Only a few more days!

And it will be October! Do you know what else that means? It means I start my guest CT gigs for Tracy Blankenship and Creative Victorian Designs. I'm ready. I have ideas in my head for some stuff that will hopefully be Christmas presents. I some some card ideas too that I would really like to complete. They had pdf's with full instructions on 2Peas website. If I find the link again I'll be sure to link you up.

I need to change my blog again. I have been blogging more regular now so I guess I look at it more and I would like to change it again. I just am discouraged cause I had so many problems last time I changed it. Ah. Oh well...

Thanks to Hummie I found vi.sualize.us. It's a pretty neat idea. I only have one fav in there right now but I will be adding more soon I hope. I also just signed up for Kaboodle. Don't have anything in there yet either. Not sure quite how to work that one.

ChrissyW let me try out her new keyplate album template set and her AWESOME collab with Angie Kovacs. Those two ladies work so well together! I had a few things come up this week and wasn't able to print it out. I am so upset. I can't wait till I can print it out. I am going to give it to my play niece. It is a book of her birthday party.





The keyplate templates are from ChrissyW. For the most part I used Chrissy's and Angie's collab BFF. Both found at Elemental Scraps. Then I also used:

Various things found on page one:
Brown bag Alpha by Pamela Donnis
Rainbow alpha by Melissa Bennett
Word art by Elegant Wordart by Bethany
Various elements from the MSA Birthday kit

Various things found on page two:
Crafty White Alpha by Miss Tiina
Word art by Elegant Wordart by Brittney


Megan is having a hybrid challenge here. The prize is AMAZING! I think if I can find the money to print, I am going to try it.



Today my mom and I went to visit my Aunt Elaine. Her birthday is tomorrow. She will be, I think, 52 years old and she lives in an "old folks" home. She has MS and over the past 10 years it has slowly taken her youth from her. She can barely walk, talks slow, seems "confused" about who everyone is. Her husband Joe has been the MOST SUPPORTING person I think I have ever seen. She began to start getting sick not too long after they got married. He has stuck by her side since day ONE! He has done everything humanly possible to keep her out of that place for as long as he could. He hired nurses, had family come and help out, took time off from work, and anything he could think of. It was a very hard decision for him to make. He was in tears for days. On top of that I think he thought we would be mad. It was just getting too much for everyone and for Elaine. She would sometimes get belligerent, she would try to get up and walk around on her own. The final straw I think was when she tried to walk somewhere and his mom ( who is in her 70's or 80') was trying to help her. Now while my aunt is a tiny woman, when she fell, his mom tried to catch her and they both ended up falling. And getting hurt. He agonized over it, but we all understood. I would say she's been there for about two years. She seems not to mind. She is very social(as much as she can be), she's always going to a party or some activity. I just wish she was able to enjoy her grandchildren like normal people. Her eyes light up everytime she sees one of them. But she can't pick them up or hold them and can barely hug them. I just wish she didn't have to go though all of this.