One week ago I was gobsmacked by the shopping habits of Americans on Black Friday!

It actually started on Thursday night, thanksgiving and we left our turkey to visit Target but turned around and came away with our jaw's hitting the ground at the shear madness that was black Friday shopping.!

Door busters, those are the deals that get the shoppers in the door, how many of these deals there are for the 1000's of customers that pile through the doors, controversial marketing at its best.

One week later and I have missed so many post on sweet deals that I have decided to scrap those and offer you some BLACK FRIDAY DOOR BUSTERS

1. One A4 sheet of rubber , unpacked and made up of 8 Leanne Ellis stamps which sell at 4.95 each as singles for a fantastic Black Friday price. here

2. Going Going Gone . still a few of these stamps left.

3.  Birthday Bonus, stamps at 50% off

4. Gorjuss stamps from Personal Impressions will revert back to full price next month.

5. American shoppers can get FREE postage when you spend US$50 over on www.sugarnellie.com,
remember that packets are dispatched from Philadelphia and will not be liable for custom charges.

That's all the deals I have time for today as I must rush to the Post Office with the Funkykits orders, we ran out of packaging today so I am sorry if you get a simpler envelope this time but I did not want to wait until Monday to catch up with the back log we occurred while on holiday.

Karen

    

It might not be Sunday and I failed to schedule my post before I went, you don't want to know how crazy it has been.

I'm home, it was long journey but uneventful. We got up to a christmas wonderland on Tuesday which sent me into a wee panic knowing that I had to drive back to to Newark on slow moving roads. Nothing worse that being late to the airport when so much rides on getting booked in on time. Read on if you want to know the story but I may have to post it over several days as I have a lot to catch up with today.


Lets start at the begining.

On leaving the house, Cameron anounced that he could not find his driving licence, had not seen it in years so why did he not tell me this so that I could request a new one before we went? Why did he say yes to driving a 12 seater mini bus? Lucky for us I did have my licence with me and needless to say had no choice in facing the immentent task of driving in NJ.

At Aberdeen airport it was clear that the fog blanket down south was causing havoc with flight, some to London were cancelled but ours to Amstedam was at least still on. One hour late we arrived in Amsterdam and missed the connecting flight even if we did run all the way. OH the plane was there, right there! But no the gate was closed and the powers that be said no (insert rude words to give you the true feeling of what I thought about the powers that be).
Give KLM their due, they put us up in a fantastic hotel, all meal, leisure club with pool and a huge family room.
Next day, 24 hours late our journey continued, the car was down sized to a SUV with no refund on the differance in cost (hey I did not think I would be that lucky).

The New Jersey turn pike.........OMG that was one white nuckle ride I never wanted to do again! Were we even going in the right direction?            

Were arrived to an almost empty house as everyone was busy doing their own thing. Eventurally, the family was re united. {oxoxox]

Lets get a good nights sleep because tomorrow we are off to Canada.

When the American say its a staight 8hr drive up to Canada, they do realy mean straight. Beautiful day as we drove and drove all the way staight up thru  The Pocono Mountains , then NY state, over 1000 islands and into Canada. Up by Ottawa and over to Renfrew and a swing by Pembroke to see family before crossing the bridge over the Ottawa river into Quebec and the holiday home of Debbie's inlaw's.
So very tranquil, overlooking the huge river with it's own little beach, absolutely beautiful and the complete opposite to the city life of Philadelphia, I can totaly see the draw.

Two days on Bee Gees Farm near Pembroke was one of the highlights to the boys holiday. Nancy and I did a little bit of shopping and an emergency trip to the dentist for me!
Things I loved in Canada...
the family retreat, so very peacefull and beautifully set by the river.
the Canadian relatives, very down to earth and welcoming.
black squirells running on a patch of grass in the town centre of Pembroke
seeing wild turkeys in the field just like our geese
Poutine, well I would not say it was a favourite of mine but Megan liked it.
I am just sorry that the pumpkins were ploughed into the field as I always wanted to see a real
pumpkin patch.

We arrived late on Saturday and drove back to Pheonixville on Tuesday, 8 hours each way, straight roads!

time to get some work done, catch you all later

Karen