BAH HUM BUG: Dec 5th Chat for Prompts and Props with Z and Bethy

[BethyNixon]

How about a sneak peek at our next challenge??

Then check out this layout by our very own LindaBelle:
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=65502&cat=500&ppuser=23215

When trying to think of a prompt for our next challenge, Lori (KY Bumpkin) remembered this layout and it's simply perfect!!

SOO, come to our chat on December 5th (Tuesday) at 10pm EST and share your Bah Hum Bug gifts! Oh heck, share them with us here! The worst gift you've ever received or have given!

Then come to the chat so we can share the worst of the worst!! At the chat, we'll challenge you to scrap those bah hum bug memories! Use any of our featured kits (details at the chat) and you'll get the posting bonus you can get a peek at below!

Check out my blog to see the posting bonus: Beth Nixon Blogging (http://bethnixon.blogspot.com/2006/11/buzz.html)
About half way down, you'll see the Stamped Holiday Frames . . . those will be the posting bonus!!

And yes, all the featured kits will be announced again in this forum after the chat!

PLUS, Z has a great bonus for you just for showing up at the chat!!! Fun stories, chat bonus, and a posting bonus!! So be sure to be there!

CHALLENGE DETAILS

Use any of the following kits:
Snow Adorable (http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=4382) by Beth Nixon,
Homespun Holiday Instant Album (http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=4378) by Beth Nixon, or
A Cozy Christmas (http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=4384) by Elizabeth Weaver
and post a layout before December 19 in the Props and Prompts gallery and get the posting bonus of the Holiday Stamped Frames!

Most important . . . be sure to link us up in this thread!!

And we'd both appreciate proper credit so we can find them easy!

[BethyNixon]

Oh, and if you want . . . tell us the BEST gift you ever received or gave too!!

[Carla]

I can't think of one that I have received or have given BUT..... I remember as a kid, my Uncle Bud started a joke gift with my mom. He put a whole bunch of junk in an old wooden cigar box (the kind they probobly don't make anymore) and wrapped it for Christmas. Every year for 10 years or so, they passed that cigar box back and forth between themselves and every year they would each add a piece of junk to the box. Things like...and old deck of cards, a turkey feather, a rusty nail, nuts and bolts, and old rabbits foot( the kind with the metal and small chain on one end), a tube of used up lipstick, etc. Just JUNK!!!! i think my mom saved small junky things just for that box!!!! It was kind of fun to see what NEW item was going to show up in the box!

[Carla]

Oh...here is another one... I don't remember this but my Aunt and my mom always tell this story.....Right after my Mom and Dad got married, My Aunt(mom's youngest sister) set in to wanting a new pair of shoes for Christmas. Mom and Dad came down from PA. to MS. for the holidays and my Dad bought her the new pair of shoes. Just to make things exciting, he went out to the barn with my grandpa and got a new COW POKE (KWIM? ;) ) he then wrapped the shoes up nice in the bottom of the box and put the COW POKE on top. Well, when she opened the box on Christmas morning, she had to stick her hand in the COW POKE to get to the shoes. Needless to say, the cow poke got thrown at my dad! :) Makes for a nice funny story on Christmas eve! ;)

[BethyNixon]

Love those stories Carla!!

I don't really have any worst stories because, well, I buy my own gifts!! I decide what I want, order it, and SURPRISE! I get what I want!! LOL

Well, there is that spice rack incident . . . in case you don't know, I know how to cook but HATE to do it! I consider it a chore worse than scrubbing the bathroom. Yet, somehow, just after my husband and I moved into together, my birthday . . . he gives me a spice rack?? I think he thought I'd be cooking dinners for us . . . Oh. Can't. Breathe. Through. The Laughing. What a rude awakening that man got.

Of course, he thought he was doing good. He heard me say I needed some new spices as my roommate cooked and when she moved out I didn't have any. I *meant* I need to go to the grocery store and buy the 3 I might use. Not get me a rack as my birthday present!

Hence, I buy my own gifts! Then I never have to say, that's so sweet, that's such a nice thought while my brain is thinking - a SPICE rack?? Who do you think you just moved in with???? LOL

[gabmacca]

LOL, that LO is awesome, I can't think of any terrible gifts off the top of my head but I'm like Bethy - usually pick my own. Actually DH and I were talking about xmas last night and he asked whether I'd like some fishing gear this year and I'll get him some new clothes (then we swap - lol!!!)

I'm not sure if I can get to the chat - it'll depend on the time it is here (Australia) but can I still do the challenge?

Gabbyxx

[BethyNixon]

Of course you can Gabby! We'll post all the details you'll need after the chat!

[KY Bumpkin]

I STILL crack up every time I see the LO by Linda! It's priceless!

Great stories Carla and Beth!

[Elisabeth]

Would you like to see the prop for this chat? We won't do a quick crop this time; we'll just share stories and work on the prompt. But you do get a freebie. It's a background that coordinates with my soon-to-be-in-the-store "A Cozy Christmas". See you at the chat!

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6673/screenhunter226of3.jpg

[MarsOlson]

What a beautiful background!

[dapupsmom]

I think Linda's hubby and mine must be brothers! My husband asked me if I'd like a new toilet for valentine's day! I put an end to that immediately!. The gift needs to either smell good, be soft, or sparkle. The three S's.
As for the worst gift recieved/given, our family has a gift that passes on each year. We call it the Christmas Turd. It's made of sawdust and some gluey hardener. I put it in my brother's stocking years and years ago. Each year someone gets it. It's hidden beneath clothing in a gift, or in a candy box, etc. It has traveled around the world, and brought smiles and laughter to the faces of my brothers when they were stationed overseas, and got this little piece of home. Icky, yes. Disgusting, yes. Toss in the trash and be rid of it, NO WAY!

[BethyNixon]

I love that Cynthia! That's a great story!

[Hattitudes]

We have a Big Bra Boobie Prize that gets passed from female to female in the family, Each person that receives it must add an ornament to it, the person receiving must model it... really funny when the 12 or 13 year olds started receiving it.

My BIL bought my sister this really over the top elegant vibrant jacket full of shimmer from the Salvation Army and wrapped up very elegantly as well. It is a jacket that you might not know because of the season, if it was the true gift or not. Naturally all the little ones loved the glimmer. Debbie stammered out a thank you. Luc acknowledged it and then burst out laughing... ya might have had to be there for this one...

[BethyNixon]

That jacket one made me laugh!! Especially the little ones loving it!!

Ok, remember, chat tonight! Come, get that gorgeous freebie Z posted above! Share some stories, get the details on how you can get the stamped holiday frames as a posting bonus!

Details will be posted later but come share your stories at chat tonight! I know I could use a giggle!

[cybergram]

Bethy gave me a "wink", "wink" heads up to post my Tree Meets MGB layout link here, this was a summertime gift to himself but here it is:
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=149929&limit=last7

[Elisabeth]

I updated the freebie to include two backgrounds, because I always sort of meant that kit to have the striped one as well.

Preview PROP here:

Extra Backgrounds (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=149380&cat=744)

See you all tonight!

[BethyNixon]

Details announced at the chat tonight - there will be a choice of 4 items you can scrap with to get this as a posting bonus!!

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/data/744/61_E_StampedHolidayFrames.jpg (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=149952&cat=744)

SOO, come to the chat . . . share your bah hum bug stories . . . get a freebie from Z . . . learn how you can get the frames as a posting bonus!! Lots of fun, lots of freebies!!

[lvg4him]

I don't have any bah hum bug stories or WOW stories to scrap. :( I will have to ask my hubby. Maybe he remembers.

[BethyNixon]

Well, you don't *have* to have a bah hum bug story to scrap!! That's just the prompt! You can use whatever you want!

[debbers]

Spice Rack story...

We received one for a wedding gift. FULL of nice glass jars and spices IN them.

My husband has insisted that it always be on the wall. When it is in the way, when we move, when it gets dirty and I get SO tired of cleaning it... etc.

Well, almost 31 years later ...

I STILL can't get that spice rack off the wall! I know the spices in there are dead. [We've used oh, maybe 5 or 6 of them over the years, which I DO refill and keep in there...)

But ladies, there's 3 rows of probably 8 jars across.

And I hate cleaning spice jars now.

So ... I laughed at your spice rack story, Bethy! Maybe my hubby is waiting for me to cook every night or something, too!

I'm gonna leave it in my last will and testament that when they bury him, they use that spice rack for his headstone....

deb

[Colina]

I have a few humbug gifts from my hubby (and I still can't convince him to let me buy my own). I had lived on my own for about 15 years already when we met. The first present he ever bought me was a toaster (he didn't like my 2 slicer, it also didn't do bagels, can you imagine?), you can be darned sure I got the biggest bouquet of flowers ever for the next Mother's Day. But as usual he's a man and their memories are oh so short, so the following year I got a coffee maker (I don't drink coffee, I drink tea, HE drinks coffee). The following year I got wood wainscotting for the bathroom upstairs, with stain of course (the woods still in the garage, and that was 2 years ago). He redeemed himself this year by getting me a beautiful walking stick and a bird house to add to my collection, gotta love him. I also have to say that my mom and him split last Xmas on the best gift I have ever gotten and that was my new Nikon D50 camera, with flash, tripod, camera bag, everything I needed, I did cry over that one!

[MarsOlson]

My great aunt was a frugal older widow so when Christmas came around she found ways to stretch her gifts. For example she would give us a box of stationary but one sister would get the envelopes and the other would get the paper and one would get the box it came in. Or another I remember was the year we got a beading set, only I got the plastic for stringing, my sister got the beads and my youngest sister was the lucky recipient of the book of instructions. One year she was extravagant and we each got our own box... of kleenex! Looking back I smile fondly at her funny gifts but as kids my sisters and I would groan.

[MarsOlson]

This isn't a humbug gift but for awhile my grandpa thought it was. I gave him a beautiful handknit sweater and thought he would be so pleased with it. In the mad Christmas eve gift opening with dozens of relatives I didn't get to see him open it but when things calmed down I asked grandma if he didn't like his sweater because it wasn't like him not to say anything... so she asked him and he looked a little confused and said he only got a box of cereal from me! Grandma asked him where it was and he said he had put it away in the kitchen cupboard. Sure enough grandma went and got it and inside was the sweater. I had run out of gift boxes and at the last min used a big empty cereal box to wrap it! It's funny how cereal boxes at christmas still make me laugh!

[BethyNixon]

ooh, I'm loving these stories!! For some reason, it's putting me into the holiday spirit!! Weird, huh!

[Penny M]

The first Christmas we were married my husband got me a dutch oven (large baking pot). I had saved my money and bought him several gifts all things he would like for hunting. I was so proud of all the gifts that I had gotten him knowing they were things that he had been wanting. And all I got was the $10.00 pot! I was so upset, just like Linda, that I cried. Needless to say I have never gotten any kind of appliance or cooking items for any other gift. I must have really cried a lot for him to remember after 36 years.

Sorry, I won't be able to be at the chat. I have a meeting tonight, unless of course if I can leave early.

[kimscrapping]

One Christmas gift that stands out for me was a big ol' box stuffed full of over the counter medicines. Sucrets, aspirin, vitamin C... oh gosh the list goes on and on for what was in that box. And this was from a serious love interest of mine at the time - we were still in that warm blush of hearts and flowers exciting phase ...so I at first thought it was a really funny gag gift before my "real" present was handed over, then I realized THIS was IT. This was REALLY it. Period. Bitter disappointment was the hardest pill I've ever swallowed, LOL... Oh sure I rummaged through the box hoping, HOPING there was a little something hidden in there - my mind still wouldn't accept that THIS was IT. :eek:

Oh. Well then. Couldn't WAIT to meet up with my friends to share all those warm fuzzy presents we received from our Loves, lol. I mean - he SHOPPED for these things, he had to LOOK for this stuff, he packed it just so. I cried. I wasn't even a sniffler, why on earth would he gift me with this stuff?? Through the tears I told him it was fine, "FINE!"... that I'd just crack open the bottle of aspirin for my sudden excruciating headache. :doh:

[BethyNixon]

Chat details . . .

Use any of the following kits: Snow Adorable (http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=4382), Homespun Holiday Instant Album (http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=4378), or A Cozy Christmas (http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=4384) and post a layout before December 19 in the Props and Prompts gallery and get the posting bonus of the Holiday Stamped Frames!

Be sure to post a link in this thread so we'll get the bonus out to you!

[Elisabeth]

I posted! Can I get those frames now!?

Christmas Thank You Card idea (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=150033&cat=3634)

[mom2triplets04]

We have a Big Bra Boobie Prize that gets passed from female to female in the family, Each person that receives it must add an ornament to it, the person receiving must model it... really funny when the 12 or 13 year olds started receiving it.

..
This sounds really funny. Would love to see a scrapbook page done of this. He! He! Sounds like a lot of fun.

[mom2triplets04]

Spice Rack story...

We received one for a wedding gift. FULL of nice glass jars and spices IN them.

My husband has insisted that it always be on the wall. When it is in the way, when we move, when it gets dirty and I get SO tired of cleaning it... etc.

Well, almost 31 years later ...

I STILL can't get that spice rack off the wall! I know the spices in there are dead. [We've used oh, maybe 5 or 6 of them over the years, which I DO refill and keep in there...)

But ladies, there's 3 rows of probably 8 jars across.

And I hate cleaning spice jars now.

So ... I laughed at your spice rack story, Bethy! Maybe my hubby is waiting for me to cook every night or something, too!

I'm gonna leave it in my last will and testament that when they bury him, they use that spice rack for his headstone....

deb
you guys are definately making me laugh tonight. Love the spice rack stories. I have one which I got for our wedding shower 11 years ago which sits on my counter and yes, I too only used maybe 2 spices out of it often. Maybe it's time to declutter that and empty all the spices and fill with stuff I do use. Why in the world they give you FENNEL, SAVORY, MARJORAM, CORIANDER, PICKLING SPICE, PIZZA SEASON, CRUSHED MINT, MUSTARD SEED, CALIFORNIA HERB is beyond me? Those were never even opened!

[mom2triplets04]

My great aunt was a frugal older widow so when Christmas came around she found ways to stretch her gifts. For example she would give us a box of stationary but one sister would get the envelopes and the other would get the paper and one would get the box it came in. Or another I remember was the year we got a beading set, only I got the plastic for stringing, my sister got the beads and my youngest sister was the lucky recipient of the book of instructions. One year she was extravagant and we each got our own box... of kleenex! Looking back I smile fondly at her funny gifts but as kids my sisters and I would groan.
This sounds awful. I certainly wouldn't look forward to her gifts.

[mom2triplets04]

Took me a while to think of the worst gift because for the past couple of years I have been picking out my gifts but before I was picking out my gifts I think the worst gift DH ever bought me was an electric toothbrush which was a pain in the butt to use. And the best gift would have to be this laptop which I received in August for no apparent reason. Usually I get hand me down items like cell phones, palms, ipods, computers but this time he bought me a new laptop.

From my parents it would have to be a plaid button down shirt (my mother's style) or a pocket book which has all these funky designs on it which, of course, the shirt was given to good will and the pocket book well it's in my closet the one which needs to be decluttered! Sorry can't scrap these as I don't want to hurt my mom's feelings.

[ScrapMel]

Hi, I have used Snow Adorable in the making of these tags:http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=150112&cat=2610

I hope this counts. I don't have bah humbug stories, I don't have any Christmas Pictures that I haven't scrapped yet, so I am triple duting this!!

[BethyNixon]

triple duty is just fine Melanie!!

[gabmacca]

I love these stories - they are cracking me up!!!

Gabbyxx

[kimscrapping]

I've created a LO using Elizabeth's 'A Cozy Christmas' kit... Capture The Glow (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=150413&cat=500&ppuser=25645). An utterly CHARMING kit to design with - omg I love it to pieces!! Will be back later with more LOs from these yummy kits offered!

[dogartist]

Here are some tags I created using the Cozy Christmas kit - boy, it was perfect for these!! I can't wait to do more. Wonderful kit!

Dog Tags (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=150285.htm)

Amy
:santa1:

[Many Feathers]

Here's mine using Snow Adorable.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=150691&cat=3634

[BethyNixon]

I know I have some bonuses to send out . . . I'll get them to very soon!! Promise! I'm hoping (fingers crossed) that tree shopping will tire the kids out and they'll actually nap today!!

I'll post when I get them done!

[mom2triplets04]

Here's mine using Snow Adorable doing double duty for the Dec Lyrical Challenge

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=150912&cat=766

[Donut]

I can't think of a 'worst gift' myself, unless you'd count a toaster?! :santa1: Well, we did NEED a new one...!!! But I do have a friend whose hubby gave her a networking kit for their computers one year...he still doesn't understand why she was not as ecstatically excited about it as he was!!! Lol!! The following year she bought a really beautiful expensive red evening dress, (in her size of course!) and wrapped it up for him. He could not see the connection but did get the funny side of it!!:clap:
Here is my layout using the beautiful Snow Adorable, I apologise in advance Bethy, I stole the name for my layout too!!! :santa1:
Snow Adorable (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=150931&cat=3634)

[BethyNixon]

Updated to here with bonuses! Let me know if you posted a layout using one of the kits and didn't get the bonus yet!

[gabmacca]

I always forget to post the link in the thread when I add a LO!! I know this isn't a bah humbug LO but thought some of you who are shivering in the cold might 'bah humbug' when you see us enjoying the sunshine!!!!

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=151057&cat=500&ppuser=14960

Gabbyxx

[Donut]

Here is a second page to my layout, Snow Adorable 2 (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=151142&cat=3634)
I am now feeling even more confused than usual for this time of year, playing with snowy kits, photos of skiing and sitting here nursing my sunburnt arm with the fan blowing!!! :santa1:

[MaureenH]

I don't have any Bah Humbug stories to tell. I love Christmas and my parents always made sure it was special. Now my hubby and I and my sisters and I shop together so I always get what I want and we have a lot of fun doing it.
Here's my layout using Snow Adorable
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=151503&cat=3634

[Donut]

I couldnt resist the Homespun Holiday Instant Album, I still had heaps of photos from last Christmas that I had done nothing with and I was amazed at how quickly this all fell together! I will definately be using it again after this years Christmas!
decorating the tree 2005 (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=151561&cat=3634)

[KY Bumpkin]

The Snow Adorable kit is awesome! This isn't a Bah Humbug! LO either, LOL! I've not really ever received a bad gift! Maybe I drop too big of hints :D

Here's my LO: Sledding Fun (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=151682&cat=3634)

[nancyr]

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=151732&cat=3634
I love Snow adorable - This is a LO of by boys baking good - me cleaning up mess bad. TFL

[Noremacc]

One of my strangest gifts, turned out to be one of my best... About 5 years after I was married, the whole family was opening gifts at my in laws house. My BIL's wife and I were told to open our packages together. Inside were several pair of very small, very sexy underwear. We were mortified as she was MIL to both of us... but upon closer inspection, there was a $100 bill pinned to the inside of one of them. During the night, we ended up unwrapping $500 in cash with our gifts. Unfortunately, we haven't seen a Christmas like that since. But we still get the sexy underwear every year, that has turned into a family joke.

Here is my layout using A Cozy Christmas.
Family Wreath (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=151956&nocache=1)

[Elisabeth]

Oh Lori, what a funny story! Now you know you can do a layout with all those sexy skivvies if you haven't already! You know you ought to pin a gift card, money, or some other small gift into some Fruit of the Looms for some of the men.

Scrappers, just so you know, Beth and I are not holding a chat on Tuesday, Dec 19th, to allow everyone (and us) to finish up shopping or layouts or what have you! But there is a new challenge for you to peruse; you have a couple of weeks before due date, so we hope you will participate! Read the new thread here (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/forum/showthread.php?p=223914#post223914), and thanks!

[LadyPhoto]

Here's my layout with Snow Adorable. Can't remember any bad gifts, so did DGS's ski lesson instead.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=152255&cat=3634

[the3chickens]

Don't get gifts at Christmas except for flowers sometimes so no Bah Humbug stories... I didn't even do a proper LO with this - so sorry... I need to finish my gift tags and couldn't manage to do both that and the challenge so I hope it's ok. 2 tags with Snow Adorable & 2 tags with Christmas in my Heart (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=152286&cat=3634)

Edited: Sorry that should be Snow Adorable & COZY CHRISTMAS, not Christmas in my Heart

[bebimora]

I think I forgot to put my LO link here :think:
So here it is:
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=152257&cat=500&ppuser=69422

Merry Christmas to you all!!!
:santa: :snowman: :santa: :snowman: :santa:

[BethyNixon]

Ok, I think I'm caught up with all the bonuses! EXCEPT Ann!

ANN - - your mailbox is full, delete some emails so I can send you your freebie posting bonus!!

[MarsOlson]

My lo with A Cozy Christmas by Elizabeth Weaver
Baby's First Christmas (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=152425&cat=3634)

[Penny M]

Here is my Cover page for my Christmas 2006 album using Homespun Instant Album. http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=152445&cat=3634

[BethyNixon]

Ok, I think I got all the bonuses sent out.

Let me know if you posted a layout using one of the featured kits mentioned in the first post of this thread and I'll get it out to you!