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This should be interesting and is probably partly in response to Bill O'Reilly and other right-wingers pressuring Jet Blue not to advertise on Daily Kos. What goes around comes around, and least I hope so. http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=AP&Date=20070727&ID=7241717 NEW YORK (AP) - Liberal activists are stepping up their campaign against Fox News Channel by pressuring advertisers not to patronize the network. MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America's Future and liberal blogs like DailyKos.com are asking thousands of supporters to monitor who is advertising on the network. Once a database is gathered, an organized phone-calling campaign will begin, said Jim Gilliam, vice president of media strategy for Brave New Films, a company that has made anti-Fox videos. The groups have successfully pressured Democratic presidential candidates not to appear at any debate sponsored by Fox, and are also trying to get Home Depot Inc. to stop advertising there. At least 5,000 people nationwide have signed up to compile logs on who is running commercials on Fox, Gilliam said. The groups want to first concentrate on businesses running local ads, as opposed to national commercials.
:rofl: Good luck with that..!! :rofl: Hopefully this one works better than the boycott of Rush Limbaugh's sponsors from several years back..!! :rofl: Those drove him right out of business..!!
Liberals are a joke and an embarassment to themselves. In theory I would vote for a Democrat - but not this pitiful group.
really? it's interesting... Con men aren't regarding jet-blue? that's legit, right? Fox needs to seriously consider keeping its collective mouth shut regarding other entities' sponsors... It is so fitting to see this come back and bite them in the ass...
Actually, I don't recall a boycott of Rush by a major group. Of course, there was the achievement of getting him off ESPN, .... :rofl:
i wouldn't call that an achievement by the network, because that was all the Grand Wizard's doing, himself... that was just Rush being Rush, and the putz had no help in the matter besides running his own mouth....
Funny when the fundie Christians call for Boycotts, the libs whine about freedom of speech and censorship, but when the shoe is on the other foot. I can only imagine your response if conservative called for a boycott of CNN due to their liberal POV, in their 'reporting'
yeah, they were extremely "liberal" when they gave the Bush Administration pass after pass in the lead-up to invasion... refusing to ask the serious questions, turning the other way, and giving in to one Bush edict after another regarding troop levels, civilian deaths and images of flag-draped coffins....
Hey, good for them. This is a free country. People can do this if they want to. I'm not sure it's going to have much of an effect, but I could be wrong.
Fox must love it, now the ratings will go even higher, the democrats sh!t their pants every time they hear the word "Fox". :bricks:
I have no idea about the Jet Blue issue - I don't watch O'Reilly that much. But whether it's in response to something or not, it's pathetic. Just watch your own liberal sh!t and let Republicans do their own thing.
i see... so we should watch our own programming and keep quiet, and the Fox Noise people should watch our own programming and say whatever they like... noted...
Anyone but me ever notice that the people who whine the most about Fox are the same morons that refuse to acknowledge the bias of Dan Rather, CBS News, NBC, etc, etc, etc...?
Gee, then I guess it didn't happen then Because liberals would never suggest boycotting Limbaughs sponsors... no, not liberals... nope, not them... never....
Sure, some people talk of boycotts all the time, on both the left and right. Remember the failed Christian right-wing boycott of Disney for having a gay day? Most boycotts don't work, but let's see what happens. MoveOn's strategy of going after local advertisers rather than national ones is a smart one. If there was a boycott of Rush, to the best of my recollection, it wasn't orchestrated by any mainstream group.
Again, I can't speak to Fox, I didn't see what they said. But to try to quiet the other side by boycotting their advertisers - it's pathetic.
what a joke! millions upon millions of viewers have made O'reilly and fox news, the most watched cable channel in the history of broadcasting. Boycott?......pathetic George Soros and Air America, may boycott,but this is like being ignored by Joseph Goebbels. Same result....bring it on.
O'Reilly and Fox Noise's ratings have been stagnant since they've been proven wrong about Iraq. His demographics are terrible. Ohh and during their height, the most Fox Noise averaged a night was around 2.5 million viewers.... for some perspective CBS Evening News (last placed amongst the networks) gets over 6 million a night. Back to the OP.... the campaign is working. Lowe's is pulling their advertisements from the O'Reilly Factor. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/7/27/205510/101
Since you bring up CBS News, here's a question... Which network news would you say has been more biased over, say, the past 5 years..? Fox News or CBS News..?


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Justice K.P. Sivasubramanian, a retired judge of the Madras High Court, has been appointed administrator by the Madras High Court to settle dues of the now defunct Pondicherry Nidhi Limited (PNL) to depositors in Puducherry and Cuddalore.
As per the direction of the Madras High Court, PNL depositors met here on Saturday.
Around 1000 people turned up and were given copies of the judgment of the Madras High Court under which the PNL has agreed to settle 75 per cent of the deposits collected by it.
A few months ago, a memorandum of understanding was reached between the Pondicherry Non-Banking Investors' Protection Association and the PNL, under which the latter had agreed to a one-time settlement of 75 per cent of the deposit amount (without interest) collected by it.
The PNL had defaulted in repayment of deposit amount and interest to more than 13,000 depositors since 2004. The agreement had been reached after many rounds of discussion, including those with depositors of Cuddalore and Neyveli branches, said Mr. Gandhiraj, former Puducherry Minister and president of Pondicherry Non-Banking Investors' Protection Association.
Around 370 depositors from Cuddalore also attended the meeting on Saturday, said Mr. Gandhiraj.
Later in the evening, another meeting was held in Chennai by Justice Sivasubramanian, attended by Mr. Gandhiraj, Y. Satheesh of the investors association and counsels of the PNL and the investors association. A list of depositors who had agreed to the MoU was given to Justice Sivasubramanian.
Within a week, the PNL is expected to deposit Rs. 7 crore which will be distributed by Justice Sivasubramanian to those who made deposits of amounts up to Rs. 50,000. Another Rs. 29 crore will be settled within 60 days, said Mr. Gandhiraj.
The firm has also accepted to return the gold which has been pledged with them by depositors and return deposits in cases where PNL's cheques bounced.
The Puducherry government had enacted the Pondicherry Protection of Interests of Depositors in Financial Establishments Act 2004. The management was charged with offences under various sections of this Act.


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Larry McMurtry | |
Born | Larry Jeff McMurtry June 3, 1936 Archer City, Texas, U.S. |
Education | University of North Texas Rice University |
Occupation | Novelist, screenwriter, essayist |
Years active | 1963–present |
Larry McMurtry | |
Born | Larry Jeff McMurtry June 3, 1936 Archer City, Texas, U.S. |
Education | University of North Texas Rice University |
Occupation | Novelist, screenwriter, essayist |
Years active | 1963–present |
Larry Jeff McMurtry (born June 3, 1936) is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas.[1] He is known for his 1975 novel Terms of Endearment, his 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, a historical saga that follows ex-Texas Rangers as they drive their cattle from the Rio Grande to a new home in the frontier of Montana, and for co-writing the adapted screenplay for Brokeback Mountain. Lonesome Dove was adapted into a television miniseries and both the films of Terms of Endearment and Brokeback Mountain won Academy Awards.
McMurtry was born in Archer City, Texas, 25 miles from Wichita Falls, Texas, the son of Hazel Ruth (née McIver) and William Jefferson McMurtry, who was a rancher.[2] He grew up on a ranch outside Archer City, which is the model for the town of Thalia that appears in much of his fiction. He earned degrees from the University of North Texas (B.A. 1958) and Rice University (M.A. 1960). Martin Staples Shockley, PhD (1908–2003), was one of McMurtry's English professors at North Texas.[3]
McMurtry has won the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters on three occasions; in 1962, for Horseman, Pass By; in 1967, for The Last Picture Show, which he shared with Tom Pendleton's The Iron Orchard; and in 1986, for Lonesome Dove. He has also won the Amon G. Carter award for periodical prose in 1966, for Texas: Good Times Gone or Here Again?.[4][5] In 1964 he was awarded a Guggenheim grant. In 1960, McMurtry was also a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where he studied the craft of fiction under novelist Wallace Stegner and alongside a number of other writers, including Ken Kesey, Peter S. Beagle, Robert Stone, and Gordon Lish. McMurtry and Kesey remained friends after McMurtry left California and returned to Texas, and Kesey's famous cross-country trip with his Merry Pranksters in a day-glo painted school bus 'Further' included a stop at McMurtry's home in Houston, described in Tom Wolfe's New-Journalistic book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. At the time (1964), McMurtry was also a Lecturer in English at Rice University. His students were entertained with stories of Hollywood and the filming of Hud for which he was consulting.
While at Stanford he became a rare-book scout, and during his years in Houston managed a book store there called the Bookman. In 1969 he moved to the Washington, D.C. area, and in 1970 with two partners started a bookshop in Georgetown which he named Booked Up. In 1988 he opened another Booked Up in Archer City, which is one of the largest single used bookstores in the United States, carrying somewhere between 400,000 and 450,000 titles. Citing economic pressures from Internet bookselling, McMurtry came close to shutting down the Archer City store in 2005, but chose to keep it open after an outpouring of public support. However, in early 2012 the decision was finally made to downsize and sell off the greater portion of his inventory. He made the decision as he felt the collection was a liability for his heirs.[6] The auction was conducted on August 10 and 11, 2012, and was overseen by Addison & Sarova Auctioneers of Macon, GA. The books that were sold were those being stored in Buildings 2, 3, and 4; Building 1 will remain open with books for sale to the general public for the foreseeable future. This epic book auction sold books by the shelf, and was billed as "The Last Booksale," in keeping with the title of McMurtry's award-winning novel The Last Picture Show. Dealers, collectors, and gawkers came out en masse from all corners of the country to witness this historic auction. As stated by Mr. McMurtry on the week-end of the sale, "I've never seen that many people lined up in Archer City, and I'm sure I never will again."
McMurtry has been a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books[7] and is a past president of PEN.[8][9][10] He is perhaps best known for the film adaptations of his work, especially Hud (from the novel Horseman, Pass By), starring Paul Newman and Patricia Neal; the Peter Bogdanovich–directed The Last Picture Show; James L. Brooks's Terms of Endearment, which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture (1984); and Lonesome Dove, which became a popular television mini-series starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall.
In 1986, McMurtry received the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award. The Helmerich Award is presented annually by the Tulsa Library Trust.
In 2006, he was co-winner (with Diana Ossana) of both the Best Screenplay Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Brokeback Mountain. He accepted his Oscar wearing jeans and cowboy boots along with his dinner jacket and used his speech to promote books by reminding his audience that "Brokeback Mountain" was a short story by E. Annie Proulx before it was a movie. In his Golden Globe acceptance speech, he paid tribute to his Swiss-made Hermes 3000 typewriter.
McMurtry's son, James McMurtry, is a singer/songwriter and guitarist. His former wife Jo Scott McMurtry, an English professor, is also the author of five books. On May 5, 2011, The Dallas Morning News reported that McMurtry married Norma Faye Kesey, the widow of writer Ken Kesey, on April 29 in a civil ceremony in Archer City.[11]


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Ok* this may sound crazy* but the lowest volume when listening to music is too loud for me (when its quiet around me). Apparently I have sensitive hearing. Does anyone know how to fiddle with the internal volume settings??? I could find Volume boost* which I obviously dont need.
you turned your volume down on the side of the phone already and it didnt help at all?
yes* all the way down. the next one produces no sound.
There is not a problem with the sound* it goes up and down* just not down enough!! I want to know if there is a way I can make it go down more. I cant find anything. If its any consolation* Ive only had the thing for 36 hours.
Wow never heard anyone complain about the sound being to high.
i dont know...i just took about 10 mins looking through all the places i would think it would be and i dont know...i would only think of turning the volume down with the volume buttons on the side...sorry
unfortunately youre probably out of luck.
You can Google MP3Gain. I used it to raise the music volume* you can use it to do the opposite.
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Sensors 2014, 14(4), 5952-5966; doi:10.3390/s140405952
Locatable-Body Temperature Monitoring Based on Semi-Active UHF RFID Tags
Received: 22 January 2014 / Revised: 6 March 2014 / Accepted: 17 March 2014 / Published: 26 March 2014
(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
Abstract: This paper presents the use of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology for the real-time remote monitoring of body temperature, while an associated program can determine the location of the body carrying the respective sensor. The RFID chip's internal integrated temperature sensor is used for both the human-body temperature detection and as a measurement device, while using radio-frequency communication to broadcast the temperature information. The adopted RFID location technology makes use of reference tags together with a nearest neighbor localization algorithm and a multiple-antenna time-division multiplexing location system. A graphical user interface (GUI) was developed for collecting temperature and location data for the data fusion by using RFID protocols. With a puppy as test object, temperature detection and localization experiments were carried out. The measured results show that the applied method, when using a mercury thermometer for comparison in terms of measuring the temperature of the dog, has a good consistency, with an average temperature error of 0.283 °C. When using the associated program over the area of 12.25 m2, the average location error is of 0.461 m, which verifies the feasibility of the sensor-carrier location by using the proposed program.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/5402462.stm scum like him should be sent my way, i'd smash him in with my bare fists, forget sending him to prison waste of tax payers money!
Its a joke, they should cut off all his genitals. What kind of sick ba$tard does something like that. None of the news is good at the moment, people getting stabbed, kids getting shot in America. Its can be a really depressing world we live in. Worse thing is about someone like that is they will serve time in prison, probably get out early then be 're introduced' into a community where no locals will know of his past.
john2garden, your right mate it's a sad state of affairs at the moment, the world is no longer a safe place as respect/fear does not exist anymore. :-(
The worst of it is if you were to bump into this chap and stamped on his face a few (hundred) times injuring him,the police would make you pay dearly as its a pc country with too many hairy fairy politicians. when a sex offender is released we should adopt our cousins across the pond ways of dealing with them...tell everyone who lives near them who and what they have done making them outcasts
Sub-human maggots like that have no right to live in a decent civilised society. (not that ours is at the moment) In an ideal world he would get sent to prison, where he would be horribly abused and beaten by his fellow prisoners every day, for at least a couple of years, then allowed to commit suicide. Only because it wouldn't be fair for anyone to do more time for murdering him! Sadly that's unlikely to happen, so the best we can hope for is that he does actually kill himself before the bleeding heart Liberals let him out on parole in about 4 Years time.........
imo thats the easy way out for him, I say let him live every last day of his life behind bars, same with huntley, he wants to commit suicide... if you let him then he has "escaped" his punishment if you get me
Silver75 If you could be sure that he'd spend every last day behind bars, then to some extent I agree.......... but on the whole I think I'd prefer to see his sort suffer and die!
This is worse than sick, its ******* depraved. That guy ought to be put in prison until he is dead, which if I had my way wouldn't be too long. He should be put in with the general population and not hidden away in some soft-touch cell where he gets looked after and given "rehabilitation workshops" and "councilling". Importantly of all, he's protected from the other crims that would surely stich him. It makes you sick when an 80+yr old woman is banged up in general population for not paying her council tax. I have never commited a crime and I don't really understand the mentality of these sickos. IMO all criminals should be euthanised this includes scummy families and chavs.
Some good points here. How about a trip down the amazon river, using this guy as live feed for the proper pond life. Maybe cutting off his fingers and toes for some light fly fishing, then calves and muscles for free throwing to the crocs, then lower his body down for the piranhas to have a gorge. Then string his body up for some of the local nightlife to feast open his open wounds....
Well some sort of corporal punishment should be used on guys like this, fff in Iran a girl was beheaded just for sitting on her boyfriends lap.


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Lanny McDonald | |
Hockey Hall of Fame, 1992 | |
Lanny McDonald at Canada's Sports Hall of Fame Induction Dinner, November 10, 2010, at Calgary | |
Born | Hanna, AB, CAN | February 16, 1953
Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) |
Weight | 185 lb (84 kg; 13 st 3 lb) |
Position | Right Wing |
Shot | Right |
Played for | Toronto Maple Leafs Colorado Rockies Calgary Flames |
National team | Canada |
NHL Draft | 4th overall, 1973 Toronto Maple Leafs |
WHA Draft | 10th overall, 1973 Cleveland Crusaders |
Playing career | 1973–1989 |
Lanny McDonald | |
Hockey Hall of Fame, 1992 | |
Lanny McDonald at Canada's Sports Hall of Fame Induction Dinner, November 10, 2010, at Calgary | |
Born | Hanna, AB, CAN | February 16, 1953
Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) |
Weight | 185 lb (84 kg; 13 st 3 lb) |
Position | Right Wing |
Shot | Right |
Played for | Toronto Maple Leafs Colorado Rockies Calgary Flames |
National team | Canada |
NHL Draft | 4th overall, 1973 Toronto Maple Leafs |
WHA Draft | 10th overall, 1973 Cleveland Crusaders |
Playing career | 1973–1989 |
Lanny King McDonald (born February 16, 1953) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Colorado Rockies and Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL). He played over 1,100 games during a 16-year career in which he scored 500 goals and over 1,000 points. His total of 66 goals in 1982–83 remains the Flames' franchise record for a single season.
McDonald was selected by the Maple Leafs as the fourth overall pick in the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft and established himself as an offensive forward with three consecutive 40-goal seasons in Toronto in the mid-1970s. His trade to the Rockies in 1979 resulted in Toronto fans protesting the deal in front of Maple Leaf Gardens. He played parts of three seasons in Denver, before he was sent to Calgary in 1981 where he spent the remainder of his career. He co-captained the Flames to a Stanley Cup championship in his final season of 1988–89.
He is among the most popular players in Flames history and his personality and bushy red moustache made him an iconic figure within the sport. McDonald won the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy for dedication and sportsmanship in 1983 and in 1988 was named the inaugural winner of the King Clancy Memorial Trophy for his leadership and humanitarian presence, in particular through his long association with the Special Olympics. Internationally, he represented Team Canada as a player on two occasions and in a management role three times. He was a member of the inaugural Canada Cup championship team in 1976 and was director of player personnel of Canada's 2004 World Championship winning team. McDonald was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 1993. The Flames retired his uniform number 9 in 1990.
McDonald was born February 16, 1953, in Hanna, Alberta.[1] He is the youngest of four children after brother Lynn and sisters Donna and Dixie.[2] His father, Lorne, tended the family farm near the hamlet of Craigmyle, 35 kilometres (22 mi) outside Hanna.[3] The young Lanny viewed his father as his hero, often following Lorne around helping with whatever chores he could. McDonald credits his father for teaching him the value of honesty and hard work.[4] His mother, Phyllis, was a full-time teacher who was frequently involved with community events.[2]
Learning to skate at the age of five, McDonald immediately developed a passion for hockey. He served as a stick boy, helping manage equipment, for his father's community team and grew up listening to radio broadcasts of Hockey Night in Canada.[5] McDonald shared his father's passion for the Toronto Maple Leafs; he was given his middle name, King, after Maple Leafs' star King Clancy.[6] He began playing organized hockey at the age of six and, despite both having full-time commitments, his parents drove him and Lynn to Hanna for their practices and games. McDonald recalled that half of his time in youth hockey was spent in Hanna, and the other half in the car.[7] He completed high school while playing in Lethbridge, choosing to remain with his junior A team in 1970–71 rather than join the Medicine Hat Tigers of the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL) so that he could complete his diploma.[8]
McDonald began his junior career in 1969 with the Lethbridge Sugar Kings of the tier II Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL). He appeared in 34 games for the Sugar Kings as a 16-year-old, scoring two goals. The following season, 1970–71, he emerged as a leading scorer, recording 37 goals and 82 points in 45 games.[9] He was voted the league's most valuable player and named to the Second All-Star team.[3][8] Additionally, McDonald appeared in six WCHL games with the Calgary Centennials.[9]
The Medicine Hat Tigers acquired McDonald's playing rights in a trade during the 1970–71 WCHL season.[8] He joined the team the following year, finishing eighth in league scoring with 114 points, including 50 goals.[10] He improved to 62 goals and 139 points in 1972–73 to finish third overall in league scoring and was named to the WCHL All-Star Team at forward.[3] McDonald added 37 points in the playoffs as the Tigers won the league championship.[11]
In McDonald's draft year of 1973, the National Hockey League (NHL) was in competition with the rival World Hockey Association (WHA) for talent.[12] McDonald was considered a top junior prospect and was recruited by both leagues.[13] The Vancouver Canucks had the third overall selection in the NHL draft and were interested in drafting him, but opted against it when McDonald made it clear he would likely go to the WHA rather than play with Vancouver. Instead, he went to the Toronto Maple Leafs with the fourth overall pick.[13] In the WHA draft, he was selected 10th overall by the Cleveland Crusaders.[14] McDonald chose to play in the NHL, signing a contract with the Maple Leafs that was considered to be among the richest in the league. The deal, worth between $175,000 and $200,000 per season,[13] came as a result of the competition between the two leagues and McDonald found that some of the older players in Toronto resented him as a result.[12]
McDonald made his NHL debut with the Leafs on October 10, 1973, against the Buffalo Sabres. He assisted on two goals in the game, but also suffered a concussion and required several stitches after landing on his head as a result of a check by Rick Martin. Following the custom of most NHL players at the time, he played the game without wearing a helmet. It was the only time in his career he did so, as he felt that his injury contributed to his early struggles in the NHL.[15] McDonald scored his first NHL goal on October 17 against Michel Larocque of the Montreal Canadiens,[16] but finished the season with only 14 goals and 30 points in 1973–74.[9] His continued inability to score early in the 1974–75 season nearly resulted in a trade. Atlanta Flames general manager Cliff Fletcher sought to take advantage of the Maple Leafs' early disappointment in McDonald and agreed in principle to a trade for the young forward in exchange for Curt Bennett.[17] However, McDonald scored three goals in his following two games causing Toronto to back out of the deal.[18] McDonald recorded a modest improvement over his rookie campaign: 17 goals and 44 points.[9]
"Playing for my country in '76 was a tremendous honour. I got a phone call from someone claiming to be Alan Eagleson asking me if I wanted to try out for Team Canada in preparation for the first Canada Cup in 1976. At first, I thought it was Darryl (Sittler) playing a practical joke on me. It took Eagle some convincing before I realized I really was being invited to Team Canada's training camp."
The patience the Maple Leafs had shown McDonald in his first two seasons was rewarded in 1975–76 when he rediscovered his offensive touch, scoring 37 goals and adding 56 assists.[6] Following the season, he earned an invite to the Canadian national team's summer camp in advance of the 1976 Canada Cup.[20] McDonald was named to the roster, and appeared in five of Team Canada's seven games. He recorded two assists in the tournament, one of which came on Darryl Sittler's overtime goal that clinched the inaugural Canada Cup championship.[19]
A 43-goal season in 1976–77 earned McDonald several accolades. He was named to the Wales Conference team at the 1977 All-Star Game where he scored two goals in a 4–3 victory over the Campbell Conference. He was also named a Second Team All-Star at right wing following the season.[21] It was the first of three consecutive 40-goal seasons for McDonald,[9] and he finished in the top ten in NHL scoring in both 1977–78 and 1978–79.[6] He appeared in his second All-Star Game in 1978 and played for the NHL All-Stars in the 1979 Challenge Cup against the Soviet national team.[3]
The highlight of McDonald's career in Toronto came in the 1978 Stanley Cup playoffs against the New York Islanders. The Maple Leafs were viewed as underdogs in the series against an Islanders team that was considered to be among the best in the league. Toronto overcame a 2–0 series deficit to force a seventh and deciding game. Playing despite breaking both his wrist and nose during the series,[22] McDonald scored the overtime winning goal that eliminated the Islanders and allowed the Maple Leafs to advance to the league semi-finals for the first time in 11 years.[23] Toronto was then eliminated by Montreal, who swept the series with four consecutive victories.[24]
Punch Imlach was named Toronto general manager prior to the 1979–80 season and immediately clashed with team captain Darryl Sittler.[25] Imlach wanted to move Sittler to another team, but the player refused to waive his no trade clause. Imlach responded by trading teammates friendly to Sittler instead.[6] On December 28, 1979, Imlach dealt McDonald to the Colorado Rockies, along with Joel Quenneville, in exchange for Wilf Paiement and Pat Hickey. The deal came as a surprise even to Toronto's head coach.[26]
McDonald was devastated by the trade, particularly because he and his wife were expecting their second child and had just purchased a new house. In his 1987 autobiography, he argued that Imlach made the trade out of spite.[25] McDonald had also come into conflict with Imlach while serving as the team's representative of the National Hockey League Players Association (NHLPA) when the general manager refused to honour an increase in the per diem paid to each player.[27] The trade outraged fans in Toronto, where McDonald was among the team's most popular players. While fans picketed outside Maple Leaf Gardens in protest, McDonald told the media that he felt fortunate to have been traded away from the unsettled situation the Leafs were in and blamed Imlach for the team's failures on the ice.[28] Sittler resigned as the team's captain following the trade.[29]
Arriving in Colorado, McDonald found himself at the centre of another power struggle. Sympathetic to the fact that his wife was less than two weeks away from giving birth, head coach Don Cherry gave McDonald permission to leave the team on off-days to return to his wife in Toronto. But he did so without gaining the approval of general manager Ray Miron, who disagreed frequently with Cherry and fired him following the season.[30] On the ice, McDonald scored 35 goals with the Rockies and finished with a total of 40 between the two teams.[9]
Rumours circulated following the season that Maple Leafs owner Harold Ballard had told the media that he was attempting to reacquire McDonald.[31] The Rockies disputed that any such negotiations had taken place and Ballard quickly apologized for the news story after Colorado threatened to file tampering charges against the Maple Leafs' owner.[32] McDonald served as the Rockies' captain, and scored 35 goals and 81 points in 1980–81, his only full season with the team.[6]
Stating that his team needed to add character and leadership, Cliff Fletcher finally completed a trade for McDonald seven years after his first attempt. McDonald was acquired by the Calgary Flames, along with a draft pick, in exchange for Bob MacMillan and Don Lever on November 25, 1981.[33] The deal occurred one day after the last place Rockies lost to the Flames by a 9–2 score.[34] Once the team's plane landed in Winnipeg, McDonald was informed of the trade and told to return to Calgary.[35] Angered at first, he viewed the deal as an insult, that the worst team in the NHL had rejected him.[36]
McDonald also felt the pressure of having to replace two popular ex-Flames in MacMillan and Lever while also working to overcome a separated shoulder he suffered earlier in the year with the Rockies.[37] He made his debut with the Flames the following night, a 7–1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings, after which McDonald remarked that it was the most fun he had playing the game in a long time.[38] He was given a loud ovation by the fans who immediately embraced him as a local hero,[39] even though it took him seven games before he scored his first goal as a member of the Flames.[40] He scored 34 goals in Calgary, and combined with the 6 scored in Colorado, finished with his fifth 40-goal campaign in six years.[9]
The 1982–83 season was dominated by McDonald's battle with Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers for the league lead in goals.[41] Amidst the best offensive season of his career, McDonald scored a hat trick against Pittsburgh to give him 47 goals at the mid-season break for the 1983 All-Star Game, a total that tied his career high.[42] He was named to the starting lineup for the All-Star Game and was the league's leading goal scorer at that point, two ahead of Gretzky.[43] McDonald finished with 66 goals, five short of Gretzky's 71. At that time, only Gretzky, Mike Bossy and Phil Esposito had ever scored more goals in one NHL season.[44] McDonald was named to the Second All-Star Team for the second time in his career and was voted the winner of the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy, given to the player who "best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey".[45] His 66 goals remains a Flames' single season record.[46]
Following the trade of Phil Russell in the summer of 1983, McDonald and Doug Risebrough were named co-captains for the 1983–84 season.[47] They were joined by Jim Peplinski the following season. McDonald missed 15 games due to injuries which reduced his scoring to 33 goals and 66 points, but he played in his fourth All-Star Game.[48] He scored the first Flames goal in the Olympic Saddledome, on the building's opening night of October 15, 1983.[49]
McDonald became the 21st player in NHL history to score 400 career goals, reaching the mark in a 7–4 loss in Los Angeles on December 21, 1983.[50] He was initially credited with scoring the milestone goal in his previous game, against the Winnipeg Jets, but after reviewing a replay of the goal himself, McDonald asked the league to credit it to teammate Eddy Beers who had deflected his shot.[51] His injury problems worsened in 1984–85 as he missed the start of the season with pulled muscles and was limited to just 43 games.[9][52]
As the 1985–86 season approached, McDonald endured questions about whether he was reaching the point where age and injuries meant he could no longer be an effective NHL player.[53] Hoping to prove himself, he set a goal of playing all 80 games for the Flames.[54] He succeeded, and scored 28 goals and 71 points in the process,[9] despite dislocating his thumb in the pre-season and suffering minor knee and hip injuries during the course of the year. He later said it was a matter of pride to him not to miss a game.[17] In the playoffs, McDonald was witness to one of the most infamous mistakes in NHL history.[55][56][57] With the score tied at two in the seventh game of the Smythe Division final against Edmonton, McDonald chased Oilers' rookie Steve Smith around the Edmonton net. Smith attempted to pass the puck forward, but inadvertently hit the back of goaltender Grant Fuhr's skate, deflecting the puck into his own net.[58]
It turned out to be the winning goal for Calgary who eliminated Edmonton to clinch the Smythe Division championship.[59] The victory over their provincial rivals also touched off a celebration amongst the fans, of which over 20,000 greeted the team with wild cheering when their plane landed at Calgary International Airport.[60] A series win over the St. Louis Blues led McDonald and the Flames into their first Stanley Cup Final, against Montreal. The series ended in disappointment: He watched from the bench as his teammates unsuccessfully attempted to tie the deciding game in the final minute and the Canadiens defeated the Flames in five games to win the Stanley Cup.[61]
Two separate knee injuries limited McDonald in 1986–87.[62] His total of 14 goals in 58 games was his fewest since his rookie season.[9] He reached a milestone in the Flames' final game of the season, appearing in the 1,000th game of his career.[62] Following a 10-goal campaign in 60 games in 1987–88,[21] McDonald reached two additional major milestones in the 1988–89 season. On March 7, 1989, he scored the 1,000th point of his career in a 9–5 victory against the Winnipeg Jets.[21] Two weeks later, on March 21, he scored the 500th goal of his career on a wraparound from behind the net against Mark Fitzpatrick of the New York Islanders.[63] It was the final regular season goal of McDonald's career.[64]
"This is the most peaceful feeling I've ever experienced in hockey. There's no feeling like it. I wish I could describe it to people outside. I think you appreciate it a lot more after you've been trying to win it for 16 years, like I have."
At 36 years old and approaching the end of his career, the 1989 Stanley Cup playoffs was potentially his last chance at winning the Stanley Cup.[66] The Flames defeated the Vancouver Canucks, Los Angeles Kings and Chicago Blackhawks to set up a Stanley Cup final rematch with the Montreal Canadiens.[67] McDonald was left out of the Flames' lineup for the third, fourth and fifth games, but with Calgary leading the series three wins to two, head coach Terry Crisp felt that if the Flames were to win the championship, McDonald deserved to be in the game.[66] Crisp's decision paid dividends, as midway through the sixth game, McDonald stepped onto the ice after serving a penalty to join Håkan Loob and Joe Nieuwendyk in a three-on-one rush toward the Montreal goal. Loob passed the puck up to Nieuwendyk, who saw a streaking McDonald coming up the right side of the ice. McDonald received the pass then shot the puck over Montreal goaltender Patrick Roy's glove to give the Flames a 2–1 lead.[66] Doug Gilmour added two goals, and Calgary won the game 4–2 to earn the franchise's first Stanley Cup championship.[68] League president John Ziegler presented the trophy to McDonald, co-captain Jim Peplinski and alternate Tim Hunter. Wearing the captain's "C" for the game, McDonald was the first member of the Flames to carry the trophy as the team paraded it around the Forum in celebration.[66]
McDonald announced his retirement as a player on August 28, 1989, stating in a press conference that he made the determination before the 1988–89 season began that it would be his last.[1] He also revealed that he had received an offer from another, unnamed, team to play in 1989–90 but felt that it was the right time to end his career.[69] The Flames made McDonald their Vice President in Charge of Corporate and Community Affairs.[1] He chose the corporate position partly due to a fascination with the business world, and partly to remain close to his family as a role in hockey operations would have necessitated more travel.[70] His interest in business grew following his trade to Calgary as he was featured in numerous commercials and signed endorsements throughout southern Alberta.[71] He had also previously served as a vice president of the NHLPA in the early 1980s.[72] McDonald changed roles in 1992 as he was named the team's Vice President of Marketing.[73] After serving four years in that position, McDonald became the Vice President of Corporate Development in 1996.[74]
McDonald was part of a committee tasked with hiring a new management team in June 2000. The media speculated that after several years in a corporate position, he hoped to land a role as a vice president within hockey operations.[75] He received no such role, and two months after the hiring of Craig Button as executive vice president and general manager of the Flames, McDonald announced he was leaving the organization. McDonald denied claims from team sources that he was upset at not gaining a new role when Button was hired. He stated that after "nineteen great years here in one organization", it was the right time to retire.[76] He retained a small role in the organization, serving as a board member of the Saddledome Foundation.[77]
Ken King, newly hired president of the Flames, lured McDonald back into the organization a year later by naming him an executive assistant to hockey operations.[78] McDonald held the position until 2003.[79] He also served in hockey operations roles with Hockey Canada. McDonald was the general manager of Team Canada for the 2001 and 2002 World Championships. He returned in 2004 in a role as director of player personnel of Canada's gold medal-winning squad.[80][81]
McDonald was known primarily as an offensive player with a hard shot.[3] His wrist shot was considered to be effective,[82] and his scoring exploits in junior hockey earned him the nickname "Machine-Gun Lanny".[16] Red Kelly, McDonald's coach in his first NHL seasons, recalled that he was impressed with his young player's skill handling the puck and defended McDonald against critics who wanted him moved out of Toronto due to his early struggles.[83] In his NHL career, McDonald led his team in goal scoring six times: 1976–77, 1977–78 and 1978–79 with Toronto,[84] 1980–81 with Colorado,[85] and 1981–82 and 1982–83 in Calgary.[86] He was also a physical player, willing to play a hard-hitting style in the corners.[3]
As age and injuries took their toll, McDonald's role with the Flames changed. His playing time decreased in his later years as he was no longer counted on to be the team's primary offensive threat.[87] Often left out of the lineup in his final season, McDonald was expected to provide a boost to the team when he drew into the lineup.[88] He was counted on to provide a veteran presence and to act as a mentor for the team's younger players.[63]
The Flames arrived in Calgary after relocating from Atlanta for the 1980–81 season. The organization entered a transitional phase, as many players used to the warm weather and relaxed atmosphere of Atlanta were unable or unwilling to adapt to the higher expectations fans in Calgary placed on them. David Poile, then Flames assistant general manager, stated that the team had an identity crisis as a result.[89] It was in this atmosphere that General Manager Cliff Fletcher made the trade for McDonald on November 25, 1981, claiming that McDonald added two characteristics the Flames lacked: character and leadership.[33]
McDonald's arrival in Calgary was considered a turning point for the organization, one where his personality, demeanor and on-ice play came to define the Flames in the 1980s.[90] Poile argued that it signaled the true beginning of the team in its new market: "The trade for Lanny McDonald was the start of the Calgary Flames franchise. It gave us that Calgary identity, that Western Canadian flavor."[89] Columnist and co-author of McDonald's autobiography, Steve Simmons, agreed. He added that the personal and professional disappointments McDonald endured in Toronto and Colorado resulted in his gaining a greater appreciation of both the game and himself.[90] McDonald was extremely popular with his teammates and the fans wherever he played,[91] as well as with the media – he was named Colorado's athlete of the year in 1980 by the state's sportswriters.[82]
Renowned for his leadership ability, McDonald cultivated the respect of the team's younger players. He came into the NHL at a time when the battle with the rival WHA for talent led to rookies signing for far more money than the previous generation of players commanded. Consequently, McDonald faced the resentment of several of Toronto's veteran players and resolved to show greater respect to those that followed him.[92] His efforts left a lasting impression on his peers;[93] among them was Tiger Williams who called McDonald "a great ambassador" for the NHL.[94]
The Flames made McDonald the first player in franchise history to have his jersey retired when they raised his number 9 to the rafters of the Olympic Saddledome in a ceremony on March 17, 1990.[95] As part of its 1992 class, he was also the first former Flame to gain induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame.[96] One year later he was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame.[97] McDonald's image endured well into retirement; in 2008, he was the only athlete named in a list of Alberta's ten greatest citizens compiled by the Calgary Herald.[35][98]
McDonald met his wife Ardell while playing junior hockey for the Medicine Hat Tigers.[99] They were married in 1975,[100] and have four children: daughters Andra and Leah, and sons Barrett and Graham.[101] The family settled in Calgary after McDonald's trade to the Flames. They also maintain a summer home in Montana,[102] where the family has invested in restaurants and a craft brewery in the community of Lakeside. Co-owned by Andra, the brewery considers McDonald its inspiration, and produces "Old 'Stache Porter" in his honour.[103][104]
His giant, walrus-style moustache is McDonald's most defining physical characteristic and helped him become an iconic figure in the sport.[21] He developed it in 1974, spending the summer seeing what kind of beard he could grow. Knowing that the Maple Leafs did not allow players to maintain beards at the time, he settled on what he described as a "normal moustache" once he returned to Toronto. Some time later, he was inspired by baseball player Sparky Lyle's moustache and chose to grow one in a similar style.[105] It became a symbol for the Flames as some fans took to wearing fake red moustaches during playoff runs.[106] Razor manufacturers offered endorsements if he would shave it, which he refused.[107]
"Lanny brings with him a high profile for the Special Olympics. He's helped us develop sponsors. He attends all our major events. He works with the athletes, communicating with them as if they were his equal, and they are. They just love him."
Among his charitable and humanitarian efforts, McDonald is best known for his participation with the Special Olympics.[35] He first became involved with the organization in 1974 when the Maple Leafs asked him to represent the team at the Special Olympics Summer Games.[109] The event began a decades long association for McDonald.[110] He was the honorary coach of the 1986 Special Olympics Summer Games in Calgary,[111] and served as a head coach for the Canadian Special Olympics floor hockey team. In 1988, McDonald's contributions to the Special Olympics as a coach and co-chairman of the organization's fundraising efforts, as well as his work with the Alberta Children's Miracle Network Hospitals, were recognized by the NHL as he was named the inaugural recipient of the King Clancy Memorial Trophy. The award is given to the hockey player who best exemplifies leadership on the ice with humanitarian contributions off of it.[112] McDonald was previously honoured by the Flames as the first winner of the Ralph T. Scurfield Humanitarian Award in 1987, which he won again in 1989.[113]
McDonald's autobiography, Lanny, co-written by Steve Simmons, was published in 1987. A Canadian best-seller, it was an unexpected success for publisher McGraw-Hill.[114] The book sold 10,000 copies in its first couple months of publication, for which the publisher made a donation of $10,000 to the Special Olympics.[108] In 2008, McDonald was given an honorary doctorate from the University of Calgary.[115]
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
1969–70 | Lethbridge Sugar Kings | AJHL | 34 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 19 | |||||||
1970–71 | Lethbridge Sugar Kings | AJHL | 45 | 37 | 45 | 82 | 56 | |||||||
1970–71 | Calgary Centennials | WCHL | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1971–72 | Medicine Hat Tigers | WCHL | 68 | 50 | 64 | 114 | 54 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1972–73 | Medicine Hat Tigers | WCHL | 68 | 62 | 77 | 139 | 84 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1973–74 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 70 | 14 | 16 | 30 | 43 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1974–75 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 64 | 17 | 27 | 44 | 86 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
1975–76 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 75 | 37 | 56 | 93 | 70 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 4 | ||
1976–77 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 80 | 46 | 44 | 90 | 77 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 6 | ||
1977–78 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 74 | 47 | 40 | 87 | 54 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 10 | ||
1978–79 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 79 | 43 | 42 | 85 | 32 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | ||
1979–80 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 35 | 15 | 15 | 30 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1979–80 | Colorado Rockies | NHL | 46 | 25 | 20 | 45 | 43 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1980–81 | Colorado Rockies | NHL | 80 | 35 | 46 | 81 | 56 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1981–82 | Colorado Rockies | NHL | 16 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 20 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1981–82 | Calgary Flames | NHL | 55 | 34 | 33 | 67 | 37 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||
1982–83 | Calgary Flames | NHL | 80 | 66 | 32 | 98 | 90 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 19 | ||
1983–84 | Calgary Flames | NHL | 65 | 33 | 33 | 66 | 64 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 6 | ||
1984–85 | Calgary Flames | NHL | 43 | 19 | 18 | 37 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
1985–86 | Calgary Flames | NHL | 80 | 28 | 43 | 71 | 44 | 22 | 11 | 7 | 18 | 30 | ||
1986–87 | Calgary Flames | NHL | 58 | 14 | 12 | 26 | 54 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
1987–88 | Calgary Flames | NHL | 60 | 10 | 13 | 23 | 57 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | ||
1988–89 | Calgary Flames | NHL | 51 | 11 | 7 | 18 | 26 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 29 | ||
NHL totals | 1111 | 500 | 506 | 1006 | 899 | 117 | 44 | 40 | 84 | 120 |
Year | Team | Event | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | Team result |
1976 | Canada | CC | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | Champions |
1979 | NHL All-Stars | Exhib | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Lost series |
1981 | Canada | WC | 8 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | Fourth place |
Totals | 16 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 |
Award | Year | Ref. |
AJHL Most Valuable Player | 1970–71 | [8] |
AJHL Second All-Star Team | 1970–71 | [3] |
WCHL First All-Star Team | 1972–73 | [3] |
Award | Year | Ref. |
Second Team All-Star | 1976–77 1982–83 | [21] |
Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy | 1982–83 | [116] |
King Clancy Memorial Trophy | 1987–88 | [116] |
Stanley Cup Championship | 1989 | [66] |
Budweiser NHL Man of the Year Award | 1988–89 | [89] |
Award | Year | Ref. |
Colorado State Athlete of the Year | 1980 | [82] |
Molson Cup Calgary: Most three star selections | 1982–83 | [117] |
Ralph T. Scurfield Humanitarian Award Calgary: Perseverance, determination and leadership | 1986–87 1988–89 | [113] |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lanny McDonald. |
Preceded by George Ferguson | Toronto Maple Leafs first round draft pick 1973 | Succeeded by Bob Neely |
Preceded by Chico Resch | Bill Masterton Trophy winner 1983 | Succeeded by Brad Park |
Preceded by none | Winner of the King Clancy Memorial Trophy 1988 | Succeeded by Bryan Trottier |
Preceded by Rene Robert | Colorado Rockies captain 1981 | Succeeded by Rob Ramage |
Preceded by Phil Russell | Calgary Flames captain 1983–89 with Doug Risebrough (1983-87) and Jim Peplinski (1984-89) | Succeeded by Jim Peplinski |


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TCP Tuesday #238 -Going Vintage
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Happy Tuesday, everyone! Its time for another TCP Tuesday challenge. TCP is celebrating its 10th birthday with a new release featuring brand new stamps in rubberyes, cling-backed rubber! In honor of this return to our roots, our challenge this week is to go vintage, whether that be a traditional vintage style or a more retro vintage spin. The interpretation is up to you. My sample is attached for a little inspiration. We can't wait to see what you come up with for this weeks challenge!
TCP TUESDAY CHALLENGE DETAILS... 1. Each Tuesday we will give you a challenge. 2. You will have until the end of the month to complete the challenge. 3. Add your entry to the SCS Gallery, using the keyword TCPTUES238 for this weeks challenge. 4. TCP stamps are not required for this challenge (unless it's a challenge calling for a particular stamp/die), but of course we love to see TCP fans use their TCP stamps! 5. There will be one randomly chosen weekly winner, announced on Tuesdays. 6. There will be one winner, The Swanky Stamper, announced the 1st of each month. They will win several sets from an upcoming release and get to play along with us at our Pajama Party and Blog Hop. Check out the TCPTUES238 GALLERY here! |
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Here's my card for the challenge!! I actually did 2, you can see the other on my blog - such a fun challenge!! :)
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Great cards Lori and Julie! Here's mine...
Great challenge Lori, and your cards are all awesome!! I am going to try my best to play along this week!! Great job with the release everyone! xo
Woot! I get to play! However, vintage is hard for me but I will make it work! :) Wish my new goodies were here! lol!
All your cards are wonderfully done!!
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Can you believe it didn't even occur to me to think MOD?! I let 'Vintage' scare me, and as Eleanor Roosevelt says, "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." So, here's my attempt at vintage, folks...
LOL Carole!! And you with the moddest blog on the block! :) But you rose to the challenge and your rocked it!! I love your card! In fact, everyone made such amazing and amazingly different cards - who knew vintage could mean so much! |
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I picked up this Martha Stewart paper pad because it looked vintage to me. It's got pages that will work great with the ginger dude and if you have the birdhouses, there's a perfect paper for them. I wasn't going to buy any more Christmas stuff but this pad has such cute pages I couldn't resist.
Julie, that pad is so TCP. It's got bird houses that look like TCP set and gingie men that to with the new stamps. I had to buy that pad.
YAY! I completed this challenge! I started over since I got my new rubbah! Woot! LOVE this release!
Big Guy |
Great job Deborah!! It's always inspiring to work with new stamps isn't it?! :)
I went a little more 50s retro than vintage, but hopefully it'll work anyway! Here's my card: TCPTUES: Vintage by eliotstamps - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
I went for something different this week and used my TCP stamps to make a page! I used some Christmas papers from Echo Park that have vintage Christmas images to stay true to the theme.
Simply Christmas TFL! |
Last call!! We've got some great cards in the gallery, have you seen?! Tomorrow we'll be drawing a winner for $10 Cat Cash! Feeling a bit vintagey tonight? Come join us! :)
No idea what I'm doing on these boards, but hopefully I'm posting my card for the challenge.
My card is here. |
Emma you came to the right place and posted in perfectly!! Great job - I know it can be a bit confusing at first but you're on your way!! Thanks for playing along with our challenge, looks like you had fun! Don't be a stranger! ;)
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