Cathi
Who doesn’t love a mystery giveaway??? I do. I do.. My favorite stress buster is going shopping at Goodwill and finding something vintage/used and being able to reuse it and save money at the same time…That just takes all the stress away for me….thanks for the chance to win…
Congratulations! And here is what you’ve won! (Please email me with your shipping information.)

Thank you for all the great stress-busting tips! I really enjoyed reading what everyone does to relieve their own stress. Baths, naps, exercise, scrapping, talking and tv seem to be the overwhelming favorites — along with eating that is! Reading the ways everyone else destresses, I realized that I am wound a little too tight right now as the only one of those activities that I regularly engage in right now is my rocky road ice cream addiction. I think I could definitely use a bit more scrapping, talking and maybe even tv in my life. I’ve never been a napper and baths just aren’t enough of a productive use of time for me when I can take a quick shower instead… Yep, I think in the new year I might need to give a little more consideration to balance!
And here is the 3rd giveaway in celebration of our anniversary month!

One lucky winner will receive the Cocoa Daisy upcoming December kit, Winter’s Garden, and a set of the Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Anthology Stamp Set that Ali used in her Family Gratitude Spinner. To win please just leave me a comment on how you plan to spend Thanksgiving — and if you are not a Thanksgiving celebrator, then tell me about a family tradition around the holiday season.
And if you would like another chance to win, check out the Daisy Diner Scrap-off! To find all the details on this contest, check it out here.
Thank you to everyone who stopped by the booth this weekend to say hello! We had a lot of fun at CKC-Seattle and are looking forward to the Portland show in March! Stacy Julian came and visited in our booth both days of the show and it was so fun to see her in action! She is just amazing!! If you have been wondering when her Cocoa Daisy kit class will be available on Big Picture Scrapbooking it probably won’t be until the end of the month following an unfortunate incident involving a rental car, a laptop and a thief. Poor Stacy — but she seems to be taking it very much in stride.



In case everything Stacy, Kelli and Lain created with the November kit wasn’t enough Cocoa Daisy goodness for you, Lisa Damrosch designed some adorable layouts with the kit! This one was my favorite and you can see the rest on her blog.

On a sad note, yesterday I was watching the local news and I saw that a woman out walking with her 2 year old in a stroller, was struck by a car. The driver then fled the scene. Fortunately it seems that both will be all right. I saw it again on the morning news. It was awful, but one of those things that you are horrified by as you listen to it and then all too quickly forget about it. All of that changed today when I got a call from Ali. Maricel, who had taken our photo earlier this month was the woman hit by the car! She and her daughter are so, so very lucky to be alive. Now that the victim is someone I’ve met, the incident is even more powerful to me and so eerily close to home. Maricel has a fractured pelvis but her little girl was mostly protected by her jog stroller. Just another one of those instances that reminds you just how fragile life is…