Mailbox Surprise

It has been such a long week at work this week.  I'm so glad that tomorrow is Friday and a week from tonight I will be on my way home to California.  The first quarter of the year is the most hectic for me at the office.  Being in my new office definitely making it a little easier to deal with the stress.  A lot of the people I need to interface with are in my building so it makes my job a little bit easier.

Ok...so I worked late tonight trying to finish up two very LARGE projects and Charlie took care of getting Alyssa picked up and to gymnastics.  I pulled up to the house and decided to check the mailbox.  Normally if Charlie gets home before me he gets the mail...but for some reason tonight that was not the case.  I opened the door to the box and at the back of the mailbox was an envelope....a had made card envelope.  I was so excited because someone took the time to make and send me a card.  So I RIPPED it open and was so excited.  Caitlyn Calhoun sent me this beautiful card.

It made my evening....Thank You Caitlyn!!!!!

Occasions Mini Catalog Sneak Peek

Although the Occasions Mini Catalog will not be available until April 1st, Stampin' Up! is offering you the chance to purchase some Easter stamp sets from the mini catalog right now!  

Item	Description	Retail Price
113196	An Egg-cellent Easter	$21.95
113262	Wagon Full of Fun	$34.95
113822	Eight Great Greetings	$27.95
115421	Ocho saludos geniales  (Spanish Eight Great Greetings)	$27.95
114643	Huit souhaits sympas   (French Eight Great Greetings)	$27.95
113833	Egg Hunt Stampin' Around wheel	$6.50

  To see the sneak peak of the set on special click here.  To order you can email me or order online.

Stamp Club this Saturday

I am so excited that Stamp Club is this Saturday.  I hope you all will like the projects that we will be making.  I really enjoyed putting these togther for you.  Some of the cards were CASEd but that's the highest of compliments amoungst us Stampin' Up! demontrators.  I did come up with the 12x12 scrapbook pages all on my own.  More masculine pages are so stinkin' hard for me.  

I was so excited to figure out how to do collages with my photos.  I read on SoShelli.com that she uses Picasa for her photo editing as it allows you to collage your photos.  

Looking forward to seeing all of my club members.

Take care & happy stamping.

Changes at Chesapeake Energy

It's been a very busy week for m at work this week.  On Wednesday I officially moved out of the basement of Building 5 where I'd been for a little over two years to the first floor of Building 8.

 For those of you who are not familiar with Chesapeake Energy in Oklahoma City, we are the number one independent producer of natural gas in the nation and the most active driller of new wells in the U.S.  I work on a "campus"  Seriously...it's like a college campus.  We have restaurants, fitness center, health care center, and in the future we will have onsight daycare.  For the second year in a row we were on Forbes top 100 companies to work for.  

Ok...back to my move.  Well, I've only known basement life for the last two years.  I went down into the basement in the morning climbed out at lunch time then descended back down after

lunch and again climb out at the end of the day.  I am now officing on the 1st floor with a window.  It's really a nice and positive change for me.  I was really worried I wouldn't 

like moving, but it's not all that bad.  The only downside is that my entire department wasn't able to move.  I really really miss Rachel, Audrey and the "Basement Boys". 

Here's what my new office look like on the inside.

 

Another Layout Sample

I resisted getting the Rustic Rooster level 2 hostess set, but I just had to have it.  Imagine that???  HEHE...I so love my roosters.  I opened up one of the four SU boxes I received today and dug until I found my new rooster set.  I quickly put it together and thought...hmmmm I NEED TO STAMP!!!  So I went back to this weeks layout challenge and came up with this card.  I like it a lot more than the one I made earlier in the week.  Having these layouts makes card designing so easy.  Time for me to hit the hay.  Long day at work tomorrow.

Sketch Challenge- My Card

Here's what I came up with for this week's sketch challenge.  I'm not totally happy with it.  Just seems kinda blah.  Now I need to figure out who I'm going to send it to...hehehe.  I hope to do some more stamping this weekend so watch for more samples later this weekend.

Weekly Sketch Challenge

I received my Mojo Monday weekly sketch and wanted to share it with you.  See what you can come up with on this one.  I'd love to see all of your creativity.  Make a card using the sketch and mail or email it to me....I will post it on my blog.