Slow and Steady...

is the way to do it,

at least according to Aesop's turtle.

I think I'd like to try fast and steady next.

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In further birthday fanfare,

ELINA won our special Monday Challenge

and picked up some leggy turtles from Amber Ink.

She turned right around and entered

LESS IS MORE

with this cutie:

ELINA!

and the birthday cards are starting to come in...

NINA!

LEE ANNE!

Pre party starts on MONDAY!

It will be party hat central,

so be sure to come and get yours.

Just lookin' at new born photos....

Remember when Amber Ink was just born?

I was just looking at old photos last night

and getting a little melancholy

like parents do when their kids grow up...

Remember Jen's mini Chocolate and Lemon croissants?

and fresh Raspberry Tarts?

and a big UnVeil...

With good friends...

and PLAY TIME...

and lot's of laughs...

and of course there was a BLOG FROLIC...

With our FIRST EVER Torchbearers...

Karin Martin - http://bit.ly/b2nJ24

Taylor Usry - http://bit.ly/cEyeqX

Nicole Anderson - http://bit.ly/cH59Wb

Pinky O'Hagan - http://bit.ly/9GdDAT

Suzi McKenzie - http://bit.ly/dlgTMl

and our Ambassador of Awesomeness...

Shannan Teubner - http://bit.ly/9PSECf

and some new friends...

Charmaine Ikach - http://bit.ly/9eoQHy
Dawn Burnworth - http://bit.ly/9uO37g

Jodi Collins - http://bit.ly/a7AcTV

Michele Boyer - http://bit.ly/avDqr4

Paula Williamson - http://bit.ly/bVh49G

Sankari Wegman - http://bit.ly/bTlYMF

and now our baby is turning ONE!

We hope you come and celebrate with us

We plan on making some new memories

and new friends

ALL NEXT WEEK!

 

WOYWW - Live What You Love

All month I've been meaning to get crazy organized. I have a lot of really big goals in my life right now, maybe you do too. This evening I made a calendar to help me. 

Lately I've been making dumb mistakes I know could be avoided with a master calendar. So this is going to go on my wall. You can have one or twelve too.

If you peek you can see on the left side of my computer is a big stack of paper with a girly-girl and an owl. This is April Bowles and Mayi Caries Creative Approach to Business Planning. Which as far as resources go, is pretty rockin'. Oh and the headband, to better keep my hair out of my eyes, American Apparel.

Happy Birthday!

Or as they say in Finnish....

or in card maker's language:

NINA!

Amber Ink is getting ready to celebrate a birthday.
July 20th won't be an anniversary mind you.
We've been to enough First year baby birthday luaus to know the difference.
Anniversary celebration vs. One year birthday party.
Um...yeah...we choose option B.
We hope you will join us.

And the random winner of our yesterday comment is...

#1
(Elina!)
 I didn't even know that Random.org ever picked the #1!
At any rate, Elina, please contact us @ info@amberink.com
and let us know which of yesterdays legs
 (and other attached body parts) you'd like.

Thanks for your comments everyone
because we really really like them
and don't forget to enter LESS IS MORE
by Friday for a chance to win
even more AmberInk goodnessies.

Can you guess the challenge

for "Less is More" this week?

(Which BTW we are sponsoring all month.)

Here are some clues...

Click for the bigger picture.

Just thinking of Kate's Marilyn moment ;)

Can you guess it?????

Leave us your answer in the comments

by tomorrow

and we'll choose a winner.

(winner receives the image of their choice from the above!)

Yeah BABY!  We're getting in birthday party mode.

Amber Ink turns ONE this month!!!!!



Amber Ink, Tetris style

Ever since Amber was really little

she has been a Tetris champ.

She would challenge unsuspecting visitors in our home

to a game of it when she could barely hold the controls.

I gave up long ago. 

 I also never play Boggle with members of my family.

That kind of competition just is not fun to me.

I'd rather saw off my own leg...

and use it as a hockey stick.*

In most of the set's Amber creates there is at least one image

that can be used over and over again for an infinitive repeat

(which is why this post reminded me about Tetris)

So we were tickled when Lucianna found it!

Do you see it?

LUCIANNA!

It's in here:

Did you find it?

Yep...that's the one.

And that dear friends is how Lucianna

played Tetris @ Amber Ink.

She said it was fun.

Of course for some of us,

we'd rather...

*

More shades of blue

Feeling blue?

Here's one way to cheer up:

CAMMI!

PENNI!


so remember...

If you're feeling blue,

Dream, dream, dream,

that's the thing to do.

things are never as bad as the seem

when you dream, dream, dream.

(just a little Ella coming your way this Tuesday morn.)

Happy Red, White and BLUE...

Especially shades of blue!

We are sponsoring a firecracker of a challenge blog...

who's theme this week just happens to be

SHADES OF BLUE

Now here's a perfect example to get you

started so that YOU can enter

(You have until Friday on this one,

but we are sponsoring all month!)

Nina took this:

And turned it in these awesome shades of blue:

NINA!

What a star!

If you're doing parades and Bar-B-Q's today

we hope the sun is shining for you

and when it goes down,

may the Fireworks be BRIGHT!

Happy 4th!!!