Apricot Freezer Jam

I bought these rather small apricots at the local produce store and decided to make freezer jam with them. It turned out to be so DELICIOUS. My 5-year-old son is a big helper. He took off all the stickers, you know the ones that have the code on it for the cashiers? The jam was so good, I had to make wheat bread to go with it. MMMMMmmmm.

June Crop

Join me on Friday, June 18th for a scrapbook crop and optional workshop from 1 p.m. til Midnight.

Crop only $5
Crop with Zippidee two-page layout included $10
Buy the Zippidee workshop kit* for $40 and the crop is FREE

Prepayment is required no later than June 8th to secure your seat.

This is the two-page layout. With the $40 workshop kit you'll be able to create this layout and so much more. The kit includes 22 sheets of paper (patterned and cardstock), Star-shaped chipboard Dimensional Elements, Ticket To Ride stamp set, illustrated instruction guide, and Colonial White assorted accents (buttons, brads, etc.).

Today is a Jackpot Day

Do you think you know which Level 1 Scrapbook kit includes the FREE jackpot item (the two ribbon rounds shown below)? Why risk it -- order one of each! Offer expires at 8:00 a.m. Wednesday, June 2nd. Visit my website to order your Level 1 kits and get these two ribbon rounds free, and shipping is just 99 cents for each of the qualifying items (Wahoo!): ezscrapbooks.myctmh.com

Jackpot June

Beginning today Close To My Heart is offering fantastic discounts on popular crafting items. Hit the jackpot and win free products OR grab loaded goodie boxes at 50% off or more.
Enjoy two types of deal days in June!
It's a great time to pick up some products you love or ones you've never used before at incredible prices and potentially win some for FREE! You can add to your crafting supplies so you'll always have just the perfect item on hand.

On goodie box days… you can purchase one box filled with popular products at 50% or more off retail value! Each goodie box day will feature different surprise items, so you can score
a wide variety of current and recently retired products.

On jackpot days… 5 products will be offered for sale at discounted prices. One of the 5 products is the mystery jackpot item for that day, but we’re not telling which—exciting, isn’t it! If you happen to order the mystery jackpot item, we’ll reward you with one or more FREE Close To My Heart products, with shipping included on the free items! If you purchase all 5 products, you’re guaranteed to hit the jackpot! There’s no purchase limit—if you order multiple secret jackpot items, we’ll send you the same number of free items.
These special offers include discounted shipping/handling (just 99 cents per item) and are only available onmy website. Check back every day for the latest offer.

* Offer valid June 1–July 1 at 8:00 am (MDT), on MyCTMH websites only. New deals are posted each day at 9:00 am (MDT).
To be eligible for discounted prices, your order must contain only Jackpot June items. Visit facebook.com/closetomyheart or closetomyheart.com to see what the mystery Jackpot item was for the previous day. Offers are while supplies last.

100% Success Rate

Today, the last of our pupae became a Painted Lady butterfly. We have 10 in all. Now what the heck do we do? I've read that they reporduce within 2 days. It would be fun to continue the life cycle, but I've never considered myself a caterpillar/butterfly breeder. Also, the food plant the caterpillars need to survive may be a little hard to come by in the desert.

Easter

I made this scrapbook layout in less than an hour using Studio J. There were no photos to print or crop, just a few mouse clicks and voila! I can hardly believe I have a 2010 event ready for a photo album. You can play with Studio J by clicking on the link in my website: ezscrapbooks.myctmh.com By the way, this paper kit is called Hippity Hop and it's only available through Studio J. Check it out.

The Butterfly Chronicles

Uncle Trevor gave our family a butterfly kit for Christmas. I finally got around to ordering the little critters a couple of weeks ago. In my defense, I didn't want to order the bugs when it was too cold, but I almost waited too long -- the Arizona heat is knocking on our door. Here are my happy scientists inspecting our new caterpillars that arrived via USPS on April 28th.


This was one of the bigger caterpillars. There are about 10 total in the two containers.


Do you see that webb-stuff in there? The carmel-colored stuff on the bottom is there food and droppings (aka frass).


They're growing...We hope to see chrysalides real soon.