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Saturday, April 11, 2009

Happy Easter Everybody!!!

First let me say thank you so much to everyone that downloaded the FRIDAY FREEBIE!!! We had a huge number of downloads in the last 24 hours (227 downloads to be exact!!!) I also want to thank everyone who left me a message or emailed me!!! I greatly appreciate all the nice comments and compliments!!!

So I am just popping in long enough to day "Happy Easter!" I hope you all have a wonderful day! And before I go I thought I would share this little video - I really liked the symbolism in this one!!!


Hope you all have a GREAT EASTER - and I will see you on Monday!!!

Until Next Time!

Cya~


Lori McDonald, Designer

My cutter files work on many machines. Some examples are the: Klik-n-kut, Pazzle, Wishblade, Silhouette, Cricut, Craft Robo. Some of the most common softwares involved with these machines are: Funtime, Scrapbooking, WinPC/Signlab, Inkscape, Create & Cut, Illustrator, KNK Studio, and Robomaster. These file are available exclusivly at Paperthreads.

We also specialize in pre cut/ pre assembled scrapbooking titles, diecuts, embellishments and keepsakes (including our NEW photo Stars). Make sure to visit our
Store!

Don't forget to check back often as we host our scrapbooking digital cutting file freebies at least once a week!!!

Read more...

Friday, April 10, 2009

Freebie Friday!!!!

First of all - let me say "Happy Easter!" I hope you all have wonderful weekend Easter plans with your family and loved ones!!!

Second - thank you soooo very much for all of you that have purchased my Scrapbooking, Cards and More membership already!!! Rest assured your name will be going in the pot for the wonderful drawing to be held on May 2nd!


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So today's freebie is just in time for the holiday weekend - and I just designed, test cut and converted it today!! (Sheesh.... not sure how I pull it off sometimes!!! LOL)



This file will only be up for a short amount of time.

Sorry file is no longer available!!! Please check back next week for another FREEBIE FRIDAY

Please do not share this file - if you know someone that might like to own it - send them here to get it!!! (THANKS!!!)

This file will only be available for a short time. Once it is gone you will be able to purchase it at Paperthreads!

So I think that is it!!! I am off to work on getting my text docs completed so I can get all my new files uploaded!!! Once again I hope you have a GREAT weekend!!

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!!

Until Next Time!

Cya~


Lori McDonald, Designer

My cutter files work on many machines. Some examples are the: Klik-n-kut, Pazzle, Wishblade, Silhouette, Cricut, Craft Robo. Some of the most common softwares involved with these machines are: Funtime, Scrapbooking, WinPC/Signlab, Inkscape, Create & Cut, Illustrator, KNK Studio, and Robomaster. These file are available exclusivly at Paperthreads.

We also specialize in pre cut/ pre assembled scrapbooking titles, diecuts, embellishments and keepsakes (including our NEW photo Stars). Make sure to visit our
Store!

Don't forget to check back often as we host our scrapbooking digital cutting file freebies at least once a week!!!

Read more...

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Announcement... Announcement... Announcement...

So I have been telling you the last few days that I had a HUGE announcement to make – well today is the day….. (Drum roll please....)

I very excited to announce that I will be hosting the next quarter of the Scrapbooking, Cards and More Membership at Paperthreads! Yep that is right – little ole me will be your hostess!

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Don’t know what the Scrapbooking, Cards and More membership club is??? Well this is a club where you purchase a $10 membership and in return over the course of the next three months (May, June and July) you are guaranteed to receive at least 20 brand new scrapbooking, cards and other electronic cutting files designed by me!

That means you are getting brand new, never seen before cutter files at the bargain rate of $.50 a file or LESS!!! (Please note – All my files at Paperthreads sell for at least $1.99, so if you had to pay regular price for the 20+ files you are getting by joining the membership you would be paying a minimum of $39.80!!!! Now that is a deal!!!)

All the files that are offered to the Beloved Keepsakes Scrapbooking, Cards and More membership will be available at the Paperthreads store at a higher price to non members but only after they have been made available to the membership!! That means members of the club get the NEW files FIRST!!!

If that wasn’t incentive enough… I am offering an amazing drawing for all those people who purchase the membership between today and May 1st when the membership will “officially” open! Yep that’s right – for all those that purchase the Beloved Keepsakes Scrapbooking, Cards and More membership between today (April 9th) and Midnight May, 1st 2009 your name will go into a pot and on May 2nd I will draw a winner!

Want to know what you will win??? Well of course you do!!! The winner will be receiving the “Beloved Keepsakes Big 'Ole Bag of Scrapping Crap”!!!


This prize package includes the EK Success limited edition pink tool bag (you know how much I love pink) and over 3 lbs of scrapbooking goodies that I have handpicked from my precious stash!

Items included:

Ek Success limited edition pink tool bag
A Creative Keepsakes Adhesive runner along with 9 refills
Karen Foster’s Jumbo Brads
Jellyroll Pen by Sakura
2 Soufflé Pens by Sakura
Chipboard Tags
Xyron Clear Glue Tape
A ton of stuff from the EK Success Architecture Line
Glue Arts Crop and Glue for Embellishments



Not to mention tons of other cool scrapping items by these brand name companies:

K & Company
Making Memories
Me and My Big Ideas
Creative Imaginations
Colorbok
Rebecca Sower’s
Jolee’s
Stickles
Paper Bliss
Creative Acrylics
And much much much more!

(IMPORTANT - To win the “Beloved Keepsakes Big 'Ole Bag of Scrapping Crap” you must live in the U.S. due to the extremely high cost of shipping. If your name is drawn and you do not live in the U.S. you will receive a gift card for $10 to the Paperthreads store to spend anyway you see fit. Should that happen, I will draw a second time for a winner of the “Beloved Keepsakes Big Bag of Scrapping Crap”.)


So what do you do now?!?!? Go purchase the membership! What are you waiting for?!?!?

The membership section of the forum will be opened no later than May 1st in order for you to start downloading your 20+ files! (You must join the Paperthreads Forum to receive your membership files - but hey sign of for the forum is FREE!)

To read addition information about the membership club – please visit the store HERE. Should you have any addition questions feel free to contact me!

I’ll be posting a few sneak peeks between now and May the 1st of some of the awesome files that I have planned for the membership club this quarter so make sure you check back often!!!

Until Next Time!

Cya~


Lori McDonald, Designer

My cutter files work on many machines. Some examples are the: Klik-n-kut, Pazzle, Wishblade, Silhouette, Cricut, Craft Robo. Some of the most common softwares involved with these machines are: Funtime, Scrapbooking, WinPC/Signlab, Inkscape, Create & Cut, Illustrator, KNK Studio, and Robomaster. These file are available exclusivly at Paperthreads.

We also specialize in pre cut/ pre assembled scrapbooking titles, diecuts, embellishments and keepsakes (including our NEW photo Stars). Make sure to visit our Store!

Don't forget to check back often as we host our scrapbooking digital cutting file freebies at least once a week!!!

Read more...

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Not sure how I feel about this....

PLEASE NOTE - this is a sensitive subject matter. And one that is personally close to my heart - if you are offended... well... I'm sorry. But please, try to understand this is my life, this is my blog...

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Media allowed to cover another casualty returning


By RANDALL CHASE, Associated Press Writer Randall Chase, Associated Press Writer

DOVER, Del. – On a cold April night, under a bright moon, the body of Army Specialist Israel Candelaria Mejias arrived at Dover Air Force Base in a flag-draped aluminum case. Mejias, of San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, was killed by an improvised explosive device Sunday while serving in Iraq.

His return Tuesday marked the second time this week members of the media were allowed to witness a U.S. combat casualty being brought back from overseas, ending the Pentagon's 18-year ban on such coverage.

Mejias' body arrived in Delaware shortly before 8:30 p.m. aboard a C-17 military cargo jet from Ramstein, Germany.

A little more than hour later, an eight-member team from the Army's Old Guard in Washington, D.C., slowly walked up the rear ramp of the C-17 and into the cargo hold, where an advance team from the military mortuary at Dover stood quiet sentinel over the fallen soldier's body.
Following the white-gloved carry team were Col. Robert Edmondson, commander of the mortuary affairs operations, chaplain Maj. Klavens Noel, and Brig. Gen. Walter Davis, director of Army aviation.

Davis and Edmondson bowed their heads as Noel recited a brief prayer. The carry team then gently picked up the case bearing the soldier's body and carried it to a waiting vehicle for transport to the mortuary, where it will be processed and returned to the family.

Tuesday's event took only about 12 minutes, roughly half the time needed for the dignified transfer of the body of Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers, which arrived Sunday aboard a contract Boeing 747 and had to be lowered about 20 feet to the tarmac. Myers, 30, of Hopewell, Va., was killed by an IED in Afghanistan.

While both families consented to media coverage of the return of their loved ones, neither consented to be photographed or interviewed.

The media ban was put in place by President George H.W. Bush in 1991, during the Persian Gulf War. From the start, it was cast as a way to shield grieving families.

But critics argued the government was trying to hide the human cost of war. President Barack Obama asked for a review, resulting in a new policy under which families of fallen servicemen will decide whether to allow media coverage of their return. If several bodies arrive on the same flight, news coverage will be allowed only for those whose families have given permission.

Mejias was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment in Task Force 3rd Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 172nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Grafenwoehr, Germany.

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At first I have to tell you that when I read this article I was totally outraged! How dare they! The death of a soldier is such a private and emotional event. How could they even think it was ok??? And then if you count the shadows at the bottom of the photo there are at least eight reporters there.... such a media spectacle!!! For the death of a HERO!!! Are you kidding me!!!

But then.... after I sat here for a while (yes it truly is 2:30 AM in the morning while I am writing this) - I though maybe the public NEEDS to see this - maybe some people need to realize that it truly is people lives on the line to defend our freedoms, our rights. Their right to go drink Starbucks coffee on the way to work, the ability for their children to be able to walk to school with out someone shooting at them or bombs going off around them......

Our society in my own humble opinion is such a greed society - we only think of ourselves.... I think people have become very complacent since 9/11. They don't see "the need" for us to be in Iraq, to be in Afghanistan. But yet these are the same people that were effected, hurt, outraged that someone would possible even thinking of attacking us 6 1/2 years ago. So maybe this IS what people need to see. What will make them understand. What will make them appreciate what they have and what some people are willing to sacrifice. For them... for our way of life... for our country.

I don't know.... I'm really torn.....

But even more than that... I'm really sad.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Blurry.....

Hi everyone... I am just stopping in for a moment. I had an eye appointment this morning and they dilated my eyes - which of course makes EVERYTHING blurry!!! And for some reason or another I am super sensitive to those drops. While most people's eyes only dilate for about 1 to 2 hours - mine stay that way normally from 8 to 12 hours. Which causes me to get a major headache.... which is about where I am right now!!

But the good news is that my Laskic surgery I had back in 2006 is still holding up strong! I have perfect 20/20 vision - no complications and no issues!!! So that is AWESOME!! Let me tell you - that was the best $2300 I have ever spent on myself!!!! I can't tell you how many contacts I had lost in the previous ten years!!! I think I lost five on a single white rafting trip alone!!!

And hey - it left me with this set of eyes...... (which my hubby adores....)



So who can complain!!!

(Just so you know that I am not a total freak.... I actually took this self photo for a project I made for my hubby the last time he was deployed!! I put together a small scrapbook that was call "I love you with all my parts", hmmmmm.... I'll let you think on that one!!!) Bahahahaha

Anyway - I think I am going to go try and take a nap and maybe by the time I wake up my eyes will have shrunk in size and my head won't be hurting as much!

I'll catch you all tomorrow!!!

Until Next Time!

Cya~


Lori McDonald, Designer

My cutter files work on many machines. Some examples are the: Klik-n-kut, Pazzle, Wishblade, Silhouette, Cricut, Craft Robo. Some of the most common softwares involved with these machines are: Funtime, Scrapbooking, WinPC/Signlab, Inkscape, Create & Cut, Illustrator, KNK Studio, and Robomaster. These file are available exclusivly at Paperthreads.

We also specialize in pre cut/ pre assembled scrapbooking titles, diecuts, embellishments and keepsakes (including our NEW photo Stars). Make sure to visit our Store!

Don't forget to check back often as we host our scrapbooking digital cutting file freebies at least once a week!!!

Read more...

Monday, April 6, 2009

What the heck....

Is going on with this weather?!?! It is crazy!!! When I got back from Mississippi last week my rain gauge was completely full! That's 6 inches - so I emptied it - and then in less than 24 hours it had four more inches of rain.

Then on Friday - it rained again - and I mean it RAINED!!! Here is a photo of my back yard!!! I guess technically I should call it my back pond!!!


And now they are saying that it is suppose to freeze tonight?!?! What the heck! Of course I should have known - I just moved all my plants to there "summer" home in my yard and there is no way I can get them all covered now!! I am just praying the weather people are wrong!!!

All is well here.... Hubby has made it safely to Afghanistan. He has not made it to his "home" yet, they still have a few days of in processing before they make it to the actual camp he will be living at for the next year! So thank you all for your prayers for his safe travels!

Ok I have a ton of paperwork to get done - and then in the AM I have a Dr.'s appointment.... I am waiting for one final thing to happen and then I will be ready to share a REALLY big and exciting happening with you!!!

Hope you all had a great weekend! (As for me - I worked in the yard! BLAH!) And I will catch ya later!

Until Next Time!

Cya~


Lori McDonald, Designer

My cutter files work on many machines. Some examples are the: Klik-n-kut, Pazzle, Wishblade, Silhouette, Cricut, Craft Robo. Some of the most common softwares involved with these machines are: Funtime, Scrapbooking, WinPC/Signlab, Inkscape, Create & Cut, Illustrator, KNK Studio, and Robomaster. These file are available exclusivly at Paperthreads.

We also specialize in pre cut/ pre assembled scrapbooking titles, diecuts, embellishments and keepsakes (including our NEW photo Stars). Make sure to visit our Store!

Don't forget to check back often as we host our scrapbooking digital cutting file freebies at least once a week!!!

Read more...
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