Some Cricut Shares!

Hi All! Wew, how has your December been so far? Mine has been busyyyy ever since Black Friday, seems like it hasn't slowed down since! :) I have NEVER been shopping on Black Friday before, I've always been too scared. :) BUT, I started going through the paper on Thanksgiving night and couldn't BELIEVE the sales that a lot of the stores were having! Learning how much money that I would save if I went shopping that night was enough to convince me to deal with the scary crowds. I texted Amy (who was ready and willing to go shopping at short notice in the middle of the night- she's a night owl like me!) and she and I left for Target at 1:30 AM. The store opened at midnight so a lot of people were done with their shopping already and waiting in the check out line. My eyes almost popped out of my head when I saw that the line ran all the way to the back of the store! By the time Amy and I were done shopping an hour later though, there were about ten people in line, woohoo! We went to Kohls and Toys R Us after that and to my surprise the stores weren't even very crowded! Not to the extent that I had feared anyway. When we arrived home at 7:30 AM we were exhausted but so pleased. I can't believe that I got so many good deals! "Santa" is definitely going to deliver quite a haul to our house this year. :) I took a 3 hour nap and Alex, John and I headed out to hit the rest of the sales in town. Almost all of my Christmas shopping is done, yay! It took me awhile to recooperate from lack of sleep but it was so worth it! I'm going to be a Black Friday shopper each year from now on for sure.

This week I have been playing with my Cricut along with the Cricut Craft Room like a mad woman! If you haven't tried it, you must. Wow! I love it! :) Make sure to head over to the Cricut Blog to see the newest exclusive digital cartridges that have been released this week. The design team has been creating so many beautiful projects, I am constantly inspired!

Here are a couple Cricut projects that I designed awhile back with the Just a Note cartridge. This cartridge comes preloaded on the Cricut Expression 2: Anniversary Addition, along with 3 others. The Just a Note cartridge instantly became one of my favorites!


One of the other cartridges that comes preloaded on the Expression 2: Anniversary Addition is the Cricut Decals cartridge. Here is a layout that I created with it:

Hehe, I love these pics of my puppy in her bunny ears! :)

Here is another layout that I created with the Robot Party Cartridge that was released a few months back. This cartridge is full of cuts and designs in order to create a whole Robot themed party. Invites, party favors, party bags, cupcake wrappers, etc! What's so fun about it is you can use it to embellish your scrapbook pages, cards, decor as well, the sky is the limit! Since layouts are my favorite I decided to use two robot images and a big bolt cut to create a scrapbook page.


In other news, I have been on a health kick lately! I don't know why I was so inspired to take care of myself all of a sudden. Perhaps it's because my 27th birthday is coming up quick? Maybe I'm getting freaked that I'm almost a year closer to 30? I also think I just got tired of getting sick all of the time. I catch viruses and things SO easily, a big reason why is because I'm anemic. I've been taking more iron and vitamin supplements for the past couple of months and I definitely notice a difference. But you know what helps the most? Drinking a glass of Emergen-C every day! I can definitely tell the difference on the days that I don't drink my Emergen-C. I feel the need to put this message on my blog because it WORKS! I have some friends that get sick all the time like I do and I'm redudantly telling them "drink Emergen-C, you'll feel better immediately and it will prevent you from getting sick", and they don't do it! DO IT. I promise you'll be able to tell the difference! Especially once you notice that you haven't been sick in MONTHS since. :)

I'm also taking better care of my skin and eyes. I'm starting to see bags under my eyes, I'm sure it just comes with getting a little older but it's never too early to start trying to prevent it! I swear by The Body Shop face products now, wow, they're great! I used to wear contacts constantly but my eye doctor has been telling me repeatedly for years that wearing them so often is hard on my eyes. I finallyyyy took him up on his advice and got some glasses. I actually like them! My eyes feel much better, I'm not constantly rubbing them and they don't dry out all of the time like they used to. I feel like they fit my personality as well, since I'm such a nerd! :)

I hope all of my bloggie friends and readers are having a wonderful holiday season so far!