November DT Blog Hop

It's Pep Rally week and we are here today to share a sampling of the Paper Smooches December release with you!  FIVE new stamps and EIGHT new dies will be available to purchase at 12:01am, Eastern time...on December 1st.  You will find them HERE

To add extra fun to our blog hop...we are offering up a prize! 

• FOUR winners will be chosen at RANDOM from any of the design team blogs and the PS Blog
• The prize - a $25. gift code to choose what you like at the PS online store.
• Just leave a comment on any of the design team blogs listed below or the PS blog for your chance to win!  (you do not need to comment on all blogs to qualify but it increases your changes) 
• You have until midnight MT on Sunday, December 1st to leave a comment. 
• Please check the Paper Smooches blog on Monday, December 2nd to see if you are one of the FOUR lucky winners.

Ashley Marcu

Betsy Veldman

Emily Leiphart

Erin Lincoln

Heidi Van Laar

JJ Bolton

Kalyn Kepner

Karolyn Loncon

Kim Kesti

Laura Bassen

Laurie Schmidlin

Mou Saha 

Pamela Ho 

Summer Fullerton

Teri Anderson

To increase your chances of winning:

• Tell us that you Facebooked about our blog hop
• Tell us that you Tweeted about our hop
• Tell us that you posted on your blog about our blog hop

(which means that you have up to three extra chances to win on each blog)

ok, so I realize this card contains nothing of Paper Smooches (you will have to check the DT blogs to see the sneak peeks of the new release)...but I wanted to share it with you today in honor of Thanksgiving.  I'd like you to all know how extremely thankful I am for all of you.  It means the world to me that you like what I do.  I am truly humbled every single day.  Your love and support is greatly appreciated...THANK YOU - you are a blessing in my life.

PS....we will have a Black Friday sale. I will send a newsletter with the details...and announce the details here on tomorrows blog post as well

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Thanksgiving Fun Facts:

1. There was no pecan pie or mashed potatoes at the first Thanksgiving dinner. The pilgrims and Native Americans feasted on corn, barley, wild turkeys, venison, and waterfowl.
2. We consider Thanksgiving an American holiday, but our neighbors to the north, Canada, also celebrate Thanksgiving. However, they celebrate on the second Monday of October, wisely having some extra time to recover from one huge turkey feast before diving in again at Christmas.
3. The average weight of a commercially bred turkey in the U.S. is 15 pounds. That hefty bird normally consists of 70% white meat and 30% dark meat.
4. Turkeys are easily frightened. so much so, that they can have a heart attack. Once, the U.S. Air Force was conducting test flights that broke the sound barrier. The sonic boom literally scared the life right out of turkeys in the nearby area. Also, when spooked but not scared to death, a turkey can run as fast a 20 mph or fly up to 55 mph.
5. Turkeys have bad night vision. All the better to catch your dinner after dark.
6. There are 12 places in the the United States that are named Turkey, including Turkey Creek, LA; Turkey, NC; and Turkey, TX. You’ll remember the Panhandle town of Turkey, TX from PETA’s 2011 attempt to change the name to “Tofurky.”
7. The first Thanksgiving was a 3-day party. Now, we have one big party and take 3 days to recover.
8. U.S. Presidents have traditionally pardoned a turkey from becoming Thanksgiving dinner since Harry S. Truman began the modern practice. It’s said that Abraham Lincoln may have started the turkey pardoning when he officially spared his son’s pet turkey.
9. Thanksgiving wasn’t a national holiday until 1941.
10. The tradition of Thanksgiving and football began in 1876 with a college football game between Ivy League schools, Yale and Princeton.

BIG smooches!

Kim