Help [ME] Ronda

Cubicle

Office basics of ledger papers, graph patterns, newsprint and red, black and white come together to create this sharp kit with old school appeal.  Hello Cubicle, Cocoa Daisy's June kit that is now up for grabs.  Also available this month is Ali Edward's Artist Tray and tons of great add-ons.  My pick...Water Cooler.  Here are a few more of my creations!

I am off to enjoy the beautiful Colorado weather before the storm clouds hit.  I hope you all have a safe, great weekend!

Fancy a lunch date

Julie is just an incredible mixed media artist.  So so very talented.  I could spend hours looking at her blog.  So when Emily emailed about lunch with our local group + Julie, i was totally in.  Julie & her mother were just so much fun and it was a great lunch.  Then it turned into some local shopping and a stop by my house.  I will say it again....it was so much fun to chat with her & her mom. 

I got my hands on the two new Fancy Lines this week.  They are so so beautiful.  I wish i could invite you over to see them in person.  Here are two creations using the Wishful Thinking and Like Father, Like Son lines.  Want some Fancy for yourself?  Go to the Fancy Blog and leave a comment telling Fancy what product you like the most from their Spring Releases.  

Wishful Thinking line by Fancy Pants

Like Father, Like Son by Fancy Pants

still here

Just a note to let you know i am ok.  It seems that blog post was just what i needed.  I needed to let go & be sad.  I needed Andy here that weekend & he was.  I needed to see my sister Rose (aka Ro).  She cried too.  Part of it is that i look so much like Chrissi (especially with the bangs) and she hadn't seen me in a while.  I know it will continue like this, some good days, some mournful days.  It lets me know how deep i can love.

In other news, i have lost my voice but thankful not my ability to type.  I can be sarcastic with my fingers.  Trying to be preventative, drinking lots of hot tea with lemon & honey & resting when needed.  I don't feel too bad so i think it is just allergies.  

Kids are just about out of school.  Anthony's last day is tomorrow.  I can't believe it.  It seems like he was just starting kindergarten with those fat little cheeks.  Now he seems to be sprouting before my eyes & his voice is getting deeper.  Lexi has two days left with final exams.  And then she will be a Senior.  Wow.  I remember them hand in hand walking to elementary school together.  In the fall, i will be watching them drive off together.  It just doesn't seem possible.  

some Sneaks coming soon...lots of projects in the mix

Until then, Love, Love, Love

simpler days

 

Sometimes i try to hide from the pain.  If i push it out of my thoughts then it doesn't really exist, right?  Wrong.  This week it just seems to be bubbling out of me.  Its what happens when i don't let them out...the will find away to come to the surface. I cried so much with my sister Sandra this week.  Its still so hard for all of us.  Chrissi's birthday is coming up and i think about how she would start telling me what i was to cook for her birthday dinner.  The last time it was a Potato Leek soup with Focaccia bread.  "This time can you put a little more bacon on top?"  She would make these requests in a child like voice while wringing her hands as if she was all innocent.  How could i resist her?  Not only would she request her birthday meal with me but she would also put in a request with mom & dad, and then Sandra, and the Ro, & who ever else was in town.  She really knew how to milk birthdays and pretty soon her birthday week began to spread out into a birthday month.  She would say to me about a month or two before her birthday..."i think i want this for my birthday," knowing that i would probably get whatever she wanted.  I did spoil her.  I wish i could spoil her now.  

So i finally let my guard down and those emotions spill out onto a page.  The Color Room palette this week was so beautiful & so perfect for this photo.  It felt good to let some of those emotions out.  I have to remind myself it is ok to be vulnerable.  it is ok to cry about her & miss her.  The good thing is i was reminded of the fun times with her.  We did many "girls" trips together & she always was completely zany, so carefree.  I am so blessed to have those memories.

it's just been

one of those weeks...

you know the kind you just want to crawl back into bed & forget about

it's not necessarily been a bad week

just a little rough around the edges

with lots of little tasks & feeling like you are not getting anywhere

gloomy days with spots of sunshine peeking through

(both in weather & emotions)

just enough to let you know there is hope...

Lovely Lace

A little tutorial up at the Lily Bee blog on how to make the paper lace found on this two page layout.  I am really pleased at how this turned out.  I used to do only two pagers and then switched to single pages.  It felt good to change it up a little.  I painted the chipboard to match the layout.  

So have you tried doing a two page layout lately?

love, love, love

Color Me Happy

# 176

1. I just had a hair cut & color.
2. It is what it is.
3. The third sentence on the 7th page of the book I'm reading: I understand those things that i did not understand before.
4. a Pedicure tickles my fancy.
5. I was walking in the rain to my car.
6. PSYCH makes me laugh!
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to seeing the hubby, tomorrow my plans include bbq with Youth Group and Sunday, I don't want to take hubby to the airport!

Color Room #6 is up!  Come & Join us for some Color Inspiration!  Here is my take using both the Color Palette & Sketch!

Got Paint?

a little layout of my lovely lively lexi

ok, alliteration aside..i do love this layout of her.  it seems to capture her essence.

a splatter tutorial will be up on the Crate Paper blog sometime today Friday along with a little peek into how i created the layout. 

Here's a little sneak of a post coming up this weekend at Lilybee.  I will show you how i make the paper lace.

Let go

"Be Still & know that i am God" Pslams 46:10

i need these simple reminders to sit still, to know that HE is in control & the less i try to take over, the better.  With all the changes happening right now, i cannot tell you what a comfort it has been bringing it to prayers.  and then to just LISTEN.

an epidemic

it seems that my diagnosis of CADD have led many of you to wonder if you have the same diagnosis.  It also appears that this disease is more wide spread than i original thought... Some may even consider it an epidemic.  In an effort to help you with your diagnosis, i have come up with a list of symptoms.  If you have 5 or more of the symptoms, you to may have Crafter's Attention Deficit Disorder...

• you own more than one type of glue (fabric, mod podge, glue dots, liquid adhesive, glue gun, etc)  & tend to call that glue..."Adhesive"
• Your collection of _______ (Fabric, Paper, Paint) is proportionally higher than the number of items you have actually created or could possible create
• You have gone on vacation and looked online before hand (or in a phone book while there) to find a local scrapbook/craft/art store in that area
• You have dressed your kids/spouse/pets to match a scrapbook page you "Want" to create
• You buy products (apparel, home office supplies, products for the home) because they remind of your favorite scrapbook paper
• You have left the house with a sticker &/or paint on you & had no clue until someone pointed it out to you
• You look at objects & think what you can "alter" it into
• You shop the clearance aisle to find such objects to alter
• You have a stack of 100 (or more) layouts on your floor, knowing you should buy more albums but instead you reason out that one album = two punches  or 1 punch + 2 new paint colors and buy them instead
• You have one or more projects started but yet have jumped to a new craft because it looks really cool & you must give it a try
• You can completely understand the following initials for scrappy companies...BG, FP, LB, MLS, CP, CC, TA, etc..
• You own more than one type of scissors & inform your family that your SEWing scissor WILL only touch fabric
• You keep all excess buttons from clothing & cut off buttons from worn out shirts not just in case another shirt needs them but a scrapbook page/altered item might
• You shop used bookstores not for things to read but to use those old books in altered arts
• You can name one or more of your favorite fabric designer
• You collect thread like you collect paints, scrap supplies, or fabric
• You are known by what you buy at your local craft store
• You dabble in _______ (crocheting, knitting, painting, scrapping, quilting) but wouldn't consider yourself an expert in any of them, (although you may be "pretty good")
• You own &/or subscribe to multiple books/magazines for crafting, scrapping, sewing, quilting, home decor, mixed media....
• You love arts that have cross-over appeal so you can tell your spouse...but i can do this & this with it.... (e.g. I need this yarn because i can make a lap blanket & plus it will go great on the scrapbooking page) and sadly you have yet to do either
• You have taken your scrapbook paper to the home improvement store to color match paint for a room
• You have taken over one or more areas of the house as your craft center
• You clean up said area and find stuff you forgot you had bought

TREATMENTS: include finding a support group, chocolates, & gift certificates to local craft stores.