I just decided I like Thursdays — the week is almost over yet it’s still a solid day of work, the garbage man comes, and more importantly with all the cardboard we have to dispose of, the recycling truck comes and Scott takes the kids to swimming at night so I get an hr and 15 minutes to myself (which I generally squander on laundry and watching Entertainment Tonight or something else of equally low merit!).  I love the recycling part as that usually means I can now move around my work area again instead of tripping over huge piles of cardboard and I like an organized work area (although that may not always show!).

I am very happy to say, today was NOT a snow day.  We had a snow day last Friday, Monday and yesterday — a total of FIVE for the month.  It’s definitely hard to work with a 2 and 5 year old under foot!  We are back to our normal grey, rainy 40 degree weather and I think I like that very much!

So… the layouts and projects are starting to stream in from CD and they are of course amazing!!!  I thought I’d give you a little sneak here and we will have the rest up in the gallery tonight.  Here’s a little canvas that she created.  LOVE IT!!!

And here is a tiny peek at one of her layouts:

(The large pink flower is the Fancy Pants felt pieces from October.  I considered including them in an add-on but thought that many customers would already have them.  We do have some individual sheets available.  If you are interested in purchasing one, please send me an email.)

And you might notice something going on with the message board and the gallery this week.  YES — we are finally getting some movement going on the whole integration project.  I’ll definitely let you know when it’s complete.  I think we just might need a big contest as well to celebration it’s completion!

My rep sent me pdf’s of 7 Gypsies and the Chatterbox catalogs yesterday (CBX was bought by 7G in case you hadn’t heard that).  7 Gypsies was amazing, of course!  There’s so many new products that I want to incorporate into kits.  But what was so surprising was the Chatterbox catalog.  All I can say is WOW!!!!  They have completely reinvented themselves and all their new products are so yummy!  Have any of you seen any of it yet?  I was fully expecting not to like any of it and so it was even more of a shock when I wanted to order basically everything they have!  Can’t wait to hear what you think!  What companies’ products are you wild about (from the sneak peeks, that is)?

Well, there was no Weight Watchers weigh-in this week with the snow.  I’ll report in on that next week.  I did fairly well on my 15 workouts — just 2 to do today!  I’ve already got the kids scheduled for daycare at the gym this evening so that’s at least the guarantee of one more workout (I’ll count doing the weight class as one and then 30 minutes on the eliptical trainer as two.  Is that cheating?)  Hope at the end of the first month your New Year’s Resolutions have faired better than mine.