Cheering You On, Marie!

Hi Gang! Welcome to September!! Hey, don't look at me! I told you it was coming!

We are back from our long weekend holiday with the twinz and The Grand Duke. We had a terrific time and I hope you all had a great weekend, too! It feels like a Monday to me, so I'll be more off-center this week than I normally am. Which means I'll be flat on my side.

Today I have a special card to share for a very special lady. Her name is Marie Papadopolou and her incredible blog is baileyrosy. I first "met" Marie on July 8, 2012, when she came to visit the Playhouse and started following me. (I just got a visual of Marie actually following me like a stalker and it made me giggle.) I happily returned the flavor and we've been amusing each other ever since. If you don't know Marie, you are missing out on some of Blogland's most sensational works of art and fun posts! Her designs are insanely creative!

The reason Marie is being showcased on my blog today is because she has been dealing with severe leg pain and put on bed rest. She is unable to sit or lie in one place for too long and she has been told by the bone doctor that it can take up to one year to recover. So Kylie, the owner of Addicted to Stamps and More (ATSM), and bosoom buddies with Marie, has dedicated the current "Anything Goes" challenge to our friend Marie to let her know we are thinking about her and sending her our best get well wishes!! 

Since Marie is a hoot, I've made her this get well card:

The pretty watercolor background is DSP from SU. The image is another fun one that was stamped off for me by my friend Gay. I colored it to match the paper. I glazed and drew on the note that the drinkie poo is gin, which is Marie's booze of choice. I'm a wodka girl myself, so when Marie and I do get together someday IRL, we won't have to deal with liquor piflering. Piflering has broken up lots of griendships, I can tell you. 

Your card will be winging it's way to you tomorrow, my friend. I am thinking of you often and praying that you are not in too much pain as you make your way through this rough patch. Mwah!

It would be wonderful if you got a chance to make a card for Marie and link it over at ATSM. I know it will cheer her up and be appreciated! Thank you, my friends!

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I'm also linking up to Pixie's Snippets Playground (use a snippet) and a second entry in the current "Anything Goes" at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

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Head's Up TH Fans! Fab Prize!

Because I'm not sure I'm going to get a chance to play, I want to take a minute to let you know about another challenge that you might be interested in. It is the current Words 2 Scrap By challenge and the theme is "To Everything There is a Season." Here is the unique part of this challenge: the prize is a Tim Holtz assemblage clock, autographed by Himself Tim Holtz! I know a lot of you are Timmy fans, so I wanted to pass that along. Click on the link for all the details!

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New Friends Corner

I'm excited to share two new friends that I'd like you to meet today:

Doreen of Doreen's Dream. I am just going to let Doreen's statistics speak for me: She has been blogging since 2009. In 2010 she posted 492 posts. (Hint, there are only 352 days in a year.) She has, as we speak 999 followers. (I was a little bit disappointed that I joined her blog a while back because I wanted to be that 1,000 follower! What a thrill!) Yes, in fact, I think we have found the Queen of Card Blogland!!  Are you in a creative slump? Go here! Doreen will fix you right up with inspiration!

Jacee of Simply Paper Card Design. Jacee has been blogging since 2010, so she, too, has loads of wonderful card inspiration for you! Jacee makes gorgeous layered works of art. You know, those layers that look perfect together, the kind I have trouble doing? Well, Jacee makes them look easy. She is also a doting grandmother and an exceptional flower gardener!

Thank you for joining, ladies, and welcome to the Playhouse!

Computer Update

At this point in the post, I was going to share a photo collage from our fun weekend with the boys, but as I was uploading them to Flickr, the computer crashed again. The new one is here, but it's sitting in its box because of having the little ones two weekends in a row. We were still able to use the old computer as long as we didn't turn it off. Well, the Mister doesn't know it yet because he is at work, but the damn thing just now turned itself off so I think it has goosed its own cook. 

I'm just praying that it didn't goose all of our fabulous vacation photos because I delete them from the camera after downloading. (Insert frownie face.) We won't even talk about the fact that there were 324 photos in the set and that I had spent over three hours today culling them and cropping them.

This means the Mister is going to have to bite the bullet and deal with installing the new computer. And his back is still killing him. He was a real trooper on the long weekend playing with the boys and driving all over, but he mentioned this morning that he is finally going to go to the doctor about it. I kept my nagging mouth shut, but it was very hard not to remind him that I suggested he do that three weeks ago and every other day since. Men like to come up with ideas on their own sweet time, doncha know. Cough.

Luckily I had not yet put Marie's card in an envelope and sent it off because the photo of her card was in that set. So I took some new photos and was able to download them to the laptop for this post. Phew. Thank goodness for multiple devices, eh?

Now where is that wodka . .. 

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