Simon Says Stamp and Show Something - SHABBY!

To see all the other wonderful design team creations and to enter your own, go to the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge Blog, HERE.

Ok, the first thing I think of when I hear shabby, (besides the type of clothes I wear) is "shabby chic", ah, "vintage" and somewhat of a whitewashed or softer look, and probably some old lace.  I love assemblage art, so that's what I decided to do for this project. I used some paper from Tim's Lost and Found paper stack, and I will interject here and say that I actually FOLDED the rosettes paper, yeah, like we used to back in the day before... the rosette die. lol.  That way I could also make them smaller, wider, narrower, bigger.... well, you get the idea.

There's a Jenni Bowlin stick pin in the middle rosette along with a couple of other no name stick pins. I used a  paint dabber resist technique on a piece of chipboard cut with Tim's Baroque die . I used the Pool color, I love that color. As far as the rest of the elements, they were all various found objects, and I must say, I was quite happy to note the little letter writing ephemera card (that's actually from 7 Gypsies) matched beautifully with an old envie and a little box of leads I had. Gotta love it when a plan comes together.

What? The tooth wash label? That's from the Lost and Found stack too, and it really had nothing to do with the theme other than I loved the graphics, AND it went great with the Pool colored piece beneath it and the Little Rose ephemera piece at the top. I suppose I should have explained it this way - everyone should have fresh breath when writing a letter. There, how's that for cohesiveness. lol.  Oh, and by the way, Maurene, if you're reading this, that lace is some of the stuff I got in Mexico that day we were in Puerto. Hee.

You can visit the other design team member's blogs to see more details on their wonderful creations:

Lynne

Nancy W

Nancy C

Linda C

Dan

Kim

Katie

Terry

Linda E - the DIRECTOR

Now it's your turn - Go Be Creative!

Happy Halloween!!!

Some spooky ATC's for your viewing pleasure..

All of them have stripes of distress crackle paint, with distress ink blended around.  The crackle paint resists the distress ink.  The stamps are Tim's Trick or Treat stamp set, it's the only Halloween set I have, so I challenged myself to use them in different ways.  See the skeleton hand in the upper right one yo-yoing the spider? I thought that was pretty funny. Well, and the "gone batty" one was kinda cute.  Anyways, have a great Halloween and don't eat too much candy, lest you verp all over....

Is It Coffee Yet??

Really, I think this is probably what I look like before my morning coffee, minus the pink robe and bunny slippers...lol...

I'm finally getting around to making an entry for the challenge over at the Order of the Opus Gluei, (I know, I can't believe it either) where the theme this week is "have a cuppa".  I found out about this fun AND talented group of gals thru my very funny and talented friend, Electra. I've had these stamps for ages it seems, so perfect motivation for actually using them.  I stamped and masked the old lady (me?, lol), then stamped the word background.  Colored with distress inks and my water brush. Added some trim and the sentiment, viola! It really cracks me up, what a hoot!

CCC #19!

Finally.... a moment to create!  The theme for this week's challenge is EXTREME MASKING.  Does that mean I need to wear a helmet? rofl!
You can check out the details on Linda's blog, HERE.  This is also where you place your entry, so you have a chance to win a wonderful prize!
I stuck with the autumn theme this week, and used Tim's new Falling Leaves stamps, as well as the new Tattered Leaves die.  Colors of distress ink - mustard seed, wild honey, crushed olive and aged mahogany, stamping with walnut stain and pumice stone.  I also used a script stamp and the Fab Flourish in the background.
Here we go:

The sentiment was a leftover piece from another project.  Simples, but at least I practiced the technique. Be sure to check out the other wonderful art!

Simon Says Stamp and Show Me - SPOOKY!

To see the other wonderfully spooky Design Team creations, and to place YOUR entry, click HERE!

I gotta say, I really cracked myself up with this one.  It was fun with a capital "F".  hee.  Honestly, the only idea I had to begin with was... I knew I wanted to use the raven and scaredy cat die.  Then I remembered I had crackled and painted a birdhouse with a tin roof that I found on a garage sale..and...it went a little nuts from there.

Front view.  Note the skelly head in the birdhouse opening, he he. Oh, and skelly on the roof is just chillin', holdin' the sign with his legs crossed. he he

Side view

Close up of raven, 'cause you really couldn't see the dimensional wing, but I don't know if this is much better!

Scaredy Cat side, obviously

Back side

Check out that "blood"! Pretty cool, eh?  And notice the bats clinging to the roof?

Ok, here's some details, starting with the front:

The fence is a new Sizzix die, called, you guessed it, Spooky Fence.
The bat with Nevermore is from Tim's Retro Halloween stamp set, as is skelly on the roof, and the witch face on the back.  The spidey stamp is from Wendy's Botanical Art stamp set, I love that little guy, I use him a lot!  The bats clinging to the roof are from Tim's Trick or Treat stamp set, stamped on grungeboard, inked and stickled with Black Diamond.

On to the Raven.  I decided to make him dimensional.  I used a wing from Tim's Heart and Wings Sizzix die.  The feathers are cut from that ages old twisted black paper, (which I untwisted, of course), and ran thru a Sizzix die, Daisies. Then I just ripped off petals and collaged them down in layers on the raven, which was cut from black chipboard.  Did the same to the wing, then attached it to the body, putting a piece of plastic between the body and wing to hold up the wing while it dried.  Then of course to be spooky, he, along with his whole entourage, got pieces of bling colored with Cranberry alcohol ink for eyes.

The back side contains more stamping with Wendy's spider, a stickled bat, and the witch face from Tim's Retro Halloween set, colored with distress inks. Oh, and a red marker for bloodshot eyes. he he

I think the Scaredy Cat side is pretty self explanatory. Cut out of black chipboard and glued to the fence.

My favorite part - the Red Hot UTEE I used for the "blood".  The new red poppy color would probably work just as well.  I melted it in my melting pot, added just a hint of black UTEE to make it a little darker, and when hot, poured it over the roof crest, letting it drip down each side. Thankfully, it stopped and cooled before completely running off the roof. I thought it looks way cool! Now, I don't know if it would have done the same on a wood roof, the metal was cool, so it may have cooled the UTEE as it dripped, causing it to harden faster.  Could I have used red paint? Sure, but not nearly as much fun!
Now it's your turn to get spooky and Go Be Creative!

Sista Makes Art!....And More of the Travel Journal!

This past weekend, my sister and I, along with several other friends, attended a scrapbook/do what ever you want weekend at the Loredo Taft campus of Northern Illinois University. This was our view from where we were "creating", overlooking the Rock River:

I had taken my journal from the cruise to complete, which I will show in a little bit. My sister took a wooden box with drawers that she wanted to alter for Halloween, and I'm so proud of her, she did a beautiful job on it, and everyone was oohing and ashing over it.  She used some Anna Griffin paper and stickers that she had scored on QVC, the same day as Tim was demoing.  It was very cool stuff.  So, here's her cute box:

Front, obviously

Ah, yea, this is the back, the stickers were dimensional, very cool

top

One of the sides, that paper is flocked

Awesome, isn't it?  And she wanted me to mention that her inspiration was the box LINDA CAIN had done for Halloween using Tim's seasonal paper.
There was a name tag contest as well, which I really didn't participate in. I didn't know about it until Thursday, and I just didn't get anything done.  My sister didn't either... until... 15 minutes before the deadline, one of our other friends was working on a Tumbling (you know, gymnastics?) album for a niece, and had a die cut of a tumbler that she wasn't using, and a baseball bat die cut she wasn't using.  My sister's like, "hey, if you turn that die cut around, it looks like a pole dancer." (I don't think that was the intent of the company that made the die cut, lol!)
Hence, a name tag was born, along with an alias, which afterwards, we decided should have been spelled Bunni.

Flower soft makes a nice bunny tail... lol...
If we had had enough time, we were going to put a string thru the top and bottom and make it interactive. he he.  You have to understand, that by this time, many of us have not had much sleep, and are totally dependent on caffeine and chocolate.


On to the journal.  I used a lot of rub-ons and paper from the trip.  I had kept the daily newsletter that was given to us every day by the cruise line, and cut out the day and date, along with the weather forecast, and pasted in the journal.  I even used one of my luggage tag stickers and the set sail pass I printed before I boarded!

I collected key chains in ports of call, and just attached them with a lanyard I bought in Canada. That ATC was made by Deb R., she put them in that nice keychain case! How awesome, and I can't imagine what those cost!

The little bags were perfect for holding my subway pass, and room key from the ship

 And on it goes.  I was embellishing to my heart's content when I suddenly realized, hey, I should leave room for pictures, so then I started being a little more selective of my embellishments until I get my pics in there... which are still on the camera, btw.


Here's a funny one.  We had been given this paper suitcase that had embellishments in the window, and I had also snagged one of the "Tim" postcards from Mario's store.  So, I thought, hey, Tim's pic just fits in the window, and ta da, a journal page! he he. The "enjoy the journey" is a rub on. 

And how did I get the postcards and other things into the journal after it was all put together?  I used Sue's Zutter, then just snipped thru the hole, so I could squeeze them on the coils.  Worked great!  It was a very fun weekend, the food was awesome! And it was so great to see everyone again! Thanks to Sue for organizing this weekend!

Blog Candy Alert!

I've been really neglectful to mention that two of my blog buds are having fabulous giveaways, Linda and Jean.  You can click on the pics on my sidebar (slide your eyeballs to the right, ok, just look to the right) to see the details, all it takes is one comment! I think these are the first ones I have remembered to put on my sidebar, sorry if I've missed you before. These are definitely worth checking out people! Run, don't walk!

CCC #18 and I'm Feelin' Mighty Keen!

Um, yeah, someone pointed out that keen rhymes with teen, can't remember who, but thanks for jogging the gray matter in my head. Sounds a little better than... spleen.

Can't believe we're halfway thru these challenges already, where has the time gone? Pretty soon it will be... yes, I'm going to say it.... Christmas. Ack. All my plans for getting things done before November this year have evaporated into thin air...

You can check out the hostess' blog to get details on the challenge rules, PRIZES to be won, and others entries HERE.  Linda is doing such an awesome job with these challenges, both artistically and hostess wise.  Doesn't she leave the best comments, ever? Thanks Linda!

So, being as how I've been working on a couple of Halloween projects, I stayed with that theme for my piece this week, another page for my book:

The theme this week is dabber resist, btw, which sometimes for me does not turn out that well, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that it did this week. lol

The stamps are all Tim's, with the exception of the itsy bitsy spider, which is Wendy's from her Botanical Art set. I must say, I've used that little guy more times than I can count!  The stamping was all done with black paint dabber, the "boo" are black Thickers. Added some highlights with the trusty ole white Inkssentials pen.  Another week under the CCC belt, can't wait to see what challenge Monday brings!

Speaking of challenges, there is still some time to enter the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge, the theme is "anything but a card", easy!  There's a prize up for grabs there too!

Go Be Creative!

Cruise Log #7 - Boston, Last Class, and Home Again!

Warning! This post contains a lot of words, and only one picture, so decide now what you are going to do....

October 7, 2010

Boston, MA

Last port of call!

Thanks to hard work by Patti, 50+ of us boarded a bus and took our own little excursion to Topsfield, Massachusetts, to visit the store Absolutely Everything. I believe I can say with utmost certainty that everyone that went did not regret it, nor deny the fact that this store does have... absolutely everything. Thanks so much, Patti, for organizing this!

I didn't take any pictures inside the store or the bus ride or anything, I was too busy making out a list and shopping. He He. Suffice it to say, this is where I spent the most money on the whole trip. Another He He.

Any who, by the time we got back to the ship early afternoon, there wasn't much time to go out and see anything else in Boston, so I went back on the ship, had a late lunch, and then a few of us decided to head up to deck 14, home of Dizzy's Jazz Lounge, where you can see all the way around outside. Someone twisted my arm to imbibe in the drink of the day. Right.

After dinner, (at least I think this was the night, shame on me for not writing stuff down), there was a classic rock trivia back at Dizzy's, so Maurene, Wendy and I decided that would be the thing to do. The band on the ship played a few bars and we had to guess. 18 songs. One point for the artist, one point for the song title, which would be a total of.....(darn, not wearing sandals today) 36. A lot of them we knew the song, but couldn't quite get the artist, so we ended up with 18 points. Some know-it-all got 31. Well, better luck next time.

October 8, 2010

Day at Sea – whoop whoop, another class!

Everyone was wondering what the last class would be. And as I reminded everyone that day when we walked in, (hey, when I'm right, I like to rub it in a little, it happens so infrequently) I thought it was going to be a canvas piece. BINGO! (Had I started a pool, I could have paid for my trip)

A 6 x 12 canvas awaited us, along with three mini canvases. Here's the finished piece, I'll tell you a little about the products after:

We were given some very cool paper by Pink Paislee/House of Three called Parisian Anthology, totally awesome paper, it's already clear embossed with images, so you can just ink and get instant resist gratification, lol. Loved it, and I'm carefully hoarding the leftovers.

We also got a pack of Paper Layers by Glitz Design, the Vintage pack. I need more of this, but guess what, it's not made any more and who bought the last amount? Tim, of course, for the cruise. I know this because I actually called the company and asked where and if it's sold anymore, as I couldn't find any online. That's how much I loved it. It was wonderful for collage, because it's book weight paper, meaning thin, great for collaging. This is what we collaged on our mini canvases. The images were gorgeous, and I centered the hummingbird and butterfly on two of the canvases. The good news is, Glitz is coming out with some different designs of the Paper Layers, so be on the lookout....

The heart is UTEE, from a mold that Tim made, and I believe Mario was responsible for melting and pouring 160 of those...
The fossilized butterfly on the right canvas is a rubber toy butterfly from Oriental Trading, under old dictionary paper then slightly inked.  I can see a sales run on these for Oriental Trading...
The wooden architectural piece above the butterfly said Houseworks Ltd on the back, I'm assuming it's a doll house piece...

Since it's supposed to be shabby chic, we used white paint over the heart and hardware to give a white washed look.

Got to use the new facets and baubles, woohoo!

The rubbery architecture pieces are by Pink Paislee called Artisian Elements and can be inked or colored. They are really cool! There's adhesive on the back already too!

This was by far my favorite project of the trip, I loved it!

October 9, 2010

Time to get back to reality!

I decided to do the express walk off, meaning I was responsible for getting my luggage off the ship. It worked out pretty good, except it was a cluster trying to get on elevators, people who were just trying to get up to deck 11 for the buffet were pretty much out of luck. It started to get ugly a few times, but I was squished in the back of the elevator, so I was saved from getting the onslaught of verbal abuse at the front. lol.

Ok, then to the airport. Here's where it got interesting. My bag was 66 pounds. Yikes. Really? Are you sure your scale is correct? (Bet they haven't heard that before.) How much for an overweight bag? $100. Crap. Ok.

Proceed to empty space on floor, open bag, pull out emergency duffel bag, and start transferring. Do I care if people see my dirty clothes? Heck no. The important thing was to make sure my curio cabinet glass didn't break.

Damn me and my lust for Sizzix dies. And paper. rofl.

Back and forth a couple of times, got her down to 52 pounds. Yippee.

But now my carry on duffel bag weighs 50 pounds. Which I have to get in and out of overhead compartments four times. Thank goodness I'm 5' 10" and of stout constitution.

Wait, then they announce my connection gate at O'Hare while in the air. Crap. We're hitting the gate in terminal C and I need to be at gate F14 in half an hour, freaking across the blasted airport. But wait, you can get a shuttle from one to the other at C9. Fine.

Good thing my duffel bag is sturdy, as I strap it on my back, practically bent over from the weight, running towards the shuttle. Good Lord. The right side of my body is numb, must switch sides. Better. Please, let me get to my gate on time. I must have had a murderous look on my face, because people were pretty much clearing a path for me as I went. Either that or, the sight of all that weight hurtling towards them caused them to panic and flee.

Needless to say, I made my connection, albeit breathing heavily and perspiring lightly, nevermind the weak, elderly and small children that I trampled in the process. Kidding.

Whew! Thanks for sticking with me during this journey, hope you enjoyed it as much as I did, thanks to all that are leaving comments about the journey, it means a lot!  Feel free to leave questions in the comments, or email me, I would be happy to answer!

Cruise Log #6 - Day at Sea with the Timinator!

October 6, 2010

Finally! Another long class time has arrived!  Had class in the afternoon, so in the morning went down and worked in the studio for a bit.

I was thrilled to see, (as everyone else was), as we walked in that an unfinished wooden curio cabinet was at each station. Yee Haw!

And Tim was generous enough to supply us each with a cool bag of vintage goodies to put in our curios, as well as the paper to line the compartments, among other things.  I didn't do a lot to the box in class, as I like to think about placement and so forth, plus, I wanted to add things I had acquired on the trip, so I ended up leaving it mostly empty, and finished it when I got home.  Tim would have said I was overthinking it, but that's just the way I create. So, here we go!

Full view with door closed!

Full view with door open! he he

Close up of lower right corner

 

 Tim had given us a battery operated tea light to use in one of the compartments of our choice, so here was my genius plan (or not, lol). I glued a napkin of Maine lighthouses I had gotten from Linda to some vellum, cut out around the image, glued to the tea light, then glued some shells and seaweed (thanks Wendy!) to the top of the compartment, so when you turn on the tea light, it lights up the lighthouse as well as the shells inside. One of my plans that actually came out ok. lol. 

The compartment to the right of that contains a lobster pick and lobster pin (thanks Linda!), some rusty screening from Tim, and some seaweed glued behind everything, to remind me of the lobster bake excursion.

The lower compartment - A St. John tag from something I bought, the bird in the hand (lol) that Tim gave us, a couple of shells, more seaweed, and a "Canadian lotto scratcher" I bought at a sovenir place. he he. I bought it mostly for the moose, obviously.

Close up of lower left

Ok, in this close up we have a bottle of shells, coral and seaweed (thanks Wendy!) from Bar Harbor, a frozen Charlotte head which I attached to a wood spool wrapped with ribbon I received from Gail, a couple of vials with watch parts, rocks and shells glued in various places, a butterfly, and my favorite, a bobble head tiny moose in a bird nest, many thanks to Charlene for giving that to me! You can't see him really well, maybe if you make the photo bigger you can.

Close up of top two compartments

The left compartment contains a vintage toy car from Tim, an Idea-ology key, some more seaweed, and the little card that Evonne had made to go with all of her altered dominoes, of which I picked the "L", of course, you can see the top of it in this photo. They were very cool. 

The right compartment contains a cool bird cage charm, half of a view finder disc, an Idea-ology watch face and spinner, and vintage game pieces, all courtesy of the ever generous Timinator. Oh, and more rocks from Bar Harbor, many thanks to Wendy for sharing those. I did mention that I'm a rock and shell 'ho...und, right?

The inside edges of the compartments are covered with Tissue Tape and inked.

All in all, I absolutely loved this project, and every time I look at it, it reminds me of the journey! 

Thanks for following along with me, the trip is almost over, but I hope you've enjoyed it!

Cruise Log #5

October 4 and 5, 2010

I'm going to post both of the Canadian ports in one post, hope you don't mind! lol!

October 4, 2010

St. John, New Brunswick

Ah yes, the first Canadian port......eh.

Linda, Charlene and I caught a taxi to the best known natural phenomenon in St. John, the reversing waterfalls. This is caused by the tidal action in the harbor. When the tide comes in, the harbor is actually higher than the mouth of the St. John river, causing the water to run backwards into the river, hence reversing waterfalls. We went right away in the morning and was able to see it in action. Very cool and interesting. Also saw a harbor seal in the water. They come up to feed on the fish that are washed in by the rising tide. Wasn't fast enough to get a picture of the cute little guy, though.

After that we just walked around town, and snapped some pictures of the wonderful architecture.

Saw this HUMONGO stuffed moose, so Linda was kind enough to take my picture with it!

And here's the real thing, we found in the mall called the Market Square...probably as close as I'll get to seeing a real one!

Back to the ship, and down to the studio for a bit, before “Tim Time”, which made me think of the “old” TV show, Tool Time with Tim the Tool Man Taylor. lol.  Apparently, Tim had a lot of requests for just a question/answer type thing, so it was an hour just with the man himself, no projects!

Eileen and Pat had made some tiaras, and prior to the cruise had sent me one to alter as well. So kind of them, they didn't want me to feel left out! I mentioned that Tim Time would be a great time to show them off, so we did! Hilarious.

Here's a close up. I used alcohol inks to color the "jewels", and to ink some paper, then added some Tim stamps and bling.

As for our scepters, we decided Tim tools would do... although I don't have that picture on my camera.  I thought I would be Queen of Grungonia, and subjects in my kingdom would be.....grungonians. rofl. I don't think Eileen and Pat had established a name for their kingdoms, that was just MY warped sense of humor.

Tim Time was pretty cool, we got to ask Tim some questions, one of them being how he got started in the biz, which was interesting. I had heard a lot of that before, but some bits I hadn't. 

And before I forget once again to mention this, I just want to say that Tim and his crew, which consists of Tim, Mario, Michele, Karen, Joy and I'm sure I'm forgetting someone, went out of their way and worked very hard to make the cruise an awesome experience. I wouldn't be able to express my thanks enough for a wonderful cruise. That goes for the ScrapMap team, and Ben and Cherry from Royal Caribbean.

October 5, 2010

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Today I bummed around Halifax with another fun group of girls from Illinois, Terri, Judy and Gail. We got a pass for the hop on, hop off bus, and the first stop was the Maritime Museum of Halifax. We also viewed a 3-D movie about the dude that filmed the deep sea viewing of the Titanic remains. That was interesting, yet a little spooky. There was a lot of info on the Titanic, being as how Halifax was the center of the recovery of Titanic survivors/victims. And do you know why? Even though there were other ports closer to the wreck?

1)The Titanic was owned by White Star Lines, and their headquarters were in Halifax

2)Halifax was the closest port with a railroad link inland, to, ah, transport the victims

I didn't know that, or the fact that Halifax was the epicenter of a disastrous explosion caused by two ships colliding in the harbor, that killed many people both in the harbor AND inland for several blocks. When I walked out of the museum, I was a little depressed.

So, we hopped on the bus, and got off at a stop so we could have some fish and chips to bring us out of the depression. What a lovely way to challenge your cholesterol. But it was delicious.

Back to the ship, and down to the studio for some craft time!

I can't remember what I did both nights after dinner, I'm sure it involved a show of some sort! One was never lacking for entertainment, I can tell you that.

Here's the only pictures I took in Halifax, on the Boardwalk looking out into the harbor.

Wow, only one more port left, Boston!

So the next day means at sea, which means..... class time!

Simon Says Stamp and Show Me - Anything But NOT A CARD!

Pretty easy, as I don't make a lot of cards anyways...lol....I do, however, like chunky ATC's, so here's another! In Wendy Vecchi style, of course!
There are always flowers:

For those who want to see:

Once again, I've used a lot of Wendy's stamps, grungepaper and distress inks to complete this. Along with some Maya Road trinkets and assorted bling!  The ball on the top is just one of those unfinished wooden balls you find in the wood section of the craft store. I painted it black then put some Picket Fence Crackle paint on it, then rubbed some antiquing medium over it, which is the same treatment I used as the background of the chunky ATC.  If you haven't tried making a chunky ATC, you really should, it's loads of fun!

Cruise Log #4

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Next port, Bar Harbor, Maine!

This was by far my most fave port. Scenic wise, that is. Well, and shop wise too I guess. Typical tourist shops, some things were different. I did the most damage at a little store called the Blueberry Patch. We had to tender into the actual town, as the harbor isn't deep enough. I signed up for the Acadia National Park and Lobster Bake excursion, joining my friends Linda and Charlene (Charlene, I couldn't remember if you have a blog, but if you do, put the link in a comment, would you? Don't want to forget someone!). And Steph and Andrea happened to be on the same tour, too! The lobster bake turned out to be a dinner at the local Regency Inn, I was expecting an outdoor experience, but it was ok. The Acadia bus tour was the part I liked the best. We stopped at Thunder Hole, which is basically a huge rock outcropping that when the waves hit, makes a sound like, ah...thunder. Actually very cool. 

The other stop was the top of Cadillac Mountain, which had breathtaking views of the harbor and island.

Doesn't our ship look tiny? lol!

I think this string of islands were called the Porcupine Islands, and they each had names, but can't remember those either!

I picked up some little chunks of pink granite along the walkway for my curio cabinet, being as how I'm kind of a rock/shell 'ho.....und. Yes, the area is known for the pink granite, and other granite. I thought this macro pic would be a great background, grab it if you like.

This was the evening our group had our night class, only 1 ½ hours long, and made these cool tags using three different flowers made from Timinator products. Love the fabric flowers, and the rosette, and the tissue tape, oh, I guess that's all of them, then. lol.

Quite frankly, once the class was done, it was almost naptime. (Remember, after 10 p.m. I turn into a pumpkin) Another port tomorrow, yep, four in a row!