Tuesday, July 24, 2012

please read and pass on.....

I just received an email that really got to me... Take from it what you wish, but please read first.
We're talking your personal safety, and/or that of your loved ones. Since an American friend sent it to me, I have to assume it happens mainly there, but there may be a word of warning for all of us. If someone is sick enough to come up and do this.... chances are there are more of them out there!

I don't want to be an alarmist, but things like this scare the bejeebies out of me and if even parts of it turn out to be true..... I will be glad I put it out there. I do my normal precautions when I'm out alone (Keys between fingers, keep an eye on surroundings, glance in the back seat before I get in the car) but at the same time, I have a hard time believing that everybody has ulterior motives, and sometimes  I'm pure and simple gullible!

 Subject:  Warning for Women - Serious
>> MAKE SURE YOUR DAUGHTERS, FRIENDS, RELATIVES, ETC. KNOW!
>>
>> This was written by a guy from KVLY-TV in Fargo .
>>
>> This is something that happened to us on the way back from vacation last week. 

>> At first I didn't think much of it until now.
>> The reason we were a little suspicious is we had been riding in a
>> jeep all day with 100 degree temps and we stopped at a truck stop for
>> something to drink.
>>
>> When I was leaving, a young girl followed me out and
>> asked what kind of cologne I was wearing.
>>
>> Well, after 7 hours in the car sweating, I don't
>> think you could tell if I was or was not wearing any cologne. We just
>> got in the jeep and said no thanks.
>>
>> About 3 weeks ago, I was at a service
>> station in Birmingham getting gas. It was about 9:30 pm. I was
>> approached by 2 men and 2 women in a car. The man that was driving
>> asked me 'What kind of perfume do you wear?'
>>
>> I was a bit confused and I asked him 'Why?'
>> He said, 'We are selling some name brand perfumes,
>> at cheap prices.
>>
>> I said I had no money. He then reached out of the
>> car and handed me paper that was laminated; it had many perfumes on
>> it. I looked quickly at it and gave it back. I said, have no money. He
>> said it is OK, we take check, cash, or credit cards.
>>
>> Then the people in the car began to laugh. I just
>> got in my car and said no thanks.
>> Then I received this e-mail yesterday and it sent
>> chills up my spine.
>>
>> Please read this. It is no joke. Here is the e-mail
>> I was sent:
>>
>> Dear Friends:
>> I know not all of you are women that I am sending
>> this to, but am hoping you will share this with your wives, daughters,
>> mothers, sisters, etc. Our world seems to be getting crazier by the
>> day. Pipe bombs in mail boxes and sickos in parking lots with perfume.
>> Be careful. I was approached yesterday afternoon around 5:30 PM in the
>> Wal-Mart parking lot by two men asking what kind of perfume I was
>> wearing. Then they asked if I'd like to sample some fabulous scent
>> they were willing to sell me at very reasonable rate. I probably would
>> have agreed had I not received an e-mail warning of a 'Wanna smell
>> this neat perfume?' scam.
>> The men continued to stand between parked cars, I
>> guess to wait for someone else to hit on. I stopped a lady going
>> towards them, pointing at them and told her about how I was sent an
>> e-mail at work about someone walking up to you at the malls or in
>> parking lots and asking you to SNIF F PERFUME that they are selling at
>> a cheap price or at least compare to which one you like best.
>>
>> THIS IS NOT PERFUME... IT IS ETHER!
>>
>> When you sniff it, you'll pass out. They'll take
>> your wallet, your valuables and heaven knows what else. If it were not
>> for this e-mail, I probably would have sniffed the 'perfume' but
>> thanks to the generosity of an e-mailing friend, I was spared whatever
>> might have happened to me. I wanted to do the same for you.
>>
>> PLEASE PASS THIS ALONG TO ALL YOUR WOMEN FRIENDS AND
>> PLEASE BE ALERT AND BE AWARE. IF YOU ARE A MAN AND RECEIVE
>> THIS, PASS IT ON TO YOUR WOMEN FRIENDS.
>> Ladies, this happened to me yesterday and I didn't
>> smell the perfume either, thanks to this email. This is true. Believe
>> me, I know. I was over by Big Lots in the parking lot at lunch time
>> when I was approached.
>> So either day or night, it does not matter. There
>> were 3 guys together when I was approach ed. I called the police when
>> I got back to my desk. Like the email says above, LET EVERYONE KNOW
>> ABOUT THIS - YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY, CO-WORKERS, whomever. It helped me.
>> The first thing that popped into my head was this e-mail warning.
>> MAKE SURE YOUR DAUGHTERS KNOW!
>>



Stay safe!!

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Twice in one week....

What's going on? Could it be that I'm getting back on track?
Not sure, but I think it could happen! LOL.

Picked up the links to the July Mega over at IvyScrap and played with it. Its my turn for the Bingo Page, so if you want to see that one, you'll have to play.
Here are the 2 pages I made with the kit.


You can find the kit here

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Well, HI THERE!

Did you give up on me? I almost did, so I'm not offended :-)
I don't really know what happened, all I DO know, is that I haven't been here, or any of the galleries. I have played with kits, got my spot set up, got fish in my aquarium, cried a lot when my body betrays me and some other nonsense....... But, I'm not complaining. Things could have been a lot worse. Sometimes its just hard to keep a happy face, and that's when I retreat in my own little world, and you don't hear from me for a while.

Ann from StarSongStudios has been busy as well, and I'll have some pages for her new kits soon, but for now I only have the pages for a bundle of SEA kits. She sells them seperately but also released them as a bundle. All pages are from one kit, except the word-art in the first one, that is from Sea Journals. I really like how they came out. Ofcourse Ann's  kits pretty much put the pages together themselves, I'm just the pilot :-)

I copied her store "blinkie-things" from her blog, so go check them out.
(I know there is a better name for them, but I can't think of it right now, and I think the description gets my point across, so I'm not worried about it. LOL)

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SEA SCAPE

SEA SIDE

SEA JOURNAL
Booland Designs has been busy, and keeping the CT team hopping. So I did some pages for her. I don't think I caught all the releases/retiring bundles and know for sure that I haven't posted the ones I did, so I will catch up on that, one site at a time over the next couple of days. That is, if I can find the pages. I will also post them here as I find them :-)

I finally got the links for the Ivy Scraps Mega. We don't automatically get them anymore, but only after proof that you finished last month. I finally got all the links where they needed to be, the postings listed where they are supposed to go and an email to "the boss" to show that I was done... so I got the kit downloaded, and now I crave ICE CREAM!!!!
It was my turn to make the Bingo page, so I did that and deleted the original (Before I realized that there may be changes, and than I'll have to rebuild it... Oh well) and started on the second one, leaving me one for the month to finish. So I may have gone for "late" to "ahead of the game" in one day:-)

You may have guessed that the kit is somewhat ice cream related......


You can find it here. 5 Designers worked on this. The kit has 50 Elements and 36 papers in fun, ice dreamy colors.

I waited last night till 3 AM for a webinar to start, only to find out that it had MY time in the reminder, and not the regular EST, where I have to add 6 hours..... Had to be up at 6 again, to go to base with Mike at 8, so, I'm a little tired, but I wanted to let you know that I'm still kicking. LOL

Don't forget to hug a loved one!
Pauli