EYE-FI REVIEW

I got any Eye-Fi card for Christmas. It is an SD card that you put in your digital camera and then there is a tiny device you plug into your USB port on your computer. You can use this device to download from non wi-fi cards also. As soon as you take a photo it is automatically downloaded to your computer to the folder you have set up. If your home computer is online and you are in a place with wi-fi it will still download over any wireless connection that you can connect to. Your camera has to be powered on the whole time it is downloading. If you do not download wirelessly it works like a regular SD card.

My review: 5 STAR! It works just like it states. Only complaint I had at all was it is slow in downloading and Christmas day their service got overloaded and it was hit and miss that day on downloads. Overall it is well worth the money for the convenience.

Cost is about $80.00. I am sure the price will keep dropping as I wanted one last year and they were way to expensive and they have dropped considerably in price since last year.

If You Bought a Cricut Expressions Recenty, Read This!

Hi, Veronica here. A few former students of mine brought this to my attention... if you purchased a Cricut Expressions machine between Oct. 15 and Dec. 15 (that includes the day after Thanksgiving) then you are eligible to receive 2 cricut cartridges free* -- you just have to pay $7.95 for shipping and handling. But you must hurry, because this offer is only available if you send in your receipt and it is postmarked by Jan. 15.
The 2 cartridges are Printing 101 and My Community, both of which are pretty cool, especially if you have kids and are doing school books.
The Cricut.com website has all the details. Just go to the homepage -- but wait a minute, because the offer may not flash up right away.
You are welcome for the tip. Letting me play with your free* My Community cartridge would be thanks enough! :) ~ Veronica

NEW ITEMS IN AND NEW COUPONS

We still get our shipments of new items I just have not been working due to pageant and then my fall on the ice. I sure mis the store and very frustrated with this brace and not being able to use one arm.

Lots of items have come in. I know there are tons of new Jollee's, new papers, new brads, Cricut Cartridges and markers, new cuttlebug embossing folders and more. Stop by and do not forget to print out your coupons on http://www.ptdiva.com/

SEPHORA DISCOUNT CODE

Free 10 day supply of bare minerals with your online purchase at www.sephora.com use code 10DAY and there is free shipping when you purchase $50.00 or more. Type in the word SALE in the search box to bring up discounted item.

2009 PRECIOUS TREASURES SRAPBOOK STORE IN GRETNA WILL BE CHANGED OVER TO AN OUTLET STORE

Starting January 1, 2009 we are changing the Gretna store over to an outlet store. Everyone will get a discount every day, no coupons needed. As long as you are registered on http://www.ptdiva.com/ you get 20% off all of the time. Registered email address must be given at time of check out. Non-registered customers will always get 10% off. Normal exclusions apply.

We are working with companies to being you big discount items which will be in limited supplies! We will be carrying close out items at discount prices as well as newly released items which you will get your additional every day discount on.

Excludes custom items, services and fees, gift cards, handmade items, ND items. No other discounts apply.

More big surprises coming in 2009...stay tuned!

SCRAPBOOK AND CRAFT GARAGE SALE! DATE MOVED TO FEB 7-8

We had to move our tri-annual sale back a week as our staff will all be at CHA. The dates for the sale are February 7-8th. Next Sale will be in June. Clean out those craft rooms and get money to buy new products!!! The last sale was huge and everybody sold almost all of their items! Call the store 763-9675 or email ptdiva@ptdiva.com and put number in the subject line. Include your name and phone number. It will be adavertised in the World Herald, Omaha web site and Craigs list and sent to the mailing list. No table rentals, no fees or percentages, you do not need to stay with your stuff.

Please make sure all of your items are clearly marked with the price and number. Please keep a list of the items you brought and prices if you want to keep for your records as this sale you will just get back a list of prices of items sold to speed up the check out process.

Bring your stuff the week before the sale. Everything must be marked with a price and your number. You will get 100% of your sales in a Precious Treasures Gift Card. So you will have money to buy new supplies and getting organized at the same time. Don't miss this fun event! You can bring any craft supplies, scrapbook suppies, stamps etc. Items that are not sold can be picked up after 6pm or the day after. After Sunday any remaining items left will be donated between Make a Wish and Lutheran Family Services.

NOT LOCAL??? If you are not local and want to mail your items to sale you are more than welcome as I know we have a lot of customers who are not local. We will call you after the sale and you can let us know what you want to purchase with your gift card and we will ship it back to you. So join in on the fun!

FAMILY PHOTO

The whole family in a picture, a Christmas miracle! Click on photos to make larger, the bottom one will crack you up! :)

SUNDAY CHRISTMAS AT TREVORS MOMS

Heading to Grand Island to Trevors moms.

The boys had a blast playing out in the fields.

Dagen would bob his head listening to the ipod.

Dagen is such a hoot. He had Liz's ipod using it as a camera. I know what I am getting all the neices and nephews next year, a camera.

I think Kaela has become Pauls pillow. He was sound asleep. (Until Liz found some ice) hee hee

It seems so weird to be December and it was so nice out. The snow was perfect for snowballs. They got a lot more snow in Grand Island than we got here.

My niece Kasey with Daisy

My nephew Dagen just cracks me up. He kept saying mmmm.... as he was eating his chocolate pie and had a fork in one hand and a spoon in the other.

Liz had fun eating!

The kids had fun opening gifts.

A NEW GARMIN GPS FOR CHRISTMAS

My parents bought me a PINK Garmin GPS for Christmas. I had to laugh as look at the sticker that is on the front of it. It is CHICAGO! I absolutely love Chicago and I was teasing saying I better just leave the sticker on it as it will always be telling me to go there. hee hee

SATURDAY CHRISTMAS AT MY PARENTS

I love spreading out Christmas as we get to spend more time with each family instead of just popping in for a small amount of time at each place. I loved this Christmas as we got to stay home and spend some time with our own family and later in the day got to go visit my aunt in Iowa who is not doing very well. It was a nice day. Saturday we went to my parents house in Fremont and had a wonderful dinner and watched movies. It was a lot of fun. The kids all got ipods fro grandma and grandpa so it was very quiet. :)

A Sugar Daddy for my Sugar Daddy!
I love cardinals as they always remind me of my grandma who I miss so much!

Ruth is such a goof!


Of couse Trevor would get a HUSKER blanket. I think he is their number one fan!

Liz's nickname fro grandpa was monkey so of course she got a monkey blanket

Zach loved his new ipod

My sister Trudy

My brother in law Mike looking at the scrapbook I made for them of their cruise. Check out his cool new hat! hee hee
My sister made us all these fleece blankets. Love 'em!!!

Christmas Exploded in the living room.

COME CROP WITH US IN 2009~

http://www.ptdiva.com/ for calendar

http://ptdiva.blogspot.com/2008/12/cricut-anyone.html for private room rental details

CHRISTMAS SCRAPBOOK PAGE IDEA

As you know I take way too many photos. Here is a great way to use lots of photos on one 2-page layout.

LAYOUT CONTEST

We are doing another layout contest using the template below. Get your layouts in by January 31st to enter for a $20.00 gift certificate.

QUOTES

• Do it now; deal with the fear later
• You must have better friends than Ben and Jerry
• Yelling makes it harder for people to hear you
• Don't get even, get even better

CROP TONIGHT CANCELLED

Well I finally went in to see the doctor after my fall on the ice at Tuesday nights crop and sure enough my clavicle was broken. Poor Liz had to work by herself today and it was non-stop customers from the time we opened. So she was too tired tonight to hold the crop for me. Sorry but we cancelled crop tonight as I am just in too much pain from them moving the bones around. If you were signed up you will get a free crop next week.

DID YOU GET A CRICUT FOR CHRISTMAS

If you got a Christmas Cricut check out the calendar on http://www.ptdiva.com/ for a list of Cricut classes as they fill up quickly. There are different levels as well as classes for different cricut machines. Veronica is an excellent teacher and even I took the regular Cricut class and need to take the expressions class now. Call the store to sign up or email veronica@ptdiva.com

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! (pics)

We wish you all a wonderful and blessed Christmas. We had midnight church service last night and of course the twins were up bright and early this morning. The kids will have fun playing the rest of the day. We are going over to see my aunt later as this will most likely be her last Christmas and she is one of my favorite relatives whom I admire so much. It will be so hard when she goes. :( So we thought that spending it with her would be a perfect Christmas!

WE HOPE YOU ALL ARE HAVING A WONDERFUL DAY ON JESUS BIRTHDAY!!!

The Stewart Family, Trevor, Amy, Paul, Liz, Ruth, Zacheus, Diva and Daisy and Lobo too!

I WISH I COULD SAY I MADE THIS CAKE BUT TARGET AT LAKESIDE HAS A NEW DECORATOR WHO IS AWESOME!

TREV AND PAUL LOVE LEGOS

RUTH IS QUITE THE SINGER

DAISY AFTER HER BELLY WAS SOOO..... FULL

I GROCERY SHOPPED AND WE COOKED AND BAKED ALL DAY ON CHRISTMAS EVE. WE HAD A CHILI AND CHOWDER DINNER AND OF COURSE EVERY ONE DID LOTS OF SNACKING. :)



DIVA GOT HER BIG BONE INTO A BOX AND THEN SHE JUMPED IN AND HID IT

DAISY GOT A HUGE BONE AND SHE CARRIED IT ALL THE WAY BACK TO HER BED

DAISY GOT A NAP


OUR FOREST OF TREES AND CHECK OUT THAT COACH BOX WITH MY NAME ON IT

(I can't wait!!!)

OUR HOUSE LOOKS LIKE CHRISTMAS THREW UP! HEE HEE

LIZ GOT HER ED HARDY BOOTS ALTHOUGH HER CAR IS IN THE SHOP AND THEY CALLED YESTERDAY SAYING IT WAS $480.00 SO SHE MAY BE TAKING HER BOOTS BACK SHE SAID. :(

LIZ AND PAUL PLAYED VIDEO GAMES ALL MORNING

TREV GOT A NEW ITOUCH AND A NEW HAT

RUTH GOT A NEW GUITAR LOOK OUT HANNAH MONTANA

ZACHEUS GOT A NEW VIOLIN

THE DIVA CROP ROOM TURNED INTO SANTA WORKSHOP

We had a crop Tuesday night at the store and it looked like Santa's workshop from wrapping presents, to making cards to scrapbooking and even one person was making a vase for flowers. It was a lot of fun and I think we will have to make this a tradition! I wiped out on the ice which was not cool as my shoulder swollen and I am in lots of pain and I think I may have broke something. I will be at the doctor as soon as they open on Friday. What a bummer. Falls hurt a lot more at my age.

One of the elfs (Veronica) brought me the most wonderful Christmas gift which I just love!!! It is called a Miche Bag and the whole outside comes off and you can buy different covers for it so you do not have to change your whole purse just the outside to match your outfits. I think pink will do me for most of my outfits. LOL

PAGEANT IS OVER

Well last nights show was the last pageant performance. Stay tuned for the sequel at Easter. hee hee I was animal coordinator this year and we had sheep, goats, camels and chickens. It was more exciting this year as one of the sheep was pregnant and you could feel the babies inside of her move and kick. Also one of our camels was due any time. We had a great group of animal handlers this year also and a huge thanks to each and every one of them.

There were a lot of people who came to know Christ from the pageant and that is the goal. Our family is involved every year and it is a big undertaking as life stops for several weeks as there are two weeks of productions and Saturdays and Sundays there are 2 shows each day. If even one person comes to know Christ it makes it all worth it.

It was wonderful to see so many of our customers, friends and family there. (Thank You) Now it is time to decorate for Christmas, wrap presents, shop, ship packages, do Christmas Cards,clean the house and bake! I am looking forward to the crop tomorrow night to finish up a lot of last minute Christmas things. Hope to see you there!

We had camels, sheep, chickens and goats.

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Ugly Christmas Sweater Party (post from Lindsay)

'Tis the season!!!..... Ugly Christmas sweater season that is. Every year around Christmas time, there are always a few parties that are themed ugly Christmas sweater. They always turn out to be such a blast since some people come wearing some pretty obnoxious things. This year, my friend and I decided to be Christmas trees... Not really an ugly sweater, but fun non the less. Here is a picture of my outfit!

SCRAPPIN STUDIO

I was notified that the Scrappin Studio at the Gretna Outlet Mall has a new owner. The mall owner stated that it will stay a crop room only with no retail sales except the new owner was allowed to sell Cricut machines. Precious Treasures will continue to sell cartridges as we have the largest selection in the area but since they will sell the machines we feel it courteous to not compete and will no longer carry the machines in the store when the stock on hand has sold out.

We have had hundreds of emails since it was announced asking if we are still going to be holding our crops and rentals in our Diva Crop Room and the answer is yes and there will be no changes at this time. We will see how things go with the new owner before we make any changes. All rentals for 2009 at Precious Treasures will still stay the same and night time crops are listed on http://www.ptdiva.com/. We also have some wonderful surprises in store for you in 2009, stay tuned!

Scrappin Studio, Scrapping Station, Scrapping Studio

25% OFF YOUR TOTAL PURCHASE FROM NOW UNTIL CHRISTMAS*

Just mention this post and take 25% off your total purchase. Normal exclusions apply.

ZACHEUS' CHRISTMAS PRESENT (pics) CHICAGO

I took Zacheus to Chicago as that was his Christmas gift. He had so much fun and he said it was the best Christmas present ever. It will be a trip he will remember the rest of his life. Below is a some of the pictures from the trip. I just downloaded them all and there were 594 pictures and that is after I deleted he bad ones. No wonder I am so far behind on my scrapbooks LOL

CHICAGO THROUGH ZACHEUS' EYES

The bakeries are amazing in China Town. They decorate cakes with fresh fruit.

LOTS of snow!


This was probably a once in a lifetime sight. We seen a chinese funeral which if you look below past the guy in the coat there was a group of musiciams playing oriental music. There were carts of flowers and so many people. I was afraid to take pictures as I did not want to offend anyone but it is something we will remember all of our lives.







China Town

China Town





Dim Sum (YUM!)


Bubba Gump

Water room at the childrens museum

Childrens Museum

These were neat as they each had a different sound in them

Of course he had to have Chicago Pizza Giaradanno's is the BEST!

At the Science Museum

This submarine was huge and we got to go through all of the inside also.

This was really amazing to watch the assembly line to make a Gravitron Toy. The was at the Science Museum.

Lego Land

North Bridge Mall taking a "warm up" break.

Lego Land

Lego Land

A HUGE sundae

Christmas Village at the Hancock Building

FAO toy store animals They had sold a ton of these HUGE animals since I was there a few weeks ago.

See the lights on the windows on the right the 3rd floor down? Oprah is home!!!

View from the 94th floor

It snowed from the time we got up until the time we went to bed on Tuesday.

Zazcheus loved the Hershey factory machine.

Zacheus skating

Drinking cocoa while the Zamboni went out to clear the ice.

Very wet UGG boots. I even stuck the hair dryer in them and could not get them dry.

Zacheus skating.

FAO Schwarz window

Macy's on State streets decorations. I love State street more than Michigan Avenue.

The hotel lobby which is breathtaking.

The El train

Zacheus on the El train

Zacheus with his Gravitron toy.

I looked over and Zacheus had all these fruit roll up stars stuck all over his face. I asked him what he was doing and he said they were fruit roll up stickers and he was suppose to stick them to himself. He is ALL BOY!!!

We are home and Zach said it was the best Christmas ever. He also said I was the best mom in the world. I love to show my kids new things and new places. I grew up in the city and do not want them to live a sheltered life in Nebraska. I remember when I moved here I thought it was like a ghost town. Where were all the people? It is a lot safer here though as in the city you never would look at someone walking down the street and say hi. In the city you do not want to make eye contact when passing on the streets. You never wear jewelry etc. There are just so many differences but I think kids need to learn so if they move to the city or go to college in the city they know how to stay safe. Chicago is my favorite place in the world as I love Lake Michigan as you cannot see across it so it reminds me of the ocean. If I hit the lottery I will be blogging from my penthouse appartment in Chicago!