♥ Happy LOVE Day ♥

In honor of Valentine's Day, I've been listening to love songs on repeat all day long. The song currently playing is A Whole New World from Aladdin - "tell me princess, now when did you last let your heart decide?" I'm such a sucker for love songs. They make me all giddy and happy and, if they're REALLY good, they give me goosebumps and make my cry.

But enough about that. It's time to announce the winner of my Starbucks giveaway ...

Comment #4 belongs to Ginger. Yay! Congrats Ginger. Send me your address (mail it to stephaniejoanna {at} live.ca) and I will get your gift card in the mail. I love giveaways, I need to host them more often.

I hope your Valentine's Day is a good one, full of candy hearts and hugs and lots of meaningful I love you's. ~xox~

It's A Perfect Day for Starbucks

Oh dear. I am very behind on the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. Very, very far behind. I guess I'm just not cut out to be one of those bloggers who can come up with a witty, clever post every day. So, to make up for my lack of blogging abilities and because Valentine's Day is right around the corner, I'm gonna send some love your way and give one lucky winner one of my favorite things in the world ...

I want to treat you to Starbucks! (And by "treat you", I really mean send you a little gift card in the mail since most of you don't live in Vancouver). I am crazy in love with Starbucks and I am crazy in love with Vancouver because no matter where you are in this city, there is literally a Starbucks right around the corner! It's amazing.

Soooooooooo for your chance to win, just leave a comment telling me what your favorite Starbucks drink is (mine's a grande non-fat, no-whip white chocolate mocha).

I'll randomly select a winner on Valentine's Day (aka Monday) around 7:00pm PST. Good luck!

xoxo

winner * winner

I know I'm a little late announcing the winner of my little giveaway, but life kinda got in the way! Sorry! Thanks to everyone who played along ... I hope Autumn 2009 can be a wonderful season for all of us! The random winner was comment #4 ....

Catherine said...

I'm looking forward to all the new things that are happening. Every day is the first day when you're a first year teacher... and today has never happened before, and *that* is really exciting.

Congratulations Catherine! I'll give you a bag of goodies next time I see you.
xox

Goodbye Summer + a giveaway

Well folks ... summer is officially over. I know some people claim autumn doesn't begin until mid-September, but as far as I'm concerned summer ends when school starts up again and leaves begin to hit the ground. I'm back at school now and I just snapped this photo of a bright red leaf sitting in my front yard ... which means my days of relaxing at the beach, eating ice-cream and wearing flip-flops are over until next year. This summer was a quiet one, compared to summers in the past, but it was enjoyable nonetheless.

Autumn 2009 is a big deal for me, for many reasons. I am officially entering my last semester at Concordia University and as long as everything goes according to plan, by Christmas I will be a university graduate! You know how people tend to say stuff like: "today is the first day of the rest of my life" when they get married? Well, I kind of feel that way about Autumn 2009. I expect the next few months will be a time of big decision making and life changes ... and while I don't know exactly what the future has in store for me, I am confident that it will be an awesome adventure ... and I'm hoping that I'll be able to use my blog to share some of that adventure with you.

Speaking of my blog ... you may have noticed that things look a little different around here. For the past few weeks, I've been hard at work with the lovely Dionne from Studio Chic Design, working on making this blog a little more "me". She was EXTREMELY patient with me as I kept changing my mind over and over, but in the end I think it all came together quite well. If you're having problems with my new blog (like the writing of my posts overlaps onto the pink background) it just means that your browser is an older version than the one Dionne and I use. (I finally made the switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox and highly recommend it.)

Soooooo anyways .... to celebrate the beginning of my new life adventure AND the new look of my blog, I think a giveaway is in order!

For your chance to win some scrapbook goodies leave a little comment telling me what you are most looking forward to this autumn. (If you're not a scrapbooker, I'll make sure to send you some other kind of special treat). I will randomly select a winner on September 20th.

xox Stephanie

Some Sneek Peeks ....

First of all, I am CRAZY proud of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team!! Did any of you watch them play last night? We not only won, we totally dominated the entire game and beat Boston 5-0. GO HABS GO!!!

I'm still busy studying for my last exam tomorrow, but I thought I'd give you a little sneek peek at some of the pages I've been working on these past few weeks ...







I've been having lots of fun working with the new Love Elsie, American Crafts and October Afternoon stuff. And I can't wait to get my hands on the new Hambly!! *smiles*

As promised, I randomly selected a winner from the comments to my first post. I'm so excited about this new blog and can't wait to share all my scrappin' adventures with you! Thanks for all your sweet comments, I'm glad you like the new blog as much as I do.

Soooo ... the winner was .....



Congrats Melody!!! Send me your address at creative_coconut@yahoo.com and I'll send some fun goodies your way!

Well, I'm off to study for that last exam. Pray for me! :o]

XoXo Stephanie

Something new ....

Welcome to my new little home on the world wide web. Come on in and make yourself cozy. ♥

First of all, can we please discuss how crazy excited I am to be heading to NYC in less than 20 days!??! I have been waiting patiently all year for this trip and have been suffering from some serious New York withdrawl. I can't wait to be going home. There is seriously no other place on the planet I'd rather be to celebrate my 22nd birthday. *sigh* My birthday. I'm pretty excited about that too.

The winter semester at school has finally come to an end. I have an essay to write and hand in on Monday (which I *really* should be working on right about now) and a history exam on Wednesday and then I'm freeeeeeee!! Well, free until the beginning of May when I start my summer courses. I'm taking introductory German this summer. Sprechen Sie Deutsches? {Do you speak German?} If so, wanna help me practice?

As far as scrapbooking is concerned, things have been pretty slow over here at Studio Stephanie. I have TONS of awesome page ideas in mind but no time to work on them. I also want to get my etsy shop up and running by the end of May but I haven't had any time to finish the items I'm hoping to sell and write up the inventory. So much to do, so little time. Hopefully once I get back from New York my schedule won't be quite so hectic and I'll be able to get back into my creative groove.

Oh, and how could I forget :: To celebrate my new and improved blog, I'm giving away a RAK. Just post a comment and I'll pick a winner at random and send them a cute little prize :o]

XoXo Stephanie