Happy New Year

 First I hope you all had a great Christmas and that the New Year is full of great things. I Know its a bit late for Christmas projects, but I just got these done once Christmas was over. So I decided to post it anyway. My fabulous new fella enjoys doing wood working projects so we joined forces and came up with these Joy letters. He cute the letters out and I painted them. I love the way they turned out. I working really hard to get my scrapbooking mojo back. I do have one layout to share. I just can't seem to find any inspiration for the photos that I currently have. I did however order some new stuff and joined a kit club so hopefully the new goodies will make me want to play and get inspired.

Christmas and I know it

So my brother and his family made this great video for the Christmas program at Church. Thought I would share it. It made me laugh pretty good.

Art Journal Page

I finally felt like being crafty. I created this art journal page the other day in some of my free time. I'm moving into a place of feeling content in my life and that always makes creating come so much easier. I am really hoping my funk is gone for a long while. It helps of course that I met someone who treats me well and makes me happy. That's the basis of this page. "Unbelievable love" I had a hard time believing or excepting that someone would feel that way and not be diceptive or out to see what they could gain. Thank God I didn't push him to far away or run the other direction myself. Things are looking up.

Not Feeling It

So I have not forgotten about my blog. I just haven't been able to get myself into a crafting mode. Scrapbooking and what not is so much easier for me when I'm content in life. I'm struggling with contentment at the moment. Not feeling it at all to tell the truth. I am so ready to be at a different place where my divorce is settled and life feels normal. In the mean time I feel like I'm on auto pilot just moving from day to day. I am ready for a distraction. I keep trying to find things to do to distract me from the reality of life at the moment. It works for the most part but then there are those nights like tonight where I'm home all day and pulling out photos thinking I will scrapbook. Then it hits me. I feel a surge of emotions revolving around those memories and I don't want to remember to be honest. I don't want to think of happier times cause then the reality of my situation makes me sad.

Light at the end of the tunnel

I finished this art journal page up Sunday night. This is a pretty obvious title. Didn't feel I needed to do much journaling about it. I am simple looking forward to the light at the end of the tunnel. Life can seem at times like one long tunnel, but It's so much more rewarding to look forward to something ahead than to dwell on hurts of the past. I'm looking forward to the future and all the new things in front of me.

Melted Crayon Art

Had a great weekend with my son. Went to the beach, a bike ride and we made crayon art on canvas. I'm hoping you will be able to guess which one is mine and which one is his. I haven't been working on the art journaling to much. Just haven't felt up to it. I did start one page the other night and will share it once I get it finished. I have a few more canvases though so I just might play with that some more. Who knows what will come out next.

Turkey Day Layout

I finally got this video done. Don't have time to type much but I got my video up. Woo Hoo.

Changes

So I know I have been seriously neglecting my blog lately. I had a video I was working on and thought I would get that up soon but life got in the way as it often does. A rather large life changing issue came up and I have been forced to deal with it instead of enjoying my usual crafting. If you followed my old blog then you already know that I have had issues in my marriage and for the past couple of years have been trying to work through them. Without getting into details something came up that made me feel that it is time to move on with my life. No more trying to work things out. Just trying to move forward, heal and see what great thing life has for me up ahead. After struggling as much as we have for the last few years and not even living together for over a year. I'm really at peace for the most part with my choice. Although, I'm sure I will have my moments of sadness at feeling like this chapter has come to an end. I am also very hopeful of new possiblities. So that said I think I am going to try focussing on some art journaling. I haven't felt like scrapbooking cause lets face it I'm not exactly thinking about happy family memories right now. I was thinking about all the family photos we took together and was wondering if I should scrapbook them now. I think I have decided that when I feel up to it I will for my son's sake and for mine I guess. They aren't all bad memories. In the mean time though I'm hoping the journaling will be theraputic as it has in the past. So I hope you all stick with me on my journey and let me know if you relate to anything I'm journaling about. 

12 x 12 Process Video "Family"

Here is another process video of a Thanksgiving layout I did recently. I have another video coming as
soon as I have time to get it all together.
 

National Scrapbooking Day

Here is a 12 by 12 layout video and a couple of layouts to share with you. Hope your all getting some scrapping time in today. I am. Started working a full time job this month and I think it is going to take me a little while to get in to the swing of having less time for the fun stuff. Hopefully I will figure out a good mixture of how I spend my free time.The first layout is the one I am making in the video of my brother. I have been meaning to scrapbook these photos for a long time. I kept teasing him and saying I was going to do a whole layout about him being single and put it on my blog. He didn't think it was a great idea. The second layout are photos I liked of myself. It about those days when you actually feel like you look good. lol  Anyway, I am making this short so that I can get back to scrappin.