Tim Holtz Kraft-Core

Got to love all of his stuff.  Just saw his new co ordination paper when I was at the Craft Nook in Bracebridge.  Yummy stuff and now you can have a chance to win it.  Now I will try and do this right so you can go to the site.  Just click on this link or you may have to copy and paste.

Contest link

http://pages.exacttarget.com/raf3a/?eKey=Se1FRlEjD6TTdRjE2luFSgXSl

Ta-da!

Here is my first Christmas card  of the season using my new toy, the Cuttlebug.  The idea came from Cardmaker magazine November 2011.  It is called a criss cross pocket card and will presented to my church's worship leader from the UCW.

My new toy.

Good bye Original Sizzix, Hello Cuttlebug.  Yes, yes, yes, I'm so excited to have this new toy to play with.

On with the Scrappinest of it all.

I can't believe it's been over a year since I last posted anything.  My mojo just left me.  I was not feeling inspired by anything and just plain mad with the world.

Life dealt me a curve that I just did not think would ever happen but it did.  It has now been almost a year since my son has been in a treatment home for kids with behavior problems.  We were greatly affected by the last foster child I had in my home.  It was really traumatic and as a result, I sought help from the same agency that I was with as a foster parent.  It all lead up to us being told if we did not sign our son in on a temporary care agreement, they would apprehend him as he was a danger to my daughter, myself and himself.  So in order to keep our parental rights in place and protect him from them we agreed to do it.  It was the hardest thing I ever did and it took so much out of me.  If that was not enough my daughter was diagnosed with severe anxiety depression most likely caused by her being dyslexic.  And to make matters worse, my husband was struggling with his own demons.

Today my daughtter is much  better,  She has had dylexia treatment and is in a pilot program with the board of education for kids with learning disabilities.  Her reading is much better and she is in a better place.

My son has made progress but not enough for him to come home.  They still have not found the right medication to put him on  but I am confident they will and with a little luck he will be returning home.  I so miss him.

My husband now is doing western Canada runs with the same company.  No more Eastern seaboard for him.

As for me, my creativity has returned and I am again feeling excited about it.  I joined a book club and started going to church.  I also have a new friend who lives on my street.  She has been a gift from god for me as our daughters are the same age and she also scrapbooks.  I also rediscovered WeScrap.  I am once again excited about what is to come.  So enough with the heartache and on with the scrappinest of it all.

Not Again!

Yes, it's been a couple of weeks since I have posted.  My scrappy stuff is on the move again to another space in my house and I survived the G8 summit.  We had the endless roar of jets patrolling the air space plus I had to drive my kids to school and back.  The police presence was amazing and as for the fence surrounding Deerhurst, Wow!  I have never seen anything like it.  I drove through it before they closed it down and it was just like going through a prison or what I think going through a prison would be like.  My life will get back to normal for 3 days and then the kids are out of school for the summer.  I still have not done my teacher's gifts as my mojo has gone somewhere and I had better find it quick.  Since going to the card class, I have not been able to unpack my bag but today I will try.  We will see how it goes.

OMG!!

I can't believe it's been over a month since I posted anything. My time has been taken up with appointments for the kids and trying to cope with my son's ADHD. We don't have an official diagnosis but we are waiting on the results of his recent psychological assessment. Needless to say I have not done much scrapping. But today in honor of my birthday, I decided to take a card class offered by one of the LSS in Muskoka. I had to drive 70 km but it was well worth it. No kids, no hubby and a chance to work on my creative self. I think we did 12 cards and 6 card fronts. I got all the pieces together but just need to put on the finishing touches as we were told to keep that for later so we could attempt them all. So hopefully tomorrow I'll get a chance to finish them. So Happy Birthday to me and all other June babies out there.

Happy Mother's Day

Today I decided to finally go through all my Mom's and Step Dad's photos. They have been sitting in a box since my Step Dad passed away in 2004. I was really excited and pleased when I found this photo of my Mom of which I have never before seen. My one and only photo of her with Santa. It's hard to believe she has been gone for 10 years but not a day goes by that I don't think about. Happy Mother's Day!