Best coffee cake recipe ever!

My mom served this coffee cake for dessert and it was so good we all had another piece, I am sorry to say! It came from a newspaper article and is credited to Laverne Koivisto of Ohio. Dream Coffee Cake–preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a 9×13 pan. 1 yellow cake mix, 1 c. …

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SS contest winners mug shot

I was searching today for a mug shot for the June Stampin' Success magazine and I settled on this one even though it is from almost a year ago and my hair is quite a bit shorter now. The editor said they could crop it so I didn't have to mess with that, which was …

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Farewell to thee, Hawaii… and welcome home, weary travelers!

If we look happy in this photo, it's because it's blurry and you can't see the tears! We did not want to leave Hawaii. It was so fabulous. We are so thankful to Stampin' Up and my customer friends for making this possible (and my parents for watching the kids!).   We enjoyed a short …

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Could this be the most beautiful place on earth?

The pictures speak for themselves. This was the most astounding gorgeous place I think I have ever seen. I'm a Mountain West girl all the way, and I can live without the rainforest and all the flowers and such, but give me a big mountain and my soul will sing. Upolu Point, the windswept northernmost …

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Classic Hawaii Beach…Hapuna State Park

Just up the road from our resort was the most perfectly classic Hawaiian beach you could imagine. We didn't see it until our last morning or we might have spent more time there. We took off in our rental car early on Friday morning and went up to North Point in search of Kamehameha and …

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At last, the Luau

 The centerpiece of the Hawaii incentive trip was the Stampin' Up luau on the last night. I knew it was going to be amazing, but it just blew us both away. The next day we met some other resort guests who said they had watched it from their balcony and though they had been to …

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