Letting go and finding a way....

to keep me and my family prepared for what other financial setbacks might occur in the midst of this global recession, I decided to *resign from ALL of my creative teams*. Times are definitely not easy for us right now and who knows what tomorrow will bring. Will it bring devastating news or will it bring us a financial miracle? I hope it will be the latter. So, in hopes that I may try to focus more time in graduating school or possibly looking for a job outside of home, I had to make the heartbreaking, yet honest approach to step down from my teams and focus on the more important issues at hand. I have wrote my emails/PM's with tears and left my sincere appreciations to all for having me join them. It was not an easy thing for me to do since scrapbooking is such a huge passion that I have and I know that it is not something that I take lightly. I've had some good times with these teams, even if it was for a short while. This has been such a humbling experience for me, to deny my wants and desires to fulfill the need to do what is best for me and my family. I absolutely have gained such a tremendous appreciation for the scrapbook community and the inspiration that I've received from so many talented and amazing people. I also know I will greatly miss the friendships I've built and being able to work closely with those who have inspired me a great deal. However, I know that someday I will join them again and will still see them around every now and then.

So, you can still be kept updated through my blog and please feel free to leave me any comments or just say hello. After having such an emotional week, I'm finally starting to feel some peace knowing that I can begin moving forward and start the journey to accomplish what needs to be done. Thank you for reading and allowing me to share this with you. May God continue to bless you and enrich you with His abundant blessings....

Layouts to share...

Okay... here's some pages that I've done within the last 2 months or so. Just click on the images to see the full credits.














This is Krystal's newest kit ::Crush:: over at Funky Playground Designs. Love the attitude of the colors and elements - funky and fresh!

And Misty Cato has a toad-ally cute kit coming out this Saturday @ SSD that you should be on the look out for! And for Libby, let me just say she finished working on something that I'm sure will you will love if you have boys, but definitely can be used for girls as well... And last but, not least, Little Dreamer Designs $1 sale is every Wednesday which is tomorrow! You definitely have to head on over there and see what featured product will be for a dollar because it's always something way too good to pass up! Anyways, that's it for now! Take care!

Trying to do the right thing.....

For the past week, I have been STUCK with this voice inside of me, that was really hard for me to ignore. And finally, after discovering that my husband has taken a pay cut and hearing of company lay-offs due to this economy crisis, has left me without a choice to step up my game and prioritize my time to prepare for the worst in case, God forbid, my husband loses his job. So, today I had to face the facts and listen to this voice, to let go of some of my creative teams which was difficult, but in doing so I hope to focus on finishing up my graphic design program and if I have to, work part-time evenings and/or weekends. I definitely loved working with Fee Jardine and Julie Billingsley, both @ SSD. Julie was the one designer who took a chance on me and introduced me to SSD and all the lovely people there. Fee, will always be my favorite when it comes to handrawn doodles and alphas. Both these ladies were such a wonderful source of inspiration to me and has played such a big part in my journey as a scrapper. So, even though I was sad to leave, I know I have to do what I have to do that's best for me and my family.... Hopefully, when this economy crisis is finally over and I'm done with school, then maybe I'll have more time to join other teams, but for now four is enough. :)

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Dream A Little Dream

Layout by me...

"Little Angel"

FOBTY challenge @ SSD...

My Ice Cream Personality:

Your Ice Cream Personality:

You like to think of yourself as a fairly modest person. And it's true that you don't talk yourself up... but you're also pretty happy with who you are. You are incredibly cautious. You rather miss out on something than make a mistake. No one would ever call you wild... but they would call you responsible. You are a somewhat open minded person, but deep down you're fairly conservative. You don't like trying new things very much. And if you do find something new you like, you stick with it. You tend to have a one track mind. You prefer not to multitask. You can be a big dramatic and over the top sometimes. You are bold in every way

The Ice Cream Personality Test

Rain

It's past midnight and I'm still wide awake :O I should be sleeping... But since I'm up, I thought I'd take time to do a little blogging. While I'm typing at this very moment, I'm also listening to the wind and rain that just started a while ago. It's the first little storm we've had in quite a while and the first sign of cold weather since fall began a few weeks ago. Nights and mornings are getting colder and I'm beginning to miss the warm summer nights that we just had. Brrrrr.... But, I'm also looking forward to nights by the fireplace with the loves of my life--my hubby and precious little boys. Just the thought of it just warms my little heart.

Tonight, out of nowhere, my son Josiah, who is turning 4 in just a few short months, said to me, "Mom, I don't want you to die." My heart sunk just hearing the sound of his little voice filled with so much concern for me. I stood there for a moment and finally sat beside him and almost cried. It struck a painful cord in my heart as I thought of how that was probably what I must of said when my mother was dying 22 years ago. It amazes me how much my son understands about life and death. Because we believe in life after death and have faith in eternal life through Christ Jesus, I've spoke to him about how our bodies are temporary, but our spirit lives forever to go back home and live in heaven. To a child, that must sound confusing and maybe a little too complicated. But, I did explain in terms that he could understand which he did. So.... after embracing him and soaking up all the love that he was giving me, he then went on to say, "Mommy, I want your spirit to be strong." Which I believe he meant that he never wanted my spirit to leave him. I am thankful for his sweet spirit and I hope that nothing will take that away from him. I just love these little moments and I thought I'd share them with you. Thanks for listening....

I was going to post my latest layouts I've done, but now the rain has stopped and it's really quiet which has suddenly made me a tad bit drowsy. So, I'm going to call it a day... Good night!

Totally forgot...

...to mention that my ::Forever:: layout was chosen for LAYOUT OF THE WEEK last week and that I was also selected for this week's SPIN-A-LIFT challenge @ SSD! I'm so flattered and thankful that I was chosen to be featured, it is such a reward after putting all my heart and soul into creating pages about special moments and people in my life. This just makes me love what I do even more! So, if you want to join in on getting some sweet rewards for the Sweet Shoppe, come play and lift any one of my layouts found in my gallery here.



















Also, I was surprised to receive a PM from Joyce over at Funky Playground Designs that my layout, ::I'll Stand By You:: , using ::HOOTENANNY:: by Libby Weifenbach and ChereKaye, was selected for their first Featured Layout Friday debut! Wow, it was such a good week for me... Hope it continues! So far, I'm feeling low on my scrapping mojo this week, just taking time to catch my breath and remembering to find balance in life. Without balance, life can turn into chaos and that is definitely not something I can afford to happen. So far, life is good and I'm enjoying the things that I've been so blessed with--family and preserving memories!