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Post by pinklady on Mar 19, 2024 23:26:34 GMT
It all sounds like heaven except for the no internet. That would be the hard part because I work from home and I love to surf the net. I mean the whole COVID lockdown was awesome for me.
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Post by pinklady on Mar 19, 2024 14:36:30 GMT
Butterflies get me EVERY TIME!
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Post by pinklady on Mar 18, 2024 15:37:20 GMT
Welcome mem186! If you know you enjoy coloring, you may want to splurge on alcohol markers but if you are just dipping your toe in, I'd highly recommend an inexpensive set from Amazon. I purchased a set from Studio 71. I'm not a colorer so they work for me but they are not fancy. Since you have never attended one of the events before, I highly recommend that you read the previous Crop & Create threads. There's a ton of good info in them.
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Post by pinklady on Mar 18, 2024 15:14:15 GMT
I order regularly from AliExpress and once from Temu. I've never had any issues with my credit card being compromised. I only order from the website not from the app. I've had really great experiences getting refunds when product was missing or defective.
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Post by pinklady on Mar 18, 2024 15:11:55 GMT
The Temu app is horrible, spam and message inundation. Never used the App. One thing I can say is my card making has really expanded mostly due to Temu. I have been able to buy a vast assortment of cool dies and some stamp and die sets that would have been almost 10X the price on traditional craft sites or stores. True, I have some guilt possibly supporting questionable practices, but so many businesses push boundaries, not just in China. Well, you do you I guess. Thankfully there are still a lot of crafters who would rather pay the actual creators for those cool dies and stamp sets and we might be able to keep them in business and creating for us a bit longer. But you go ahead and buy the cheap knock-offs from those that just outright steal the designer’s creative and intellectual property. Surely that won’t ever drive the industry into the ground. If the US craft businesses actually wanted to stop the AliExpress & Temu buying then then they'd offer their product at a reasonable price. Why can Gina Marie Designs offer her dies for $10 but everyone else charges $25+? They can blame AE and Temu all they want but the reality is they need to look within.
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Post by pinklady on Mar 15, 2024 15:55:23 GMT
I stand by what I said originally...I'd tell the kid their feelings are valid and also let them know that this won't be the last time someone disappoints them in their life. Friends will come and go throughout their life.
What is a "minor teenager"? 17? 13? That makes a difference to me. I mean if this is a 17yr old and 20yr old I may have differing advice than if it was a 13yr old and a 26yr old.
I may suggest that the next time they are together and your son can pull him aside one on one, he tell him that he saw him take whatever it was and that was not OK. I would not go into what ifs or legal anything but just leave it at that was not OK.
As the parent, I'd limit the time my kid was around the adult. If your son has to be in this group, I'd encourage him to put distance between the adult and himself.
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Post by pinklady on Mar 15, 2024 15:32:09 GMT
Honestly, there's too much missing information from the story for specific advice. With what's posted, I'd tell the kid their feelings are valid and also let them know that this won't be the last time someone disappoints them in their life. Friends will come and go throughout their life. What kind of missing info? I can’t think of anything else that’s relevant to the story For starters...What are the ages of the child and adult? What is their relationship? Was this the first time this happened or is it a pattern? How often are they together? ETA: The fact that you threw in their undocumented status also makes me suspicious.
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Post by pinklady on Mar 15, 2024 15:20:36 GMT
Honestly, there's too much missing information from the story for specific advice. With what's posted, I'd tell the kid their feelings are valid and also let them know that this won't be the last time someone disappoints them in their life. Friends will come and go throughout their life.
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Post by pinklady on Mar 15, 2024 13:44:57 GMT
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Post by pinklady on Mar 14, 2024 20:22:35 GMT
What is your school's policy if a child threatens or discusses harming another student? I am job sharing this year due to an abnormally low number of kids in an upper grade. We have a student who has said vague things in my hearing that concern me, but last week mentioned he wants to set another student's house on fire. My coteacher overheard him earlier this week say he wanted to go the students house and find where he slept and cut the other student's head off. He also deliberately breaks things that belong to this student. The kids are supposedly friends and play together all the time. Both at school and on playdates. We have talked to the school counselor and the parents. But in my opinion that isn't enough. Parents blame it on his ADD. They are truly lovely people. Kind, caring and give the appearance of being good parents. They have another child who is in Kindergarten and seems to be a dream student with excellent social skills. I have seen the mother interact with her son and she says and does all the things you would expect of an attentive parent. How would your school handle a situation like this? Not a teacher but in today's climate, I would alert the police whether that was against school policy or not. Those are serious comments, threats, thoughts, or whatever you want to call them.
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Post by pinklady on Mar 12, 2024 15:27:41 GMT
Well - that was so predictable, that I almost wrote it in the bottom of my post myself because I knew it wouldn't take one of the three stooges long. But you are 100% wrong. I don't like Meghan and Harry - and that's based on what I have heard them say in their own words in interviews and their TV shows and books. Go back and check every single one of my posts and you'll see that I while have had many options about what they have done and said publicly and I have called him a spoiled brat many times, and her a liar. However I don't have energy to "hate" them...I've never brought into a single conspiracy theory about them, I have never suggested either of them should die or harm themselves, nor do I make up irrational, ridiculous stories about them. You may not agree with my opinions, but those opinions are based on factual actions & events. But that doesn't fit into your black & white narrow little way of thinking does it? Not liking someone and thinking they have made some bad life choices is by no stretch of the imagination the same thing as wanting someone to kill themselves, or wish them dead or believe rumors that he beats his wife or that she has multiple affairs and abortions and is currently locked up in an asylum. I thought even you with your limited thought process that only extends to one line could see the difference - but obviously not. Sure Jan
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Post by pinklady on Mar 12, 2024 13:27:30 GMT
The hatred some of them have for Catherine is next level Hello Pot, this is Kettle...guess what, you're black.
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Post by pinklady on Mar 12, 2024 3:46:56 GMT
🤣😂🤣😂🤣 WTF Amateur photographer editing is using an 8 yr old Vogue cover shoot photo? 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
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Post by pinklady on Mar 12, 2024 0:55:47 GMT
I Back when my kids were in school, I wasn't interested in climbing the corporate ladder. And now that I'm older and heading towards retirement, I still don't want to climb the corporate ladder! There is absolutely nothing wrong with not wanting to climb the corporate ladder. In fact I’m sitting in this bench with you.
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Post by pinklady on Mar 11, 2024 23:59:35 GMT
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Post by pinklady on Mar 11, 2024 23:55:14 GMT
There are HUGE issues with the post office(s) that PinkFresh uses. I ordered twice a month or so ago and my boxes were picked up but not scanned again for 2 weeks. Then I checked one day and they had been received by my local post office and were out for delivery. There was no scanning in between.
I’ll see if I can find the article I read about it and post it.
ETA: per the Facebook group I was in for their last event, they suck at responding to emails.
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Post by pinklady on Mar 11, 2024 22:13:37 GMT
I really like all the products. It seems like the interactive card can be used with other products and not just a rainbow. I'm pretty sure the dimensional greenhouse die can be added to a flat card and look great too. I love the stencil set and card. It's similar to the stencil set that was released this weekend but in my opinion better. I'm extremely happy with these products!
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Post by pinklady on Mar 11, 2024 16:51:42 GMT
MDscrapaholic Shakti I saw the pink & green floral background cards on instagram earlier today. Those are gorgeous cards!
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Post by pinklady on Mar 11, 2024 14:11:50 GMT
No. They "earn" my vote by being the Democrat who's running. That's my bar... Democrat. Period. For local elections, like our county board where everyone is a Democrat, then yes they need to tell me why I should vote for them. I agree but my only caveat is if they were a life long republican, endorsed and supported the republican ways, then all of a sudden run as a democrat. My example would be Rick Caruso who ran for Mayor of Los Angeles last year. I truly believe he only ran to get into office to benefit his personal businesses which have to do with creating new commercial buildings. He thought he could switch to being a democrat and scoop up all the republican vote and siphon a lot of the democrat vote. I was surprised at the true blue democrats who supported him. In the end, it didn't work.
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Post by pinklady on Mar 10, 2024 16:01:14 GMT
The first picture is so grainy how can you compare that to anything? I am genuinely curious what your theory is. Besides the fact you don't think the Mother's Day picture legitimate. Do you think she is pregnant? You can’t tell the woman in the “grainy” picture has a swollen face? I mean she looks like she’s got 20 pounds on the “new” photo of Kate which are supposedly taken days apart. I don’t have a theory and have no clue if she’s pregnant. What I do know is 3 times she was in full glam posing for pictures 30 min after giving birth. Now she’s hiding out for 3 months for “abdominal surgery”. Then to appease the public, an obviously photoshopped image is released. It’s bizarre.
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Post by pinklady on Mar 10, 2024 15:09:41 GMT
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Post by pinklady on Mar 10, 2024 4:44:19 GMT
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Here’s the full video.
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Post by pinklady on Mar 10, 2024 4:38:26 GMT
My craft room is my ultimate happy place, well I guess my house in general too.
Outside of my house it would be sitting on a bench on Main Street at Disneyland eating a pretzel and people watching. I could do that for hours.
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Post by pinklady on Mar 9, 2024 19:19:13 GMT
I signed up this morning. I thought a lot about it this week and I really get a lot of joy out of this event so I decided to go for it.
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Post by pinklady on Mar 9, 2024 18:35:00 GMT
I watched on and off yesterday while I was working. I liked that it was just one continuous live. I'm still on the fence about Carissa's bundle. I like what Natasha is doing with the rub-ons. We got that paper and rub-ons at crop & create last year. It was one of my favorite kits. Do you remember which C&C event it was - spring or fall? It was from the Sep 2023 Fall event. They also have more coordinating products in the Joyful line...I have some of those in my cart too. I blame kmage! I had no idea this event existed until she posted
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Post by pinklady on Mar 9, 2024 16:59:52 GMT
I watched on and off yesterday while I was working. I liked that it was just one continuous live. I'm still on the fence about Carissa's bundle. I like what Natasha is doing with the rub-ons. We got that paper and rub-ons at crop & create last year. It was one of my favorite kits.
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Post by pinklady on Mar 8, 2024 23:14:42 GMT
I am so on the fence about that Howdy die set. It's so cute, but I never say Howdy lol. I have Carissa bundle in my cart and I keep going back to it but stop short of clicking pay now. If I buy only what I like it's way more expensive than the bundle. I have so many decisions to make.
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Post by pinklady on Mar 8, 2024 22:08:58 GMT
Oh wow! That is beautiful! Decisions decisions.
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Post by pinklady on Mar 8, 2024 15:24:01 GMT
OMG that pink Gemini Jr that Carissa is using is to die for!!!!
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