Happenings of the Heart

Hello! I thought it might be fun to do a random post once in a while, especially when I haven't had time to craft. Today's post will start with some announcements earlier this week that thrilled me! Did you see who won Wplus9's Color Cue {8}?

That's me! I couldn't believe my eyes. It's my first challenge win and I couldn't be happier! :D

Then I got an honourable mention for this Unity card in Play Date Cafe's One-Year Anniversary Challenge! Two toots for me this week. I don't mean to gloat. It's been a big week for me craft-wise! ;)

All this good news couldn't have come at a better time. Our poor little fur baby Pit'r hasn't been well. She had an adverse reaction to her last bout of chemo and had massive open sores on her chin. The antibiotics they put her on caused major bowel issues so we've been dealing with that over the past two days. It hasn't been fun cleaning up after her and last night we had to lock her away so we wouldn't wake up to yucky stuff all over the place. This morning it finally looked like she was feeling better this morning. Thank goodness!

Our dryer also decided to stop working this afternoon and the repairman won't be coming by 'til Monday. Oh, the things we take for granted! I had to hang everything that was partly dried, as well as the second load that was already in the wash. They are all hard and crispy. Ick.

Over the past several months, I had a series of unpleasant email conversations with a certain well-known stamp company and they still refuse to budge on their outrageous international shipping policy while citing the most ridiculous and illogical reasons. As one wise crafty math teacher put it, there's no way shipping should cost over 200% of the cost of the products. They even ignored emails sent by friends of mine so we decided that if they want to be exclusive then we will exclude them from our craft budget, too. This is unfortunate because we do love their stuff. Some people just don't know what is good for them!

As a treat for all this (LOL), I decided to take advantage of Unity's amazing 40% off sale going on right now and ordered five new sets (plus a sixth free one, being a Kit Club member)! I love the way Unity and the Unity family has treated me and all my friends so I will continue to support them. That holds true for all the other wonderful stamp companies I have dealt with and I'll say more on that subject another time.

I hope you've all had a wonderful week. What are your plans for the weekend? We're excited about the little guy's second Halloween! He's going as a dinosaur but he wants to carry the panda treat bag I made for him last year. Too cute. RAWR!!! ;)