You're Swell ~ CCIC; PSS; SSS; NBUS #23

Happy Saturday Hello!

My little work project ended up almost giving me a heart attack when the 66-slide Power Point presentation, which I had been dutifully saving after every slide, was nowhere on the system.  Fortunately, after much work, our IT guy was able to recover it.  He's in his twenties and luckily for him, he wasn't where I was because had he been, I would have kissed him right on the mouth.  Mwah!

 

So that took a few years off the old life-complexity, lemme tell ya.  These computers are great until they aren't.  For instance, as I type this, Blogger keeps popping up the dreaded washed-out red banner telling me an error has occurred in trying to publish my blog, even though I'm not even close to trying to publish my blog. 

 

And, AACCKK,  what about what Gmail has done with your inbox?  Oy.  Like you want some corporation deciding whether or not the emails you receive are "primary," "social," or "promotional!"  I'm so sure.  You can return it to the old setting, if you don't like it neither.  You can Google for help or let me know and I'll email you. 

 

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On the home front, it looks like we might finally get the new sprinklers, weed mat, and rocks laid in the backyard hill-side planter today.  None of the workers have showed up yet, but the rock arrived yesterday in our driveway and it's all set to be wheel-barrowed to its new home by folks much younger than ourselves.  I will post pics when it's done.

 

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Well, that was all pretty boring, sorry.  I hope my card won't be.  Needless to say, it was with immense pleasure that I escaped to my Playhouse last night and made a fun card for these three challenges:

 

Curtain Call

 

I'm sure a lot of you have heard that there is resurrected challenge back on the boards called Curtain Call.  The first challenge is "Feeling Nautical."  Here is the IB:

 

 

Simon Says Stamp

 

Coinkydinkly, Simon Says Stamp (which has moved to Wordpress and is now known as "Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog" (a mouthful!), has a current challenge called "By the Sea!"  Cool, or what?  Here is the IB:

 

Paper Smooches

 

And in a further freakish alignment of the challengetary stars, Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge Blog is having a "Cool Shades" challenge with these nautical colors:

Kraft, Navy, Red, Cream/White

The colors don't represent too well on the monitor.  In the fine print it says "Kraft, Navy, Red, Cream/White."

As always, there are some extraordinary challenge sponsors and prizes!  Please click on the links for all the details.

Here is my card:

I cut several waves from the Memory Box "Oceana Border" die.  The sediment is from Paper Smooches "Surf and Turf" set and it's NBUS (never-before-used schtuff).  The enamel embellies are from My Mind's Eye.  If I were to do this card again, I would heat-emboss the sediment in navy EP to give it more weight, but otherwise, I'm pickled at how this turned out.

 

New Friend

 

In my new friend introductions today, we have another Mystery Guest!  I'd like to welcome Sharon!  Thank you for joining our party!  If you have a blog you'd like me to share with everyone, please let me know.

 

Rockwell Designs

 

I also wanted to tell you that our friend Jackie Rockwell has a new challenge on her blog, Rockwell Designs, where the prize is a free blog header!  Jackie is a very talented blog designer and has designed many of the blogs you see around Blogglevania.  If you would like a blog make-over, head over and join in the challenge!

 

Mia Gulpa

I want to close with an apology to you if I have not been around to visit this week.  It's been cray-cray around here, but I think I'll have a quiet couple of days to catch up with you.  Also, I'm sorry that I don't know how to use my camera and I keep putting off reading the manual.  If I knew what I were doing, my cards wouldn't look like half-deflated balloons.  Maybe I'll take some time to figure that out, too, although I'd rather visit you!

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Enjoy your day!  No, seriously, enjoy.  LITS*!

 

As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse and special thanks to you if you take the time to leave a comment and/or join as a follower!

 

 

*Life Is Too Short!