We were busy today....

and the day's not over yet! Mercedes and I were both up early today even though it is Saturday and I was planning to sleep in, it didn't end up happening that way, so we got busy and made a bunch of cards to use as valentines for Mercedes to give to her Aunt & Uncle and all their kids. And Mercedes had fun showing off all the cards while I took pictures.

I also have some pictures of Mercedes modeling her flower girl dress that she will be wearing this summer for her Auntie Jackie's wedding. She is very excited and we are just hoping that the dress will still fit her by then!

So here's a few pics of what we did today...

Here's the whole bunch of them...we did 7 cards and envelopes before noon! (Anyone that knows me, knows that's amazing! lol)

My little flower girl/future model...don't ya just love the poses! lol

Normal is good...

Well, I know it's been a few days since my last post, but all is well. I'm actually feeling normal...not manic, not depressed, just normal...and I must say that normal is good. In fact, I've learned to love normal! The only reason I haven't posted for a few days is because I've just been busy with day-to-day life, and I've been trying to catch up on the stuff that fell behind during the time that I wasn't doing well.

It has been about a week now that I have been feeling "normal" and it has been so nice. It is great to just feel content and dare I say happy! I've been trying to find a routine/schedule that works for us and so far the one that seems to work the best is for me to do most of my housework from 6pm-midnight so it seems that I'm not getting to bed before 1am and then I get up at 7am and get Mercedes off to school. I usually do some things in the morning for a few hours and then I try to get a nap sometime during the day while she is at school, and if I have any errands that need to be done I do those in the late afternoon. So far that seems to be working, but I'm still glad that she has the next week off of school so I get to sleep in for the next 9 days! Woohoo!! I am just such a night owl that I can't fight that, so I decided to find a way to make that work for me.

I haven't managed to do any scrappin this week though, but I am hoping to do some this weekend and next week for sure. I will at least be making Mercedes a special Valentine's card tonight or tomorrow.

The other thing I've been working on this last week is setting some boundaries for Mercedes. Since she had spent most of the week before over at my sister's she was really testing her limits a few times this week, so I was really working on being consistent and following through. It does seem to be working and hopefully it will get easier as I go along. It's not easy being a single mom, but it's still better than being in an unhappy marriage and living in an unhappy home.

I am actually enjoying being single really. I sometimes miss having someone to talk too, but that's what telephones & friends are for...right? I mean really, if that's all I miss...well I already knew I made the right decision. Anyhoo, this has turned into a long post, so I'll finish now, and hopefully have some new cards or projects to post next time. :)

Productive weekend...

Starting on about Friday I really started to feel alot better, so I actually got quite a bit done this weekend. One thing I didn't get alot of though is sleep. Insomnia is one thing that I struggle with alot whether I'm feeling good or bad and I really have to watch it cause if I'm feeling good and I don't get enough sleep it can lead to me feeling bad and if I'm feeling bad it can lead to me feeling worse, but if I can find that fine line of in between I can be very productive and that's what this weekend was for me.

Mercedes came home on Friday for a few hours and we had lots of cuddles and watched some movies and then she came home for good yesterday morning and we spent the day yesterday just hanging out together playing games, watching movies and just enjoying being together. When I wasn't busy with her this weekend I managed to get groceries, do a little cleaning and organizing, make the address labels for my girlfriends wedding invitations and make bunch of cards. In fact I actually sold 5 cards before I even took pictures of them! I did crank the cards out quite quickly since they are all quite similar, but I was still happy that I got as many made as I did.

Here are some pics of the ones I made yesterday...

These ones are all basically the same using my scor-pal for the grid background and then using embossed and glittered stickers for the main images, borders and photo corners.

These are gift tags that I either made a grid background or did an embossed background with the cuttlebug, then cut ovals or circles with nestibilities with stickers that match the above cards.

These cards are 4 1/4" x 4 1/4" gate fold. I also made the matching envelopes with the scor-pal.

This is the above card opened up.

Another gate fold card.