Hi Stampers,

Happy Sunday friends ! 

What a awesome  time we had at our Glitter Queens retreat  last weekend . I had intentions to share more last Sunday but  Friday and Saturday we seriously  didn't go to bed  until wee hours in the morning  and then Sunday morning came  and  we had  another jammed packed  day before the girls headed home .

I have a lot of photos posted HERE  but thought I would share a few here  with you .

Late night  stamping and of course eating a bunch of yummy goodies . We all admitted that the weekend was the time we all were off our  reg "good" eating habits  with Double Chocolate fudge cake / Cheese Cake  and so much more .

Here is Davette  taking a bite of the chocolate cake .

Must admit I had never heard of this  Jalapeno jam ( have you?)   but lets just say I think we could have ate the whole jar  that night  it was so good.

Davette  added the cream cheese to the jam on a cracker OH MY GOODNESS… We seriously  couldn't stop eating… then the cream cheese ran out  LOL!  

 Friday night  we had our shoe box swap  and then Saturday I filmed all the girls making their shoe box swap… sorry those videos are only for  my Glitter Queens  Team …. but below are  the photos of their shoe box swaps ( awesome !)  

I swear making the videos are so much fun  we even had a blooper video  hilarious !  I love  these ladies .  Friday night I also had another card challenge like last year  which I called  the "limited supply  challenge"  the week before the event I  post questions to our private FB page and  I asked each one of them  what their

favorite ( certain item ) was 

Dee  her current favorite stamp set was 

• which was Watercolored Wings 

Davette I asked her favorite color card stock ?

• which was Pool Party and Elegant Eggplant 

Kris I asked her for her favorite Framelit or punch? 

• which was Itty Bitty Accents punch pack 

Stacey I asked which her favorite accessory was?

• Which was Basic Rhinestones 

 I am not sure if they remember this challenge  from last year but I brought all the supplies out  that they picked PLUS a  few of my favorites to help them design their card's I added :

•  Bold Butterfly Framlits # 138135
•  Butterflies Thinlits # 137360
• Whisper white card stock b# 100730 

 After everyone finished I took photos  of their  beautiful cards and  unlike last year  when I had my hubby judge and pick his favorite,

I  uploaded  them all to our Team FB page and  had them all vote  with a poll on their Favorite

• Dee won the challenge .

Friday night we also had a share fair  where I shared  a few tips  and  we also made  a Christmas tag/ card candy .

Saturday we filmed  everyone's shoe box swap and  then  we made the make & take  I had planned for.

Then we  headed out to dinner to Max & Erma's  which was  yummy too.

Then it was time for  a field trip to  the local  Dollar Tree and Home Goods  which  the ladies had never been to Home Goods  so  that was  extra fun.

 Here are some of the  amazing pillow gifts I received from these amazing  ladies  .

I  had  the most amazing time  and the time went by so quickly .

After coming home from dinner and shopping Saturday night Stacey walks in with a new froggy friend  isn't he cute ? He is so tiny.

He actually did jump out of her hands in my kitchen but she caught him  and took him back outside . 

We finished off our Saturday night  after a fun full day of stamping making videos  and shopping by jumping in the hot tub and the swimming pool .

Already planning  our event for next year .

Update on my new medication Humira .

I  finally got it on Wednesday . My big plan was  to start on Friday but as the day went on  the more apprehensive I got about the  injection . I have heard so many horror stories from  friends and also  reading things online . ( Dawn's side note" DON'T read  stuff online ) .

 I  can not express how scared I was to  do this injection. I know my hubby was a tad been concerned  too.

I  think I was most  worried about it being so painful that I  couldn't do the injection  after the 1st one and my RA doctor said  he thought it was going to  help me a lot .  

I decided to  do that injection  that evening . I took the  Syringe out  of the frig  for 1 hour before I  did the injection  and I also iced the area for  at least 30 minutes off and on .  The time came to do it  and  I went into the kitchen and hubby stayed in the living room

( I could tell he was  nervous for me ) 

I took a deep breath and  said a little prayer  and  it was done . It seriously  didn't sting  it did feel numb but  after talking with my  nurse over the phone  I  mentioned to her  the numbness  could have been from my thigh being iced  and  the medication was  at room temp. I am not  really sure but at least it didn't sting.  the numbness seemed to go away after about 10 minutes . Praise GOD! 

After  I was done I think my hubby was expecting me to cry and yell out OUCHIE!! i

It was really quite and then when he heard me  get up  he said ~ is it over ???   I said yes and it wasn't  that bad .. Don't get me wrong it's not like I am so over joyed with  excitement of the next injection but  Praise God it didn't hurt and  who knows if it  helps me feel  better I just may be very excited ! 

 I know this is going to sound even more weird but  after this 1 injection I can  already tell I  am feeling better , not 100 %  but  much better.

1 thing I noticed too was the Humira  injection was so much smaller than my Enbrel injection  PLUS I didn't have to mix anything  with the Humira . The needle was slightly bigger than the Enbrel but  didn't feel any bigger when injecting .  I guess my over all experience  was awesome .  plus  I only have to  do Humira every 2 weeks compared to Enbrel 2 days every week  . There is a  injection pen  which my RA doctor   said he would  have me  stick ( no pun intended)  with the needle / Syringe version and maybe just maybe that's why I had a better experience  than  others… IDK  but  I'm very thankful !  

• Oh (1) more thing this medication is very pricey .

This week I also started  taking Super Beets .

I posted this photo over on  my Instagram  HERE  and I was asked what  this was good for . It's good for a lot of things. I mainly  was thinking for energy  which it's great for that  . Even though this photo  above looks like  I'm a vampire drinking blood  … It's actually really good  even hubby said ~wow that's not bad 

• You can check it out HERE 

 Well today has been some kind of Sunday Share HUH? .  

Hopefully you made it to here .

Here is my Sunday Share video .

It's a super cute. Reminds me of our Jessie  when she was little with our Bowzer 

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Have a Fabulous Sunday  friends ! 

Until later.. Happy Stampin!