Well, I can thank Stampin' Up!® for yet another much-too-short night last night. 

As you know, I had already been super-busy all throughout the day and evening yesterday (well, if you read my last post from only hours ago you knew that, anyway), so just as I was closing up shop and thinking about heading off towards bed last night I figured I'd pop on over to the demonstrator website and possibly catch an announcement or two that I thought might show up (preprogrammed to appear when it officially turned "Monday" in Utah). Well was THAT ever a mistake!!!!

OH MY GOSH! 

Not only was the August issue of our monthly demonstrator magazine, Stampin' Success, posted online, but SO WAS THE HOLIDAY MINI CATALOG!  (OK, now, wait!  Before I accidentally cause any stampin' heart attacks with that statement, this "posting" to which I refer is a preview for demonstrator eyes only, so no point clickin' all around my websites trying to find it yourself!  But no worries; if you're in my just-starting-up-this-week Stampers 30 Clubs, or a frequent customer or class attendee around here, you'll be getting your very own copy delivered to your snail mail box probably late in August…… and the rest of you will be able to view it online come launch day, September 1st.)

But be warned; this puppy is HUGE!  40 pages long, it hardly even qualifies for a "mini", I think!  And inside it is the most awesome……

Oh, come on now!  You KNOW I'm not supposed to tell you, and I'm surely not gonna risk my 13-year career as a demonstrator by breakin' the rules in my excitement!  But I WILL tell you that it's got 3, count 'em, THREE – brand-spankin'-new product lines in there!  Of course there are tons of to-die-for gorgeous holiday goodies in the lines we know and love: stamps, papers, ribbons, punches, and dies for our Big Shots; we've come to expect that from Stampin' Up!, right?!?  But I'm talkin' BRAND NEW PRODUCT LINES here! 

Now, if you've hung around me much these past 6 months or so, you've probably heard me drop a teaser or two about *one* of these particular lines, and this mini will be its first public unveil.  But the OTHER two lines were complete surprises to me!  Now I REALLY can't wait to get to Convention to see and learn about them!

So anyway, of course all this excitement took me a couple of hours to read all about, and so by the time I dropped into bed it was only 4-1/2 hours before the alarm would go off and get me up again.  So I'm movin' kinda slow this morning.  Gee, THANKS, Stampin' Up!!!  Wonder what life would be like if it were simply boring day after boring day……..?