AND WE'RE OFF...

To a running start!!!!
Smooth as silk. Without a hitch. Don't we love a happy story? Follow along and cheer them on...

For the Brown Team...
Take one look at Jackie Randolph’s blog and you will quickly see how VERY lucky her 6 (count them 1,2,3,4,5,6) grandsons are! This summer has been her first summer of semi-retirement so she claims that she can now be that “OFFICIAL” stay – at – home granny. Do stampers call that a SAHG? Probably. One of those grandsons has been fortunate enough to live full time with Jackie and her hubby for the past 10 years. They have one little girl too – 11 year old Abby who just happens to be a….dachshund! As a child Jackie dreamt of being a doctor, but who needs a zillion years of medical school when you’re a doctor of souls! We can say this because any blog that started a little over a year ago and now has nearly 400 followers must be offering the right kind of medicine. Go get your prescription filled @ http://papermoments.blogspot.com/

For the Blue Team...
Shannon Erskine does the kind of stamping that only the sweetest, most perfect of southern belles could do! She lives in country comfort in a small one stoplight town in the south of Georgia, USA. Her granny lives in the house in front, an uncle in the house behind, her MIL across the street and her dad down the road – all this about a block away from a peanut mill. She loves good southern cooking and even drinks sweet tea – but NOT from a mason jar! It makes us want to start writing a novel with Shannon as the main character!!! She has been married for nine years and has three of the most adorable little monsters you could ever find! The one word she uses to describe herself? Content. Forget the shrink this week and visit Shannon’s blog instead @ http://hoppycreations.blogspot.com/
For the Purple Team...
Only the very coolest of mom’s help their kids set up a stamping blog of their own! Rhonda Miller sets the pace for Abby (9), William (7), Lizzy (6), and Lydia (2) . She colors, they color. She crafts, they craft. She blogs, they blog. She cooks, they cook. Hmmm…do we hear dream mom in our midst? She shares the four of them with her DH of twelve years, their dachshund named Lady, kitty Coyote and kitty Miss Kitty! Rhonda says that her worst habit is losing things, but no doubt she is the kind of mom who will send the kids on a treasure hunt to find it. See how fun stamping can be again @ http://bluepoohbear753.blogspot.com/

For the Orange Team...
Can you just smell the creativity in the air? We can! Of course we are year of the dog girls (don’t go there) but we share a common trait with our next torchbearer…who by her own accord has “an extreme sense of smell…like a bloodhound!” Since we are experts, we know an amazing bouquet when our proboscises detect it! Emily Leiphart lives in the Great White North (Toronto, Canada) with her husband of six years, their two-year-old son and an earthy tabby feline. She loves to travel and if she could be anywhere, it would be in Italy where -let it be said right here and now- she and her family will be retiring to one day. Hmmm...our noses are acting up again!!! We are getting a whiff of excitement combined with orange and lemon trees, pink Neapolitan ice cream, truffles, chestnuts roasting and oh, what is that? Must be Emily's imagination and creativity again!! Smell See for yourself @ http://www.leiphartonart.blogspot.com/

For the Pink Team...
Lorraine Lowe comes to us from a very strong UK based PINK TEAM. She is an avid crafter, gardener and animal lover. Lorraine is a single mom to a loving son and two fur babies – a Loppear Rabbit named JoJo and a Jack Russell named Polo. She was first introduced to stamping on QVC and upon retiring, treated herself to a laptop and joined the land of blog! See her awesome stuff @ http://coldwaters2.blogspot.com/We're so excited to have her!