Future Page Turners of “TRAGIC MAGIC”

Hey Fiskateers!  Go grab your personal calendar off your bulletin board or refrigerator.  Go ahead, I’ll wait…
(Enter the theme song to “Jeopardy” here.)
Got it?  Great! … Ooops!  I forgot to tell you to grab a big orange magic marker too.  Go ahead and go get that too, I’ll wait till you get back… 
(… Second verse, same as the […]

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Here Come The Holidays! Challenge #2 (Updated with a link)

  • posted by: Rebecca
  • posted in: Uncategorized
  • on: November 29, 2009

Can you believe it’s almost December?  That means I really need to get cracking on some gifts!  It also means that the November Project-A-Day feature on the Fiskars Crafts website is almost over!  Have you checked it out?  If you haven’t you need to get over there!  There are lots of beautiful projects and great ideas for making […]

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Where the Heck have I Been? The Numbers Tell The Tale!!

  • posted by: Rebecca
  • posted in: Uncategorized
  • on: November 29, 2009

600 mile road trip
11 hours in the van 
4000 cookies (that is not a typo)
2 Teacher conferences
2 pumpkin pies
1 24 lb turkey
3 loaves of bread for stuffing
7 cups of diced celery
5 cups of chopped onions
3 lbs of butter
5 lbs of potatoes
1 corn casserole 
3 cans of cranberry sauce
11 people for dinner
7 hours of entertaining
A 4:45 am wakeup call […]

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The Best Mexican Food This Side of the California Border

  • posted by: Cheryl
  • posted in: Uncategorized
  • on: November 28, 2009

On our trip to Arizona a couple months back we traveled past a town called Blythe. As we traveled past the town on our way to visit friends I mentioned to my mom and dad that I thought our friends who are also neighbors family owned a Mexican restaurant in Blythe.  I took my Garmin GPS […]

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Winners to Announce

Well by the looks of all the comments from my Black Friday blog post yesterday, quite a few of you did find some great deals during your shopping adventures.  Some of you stayed in your nice cozy homes and did a little cooking, ate a few leftovers, and a few of you even got a […]

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Black Friday Madness

Well, it’s Black Friday here in the United States.  This day has always been know as the official start of the holiday season in the wonderful world of retail.  The name “Black Friday” is usually the day when retailers see their sales spike bringing their accounting books out of a red negative number into a […]

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Happy Thanksgiving, Fiskateers!

  • posted by: Angela
  • posted in: Uncategorized
  • on: November 26, 2009

Clearly, I am VERY influenced by Fiskars’ Squeeze Punches in my everyday life- check out the cooking tool Tabitha and I bought today…

P.S.  It works!

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Reverse Advent Calendar

I’ve been working on my version of an Advent Calendar for a few days now and I’m finally ready to share!

What’s different?  Inside each pocket is a star squeeze punch shape and instead of it saying what we should do, it’s blank.  At the end of each day we will write down what we did.  That […]

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A Guest Blog by Laura Childs

Hello once again from me, Laura Childs, New York Times bestselling author of the Scrapbooking Mysteries, including the just-released TRAGIC MAGIC.

Lately I’ve become a big fan of craft projects that dovetail with all the different elements of scrapbooking.  I’m talking exotic papers, rubber stamping, collages, embellishments, fabrics, ephemera, and event incorporating small collectibles.  So, needless […]

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It’s Tragic Magic by Laura Childs

Several months ago Laura Childs was a guest blogger here on the Fiskateer website.  If you are not familiar with Laura’s books, she has a great series of scrapbooking mysteries centering around her main character Carmella.  Carmella is scrapbooking shop owner in the French Quarter of New Orleans and lets just say that there are some crafty killers in […]

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