I’ve done some investigating and I really can’t figure out what the problem is. Everytime I try it, it works fine. But people have said they are getting 4shared error messages saying the link is not valid.

I just wanted to post here in case anyone might be having this problem but is too shy to complain about it! LOL! Please let me know and I’ll find a way to get the freebie to you somehow!

By the way, thank you very much to everyone who has subscribed!!! I get a report sent to me every night to say if there’s been any new subscribers and I always do a happy dance when there is! LOL!

I’m working hard on a new kit which should be done for next week, which means the first newsletter is coming up soon! I hope I can pull it all together in time! lol

 Well . .it’s bedtime for me. Have a good night all! And please let me know about the freebie!

cheers!

 I’ve created a special “sign up” bonus for anyone who subscribes just to say thank you for your support!! After you’re signed up, you’ll be sent a “welcome email” that contains the download link for this sweet little FREEBIE:

 I’ll be sending out a newsletter with EACH new product I put it in the store so you’ll always be first to know about it AND subscribers will ALWAYS be able to get that new product for a discount! That’s right, coupons in every newsletter! There will be freebies once in a while too.

My goal is to have something new in the shop once a week but sometimes life gets in the way of that. So you should expect to hear from me approx. 3-4 times per month. It will only be more than that if there happens to be a special event going on I want to notify you about, such as a contest, chat, or super huge sale or something. So you don’t have to worry about being spammed But if it ever gets to be too much for you, there is an unsubscribe button in each newsletter that will permanently delete your email address from my list.

 I’m still busy trying to put this thing together so there probably will not be a new product this week and therefore no newsletter either. I expect the first one will probably go out sometime in the first week of September

 In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the freebie!!!!

AND, since I didn’t post here about my latest releases over the last few weeks (bad bad blogger!!!) here’s a special coupon code for anyone reading this to take 25% off everything in my Studio. Use code: blogbuddies25 . But hurry, it’s valid for 48 hours only (so until 8:00 pm EST on Monday 25th)

 Here’s what I’ve been up to lately!

I’m having an impromptu sale in my Studio this weekend! There are a few products I’m retiring that you can get for rock-bottom prices (only $1 for some) and I also marked down some of my favourite products. So you’ll have to snoop around the store to see what all is on sale, but I promise the bargains will be worth the hunt!

LINK TO SHOP

 Have a great weekend!

 Anyway, there’s a new collection up and it’s 50% off until Wednesday. Also a coordinating bracket album (sold separately but still reduced!)

I also put up a Shutterfly-ready album a while back and totally forgot to advertise it here!

It’s not on sale anymore so to make it up to my blog readers (if I still have any left? lol) here’s a special coupon so you can get it 25% off like it was when I released it: bloglove25 . It’s valid for 1 week from today and it’s good for this purchase of the complete album.

I guess that’s it for today . .. I gotta run! I’m off this week but somehow I manage to be even more busy when I’m off then when I’m working! How does that happen? I thought I’d get to relax on my holiday but it’s been nothing but work and errands and such. Oh and playing with my dolls of course too LOL!

 Enjoy your day!

Ok let’s start with the product:

I’ve recently put my portion of the Garden of Whimsy kit in my Studio now that it has been retired from the Lilypad. And yesterday I put together a bracket album with it! It is made to fit the Basic Grey Chipboard Bracket album so you can make this a hybrid project. Just print out the pages and glue to the book and voilà! All of the Garden of Whimsy stuff will be on sale until Friday. You can grab the album for just $4!

My designing-mojo seems to have gone on a summer holiday without me! lol! So it was nice to find something to do that was scrap-related and creative, but without requiring me to design new stuff lol! I think there will be lots more albums where that one came from!

 Ok now for the tag! My dearest friend Rachel decided to tag me on her blog the other day so here goes:

Where is your cell phone? In my purse

Your significant other? at work (he does 3:30 to 11:30)

Your hair? just got a new cut! It’s super short. Like way shorter than I asked for! But me likey

Your mother? at home in Sudbury, hopefully taking care of a Blythe doll I gave my parents temporary custody of

Your father? at home in Sudbury, hopefully not torturing and/or damaging a Blythe doll I gave my parents temporary custody of

Your favorite thing? sleep

Your dream last night? don’t remember

Your favorite drink? decaf chai tea

Your dream/goal? to someday be able to quit my “real job” and make a living off of something artsy where I can work from home in my pj’s all day

The room you’re in? my Creative Studio aka the room off the hallway where my computer desk is lol

Your fear? oh man. where do i start. house burning down while i sleep, car accidents, cockroaches, going too fast (like in a car or any moving thing), heights, flying . . .*sigh* i live a life full of anxieties lol!

Where do you want to be in 6 years? pregnant and barefoot in the kitchen

Where were you last night? sitting at my computer for most of it putting together the bracket album above!

What you’re not? social (seriously. i’m the shyest, most anti-social person ever lol!)

Muffins? um, to eat? in that case, no. too many carbs and sugars

One of your wish list items? only one!? new lens for my camera, wide-format printer, and a light tent so I can take decent pictures indoors would be my top 3

Where you grew up? Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

The last thing you did? went to my electrolysis appointment. ouch

What are you wearing? navy pj pants with the pink sweater I wore to work today

Your TV? is 1 foot away from me on my computer desk lol

Your pets? I wish! I want a dog so bad! We had a shih-tzu growing up. His name was Joker. We got him when I was 6 and we put him to sleep when I was 19. I had to hold his wittle paw while they did it

Your computer? A giant Dell beast complete with two monitors and an extra external hard-drive to store all my crap!

Your life? a comedy of errors most of the time . . .

Your mood? kinda tired.

Missing someone? my boyfriend. my friends from university who moved away.

Your car? wish i had one luckily my brother lets me drive his Hyundai Tucson

Something you’re not wearing? makeup. I NEVER wear makeup.

Favorite store? actually Etsy.com is where I have been spending all my money lately!

Your summer? not too much planned. gonna take a week off but not going anywhere special. have to save my money for NEXT summer when I get to fly to Curaçao for my best friend’s wedding

Like someone? I really like the cafeteria lady at work. She always makes my breakfast extra special

Your favorite color? blue

Last time you laughed? earlier when I was singing a Flight of the Conchords song in my head

Last time you cried? 2 hours ago at my electrolysis appointment. OUCH!

 Phew! That was a long one! Ok now I am tagging ROBYN!!

 Well I guess that’s it for tonight! Time for bed! Thanks for reading this far!

Ready for it? You have to promise not to laugh! Anybody who laughs is hereby banished from this blog!

Ok . .. here goes . . .

Hi. My name is Michelle and I am addicted to dolls.

Yep. I’ve started collecting dolls. Blythe dolls to be exact I didn’t even know what a Blythe doll was until the first few weeks of February when somebody posted a thread about them at DST/MSA. I took one look and I was hooked! I have fallen hard and fast folks. HARD and FAST! It hasn’t even been 2 months and I already have 5 dolls sitting on my shelf with 4 more on the way in the mail! And these things are not cheap!!! I’m embarassed to admit how much money I’ve spent on them . . . But I can’t help it! They are so darn FUN!!!

 In case you don’t know what the heck I’m talking about, here’s a quick rundown: Blythe dolls were first introduced in 1972. They were not popular with kids. Apparently the big heads and big eyes were scary So production ended that year and that was it! Flash forward to 1997. A photographer by the name of Gina Garan is given an old vintage Blythe doll. She takes pictures of it. Interest is renewed in the doll. A company in Japan starts making the doll again and people (mainly grownups!) go crazy for them. That’s the story of Blythe in a nutshell!

Anyway, the reason I am finally coming clean with this on the blog is because my newest kit I put in the shop last night was inspired by my newest doll! Check it out!

It’ll be on sale for 25% for the first week

Isn’t she cute!?!? I haven’t received her yet. She’s on her way in the mail. I can’t wait! If you want to check out the rest of my plastic family, you can visit my Flickr page.

So this is why the blog has been so quiet lately I haven’t had much to talk about other than dolls lately LOL!

So tell me . . .anybody reading this happen to collect Blythe’s too? Did you have one when you were little? Do you have an original 1972 Kenner Blythe packed away in your attic you’d like to sell me? (ha ha! i had to at least ask :))

 I’ll leave you with a fun youtube video of the original commercial from 1972:

Don’t have time for many details! It’s 6:15 a.m. and I have to get ready for work! But just wanted to let everyone know that there’s cause for celebration and sales this weekend I’ve got a few new products too. Check out my Studio!! I’ll come back tonight for a better explanation. Have a great day!

Check this out!

Garden of Whimsy is available NOW only at the Lilypad! It’s on sale 20% off this week! Take a look at what our creative teams did with the kit:

And we’ve cooked up a little contest for you!

Contest Rules:

- Layout must be mostly made with the Garden of Whimsy kit

- Let your creativity run wild and create the most whimsical, freestyle, outside-the-box layout you can muster!

- Deadline for submissions is Saturday, March 29th. Winners will be announced on Monday

- Upload your layout to a gallery and then send the link to this address so we can see: wolffpak3@gmail.com 

- We will pick the 3 whimsiest layouts and those people will each win $5 from Amy’s store and $5 from mine, for a prize total of $10!

- Have fun with it!

 Have a happy Easter weekend everyone!!!

Sorry I haven’t blogged in ages! Just been busy I guess! Haven’t been spending so much time at the computer lately. I started a new hobby back in February that has been consuming all my free time! Not gonna get into it now, it’s too long of a story and LOST is on soon

I just dropped in to say Hi! to anyone still reading this and let you know that you should definitely keep an eye on my blog tomorrow . . . There may or may not be another top-secret collab revealed

This sequel is a little less Junky and a whole lot of Funky! Bright and fresh and springy! It’s totally JAM-packed with yumminess. 29 papers, 2 alphas and 50 unique elements (131 elements if you count all the colour variations we provided!)

It’s on sale for 25% off but only for this weekend so hurry and grab while you can! :)  It’s available exclusively at the Lilypad. Check it out here.