On the Fourth Day of Christmas

On the Fourth Day of Christmas... I woke up sick. Not feeling so great. I should have set up today's specials last night but I put it off. My bad.

I have significantly reduced the price on 5 different wristlets.

Also don't forget to leave a comment on any post to be entered to win a $25.00 gift certificate.

On the Third Day of Christmas

On the Third Day of Christmas...

Win a $25 Gift Certificate to my ArtFire Shop or my Etsy Shop. To enter, just leave a comment on any of the 12 Days of Christmas posts here on my blog. 1 entry for each comment. Everyone who purchases from my ArtFire Shop or my Etsy Shop will be automatically entered to win.

Today I have 6 cute ruffled zipper pouches for $4.00 each. They are regularly $10.00 each. Perfect for stocking stuffers, gifts for teachers, or use to hold a gift card.

On The Second Day of Christmas

On the Second Day of Christmas...

Don't forget to comment on any (or all) of the 12 Days of Christmas posts to be entered for the $25 Gift Certificate.

Today I have these cute zipper pouches marked down to $4.80 each - they are regularly $12.00 each. Each pouch measures 9 inches x 4.75 inches and has a frayed flower embellishment sewn onto the front. These would make great gifts!

On the First Day of Christmas...

On the First Day of Christmas...

I have listed 4 different Christmas zipper pouches for $2.00 each in my Etsy Shop. These are so cute! Perfect for stocking stuffers or use them to hold gift cards.







To share a bit of history, the 12 Days of Christmas are actually the 12 days after Christmas. The 12 days count from December 25th until January 5th, the last day of the Christmas Season before Epiphany (January 6th). If you want to read more about the 12 days you can visit HERE.

The Twelve Days of Christmas

Egads. I almost forgot to start this! I can't believe that it is December already.

Be sure to check every morning to see what new specials I will have that day. I can't even give you hint because I am soooo very unprepared!

And after the 12th Day I will be giving away a $25.00 Gift Certificate to your choice of my ArtFire Shop or my Etsy Shop.

To enter the giveaway for the gift certificate you only need to leave a comment on ANY of my 12 Days of Christmas posts (including this one). 1 entry for each comment (limit of 1 comment/entry per post). So you could have a maximum of 13 entries by commenting each day. Anyone who makes a purchase in either of my shops during the 12 Days of Christmas will also receive 1 entry. Winner will be chosen at random.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Pink Lady Designs on ArtFire

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Review: Touch by Jus Accardo

Touch by Jus Accardo

My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars


I was able to read Touch thanks to Netgalley and Entangled Publishing.



Touch was enjoyable. The author created an interesting world. The idea of a corporation controlling the Sixes was unique and intriguing. However, I found myself confused sometimes when information was being thrown at me so fast that I couldn't keep up. I had to re-read some passages to figure out what I had missed the first time around. A little more background information on Denizen and the Sixes would have helped. I want to know how it all started.



I liked the characters. Deznee is an adrenaline junkie. She was strong and fearless and never backed down. Although I would have liked to see a little more vulnerability from her. Kale was innocent, yet strong and protective, especially when it came to Deznee. He was also cute, but totally clueless! I enjoyed watching Kale experience a lot of 'firsts'. The secondary characters are quite varied - from best friend to very bad men, everyone played an important role in the story.



Touch is fast paced, exciting, and sick and twisted. I will definitely be reading the next in this series.









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New Listings on Etsy and ArtFire

Here are a few items that I made this week that I will be listing.

First is this wristlet I made using Joel Dewberry Ginseng Wildflowers in Flax. I love this fabric, but it is discontinued and I don't have much of it left.



I also made 3 new Robert Pattinson/Breaking Dawn pouches.





And new Cosmetic Pouch Sets.

Breaking Dawn Inspired Color Splash on HGTV

I watch a lot of HGTV. My dog watches HGTV more than I do, and I'm sure if he could speak he would have some great ideas for our house. The whole dog watching tv thing started when he was just a puppy. We'd put him in his cage at night and turn on the tv very low so he wouldn't hear us and start to whine. He still whined a lot, so whatever. He did get over the whining eventually, but we left the tv on for him because it helped him not feel so alone. We recently started leaving him out of his cage at night and he sleeps all night with no tv. Yay! He's growing up! But he still gets to watch tv during the day while I am upstairs working. HGTV works best because there are no shows or commercials that he barks at. He barks at sirens, other dogs barking, kids laughing and/or screaming, Cops, Flo from the Progressive commercials, and "Cheep cheep fun fun" chicken thing from Dirt Cheap ----------- Beer, and Liquor. He especially hates Flo - she gets growled at.

So earlier today on HGTV I saw what I thought was the Twilight Breaking Dawn commercial coming on, but it looked different somehow... and then it turned into a promo for a Breaking Dawn inspired 'outdoor' makeover by David Bromstad on Color Splash. And look who shows up to surprise the homeowners!

From the little of the room I could see during the commercial, it looks okay, very woodsy and nature inspired. I think it would have been cooler to have an actual room from one of the movies recreated. Hey, they can come to my house and recreate any Twilight inspired room they want. I'd be on board for that. But only if Robert Pattinson showed up in my new room.

Robert Pattinson

Water for Elephants is available on DVD today.

So this morning I spent a little time over at Robsessed looking at the pretty. I haven't checked out what's up for a few months, so it was all new to me!

Scruff! It's all good.

Wow. Love that smile!

Seriously great.

Oh. My.

Have a great day. I know I will!

Happy Halloween! (AND Yay Cardinals and Rams!)

St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is retiring a few days after winning his 3rd World Series title. I knew it was a possibility that he would retire at this time, especially since he gets to go out as a winner.



On Sunday, before the World Series Championship Parade in downtown St. Louis, the Cardinal players were at the Edward Jones Dome before the Rams game against the New Orleans Saints.



My husband and I were at the Rams game. And they WON their first game of this season!! YAY! Go Rams!! Here is the view from our nosebleed seats. Seriously, we were in the 3rd row from the top.



After the Rams game, my husband and I walked over towards Busch Stadium to where the Cardinals Parade would be going by on it's way to the stadium. We managed to get kinda sorta close... okay, we were about 10 people deep. There were soooo many people out there lining the streets!!! Not to mention more than 35,000 people that were INSIDE Busch Stadium for the celebration.

We still had tons of fun. The crowds were happy and excited.

Matt Holliday:


Chris Carpenter:


Albert Pujols surrounded by his kids:

World Series Champions!

The St. Louis Cardinals won their 11th World Series title on Friday night.



Now, the Cardinals are the champions, defying all of the odds, and achieving what seemed to be impossible.



Hometown Hero David Freese walked off the field with the MVP award.




The Cardinals had a desperate rush to reach the postseason on the final day of the regular season. It was amazing that they were the NL Wild Card. Then they beat Philadelphia 3-2 in the first round of the NL playoffs. They then went on to beat Milwaukee 4-2 in the NL championship series.

The Cardinals were down 3-2 to the Texas Rangers coming back to St. Louis for Game 6 on Wednesday night, which was rained out and rescheduled for Thursday night. The Cardinals staged an amazing comeback, rallying (twice!) to win in the 11th inning by a score of 10-9. Carpenter started Game 7, and the Cardinals went on to win the World Series 6-2.

Review: Die for Me (Revenants #1) by Amy Plum

Warning: This Review is Spoilerific!!
Die for Me (Revenants #1) by Amy Plum
Library copy read by me on August 7, 2011

First, let me say how much I liked this book. Secondly, let me tell you just how much this book reminds me of Twilight. Okay, to be fair, it doesn't 'remind' me of Twilight. It almost IS Twilight. (And I like Twilight.) Just like Twilight, Die For Me is not literary genius, but it is very entertaining for the most part.

Die For Me follows almost all of the same plot points from Twilight. It's eerily similar. But not so eerie if you read the author's blog and realize how much she loves Twilight. So she wrote her own version of Twilight, but instead of a family of vampires she uses the term 'zombie' - which is just to say that they are undead.

Off the top of my head, here are the ways that Die For Me is like Twilight:
Teenage Kate moves to a new city - Paris to be precise.
Kate meets boy, Vincent, under mysterious circumstances and is attracted to him instantly.
Vincent falls for Kate for no reason.
Kate obsesses over Vincent's good looks while not believing herself pretty enough to be worthy of him.
Vincent stalks Kate.
Vincent doesn't sleep.
Vincent is a 100 year old virgin who has never been in love before Kate.
Vincent wants he and Kate to stay pure.
Vincent thinks Kate should stay away from him for her own good, but he is miserable without her.
Vincent's Family has been around for centuries undetected. But they immediately take a liking to Kate and let her in their family unit.
Kate has a special power that no other human has.
Bad guys go after Kate to get to Vincent's family.
There's more, but I'll stop the comparison here.

I still can't believe that I like this book. It's total ripoff! But I gave it 3 stars anyway. And honestly, if I had never read Twilight, I would think that Die For Me was so original and different.

I am looking forward to reading the next book in this series. Hopefully Amy Plum can come up with the rest of this story without copying Twilight. Who knows, maybe she CAN have an original thought.

I Made 2 New Wristlets (and I still hate Etsy...)

Etsy is driving me nuts. My shop and items have dropped off the face of the Earth. I have spent more hours redoing every single item description and tag in my shop than I have spent on actually working and making new items for my shop. It's pretty ridiculous right now. I am just tired of the changes that they are making - so I have been reloading my items on ArtFire. It's cheaper to NOT sell items on ArtFire than it is to NOT sell items on Etsy. Hmph.

I have 217 items in my Etsy shop. That is the most I have ever had. (If anyone is feeling the need to shop, come on over. You're more than welcome to buy anything and everything from me.) I am always taking custom orders. Contact me if you would like something made just for you.

AND if you are looking for a little something special LIKE THIS to take with you to view Breaking Dawn, you really need to contact me. Photo zipper pouches are approximately 4 inches x 6 inches and cost $9.00 each. I can also make wristlets that are approximately 5 inches x 9 inches, mainly depending on the dimensions of the photo.

Here are my 2 new wristlets and a little photo to get everyone warmed up for next month. Hee!!!

(And GO Cardinals!!!!!!!)

Happy Winds-day!

This is, of course, from my favorite quote ever. I'm sure everyone has seen Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. Pooh wishes everyone he encounters a Happy Winds-day. When Pooh wishes Owl a happy Winds-day, Owl says "I wouldn't go so far as to call it a Winds-day. Just a gentle Spring Zephyr." You can see this part HERE on YouTube at 4:55.

My husband tells me Happy Winds-day every Wednesday, and I reply "I wouldn't go so far as to call it a Winds-day. Just a gentle Spring Zephyr." The kids get tired of hearing it, but we still laugh about it. And today it really IS windy!! It's 46 degrees out with 20 MPH winds.... brrrrr. Great day to start the World Series in St. Louis!!!!



WooHoo I hope I don't jinx them!! I am beyond nervous. I can't believe after making it into the playoffs on THE last day of the regular season, The Cardinals are in the World Series. Gah. I just really have a feeling that this will be a tough series. I am making no claims that the Cardinals will walk all over the Rangers. I wish they would. I hope they can. I would love to see it.

I'm not a fair weather fan. My husband stopped watching the games when they were 10 1/2 games out. I, however, continued watching every single game. My husband has come back around since they made it into the playoffs, and NOW he is all pumped up about the World Series. I hope HE doesn't jinx them!