You still have time to vote!
We’ve voted. Have you? C’mon, it’s important!
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Wonder how late the polls are open in your area? Here’s a list, courtesy of Fox News:
CA, OR, WA close at 11:00pm
NV,ID,UT, MT close at 10:00pm
AZ, CO, WY, NM, NE, MN, WI, LA, NY RI close at 9:00pm
TX, OK, KS, SD, MO, MS, AL, TN, PA, ME, MA, CT, NJ, DE, MD, DC close at 8:00pm
AR closes at 8:30pm
OH, WV close at 7:30pm
FL, GA, SC, VA, VT and west KY close at 7:00pm
Most of IN and east KY close at 6:00pm
Hawaii closes at 1:00am and Alaska closes at 12:00am
So, how about getting out and voting? I’d be lying if I said I don’t care who you vote for, but it’s important you exercise your voice as an American even if you don’t vote for the same folks we do. 
Seriously.
Go, Shelly-Ann, go!
Howie and I have been watching the 2008 Summer Olympics about every night since Friday. Tonight it was with pure pleasure that we watched Shelly-Ann Fraser burn up the women’s 100M race, winning by a whole body’s length.
What made it so utterly enjoyable was the unbridled excitement and joy in her face when she realized she had it!
We laughed as we saw her leaping and dancing on the track, alternately embracing or waving the Jamaican flag, photographers trying to keep up with her as they snapped shots. It was just that fun.
At one point, she lay down flat on her back, kicking her feet in the air with glee. It just tickled us to see her so excited.
This wasn’t the cocky grandstanding seen so often in pro football after a touchdown. This was pure, childlike jubilation, totally refreshing. It just made my day!
Way to go, Shelly-Ann! Don’t ever lose that…Keep having fun and loving what you do!
Crop for a good cause this Saturday
Love to scrapbook? Love scrapbooking and craft items? This Saturday, June 14, from 10-8, you can scrapbook and help someone at the same time. This crop is to benefit Mary-Jo Van Sickle, my friend and fellow design team member at the local scrapbooking store. Mary-Jo’s husband Jeff died recently as the result of an accident at work. Many expenses were incurred during Jeff’s 7-week hospitalization, and Mary-Jo’s friends at Scrappers Gallery stepped up to help.
You can read more about the benefit at Scrappers Gallery’s website.
I have posted some photos of the cool gift baskets available for raffle. E-mail me or the store for more information on purchasing tickets; tickets are only 50 cents each or ten for $5 and you can choose which baskets you want to play for. I could sell them via PayPal if anyone’s interested, but there is a service charge with them and cash might be better if you want to buy some (this last part is aimed toward local readers, of course).
The crop costs $10 and participants are requested to bring a potluck dish.
Here are some of the item descriptions. There are MANY more, so stop by and see them for yourselves if you’re in the area.
A Tisket a Tasket
This Longaberger Picnic basket with dual protectors contains the following:
- Cutter Bee fine-tip scissors
- Making memories 6×6″ album
- Butterfly & dragonfly stamps
- “Sammy” Bear Beanie Baby
- Alphabet stickers
- Note card set
- Leather Corners
- Ribbon spools
- Snaps and eyelets
- Glue stick
- Simply Stated alpha rub-ons
- Other embellishments
Muffins & A Movie
This goodie bag contains some of the ingredients that go into making delicious muffins. When the muffins are done baking, brew a cup of chai tea to accompany the muffins, then curl up and watch a great chick flick (Contains muffin mixes, chai mix, and a DVD of “What Women Want”.)
Scrap-Mania Basket
A Longaberger basket filled with tons of scrapbooking/papercrafting supplies:
- Huge paper pad & page planner kit
- Die-cut shapes, tags, alphas, etc.
- Stickers and rub-ons
- 12×12″ album
- Stampin-Up rubber stamp set
- Stampendous rubber stamps
- 3-Paper Pizzaz templates
- Fold-out mini scrapbook kit
- Creative Memories layout books
- Creative Memories 7×7″ refill pages
- Creative Memories action pack
- Creative Memories thank you packs
- Creative Memories Simple Expressions
- Creative Memories Journaltopia tool
- 3 Creative Memories border packs
- Cropper Hopper Embellishment Boxes
- Amy Butler Card Kit
- 4 Scrapbooking Idea books
- Divided photo organizer
- Value pack card maker blanks
- Two 3×5″ bare picture frames
- Misc. embellishments
Coffee, Tea, Chocolate and Sweets
- Coffees: Jamaican, Raspberries ‘n’ Cream, Caramel Truffle, Cinnamon Hazelnut
- Tea: Green Tea with Lemon & Ginseng
- Sweets to Eat: Cream Wafer Rolls, Chocolate Biscotti, Dark Chocolate, Milk Chocolate
- Cocoas: Mint Chocolate, Raspberry & Chocolate, Supreme Chocolate, Butterscotch Chocolate
- Plus a boxed stationery set & a clear glass mug.
The Happy Scrapper’s Pail
- Fiskars butterfly hand punch
- Fiskars 12″ trimmer with replacement blades
- Provo Craft wavy scissors
- Colorbok vellum phrases
- Prima tiny flowers
- StudioK metal tags
- Making Memories swirl eyelets
- Queen & Co. frills frames
- Valentine clear stamps set
- Starry night Stickles
- 3 Ranger paint dabbers
- 2 Marvy pigmented pens
- $50 Scappers gallery gift card!
Shop Til You Drop!
This Brighton leather wallet “Emma” contains all the goodies to give you a great shopping day:
- $5 gift card to Saturdays
- $10 gift card to Bath & Body Works
- $15 gift card to Cold Stone Creamery
- $25 gift card to Kohl’s
- Also, two hand-made bracelets attached
Hope to see you there!
Ordering a pizza in the year 2010
Politics aside, this clip from the ACLU is both scary and funny. Companies already use caller ID data to bring up callers’ information and order history, so this isn’t that much of a stretch if other entities were linked into a huge database.
I have to give them this: they found a pretty creative way of getting their point across.
Can’t sleep, clowns will eat me
Still in my scroogy mood, I found the following story so heartening. It even made me smile.
Free Chipotle burrito on Halloween
Just a reminder for my Chipotle-loving readers — Tomorrow, October 31, you can get a free burrito if you dress up like a burrito, taco, bowl or salad and head into Chipotle from 5pm-close.
How to open a safe
I received another great This is True newsletter today, and in it there’s a story about some inept thieves who weren’t quite sure how to open the safe in the business they were robbing…
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