check it out...

...just like a book in a library!

don't forget about the release party tonight at splitcoaststampers.com! all the cool kids are going. BYOB

i chose you, sneak-peek-a-chu!

who: unity stamp co. chicks and anyone else who is cool

what: unity stamp release party

when: tomorrow night (7/30), 8pm (central)

where: splitcoaststampers.com

why: cause that's just how we roll

here are my sneak-peek-a-chus. (i am drunk. seriously. ron is off tonight. i've had two beers and i am HAMMERED! :) )

MORE cha cha cha!

apparently i can only post 5 photos at a time. well this blog is not the boss of me! here are some more!

cha cha cha!

so, once again, cha was super fun. here are some highlights:

*it was fun to work (the brief amount of time that i did) in the UNITY stamp company booth. i loved my tiara and it was there that i realized i COULD sell cars. also, i finally got to use the term "but wait! there's more!" in a real life situation.

*drinking heavily until 3AM makes for a tough walk around the show the next morning.

*i ACTUALLY did TWO "make and takes", which is unheard of for me. i do not enjoy being crafty on the spot or waiting in line for things. however, i made two super cute mini books at the TERESA COLLINS booth. which leads me to my next fantastic discovery...

*i have a new favorite line of product! i haven't been this excited about an entire line of stuff in..oh, i don't know...FOREVER! TERESA COLLINS stuff ROCKS! seriously, there is no better product around. it is so usable and adorable. now, if i can only get her to make chipboard letters....

*stacy's husband is a riot! i'm just saying....

* a bartender at the hotel mistakenly took me to loo loo from general hospital. shut up...it's true! it is my new alias.

*carla is, in fact, my MFAL (mother from another life).

*having cocktails friday night with the unity chicks (and guys) was all i thought it would be and more. i have a new favorite saying, thanks to chris, that my first graders will be using this school year. "can i get a hip HOP?!?!"

*dawn's husband talks like simon le bon form duran duran. very cool.

*we almost got killed by jerome on the train from chicago. ron is RIGHT. when you go in a room, you should ALWAYS find 3 things to kill somebody with...

crazy kids

my kids are crazy. they crack me up daily. here is the latest.

scout, the $1000 dog

so, in the beginning of june we had dog trouble. it was pretty scary for a while there. long story short: one day he had a small cut under his eye. looked like he scratched it on something. no big deal. less than 2h hours later, he has a boat load of bleeding sores on his face and feet. this is, of course, at 5:04pm. the emergency vet gave him an antibiotic and allergy pills. the next day it was EVEN worse! his face was swollen and he weeping sores were everywhere...face, nose, ears, feet, belly, back...you name it, he has either swollen bumps or open wounds. we couldn't even love on him and he had to be confined to the kitchen/mud room b/c he was bleeding all over the house. our vet saw him and said (after they tested him for what could have been a fatal disease) they suspected and auto-immune disease like lupus, but only the biopsies could tell. he was put on steroids (which made him have accidents in the house) and heavy duty steroids. two weeks go by and he is healing. the lab results come back. no lupus. instead, he has allergies and was an itching fool. he must have scratched himself a cut and then contracted a VERY bad bacterial infection. shut up! it's true!

so, over $1000 later (good thing i am teaching summer school), he is finishing up his antibiotics in another week or so and will be on allergy pills in the spring and fall (a whopping $4 for a 400 count bottle at sams -yesssssssss!). he is on the road to recovery and we are all so very thankful! he may have some scarring on his nose, but that's cool. everyone knows scars make you look tough and give you character!

the photos above do not even do justice to how bad it really looked. he looks like the images you see in horror movies. his eyes were so swollen shut and bloody that it looked like they had been gauged out. gross, i know. the bottom post is pre-craziness.

anyway, he is back to normal and we love him (to quote abby) "SO SO MUCH!"