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!