It's The Volturi!!! New New Moon Scenes!!!

It's your first look and listen at the Volturi!



Bella, Jacob, and the Wolf Pack!

THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!

One of my younger sisters sent me this. I laughed so hard when I read this. Check it out!

THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!
If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... barefoot... BOTH ways
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!

But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my child hood, you live in a damn Utopia!

And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!

There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen!
Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take, like, a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!

Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!

There were no MP3' s or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come undone. Cause - that's how we rolled, dig?

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!

And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either!
When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It coul d be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister !

We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen... forever!
And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were e screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel! NO REMOTES!!!

There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove! Imagine that!

That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or before!

Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd

Temporary Back with My New & Very Messy Craft Room Pictures

It's been about a week and a half since moving into my new house and I'm luvin' it! I'm exhausted from all the packing, unpacking, cleaning and having workers coming in and out of the home almost every single day. I can't wait till everything is done so that I can relax and start crafting again. I think I should be able to start crafting in about 3 weeks...I hope! *crossing fingers & toes*.

Here are some before and after pix of my new and very messy craft room. I had just finished vacumning and cleaning the washroom, then within 1hr the movers filled up the room with most of my crafting boxes and yuky old furniture, which I plan on replacing soon. There are still alot of boxes in the closet and in the garage. I didn't know I had that much craft stuff until I saw most of it in the room. Hubby says I have to use it all up before I can buy anything new...lol. I will be unpacking my craft room last (saving the best for last).

I can't wait to get proper furniture and storage for everything. Still not sure if I should get white or dark brown furniture for the room. I'm planning on painting the room pink. I'm leaning more towards white furniture but I'm scared that I will make eveything dirty when I craft, especially my desk.

Before Pix:





After Pix:

M.I.A.

Just wanted to update on why I'm M.I.A. and will be for awhile. I've been busy packing...again :o( I had to packed up my crafting stuff...again :o( No crafting for a month or longer. My hubby and I are moving to our new home in 2 1/2 weeks...I can't wait!!! The hardwood floors were completed last week. Now all that needs to be done are the cupboards, sinks, toilets, etc. This weekend we went shopping for appliances. Next on the list will be gym equipment and my craft room stuff...woohoo!!! I can't believe it...I'm finally going to have my very own craft room!!! I will post pix of the new house when it's completed.

Official New Moon Trailer

Flower Pot Card

I made two of the same flower pot cards yesterday and both are currently for sale on Etsy.


Recipe:
Stamps - Stampin' Up! One of a Kind 113624
Inks - Stampin' Up! Classic Basic Brown 104315 & Adirondack Shell Pink
Papers - Stampin' Up! whisper white cardstock & Chatter Box papers
Embellishments - Stampin' Up! Pretties Kit 109114, ribbon & charm from stash
Punches - Stampin' Up! Boho Blossoms Punch 110711 & Stampin' Up! Eyelet Border Punch 113692
Glitter - Stickles Star Crystal
Adhesives - Stampin' Up! Snail Adhesive, Stampin' Up! Dimensionals & Fabri-tac

New Stampin' Up! Holiday Mini Catalogue & Promotion

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I'm excited to announce the new Stampin' Up! Holiday Mini Catalogue is now available. There is also a sweet pomotion for the Stampin' Up! Holiday Mini Catalogue.

Promotion Details:

Dates: September 1-November 30, 2009

•Host a workshop or place an order totaling $330 or more and choose any one item* from the 2009 Holiday Mini Catalogue for only $14!

*Offer excludes hostess sets and My Digital Studio.

All the catalogues can also be view on the side bar of my blog. If you would like a copy of the Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalogue 2009-2010 please email me, lorittalo@hotmail.com.

To place an order you can give me a call with your order, email me your order or place it on my Stampin' Up! website (Note: Online orders are not eligible for this promotion).

So Cute Scrapbook Layout & Stamps

Check out this super duper cute tear bear layout my super talented friend Chelsea made. She added the green and black heart winged glitter butterfly that I created. She did such an wonderful job on the layout. I luv it! This beautiful layout is an Ebay charity auction. All proceeds will be donated to a childrens charity so be sure to stop by Chelsea's blog to check it out.

If your interested in purchasing some butterflies I have several in different colours for sale at my Etsy shop.


Chelsea has created these cute Gurlee Girl clear stamps which are for sale on Sept 8th so make sure you pop over to her blog to check out all the adorable stamps.

All Things Grow with Love Scrapbook Layout

I made this scrapbook layout this week. I haven't made a scrapbook layout in a couple of months so it was really fun making this. I think I'm going to make another one very soon :o)

I decided to get out my Cricut Expressions and used it to cut out the vine leaves and sun like image. I didn't glue down the top of the sun like image so that you can slide a photo into the center. I think it will look really cute with a round photo in the center. I need to use my Cricut Expressions more often because it's such an awesome machine. My hubby was very pleased to see me using it because it was just sitting there collecting dust...lol.

This scrapbook layout is currently for sale on Etsy.

Recipe:
Inks - Stampin' Up! Classic Pixie Pink , VersaColor Canary & Color Box Cat's Eye Chalk
Papers - Stampin' Up! cardstock, Stampin' Up! Designer Series Paper Tea Party 113992 & Vellum
Embellishments - Prima Say it in Crystals, Heidi Swapp brads, ribbon, beads & charms from stash
Glitter - Stickles Crystal
Cricut Expressions - Graphically Speaking
Punches - EK Success Corner Adorner Trumpet Flower Punch, Martha Stewart Small Ribbon Threader Edge Punch & Martha Stewart Scallop Dot Edge Punch
Dies - Stampin' Up! Bigz Die Flower Daisies #2 114520, Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels One S4-161, wooden bear die, Quickutz Paw Print RS-0238 & Quickutz Butterfly KS-0172
Adhesives - Stampin' Up! Snail Adhesive, Stampin' Up! Tombow Multi-Purpose Adhessive & Stampin' Up! Dimensionals

Wedding Card

I had a lovely customer contact me the other day asking me to make her a custom wedding card. I enjoyed making this wedding card. I hope the bride and groom like the card. I luv the hat pin with beads from the Stampin' Up! Pretties Kit!

Recipe:
Ink: Adirondack Shell Pink
Dies - Spellbinders Nestabilities Petite Scalloped Oval Large & Petite Oval Small
Punches - EK Success Corner Adorner Graceful Heart
Papers - Chatter Box papers, Stampin' Up! cardstock & Bazzill cardstock
Embellishments - Prima flowers, Prima Say It In Crystals, Hot Off The Press brads, Stampin' Up! Pretties Kit 109114, charms & ribbons from stash
Tools - Fiskars Portable Rotary Trimmer & Scor-pal
Glitter - Stickles Crystal
Glue - Stampin' Up! dimensionals, Scotch 3M ATG 714 tap dispenser & Fabri-Tac