LollyChops

The thank you giveaway...

The past two weeks have been completely and totally amazing!  You guys have shown me so much love! I am 110% overwhelmed and humbled by it all! I thought it would be a good time to do a little big giveaway and share some of the pictures from the Live with Prima at The Little Blue House party from last week! We had yodeling, teal cupcakes and tons of teal decked out ladies for the party!  I loved every single second of it!

The Live with Prima Fiasco
The show insane.  Insane mostly for me.  I couldn't get all my stuff prepared ahead of time because I didn't have enough supplies to pre-cut my project pieces as I normally do... so in short...  I was a total maniac.  I have never made that many mistakes and been that flustered on camera ever before.  It was completely AWESOME! You must watch me fumble and cut things incorrectly (you can see it HERE)!  I am shaking my head and laughing just thinking about it!

I want to share a few pics of the girls who came to The Little Blue House card class before the show! 

I personally want to thank each and every single one of them (there were two rooms full and I only captured one room of girls cause I was running around like a crazy person)!  I was floored... as each girl was driving up and getting out of their car... DECKED from head to toe in teal...  well let me tell you that just reliving it here with you now is bringing tears to my eyes.  It was the coolest thing I have ever experienced in my crafty life!!  I felt so much love and support.  It was the most amazing feeling ever!

We had teal lips (thanks to the teal cupcakes).

 
Teal kisses anyone???

Teal head bands, teal nose rings (you read that right), teal glasses, teal earrings, teal rings, and...

...even teal shoes and purses!
(I love the teal bejeweled dainty pinky finger)

Miss Linda on the left there didn't get the memo about the wearing teal for the class... but she had a teal cup so she was under the force field of teal!!!
(thank goodness!!!)

We'll be doing another show from The Little Blue House in May and I promise you... it's going to be even better!  I had an ephipahany about what I wanted to do and the plans are already in the works!
(MUHAHAHAHA) 

Next up...
Here are two peeps from my April Live with Prima projects!

This here green and white flower pot would make the perfect Mother's Day gift!
It's designed to hold a container that you can fill with live flowers! 

...and...

This is a peep of a little wall hanging that I made using wooden embroidery hoops!
(big thanks to my friend Susan Tidwell from Artfu Musings for the inspiration for this project)!!

I thought it might be fun to do another box-o-crafty goodies giveaway like I did back in January...
Soooo here goes!

This is just a little peep of what I am giving away!
(there's loads more!!) 

All you have to do to enter is leave me a little comment letting me know what your favorite color is...and it's ok if it's not teal (I still loves ya anyways)!  This giveaway is open to anyone, anywhere!  I'll pick a winner next Sunday evening!

P.S.  MomChops is doing great after her knee replacement surgery last Friday!!!!  She should be coming home from the hospital today!!!  I'll be staying wth her Tuesday and Wednesday... I gotta make sure she doesn't get up and do the boot scoot boogie!  Thanks for all the love and support you left for her!!!!

P.S.S.T.  XOs!

Live with Prima (and Lolly and Daniela too)!!!

Hi everyone!  Tonight is the night I've been waiting for!  Daniela Dobson and I are going to be doing Live with Prima online live from The Little Blue House in Kellex, TX!  I am so excited about the show that I doubt I'll be able to sleep!

I have such a big surprise planned, I can hardly wait for you to see!  I'm not announcing anything, it's just typical Lolly fun and silliness!  I have props and stickers and color coordinated folks and the whole 9 yards!

We'll start at 8:30CST and will be making 10 totally awesome cards!  Daniela designed 6 of them and I designed 4 of them (cause I'm slow like that when it comes to cards)!

It's all about the TEAL!
Tonight before the show, if you're really feeling tealish, I highly recommend that you print up a set of these here labels for yourself and hand them out to everyone in your family.  If you want to have a watch party and really get things kicked up... wear matching teal outfits too!  Nothing says fun like teal right?

You can get your very own download and print freebie HERE (it's a PDF so right click on that link and save it to your desktop)!  As I type this, I am sitting here in my jammies wearing TWO of these stickers (I couldn't let the misprints go to waste and I figured I should have an extra one in case I forgot my name and favorite color in the middle of the night)!

Food for thought...
I'm thinking about starting a teal lovers anonymous fan club...  if you think you might want to join, let me know.  We can have a secret handshake and everything (involving teal of course)!  We could have teal t-shirts, and teal mugs, and even a teal pasta dish (being Italian mandates a pasta dish)!

MomChops will be at the show tonight too so you can wish her luck before her second knee replacement surgery TOMORROW (or you can leave her some HUGS here to read throughout the day today)!  I bet she would really love that!

I'll see you guys tonight (in teal)!

The DETAILS:  You can watch Daniela and I on Live with Prima tonight - March 24, 2011 -  by clicking on this link HERE!  We'll be starting at 8:30CST but I highly recommend that you tune in about 15 - 20 minutes early!  You won't want to miss the beginning...  trust me!  XOS you guys and thanks for your friendship and support!!!! 

P.S.S.T.  I love teal.  The end.

UPDATE:  You can watch the Live with Prima class rerun HERE and download the PDF with ALL of the details on the card elements (sizes and close-ups HERE - just right click on the link to save the PDF).  HUGS and thanks for joining us last night!!!!

Teal ImPearfections

Hello sweetest friends on the whole planet!  I'm still smiling from all the laughs you shared with me during the Teal of Fortune game last week!

I am beyond thrilled to let you know that our first Front Porch Kit sold out before we even did the official Friday Night Live reveal show on UStream! Tracy and I were standing around looking at each other before the show in utter disbelief that it was already gone!!!  EEPS!

While we were taping the show RonChops was busy putting the kits together at our house!  I thought it would be fun to share a few behind the scenes photos from our weekend (more on that teal pear in a sec)!

Front Porch Kits - KItting the Kits
RonChops started sorting the paper while we were doing the Friday Night Live show so I don't have any photos of that part of it... 
(and he watched the whole show too... which I thought was completely and totally sweet)!
I loves my RonChops!!!

Initially he used our kitchen counter to lay everything out...
...and quickly discovered that it wasn't gonna be big enough...
...so he had to do things in batches...

...and while all that was going on...

 ...The Front Porch Kits Technical Supervisor...
(aka DogChops)

...was taking a little managerial break...

Once RC moved past the chipboard flowers and felt butterflies...
(poor RonChops...)
(I promised him I wouldn't tell his friends he was doing this)
(good thing his friends don't read LollyChops.com!!!)

...he started on the ribbon and jute twine...
(I promise him that there would be no photos of him cutting teal ribbon)
(jute is almost manly)
(almost)

...and while the ribbon cutting was going on...

  
...The Front Porch Kits Technical Supervisor...
...decided to stop for a little dinner break...

 RonChops kept on cutting the ribbon and get it put into batches...
RonChops is very very organized!
(which is why he's in charge of the kitting and not me)

...and that's when he informed me that I needed to stop horsing around with the camera and get busy with helping him...
(the truth of the matter is that the glitter part was coming up and he was having nothing to do with glitter)!
(The man has his limits)

The End. 

Back to the teal pear from way up there!
I'm going to be doing a little live show tonight (Monday - March 21 at 8:30PM CST) on the Helmar UStream channel!  If you would like to see how I made that little fella (and that button covered pumpkin from way back in September)...  tune in tonight right HERE to find out!

I'll be sharing two different ways you can cover anything you want in buttons!  I do hope you'll drop in!

Winner Winner Teal for DInner
Lastly... here is a run down of ALL the winners from last week (with some new ones thrown in from the last post)!  Gena, Amy S., Emily, Amber, Irene & Claudia (2xs!!!), Beth D., Timmi, and Carol S-U!  I'll be writing to you girls this week to get your addresses (I just need one more Lolly to help me out with all the things I have going on... so if you see one on sale let me know...  I'm too cheap to pay full price for a Lolly).

P.S.  I'll be doing ANOTHER live show this Thursday for Live with Prima...  and I promise you guys...  it's going to be the most funnest of the fun shows ever!  We'll be broadcasting from The Little Blue House and I'll have a guest with me too (and there might be cow girls and real live geetars and sing'un involved...  just sayin'). I'll be posting more details about the show this Thursday (is the sky falling...  cause I'm about to post twice in one week again) so be sure to drop back by!  XOs!

UPDATE:  You can get the paper mache pear I used to make the button covered pear from Holcraft HERE (scroll down - it's way down on this page)!

Front Porch Kits - Reveal Day

This might be the shortest post ever... it's 2am and my eyeballs are already tucked into bed (I think I might even hear them snoring)!

I just wanted to drop in with a single solitary lonely ole pic and invite you all to join me tonight on UStream for our fun reveal, meet the girls, party, technique and project class!  We'll have prizes (you could win our first kit) and a LOT of craziness (if you think I'm zany, wait till you meet the girls I create with)! 

You can find us LIVE tonight at 8:30PM CST on our new Ustream Channel right HERE!

I would honestly love to see you there!

Oh and I'll announce all of the winners from this whole entire week on Monday (along with a LOT more fun stuff)!

From the bottom of my teal colored little heart...  I thank each and every one you for joining me this week.  This has been the most amazing fun time I have ever had with you guys!  I loves the lot of yas!

P.S.  You can meet the girls I create with on the Front Porch Design Team HERE...  and you can check out the list of the full kit contents HERE!  XOs!

Front Porch Kits - Sneaky Peaks Week (day 4)!

You guys have officially gotten into my brain and know me better than I realized!  By the 6th or so comment this morning you had all started to figure it out...

I named that little guy Hank the Plank...

Some of the guesses you sent in had me in stitches so I am gonna share them here...

Hank Von Plank
(that's the international/wordly version of Hank)

Walk the Plank
(I had visions of pirate ships in my head ALL day)

Desk Art Block
Utterly brilliant...  I mean that took some creativity!

Rock the Block
(I envisioned a head banging plank with this comment and have since contacted MTV to see if they might be interested in sponsoring a world tour)

Jack the Quack
(that's the DuckChops version of the plank... DogChops was particularly interested in this one)

Tank the Plank
(for the military enthusiast)

Dork the Stork
(I have another craft project who I'm saving this name for)

Work the Plank
(I'm thinking we need to leave that one alone...)

KICK the Plank
(came with the comment "one can get frustrated sometimes while trying to be creative!"...  truer words were never spoken!!!!)

...and Siri, Hank the Plank is indeed Hank the Tree Stumps brother.

Rock the Trunk
(another one that Hank was particularly interested in seeing become a world tour type event)

Hawk the Block
(Hanks second cousin twice removed is called Hawk...  just lettin' you know)

Hock the block
(The pawn shop brother of Hawk the Block...  poor fella never had a chance)

...and finally...

Wack the Block
(came with the suggestion that it might be something that needed to be done while completing the kit)
(Oh deer...  I sure hope NOT)!

I had a long long long day yesterday so I am gonna leave you guys a little lonely today and just tell you that you still made me laugh more than ever!  I'm just one tired out Lolly.

The wieners from yesterday's crazy Hanktastic extravaganza are Gena and Amy!  Congrats girls!

...and without any strings or letters or guesses attached...

Leave a comment today to win one final prize (before the BIG prize extravangaza Friday!

All you have to leave are HUGS.

P.S.  XOs!

P.S.S.T. The kits are selling like mad and we are kinda thinking that they might sell out (which is pretty much blowing our minds).  Thanks for ALL of your support!  You can check out the pre-orders HERE!

P.S.S.S.T. Tomorrow night we're going to be giving a kit away on our UStream show!  I'll share all the details in my full reveal post tomorrow morning!!!! XOs!