one foot in front of the other

The only way out is to just walk forward, one step after the other, right?

Today the sun shone, and I spent the day with my sister, and I did some things right, and messed up on others. And I'm keeping on putting one foot in front of the other, and one day I will make it out.

I will.

bleh

I feel like I might be coming out of the fog now... maybe. This time of year is hard. There's not much I really like about it, and there are too many bad memories associated with it. Spring can't come soon enough.

Give-aways

There's a really cool give-away at Crafty Crow this week. If blogging it wasn't a pre-requisite to entering, I so wouldn't be doing this, cause I really really want it for myself.

I spent too much time today following links at Sew Mama Sew's big huge give-away day. I'm pretty sure there's over 200 links to people giving stuff away, and many of them will be open for a few days yet, if you missed it. One of them is absolutely amazingly huge... it's at Confessions of a Craft Addict. She's been accumulating crafty stuff all year, just for this giveaway!!! WOW!

I didn't get on the ball soon enough to take part in that large event, but in honor of the day (and because I feel a smidge guilty for putting my name in for so much cool stuff), I'm going to do my own little give-away just for fun.This is a wee wristie (actually it's fairly big for a wristie, standing 6" tall and 7" wide) with one internal pocket. It's made of linen, lined in cotton. I'll collect names til Sunday the 7th, and then pull one from a hat. If you link to this on your own blog, I'll put your name in twice. And to spice it up a bit, please also tell me something interesting or funny that happened to you today. Merry Christmas :)

view from my window

These were taken on the drive to and from church this morning.

I've been busy

These are my first inchies ever, done for a swap with the Christian Paper Artists yahoo group. I must say, they truly are addictive. I've managed to stay away from them for this long, but I think the avoidance is over now. Must. make. more. inchies!

The blue ones are done with my favourite gesso/newsprint background technique. The snowflakes are embossed. The holly leaves are drawn with my new (very cool) watercolour ink pencils and crusted with diamond dust. That stuff is cool too - so sparkly!


And here is one of 6 (so far) altoid tins I'm working on. I bought a kit from Ten Two Studios... Lisa has some lovely images for sale! (no affiliation, yadda yadda...) I just need to find somewhere to get more tins, preferably in Canada. Any suggestions?

Christmas

Christmas ornaments for a swap...
marbles for presents...
I love playing with paper!

typical, hey?

You pat yourself on the back because you've just done something you feel pretty good about, and BAM!, the universe sits up and takes notice and says "Hey, that one needs to be slapped down a bit!"

So yeah. I'm all "Woohoo, six months of blogging!" and then my life takes a small detour down a big hole. Nothing serious, just a small crisis of identity that left me questioning everything. And being who I am, I needed to retreat in order to figure it out. I don't know how to do my questioning in public. Some do. I actually really enjoy watching the process unfold in other people, and I really appreciate the vulnerability that they offer. I just can't do it myself.

But I'm back. Mostly. I still haven't figured it all out. And yeah, I know I never will. But I can hope, can't I?