Stitch Fix review #1.

I read about Stitch Fix & it sounded like a fun thing to do. Basically you pay $20 for them to style you. You fill out a survey about your sizes & colors you like to wear & different styles that you like or want to try. They charge you $20 & ship you five items. 

I read this part:
We work with the best up-and-coming labels and brands -- the kind featured in magazines and on stylish celebs-- but our average price point is an accessible $75. We'll even try to keep the prices of items in your Fix close to what you're used to spending (no promises that it'll be exactly the price you want...we want to add some adventure!!) But, if you are into $30 accessories, and $100 dresses, we’ve got you covered. Are $100 tops and $200 necklaces more your style? We do that, too! 
but I guess I didn't think it would truly be THAT expensive. 

Imagine my surprise yesterday when my package arrived & the total was $248! For three shirts, a cardigan, & a ring. Of course the $20 applies to your purchase & if you buy all 5 items you get a 25% discount so the total was $166.

I tried everything on & they sent some cute stuff. [Except the ring. It's ugly & too big. The cardigan is too small.] Not really my normal style but cute stuff anyway. The only thing I would've considered keeping if it was in my price range was the navy tank. The detail on the back is pretty.

So needless to say, it was a fail.  I may try it again some time but I wasn't in love with any of these items. Here is a referral link if you want to try it for yourself: referral link

between the drinks & subtle things.

For a challenge at Tally Scrapper to use the song "we are young" & to use a black & white picture, which I failed on that part.

I used my Cricut accent essentials & home accent cartridges. I also used some of Studio Calico metropolitan, Unity Dec 2010  kit of the month, a moment in time by {ippity}, & Papertrey Ink simple valentine.

under the weather.

Inspired by the GHWI rain/showers challenge & Glitter Girl Adventure challenge at Two Peas. I used Unity Dec 2010  kit of the month & my Cricut Paper Pups cartridge for the umbrella border & some of my Lily Bee I got in my $45 box sale.


Photo is of Bentley last month after he ate his toy. He's never eaten a toy like that - usually he just chews them into eleventy kajillion pieces. This time, he ate it. Mostly he passed it all out but the next morning at 6a.m. he woke up & puked & then he was mopey & sick looking all day. I didn't feed him dinner or breakfast because I wanted it all to pass. Finally that afternoon I took him to the vet because he was still acting sick. She checked him out & he was fine but I got a huge lecture about appropriate toys. *sigh*

Lita.

For the City Crafter's challenge to use black/white/grey with a hint of pink. I'm afraid I used more than a hint. Hey, I like pink! & for the sketch challenge at Twisted Sketches. The twist is to use "animal" any how, anyway.

I used my Cricut paper pups  for the paw print border & the circle bone embellishment under the photo on the left; Little Red Scrapbook October 2010 main kit because I can't get enough of these papers; & I stamped the background of the pink to tone it down a little with Unity Nov 2010  kit of the month & Unity Aug 2010 kit of the month.

Journaling is a text conversation I had with TJ after Love of Labs contacted me about Lita. She was at a shelter in New Castle, Indiana, & her time was UP. Like, UP up. If I didn't get her on Friday, she was being put to sleep on  Saturday. We were leaving the next weekend to go to Chicago so we could only very temporarily foster her until a more permanent foster home opened up or she got adopted. I left right after work, it took 1.5 hours to get there (I think I took the long way), & I got there literally 10 minutes before they closed. She was a perfect angel on the ride home & we stopped at PetCo to get a collar (& matching pink leash!) for her because I didn't have any small enough. She was the sweetest little girl, definitely still very much a puppy, & Bentley loved having her as a playmate. I was contacted early the following week about a family who said she sounded perfect. Wednesday she went with the director of Love of Labs, who took her to be spayed, & then to meet her adopted parents.


Yes, she was adopted the following weekend!

what I'm loving Wednesday.

I haven't linked up in a while so I felt it was time.

I'm loving...
+ That pest control just came & sprayed the entire place because two nights ago one of these skittered across the ceiling. I immediately jumped out of bed, grabbed a library book off the nightstand, & smashed it on the ceiling. TJ said, "There was not underreacting there." These things are disgusting.

+That my aunt sent me this link & I ordered 35 of these Monday night after work & they are currently on the FedEx truck en route to me already. Cannot wait to get these & get all of my stamps organized!

 +That I am almost finished with the eighth book in the Stephanie Plum series & I just requested the ninth from the library. I love requesting them because they get to search the shelves & find it for me, place it on the hold shelf, email me saying I can come pick it up, & I usually have it within 2 days. It's great.

+Also loving:
This is my reading list since I started this series...

	One for the money / Janet Evanovich	Evanovich, Janet	02-13-2012	Copy 4
	Two for the dough / Janet Evanovich	Evanovich, Janet	03-01-2012	Copy 2
	Three to get deadly / Janet Evanovich	Evanovich, Janet	03-08-2012	Copy 4
	Four to score / Janet Evanovich	Evanovich, Janet	03-12-2012	Copy 2
	High five / Janet Evanovich	Evanovich, Janet	03-23-2012	Copy 5
	Hot six / Janet Evanovich	Evanovich, Janet	03-31-2012	Copy 1
	Seven up / Janet Evanovich	Evanovich, Janet	04-04-2012	Copy 1
	Hard eight / Janet Evanovich	Evanovich, Janet	04-12-2012	Copy 3

thanks card.

For an older Paper Smooches Sparks  challenge. I used some of their free digi stamps, coloring the flowers with my Copics & cutting them out individually. Man, I need some new scissors! I also used my Cricut accent essentials cartridge & Studio Calico boardwalk kit.

who's your doppelganger?

Linking up with Raven to share my celebrity look alikes. When I used this site I got 5 males. Whaat?!

Here's a different result:





I don't think so.


It's funny because I actually get told I look like one celebrity a lot. I mean A LOT a lot. By strangers even. & she didn't even show up on any of  my results.


Once at work this little 5 year old boy came quietly up to me & said, "Are you the girl from Along Came Polly?" So cute.

right here right now.

first scan with my new Canon Pixma MX882!

For a sketch challenge at Twisted Sketches & the All about Me challenge "in the now." Breann already was super quick & busted this challenge out!

I used the Little Red Scrapbook October 2010 main kit because I just LOVE these papers. Also used Cricut Easter 2010 cartridge to cut the 6" doily which was actually a little too large. Stamps are {ippity} life's little moments & Unity kit of the month a little happy from May 2010.

new hair!

this photo makes it look lighter &  more red than it really is.

I made an appointment last week with the intention to go back to my natural brown, which I don't even remember what that color is. I didn't want to dye my whole entire head & be one dimensional brown blah so I thought we could do low lights to mostly cover the blonde hi lights. She said we could do that... & then she asked how I felt about red.


We tried red once before & you couldn't tell. Like, at all. It didn't show up.


This time it did. & I have really, really dark low lights. It's so different but I really like it. At first I wasn't sure but it's growing on me. When I first left the salon I said woah I went from Aniston to Kardashian! Mom came over yesterday & didn't notice. If she noticed, she would've said something. & only two offenders at work have noticed. Or said anything. So it really must not be such a big change, but it sure feels like one.

hello sunshine.

Using Paper Smooches free digital stamps & the Little Red Scrapbook October 2010 kit fir the Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge.

happy birthday cupcakes.

I usedLittle Red Scrapbook's Oct 2010 main kit for this. I just love these papers; they're Crate Paper Restoration collection. Such pretty colors & designs. Also used {ippity} Life's Little Moments stamp set.

This photo is from TJ's bday last August. These cupcakes were so yummy!

I am still without a printer/scanner since mine took a dump & I'm still waiting on one of the ones I've picked out as a replacement to go on sale. I think one of them is on sale at Staples this week, but the problem is they never have anything in stock at our Staples. I could order it & it takes a couple days to get here but I have a problem with instant gratification. Anyway, I'm off today & going in search of a new printer/scanner. Wish me luck!

you & I.

Not sure how well I did at SC's weekly challenge but I keep wanting to add more so I think I must be halfway on track. I used {ippity} stamps sets life's little moments & because of you.

what happens in prison.

[where I work]

April 5, 2012

Inmate charged in prison guard beating

Gonzalez faces attempted murder, aggravated battery

By Mike Fletcher Tribune staff writer

Bunker Hill — A man serving 40 years in prison for aggravated battery now faces attempted murder after state police say he severely beat a guard at the Miami Correctional Facility.

The Feb. 29 attack was unprovoked, said Sgt. Tony Slocum, public information officer at the Indiana State Police Peru Post.
Ruben Gonzalez, 39, beat Rodney Gahl repeatedly in the head and face with a sock containing a pad lock, Slocum said in a news release.

Gahl, a 10-year employee, suffered a skull fracture, a broken jaw, arterial bleeding inside his neck and hearing loss, a state police news release stated.

Gahl was airlifted to a Fort Wayne hospital for treatment. He likely will face several months of rehabilitation in his recovery, state police reported.

After the attack, Gonzalez was transferred to the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in Carlisle for safety concerns, police report. Police served a Miami Circuit Court warrant for attempted murder and aggravated battery on Gonzalez last week at the prison.

An automatic not guilty plea was entered on Gonzalez’s behalf at his initial hearing held last week by video conference from the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. He is set to appear May 17 for his pre-trial hearing, which also will be held via video conferencing.

Gonzalez is serving a 40-year prison term stemming from a 2000 Lake County conviction for aggravated battery. If convicted on the recent charges, he could serve an additional 50 years in prison for attempted murder and up to 20 years for the aggravated battery.

Calls made to Miami Correctional Facility were not returned Wednesday for comment.

...you already do card.

For this sketch challenge at Chick Challenges with {ippity} using The Right Words set & this kit from Little Red Scrapbook. I love using kits because they come with things I wouldn't try on my own & make me push outside of my comfort zone.

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I wish I could run 4 miles.

She's pretty much awesome.

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