MWAH ~ Fusion #1; NBUS #87; SSWC

Good Morning, Sunshine!

We have whooshed around to the very first Friday of 2014!  The next time you turn around . . . oh, don't even think about how fast it flies!

I made my first Valentine of 2014.  I used the sketch from the resurrected Fusion challenge.  Yay, they're back!!  Here is the photo/sketch/either inspiration board:

Here is my card:

My card looks huge, but it's really a sweet size of 6.25 x 3.25.

Yesterday I went shopping at our local craft store which is sadly going out of business.  I know all my online buying contributed to the closure, but I was a regular buyer in this store, too.  It's just too hard for these small stores to compete.

So this is the NBUS (never-before-used schtuff) on my card:  

• the conversation bubbles are part of a six-die set from Sizzix

• the HVD sediment is a ribbon which I will be using a lot.

Thanks to my bloggie friend Carol for pointing out the current Simon Says Wednesday Challenge is all about "new things," including "new crafty stuff," so I am also linking my card there.  

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I want to thank all of you for any suggestions you had for how to deal with the error message I was getting from Blogger.   A few of you commented that uninstalling versions 10 and 11 of Internet Explorer, going back down to version 9 solved the problem.  Mister was opposed to me doing that because updates not only improve the features, they usually improve the security, so going back to a former version may lesson the security.  But it is a definite fix if you want to stay with Internet Explorer.

As for me, I decided that until Google and Microsoft decide to play nice with each other, I'm going to kabitchulate and use Chrome instead of Internet Explorer.  It's not that I don't like Chrome, it's that I resented the way they played games with my blog to try and get me to use it.  Then I decided I hated the feeling of resentment more and my resentment wasn't hurting Google one bit, so I let it go.  Poof.

I wrote the word Google on a piece of scratch paper and I ran it through my paper shredder.  Then I put the pieces in an envelope and mailed them to the Google headquarters.  No, wait.  That's not true.  The hamster just mentioned that to me as I was typing just now.  Obviously he was sleeping yesterday when I put the shredded bits in the recycle bin.  I like the idea, though, for the next time I feel the need to shred.

Luckily my little "poof" ritual isn't necessary too often with my usually optimistic and mellow mindset, but it's a good way to dispense with any kind of negativity that does creep in on occasion.  

Poof and it's a happier new year for everyone.

Now if I could just poof away the twenty extra pounds I'm carrying around ...!

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Enjoy your day!  No, seriously, enjoy.  LITS!*  I hope you are safe and tucked inside and not adversely impacted by the Nor'easter. 

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!  Please let me know you came by, so I can be sure and return the flavor!

  

 

*Life Is Too Short!

Project Details
Paper	PTI white; SU pink pirouette;
Stamps	Alphabet" Hero Arts 02002;  Kiss: Art Impressions BB-471
Ink	SU real red
Accessories	SU Simply Scored Ribbon: Richard's