Don't forget!

You have until the end of today to upload the links to your scraplifts of Emilie's work found in THIS POST!! There's a delicious RAK just waiting to be addressed to you so don't delay...upload!!

Challenge 104

Christmas is over already? All that preparation for a month and it flies by in a day. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.

We have lots of stuff going on right now. The Blogaversery was a couple of days ago, pick your favourite Lotus Paperie challenge and link it up here for a chance to win a RAK.

Are you ready for another challenge? Join us and load your layout to the flickr group. You just might be the lucky one to win a RAK!

Don't forget to get your scraplifts of Emilie's layouts done for another chance at a RAK! Link your layouts to this post.

And from our Design Team...

Tania

Vanessa

Christi

Kirsten

Carol

Zoe

Emilie

Happy Blogoversary!!!

It's the 2nd birthday for the Lotus Paperie Blog! YAY!! I'm getting to this post fairly late but I wanted to put a challenge to you...Go back in the posts and choose your favorite challenge, create a page and upload the link to your page in the comments section. I'll have special Christmas products for the winners...not sure how we'll pick the winners just yet. I'll probably just ask Ray to pick a number at random. Very scientific, I know.

Design team, if you can pry yourselves away from your holiday baking and gift wrapping, we'd love to see your favorites too!

edited: oh ya, you have 2 weeks to link up to your pages...

Thank you so very much to every single one of you for being a part of this fun creative environment. We'd have nothing without all of you!!! Merry almost Christmas!

Well, isn't this impressive...one more post today. I'm on a roll! Okay, there's a winner for the November Scraplift challenge of Jenny's work. The lucky winner is Shanks! See her work here and this is the winning layout! Shanks, email me at info@lotuspaperie.com with your mailing info and I'll get your package out to you after the crazy post office lineups subside!


and because I know how much you all LOVE a good contest, here's a slightly late look at the three finalists for November's Flickr Challenge. There's a poll on the sidebar which will be up for the next two weeks for you to cast your vote!

Allison Curry
"Talk Birdy to me"

Patricia Rodriguez
"Shhh... He's sleeping"

Smllchng26
"I heart dirt"

update (and excuses)

Okay, I'm way behind on things
I'm finally back from a road trip that was way too long
Everyone in my house is sick
There's mountains of packages to ship
I am behind on posting some really important stuff
I'm not even done Xmas shopping *sigh*

Funny how in December everything seems to be bigger and badder than in any other month. I have a mammoth cold and so does Ray. We never get sick at the same time. I got home on Friday night and on the last leg of the trip, I got to thinking about all the stuff I hadn't been able to work on while I was away. I got sick and tired of fighting with hotel wireless (or lack thereof) to even dream of staying caught up.

So if you are waiting for a parcel from me, it'll get to you after the holidays. If I tried to ship it while this sick, I'm sure your package would wind up in Cuba or something...actually Cuba sounds like a great place to be given that it's -40 or so here but I digress...I promise I'll get the November Favorite Flickr pages posted and the poll up as soon as I can so we can celebrate our monthly favorites and then we'll be ready for another round of faves in January.

Update on Emilie, she's sicker than sick with "the Mother of all colds" as she told me in her last email. Not to mention that she's been having allergic reactions to most cold meds so needless to say, the hives accompanying her nasty cold aren't exactly conducive to scrapping. Poor girl. Go over to her blog and give her some love to help her with her holiday spirit...if anyone is near to her location, perhaps you could lend her a hand so she could get her tree up!

I want to send out an industrial sized Thank You to my trusty pal and co-blogger, Tania. Dude, you are an effin' superstar...you kept the blog cookin' along while I was gone and it was as smooth as a baby's bottom! Nicely done, flawlessly executed. Giant sigh of relief for me. Good help is hard to find and Tania, you are as good as they come!! THANK YOU !!!

Okay, I'm off to try and catch up on the teetering mountains of mail, return emails, round up parcels for mailing (after the holidays...those lines scare me!) scratch a few items off the to-do list and maybe even have a shower. I know I'm aiming high...maybe I'll actually get it all done.

PS. Tomorrow's our 2nd Blogoversary! Check back for the fun :)