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Bella Blvd is releasing their first ever set of mid-season collections today, and they are too cute for words! Winter Wonder is filled with bright, cheery colors mixed with cool blues and aquas, and Spring Fling and Easter Things is everything a spring-y line should be (and I'm totally in love with the raindrop print). Bella is also adding to its Sophisticates line with two new sets of Minatures stickers- one filled with great sentiments for all kinds of cards, and the other packed with family sentiments.

Instead of rambling on, I'm just going to sit back and let these lovely collections speak for themselves- enjoy!

geek girl | october 2, 2011

I'm going to lead off this week's Geek Girl with a seriously funny (and completely irreverent) picture that Darren emailed to me earlier this week...

That one has me simultaneously giggling and waiting for lightning to strike...

Now, let's dive into some of the other great geekiness I've got to share with you this week!

From the top left:

• I used to think that using templates to carve pumpkins was cheating (this from a pumpkin carving handicapped girl), but this Yoda pumpkin push-in just makes it waaaaay too easy! I'll never feel bad about using templates again (not that I ever felt that bad about it in the first place...). Still, it is rather cute!
• The cover for the upcoming Star Wars novel, Scourge, was revealed this week. I have to admit that the tagline "In the heart of crime-ridden Hutt Space, a Jedi Scholar searches for justice" doesn't have me all that intrigued, but I'm sure I'll be reading it anyway. :)
• The Star Wars movies were recently released on Blu-Ray to much fanfare from some, but surprising a lot of "meh" from me. I was totally disappointed that only the special editions were included, not to mention the (not so) minor changes that were made to the movies just for the release. You can read more on (ahem- satire warning) George Lucas's opinion on that here. One cool thing about the Blu-Ray release? Awesome store displays such as this AT-AT setup at Wal-Mart!
• I love this super sweet Space Invader baby shower at My Sweet and Saucy!
• Can I admit that I have the t-shirt that this zombie cupcake tower is based on? I mean, a cupcake with a shotgun? What's not to love?!?
• These prints of Star Wars characters as babies are super cute- just look at baby Jabba! Which, incidentally, is what I call every slug that I find in our garden...
• TheForce.net shares a trio of awesome Star Wars cakes, including this amazing R2-D2 confection.
• Moving from sweet to salty...here's an entire (extremely lovely) font made of bacon! I don't know why geeks love bacon so much, but we do.
• Take a look at this awesome Harry Potter themed wedding- I so should have had a sorting hat at mine!

Until next time, geek out, peeps!

sweet peach blog hop layout | the dig at atlantis

 

Welcome to my stop on the Sweet Peach Crop Shop blog hop! If you're arriving on my post first, you might want to bounce back to the starting point on the Sweet Peach blog and visit all the stops in order. We've all got fabulous giveaways you can enter today, and you don't want to miss any of them!

If you hop along with everyone, you'll also get a sneak preview of the October design team gallery since we're all sharing layouts made with the fabulous October kits!

I'm a "Juicy" girl this month, and the Pink Paislee Nantucket papers and summer vibe of the kit immediately inspired me to grab some photos from our Nassau vacation last December. Our visit to the aquarium at Atlantis was one of the highlights of the trip, so I printed up a few of those photos to use on this page.

The doilies and wood stars are actually from the October Sweet kit. I loved everything so much this month that I got it all!

And that giveaway I mentioned? Each design team member chose their favorite item from the October kits and will be giving it away on their blog!

My favorite was most definitely the package of hexagonal chipboard tiles from the Nantucket collection- they're such unique embellishments and a really easy way to add a pop of color and a little graphic flair (you can read more about my obsession with honeycombs and lattices in general in this article I wrote for Scrapbook Update last month).

So, what do you say? Would you like to enter to win a package of these chipboard tiles to call your very own? You have until midnight, October 5, 2011 to leave a comment on this post (please make sure to fill in your email address on the comment form- if you don't leave me a way to get in touch with you, I'll have to pick someone else, which would make me a sad panda). I'll use Random.org to select a winner and will email you directly should you win.

Now, hop on over to Missy Whidden's blog for the next stop on the hop and your next chance to win an item from the October kit!