Newbie Has Questions...

[TinkerBean]

Thank you for the warm welcome everyone...

Glad I found y'all

 

[party of 3]

Welcome Rhonda!!!! glad to have you here with us!!!

 

[ddavis860]

Oh and P.S. you can toss the whole budget thing out the window, these guys are the biggest bunch of enablers I have ever met!!!! Just hand over the wallet and credit cards now, we'll take care of the rest!

Well...pffffft I'm sure I don't know what you mean!

(ummmm, just don't look in the trunk right now...I kinda sliped off the wagon...but it was just a little slip...well, ok, some might call it a fall, but....well....Ohnevermind )

 

[aroyer]

(ummmm, just don't look in the trunk right now...I kinda sliped off the wagon...but it was just a little slip...well, ok, some might call it a fall, but....well....Ohnevermind )

Since we aren't on the Ban thread- SPILL!!! What did you get????? ENABLE. (I better stop or I will be on the naughty mat.)

 

[StitchIsOurHero]

Welcome, Rhonda!!!

 

[ddavis860]

Since we aren't on the Ban thread- SPILL!!! What did you get????? ENABLE. (I better stop or I will be on the naughty mat.)

OK...well...I'll dish....

I tried the new MM cutter...can you say "hate it?"...I didn't like the blade at all, so I got a new fiskars, and the new design really is better than my old one. I tried them both in Mike's classroom, and put that MM one back...

Then, I was just wandering around, minding my own business, and these cute little "things" jumped right in my cart...can't tell what they are because they are for my SS...

THEN, I was just walking down the isle, and all this other really cute stuff started talking to the stuff already in the cart, and well, ya know I love a party, so they all came home with me....

THEN I went to Walmart, and well, some really cute Tink fabric jumped in my cart (somehow) and I just had to take it home to make a Cricut cover... but it's ppurrrrpllllle!!!!

Oh, and did I mention that photo storage boxes were on sale? 3 for $5? Yeah, well, it was a deal...

(waiting for a time when DH wont see the bags) What?

 

[party of 3]

I am not a swapper (too scared and don't want to become addicted!!! ),

i noticed that! i just started getting into it. it was all the pics of the stuff that dragged me in. everyone makes such nice stuff that i wanted to be a part of it. so i have only done one that i actually made something. the other ones were just swapping for items. (punches, brads, eyelets...)
you should join in. i bet you make some really nice stuff......we have a lot of fun......nudge, nudge.......

 

[TinkerBean]

Since we aren't on the Ban thread- SPILL!!! What did you get????? ENABLE. (I better stop or I will be on the naughty mat.)

you guys have a naughty mat?

something tells me I might be spending some time on that mat too

 

[TPCShauna]

I heard some mention of falling off the band and urging the one who fell to share what caused her tumble. That naughty mat has been looking awfully lonely. I guess y'all just felt like you needed to keep it company!

 

[ddavis860]

but...BUT... BUT...

Oh, all right

Hehehe, but I sure had me some fun

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

you guys have a naughty mat?

something tells me I might be spending some time on that mat too

We aren't quite as good/baad as Mad, but we do surely have our moments.

 

[calanniebu]

Welcome to our little spot on the DIS ... I'm a fellow New Englader, too. I got through Medford every morning on the train to Boston for work.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

you guys have a naughty mat?

something tells me I might be spending some time on that mat too

we do, for bad purchases. Stuff that is not necessary for creating pages, stuff you will hoard, stuff that was "just so pretty I couldn't resist" (but only if you are on the shopping ban wagon)
and it is also used for the winter months when that white stuff falls from the sky, that's a 4 letter word my friend and we don't say that here.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

Trust me, I know all about that...

B.C. (before children) I was heavily into rubber stamping. There was a store in Harvard Square called Good Good the Elephant and all it sold was rubber stamps and related paraphanielia...

Once when I was inputting expenses into Quicken, I generated one of those little pie charts of "our" expenditures and the "Rubber Stamp" slice was bigger than the "rent" slice (didn't bother "sharing" that little piece of information with DH and never used Quicken again )

I made the mistake of saving all my receipts from last year, yeah I'll never do that again! That's why I am the proud Vice President of the Ban Wagon. I don't need to buy anymore stuff.

I didn't share that info with DH either, somethings are just better left unsaid.

 

[hopemax]

It's okay to save the receipts, you just don't add them up. I've read too many stories about people who had stuff stolen and then the insurance company wants proof you owned the item. So I put all of mine in a coupon holder, and then never look at them again.

 

[aroyer]

Yes, the naughty mat, been there a few times... You are usually on it with some really fun people, so it's ok!

i noticed that! i just started getting into it. it was all the pics of the stuff that dragged me in. everyone makes such nice stuff that i wanted to be a part of it. so i have only done one that i actually made something. the other ones were just swapping for items. (punches, brads, eyelets...)
you should join in. i bet you make some really nice stuff......we have a lot of fun......nudge, nudge.......

I have been lurking over there every now and again. Perhaps when there is a newbie swap I will get my toes wet.

 

[New England Eeyore]

Hello and welcome! Another neighbor here - I'm on the North Shore.

Your rubber stamp pie slice being bigger than the rent slice was too funny (and hit a little too close to home!)

 

[TPCShauna]

I keep my receipts and I made the mistake of starting to add them up last year. I stopped when I got to $2,500 and I still had a pretty large stack of receipts.

That would be why I started the BAN wagon rolling. I'm the President but I am NOT the driver as I take NO RESPONSIBILITY/BLAME for all the people who keep falling off!

BTW, Debbie - you're not in that much trouble. Aroyer is on the naughty mat for making you spill the beans. Although - stop your shoppin' or you will be joining her!!! cute "things" jumping in carts and items on the shelves wanting to party with them indeed!

 

[aroyer]

BTW, Debbie - you're not in that much trouble. Aroyer is on the naughty mat for making you spill the beans. Although - stop your shoppin' or you will be joining her!!! cute "things" jumping in carts and items on the shelves wanting to party with them indeed!

 

[missesdisney]

I have been lurking over there every now and again. Perhaps when there is a newbie swap I will get my toes wet.

You don't need to wait for a newbie swap - most of our swaps welcome newbies too and then we all jump on the newbie ones anyway

I think there is a resort swap coming up (not sure if it's open to newbies but it will say on the thread) and I am going to do one in March for restaurants (Eat around the world) which you are more than welcome to join. We are a supportive group of girls here.....so we'll help.

My first photo mat in a swap was about the size of an 8x10 instead of 4x6 and my tags would have held the 4x6 pictures instead and I had no idea what a slide mount was or why someone would ever need one in for slides in the year 2007 since pictures are mostly digital or at least film right? or make a border, puzzle piece, matchbox or other weird thing for the scrapbook. I just put tons of pictures onto one mat and put them on cute disney paper and called it a scrapbook. NOW, thanks to swapping and a very supportive group of ladies (who didn't openly make fun of my ridiculously huge first swap items), I can whip out a matted lyric, slide mount, tags in many shapes, even a paper piecing (imagine!) in a short amount of time and my pages (when I get around to actually scrapping) are fast to do and fabulous!

Whew - I'm tired now.....