Free Stuff: It's a Good Thing

When my scrapbooking interest started months ago, I signed up to receive free e-newsletters from different magazines like Creating Keepsakes and Simple Scrapbooks. In one of the newsletters, it mentioned that you could apply to be on a survey list and get free stuff. So I applied, and they picked me! They email me when a survey is ready on their website, I take a minute of my life to answer questions, and once a month, they send me something for free. Not a bad deal.

So I got my first freebie in the mail yesterday: 101 Things You Can Do With Your Scrapbook Supplies. I haven't finished looking through it, but so far it offers a lot of good ideas for using what you already have in new, unique ways. Using what you already have - I like that.

When I first started this blog and was searching creation for what to call it, I stumbled across someone else's blog of a different color. She calls hers Very Pink. For some reason, I became a regular visitor to this blog of someone who lives in Texas and I DON'T EVEN KNOW HER. But I enjoy reading her posts because she is hilarious. You can find out a lot about someone from reading their daily entries, of course, and one thing that Very Pink does is post pictures of her 4 Basenjis (which, if you've never heard of them, are called "barkless dogs"). Every single post includes at least one picture of a dog.

Now that we have a puppy, I thought that is a great idea. Henceforth, all of my posts will include a puppy picture. Most of the pictures I've taken of Darra so far have been of her sleeping. She sleeps a lot, and in the weirdest positions. Quite immodest and unladylike at times.

Exhibit A: