Just My Type | The Maui Stamper

I do hope you are making plans to be on Maui in March 🙂

Crystal and I have been hard at work on projects for our First Ever Spring Extravaganza. It will be a full day of crafty goodness, but if you can only spare a couple of hours you’ll be more than welcome for that, too. Want to see what we’ll be doing?

There’s an embellished DVD case with goodies inside, a set of 4 note cards (3 1/2 x 5 inches) and 4 pretty little treat bags (we’re going to let you fill them yourself). More details? Here’s a look at the note cards:

We’re using the gorgeous Sale-a-bration Designer Series Paper Everyday Enchantment, along with the Fresh Vintage stamp set.

Here’s the inside of the DVD case:

Are you lovin’ it? We got the giggles, we were so pleased with this! This first class will run from 8am til 10:30am. Cost is $20 if you are PAID by March 8, $23 after on a space available basis.

After all of that Suite Goodness, we thought you might want to make a few cards – that class will run from 11am to 1pm and will be $10 before March 8, $12 after. You’ll have to check back this week to see the cards – I can’t show you absolutely EVERYTHING at once!

From 2 to 4:30pm, we’ll finish up with the cutest little Vintage Typewriter Suite you’ve ever laid eyes on:

Oh, yeah! Clipboard and pen, clutter jar, and another note card (3 x 5 1/2 inch) set. This would be a fabulous gift (Mother’s Day is coming…) or might be just the thing to give you the boost you need to get those dog-gone taxes done! Your class payment is $20 if it’s received by March 8, $23 after that.

Here are the note cards:

Our class will be at the Maui Masonic Lodge, 190 West Kamehameha Avenue in Kahului. We’ll have light refreshments, door prizes, and loads of good times! Please bring your own adhesive (we prefer SNAIL and Tombo) and any tools (snips, bone folder, etc) that you like to have right at your fingertips.

Now, you may be thinking “She showed us the projects – I could just make them myself.” Well, yes you could. And what fun would that be? Imagine sitting around a table with laughing, chattering friends, having everything you need at your fingertips – pre-cut and ready to go? That sounds pretty good to me!

I hope you’ll join us!

I love fresh beginnings, and a new year is one of the freshest of them all. Making plans, setting new goals, dreaming new dreams – all of these things fill me with optimism and energy. Our new Occasions Mini catalog is full of exciting new images and products that have my mojo doing the happy dance! One of my favorite new stamp sets is Just My Type:

Just My Type stamp set
Basic Black Craft Ink
Calypso Coral Classic Ink
Very Vanilla, Calypso Coral and Basic Black card stock
First Edition Specialty Designer Series Paper
Big Shot and Framelits Labels
Black 1/8 inch taffeta Ribbon
Where did that BRAD come from???

Ah, the priveledges of being a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator…hat brad is one of the new Sale-a-bration offerings that will be available the 24th of January – and there’s much, much more! You’ll notice I stamped the typewriter in craft ink – that’s because I wanted a good, solid, bold black image. Black Staz-on would work the same way.

My grandfather used a typewriter much like this one – in fact, I have it. It’s in a travel case, and he used to take it with him on the train from Redwood City to San Francisco every morning and afternoon….the original laptop, if you will. I have fond memories of sitting at the station in the afternoon with my grandmother, waiting for Gramps to arrive on the train. He’d installed a special bell on the driver’s side of the car, and she could press a button with her foot and it would ring – ding, dong! – and he could find her in the crowded parking lot.

You may know that my family spent Christmas and New Year’s in Perth, Australia. Our oldest daughter and her fiance live there, and so it was a little bit of tourism, a little bit of family celebration, and a whole lot of eating! We spent a few days in Margaret River between Christmas and New Year’s where the wildlife was abundant. Margaret River is best known for wineries, breweries, cheese, olive oil and chocolate manufacture – I think that’s the 5 basic food groups, isn’t it? We were able to get quite close to kangaroos and a variety of birds:

These roos knew I was there but they didn’t much care. They were often in the field just behind our little cottage, and we’d see them relaxing in the shade under the trees during the heat of the day. We even saw a couple of different pairs “boxing” – I guess it’s a guy-roo thing. One morning I was the first one up and went into the kitchen to make coffee. There was a mama and a joey less than 8 feet from the kitchen window – she looked me in the eye for nearly two minutes before hopping leisurely away.

Another afternoon I went for a walk through the preserve where our cottage was and encountered this mama:

I’ve gotta tell you, if I had to carry my kids around like this I would be a big fan of early independence. She was about 8 feet from me, but she stayed a long time. She must have felt my empathy.

The birds were amazing, and in the mornings I took my coffee on the covered lanai (I know, they probably don’t call it a lanai in Australia but that’s what it was.) There was a little container of bird seed in our cottage at Bussels Bushland Cottages so that we could encourage visitors. There were a couple of Port Lincoln Ringneck parrots that were regulars, and they were not at all shy:

Finally, what trip to Australia would be complete without the Kookaburra? We heard them most often early and late in the day. Carol’s fiance said they are territorial, and you could certainly believe that from the discussions they had regarding the trees. Occupy Eucalyptus, if you ask me!