Green Grass Stamps

Baby's here! (Susie wins the guessing game)

Thank you all so much for all the well-wishes!! It must have worked, because this birth went so smoothly.

My baby story: I started having labor pains the morning of the 13th and went into the hospital around 4 pm. We were having a little snowstorm here in Salt Lake City and the nurse said that tends to send women into labor, who knew? Anyway, I was only about half-way dilated, but the doctor broke my water and that was like hitting the fast-forward button. I got an epidural pretty soon after and it hadn't been in effect for very long before I was at a 9, then a 10 and ready to have her, and my doctor had to rush in (he was on call) because it was all going so quickly. I literally had to push only once -- I'm not even kidding -- and she was born, it was crazy. And lucky! Was I ever glad (and kind of shocked). Here she is, my little Fiona Grey:

So anyway, I'm doing great, she's doing great, we came home yesterday (Saturday) and now my husband and I are getting used to having KIDS. She is such a sweet little girl, long hair, sort of a silver-blonde color, 6 lb 13 oz. She's itty-bitty! My almost-2-year-old boy looks so big and chubby now. He loves her, btw, likes to give her lots of hugs. (And pat her on the head really hard, which is a little scary.) It feels so great to be together, as a bigger family than we were. I love it. Thanks again for the prayers and kind words! It means a lot to me. :)                      

(Susie, send your mailing address to greengrass.stamps at gmail.com and I'll send out your Baby Shower stamps.)

Guess the Date, win some stamps

Hey all! So my little baby girl is due next Friday the 21st. (Yay! 9 days left...) The doctor offered to schedule me to be induced, but I want to let it happen when it happens, and I thought I'd do a "guess & win" thing. So post your guess (date, time of day) and I'll send out some Baby Shower stamps to whoever is the closest. 

Winner! Cheryl Sims

Okie dokie, the random-poster winner of Thank You stamps is ... drumroll ... Cheryl Sims!!  Umm, I guess that build up was just in case you managed to jump into the post without reading the big title that gave it away. ;)  Cheryl, if you'll email me your address, I'll send those out once they're done.

And guys, I loved all the comments, it really made me take a second look at the sheet and try to come up with some different things for the remainder of the stamps.  Which is wonderful because I think the sheet will be better for it.  But it is also throwing me into new depths of indecision, endless tinkering, second-guessing, sigh.  I could never have a career that put me in a position of responsibility over other people, I couldn't handle the pressure.  Oh wait, I'm a mom.  Ha. 

Anyway, I'm hoping to finish it this weekend and I'll post a pic.  I'm thinking the sheet needs a scallop-y border or something fun to go along with the sentiments. 

Winner: Kribss

Kribss won the random commenter prize for the word stamps, congrats!  Thank you guys a million for all your help, I tallied up the responses and so far it's looking like Always, Happy and Blessed are in the lead.  I agree that there should be than one sheet, and I'll definitely do Xoxox since a lot of you said you hadn't seen that elsewhere. 

I'm working on squeezing some other, smaller words into the sheets too, that will work with the bigger ones.  It's harder than I thought it would be, choosing just the right font and all to go with that one...  Anyway, I'll post it when it's done. 

Also, I'll put them on sale either for pre-orders or when they're brand new and I'll post it on the blog.  I'd give you a code or whatever, but I don't think the store is set up to do that, so blogging it will be the next best thing. 

Happy 7-7-07!!  Lucky day.  :)  You know, it's such a lucky day, I should do two winners.  OK, choosing another one...

Pattyjo. 

:) Tammy

help me decide...

So, I am basically "decision-challenged" on big and small life choices, and when it comes to stamps I'm no different.  The next set will be a half sheet of big word stamps, only I have 10 in contention and can only fit three on the sheet.  Will you help me decide??  Put your top three words in a post and as bribery I'll randomly choose a commenter to win this set when it's done.  :)  I'll probably fix up the letter arrangements a little more once I've finalized which ones to use.  You can nominate words I didn't include here.   

Btw, these words will each be about 3 3/4" wide in real life.