Message board party tomorrow DON'T miss it!! New logo peak

It's almost time...are you excited? I know we sure are! Here's just a little peek at our new logo! We have classes ready to go, new product in the store, the message board on standby, ready for the first guest to register and start posting, the gallery is ready and waiting for your uploads, the kit description is posted and the design team spots have been filled. Ticktock tick tock....waiting until tomorrow.When you click on to the new site, please keep in mind that this website is temporary and that there may be a few glitches. There is a lot of clicking around right now and you will have to register for the MB, gallery and store separately. All this will get smoothed out eventually but it will take a bit of time. In the meantime, I hope to chat with you on the MB and get to know all of you a bit better. The 27th is going to be an exciting day, lots of raks and contests, and even some scrappy challenges, so get out your supplies and get your creative juices flowing!I can not even begin to tell you about the journey Heather and I have been on, getting this all ready for tomorrow. With emailing each other about every 3 minutes we feel like we are in labor!! Even the husbands we enlisted. Heather's husband Rob designed all the Logos you will see on each page and Steve has decided not to kill me for being either on the computer or the phone with my new boyfriend, Tech Support, the entire Christmas break, LOL! To have pulled this off over the Christmas holidays truly was our Christmas Miracle!So come join the AMR family. I am so excited to be able to provide you with all of your scrapbooking supplies and seeing all of your lovely creations in the gallery!

One special for tomorrow... Order $100 of products and receive free shipping and Grungeboard Elements.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! Message board party coming soon

I am going to steal this wording from a dear friend now sisters blog Heather. She is my New design team coordinator and lets says she does a whole whole whole lot more. I would be lost without her!! After you read this you should go to her blog and see her video. She is the sweetest most darling woman and you will fall in love with her just like I did!! http://inthebestworld.blogspot.com/


Hi there! Guess what? AMR is having a Message Board Party!! On December 27th
we are revealing a brand new website, a design team, new product, a message
board, monthly kits (February 1st) and giving away lots of RAKs to MB
participants. So mark it down, and click on over and register on the MB.
There will be contests, random drawings and lots of chatter!!

Have a wonderful Christmas!!!!
Stacey

OOPS I missed a finalist, K&Company, Blogs, and Merry Christmas

I want to make sure to apologise to Jennifer Emch. Some how when I did my cut and paste of names I missed yours on the list of finalist! You are one of them!! Everyone make sure you check out her incredible work at her blog http://www.jenn-justjenn.blogspot.com/




Urban Rhapsody by K&Company came in today. I have all their fun papers and embellishments. The felt butterflies are to die for. They will be listed on the new website. Remember our grand RE-OPENING is Dec. 27th. You can find out then who will be on our design team and see lots of new products, Hambly, Sei, Scenic Route, Jenni Bowlin and so much more.

Do you have some favorite blogs? Do you have those ones that just touch your heart? I do! I thought these two fellow scrapbookers could use some extra big hugs from all of us scrapbookers! So I want to share their blogs, for the few who may not visit their blogs. But maybe if you have an extra minute you could stop by their blogs and send them a hug. It would mean a ton to me but I bet it would mean the world to both of them to know there are lots of us out here who care and have them in our thoughts.

http://retrospection.typepad.com/my_weblog/

http://jodyferlaak.blogspot.com/

Well tomorrow the 22 of Dec. starts my shopping. OHHHHH I can hardly believe I have gotten this far behind. It is amazing how one day job and one online store can really keep you hopping. I am have so much fun with it all though.

On the 27th we will have some fun contest going on, some make and take directions and other fun things on the website www.allmomentsremembered.com We will also have our message board up and running at that time. I hope you can find some time to stop by and post a message and say HI.

Ok news about the design team....

As most of you know I have given this job to Heather. She is going to coordinate my DT. She has picked all the products for the kits and projects. She is the one who has been going through close to 200 emails and looking at blogs and photos of work. I can tell you all how much I appreciate her doing all this. I have to say without Heather this team would not be. I have way to much going on right now to take it on. SOOOOO Heather sent me her finalist list today. I wanted to post it here even though you can also read it on her blog at http://www.inthebestworld.blogspot.com/

So drum role please.......

The finalists for the 2008 All Moments Remembered Design Team are as follows:

http://lifeinfullcolor.blogspot.com/ Linda Rodgers
http://debbie-lovescrappin.blogspot.com Debbie Sherman
http://restandbethankful.blogspot.com Anne Marie Gross
http://iluv2scrapmilestones.blogspot.com Wendi Manuel-Scott
http://www.fishbowl.typepad.com Deborah Mahnken
http://www.cutchens.com Joscelyne Cutchens
http://komomai-jadadog.blogspot.com Tracey Polachek
http://www.ricanlaw.typepad.com Aleida Franklin

The team is going to be announced on Dec. 27 (okay, MAYBE late Dec. 26th)!Congratulations to all of you!

I know that there was so much amazing talent out there. I am sooo glad I am letting Heather do the final choice as I would want to add everyone. As my company grows we will add more girls to the team. We will start with the emails we received for this call. I just want to thank everyone for your interest in being on the All Moments Remembered Design team for 2008.

I am going to bed early tonight for a change. Sweet dreams to all of you out there.
Hugs and Smiles,
Stacey

Fun stuff for the unveiling and my Bald Chicken and Sun block story....

In the next couple of days I will let you know some of the contest we will be running on the 27th when we unveil the new design team and new exciting things added to the website. You will be able to win RAKs and just have fun joining in. The plan is the message board will be up and running so we will have some little contest there to win RAKS. I will also post some other details on ways to win if you are not able to make it to the message board that day. So keep checking back on my blog for details. I am getting really excited about who will win for the DT and then also having a gallery for photos, message board and showing off some new products. We will be working up to a sneak peak for the First AMR Kit which is released Feb 1st.

So as I said last night life is busy so I will run a couple re-runs. Here is a story about me a couple of years ago. You have to know me to understand that I would do anything to help someone or some animal. This story will make you understand just how far I will go.
Enjoy




This is a picture of Lucy, as most all of her feathers grew back. The area that is still bald took months to come in fully. Wasn't she darling?

Many years ago when we lived on five acres I decided to start a farm. Well my idea of a farm being a city girl who grew up in San Diego. Let me skip past the no running water, bunny and goats part of the story. I will give you that one another day. Fast forward to Lucy the bald chicken. My sister more the country girl then I was ever going to be raised chickens. So one day while I visited her and her four kids she asked me to stay inside with the kids. When I asked what she was going to do she told me she had to shoot a chicken. ACKKKKK!!! Shoot it???? Like shoot it dead? She said yep, the other chickens will kill it if I don’t and I have to be humane about it. Well what happened was the other MEAN WICKED EVIL chickens started picking on this one. They plucked her feathers out one by one. I guess with Chickens once they get to blood they do not stop their pecking and would have killed this chicken. Okay so I see my sister did not want this chicken to die a slow horrible death. She asked me do you want to see if before I shoot it? Sure when was the last time I saw a bald chicken before it’s death? Well let me say this chicken looked just like what you buy at the grocery store to eat. Except it had black feathers on her feet and head. I instantly felt even more horrible for this sweet creature. My sister said she would grow her feathers back if she could keep her from the other chickens. Here is where it all happened…. Fast forward a bit more… I had two goats and one bunny in a fenced in area of my yard. I came home and tossed my newly named bald chicken, Lucy, into the fenced area. The other animals were not real sure of her but did okay with her. The next day I hear my husband say “ hey is that a chicken in the goat pen? It has no feathers but looks like a chicken”. Me who was told NOOOO more animals looked out the same window and said “ hmmmmm looks kinda like a chicken.” Then he knew that I had smuggled her in! Our pen was not all shaded and it was now the middle of summer. We live in the high desert so it can get pretty warm. When I went out to feed my animals I noticed Lucy was a bit red. So this is where I admit I am a nut!! I ran in the house and came out with sun block and rubbed Lucy all down with it. My neighbors on one side, of course I happened to lived right in the middle of REAL country people, saw me doing this to Lucy. The man yelled hey are you oiling that chicken up to cook? His wife yelled what are you doing with a bald chicken? I had to explain the story to them. If you listen closely you can still here them laughing. I remember hearing “ Oh Stacey shoot that chicken and eat her!!” What is it with country people wanting to eat everything on the land? I sun blocked Lucy the whole summer. She grew feathers in very slowly. The middle of her back took the longest to grow back. Lucy would come out of the pen every morning jump into my lap and let me rub her down with her sun block and just sit there like a cat and enjoy the company. She really was a sweet chicken, her and I became friends. She would sleep cuddled up to the goats. Sometimes I could look out and see her riding on one of their backs. You can’t even start to imagine how cute they were all together. Once Lucy grew most of her feathers in she started laying me one green egg a day, rain, snow, or desert heat she was faithful to me for that one egg and I always knew it was her way of saying THANK YOU!! So I hope my chicken story made you feel as warm and cuddly as it did me remembering the story and typing it out for you. I had thought of embellishing the story to make it super exciting but I like the real story of Lucy. Lucy lived a wonderful pampered life until she was so old she did not wake one morning. I know she is in Heaven living happily ever after now. Any time I see a green egg I always remember Lucy with great fondness.

Cosmo Cricket anyone? Tell me you are in the HURRY mode of life right now!

I know it is the time of year to feel hurried. I just seem to feel extra hurried lately. I am enjoying life though and trying to take deep breaths. Anyone out there who feels insane busy right now? I have a way to make you feel better. I have only done shopping for one of my 4 children. I have 3 more to go and one hubby and then our parents. Let me say DARN that they don't all live down the street and have to live states away so shipping is a must. Well except for the two youngest kids. Yep I will be the woman out there this weekend in a total frenzy trying to find the things on my kids wish list. OHHH so glad there is SANTA to blame with the little ones still. Hmmmm wonder why he didn't get them much? Hmmmm!! Oh well it is not about the gifts sweet 5 yr daughter and angelic 7 son, it is all about being with family and sharing special moments together during this holiday. SO do I sound convincing to any of you? Do you think my kids are going to go for my story? NOPE I didn't think so. I guess I will be out Sat and Sun finding, begging for, whatever it takes to get the things they have put on their list. Oh and did I mention I am building a website? LOL!!! I wish you could see the huge smile on my face right now. I have always worked better on a tight schedule.
So that all being said I wanted to tell you there might be a couple nights of re-runs on here.
Many of you missed out on a few stories I wrote about my life. A couple funny ones. So tomorrow night I plan to do the re-run of the Bald Chicken and Sunblock story. I know I said this blog was going to be all about scrapping but I need something to post until I can breath again. Trust me you will enjoy the story. Plus it will give you some insight to who I am.

Here are a couple projects I thought were just darling. They are all made with Cosmo Cricket papers. I just love that line. Email me pictures of your holiday projects. I love to see what everyone is making. Plus I will stick it in my folder for things to make next year when I have more free time. :)


Snowman Shaker By Shari Morris
Santa Stop Here By Jen Backler
Barn Star By Tami Comstock
Christmas Book By Donna Jones


Oh Christmas Tree By Tami Comstock

Happy Holidays and tons of appreciation to all of my faithful friends, customers and readers!!

Hugs,

Stacey

PS. here is a blog I stumbled across in my spare time and thought she had some cute ideas on there. Scroll down a bit, I love the star ornament she made.

http://stampinjenni.blogspot.com/

Stamping with Felt. New way to use your scrapbook supplies

Queen and Co.
Stamping and Scrapbooking seem to have been sharing the same arena over the last few years so it seems natural progression that we might see common techniques used in both hobbies. Anabelle O'Malley shares a tip for our pages that is sure to get those creative minds thinking! Thanks for sharing, Anabelle!
First, apply some temporary adhesive to an acrylic block. Be sure to cover the area thoroughly so the felt won't slip off the block when it comes time to stamp.

Next, cut a length of felt and adhere it to the block.

Using a foam brush, apply some acrylic paint to the felt. For a darker, more defined image, use plenty of paint. If you want a lighter image, use less paint.

Now you will use the painted felt as a stamp. I found that laying my cardstock directly on top of the felt and rubbing my hand all over it worked best. Carefully remove the cardstock to reveal the stamped image.

Once it is dry, cut out and use on a card or project. I added lots of brads to the center of the stamped flowers and adhered it to the front of my card. Then I added some chipboard and felt swirls, along with the sentiment, to finish the card.
There are so many things you could do with this technique. With the variety of Queen and Company felt designs, the possibilities are endless.

I have this felt ribbon in several colors and themes. I have more coming in. http://allmomentsremembered.com/store/page38.html

I have been working hard on the new look of the website. I had these huge dreams of this beautiful website that I would design. Have you ever tried to build one? Much harder then I ever dreamed. So on the 27th there will be a new look, the new logo, and the announcement of who our new design team. Then at a later date I will have yet another look for the website after it is built by a professional. At this time you get Stacey's homemade built site. :) I thought since I am a queen at chatting online, message boards and email I could whip up a website no problem. LOL!! The one I am working on though is a turning out very nice for homemade. I am excited to show it off to all of you. There are so many wonderful changes coming to the site to make it a comfortable place to land every day. I keep getting shipments in of amazing new products. Wait until you see the ones we have for our kits that will start in Feb. I just love to look at all the pretty items for it. I am thinking of doing a sneak peak and a pre-order for them since I know they are going to be sold out quick. You will get a chance to work with so many different lines and products. We will also have add on kits for those who just love to add and add and add to their layouts/albums. It is so much fun to watch your dream come true. I sure appreciate all of you who have helped make it happen.

Sweet dreams tonight,

Stacey