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70% off coupon sale at sizzix.com

This online coupon is good through July 2, 2007, and it is good only for items in the Savings Zone.  The coupon code to use here is WG7180.  Just enter it at checkout, in the space where they ask for a coupon code.

I snagged myself a few good deals here.  I already had the Go Slim lowercase alphabet, but have been looking for the uppercase, as well as the numbers.  I got the letters for $30, and the number set for only $7.50.  Not bad at all!

You have a few days to go and check this out.  Just remember that if you see something you really, really want…grab it when you can.  Most items are “first come, first served”…once they are gone, they are gone forever!

So grab the goodies while you can!

Rubber Stamp & Scrapbook Expo - Manchester, New Hampshire

This past Saturday, I went. it’s been a long time since I’ve gotten to go to one of these conventions, so I was very excited to be able to go.

Yes. Money was spent! I didn’t go completely crazy, but I did get some cool stuph.

I found a new source of Close To My Heart products. I have been through two consultants already…both of them quit selling it. Not because of me, though…LOL! It was for personal reasons on their parts.

The lady at the show is actually located in New Jersey, but she said that I could order from her website, and have stuph shipped to me here in Massachusetts. Now, I like that idea A LOT…honestly, I don’t WANT a local consultant. I don’t want to be pushed to host a party, or even become a consultant myself. I just want someone who will be happy to just sell me the stuph.

So I got one of her catalogs (it was free with my purchase), and now I have her website address, so I can order whenever I want something.

My Stampin’ Up! consultant is in New Jersey, as well, and I’ve been happy with her. New Jersey is an okay place…hell, I even lived there for a while!

I also picked up a few other cool items…including one of the new Tim Holtz storage cases from Cropper Hopper. I got the alcohol ink case…I have tons of those little bottles, and they are scattered all over the place. The case has neat little compartments, as well as a space to keep the blending solution, the ink applying whosit, and the felt that goes with it.

Another item I purchased was the Notch & Die-Cutting Tool from Basic Grey. This has been around for a while, and something I’ve had my eye on, but I never got one until now. It’s very cool!

What else? Oh…a BossKut alphabet die set…the Flora Dora font. It’s kind of a cool, funky, retro sort of font…right up my alley! It was also marked down to $50.00, which was a HUGE plus here!

I don’t have the BossKut machine, but these dies are supposed to work in most other machines. I have the Sizzix BigKick, which is designed to work with just about anything as long as you have the multi-purpose platform. I’ve used not only Sizzix and Ellison Designs dies, but also Cuttlebug and QuicKutz.

I also snagged a few books and magazines, and of course, more CAT stamps!

This show is worth a visit…to find out if they are coming to a town near you, check out RubberStampAndScrapbookExpo.com.

I can’t even spell out my own name…

…at least, not with my QuicKutz Studio Skinni-Mini alphabet set!

See, I lost the G/H die. Yeah, I know… my fault for not putting it away properly…it probably got knocked down by cats and is hidden someplace unknown.

But here is the ranty part: I contacted QK via their website, about purchasing just this one die. It says right on their site, right here, in fact, that this is possible…as long as the dies in question are still available.

So, I contacted customer service via e-mail. No response. After a week, I contacted them again, expressing my anger over them not responding to my first e-mail. Hell, if you are going to do business on the internet, you’d best respond to customer’s e-mails, right?

The next day, I got a response from someone at QK, who told me that if I sent her my name and address, and the exact die I needed, she’d have it sent to me for free. So I sent that info off, and I was happy.

But this was two weeks ago. So far…NOTHING. No further e-mails. No die. No nothing.

This is VERY shitty customer service. I never asked for the die for free in the first place; I was always willing to pay for a replacement…after all, it was my fault that it was lost in the first place. But if QK is saying that they can get me a new die, either for free or at a charge, then they should have provided me with said die by now.

I’m disgusted with them right now. I really think I have a better chance of finding the lost die, than I do in EVER getting a replacement, at any cost. I’m giving up on ever trying to get it, and chances are good that I’ll be buying fewer of their products in the future. Such a shame, because I do love their stuph.

But I hate shitty customer service even more.

Hi there…

So I’m starting up another blog on this domain.  Once again, it will be craft and hobby related for the most part, but I reserve the right to throw in anything else I feel like writing about here, as well!

Enjoy!

about

Hi there!

I’m Christine, and this is one of my blogs. This one is shaping up to be a combination craft/hobby blog, shopping blog, personal blog, and whatever other kind of blog I want it to be. Hell, it’s MY NAME on it, dammit, so it’s gonna be what I want it to be!

One of my plans for this blog is to have a semi-regular video podcast, about papercrafting.

I have two other blogs on this domain…Culinaria, which is to be a cooking blog, and Christine’s Creations, which is solely a gallery of my papercrafting work. Right now, there’s not much on either blog, but I’m working on it!

What do I do? I blog. Sometimes for money….I won’t ever hide that fact! But I also enjoy cooking, scrapbooking, rubber stamping, baseball, and cats. If you check out my other blogs (see “my blog empire” in the sidebar), you’ll see that I blog about all of this, and more.

In addition to my vast blog empire, I also write a weekly piece called “Christine’s Sunday Lunch” over the the Fuel My Blog blog. You should read it. And not just on Sundays…you need to read it EVERY DAY! There are other great writers over there, as well.

I live north of Boston, MA, with one husband, Mike, and seven cats…Mitty the Kitty, Dusty, Stripes, Allegra, Junior, Little Mitty, and Sabby.

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