I complain about this endlessly on Facbook (I'm getting tired of it myself) but have I told you how much the internet sucks here in China?? There's The Great Firewall here and that means the blocking of pretty much all western websites.. It's pretty widespread. So that means for any expat in China to have contact with the rest of the world we must have a VPN (Virtual Private Network) that hides our location. But guess what? It slows down an already slow internet and that's bad news for uploading, downloading, posting to blogs etc... 

Why am I telling you this? 

Well... I know that since I've moved here my posting has slowed down.

I don't comment on posts anymore (blogs almost never fully load). 

I am late... Often... 

This post was supposed to be up Tuesday but I tried for 24 hours to post it and then the internet ate it.. So without further adieu, here's my card!!!!!

Hi there! 

It's been a heck of a week over here in Tobi-land but sitting down for some coloring therapy was just what I needed.

It turns out that flying a dog home in cargo or in baggage is an incredibly costly endeavor, and of course there's a healthy amount of paperwork involved too... But we want to bring our Chinese rescue dog to Canada and give him a "forever home" so we're trying! 

Today on the Tiddly Inks blog the DT is sharing our weekly "makes." 

Here is my card featuring Scooting By Wryn. 

I downloaded a colour chart for Spectrum Noir markers and colored it in, so I thought I would get to know them better by using them on this card vs. my Copics. I do notice a difference in a number of ways, the colour organization being the biggest difference. I NEEDED the colour chart because the markers aren't organized into light-to-dark families like Copics, but it's something that I'm getting used to! 

That's all for now! Thanks for stopping by! 

Today is the day of a brand new challenge at the Naughty or Nice blog and this month's challenge is: Friends! I was going through my stamps looking for how I could make a card about friendship Naughty and I came across an old TSG set with some hilarious sentiments and I thought Yep... That's it! 

It's funny.. When I showed Ian the outside of the card he said "Oh.. What a cute baby card." and I was like, Ummm.... That's no baby card. Here's the inside: 

Check out the 

Naughty Or Nice Challenge

as well as

The Color Throwdown Challenge

We are excited to be back again today here at The Twinery, joining up with Serendipity Stamps for a wonderful 3-day blog hop! Designers from both design teams will delight you with projects created using our fabulous baker’s twine and a variety of products from Serendipity Stamps. 

You should have arrived here from: Jeanne Jachna's blog! 

Today I've coloured up the beautiful Daylily stamp from Serendipity Stamps:

And as if the inspiration isn’t enough – you can also win a fabulous Sampler Pack of Solid Twines:

Here’s how you can enter to win the twine:

Leave a comment on each participating designer’s blog on the hop (and here on our blog, too!). This is a 3-day hop, so be sure to check back and comment each day.

Please be sure to leave your e-mail address along with your comments so we can have a way to contact you if you win.

For additional chances to win:

- Follow our blog. You can enter your e-mail to subscribe under the “Follow By Email!” heading in the blog sidebar.

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The deadline to leave comments for the giveaway is at 11:59pm (EST) on Friday, August 1st. Check back here on Sunday, August 3rd to see if you’ve won!

It's time once again for another SRM Challenge, and this month the theme is: Summer! I was looking through my stamps wanting to use something that's never seen ink and I found the perfect thing for this challenge... Check it out: 

So a couple of weeks ago Susan from SRM Stickers asked me to join the new SRM Challenge and of course I said yes! It's a really easy challenge (only once a month) and there are some great prizes involved... Here's this month's theme: 

Slowly but surely I am getting back into the groove of things. It takes a while when you take a break, doesn't it? It's kind of like singing my first notes after summer vacation!! Sometimes a little scary... lol

So here's my card which I thoroughly enjoyed colouring: