And a happy birthday to Paper Trunk too!

Ooooh! Paper Trunk are celebrating their first birthday with a blog party with tons of prizes!! So while you are in the mood to party - head on over to their blog too! LOL

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAPER TRUNK!!!

Day #2 - 40 Days Event

Wow! I had sooo many people pop on over with birthday wishes yesterday from all over the world! Lovin' every minute of it! LOL. Please bear with me if I don't have you hooked up in the links yet - I have been visiting each & every one of you & leavin' some love ... & that takes time.

Today, we are staying in the UK - staying in my hometown in fact, with a visit to my webstore - what birthday celebration would be complete without a bit of retail therapy?? So pop on over ... there is a freebie there for everybody this week.
Sadly, as we are just a li'l store, we don't ship international - so if you are visiting from OUTSIDE of the UK, leave a comment on this post instead ... & tell me where in the world you are. I'm gonna pick one of you at random to win a bunch of my favourite things: ribbons, blossoms & buttons.

Today's offerings close on July 7, Midnight BST

Today's The Day! Woo-Hoo!!

The My Creative Classroom Grand Opening event kicks off today!! This is strictly by invitation only, so if you haven't signed up to the newsletter, you won't be invited! Not to worry tho' it doesn't start until 5pm CST (that's 11pm to us in the UK), so pop over now & get yourself registered.

Nearly There!

Bit of a panic this weekend (& a major hissy fit!) as my internet connection went down on Friday & didn't come back until the early hours of Monday morning. I had planned my tasks and everything was on schedule - now I'm waaaaay behind!
Anyway, I've been catching up & obviously my priority had to be My Creative Classroom - the Big Opening Event starts on Sunday & I'm sooooo excited to get going! I have my FREE class loaded and (more or less) ready to go. This is a li'l sneak peek from one class! Check out my blog at My Creative Classroom for another!
For this course, I'm not going to stick to the usual format - most of the features will be there but I'm not going to have a audio visual presentation for every class - usually there would be one or two new classes each week but for this one, I've gone for seven classes in seven days!
I wanted to make sure there was enough there for everyone to get a real 'feel' for our class experience. It's a bit different to any of the others I've seen so far. So I'm cutting back on the presentations and adding extra downloads. So fun!
There's over $1500 in prizes and soooo much going on - loads of free classes (not just mine), competitions and challenges, forums, live chats, galleries, blogs - fabulous!
But you only get in by invitation, so pop on over and sign up for the newsletter - then get ready to stalk your e-mail on Sunday! LOL

Sorry, I Forgot! LOL

I promised to upload a li'l sneak peek of the free class I'll be teaching over at My Creative Classroom during the week-long launch at the end of the month. Anyway, this is one of the projects I'll be including for one of the topics. It's all a bit secret squirrel (anyone remember him??) at the moment, so I can't say too much except that the class will cover 7 topics in 7 days - all for free.
Only those signed up for the MCC newsletter will be invited to the launch, so if you haven't already, pop on over & get signed up. I've updated the link in the side bar for the main site (it's just undergone a facelift!) or click here to go straight to the newsletter registration.
There's going to be a whole bunch of free stuff, competitions, chats etc going on - I can't wait! LOL. I know we have almost 2000 signed up already and around 25% of them are from the UK (YAY FOR US! LOL) not bad for a tiny li'l country like ours huh??
And if you want to get a head start on your chance to win $100 gift certificate for My Creative Classroom - check this out - Help us spread the word & maybe you'll be taking the prize!

Much More Than A Musing

July 9th was the official start of A-MUSE-A-PALOOZA & to kick it off, Crop 'Til You Drop in the UK hosted a VIP night. We just had sooo much fun. Due to a bunch of unforeseen circumstances, the new products only arrived a few short hours before so the whole event when live, unrehearsed! The make 'n' takes were as new to me as they were the ladies attending but we battled through & made them both with relative ease. A cheer went up as everyone finished up & there were cries of 'can we shop now?' as they raced toward the displays of new stamps, cards, twinkles & more. I guess it's a bit different in the UK as A Muse is so difficult to find - we just want to get at the goodies! We had a couple of prize draws & obviously everyone filled in the grand prize forms to win a year's worth of A Muse (how cool would that be???). But the highlight was definitely the shopping! Here's a few of the ladies busy working on their make 'n' takes ...