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“Kickin’ It” for Michelle

Heidi Johnston — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:14:37 +0000

Dear friends,

We at Stampavie would very much appreciate if you would join us in supporting our US Representative, Design Team member and dear friend, Michelle Oatman.

On Wednesday evening, June 23, Michelle had an accident while tending her beloved donkeys which has left her blind in her right eye. She has shared the news of her accident in her blog post here (http://donkeysmiles.blogspot.com/2010/06/i-will-be-out-for-awhile-i-have-had.html) Michelle is an amazing stamper and is eager to be able to start crafting again. But she also has a lot of healing that needs to occur and she needs our support.

We at Stampavie want to help her on her road to recovery. While we all would like nothing more than to support her in person, some things are just not possible. So besides sending cyber-hugs, we are asking for PayPal donations which will be sent directly to Michelle to help “kick” the mounting medical costs associated with her surgeries and also to help her obtain an artificial eye.

To show your support for Michelle, please, please log into your PayPal account and make your donation payment, no matter how small, to the account info@stampavie.com.

Tina Wenke has also kindly produced a special digital download (of a donkey, of course!) which you can obtain by clicking the image below and saving the big version to your disk. In return we simply ask that you donate $3 or more to Michelle’s PayPal fund.

Michelle is a very loving and caring person and we are all lucky to call her “friend”! Michelle says that she is lucky to be married to her best friend. Together, they are parents to their 2 Toy Australian Shepherds, a cat, and their Miniature Donkeys that they raise. The love she gives her animals comes right back, as they keep her busy, entertained and happy. Now, we hope that the love she sends out to the stamping community and beyond will come back as well! Thanks for your help!

Fresh snow today

Heidi Johnston — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:04:22 +0000

Good morning everyone!

Another day, another 12″ of fresh snow. Just when it looked liked the snow from last week was about to disappear, look what we got during the night. This is a picture of Lucky, our rabbit, enjoying nibbling at the fresh snow.

Looks like we’re going nowhere fast today!

Might as well enjoy a warm hot chocolate then!

tea time

Diane Zechman — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:40:32 +0000

Today I have a very special tea set to share with you. I did not make these projects…they were made by Heidi Johnston, owner of Stampavie. Wow! Can you imagine my delight as I opened each piece that was carefully packaged up and sent from France? I am still so amazed at all of the thought and details that Heidi put into this!

You can read more and see close ups of these wonderful projects on my blog.

This first pic is a decorated bag …check out the tiny braided handle!

Here is the card Heidi sent….I love that vintage image! (I don’t know where it’s from).

This is a box made of chipboard, covered and decorated. The lid is kept closed with a magnetic snap under the half circle flap on the side.

The inside of the box was lined with such pretty paper….and it held truffles! :0)

And to finish the set, Heidi decorated a jar and filled it with loose tea from France. So perfect!

Is this not gorgeous? I can’t wait for Heidi to share more of her work here!

Have a wonderful day (even if it’s rainy like it is here!)

[lang_en]CHA Winter 2009 Countdown[/lang_en]

Stuart Johnston — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:11:57 +0000

[lang_en]The countdown to CHA Anaheim has well and truly begun!

Saturday 24th January we leave, starting with a relatively short hop from Switzerland to Paris, France. A few hours to check in and go through security then we’ll be off on our 13 hour non-stop flight to Los Angeles LAX.

This’ll be like the old days when I was working for a company from Salt Lake. The jet lag, I mean! Arriving in LAX, getting the hire car, negociating the LA traffic even though our body clocks will be screaming “go to bed!!!”, finding the hotel after more than an hour in the traffic, checking in, finding our room amongst the 1500+ rooms in the hotel, before finally falling flat asleep…. to only get woken a few hours later by our faithful body clocks.

Hey, sounds fun! lol[/lang_en]

[lang_en]We wish you a merry Christmas…[/lang_en]

Jay Jay — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:29:12 +0000

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Hello Stampavie Fans,

we at Stampavie would like to wish you a very merry Christmas. Have a wonderful Christmas Eve with your families, yummy food and wonderful presents of course (whether if you will celebrate Christmas on Dec 24 or Dec 25). Maybe we will see Santa tonight?

~* Christmas Hugs *~[/lang_en]