release, you will be FLOORED at what you get 🙂

So this is a piece I was working on intermittently throughout the last 2 weeks.. and I bought a frame for it because I felt this piece was worthy of a frame LOL rather than my floor.  I hope you like it! (p.s. there were NO brushes involved.. just my hands and boy was it fun!)

(P.S. this may be redundant if you follow me on instagram… Have I mentioned how much I love it there? LOL)

Ok now for some winnahs from last week’s bellarific friday!

WINNAH FOR COMMENTAYTIN’ ($10 in bella bucks) goes to

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

14- SUSAN YOU WIN!  please email me and I will send your VOUCHAH!

Timestamp: 2012-10-27 14:34:48 UTC

Now for da CONTRIBUTIN” winnah from last week ($20 in bella bucks)

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

5-PEGGY YOU WIN!  please email me and I will send your vouchah!

Timestamp: 2012-10-27 14:36:16 UTC

And the challenge this week was to use 3 PAPERS and 3 EMBELLISHMENTS and a Bella stamp on your cards… let’s see what our BABEROONIS came up with shall we?

Danabella and Carlabella are off recuperating

How’s that for BEAUTIFULMESSNESSNESS? LOL

Now for da SISTAHOOD!

So how’s DAT for this week’s roundup!  So happy that more people could join us and SO appreciative of our regular contributAHs.. so thank you!!!

Ok next week’s theme?  A SKETCHYPOOPOO

Please think of me as I go to the arenas today and tomorrow… LOL

P.S.  Please leave a comment.. it motivates me to write funny stories 🙂

Mwah

Em

Hope you had a great weekend.. we are knee deep in work and I didn’t have a second to really “play” this weekend.  Our hockey schedules are REALLY getting in the way too.  Let’s see what my sistahs think of this story.

So Ryan decided that BOTH of our children should be in hockey leagues and I WARNED him that I was not gonna be involved in the traipsing around etc.. (mmhmm.. cuz THAT worked out).. anyway  of course Tyler’s game and Jayden’s game were at the same time so I was sent with Jayden.. No problem.  for both PHOTOS and the game I should add.  So Ryan got Jayden dressed and showed me how to do it for future games and practices ( I guess I am magically involved) and off he sent the two of us at 11:30 on Saturday for a 12:30 game.  We get there at 12 and the convener says to me.. why so early? excited?  And I looked at her with daggers in my eyes and said “WHADDYA MEAN, EARLY”.. “MY HUSBAND SAID HER GAME WAS AT 12:30!”… she smiles and says, “NO HER GAME IS AT 1:30!”… At this point I am calculating what I can take from the house and what I will leave Ryan with in the settlement… LOL.. so in case THAT wasn’t enough.. she says to me.. “DID YOU GET YOUR PICTURES TAKEN YET?”… I said, No.. that’s why I  am HERE”… and she said “NO YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE ARC (WTF is an ARC) and go QUICKLY cuz you’re GONNA BE LATE”… I asked her kindly what an ARC was and she advised it was an arena about 10 minutes away.  AT THIS POINT, there is NO SPLITTING of household goods.  I get EVERYTHING.

So Off Jayden and I GO to the ARC (wtf) and Miraculously I find it and see NO ONE FROM HER TEAM THERE.  (Oh did I mention I left the hockey bag in the car which was 2 miles away from the arena?)..  So I say, it’s 12:15 I’m not late.. where are the other kids for the group picture.. apparently they were still there and they took one more shot because I was late.  Now did I mention that since Jayden’s gear was on, she couldn’t put on proper shoes?  she put on boots that were SQUISHED at the bottom of her ankles because of the outfit.. she was HOBBLING and couldn’t walk.  Then I hear “MOM, WHERE ARE MY SKATES?  I NEED THEM FOR THE SINGLE PHOTO”… I almost collapsed.  Off I went back to the 2 mile trek to the car to get her skates, sweating.  I was SO unattractive and miserable.  And WHILST this is going on, I am having a massive text fight with Ryan.  Then he says this.. you ready?

” I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY YOU ARE SO UPSET.. MOST OTHER WIVES WOULDN’T BE”.  CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?   at this point, forget the contents of the house.  The house is MINE with ALL contents.  LOL… So of course at dinner with friends on the Saturday night we had a heated discussion about this.  And thank GOODNESS my friends all came to my rescue and advised Ryan that my behaviour was actually MILD compared to how theirs woulda been. lol

So there you have it.  Needless to say, I was toast for the rest of the weekend..LOL.

Can you beat that story?

Now for AJ toosday… the theme this week was CLOUDS… let’s see what da sistahood came up with

Next week’s theme is TYPE.. I LOVE typewriters and type font.  I want you to either haul out your old typewriter and type something.. if you have stamps with a type font then use those, or use your printer with a typewriter font and incorporate it in your page somewhere.  Have fun!

Also, don’t forget to leave a comment on this post for a chance to win $10 in bella bucks!  And if you want to participate in Bellarific Friday, you have a chance to win $20 in bella bucks!

the theme for this week’s BELLARIFIC FRIDAY is to use 3 papers and 3 embellishments on your project PLUS a bella stamp.. great way to use your scraps!.  now you can be creative.. do an art journal page, a scrapbooking page, a 3d something.. anything as long as you use a bella stamp in this challenge

Mwah to da sistahs who understood my pain of the above story

***OH also putting lots of stamps on sale.. we have no room and have some stock so keep checking our SPECIALS section

Em

How has your week been?  It’s been nice around here although all I do is carpool my kids and spend my life in a car.. but who’s complaining? LOL

Tyler lost another tooth a couple of nights ago and the tooth fairy forgot to leave him money (Ryan’s job).. so this is what Tyler brought downstairs this morning.. I find it so cute that Ryan changed up his handwriting for this..LOL

now for some winnahs from last week’s Bellarific friday!

Winnah for CONTRIBUTING ($20 voucher) goes to….

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

2-Joann you win!  Please email me and I will send you your vouchah!

Timestamp: 2012-10-19 13:12:35 UTC

Now for da COMMENTAYTIN’ winnah ($10 in bella buckeroonis)

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

19- JULIE F you win!  please email me and I will send your vouchah!

Timestamp: 2012-10-19 13:13:42 UTC

Ok now for this week’s challenge! a sketch!

Let’s see what our Baberoonis came up with!  A few of them are “out of commission” this week unfortunately!  We hope they all get bettah!

Elaineabella used our large MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR sentiment

Are these creations BEEYOOTIFUL or what?

Now for da sistahood!

Stunningly inspirational!  I love when da sistahs contribute!

Next week’s challenge:  Take 3 papers and 3 embellishments to make a card (and a Bella stamp of course ! LOL)

Mwah to da sistahs who will comment and say hello and contribute for next week

Em

And yes you were right.. Our NEWEST RELEASE will all be CLING MOUNTED.  Yes we all love naked rubbah don’t we?  but I have been getting incessant emails about mounting.. and decided to go for it :)… This will be starting ONLY with our newest release and we will be working backwards (LOL) to try to get everything mounted but it involves A LOT of work.. so we shall call it a CONSTANT work in progress to ultimately achieve the goal of having everything mounted.  The BETTER goal is that we are hoping this won’t involve a price change either :).. so best of both worlds right?  right!

Ok let’s discuss AJ TOOSDAY shall we?  The theme this week was ANYTHING GOES… sometimes it’s nice to have a ‘prompt’ and sometimes it’s nice to just let loose.. so please remember, even if I give a prompt,  EVERY WEEK is ESSENTIALLY a free week because you can submit anything you want and I will showcase it.  I believe so much in art journaling that I just want to share it with everyone.. that being said, let loose, have fun.. scribble, draw, drip, droop (LOL).. do what ever da HECK you want on a page and submit it.  come on.. I dare ya!

So let’s see what our little AJ sistahood came up with shall we?

I got a little carried away this last week with “arting”  that I made a couple of AJ pages and some canvases have been born :).. if you follow me on IG, you will see a lot more samples but I will try my best to share with you here

I have been looking at this stamp for a long time… since it’s creation, I always loved it.  I can’t explain why.. She certainly is not our most popular stamp but I had to make her because she just made me happy.  She gave me such a good feeling so I had to clean her up and stamp her on BELLA’S BESTEST NEW VELLUM! (trying it out sistahs but so far looking amazing and will be for sale soon)…  Take a looky.  Her name is BUTTERFLY KISSES.  and because I love her so much, I wanted to share her so I put her on sale 🙂  you can find her in our “SPECIALS” tab. enjoy!

Here’s another one using our BE WHOO YOU ARE owl… He’s on the bottom right stamped on our vellum and colored in with prismacolor  pencils 🙂

Next week’s theme is to use CLOUDS somewhere on your page.. I love dreamy fluffy clouds :).  Again, you don’t have to follow this….  submit anything you feel like playing with 🙂

Mwah to da sistahs who ARE SCARED to AJ but who will try 🙂

Mwah mwah

Em

so excited.

really I am.

Had to share.

Mwah

And lots of things happening around here 🙂

On my off time (if that really exists)  I have been painting.. exploring.. figuring out who I am artistically…  And I actually got my first commission! Yes I sho’ did!  I will show you the painting in it’s initial stages…LOTS may change from this point onwards, but at least I have the GUTS to show you where she’s at right now… her nose still needs to be fixed and her face needs to be “applied”.. but you can get the general idea 🙂  .  I hope you like her!  I will show her to you once I am done 🙂

and now for some WINNAHS from last week!

Winnah for CONTRIBUTIN’ ($20 in BELLA BUCKS) goes to

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

4- MICHELLE! you WIN!  please email me and I will send your "loot"!

Timestamp: 2012-10-12 20:16:25 UTC

Now for a winnah for COMMENTAYTIN! ($10 in bella bucks) goes to…

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

8- ANGELA you win!  please email me and I will send your VOUCHAH!

Timestamp: 2012-10-12 20:17:27 UTC

Now let’s talk about this week’s theme shall we?   Our theme is HALLOWEEN.. bwahahahaha (said scarily).. Let’s see what our sistahood came up with k?  They are gonna KNOCK your SOCKSIES off!

Aren’t they GORGEOUS???? Now for DA SISTAHOOD!

I just LOVE everyone’s work!!  Next week’s theme?  a SKETCH!

and let’s NOT discuss weight watchers shall we? LOL.. next week will be a better week 🙂

Mwah to da sistahs who will get CRAFTY this weekend

And don’t forget AJ TOOSDAY !  ANYTHING GOES

AND AND don’t forget to post a comment here so I know you are there 🙂

MWAH MWAH MWAH