Trying this again!

So I am trying this again! I have tried to start a BLOG before and failed miserably, hopefully this time I can keep with it! I am a SAHM to a wonderful 3 year old girl, Kendalyn and wife to Rob.

Rob and I met online in 1996 and got to know each other for 6 months before ever meeting each other face to face. We met the first time over Easter weekend in 1997 and then only 2 other times before I left PA and moved to IL so we could start our life together.

We were married September 18, 1999 (only 5 days until our 7 year anniversary!) and we've been going strong ever since. Here we are just a few days ago when my parents were here. Kendalyn is such a ham! But aren't all 3 year olds?

So back to stamping, I've been stamping for over 10 years. I worked at AC Moore in PA and was in charge of the rubber stamp department. It was my job to choose and order the stamps the store would carry. I really enjoyed working there and they even sent me to a couple of stamping workshops. I learned a ton of techniques that I had never heard of before, but that was WAY back in the early 90's. Once I move to IL, I kinda lost intrest in stamping until I got a job working at Michael's. My interest was rekindled, but I was still using the Michael's stamps and papers.

It wasn't until just a few years ago that I discovered Stampin' Up! I went to an open party at the library here in town and bought a stamp set and some blender pens. I was terrified to cut those stamps out to mount them! I think they sat in the box for a week before I got up the nerve to cut into that rubber. LOL looking back it's pretty funny, I mean it IS just rubber, but I didn't want to screw it up! Anyway, I think I used that stamp set a total of 5 times. (I just recently sold it LOL) I didn't care for the demo from the party, but I did book a catalog party thru her and had a wonderful party of my own. I was able to get all the Classic ink spots with the hostess bennies! This was all over 4 years ago, and now I have a new demo, who is fantastic! I'm getting the demo bug BAD and hopefully I will be able to sign up before the end of this year!

So that's a little background about me and my family. I'm going to try to post about some of my trials and errors in my stamping. Maybe someone else can learn from my mistakes as well as my successes.