On December 1st of this month I decided to do a Christmas Tag Extravaganza for my tag group; “Mod Girls Spice of Life”. Each day I am sending a new Christmas themed tag offer through the group and each tag will retire the following day at (or around) 1:00 AM EST.

Today we are on the 9th day and tomorrow will be the 10th day. The members of my group are collecting a lot of Christmas themed tags and from all the comments I’ve received from the members, they are LOVING it! That makes me very happy and I only wish that all the members would request my tags, Unfortunately, some members are missing some of the tag offers and I think it might be because they are members of so many online groups that they are having to wade through hundreds of emails each day. I mean, I get it. If you love getting emails then you love your online groups. When I was a member of many online groups years ago I would have to do a mass delete on emails. It was the only way I could get through all the emails I had in my inbox. And at the time I kept forgetting that if the message archive for each group is enabled you can always read all the mail from the group itself instead of having to wade through hundreds of email messages inside your inbox, lol.

Now, this event will close on Christmas day (December 25th, 2023)  so members still have plenty of time to request tags in the group. And when the event is over, I still plan on sending tag offers. Of course they won’t ALL be Christmas themed but some might be so at least they’ll be able to snag some tags that way too.

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know what I’m doing for Christmas this year in one of my groups. Thanks for stopping by and hugs,

I’ve never been into doing tag tutorials but I don’t have a problem doing a tag challenge. Tag tutorials are very easy for me to do and that always seems to be the problem because half way through one I get bored and stop following it and then I end up completing the tag on my own. Now, tag challenges are different because you have many options in order to create a tag whereas a tag tutorial you do not.

Maybe that has something to do with the way I think about things. I grew up pretty rebellious and didn’t like anyone telling me what to do. It got me in some pretty sticky situations sometimes but I always managed to get myself out of them by using my own judgement.

Anyway, I have been thinking about offering tag challenges again in one of my groups or maybe just creating a new forum and hosting them there. I only have one online group where I could offer the tag challenges but I don’t really like the idea of using it for that. At the moment that group is pretty laid back and the members seem to like it that way so I don’t know if that would be a good idea or not.

Now, creating a forum would be different because I could focus the forum just on tag challenges and nothing else. And you know, since I have all these images I’ve been creating lately I could give some of those away as prizes to those who participated in the challenges. Oh and there’s also my scrap kits too. I could also give those away as prizes as well. It’s something to think about anyway. Let me know what you think about that idea by leaving a comment here. If I get enough comments I might actually do it, lol. But until then….

Anyway, thanks for stopping by and hugs,

I have some updates to tell you about. I have removed my cu-graphics.com website and the paid membership area that I created with it. The reason for this is because I had uploaded so much that it was taking a toll on my web host because it was using too much web space. And a few days ago my cu-graphics.com website went down and I had to get help to get it back online. Now, it wasn’t clear WHY my site went down but I believe it had to do with the fact that it was using too many system resources.

Besides that website, I have also removed my scrap kit shop (sigtagkits.com) as well. Now, I was going to remove that website at the end of this month but because I never sold any of my kits, I decided I would just go ahead and remove it along with the others.

And btw, while I was removing those 2 websites I decided to also remove my junk journal supplies website as well and for the very same reason. I never sold anything there so I didn’t see any sense in keeping it online. I have been thinking about all the journals that I have made and I might setup a booth at a flea market and sell them like that. It makes more sense that way because people can pick up the journals and look them over before making a purchase.

And yippee, since I now have lots more room on my web hosting account (after removing all those websites) I can now bring back one of my other websites; “TagExtras.com” I removed it before because I was getting into doing other things with my other websites (which have all been removed). But, even though I’m going to start sharing my tag extras once again, it doesn’t mean that I will start making any new tag extras. Sorry, but I just don’t have the room on my computer anymore for storing them all and they do take up A LOT of room. Some people wouldn’t think that graphics like that would use a lot of storage space but when you have hundreds of folders full of tags that you have made over the years they do use an awful lot of space. Right now they are sitting on my computer and I should do something with them so that’s why I decided to reopen my tag extras website.

Anyway, I think that about does it with all my updates. Thanks for stopping by and hugs, Mod Girl.

A few days ago we got the call that my MIL passed away. Hubs took it very hard and he’ll be going to the funeral next week. His sisters and his late mom live in AZ and we live in NC so he will need to fly to get there. We can’t afford 2 plane tickets so he’ll be going on his own.

I know there are many women (and men too) who don’t get along or even like there MIL. I did. In fact, I loved that crazy old lady and I will miss her terribly.  Don’t get me wrong, we didn’t agree all the time on things but I think that’s how it’s supposed to be. You think one way and someone else thinks another way. And, you don’t stop caring about that person just because you don’t agree on something.

I don’t like talking about my personal life mainly because my early years were pretty devastating to think back on. And I didn’t have a close knit family upbringing like so many other families did. So, when I met my soon to be MIL years ago, she welcomed me with open arms. She didn’t judge someone by what they said or what they thought. She always looked at someone by the actions they took. And she always told you how she felt about something even if you didn’t want to hear about it. She put it out there and held nothing back. She was sweet, she was kind and one of the nicest persons I have ever met.

I keep remembering the funny times we used to have and that always brings a smile to my face. Before she moved to AZ to be near her daughters she lived here in NC right down the road from us. It was a wonderful time. We would have a family gathering every weekend where we would visit and talk about things that were important to us while eating a really good home cooked meal and as soon as dinner was over we would bring out the dominoes or cards to play. Mom usually did the cooking but there were times I would bring dinner over and give her a break from cooking. FYI, I’m not the best cook in the world and I do my best but she didn’t care in the least because she knew it was something I did from the heart and she always gave me a big smile and told me how I was such a good cook.

Mom had a little cleaning business at the beach which is about an hour from us. In the summer time on the weekends, hubs and I would go help her clean condo’s. The work wasn’t always that hard and we would end up having something funny happen on the way to work or on the way back home almost every day, lol. One time in particular we were on our way home and it was raining really hard and I kept hearing a weird noise so I looked out the rear window and saw sparks were flying like crazy. I started to scream and told mom the car was on fire. She started to laugh and said it was nothing. It was just the exhaust pipe had been jiggly for awhile and now it was scraping the ground. And then she said she could still drive without the exhaust pipe so there was nothing to worry about.

Her car was really old and it was huge with 4 doors and the paint was peeling off and there was rust all over it and she said it was the best car she ever had. I remember lifting the back seat floor mat one day and seeing the ground below, lol. The hole wasn’t big enough to fall through and was at a place where you didn’t have to worry too much about it. And when I would tell her that she was driving a rust bucket of bolts she would just laugh.

That’s the type of person mom was. Hubs used to tell me stories about his mom growing up and how she hit him over the head one time with an iron skillet. lol. He was in his teens and was getting snarky and talking back to his mom one day after dinner and she kept telling him to be quiet but he wouldn’t listen and then he said the next thing he knew she picked up her iron skillet and hit him up side the head with it, lol. Well, he was out like a light and mom was screaming and crying thinking she had killed him. He came too and looked at her and said damn, Mom! why’d you do that for? So she hit him again for swearing, lol.

And you know, I think when you lose someone you love, in order to get through the pain you need to remember all those things that made you love that person to begin with. It won’t make the pain completely go away but it’s sometimes better to laugh about life then to cry about it all the time.

I get asked this a lot; “How do you make tags so fast?” Well, there is no secret behind my making of tags. Usually when I’m offering a tag (either in my own group or someone else’s) I open my psp graphic program and open the tag template of the tag I just offered. That way, I can just add names to all the tags and send them back (very quickly) to the member who requested them.

Now, there are many times where I won’t make the tags as fast as that for a number of reasons. One because I’m busy making new tags or Two, because there is always a time limit on the tag and most of time it’s anywhere from a few days to a week.  That’s when I wait until I have more tag requests come in and then I’ll make them all at once to save time.

But, on quick tag offers, I ALWAYS have the tag open in psp so I can add names to them very quickly. I think members appreciate it more when they can get they’re tag back as soon as possible. Plus, I think it takes the anxiety away from members who might wonder if there tag request ever went through or not. And the way that online groups are sometimes ,you’re not always sure of that.