Valentine Hugs

Stamps: Motivet Bunny Hugs; sentiment by savvy stamps.
Paper: Chatterbox;
Other: Nestabilities; Martha Stewart hearts border punch; cuttlebug folders; Prima hydrangeas; Large heart eyelets from SU; ribbon and roses from unknown sources
Copics used: Darker bunny: E17,15,13,00 Lighter Bunny: E37,35,33,31,30 Cheeks: R20
Card measures 6 inches sq


Hiya! Thanks for coming by today! I know that I have been lacking in my blogging lately and I truly do apologize. But I do appreciate your continued support! I have gotten your emails about being MIA and I will try real hard to be more consistent again. I do have to disclose that I will be attending CHA next week in California. I will be going with my BFF Kristen. We plan on attending the public Supershow and the trade show. If you are going to be there and you spot me please come say HI! Being from New England I am totally looking forward to the Vitamin D from the So. Cal. sunshine. I have to say I am feeling more cheery just thinking about it. Since I will be at CHA I am not sure how much blogging I will have time for. I do hope to post some pictures and maybe some sneak peeks of upcoming products!!

Motivet has another great sketch challenge for you this week. If you participate you could win up to 3 Motivet stamps of your choice!! How cool is that!? I feel so priviledged to be working with such a great company. It's hard pressed to get much cuter images than theirs! And they offer you several opportunities every week to win stamps from their blog. Be sure to stop by...you only need to comment to win!

Speaking of cute images, can you get any cuter than these hugging bunnies?! They make me smile every time I look at them. This is my first Valentine's Day card of the season. It made me feel all girly and giggly just making it. :) I have to admit that I am not a huge fan of Valentine's day. I have always thought of it as a "Hallmark Holiday". Over commercialized. But I do love to make Valentine's. It gives us the chance to indulge in our inner girly-ness. Pink, red, purple...all those hearts and frou-frou embellies. It is fun! I even use Card Scents on them. One I have is names Pink Kisses. I wonder if I can use it as a perfume? :) Maybe it will get hubby in the Valentine mode...?! Unlikely!! LOL!

On Monday, the Magnolia-licious design team will be having a blog hop! And I am pretty sure that I will be whipping out my Pink Kisses scent for this one...so be sure to drop by Monday!!
You know what else is happpening Monday? Riley Moose will be back!! Riley Moose and Company will be kicking off their first sneak peeks! WooooHoooo! So I will likely have 2 posts for you Monday. I gotta make up for missed time, I guess! LOL

I will announce the winner of last weeks 3 Clover Thursday over the weekend...I haven't gotten a chance to visit them all yet.

Have a delightful weekend!

Good Bye 2009

Stamps: Birthday Morris by Motivet; unknown alphabet
Paper: Basic Grey Lime Rickey; Other: Star punch; Nestabilities; cuttlebug embossing folder; Navy grosgrain; Blue Moon "Laugh Often" charm; Silver cord;
Card Measures 5.75" sq


Hello!!! Thanks for coming by today!! I hope that you had a wonderful Christmas! I, for one, am pooped! My house is a disaster. :( But the kids are happy. Orla was surprised and excited to have gotten her ipod. Maeve didn't doubt that Santa would bring her camera...but we stuck it behind everything else so that it would be her last gift...and every other gift she opened she exclaimed "My Camera!" followed by an "oooh". I guess we are kind of mean to tease a 3 year old like that! LOL! But when her camera appeared she was so happy! Declan's favorite gift was not from Santa...but came from Nana (my mom) in the form of a Sponge Bob Squarepants comforter. Who knew?! Not I or my mother! Best of all we had several days that we spent with family and good friends. Presents are nice, but being with my mom, sisters and some of our family friends are priceless. We have some pretty special people in our lives and we are grateful for them. My kids are doted on and loved by so many. And particularly they have great relationships with my mom and sisters. I never had such relationships with my parent's parents or their siblings. Orla spends a lot of time with my mom. Orla sleeps over her house at least twice a month. She REALLY enjoys being with her Nana. I love that they have such a close relationship, especially since I did not have this kind of relationship with my grandparents. Tomorrow we visit with Pat's sister and brother and his family.

Anyhoooo, as the 2009 goes and 2010 comes we should celebrate. Celebrate the good memories of the past year. Celebrate the hopes of the coming year.

2009 has been interesting. As luck would have it, Pat and I started off the year taking advantage of the poor economy and being able to purchase a second home on Cape Cod to spend vacations at. We rented it out for several weeks, and did enjoy a wonderful vacation there! As the year is winding up we have now become a victim of the economy with Pat being laid off from his job. Now to have a bit of security, we are sadly giving up our dream of a vacation home and renting it out on a year's lease. But we figure this is better than selling it. As when the economy pick ups we will never be able to afford a house on Cape Cod again. But we have to do what we have to do. Now, I just hope that Pat will not spend too much of 2010 unemployed.

My Stamping Journey of 2009
This time last year I had applied for about 15 (+/-) stamping design teams. Turned down by all. In mid January I was asked by the LOVELY Kelly to join her team for a store she had just started up. How honored was I?!!? Thank You Kelly!!! Later that same week, Debbie had passed on my name to Jackie from Inky Antics. She contacted me about making cards for them. Inky Antics?! WOW! Thank you to Debbie and Jackie!!!!
In March, Diana Crick asked me to join the Magnolia-licious Design Team. I had been doing handstands and backflips for months trying to get Diana to notice me. It paid off!! Now I was going to be working with THE Diana Crick of Scor Pal fame! Unfortunately, due to a conflict of interest I had to step down from Kelly's store team. This was hard, as Kelly is the first one that gave me a chance.
Then (once again) later that week I was asked to join the Hanna Stamps Design team! Whoa! When it rains it pours!!! Hanna Stamps is a totally different style than Tildas...lol...but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to work with some FANTASTIC ladies that were on that DT! I was hangin' out with Rock Stars now! LOL! Thank you to dear Vicki for giving me that opportunity. Unfortunately my time with with Hanna Stamps had an unexpected ending.
Because my card making time is limited I felt that 2 full time teams (Inky Antics is on an "as needed" basis) was enough for me. Then at the the end of September I saw a DT call for Pink Cat Studio Digi store. Oooooh...I do love those Pink Cat Studio images... I couldn't pass up the opportunity to try. So I applied for that team. And was SO excited to have been accepted! This was the first time that I had applied for a team and had been accepted! The other teams I was asked...which is definitely a nice way to be noticed as well! LOL! Melissa is another wonderful person to work with. And her creativity and talent just blows me away! After all, I can't even draw a good stick person! LOL!
Meanwhile, Hanna Stamps had sold the Riley Moose line. I was bummed. I really liked those Riley's. Well Tanya, the new Riley owner, invited the Hanna girls to be on the Riley and company team. I immediately said yes! Then thought about it....I am really starting to stretch myself. So I told Tanya that I had to change my mind. Well, Tanya was not accepting that answer. LOL! Let's just say that persistence and flattery worked. LOL! I am so easily swayed! LOL! And it's hard to resist such a CUTE MOOSE!
Then at the start of December I received a comment on my blog from someone named Stephanie asking how to get in touch with me. Out of absolutely NO WHERE, Stephanie the owner of Motivet Stamps asked me to join her team. hmmm...let me think about that: YES! LOL! I will just have to give up those 45 minutes of sleep that I was getting each night.

I am SO GRATEFUL for the opportunities that I have been given this past year to work with wonderful stamps, companies and people. Most especially the people. The company owners...the other dt members...the stamp fans that come to my blog are just all so wonderful! Seriously, I mean that. I can't deny that I enjoy getting free stamps as well. (hey? who doesn't?! LOL!) But the friendships I have made...the inspiration that I have gained are invaluable!

Thank you to my readers who make it worth it. If it weren't for your encouragement I would not be a blogger. I would not push myself to be more creative. To try new things. To reach much further than I thought I could. You have given me a greater confidence in myself. I appreciate it. Thank you.
Hugs,

Christmas Memories

Stamps: Penguin Hug from Motivet. Sentiment from retired from SU
Paper: oh gosh...I can't remember right now
Other: Gold Embossing Powder; Martha Stewart snowflake punch
and snow flake border punch; Nesties label die and snowflake die;
Gold Ribbon; Iridescent Gold glimmer mist; Kaiser White pearls; other gold pearls
Card Measures 6" sq



Hello Friends! Thanks for coming by today!
Wow another week is gone. One week until Christmas. Where has December gone? Remember as kids that December seemed so impossibly LONG...why now does it seem to be over in a blink? And why is it that now instead of feeling excited, I feel jaded?

Christmas is so magical as a child. Orla is eight this year...it is bringing back memories of the Christmas that I was 8. I think that was my favorite Christmas EVER. I remember that we had sold our house a few months before and was waiting for a new house to be built...so in the meantime the 5 of us live in a 3 room apartment. A kitchen, a bedroom and a living room. Usually we had lots of decorations around the house. We use to go cut down our tree every year. But that year due to confinement and stuff being packed away we just had a small "faux" tree. But we had lots of laughs. And Santa was extra good to us that year. It was 1983 and I, like most other little girls wanted a Cabbage Patch Kid! (hmmm...I wonder if that is when my desire to adopt a child some day began!?) I really wanted one with a pacifier too. :) Also on my wish list that year: Michael Jackson's Thriller cassette tape...um, and a something to play it on I got all three! I know there was other stuff too...I can't imagine a Christmas went by that I didn't want and get some Barbies. I LOVED Barbies. I also remember that my little sisters got Cabbage Patch Kids too. My mom now tells me that she got lucky and on several occasions had walked into a store and they had just gotten a shipment of CPK dolls in. So she would get what she could and even got some for her friend's kids.
It was only a few months later that I found out the truth about Santa. :( I hope that Orla still believes for a few more years. Speaking of Orla...she does not have much interest in dolls. Not even Barbies!!!! I am not sure if she is my kid. LOL! She, at the same age that I was hoping for a Cabbage Patch Kid, has dreams of Ipods and her own cell phone!! ACK! No way is she getting a cell phone!!!!!! I went back and forth about the Ipod. Finally I caved and bought her one. She has been told that she is not responsible enough for Santa to bring her an Ipod and that she should not expect one. So I think she will be SO EXCITED to get her pink Ipod. That and a few small things. She has never been much into toys. She has always preferred a pad of paper and a pen and writing her own stories or reading about polar bears or geography. She likes facts over fiction. I did get her a 2010 Guinness book of word records that I think she will find interesting. And a kids book about Barack Obama that I know she will love....she loves politics! :) I certainly wasn't thinking about Ronald Regan when I was her age and listening to my Thriller tape! LOL!

Enough of my blabber!! Today's card uses the Penguin Hug stamp from Motivet. And Oh my gosh...I LOVE IT!!! They are just so stinkin' ADORABLE all snuggled up together! I think this would make a cute card for a friend or your snuggle-muffin. Heehee I can see a valentine with this or a for a winter Birthday. I just love it!! Anyhoooooo, this card was made for this week's challenge over at the Motivet blog. Stephanie has a FABULOUS sketch this week! You can check out the deets HERE.

The patterned paper that I used has a really pretty shimmer to it. SO although I was happy with how the coloring of the image turned out...it looked a little "blah" when I but it in front of the shimmery paper. So I dug out my Glimmer Mist and sprayed it on. Ooohhh...aaaaah! Now I was happy! I took a close up of the the image trying to show the shimmer and Glimmer....but glitter and shimmer and sparkle don't translate well across computer screens. This is always so sad. But click on the picture to see it larger and try to get the effect. :) I definitely have to use my Glimmer Mist more often!!


Ok...well it is nearly 3 am. I still have to make Orla's lunch for school tomorrow. And iron school clothes before I go to bed. So I better finish this up.

>>>>>But before I go, I would love if you'd leave a comment and share your favorite Christmas memory. Or a beloved childhood gift. Or something that made your Christmases special as a child.
I always love reading your responses.
And I think it's fun to take a few minutes to remember the magic!


Have a Stupendous Weekend!!

Purple Kitty

Stamps: Lucy from Motivet; sentiment is retired from SU!; inside sentiment from Inky Antics
Paper: SU! Cottage Wall
Other: Prima Hydrangeas; Basic Grey Brads; spacer beads; Kaiser Plum pearls; Jolee's crystal flower charm; Martha Stewart Loopy Border punch; Nestabilities;
Card Measures 5.5" Sq






Hello! Happy Monday, my friends! I hope that you all had a delightful weekend. Maybe some Hanukkah or Christmas Activities? Pat and my mom took the girls to a Christmas party in my hometown. I stayed home with Declan. As he does not like that kind of stuff. He gets overwhelmed when there are a lot of people and noise and such . I had taken the girls to breakfast with Santa last weekend at Orla's school. (the pic is of the girls last weekend) Maeve isn't one bit afraid of Santa. She sat right up there and told him exactly what she wanted. A camera! It's the only thing she has been asking for so I think Santa will bring it. ;) (a kid's camera!!)
Of course I have been trying to get the elusive Zhu Zhu Pets for the girls too. Toys R Us is taunting me with daily emails saying that they have them in for the first 100 customers "starting at 3 pm" . Too bad I didn't get the email until 3:02! I live out in the country...I have drive over a half hour to get to TRU. They are really ticking me off by not letting me buy my zhu zhu pets online! I like to shop online. And I am sorry, but I am just not paying the silly prices on Ebay for one. With Pat not working, even if I wanted to pay those prices I couldn't. OK...that is my whining for today! LOL!

I made today's card for Motivet's Friday challenge. This week the challenge was to make a monochromatic card. (There could more colors in the main image...after all a purple kitten might be a little bit freaky!) This little kitty's name is Lucy. She is one of Motivet's most recent releases. Isn't she adorable hugging her little fish?! heeheehee! If you participate in the weekly challenge you have a chance to win 3 or 5 stamps of your choice! You can also win stamps weekly by just commenting on the blog. Cool Beans, huh!?! I love FREE! :)

Well, that's all I got for today. Thanks for stopping by.

Have a Majestic Monday!

Dear Santa, I can explain....

Stamps: Doraline-Sorry by Motivet; All sentiments were computer generated.
Paper: Bo Bunny (older-from my stash)
Other: Kaiser Red pearls; Martha Stewart branch punch; various trims and ribbons; Silver charm from Bunny Zoe's shop...maybe the green roses were from there too...not sure; Prima flowers; Nestabilities
Card Measures 6 inches square




Hello Friends! Thanks for stopping by today!
I hope that you are having a Wonderful Wednesday. We are expecting some snow today...I am typing this at 2 am Wednesday morning...so it has not yet started...but they already canceled school for Wednesday. It's not suppose to be a lot of snow...maybe 4-6 inches around my area. It's just that the timing will be when the kids (and adults!) would be riding to school. And it's suppose to accumulate at an inch-2 inches an hour. So it's just bad timing really. I don't work outside of my home, so I don't have to worry about the commute on most days. But today I have an appointment that I don't want to reschedule...so I guess I will be out driving in the mess. The good thing about my husband being home is that he will be here with the kids and I don't have to worry about rescheduling. :)

Today's card uses a Motivet Stamp that I purchased back in June. This is little Doraline...and she is SORRY! I bought her because when I came across the Motivet booth at the stamp convention I was overwhelmed with trying to make a desicion on which stamps to buy. ALL of them were so cute! And unfortunately, I was not aware that Motivet was there and came across them after I had already spent too much money. :( So I was trying to choose just one or maybe two stamps. When I am overwhelmed with trying to choose stamps I generally will choose what I consider to be versatile stamps. Stamps that I can use for multi-purposes. Whether it's a birthday, Mother's Day, Christmas....etc...This is one of those stamps. And this Doraline reminds me of my little Maeve: She's so cute that it hardly matters what she was just caught doing! LOL! Maeve will be 3 soon and has learned just the right way and timing to say "I sorry mommy". She really says it like she means it. With guilt, sadness, and innocence in her eyes. She just melts my heart. I believe that if Maeve were ever on Santa's naughty list she could change his mind in a heartbeat too. (PS- you can see my Summer version of this stamp HERE.)

So about a week and a half ago I was invited to become a member of the Motivet Design Team. It was a total "pinch me so I know it's not a dream" moment! Even as I type this, I feel a little dizzy! The thing that I thought was hilarious, was that Stephanie, (Motivet owner) asked me like I might say no...HA! Uuuuummm.... like I might have turned this FANTASTICAL opportunity down!!!!
She mentioned that every Friday they have a challenge on the Inspiration blog. This past Friday was a gorgeous sketch. I did not receive my new stamps until yesterday, but I thought that this Doraline would be perfect trying to explain her way off Santa's naughty list! So I created the sentiment for the outside and inside of the card on my computer. And I think she looks just as cute dressed up for Christmas as she did in her summer outfit. :)

There are lots of ways to win FREE STAMPS at the Motivet Inspiration blog (I love FREE stuff! heeheehee):
1) Comment! Every week one winner is chosen to win 5 stamps just for commenting...so you know what? the more you comment, the better your chances are for winning!
2) Participate in the challenge for the week because 2 winners are chosen out of the participants. (and right now there are only 14 participants in this week's challenge!!)
3) Right now Stephanie is giving one lucky stamper all 12 of the recent releases!


Ok....well it is nearly 3 AM now....and I am not even sure if I typed up complete thoughts on this post....and I am too tired at this point to proof-read. hahahaha! You know when I have lot's of incomplete thoughts and misspellings that I didn't proof-read. Meaning I was exhausted or in a hurry to post. hahahaha!

So off to bed I am!

Have a Warm and Toasty Wednesday!

Blog Candy Winner!!

Loved reading the responses on your favorite Christmas songs!!! So many wonderful songs to choose from. Thank you to everyone who shared!

The randomly selected winner is:

Mary Lou said...

Hi Kerry~~ Christmas--what fabulous time of the year!! My fave xmas song, I would have to say "Silver Bells" but I do like many others:-) Linked your candy on my sidebar.
Thanks and Blessings
Mary Lou

Congrats to Mary Lou! Mary Lou, please contact me with your mailing address.

Thanks to everyone who participated!


And speaking of Blog Candy...Motivet has a big give away going on! You can enter until December 15th for a chance to win their newest 12 stamps! And talk about CUTE!!!

Birthday Girl is Turning 1 !

Stamps: Shy Hilda by Motivet Stamps
Paper: retired Raspberry Tart from SU!
Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento ink; Copics (numbers below)
Other: Nestabilities, Kaiser pearls; Unknown trim; Cuttlebug Paisley embossing folder; Inknown chipboard #1, Star Dust Stickles
Card Measures 5.75 x 5.75


Hello! Happy Thursday! Thanks for stopping by today.

Today is our last "Back to School" challenge here on 3 Clovers Thursday. And I found this to be a tough one! How was I going to incorporate a number. I do like to make cards that I will actually use as some point. I don't want to make a 25th anniversary card when I don't know anyone celebrating a 25th anniversary. Know what I mean? Plus, I find it harder to make a card when I don't have a receiver in mind. Sometimes for the design teams that I am on I do have to do this and you know what? I struggle the most with those. Not because I don't like the stamps but because I don't want it to feel "generic". Anyhooooo, about 9:30 Wednesday night I remembered that my friend's daughter will be turning 1 next month. 2.5 hours later this is what I had. The picture is looking on my computer more red than the card actually is. Technically it's a "Rose Red". Pinkish-red. But redish colors are hard for me to photograph. I dunno....it is what it is!
How stinkin' cute is this little Hilda image? I love Motivet stamps! All the little critters look so smoochable! Heeheehee

>>>>>Ok, I am going to try something new for sharing the Copics. When I take a pic of the Copics that I used, I realize that there are so many markers in my piles that it's difficult to figure out what #/colors I used on what part of the image. So I am going to start writing the markers that I use down and indicating where I used what color. The problem with this is that I don't always post the cards that I make when I make them. On Tuesday night I made a card...wrote the numbers down, brought it up to my computer....but I haven't gotten around to posting the card yet. At this moment do you think I can find that list of markers? nooooo! So I don't knpow if I'll have that list for you when I do post that card. But I digress....Let me know if you prefer this way or the visual more.

Hilda: C4, C1, C00
Cheeks: R11
Eyes: B05
Sweater/Bows: R39, R37, R35--then over all I used R11 to take away the redness and give it more pinkness.
Skirt: YG95, YG93, YG91--Then over all I used YG03 to brighten it up.
Background: B00, B0000,+ the colorless blender to fade it out more
Grass: YG25, YG23, YG 21


Have an OUTSTANDING Thursday!

A Two-fer Monday

Stamps: Image by Motivet; sentiment by I forget
Paper: I bought it on The Netherlands Ebay; Cardstock is Brocade Blue and So Saffron by SU!; Papertrey Ink White
Other: Brocade Blue and So Saffron brads by SU!; unknown buttons...got them at Joann's; yellow ric-rac from CTMH
Card Measures 6" sq

Hello! How is everyone today? I hope that you all had a delightful weekend! As you probably guessed, it rained here. But we did get some sun until about 4:30/5:00 on Saturday afternoon. Then we had some severe T-storms and downpours. That's ok...I am sure the tadpoles enjoyed it! LOL! Sunday was very overcast, but only some drizzly rain here and there. So Pat got the pool skimmer thingy that is on a long pole and went Frog Fishin'! I had this nice idea that we would catch them and put them into a bucket of water and release them into the pond that is about a mile from our house. Pat asked me if I were nuts! He said that the pool cover was full of leaves and he was scooping out leaves and tadpoles together and he wasn't going to pick the tadpoles out so they could come back and lay more eggs next year. Everything was going in the trash bucket. :( So I said, "we will do it with the ones that are in the pool and not the cover, at least, right?" "Yeah right," he replied "When I throw all the chemicals in they'll be dead and we'll just shovel them off the bottom or out of the skimmer." I gasped in horror! It's not that I am a tree frog lover....I just like animals in general. I think of them all as having human-like traits. Pat, however, grew up on a farm. He does not think of animals the same way I do. If animals cannot be used for food or a function, then they are pests. That is peSTS not pets. OK, so these frogs ARE a pest. And I wasn't going to go out there and pick them out either...so I couldn't argue too much. But I feel bad. And mark my words, they'll be something on the news next summer that the Gray Tree Frog population in Massachusetts is down and it's some kind of detriment to our local environment somehow. Then I will be blaming it all on myself for not picking them out of the bucket! Anyhow, I will try to get out there this week and take some pictures to share....while they are ALIVE. I am sure you can't wait for that! LOL!

Ok! Enough toad talk. heeheeheee Onto the first card: I got this Motivet stamp at the beginning of June at the Stamp Expo that I went to. Motivet was there...we were so excited because at that time they didn't ship to the USA. (they are located in Canada) But now they do ship to the USA! All month I just haven't had the chance to use it. I finally made the time tonight...but I should have been doing other things! Isn't Doraline the cutest?!?! I used the sketch from the Motivet Blog for this card. At the same stamp expo I saw this sentiment stamp. It reminded me of Maeve. That was at the pique of her "difficult-ness". LOL! I thought I would stamp this with Staz On on her forehead! LOL! Just Kidding! Then I saw this particular Motivet stamp and it too reminded me of Maeve. Because she totally knows how to work me when she is in trouble. Usually a smile, a hug, and a "I love you, Mummy!" and I am melted like butter. She's my third child and I don't sleep well...so I am weak!

Now about the designer paper. I have to thank Jacque for this....She made a project with this paper and I HAD TO HAVE IT. Needed it. So I asked her where could I get some. She said, "oh, I bought from a store in the Netherlands and it's retired." I asked her when she went to the Netherlands? She had a good laugh. She directed me to a website. Yep, they no longer sold it. so I started searching the internet for it. There must be another pack out there! There was. On the Netherlands Ebay. I emailed the seller and asked if they shipped to the USA...they said no problem. YAY! Tonight was my first time putting to use and I do LOVE it! It's so pretty! I love blue and yellow together. It comes in a European size: 8.25 inches x 11.50 inches. the pack has about 8 patterns. Each pattern comes in 5 sheets of paper quality...then 5 sheets of a light card stock...kind of. So 10 sheets of each pattern. I paid about $15 (US) with shipping for it. Not too bad. It's funny how I paid less to get it shipped from the Netherlands than it would cost me to get something shipped with in the US. And it came in a pretty timely manner.


Card number 2 uses Mary Jo's Sketch for this week. It would be perfect for so many images! I could use it with my larger images, like Tilda's, or I sized it down and used it for this cute Riley image! So hop on over to MJ's blog and join in on the fun! Next Monday night Hanna Stamps is releasing the new stamps for July! I will have sneak peaks next weekend, starting Friday! This card uses paper from 2 retired SU! packs. There was a glare off the markers in the picture, so I typed in the info for you.

Hmmmm....I should probably go to bed now since Pat has just come down from bed to go to work! 3:45 AM!



Have Marvelous Monday!

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