For those who are interested in putting a slideshow up onto your blog - a real cool one is at www.rockyou.com. It’s totally free and there are some cool things you can do to customize your slideshow. Below is an example of a quick one I did.

You can even get games there to put on your blog or myspace pages and other stuff like glittertext.

Another cool site that can get addicting is Facebook You can go here, register for free, and connect with all your old friends. I am still learning my way around there, but it’s pretty cool. You can join various networks and groups depending on your location or interests.

There is lots going on at Scrap Galaxy right now! We have a new contest that just started that’s being sponsored by Tilano Fresco - if your layout is chosen, it will be transferred to a canvas and will be displayed in scrapbooking and art stores across Canada and the USA!

Another contest has just been started by one of our Creative Team members, Nancy Wilkins. She is giving a RAK worth $20-$50! All you need to do is submit a layout with the subject of how much fun you have at Scrap Galaxy. Each layout will get an entry into a draw and Nancy will randomly draw a winner. Thanks for this contest Nancy! Did everyone see the awesome blinkies the Creative Team made for the winners of our crop last weekend? Speaking of the crop - I want to say a huge thank you to all the organizers - they put a tremendous amount of time and effort into preparing and implementing the crop. Thank you Dea, Carla, Jamie, the Creative Team, and all the Design Team members that helped. You all did an awesome job - the crop was a huge success! Elsie Flannigan herself even submitted a challenge to us just for the crop!

We have a Design Team call and a Creative Team call out for SG right now - for the new term starting June 1.

One of our current Design Team members is Allyson Bright Meyer, author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Scrapbook Projects Illustrated and the BRAND NEW just released The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Altered Art Illustrated.
Her first book was amazing and I am so excited to see her new one! (keep a watch out for a new contest starting May 1 for a chance to win a copy of her new book!)

Ok, well that’s it for tonight. Mostly some updates on what is happening around the site. Our good friend Scott is coming tomorrow to visit us for a few days from Texas! He has never been up here before so it’s going to be fun taking him to some of our favorite places. We’re also planning to take him over to the island one day so he can see how beautiful it is there - keeping my fingers crossed that we’ll have sunny weather!

Angus will be thrilled to get back to visit my parents. He was quite upset with us for dragging him away from there Sunday night when we came back home. They have 10 acres and a puppy that he LOVES to play with. I think he would be perfectly happy being there full time with them! He moped around here for a couple days when we got home, what a little grump he was…

And the last news for the night: our poor guinea pig Wheezy had to go back to the vet today. He is just not getting better. It makes me sick thinking about how much pain he is in and has been in from those abscesses on his neck. I just feel so helpless not being able to give him anything for the pain. He’s such a little trooper too, still has an appetite and some spunk to him. He has to go in for surgery tomorrow now. They have tried everything they could to get rid of the abscesses but nothing has worked. It’s been well over a month now and he has just gotten worse. Apparently they are in his lymph nodes and they just go way too deep. So the last resort is surgery to remove the lymph nodes. Of course for such a little critter, surgery is risky. We’re hoping this will help him and that he will pull through the surgery ok.

How can we resist this cute face? We’re thinking about you Wheezy. xoxo

New friends: Tweak and Ernest playing on the kitchen floor