Sweet Memories

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Well I am in my new home since June of 2012….having my freedom is a wonderful thing, and being out of that marriage is the best thing that ever happened !!! here are some pictures of my scrapping space!!!

Monday, February 13, 2012

Well my dear bloggers and readers alike...since November 1,2011; I have been separated from my Husband of 18 years..it wasn't a good marriage alot of yelling and a little physical abuse... a few weeks ago he said he doesn't love me anymore and their is no hope for our marriage....how could this happen? this horrible thing...the vow to Love and Cherish one another in sickness and health that we made before God and 400 people....I was raised in a Christian home...these broken vows are really messing with my head, heart and soul... my children decided to stay with me and visit their Dad....Josh is 16 and Ashley if 14 so the law says they can decide....In two months we'll be moving to Native Housing, which is awesome because they are newer and have a complete basement...and that's perfect because my son can have his buddies over and they can bring their guitars and what not and play till their hearts content....It' s great for sleepovers....and best of all I'll take a corner...well half of the basement LOL, and set up my scrapbooking... I'll have a table set up so if any of my friends want to come and scrap'n crop their welcome anytime and their's always room to bring a friend!

It's weird though, even with the abuse...I still want the marriage...I want him to love me....I think I'm a little screwed up...oh well I'm on my was to see my counselor at Victims services...

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Haven't been here for a while...my little family has been going through some serious life changes....since November my husband left me...trying to get through Christmas with my kids...Ashley 14 and Josh 16...I sure you can imagine. December 27 I had a stress induced heart attack and spent 8 days in the hospital, during which I had had an angiogram. Thank God there was no damage to my heart. other than the heart attack, every day my health has been improving. My Family Dr. was so happy that Jeff and I have separated, he said he thought he might loose me if I had stayed with him any longer...my body was breaking down from the stress I had been living in.

Anyways live is better even though the children and I have been grieving....signed up with Native Housing and I was bumped up too the top of the list for a 3 bedroom with finished walk out basement...hoping to start moving in Feb 24...

Love from one Blogger to the other <3

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Well summer holidays are over and it’s time for the kids to go back to school and for me to get back into routine. One thing that’s at the top of my list is to be sure to help all my scrapbook friends to learn basic scrapbook terms. So weather you’ve been scrapbooking for years or you are just starting out I hope to enrich your life with the scrapbookers lingo!

I love everything crafty! Ever since I was a child I loved working with crayons (doesn’t everyone), clay, painting, photography, sewing, pencils, metal, and I tried my hand at many more art and crafts. But I have to say, photography was my favorite! My Mom and Dad cave me my first camera when I was eight, and I became a shutterbug!

The first time I tried Scrapbooking was around fifteen years ago, after my too wonderful kids born. Joshua (1995), and Ashley (1997).

Being a stay at home mom made money tight…not a lot for my many crafts. But one day My Auntie Brenda sent one of her many parcels. As per ritual I packed up my babies and went to the Greyhound to pick up the parcel. The parcel went between Joshy and Ashley’s car seats, both their chubby little hands on it for the whole drive home. When finally in the middle of the living room, I let them go at it, tearing the tape of the parcel, and loving every minute of it!

Toys for Josh, toys for Ashley, many times “cash” in cards for the kids, and always something for me. This time I pulled out a blue 12 by 12 inch album. Then came papers, scissors, punches, pens and stickers (did I mention I was a sticker freak when I was little?).

Since then, every parcel that came had scrapbooking supplies. As the scrapbook industry grew my parcels changed as well…stamps, glitter, pop dots, flock, embossing powder, magazines!

Six years ago, I had started working outside of my home for the first time. I was an Administrative Secretary and I loved it! I had been working for 2 months then everything came to a halt. I had a stroke. It was in the left side of my brain. I had every test in the book. From spinal taps to MRI’s…the stroke came from a 2cm hole in my heart. None of my Dr’s through the years ever heard it; it was too big to hear. I was told that it was a one in a million chance that a clot would go through. The Dr’s in Vancouver said I shouldn’t have lived past 10 years old. I defiantly shouldn’t have lived giving birth to one baby let alone two. My cardiologist said I am a walking miracle. A year after the stroke I had heart surgery, to fix the hole in my heart. I was given a 50/50 chance of living. . But by the grace of God…here I am.

I think the worst part of having a stroke, I lost my creativity…I know this may drive some of you up the wall...I had to use a pattern to make my daughters costume for a play, for the first time! My mom had no pity for me at all “welcome to the real world “Teller”! Thankfully she taught me how to read a pattern! LOL All kidding aside, the hardest part was I felt I had lost a part of me, I wasn’t complete. If I were to describe my self the first word that I would come to mind is that I’m creative. I had ‘word aphasia” which basically means I couldn’t talk for a few months after the stroke (very frustrating). The right side of my body is weak (I still shuffle). I couldn’t scrapbook, I would sit at my desk and wouldn’t be able to do anything…and I became depressed, I would try and have devotions and the “words wouldn’t speak”. I would try and read a book, I’d set it down, pick it up again and I couldn’t remember what I had read and have to start all over again.

It took almost a whole year before I regained my creative spark again. One month before the heart surgery. I was in the hospital, asked my husband, Jeff, to bring all my scrapbooking supplies to the hospital. I’m not sure why I got my creative spark back, maybe it was because the thought of dying and not leaving my kids with the memories a scrapbook can bring.

Know I want to share scrapbooking with the world! The techniques I’ve learned, and share all the little things about Scrappin’ that bring me joy.

I invite you to tell me your story if you like, and share those same little things that make you scrapbook page come alive with me!

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