In Memory of My Precious Son!

In Memory of My Precious Son!
Billy you were a blessing to me and an awesome Dad to Drake. We all miss you and love you.
Learn from yesterday, Live for today, Hope for tomorrow.

Sunday, January 31, 2010

A Winter's Day

I am not having a good day today.  I have been really struggling with the loss of my son.  It will be 3 years in August but most of the time it seems like just yesterday.  Sundays are always hard on me because we would spend them together doing whatever the weather would permit.  We loved to go to our local lake and check out all the cool things going on during the different seasons.  Billy was a nature geek (that is what I called him!) but he could tell you so much by just looking at your surroundings and paying attention to the changes in the trees and ground.  I so miss those days!  So I had to do something to get out of this funk and get my heart back to a place where I could function.  So my thoughts were on crafting!!!!!!  Last weekend I spent the day with a blessed friend named Val.  We went to a Valentine's Day Card class at a awesome store called the Scrappin Bunny in McKinney Texas.  If you ever get the chance you really need to go and visit that store.  The folks there are so nice and they just make you feel right at home.  Our class was taught by an incredieble lady named Jen.  She is a fellow Tim Holtz junky as I am!  We made a great card using different techiniques and also a tag to put on the inside pocket of my card.  They turned out beautiful if I must say so.  So as I think about what a great weekend I had, I ponder on the blessings that crafting has given me.  For one I would never have met Val and the many ladies that have been there to help me along this journey.  I also think of the times I just could not think of anything to make things stop spinning in my head so I would sit down and look at different people's blogs and get lost in their world and for a bit mine was not this horrible filled life of grief.  So to all the folks that blog, please continue your daily posts you never know whoes life you are touching and in what way you have saved mine so many times.  Then to Val my blessed friend of scrapbooking and just fun.  I know no matter what you are there and that means the world to me and your gift of friendship will be the gold in my treasure chest that I will protect for the rest of my life!  Love ya girl!  So after this craziness that I have left you with I thought I would show you a few pictures of what me made on that weekend.  Hope everyone has a blessed week and I will do my best to post more often.  Thanks for stopping by and as always remember I love to have your comments!

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Little Note Books

Sorry it has been a couple of days since my last post.  I wanted to show you a little notebook I made for one of my friends as a gift.  I love these little notebooks; they are just the perfect size to fit in your purse, bag or even in your coat pocket for making quick notes.  I am even thinking of taking letter tabs or month tabs and making one into a address book or a birthday book.  I am always forgetting birthdays and I think that would solve my problem of missing birthdays.  You can purchase these little notebooks at Wal-mart or any other dollar store for around $.77 to $1.00.  Then I just used scrap paper I had laying around to cover the front and back covers.  I used my Quic Kutz die cutting machine and the Chickedee font for the wording and added a cute button in the middle of a flower with a little ribbon; and there you go with a cute useable gift! Sorry about the poor picture quality I am learning how to take better photos for uploading. Hope you enjoy the post today and I will be back another day with more.  Thanks for stopping by and remember I always enjoy comments!  Have a blessed day!

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

A FEW OF MY CREATIONS!



I thought I would take some time and show you a few of the things I have done here lately.  I am including photos of a Christmas Tag I made, and a Birthday card I made for a friend. I know there are so many techniques out there that I can't even imagine where to begin.  Thanks for stopping by:)


HERE I GO!!!!

I am so excited to start this new step in my adventure of crafting!  I have viewed several blogs and have always wanted to do one myself, so here I go!  I will do my best to provide you with a glimpse into my world of scrapbooking, card making and anything else hand made I can get my hands into! So set back; grab your cup of java or whatever your flavor of choice might be (mine is Diet Coke!) and lets spend some time sharing our passion for anything hand made! Please leave me feedback and any other comment you might feel. Until next time HAPPY CRAFTING!!!!!