MISMATCHED!

OK, have you heard of these?? Little Mismatched socks!! Hannah has been wanting these for a while and we found some today.. (In fact.. she got these as one of the "sets").. I didn't know that they were that hard to find.. ANYWAY the deal is you get 3 different socks.. they are NEVER matched.. Which will make doing the laundry interesting that is for sure. We actually got 2 sets of 3 and a big 'ole large thing of 9.. so that was pretty exciting if I say so myself..

Yesterday (Saturday) I had a quarterly meeting with my upline's upline's upline.. or something like that.. It was in River Falls this time.. usually it is just in St Paul, but there were issues.. so off to RF.. Which is 45 miles away.. not terrible.. but whatever.. We did 6 projects.. and as usual, after these meetings I feel pretty good about SU.. So now I am at a stand still.. and to top it off.. I really like the Big Shot.. I will post pictures from the meeting later.. AND regionals are here in Minneapolis this year.. soooo.... you get the picture.

Not a lot of other news.. Hannah did get moved up to the more advanced Ballet class last week.. so here is this 6th grader in with 9-10 graders for Ballet.. I was surprised by it! I mean, I really didn't KNOW that she was THAT good.. I mean I think that she is good.. but I am MOM.. so this was pretty cool!! She doesn't have school tomorrow.. so she is off to a friends house for the day!

I found what I have been missing too.. I volunteered at the middle school Friday morning... Not even in Hannah's class.. It felt great!! and then I went back to her old elementary school to surprise her teacher from the last 2 years.. and stayed and helped there too.. AND.. I felt great!! I missed volunteering.. WHO KNEW... (K- this is much easier than the baby route!!)

That is about all.. will post more soon.. promise!!! and maybe even start some stamping... who knows???

shawn

Questions...

As you may know.. I am a Stampin' Up demonstrator. I enjoy it.. mainly I am a hobby demo.. for the benefits.
Before I joined, my upline was really into having me on her team. She would say how she was there to help me.. blah blah blah.. Then when I FINALLY joined up (after years)... she also joined up with a jewelry company.. which she LOVES so much more than Stampin' Up!. WHICH means that she has no time for her downline. IN fact, I haven't seen or heard from her in over a year!! no meetings, no get togethers.. nothing!! AND when she did do meetings, they weren't even meetings.. they were stamping events!
So here is my big question that I am trying to decide. Do I quit Stampin' Up? I mean I have others who would love me as a costumer!(one who is a friend who signed up from one of my parties, my current upline, and just about anyone else in her downline, not to mention all the others that I have met) I wouldn't need to keep ordering stuff I really don't need, just to make the minimum... do I try to work the business? try to go out there and have tons of shows?? Which really isn't me??... Do I offer my discount to the people I know, just so that I make the minimums?? (Which I know I shouldn't do)...
Have I just lost the love with SU? There are so many other wonderful companies out there.. with great stuff too..
I like SU products.. but some of the moves lately have put me off.. the 2 catties a year!! that sucks!! I have a hard time learning the one.. and BAM another one is ready to come out!! AND NOT to mention the specials every other day!! OMG!!
So last night.. while I wasn't sleeping at 1:43am until 2:49 (when I quit looking at the clock).. I was thinking about this..
I haven't been stamping much.. sort of lost the mojo or whatever..
I really stamp just for fun... birthday cards.. thank yous... Christmas cards...
Do I really want to stay???
ANY help would be great!!
Thanks
shawn

Quarterly meeting

Saturday I had my quarterly meeting. Lisa Z who holds the meetings is wonderful! She allows who ever to demo, talk, etc.
These 2 cute little bird houses were made by one of the gals.. She does these all the time. This was a first for bird houses.. they are on little stationary boxes. VERY cute..






And last year, she did this wonderful house for Halloween. I hope that she brings her "gingerbread" house next meeting so I can get pictures of that too! She makes the patterns up herself.. TONS of work into these!!



Lisa was showing off some of her ideas for the Decor Elements. She had tons of ideas.. I really liked this one.
I haven't done anything with them yet, but after the meeting, I am really ready to order some and play!

I will post the Christmas tree that we made and the card, and we used the felt snowflakes too!

shawn