I have found a new obsession that has been sucking my computer time away from the blog. It is called www.splitcoaststampers.com and it has this nifty little buy/sell/trade board where I can put my unwanted stamps and scrapbooking supplies up for sale or for trade so I can get new scrapbooking stuff that I can use once and decide I no longer want and then trade it again for stuff I can use once and decide I no longer want. It’s an addicting cycle, but it’s a lot cheaper than my usual method of buying a twenty dollar stamp set, using it once, and keeping it as a dust collector and then buying another twenty dollar stamp set. I could trade almost ten stamps sets before the postage hits twenty dollars, so I think this is a good thing.

Not only is this allowing me to spend money I don’t actually have, but I’ve managed to finagle my way into some hostess sets that I haven’t actually “earned” from Stampin’ Up. You see, there is this level 3 hostess set where if your show hits a million and two dollars you can get it free. (Ok, so it’s not actually a million and two dollars it’s only five hundred, but, seriously, it may as well be.) It’s a gorgeous stamp set. Very me. Very I’d love to do my Christmas cards with this. If you don’t have the million dollar show, you can’t have it. You aren’t allowed. I hate not being allowed.

So anyway, I’d been keeping my eye out for someone trading this stamp set, and wasn’t having any luck. My stampin’ Up Party did qualify for a level 2 hostess set. Unfortunately, I think all the level 2 sets are lame. So, brilliant me advertises that I will trade any level 2 set for some other stuff I want and I manage to find someone who wants one badly enough to paypal me thirty bucks for it, so I can buy whatever I want. So I picked out my second favorite stamp set and was all set to order that when someone pops online with the beautiful, wonderful, Nobel peace prize winning stamp set that I desired most greatly. Rather than doing the lame, I’ll trade you my lame-butt stamp sets for your uber-cool one- I grab the bull by the balls and say, ‘I’ll direct order you whichever stamp set you want.” Which, of course, owner of uber-cool stamp set can’t pass up. So I use the cashola from the ugly stamp set to buy her the set she wants, and she’s mailing me the one I wanted. How cool is that?

I’ve also made trades for a few other things I’ve been wanting, but didn’t have the money to buy. I’ve even sold several old quickutz dies and bought the kid’s their autumn clothing (Where’s MY autumn clothing huh? huh?)

So, yeah. That’s pretty much the biggest reason why I’ve been AWOL from the blog. I’ve had to stalk the other site to get my super nifty keen stamp set. The good news is that I’ve run out of stuff to trade, so it’s back to blogging. At least for a few months when my new totally awesome toys start seeming somewhat less totally awesome and I trade them for new stuff. Fickle? Unabashedly.