Hi! Just got home from "Slumdog Millionare"...no wonder it won Best Picture!

I'll be at the Thruway at 11 a.m. I can eat a late breakfast so mid afternoon meal is fine.

Linda and Renee went to HL today and said stamps are 50% off!! I will print out more coupons...I have 4 already...so we should be covered for tomorrow.

Are there a couple of stamp stores on Rt. 31 near HL? Sounds like it from what Linda S. emailed to me.

OH, Michele!!! Take Zicam!! Must be your whirilwind life and demolition dust are catching up with you...get better ASAP!!!!

Will 8 coupons be enough? I don't have anything in the house to bring for snacks...bummer...

No problem..I'll make a bunch of the three papers I have and mail them out the begining of next week. I have your address from the birthday list. The scalloped hearts are so nice! No worries about $$...you're sending cards for the troops on my behalf so it all comes around in a circle. :-D

thank you all for the well wishes. Feeling a bit better now. I've been in bed since 7 pm, but just got up to have some dinner (left over pizza). Heading back to bed now. G'night!

You're so sweet ... I really appreciate it. I never seem to have any great ideas for DH's cards so I really want to start early so if I get an a-ha moment I can set it aside until August and be ready. And if not, I'll have time to keep trying.

Cards for troops will hopefully go postal tomorrow but definitely no later than Monday ... tomorrow is busy with breakfast at a diner (a weekend ritual my FIL gets pouty about if we break ... or change) plus grocery shopping and a trip to Kohl's for sneakers and whatever else I can convince Tony I (or we) need - we have a 30% coupon. It was one of those that you peel off to find your savings and the first time it was the highest percentage off so it kind of seems meant to be.

I actually stamped for a bit this evening and might do some more since tomorrow is so busy; I only sleep a few hours at a time anyway so I can stay up for a bit.

Thanks again for your generosity!

Tina

If we can agree on what is for our late lunch and if it is Chinese, we can get their way cheaper lunch menu up until 3 p.m. I think I will be back here before then because I know HL will not keep me occupied for hours and, if not, I'm sure Gary would be willing to run out for us.

The lunches come with rice (fried unless you ask for white) plus one of three soups for ~$6.

Otherwise, we will order pizza when we get back here.

LMK your thoughts. (Yes, I am already thinking about lunch.)

The two stores are not terribly close to one another or HL, but certainly doable. I think you will be doing more shopping and driving than stamping and eating, though, if you decide to do that.

And, if you decide to do that, you may want to stop out for lunch because it might be late by the time some are done shopping.:rolleyes:

I'm planning on HL and back but that's because I can go to the stores whenever I want. You guys will have to decide and LMK.

I'm jealous!!! I would love to go shop/stamp. And Pat - already have your Occasions mini order - I don't even want to talk about it! :) My order is stuck in 'submitted' status, and I ordered at 12:08am on Sunday. That's what I get for setting my alarm and losing sleep to place an order!

Where do you guys buy your dew drops? I knew about them, but absolutely must have them after Binghamton. I found repackaged 100 ct for $2.49 + free shipping on ebay. Is that good?

I'm also on the hunt for half-back pearls, since my stash is only as big as the pretties kit.

BTW, newbie Darci signed up for Syracuse. She is coming with me!

Yup, Darci's on the list.

Wish you could come with us today to shop & stamp, too, Heidi.

I'm not the person to help you with Dew Drops but someone will.

I have lots of faux dew drops I could send you!!! I have way too many!

Really, Nancy? Too many of something? How's that possible? LOL

Guess that's why we all share so nicely.

Just ate breakfast. Chinese sounds like a possiblity to me since we had pizza earlier this week (and leftovers). I like fried rice with LOTS of duck sauce. LOL!

I know that I'd like to use your Old Olive, Chocoalte Chip, and Close to Cocoa ink pads, Linda, please and thank you!

I'm packed...I think...just waiting for my turn in the shower...

See you soon!

Hi Everyone:
Taylor and I will meet you guys at Hobby Lobby at 12 noon also. We have other shopping to do afterwards so we will part ways after we shop. No stamping for me today. Have fun though!!

See you at noon.

Wendy

Great, Wendy. I was hoping you see this. Meant to call you.

I'm around all day sunday stamping is doable for me. Give me a call 272-7022

sad to miss all the fun
by the way even if it's a drive to others stores-it's closer than leaving from home!

hope you guys are having fun in Syracuse! Chris called a while ago.... New Hartford H.S. won their hockey game so on to states for them - Go Spartans!

I ended up staying home cause I still didn't feel that well and then the boys decided to stay, so I spent the morning carting them to and from hockey practices and a soccer game. I'm in now for the night!!

I'm back from a full day of shopping. We had a lot of fun, but the checkout lines at Hobby Lobby were 20 people long each (no fooling)!! Sorry I didn't get to officially say good bye to everyone after Taylor and I went to see the rest of the store. The lines were so bad we just paid for our stuff and left (after at least a half hour in line). It was a lot of fun stuff and all the scrapbooking stuff was 50% off. Got some great deals and new stuff to play with. I think we left lots of little hooks empty after we all shared the cool items we found.

Hope you made some great things at Lindas. Talk to you all soon!!
Thanks for a fun day! Taylor is off to a Sweet 16 Birthday Party for her twin friends at the bowliing alley!!

Thanks:Wendy

Way to go!! Hope you are feeling better soon!!

Wendy

We missed you, but I'm sure we will be going back. You'll have to join us next time. We need to give them some time to restock because it was a bit picked over already.

Thanks:
Wendy

what items do they need to be restock?
items i need/want?

I just shopped at PTI online and now I'm going to bed. Have to work and I'm losing an hour

everyone is losing an hour!
what did you buy?

the brads, and buttons & embellishments were very picked over. Only one package left of several of the choices. The Nestabilities were thin, and the cuttlebug rack was almost cleared out completely. We did manage to get a few of these things. The store was so busy I'm sure they were just running out of things and they will be stocked again in a few days.

Wendy

sounds fun! I got to meet Meg (momoffive) in Person - she's gonna fit right in!! :)

Hi! Back home safe and sound and just ate some leftover fried rice! Thanks for having us over, Linda. Wendy, nice to see you and meet your daughter. And to meet Sue. Best deal of the day...We got 20 yards of ribbion for $0.50!!!! We thought it was a great deal at $0.99 a roll and then at check out we were surprised adn pleased with 50% off!!!

I bought 5 rolls of ribbon, some rhinestones, paper, 3 colors of stazon that I haven't seen locally, mini blossoms, pkg. of 12 small bottles of asst. velvet flock, 2 clay stamps to use as background stamps ($2.50 each for background stamps?? At $4.99 Nancy and I thought they were a bargain but then we got them 1/2/ off!!), flocked tree brads all at 50% off...then with 40% coupon 12 small tubes of acrylic paint to mix with my embossing paste ($3.95). I was NOT the biggest spender! Then we stopped at We B Scrappin" and I bought paper. Would you believe HL doesn't have scanners at the check out?? No wonder the lines were so long. Fortunately Kari found 3 of us a short line that we sneaked into!

I finished at least 6 Mother's Day cards at Linda's.

Tilly, glad to hear you are a little better! YEAH for NH!

thanks;) Kids are both sleeping on the couches down here and I'm making some good progress on my recipe swaps! Did a little sneak peek tutorial on my blog:cool:

Sounds like you guys had a nice day too!

Glad you all got home OK it is raining really hard now and a little bit ago we had thunder and lighting. I had a great time and it was nice to meet everyone and I look forward to seeing you again on May 2nd.

Sue

seeing we are about the only ones that didn't go we'll have to make a trip! When we are feeling all better.

We had some thunder a little while ago, too. Nice to meet you, too, Sue!

I'm so excited! I just got off the phone from wishing Happy Birthday to my college suitemate Debbie's daughter who turned 18 today. Kelsey received word that SUNY Oswego is giving her a fantastic scholarship for her academic excellence so she's probably going to go there!! Ithaca College will give her a great scholarship, too, but SUCO's so much cheaper. They live in New Hampshire (used to live in Little Falls and moved 6+ years ago) so now she'll be close by again and we will get to see her more often. I told her mom that we had her back and if Kelsey got sick or needed anything we'd go get her immediately. If she decided to go to Ithaca I have a cousin who lives there so I've got Kelsey's back covered which ever college she picks. The ironic thing is that Debbie and I met at SUCO 34 years ago and we never thought Kelsey would apply to her mom's school (heaven forbid she do anything like her mom!) and then acutally seriously consider going there!! Debbie and I have this weird and wonderful almost telepathic connection (I call her and she says she was just thinking about me, etc.). Anyway..just had to shared a happy ending to a happy stamping day!:mrgreen:

BIG "Thank You!" to Nancy for driving the "enabling" wagon today! :D

Aren't you a clever one, Miss Tilly??

OMG! So now it's really 1:24 am, not 12:24 am ;( I thought I was doing good by staying up until after midnight!

I've been working dilligently on my recipe swaps for buffalo since around 9 pm and guess what..... they are still only about 1/2 done... ugh!

why, I resemble that remark:mrgreen: