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Our New Additions

Yesterday Jessy and I drove an hour and a half to Amherst, MA to pick-up her birthday present and the new additions to our family. They are two pygmy goats, twins, a male and a female. The white one is the little girl and Jessy named her Rosie. The black one is the male and she named him Quartz. She chose the names because Mary Ann (the woman we adopted them from) so nicely gave Jessy a couple of large pieces of rose quartz from her garden.

Rosie and Quartz are settling in slowly but are fine. They're both a little shy since they were just separated from their mom, the other kids(baby goats) on the farm and all the llamas roaming around. They were quite lucky to have so many friends. I'm sure they'll adjust soon. Once our fence is finished (waiting for the ground to thaw), they'll have plenty of room to play and frolic in their new home here in Pepperell. Here's pic of them still not ready to leave the safety of the carrier.

Pamela's Amuse Shoe Box Workshop

I'm going to an Amuse Shoe Box workshop at a friends house on Saturday. We each have to design a card using Amuse stamps and bring all the supplies (in a "shoe box") for everyone else to make one. If there are 7 of us, I'll go home with 7 different cards. I've done something similar before and it was alot of fun. Here are pics of the card I've designed using the "Ipod" stamp and the "You Rock" stamp. It's hard to tell but the IPod has green glitter on it. I LOVE GLITTER on my cards! I plan to have every color glitter at some point. Most of my cards are pretty simple. I'm very happy with this design.

This picture doesn't really do it justice but this is a layout of all the pictures I took trying to get the perfect Christmas card. The ornaments were from my Cricut and they're outlined in gold paper.

Layouts from the Retreat

I spent most of my time working on Kyla's high school abum...this is one of the layouts I did this weekend. I'm a pretty simple scrapbooker but I'm happy with most of my results. I've also changed to top loading so I can scrap out of order. It makes it much more exciting to be able to scrap what you're in the mood for.

ScrapShare By the Sea 2008

Friday thru Sunday was spent at the NE SS Retreat in Portsmouth NH. Just myself and about 37 other scrapaholics! What a crappy rainy weekend but I didn't care because I had 3 days of uninterrupted cropping time. I had a blast this weekend. Thanks to my roomie and table buddy Pamela (apparently I snore). Thanks to my other table buddy Denise who made me laugh all weekend. I loved meeting the VT girls Lisa, Lynn, Liz & Tanya. Teresa came up from Mississippi and brought her Hurricane Katrina stories with her. It was very emotional and I thank her for sharing with us all. Donna came up from North Carolina and of course there was our New Jersey ladies who kept us entertained. Don't worry Shirley, we all know you were there! It was great seeing all the New England girls we all know and love and I can't wait until November when we all meet again in Jackson NH!

Here is a bit of what I got done...

I'm baaaack...

I'm back to try this whole blogging thing again. Looking forward to this weekend. I'm going on a ScrapShare Retreat in Portsmouth NH with my scrappin' friends! Hoping to get alot done. I'll post with results when I get back. Maybe even a page count...ooohhh.