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Design anywhere with Cricut Gypsy from Provo Craft Life shouldn’t slow down when you get inspired with a good design. Now it doesn’t have to with Gypsy™, the handheld design studio for Cricut®. Whether you’re on the road or just in the backyard, you can escape, be creative, and have fun. Gypsy stores all your Cricut cartridges, making it easy to search and find just the right shape. You will have all the design features of Cricut DesignStudio® at your fingertips. Gypsy works easily with any Cricut machine—just connect and cut!

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I got an email this morning from www.hallmarkscrapbook.com advertising a pre-sale of 4 new cartridges that will be released this fall. As fast as they release cartridges there is no way I would be able to catch up and have them all. I always what for Michaels, Joann's or Roberts to have a great sale before I buy any. I usually get them between $35 and $40. There is no way I would have pay the MSRP on any of these. Scrapbook USA is also another great place to stock up on cartridges but that is when I usually stock pile the paper and other embellishments. So anyway here are the 4 newest additions to the Cricut Cartridge Library:

I think I am most excited about the Everyday Paper Dolls. I have the other paper dolls cartridge and love everything about it. There is so much on there and it is very versatile. Right now if I had to pick just one that would be the one I could not live with out.

Not so busy now!

Well for starting off super busy the summer has actually slowed down a bit for me. Since the weekend trip out of town on the 4th Jared and I really haven't done much of anything but work. Jared's work is finally starting to pick to where he is working almost every day, weekends included and the weekends he has off seem to be the ones I work. I actually have been trying to do some house cleaning. We have been in this house 18 months which is longer than we have lived anywhere for a few years so the dust and stuff as built up some and with 2 dogs and 3 cats you can better believe there is a lot of hair and dust hiding in places I never thought to look. The other day I vacuumed and when I emptied the canister you would have thought there was an entire extra dog in there :)I did make a few cards for the 4th but because is snicked up on me some I did not make many. Here were the two that I made and duplicated. I am still enjoying my crafting. I have started including crafty stuff in my work with me team and they really like it. Just hope they don't come to expect it. I need to stat working on my Christmas cards and then a friend as asked me to make some baby shower invitation for her. I am just going to cut the stuff out though and show her how to put them all together. Much less work for me. I hope everyone is out enjoying their summers and look forward to updates to see what the world is up too

Happy 4th of July!

The fireworks display at Otter Creek. I hope everyone had a great 4th and is having a fantastic summer!

Birthday wishes for my Sister

Our 4th of July

The 4th of July found us down south in Circlevile/Panquitch. Jared and I decided to make a weekend vacation of it and stayed in Paquitch while the other were at the RV park in Circleville. We were lucked out and found a motel that would allow dogs. Functionally was all that matter because we spent very little time here. We arrived at 9:00 pm on the 3rd.

The morning of the 4th we traveled through the canyon to meet up with the others in Cricleville for the parade. Kaitlyn and Eryk were dressed for the occasion.

They really go all out with the candy at this pararde

Then it was back to the RV park for breakfast

and to get ready to go to the lake

Kailtyn Humored me by posing for the this picture. Similar to this one: http://cre8ncam.blogspot.com/2008/07/celebrating-4th.html From last year

Then it was on to the lake, where it was a little hot for the 1st part of the day. Chloe found a nice way to cool off by laying in the lake

And chasing sticks in the water

Jared shielded himself with an umbrella that didn't last much longer when the wind started blowing

Eryk spent some time hunting Lizards

Then it began to rain, sending everyone to seek shelter

The rain did not last too long and it certainly cooled things down a bit

Back to fishing

Waiting for a bite

Playing in the water

Relaxing on the 4 wheeler

Hanging out with friends

It wasn't too long after the line was cast out that Eryk got a bite

Catch and release

Cheyenne trying her luck!

Chloe taking it all in

Smiling for me. Isn't she beautiful?

Kaitlyn and friends

The beauty of the lake

Dancing with the dog

More beauty

Time for dinner

The moon across the lake

Eating

Sunset

The moon

Sparklers by the fire

More moon and lake

The fire an waiting for the big fireworks

Let the fireworks begin