Announcements, projects, blog candy and more!

Hey everyone!

I will try not to make this too long of a post but I have some really great stuff to share with you all today! This will be the last blog post to write before the New Year and I am just finding that so hard to believe! Anyone with me? Wow!

Okay, well, first up I have a few announcements that I want to share. I am really excited about telling you this news and could hardly wait to post! I hope you are as excited as I am!

First of all, The Angel Company will not be releasing a new catalog in February '09. The new catalog will be coming out this summer and the images are all going to be 100% so what you see in the catalog is what you get! Woohoo! I am so excited about that! TAC won't leave us hanging until then to get some fabulous new stamps, though! TAC is coming out with a new magalogue! This is going to be so much fun and I thought I would just give you a sneak peek at some of our new stamps.

For the second announcement, I would like to share that Anita, from Memory Lane Scrapbooking store, called me today and asked me to do a class in January and February. My first class with the store will be January 13 which is a Tuesday evening. Stop by the store and sign up! I'll have samples in the store soon so you can see what you are signing up for! I will post them here, as well.

Starting on Tuesday, January 6, I will have the StampTACular Tuesday challenges back up. I'd love for you to join in the fun! No prizes will be awarded but I will keep a link up all month long of those who participate in the challenge. I'd love to see what you will come up with. This month's featured stamp will be An 'Udder Birthday. I love this stamp set and I think you will, too, once you see all the different ways you can use this stamp set!

My final announcement (for today, anyway) is that I have been asked by many of my customers when I was going to teach another class using our fabulous TAC stamps. I know many of you would like to learn new techniques, also. I realize January isn't the easiest time of year to spend a lot of money, especially in our house with 2 December birthdays and Christmas just getting over with, so I have decided to offer a class for FREE! More details will be in my January Newsletter. If you haven't signed up for that yet, it's easy. The sign up box is in a blue box on the side panel to the right. I will be sending the Newsletter out soon and you won't want to miss it this month!

Blog Candy Alert: Help my sister, Jenny, with her cutter dilemma and if you give her the information she needs to replace her trimmer you could score the blog candy! Go visit her and check it out!

And last, but certainly not least, here is a cute little book I created using one of my most favorite tools, my Bind-It-All! This book has 12 lined notebook pages inside...one for each month of the year, so I can write my goals and ideas of things I'd like to accomplish in 2009. It was so simple to put together. I used Mulberry Meadow paper for the outside covers. Isn't it beautiful? I love this paper. The inside is a light blue cardstock (not sure the color name) and decorated the front cover with some foam stickers and some chipboard numbers I had from my scrapbook stash! I really love how it turned out and it was put together in just a few minutes!

I want to wish you all a very happy and safe New Year's eve as you say good-bye to 2008 and say hello to 2009! I am eager for a new and fresh year full of possibilites and will be celebrating at home with my family, playing games, snacking and counting down the final moments of this year! God bless you all and I'll post again NEXT YEAR!!!

Hugs,