Back at it....PHEW!!!

I was seriously getting behind....who would think?? But I have two less daycare kids this week, and I can bribe the one I have left with craft time :-) Life is good.

So, for the first....I don't like it. It didn't turn out the way I'd wanted, and of COURSE because I haven't figured out how to $#@ scan...it looks too dark. Whatever. There were two things I wanted to pull off...one, the Autumn Leaves "Stampology" edges acrylic stamp (say that 10 times fast) and two, the photo...the "selective colouring" in Photoshop. LOVE it.

The second I had SO much fun with....the "Frenzy" line by Whiteout...used Photoshop to do the half circle journalling for the first time. COOL.

Cheers to new-found mojo ;-)

Reconnected...

A day without phone, internet AND cable makes me lose my mind. Period. Not the insanity of raising kids, but the feeling of being disconnected from the outer ring of my "adult" life...from who's doing what and when...the weather (who'da thunk you could just walk outside and see?)...the news.

I am now reconnected and life is good. Apparently there was an "issue" at the company. The company doesn't have five kids. The company doesn't understand why playing Dora-babies on Treehouse.com is a GOOD thing for mommy, kids be damned. Internet = QUIET. Phone = adult conversation. Cable = "connection" to all things gloriously vegetative...a state of which I would like to have a few more minutes during the day.

This layout features a pic taken by my friend at a Christmas party...I remember the moment, not just because I had no prior "vogue" time (y'know...to fix up hair, reduce the shine?)...but because it was such a quick, blink and you miss it, kind of moment. But for that one, fleeting moment, my son and I "connected" with a bond stronger than even the best tape-runners...

Mission (Im)Possible

I have FINALLY done it!!!












I found EXACTLY 12.2 minutes to figure out, in Photoshop, how do to this effect! :-) This, by gawd, is THE most exciting thing that's happened in the last, oh, two days....only to be topped by the fascinating way my twins can fandangle their little chicken butts up onto my dining room TABLE....but that's another story....

Anyhooooooo....I've seen it, I've been sent instructions to do it, I've even attempted the impossible and tried to do it myself (apparently I missed the "impossible" part...I never "got it")...but today my friend told me about the instructional area on the Scrapbooks Etc. site...under the "Digital Scrapbooking" area :-) Seriously, it is SO user-friendly.

I've done a couple more that I'm hoping to scrap this weekend (in the alter-reality of my mind I have a TON of free time)...fingers crossed!!! I picked up some of the Black Magic and Vintage ColorCore Cardstock I'm also hoping to play with!!

Loooooooooong week!!!

Well, I've FINALLY made a few things!! phew! I was starting to suffer some serious withdrawals, I tell you!! Between the new daycare girls (the hell was I thinking??) and Hannah's surgery, well....you know. I'm too tired to even type!!!

So. I got me just a bitty of the new Basic Grey Euphoria line...just a teaser, mind you...I'm off to the Scrapbox (http://www.thescrapbox.ca/) to get momma some more ;-) Anyhooooooooo....I've been wanting to do up some cards FOREVER...and I've finally done it!! LOL ya, five...I understand the irony...considering the "whole stack" I really want to get to!!!

I'm STILL trying to figure out what kind of a scanner to buy :-( bloody hell...I hate taking pics of all the stuff!! You never get the "true" colours and texture of anything!!! ARGH!! So if you have one you love, lemme know!!

A Mother's Touch...

I'm behind in the scrappin' factor...and for good reason, believe me!!! Hannah had her surgery to have her adenoids and tonsils removed for "obstructive sleep apnea" on Friday. Not only was it the longest day of my life, it was the hardest...and with that evening still to come (we'd had to stay overnight at CHEO).

Nothing in the world makes me feel as powerless as I did when I saw my daughter in the recovery room. I like to think I am a woman of eloquence...but words fail me to describe the sight I beheld my little girl going through. Even as I held her crying in my arms, not knowing her surroundings, with her pain, her disorientation...I couldn't even muster up a small prayer for anything...anything at all. I was at a total loss. The only thing I could think to do was sing...so I did. And she settled. I sang....and it was the worst singing I've ever done as I tried to choke back my own tears. But still, she settled. I cupped her head in my hands and wished with all my might that I could somehow transfer her pain to me...

So I sat up all night watching her. I was on the clock before the nurses asking for her pain meds. But truth be known, she is a little fighter and I wish I had half the pain tolerance she must have!!! Little bugger fought off not only the morphine, but the codeine as well!!! She didn't fall asleep until HOURS after her surgery!! Meanwhile, I'm looking like a woodpecker knocking on trees, my head was so heavy from fatigue!! Good God, did they slip me some as well??? Hook me the hell up!!! ;-)

Anyways, she's doing just fine. I, however, am still traumatized. Although I know this will all be, at best, a figment of her imagination, I toil in the realization that even though I may feel like I can't do anything for my child in times of need, I am, indeed, the most powerful person in the world.

I am their mother.

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children." William Makepeace Thackeray

I'm lacking...

in the photo department!!! I have almost scrapped all my recently updated pics, and I have a rule that I don't touch older photographs, unless I know and have EXACTLY the right papers and such to go with it. Bizarre, I know, but you should be accustomed to that by now ;-)

So, the weather is HOT, the kids are grouchy...but I'm scrappin' tonight :-) All's good.

This is my first attempt at the Prima Paintables!!! I really did enjoy playing with the Twinkling H2O's ;-)