Can You Say THERAPY!!!

OK, so I really do think I need some kind of professional help. Last night while shopping for Christmas presents, I was at Best Buy (kids want video games) perusing the video game selection when I turned down the isle for the Nintendo DS and what did I find. . .
















A Hello Kitty backpack for my DS. Yes I have a Nintendo DS and it's pink, what other color would it be? I didn't even hesitate I grabbed it and put it in my buggy. Isn't it cute? Hello Kitty is even holding a pink DS. I know you can't see them very well in this picture, but those are two Hello Kitty games. I found the Game Boy Advanced game at Game Stop a month or so ago, it's called Hello Kitty Happy Party Pals and the other is the new Hello Kitty Daily for the DS I bought on Black Friday.

Here's a better picture of the games.





I love my pink DS, it's even pink on the inside.

Office Decorations. . .

The Friday after Thanksgiving, my kids and mother joined me in my office in downtown Denver to help me with the Christmas decorations. Here's the pictures of my office ready for Christmas.

Wreath made from 12 X 12 Hello Kitty paper. Instructions here: www.activitytv.tv under the origami section. Watch the video.

The stocking was purchased from Target.

The tree and some of the ornaments are from Target, the other ornaments are from a store in Park Meadows Mall called St. Nick's. The plush Hello Kitty was made at Build-A-Bear a couple years ago, and the little lunch tin has Hello Kitty Pez dispensers in it. I found that at Michael's.

My supervisor told me I needed therapy, I think he might be right. :-)

It's Finally Here. . .

So I've been waiting patiently for a month or so for the new Hello Kitty Big Shot machine from Sizzix to be available. Well, it was available on Sizzix.com a couple weeks ago and I ordered it that night, it finally arrived this past Tuesday, but I hadn't had a chance to actually play with it until tonight. Of course, I had to take pictures of my new little toy. For those who aren't Hello Kitty crazed, here's some pictures of it.

I love it!! I tried out the Sizzix Texturz plates and my Cuttlebug embossing folders, everything works great. The Sizzix Texturz plates aren't as deep an emboss as the Cuttlebug folders, but I really like them. The Cuttlebug folders actually tore my paper, maybe because they're designed for the Cuttlebug machine. I also didn't run the wax paper over the paper before I ran it through (I think I read that somewhere on the net, just like what you do with the traditional brass stencels). Will have to try that next time.

More Birthday Presents. . .

My good friend Miranda (also a Close to my Heart consultant) stopped by last night and had a birthday gift for me. I was so touched. Miranda and I have become close thanks to our love of paper crafting, scrapbooking, and stamping. We have the same upline in CTMH and met at a unit meeting a couple years ago. We just hit it off immediately. We also live close to each other so we get together as often as we can to "play".

Miranda is a very talented paper artist, check out her blog http://www.scrampinwithmiranda.blogspot.com/ for some of her creations. I check it almost everyday, watching for more artwork.

Oh, what did she get me you ask. . .

Hello Kitty stuff of course and look at the beautiful card she made me, I told you she was talented. Thank you Miranda for my gifts and making me smile.

Happy Birthday to Me. . .

So yesterday was my 40th birthday, wow 40, just doesn't seem possible, but I guess it is since the year on my birth certificate says 1968. One exciting note about my birth date is that I share it with one of my favorite singers from the 80's Simon LeBon lead singer of Duran Duran. Yes I'm a child of the 80's, love the 80's will always love the 80's. Not only do we share the same date, but Simon is exactly 10 years older than me, how cool is that, so happy 50th birthday Simon! So I bought an awesome present for myself, ok several presents for myself. As you may have read in my profile I'm a Hello Kitty nut so I bought myself. . .

Yep all the Hello Kitty Sizzix dies that my local JoAnn's had available. I got a deal too, they were 40% off, can't beat that. I only have the original Sizzix machine so I need to still get a machine to run the Bigz dies through. I read that Ellison was making a Hello Kitty machine as well, I'm hoping that it'll be the Big Shot, so I will continue to wait. I also have on my list the two Hello Kitty cartridges for the Cricut, they aren't due out until November so I have to be patient for a little longer.