Unexpected Act of Generosity

I am simply amazed sometimes how people can go about their lives oblivious to everyone else without caring what happens in this world. I see people everyday who wouldn't give their spit to someone dying of thirst. Then, out of nowhere, you encouter someone like Annette. I don't know Annette, never met Annette, and until last night didn't know Annette existed. Annette is a member of the scrapbook.com community and uses the screen name buggainok. She creates beautiful cards. I spent about 1 1/2 hours last night going through her entire gallery looking at all the wonderful cards she has posted. There were two that caught my eye because they had cats on them. I sent her a private message asking if she knew where I might find the stamps for purchase. She pm'ed me back and said that one wasn't a stamp but part of a patterned paper she had purchased. The other is a stamp she got from Michaels in Oklahoma City (too far for me to drive - I'm in Alberta) Then to my amazement, she offered to give me the stamp because she wasn't going to use it again. She's even paying the postage. I was blown away with her generosity to a total stranger. There sure aren't many people in this world like Annette.

Cat

The Life of a Boring Person

I haven't posted anything on this blog for over a year. I just don't have that much to say. The last year has been hard. My husband has been working for a year now - he had to quit his job last summer because he hurt himself at work and it was too physically demanding on him. He's actually clearing more money per month and working half the hours. So, we are very pleased with that and he really likes the job and it isn't physically demanding.

As far as my job goes, well lets see.... I just spent a year working with someone who was so lazy that I wanted to choke her. I wanted to quit my job so many times, but I hung in there and she finally quit - Thank God! My company created a new position for me (I had been offered another position and then somone else was hired before they told me they wanted me to stay as a CSR - really ticked me off). I am suppose to be the IT & Network Administrator. BUT, because we've had 3 people quit on the order desk in the last couple of months, I've been asked to take care of things there and get the new people trained again. It seems all I've been doing for the last year is training people for the order desk. The job is hard - very fast paced and dealing with our customers is not fun at all. As an example, one of our customers is a gift basket company. The woman who owns it thinks that when she calls, everything should be dropped and her order is number one priority. She is rude to the staff and totally unreasonable. I was closing up the other night and she called. She asked for the owner because she usually deals with him, but he was gone for the day. She started to tell me something but I didn't hear her, so I said "Excuse me". Then with this snotty attitude she says " I G-O-T O-N-E B-O-X A-N-D W-A-S C-H-A-R-G-E-D F-O-R O-N-E C-A-S-E" and she said it really slow like I was an idiot. I was so mad so I said "Excuse me, I speak english, I just didn't hear what you said" back to her in as snotty a voice as I could come up with. She kind of backed down at that point, but I was pretty short with her and told her the owner would call her in the morning. That's kind of the extreme of our customers, but alot of them are like this.

So anyway, I'll be training again for the next month or so before I can get back to my "real" job.

But on another topic... My 3 year wedding anniversary is on Tuesday. I can't believe it has gone by that fast. Since digiscrapcentral has closed its doors :( I haven't been sellling any of my designs. I kind of lost the momentum and motivation to design. I've taken up paper scrapbooking in the last year as well. I've posted the majority of my paper layouts at scrapbook.com. Here's a link to my gallery if you want to take a look:

http://www.scrapbook.com/myplace/index.php?mod=galleries&u=170885

I made a digital layout today to send to my friend of a couple of my wedding pictures. I used my Blue Romance kit. Here's the layout:

So as a reward for reading all the way to the bottom of this posting, I'm giving away the quickpage for this layout. Here is the link. Send me a link if you post something on line with it. I would love to see your work.

Ok, bye for now. It may be a while before I post again.....

Cat

On Hold....

Sorry, I'm a bad, bad blogger and really don't have a very exciting life. Once things pick up again will post something ......

I'm Having a Chat/Crop!!

That's right! I'm hosting my first chat/crop for Digi Scrap Central next weekend. You should come check it out. It will start at 10:00 am MST (that 12:00 noon EST, & 9:00 am PST). I'm offering a 50% off coupon for my Think Blue kit for the chat, and the theme will be scrapping your pets because its a "Cat Scrap". I'm really excited about it and a little nervous. I will also be offering a posting bonus for anyone who completes a layout from the crop.

So don't forget, mark it in your calendars:

CAT SCRAP CROP at www.digiscrapcentral.com

July 15, 2006

10:00 am MST

(9:00 am PST, 12:00 noon EST)

HAPPY CANADA DAY!!!

Happy Canada Day to all us Canadians. Its a georgeous day here in Calgary (so far - like they say in Calgary - if you don't like the weather, wait 10 minutes). Hope you're having nice weather where ever you are so you can get out and enjoy the day.

I've been on the computer all morning. I have a ton of things I need to get done and I'm way behind.

I made a freebee for you all in honour of Canada day. It should be available later at www.digiscrapcentral.com in the freebie download area. Here is a preview of the kit.

I don't know if I've mentioned it before, but my husband does most of the cooking - well pretty much all of the cooking and he made this really delicious cold pasta salad last night for dinner. I finally got what the secret was out of him and I thought I would share it with you... Its the Kraft Asian Sesame dressing. That stuff is delicious! Here's the recipe:

4 cups cooked rotini
1/2 finely chopped jalepeno pepper (wear rubber gloves when you do this)
1/4 cup chopped green onion (or plain white onion)
1/4 cup finely chopped red/orange/yellow pepper (which ever you have)
1/2 cup shredded carrot
1/2 cup slivered or sliced almonds
1/2 cup dried currants (or raisins)
Asian Sesame dressing to taste.

Just mix all the ingredients in a big bowl and pour in some dressing. That's it and it tastes great! Try it and let me know what you think.

Well gotta go...

Talk to you later....

Been Busy!

I've been a bad blogger! I've been sick, over worked, but most of all, too lazy to make any entries on my blog. There's been alot going on. Work is crazy. I have yet to train another person for customer service. This is the 3rd one this year. I thought my schedule would lighten up for the summer, but I guess not.

Just a quick note to kel=ksf1968: Thanks for all the links you provided me. I really appreciate it. I sell my kits at Digi Scrap Central. Here's a link to my store: Cat Scrap Fever Designs.

I've created a Father's day Kit. I think its quite a masculine kit and it could be used for any occasion really. Sorry I didn't get a preview of it up before the big day, but here it is:

Here is a layout I made with the kit of my handsome husband:

I've made a mini kit for the June/July Mega kit at Digi Scrap Central. This was fun to do and it's the first time I've contributed to a mega kit. Here's a preview of my part of the kit:


Well, that's it for now. I'll post more this weekend.

Happy Canada Day! to all my fellow Canadians. And happy 4th of July! to our neighbours to the south. :)

Designer's Resources Blues

I'm trying to design a kit with baby stuff - like that hasn't been done a million times - but I can't seem to find any "public domain" stuff to use that I like. I can't afford to buy the stuff right now, so I guess I'm stuck hand drawing the stuff again. It takes such a long time when I have to hand draw all the little things I need. I finished one kit last night I called Flippy Hippy. I couldn't find a hand peace sign, so I had to draw one and it took me about 2 hours to get it right. I'm not that good at hand drawing - I'm way out of practice. Not to brag (too much), but I won an art scholarship when I was 12 for art lessons at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. I was quite good when I was young. I even had a couple pictures on display at the gallery for 6 months.

Here is a peek at the Flippy Hippy kit. I'm not sure when I'll be putting it up for sale yet. I'm working on getting listed at a couple more stores right now, so I'm not sure where it will be listed, but here's what it looks like.

I thought it was kind of fun, with the papers that look like tie dye. I had to mute some of the colours, because the original colour scheme really hurt the eyes. They kind of turned out pastel, but with the tie dye I think it turned out well. I'm surprised how fast I've built up kits. I think I have a total of 13 kits I've made in the last 2 1/2 months.

So I guess no one liked my Think Pink kit well enough to buy it at 50% off and do a layout to get the add-on kit for free. Its kind of disheartening thinking you're putting all this time and effort into this and no one likes it. Oh well, I'll put the add-on kits up in the store and keep pluggin' away.

Well, back to work. I'm hoping to have a little freebie up by the end of tomorrow (stat holiday here in Canada).

By the way, if anyone knows of some good free for commercial use font sites and/or clipart, drop me a note, PRETTY PLEEEEAAAAASE?????

Talk to you later...

Cat