Happy New Year

I know it's been awhile since I've written, but I was taking a little time off to enjoy the holiday season. Hope everyone had a great holiday filled with family and friends and free time! I must admit though that I was ready for Mercedes to go back to school and Brad to go back to work, so I can have the house to myself for a few hours again! I find it so hard to create when they are around because it always feels like I get interupted just as I'm getting going, which is one of the reasons that I do most of my creating after they are both in bed! lol

We had a good, but hectic, Christmas up in Edmonton, spending time with Brad's family. His dad had a really bad fall and has been in hospital for about a month now, so we tried to spend as much time with him as we could. We also got in a couple visits with friends, and Mercedes and I took Jessilyn & her boyfriend out to dinner one night and it was soooooo good to see her again. I was a little freaked out about meeting my daughter's boyfriend, but I was very impressed with him and was glad that he was able to come along. Jessi totally made Mercedes day by telling her that next time we are up, Jessi will spend a day with Mercedes doing whatever she wants to do. You can only imagine the joy in my heart upon hearing this. I so enjoy seeing my 2 girls together and look forward to them spending more time together. Because we were so busy up there, I was a little stressed out and suffered severe withdrawal from my scrappin supplies! lol Next year I am definately taking a little scrappin survival kit up there! It just drove home the fact that I do use my creative time as a stress reliever and was very glad to get home and get back into the groove of daily creativity.

ScrapCental just finished having a week long crop with loads of challenges so I had lots of motivation to get scrappin! And I made my scrappin resolution for this year...I plan on scrappin all of Jessi & Nyal's baby pics so that I will have some full albums to give them next year at Christmas. And my general resolution is to try to live a healthier life this year.

Well, enough about me, let's get to the latest projects...

This first one is a 16x20" canvas that I made for my brother for Christmas. It is filled with pictures of our dad who passed away in 1986. The quote I used has become one of my favorites when using pictures of him, and I used colors that work well in my bro's house.

These are a couple layouts that I made as part of the Scrapcentral challenges

And all these cards were also made to fulfill challenges. I was glad to get back into cardmaking mood also, since I really depleted my supply at the Farmer's Market and then as Christmas gifts.





And that is what I accomplished in the last week. I am trying to keep a running total this year to see how much I get done so as of today at 2:30pm I have made 2 LO's and 12 cards so far. Hopefully I'll be back soon posting even more cards and LO's! :)