Candice Carpenter

New at Peacoats and Party Hats!

AND Sassafras Lass Pattern papers and stickers are posting tomorrow!

I Love This Photo!!

Here are a bunch of my most favorite people...all wearing our party hats at Artistic Affair!

Oh Ellen

My friends and i had a great time going to see a taping of the Ellen Show. We went to Scrap N Yap and out to lunch...then went to Paper Source in Old Town Pasadena...then onto the taping and out to margaritas after! It was just the break we all needed. The taping was really fun....i kind of knew what to expect since i used to work there. The guest was Terrance Howard...who is exciting and all...but i was really hoping we'd get some amazing celeb like Brad Pitt or someone who is in the gossip mags. lol! But all in all we had a wonderful time. And i'm so glad we got some pictures of us! We rarely do that. :-) Thank you so much Cheri and Allison...and of course my momma for going with me and making such a fun day! Love you girls!!!

And before i go to bed i want to post a little tease for tomorrow night. Some items coming soon...glass glitter ribbon buckles, classy new greeting cards, Trophy Candy Containers, Sasafrass Lass pattern paper, blossoms, pearl sprouts, new kit preview...and more!

Goodnight...and thank you all so much for the wonderful and uplifting comments on the last post. i hope you know that a comment from you can just make my entire day brighter. :-) TTFN

Bad couple of weeks...

I usually don't post depressing news on my blog...i only like sharing good news. But i suppose life is full of good and bad...and maybe i can cope with the bad better by blogging. There are a number of things that have been eating away at me last week and this week.

#1 Bank Fraud. Someone used my checking account fraudulently about 2 weeks ago and our financial life has been a mess ever since. They charged a few thousand dollars. I still have no debit card...WAMU takes FOREVER sending these kinds of important things. We have a new account...so now i get to change all of my automatic billing info on every website you can think of...and make countless phone calls to update my info. My cell phone was turned off once already because the cc info was incorrect. I did not ask for this!! Oye...but oh well. It's bound to happen to everyone at least once...i guess.

#2 Someone hit my car. It was parked in the parking lot...i was not even in the car. Thankfully the person who hit the car was honest and left his info. But now we are dealing with an insurance company from hell. We were quoted a large amount of money to fix the damaged bumper and possibly needing a new paint job for the entire car...the agent we are working with is not agreeing with us. yay! Why...i'm having a little pity party over here.

#3 Car battery just randomly died last week. What else.

#4 Moving sucks. I still have SO SO much to unpack. Every time i get to what i think is the last box i see 1 more stack in the back yard that never even made it in the house! yay. I still have yet to discover a few boxes of product and my phone charger is missing.

#5 Shipping delays. I had a box of product stolen from my front door (old address). Nothing can be done at this point. Yeah, i can report a claim...or whatever the heck you call it...but how many weeks is that going to take? And i just didn't realize how upside down moving would turn my life! If you are expecting a Baby Dearest Kit, May Party Hat Kit, or placed an order the last few days of April...PLEASE forgive me for the delays. I have a carrier coming to pick up every last one of those boxes tomorrow at noon. I have already corresponded with a few of you via email. All i can say is sorry about a million times. You have no idea how disappointing the last few weeks have been and i just hope you all know that i am trying my hardest to get everything out ASAP. If you are waiting for a Creativity Fairy Kit..they are shipping tomorrow and Monday.

Ok...so enough of all that...i'm taking a prozac (lol) and moving on!! I have some yummy new product to post tomorrow afternoon. Stay tuned for that. And also i  am posting a kit preview and photos from last weekend later tonight!

Can your marriage survive building Ikea furniture?

Rory and i decided that we'd be very interested in seeing statistics. Not only did our relationship survive 4 hours of building Ikea furniture...but i am proud to say we built the most emotionally intensive piece of furniture...the Ikea chest of drawers. Duunnnt dunnnt ddduuunnnnt! There were words exchanged...glares too. But most of all i think it was the "oh so complicated" ...and wordless... pamphlet of directions that kept falling apart because of the lack of binding. We skipped step #5-8...scratching our heads for 15 minutes trying to figure out how we got from 2 pieces of flat particle board to a full frame...then realized one of the pages had fallen out and flew under the bed. Can you say F-U-N?! But now it's all over and we are enjoying our new dresser...and new kitchen table (which is actually patio furniture but looks OH SO CUTE in my new kitschy kitchen!!).

Also just in...this, this, this, and this. Placed an order for this for the bathroom and these and this for the kitchen...and hopefully will have some new home photos to share with you all very soon! I LOVE our new place. I go to sleep at night with the biggest grin...it feels so much "cooler" than the other apt. Don't know how to describe it...but i feel like a different person in this place. A better person. I guess a few orders from Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters can do that for ya! lol!

Just in case you needed to know...i need this, this and this...immediately.

And i was just blog surfing and found these amazing photos from this past weekend at Kim's and Sweetpeas! (Suzanne's blog) I can't wait to get my camera back from Kim...then i will have more pics to share...but until then...check out the fun we had...belly dancers and all!! I sure could use another one of those vodka mango shots! MMmmmm good. And amazing Indian food...henna art on my left hand...and that was just Friday night! More to come soon...so many friendships blossomed over great food and FAB classes!

So much to blog about...

...and no pictures to share! I left my camera at Kim's this weekend so i will update the blog hopefully very soon with a fabulous review for AAA and much more! Flea market finds...Ellen show photos...and more!