yup that's me. One happy, happy, happy gal cause I received my "must have" Martha Stewart scalloped heart punch. Yep the one I put a nationwide search for. My buddy Dawn found it and I owe her one!
I love that she lovingly wrapped it in bubble wrap and in a box so that it would not get damaged in transit. Thanks so much my friend, again I owe you one.
Now another really cool thing that happened to me is that I fell in love with this scrap space. Lately I've been buying things here and there to kind of duplicate the space and I'm hoping that sometime in the future I will be able to purchase some furniture to house all my scrapping supplies and get rid of all the clutter and the ugly plastic bins that currently house my stuff. The bins are so overloaded with materials that they are not holding up very well and as a result, its became quite an eye sore. Bless Brandon for not giving me too much grief about it, but it does bother me. So eventually, someday. Anyway, I recently found her blog and have been looking at her work. She is really very good at her craft and such an amazingly sweet person. She mentioned that she had her work published in Scrapbook Trends and I wanted to see more details and photos of her work. Lately I've been getting some issues of ST due to my buddy Yvonne getting her pub. nod and because I think the magazine itself is just full of gorgeousness, that I use my Michael's coupon or purchase by way of E-bay to score some issues below the cover price. So I was looking for the Mini-Albums II issue and it's sold out, so Dedra was kind enough to mail me a copy. I was so happy and I suddenly realized that I should have asked her to sign it. Well great minds think alike because not only did she sign it but also left very sweet notes for me inside. 
Here is the sweet note she sent along with the book. I love how she embellished it in the bottom right corner. She stamped an image and then used a button that is faceted on the bottom and then inserted a crystal in its center. Really neat use of product and I will have to lift that from her. If you get a chance check out her blog. I won't steer you wrong, her work is GORGEOUS. Thank you Dedra, I feel very blessed to have found you.
Now, I'm so behind on this but another friend of mine, she actually discovered me. I am so happy to be working alongside her at Scrapping the Music, my friend Barbara nominated me for this. 
Well thank you Barbara, that was mighty sweet of you.
On a final note, if you want to participate in a challenge, I invite you to stop by STM and we are giving a RAK this week.
Happy Scrapping.
That heart is SO hard to find!!! LOL I want one too!
Posted by: adrienne | February 25, 2008 at 10:42 PM
Look at that beautiful punch! So happy someone was able to find it for you! It just looks right in your hands! LOL!! ST is my fave too!!
Posted by: ~ Ki ~ | February 25, 2008 at 10:55 PM
Aleida- you are the internet social butterfly. Who don't you know? Love the punch and your friend blog is pretty darn cool. Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Yvonne | February 26, 2008 at 03:39 AM
So glad that you got it! Doing the "happy dance"...oh ya, go Aleida... :-)
Posted by: Dawn | February 26, 2008 at 05:42 AM
Okay I must have been under a rock because I didn't know about that punch that I now must own!!! And I've also just added a new blog to my list of favorites! Thanks for the inspiration!
Posted by: Tina | February 26, 2008 at 10:46 AM
Your Welcome for the E award! LOL! Glad you found the award as I should of kept it up on mine but took it off already.
You are so blessed to have so many friends! Glad you count me as one of them. I know I thankful for you!
Posted by: barbara | February 26, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Oh yeah.... the "must have" Martha Stewart scalloped heart punch. ha ha we obviously need to look for a second home for all of your scrap items. love you babe!
Posted by: brandon | February 29, 2008 at 01:23 PM