Friends and Blog Housekeeping

Howdy!!

I thought today I would share a series of cards that I made up as thank you notes to the BABES for all they did to make our FISA such an awesome adventure! I'm so glad not to be in Minnesota at the moment and I hope all of you being impacted by the Polar Express throughout the country are safe and warm inside!

I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with a group of very talented card artists who came together as a group and called themselves The 12 Kits of Occasions. Each month one of the ladies puts together a kit of card-making goodies and sends it off to the other members and they each use the kit to make cards and projects. Then they all post their creations on the same day. It's always a delight to see how different - and in some case, how alike - the results are!

So borrowing the kit idea from my friend, 12-Kit member, and fellow BABE Kim, I made up kits as gifts for the BABES. Some of the BABES have already posted pretty cards or papers from their kits.

Of course, I made myself a kit, too, just for fun, and these are the cards I made:

(ATCAS)

 
(SCT)

 
(ATSM)

(PSP)

 
(CASOS)

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for these BABES:

Anita, Bev, Ardyth, Geri, and Kim

  

Let me know if you would like any of the ingredient information. I have to tell you, it's more challenging than I thought it would be to come up with kit ingredients and make kit cards! If you have not checked out the whizards at The 12 Kits of Occasions, you are missing out on tremendous inspiration!

Challenges

(ATCAS) Addicted to CAS ~ Tag
(SCT) Simply Create Too ~ Thanksgiving or Thankful
(ATSM) Addicted to Stamps and More ~ Anything Goes
(PSP) Pixie's Snippets Playground ~ Use Snippets
(CASOS) CAS on Sunday ~ Ribbon or Twine

Click on any of the links to get join in and get the details on rules, sponsors, and prizes!

BLOG HOUSEKEEPING

No-Reply Blogger

Several times recently, I have gotten emails from readers asking me specific questions and I have been unable to respond because they are "no-reply" bloggers. I've written about this before, but I feel so badly when it happens, that I wanted to bring it up again.

Sometimes the situation is that you have established a blog profile, but no actual blog, so there is no way to leave a comment on your blog. If you leave me a comment and I want to respond to you via gmail, a nomal email popup box appears when I click "reply." However, I have learned the hard way that the first thing I do at that point is look at the "to" line in order to confirm that my reply is going to an email address. If you have not entered your email address into your blog settings, your email address is "noreply-comment@blogger.com." My email to you goes into a huge black hole in space.

Now I know some of you do not want to put your email addresses anywhere in the vicinity of your blogs and that's a fine choice. Knock wood I have never had a problem with it. But I often find that bloggers don't even know there is a choice and they would rather not be "no reply." Rather than write a long post with instructions for how to remedy this situation here is a YouTube video on the subject: YouTube video by Heather Hudson. The video is a little slow, but it's effective because the text instructions I have found make the process look harder than it is.

So if you've ever wondered why a blogger has not responded to you, check and see if you are a "no reply" blogger. And if you are a reader who has asked me a specific question and you have not had a reply from me, please kindly email me directly at darnell dot knauss at gmail dot com. (Gentle readers like Tracy from Prior Lake, and Stacey, and Francis.)  I would be happy to respond if I had your email address.

Behind The Scenes

Writing the above reminds me to thank again those of you who are faithful readers of this blog without having a blog of your own. I know you are out there and I sincerely appreciate your support! You have my personal email address if you ever want to drop me a note.

The Creative Blog Hop / Getting to Know You Hop

I was thrilled to be a part of The Creative Blog Hop a couple of months ago and I followed the tags of a lot of you via TCBH and via a parallel hop called Getting to Know You or similar. Since I was away for a few weeks and then had minor surgery, I have sadly lost the scent on these fun hop posts as tag branches have sprouted. If you are a friend of this blog and I haven't commented on your hop post, that means I haven't seen it, so please email me (darnell dot knauss at gmail dot com) and provide me with the link to your post so I can enjoy getting to know you better!

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Thank you for bearing with me through that!

I will leave you with this cartoon I saw on Facebook.

This confirms to me yet again that we are all basically alike. The majority of the time, except for our religion or our politics, women are all alike, men are all alike, kids are all alike, marriages are all alike ...

This particular cartoon appeared very timely in our house. As you know, the Mister has been taking good care of me following my eyelid reduction. (Some people call it an "eye lift," but I can't use that term without giggling hysterically because I envision elevators being installed on each side of my nose!)

Anyway, every hour Dr. K. was tending to my needs by applying cold compresses to my eyes, followed by a knitted tube containing a small baggie of frozen peas that was tied around my eyes like a scarf. More than once he came at me and tied it around my mouth - on accident, of course! Imagine that! He is positively saving it to use whenever we are in the car together!!

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

  

 

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Mwah!