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We love chatting and getting to know fellow scrapbookers so we wanted to give you a list of ways to connect with us.

1. Newsletter - great way to hear about new kits, classes and events. Sign up at K.I.S.S. Crop-n-Shop and click on add to newsletter. Be sure to follow the steps and confirm subscription by responding to email link.

2. K.I.S.S. Blog - you are reading it now. You can sign up to be a friend of K.I.S.S. to the left and you can also subscribe to our blog to get updates sent directly to your email.

3. K.I.S.S. Community - Located at K.I.S.S. Crop-n-Shop you can join our message boards and share with others that have the same interests you do. We post Questions of the Week, talk about upcoming events and lots more. You do need to register for the message boards by creating a username and password. You will need to complete registration by clicking link in an email that will be sent to you. Log in and join the fun!

4. Facebook - I'm in love with Facebook. I've been able to connect with family and friends since joining and it's great fun, easy and doesn't take much time. (unless you are addicted, LOL!) Add me as a friend and I'll add ya back.

5. Email - You can always contact me via email at info@kisscropnshop.com and if you have trouble, some servers block this email you may contact me at shamae35@wildblue.net.

Love hearing from you so try one or all of these today!! *Click on the purple links above to be taken directly to the websites.

Shannon

It's CRAZY...

I said I had 7 HUGE boxes right? I just had to show you what it now looks like in my shipping/receiving area (aka living room) and this isn't all of it, just couldn't fit it all in one picture! Now to get it all loaded in the trailer before the rest of the boxes arrive tomorrow!

See you this weekend!!

7 more!

Check this out-----

7 more HUGE boxes arrived today full of new goodies for the on-site K.I.S.S. store, Red Lights and lots and lots of door prizes for all the ladies cropping with us this weekend at Spring Fling!!

Unable to crop with us at Spring Fling? No worries, mark your calendars now for July 24th and 25th for our Beat the Heat Crop. We'll have boxes and boxes of goodies for you ladies too!!

It's starting...

packages are arriving! Door prizes, Red Lights, new product they are starting to roll in. Emma helped me open boxes tonight, she likes doing this almost as much as she likes giving out prizes!

Hope all of you that are attending the Spring Fling are ready because it's gonna be one fun and crazy weekend!! Emails went out tonight to all that are registered for Spring Fling, please be sure to check your boxes and email me if you didn't get it.

If you are unable to crop with us but are in the area of 4th and Pearl, Joplin please be sure to stop by and say hi this weekend. We'll have the on-site K.I.S.S. store open for shopping with lots of new papers, embellishments, K.I.S.S. Kits and some crazy specials!! We will have the store open from 5pm Friday night to 8pm and from noon to 5pm Saturday for shoppers.

Counting down the days

It's almost time for Spring Fling! Mom and I will be busy all next week buying supplies, getting orders unpacked, prizes ready and of course all the goodies we have for you. We've got a fun theme idea that I think you're gonna like!! I'm very excited to see it all come together.

If you are attending be watching for your email to arrive in boxes by Monday. It will give you all the important details.

I haven't had a chance to send out a big HI to all those that took the Lickety Split Scrapbook classes in Portland! I had a wonderful group of ladies the entire weekend, some I thought might be stalking me by the number of classes they took, LOL!! I have to say Wendy out done herself in the designing which makes teaching so much fun and makes my job easy.

For those in the St. Louis area be sure to check out the Creating Keepsakes classes, I'll be teaching all 8 of the Lickety Split Scrapbook classes and would love to have you join us.

Too funny not to share with ya...

Got this in an email today and thought you all needed a good laugh too!
Just beware, you will laugh out loud so make sure boss is at lunch!

All hair removal methods have tricked women with their promises of easy, painless removal - the Epilate, scissors, razors, Nair and now...the wax. Read on.

My night began as any other normal weeknight. Come home, fix dinner, and play with the kids. I then had the thought that would ring painfully in my mind for the next few hours:

' Maybe I should pull the waxing kit out of the medicine cabinet. ' So I headed to the site of my demise: the bathroom.

It was one of those ' cold wax ' kits. No melting a clump of hot wax, you just rub the strips together in your hand, they get warm and you peel them apart and press them to your leg (or wherever else) and you pull the hair right off.

No muss, no fuss. How hard can it be? I mean, I ' m not a genius, but I am mechanically inclined enough to figure this out. (YA THINK!?!)

So I pull one of the thin strips out. Its two strips facing each other stuck together. Instead of rubbing them together, my genius kicks in so I get out the hair dryer and heat it to 1000 degrees.

( ' Cold wax, ' yeah. Right!) I lay the strip across my thigh. Hold the skin around it tight and pull. IT WORKS!

Ok, so it wasn't the best feeling, but it wasn't too bad. I can do this! Hair removal no longer eludes me! I am She-rah, fighter of all wayward body hair and maker of smooth skin extraordinaire.

With my next wax strip I move north. After checking on the kids, I sneak back into the bathroom, for the ultimate hair fighting championship. I drop my panties and place one foot on the toilet. Using the same procedure, I apply the wax strip across the right side of my bikini line, covering the right half of my hoo-ha and stretching down the inside of my butt cheek (it *was* a long strip) I inhale deeply and brace myself..... RRRRRRIIIIIIPPPPPP!

I ' m blind!!! Blinded from pain!!!!!.....OH MY GAWD!!!!!!!!!!

Vision returning, I notice that I've only managed to pull off half the strip. CRAP! Another deep breath and RIPP! Everything is spinning and spotted. I think I may pass out...must stay conscious... must stay conscious.

Do I hear crashing drums???? Breathe, breathe .OK, back to normal. I want to see my trophy - a wax covered strip, the one that has caused me so much pain, with my hairy pelt sticking to it. I want to revel in the glory that is my triumph over body hair. I hold up the strip. There ' s no hair on it. Where is the hair??? WHERE IS THE WAX????

Slyly I ease my head down, foot still perched on the toilet. I see the hair. The hair that should be on the strip. It ' s not!! I touch I am touching wax.

I run my fingers over the most sensitive part of my body, which is now covered in cold wax and matted hair. Then I make the next BIG mistake... remember my foot is still propped upon the toilet? I know I need to do something. So I put my foot down.

Sealed shut! My butt is sealed shut. Sealed shut!

I penguin walk around the bathroom trying to figure out what to do next and think to myself, ' Please, don ' t let me get the urge to poop. My head may pop off! ' What can I do to melt the wax?

Hot water!! Hot water melts wax!!!! I'll run the hottest water I can stand into the bathtub, get in, immerse the wax-covered bits and the wax should melt and I can gently wipe it off, right???? *WRONG!!!!!!!*

I get in the tub - the water is slightly hotter than that used to torture 20 prisoners of war or sterilize surgical equipment - I sit.

Now, the only thing worse than having your nether regions glued together, is having them glued together and then glued to the bottom of the tub...in scalding hot water. Which, by the way, doesn't melt cold wax.

So, now I ' m stuck to the bottom of the tub as though I had cemented myself to the porcelain!!! God bless the man who had convinced me a few months ago to have a phone put in the bathroom!!!!!

I call my friend, thinking surely she has waxed before and have some secret of how to get me undone. It ' s a very good conversation starter ' So, my butt and hoo-ha are glued together to the bottom of the tub! '

There is a slight pause. She doesn't know any secret tricks for removal but she does try to hide her laughter from me. She wants to know exactly where the wax is located, ' are we talking cheeks or hole or hoo-ha? '

She ' s laughing out loud by now... I can hear her. I give her the rundown and she suggests I call the number on the side of the box.

YEAH!!!! RIGHT!!!! I should be the joke of someone else ' s night.

While we go through the various solutions, I resort to trying to scrape the wax off with a razor. Nothing feels better than having your girlie goodies covered in hot wax, glued shut, stuck to the tub in super hot water and then dry-shaving the sticky wax off!!!!

By now the brain is not working, dignity has taken a major hike and I ' m pretty sure I ' m going to need Post-Traumatic Stress counseling for this event.

My friend is still talking with me when I finally see my saving grace...the lotion they give you to remove the excess wax. What do I really have to lose at this point? I rub some on and OH MY GAWD!!!!!!!!

The scream probably woke the kids and scared the dickens out of my friend. Its sooo painful, but I really don ' t care. ' IT WORKS!!!! It works!!!! '

I get a hearty congratulation from my friend and she hangs up. I successfully remove the remainder of the wax and then notice to my grief and despair. THE HAIR IS STILL THERE..ALL OF IT!

So I recklessly shave it off. Heck, I 'm numb by now. Nothing hurts - I could have amputated my own leg at this point.

Next week I ' m going to try hair color!