convention stuff

I know this is a little late but here is a photo of my goodies from convention, THe reason I'm just now posting it is that the tote in the photo will be a great award offer coming soon. Email me for more information. The tote has a laptop bag in it(the laptop is not an upcoming award, just the tote) , just in case you are wondering what is in there. Then there is a photo of Gwen, Shelli and I

Next is my swaps for convention, The Hawaiin one is my own creation and the friends are flowers that never fade one is my own creation. The other two, Gwen designed, I changed the because I care but I kept the other one the way she designed it. I also had some 3-D swaps but those I didnt get a photo of before they were gone. Maybe I can get Kealey to make me some more so I can post that too. Over all though, we had a great time. The ride home was not fun.

For All You Do Event

An upcoming event. Please join me at Hinesburg United Church on Sunday August 22nd to put together this box and 4 cards for only $15.00. Remember there is an optional raffle to help pay for the hall and the usual grand prize drawing. If you want the full details please send me an email and I'll send you a copy of the event invite that I just emailed out to my guests. Thanks in advance.
Class was designed by memystampsandI and I purchased the tutorial from her.

Hello again everyone

Hi again, I'm back from convention, Had lots of issues at convention and wasnt able to post. Computer issues. Its ok though, I still had lots of fun and have lots to share. I also, shipped everything home so I didnt have to lug it and I just got it and paw'd through it. I will be posting pics soon. I have been busy since I got back from Hampton which immediately followed convention. Convention I can never say enough about, This is the event which revives me for the year and pumps me up with ideas, and knowledge. I love it. My downline Kealey was not able to come with me :-( and I do not like to travel alone, SO My downline Gwen came in Kealey's place. WE had so much fun. Next time I hope we can all go. I think we would definitely have a blast with the 3 of us, or even more of my downline too.
Anyway, I was recognized on stage for 3 things, $20,000 in Sales for the year, CRUISE to Alaska Earned and Leadership. It was nice. The make n take helper thing went well. The ride home however was not so nice, I was SICK. During convention I felt a little under the weather but on the plane was the worst. Nothing like being sick on a plane, EMBARRASING moments that I wont talk about. LOL.
I survived though and felt better by the time we headed to HAMPTON BEACH for a much needed break from home for Slim and I. We relaxed and had fun. I read a full book and a half of another.
Stay tuned for photos from convention and more on stuff that I plan to do on here as well.
Thanks everyone once again for another great Year. Looking forward to doing more Card Buffets and Build a Bear workshops with the help of my downline and maybe even a few other events to come.
Later.
Betty

Alaskan Cruise Earned

Yes!!!! I did it. I should say, we did it because I couldnt do it without the help of my downline and my customers/hostesses. Dont forget at my customer appreciation event on July 10 I will be drawing the winners of the drawing. Come join us and see who wins. I will email as soon as I figure out how to put the picture in. Or maybe I'll surprise you with no picture. LOL. Have a great day everyone.
You are all the best. HUGS.

P.S. the day we leave is Slims 50th Birthday, May 19, Cruise actually leaves the 20 but we will leave home the day before. Thanks again.

Card Buffet

Thanks to everyone who attended the Card Buffet on Sunday. I was impressed that it went so well, I couldnt have done it without all of you and of course Gwen. I will be doing my customer appreciation event on July 10th and then the next event on August 7th. Emails will go out soon for the customer appreciation event. I have one more promotion in the works and then I'm on this Alaskan Cruise so Hold on to your seats because once I earn it I will celebrate.
Thank you all for your help and for another fabulous year with Stampin Up. I can't thank you enough because if it werent for all of my customers, downline and my downlines customers I could not do it.
THANK YOU.
Good night.

Catalogs Have arrived

WOO HOO. My catalogs have arrived. If you are anxiously awaiting the new catalog, call or email me to get yours today. If you have a club or a workshop scheduled you can get yours now. If you dont have a workshop date yet, schedule one now so you can get yours free, otherwise you can buy one as well. Looking forward to working with this catalog and all of you.
Thanks for another great year. I am starting year number 7 and I love doing this. Stampin' Up has made a difference in my life. Convention is now 25 days away and I'm very anxious to learn new things to share with all of you.

Blog Candy WInner

Hello everyone, I did the random.org to find our winner and the winner is............10
the name that goes with that number is Tonya, CONGRATULATIONS Tonya.
Thank you all for playing. I am close to earning the cruise so stay tuned and cross your fingers. I'll post as soon as I know.
Have a great weekend everyone.

Long time no hear, Its Blog Candy Time

Hello everyone,
I want to apologize for being out of touch for so long. SO, I'm going to try to be better from here on. I can't post my own projects as of now because I don't create much of my own stuff and the things that I am making on my own will be my swaps for convention so if I make something that I'm not swapping then I'll post it before but otherwise you may not see much until after convention.
I am also trying to use my SU website more so I've been playing with that quite a bit too. Someday I will learn how to link the two through the SU website and then its all accessible there.
I am going to start off by offering(As my Welcome Back Post) blog candy. I will end the blog candy on June 24th and do the drawing the next day. Here's how you enter, Just leave a comment for 1 entry. Spread the word and link it to me you get one entry, post on your own blog and link to me and you get 2 entries. The blog candy will be a Set of the " new color " Markers. That's 6 new colors, I only have 1 set right now so I cant give them to the winner until after my first order on July 1st but the colors are.....
Daffodil Delight, Cherry Cobbler, Marina Mist, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso and Cajun Craze.

Also, I wanted to let you all know that SU has updated the Clearance rack and added some awesome new things. Go to my website and check it out.
www.bettybutton.stampinup.net

Anyone placing an order there will be entered into a separate drawing to win the new color INK PADS. Also, not available until after July 1st. Go, check it out and I'll post the winner at the same time as I post the blog entry winner.
Upcoming Events:
June 27th at 1:30 is our Card Buffet at the Hinesburg United Church, if you have not registered for that, email me and I'll sign you up.
July 10th is my customer appreciation event, If you are not on my email list, let me know and I'll make sure you get invited.
I will be gone from July 20-25th for Convention. Oh and guess what? I was chosen to be a make n take helper.

For those of you who have not heard about the Cruise, I had a fabulous time and even though I dont like COLD WEATHER would love to earn the Alaskan Cruise that is now going on through June 30th and I'm close so if you can help out in any way, Please help. I'm offering $50 gift certificates to 5 lucky people when I earn Cruise. I will draw based on $50 purchases from now through June 30.

The Write Stuff Class

Upcoming Event....The Write Stuff Class.
Here is the photo for those that can't open my email attachment. For more details please email me and I'll tell you more.
Class is on February 13th at 1:30 PM

Hope you can make it.

A Happy Heart Class

A Happy Heart Class To be held on Saturday January 23rd at 11 am. Please RSVP by January 19th. If you need more details email me and I'll send you a flyer.

Winner of My digital studio

I totally forgot to do this before now. I had Slim Draw the winning ticket....Drumroll please......and the winner is...SHARLENE PALMER. Congratulations Sharlene.
Until Next time. We will play again for something real soon. Keep Watching.

New Special for the month and Blog candy Winner!!!

Hello everyone, The blog candy has ended and the winners are #5 and #3.
Those are Nicki and Anonymous(which was Marcie as you can see in post #7)
5 was drawn first so Nicki you get first pick then Marcie you'll get the other one. Ladies, Please send me an email so that I know that you know. Thanks to everyone for playing.

NOW, here is my newest offer for a challenge.....
For November I am going to offer MY DIGITAL STUDIO for free to one lucky person.
I am offering this as a drawing for anyone placing a $50 order. For each $50 your name will go in once. Email me your order and order as often as you wish. Good luck to everyone. Remember I said I was going to try something new. This is it. Every month I am going to offer something new. I love my digital studio so this is my offer for November, so that you will love it too.
Online orders are accepted as well so feel free to go to my website http://www.bettybutton.stampinup.net/ . SU sends me an email when you order.
Thanks for playing.
Blog candy again coming soon. Maybe somewhere around Christmas or before. Who knows. Keep coming back to see.
Good night all.

Blog Candy

Hello again, I know its been awhile but it is worth the wait. Because I made you wait so long, I am giving away 2 prizes. Plus I am going to start something new that I have seen on other blogs for purchases and this week I will post that as well. So, here is the blog candy for now......

Snow Buddies Stamp set and The More the Merrier. I am giving 2 separate prizes so there will be 2 winners. The first one drawn will choose which set they want and the second one drawn will get the other set. SO, here's what you have to do....post a comment on this post and you will be entered. If you have trouble posting let me know and I'll help. You have to post to be eligible. I will do the random draw on October 31st at 8 pm. All posts up until that point will be accepted.
Thanks for your patience and your time. Come back again, I'm going to start posting cards and projects and maybe even projects for sale very soon. Have fun. Both images can be enlarged by clicking on them......

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The reason for my absence is justifiable......

Hello everyone, I know I was going to post a blog candy but so much has happened. I apologize for not doing that sooner. I am hoping to get things back to normal this week and post that as promised. I am very sad to say that I have been very busy with the loss of my Dear Mother. Mom and I were very close as she was with our whole family. This is the hardest thing I have ever had to deal with.
MOM had a major stroke on Friday October 9th. I was on my way to a party when I got the call. I turned around and went back to get Slim and he drove me to the St Albans Hospital where she was in serious condition. The stroke took out her left side this time, This was her second stroke (The first one was her right side 3 years ago). She was not able to speak this time and I was extremely scared, I started to run away from her bed, crying when the nurse stopped me, Mom wanted me, I went back to her side, I said, I love you my mommy(this was something I always said to her and she returned with I love you my baby and my daughter and I do the same thing), after I said that, she couldnt say it all but she did get the words I love you out. Then my sister and her exchanged I love you's too. Those were pretty much the last words she said. My sister and I are the only 2 girls out of 9 kids. For us these I LOVE YOU'S were special.

Because she lost her speech and swallowing abilities she did not want to be intubated and had an advanced directive saying so, therefore there was nothing more for anyone to do. Her heart was racing and her breathing was uncontrolled.

She passed away on October 14th...

Anyway, I felt I should come on finally and explain just in case some of you readers didnt hear through the grapevine or by my emails. Mom is Resting In Peace now and is fulfilling her final dream now of doing her final destiny of being one of Gods Angels. Mom loved angels and I'm absolutely sure that she is up there amongst all the other angels and will be accepted with open arms. Mom was loved by all that knew her. She had a filled room for her last week in the hospital and at the wake and funeral. Not too many dry eyes in the house. Below I am attaching a photo of me, my Son Scott, daughter Kayla and my mom, Also One of my mom and dad together. Mom still had her natural color hair at age 78, she had bits of gray but not much. Thanks for all your patience and God be with all of you and your families. I LOVE MY MOMMY.........

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Blog Anniversary

WOW, Time has flown by, I can't believe its been a whole year since I started this blog. I will post a blog candy giveaway and maybe just 2 of them, DID you see how many hits I have....12,000. I'm impressed. I'll have to keep better watch because it jumped so quickly. I will be posting more often soon so keep coming back. Its been crazy for me trying to keep up with all this workshop, club, event and class stuff on top of my full time job. I'm getting some help now and then so it should be easier to post. I started this blog last September with the intentions of trying it to see how well I could keep up with it and it wasn't too bad for my first year. Though I didnt get to post as much or as often as I'd like, I'm learning. Things are getting busier with my business so I will be posting more events and projects from now on.
Thanks for all your support.
Blog Candy soon......

Upcoming event

Hello everyone, Coming up is a card class that you wont want to miss out on. I will be doing a Card Buffet with my Friend Gwen, She and I will be meeting soon to decide on the logistics and more will be posted then, Please save the date for this event. Its November 7th. This event will be exactly what it says, a card buffet. You will pay a Small fee of $5.00 admission (this price will include food of some sort), then for your first 3 cards you will pay $5.00 and then every card you make or buy the supplies for after that will be only $2.00 each. We are hoping to have this work as a stop and shop kind of event so it will run anywhere from 11-3. You will have 20 wonderful cards to choose from and you pick and choose. If you decide to buy them all, you can certainly choose them all. You could do the stamping and take it with you to put together. As we run out of one card, we will not be making more so be sure to make the ones you love most first. More to come later.
Thanks for stopping by.....

Its a My Birthday Sale Special

Its My Birthday on September 9th so I'm going to offer a My Birthday Sale Special.
The deal is.....Buy 3 items get 1 item half price, Thats right, Buy any 3 items and get a 4th(equal or lessor Value) at half off.
Plus when the orders coming in reach over $500 I am going to give away a big shot to 1 lucky person. Or if you already have a big shot, You get a Shopping spree for dies of your choice to use with your big shot. So, come on, join me in my birthday celebration and shop now......
Email me with your orders as the sale will only be through me, not on my website.
I'll keep you posted on if we get close to the $500
The dates of this sale special are Sept. 6-12, thats 3 days before and 3 days after my birthday.
Thanks In advance....

RANDOM.ORG Integer Widget

Ok so here is the winner....
RANDOM.ORG Integer Widget: "4"

I will have to go check to see who number 4 was and I'll be right back......

I blogged the random generator number directly and couldnt get to the results so I had to come back.....The winner is........MARCIE. Thanks Marcie and thanks to everyone who played along. Come back again soon. My Birthday is Coming up and I'm going to do a My Birthday Special for that week only.
My birthday is the 9th so be sure you check before then. Thanks

Blog Candy

Ok here you go, blog candy. I am giving away 1 free package of bermuda bay 8 1/2 x 11 card stock and a free roll of bermuda bay ribbon as well. All you have to do is leave a comment on this post and I will do a random draw on August 29th. Good luck all. Come back again

Sorry its such a bad photo. I'm tired. Have a great rest of the week. I'm off to Hampton Beach for some alone time with Slim. ;-)