Well here i am back before the end of the month, im doing well!!

Now as I wrote in my last blog... May came and brought with it a new horror.

I had always had psoriasis, but only in small doses, small scaly spots here and there, treatable with lotions. Usually during a stressful time they would appear in greater numbers but nothing too bad i couldnt deal with.. But in May my whole body broke out in a classic psoriasis condition. My legs, my back, and my arms were covered in what could be called chicken pox looking blisters, that turned scaly and hung around, becoming itchy and red.. I would look in the mirror and cry, as nothing seemed to get rid of them and the more i read about it the more depressed i became. I didnt go out , lucky it was winter as i could cover myself, and no one knew how debilitationg it was. I dreaded summer, and thought i would never meet any one who wouldnt be revolted by my body...Also no more tattooos as i wouldnt be able to have them done, or show them as i didnt want anyone to see these horrible sores that covered my body.. I remember laughing when my doctor asked if id had a lot of stress lately...hahahahaha..im not one to cry, or scream or lash out , i take everything in my stride and move on, but my body rebels and when the stress got way to much my psoriasis got way out of hand.

So May turned into June, into July, August then bang!!!!!!! Another road block and i was still dealing with other issues, my life wasnt looking so great.

More on the next major blow next time...

But on a lighter note, i found this fabulous web site...The colour room..its fantastic for a challenge...take a look...

http://thecolorroom.ning.com/

And some more scrapping ive been up too...Some are oldies and some new for some latest comps...

Ok so im to check out some blogs..catch you all later!

Well i thought perhaps it was about time i talked about my disasterous year that was 2009.. Many people have asked what happened, why havnt i scrapped, where have i been...soooo.lets start at the begining shall we..


The year started out fine, January rolled into February and everything seemed great. I had been given the chance to work permanently in the country and we were looking at moving house. Jack was seeing a speech therapist and was due to go on for more surgery, but everything else seemed ok to me..


Funny how what you think is happening in your life and the reality dont always have the same path..

March came and at the end went, but not first without taking a large part of my life and my security. Seems the man i thought was going to be there for life had stolen more than just money and goods from myself, his son and extended family he also stole my belief in men, and people in general. He left me with an eviction notice hanging over my head, no money in any accounts, debt on my credit card, and my sons life in tatters. He was a gambler and i didnt realise how big till he lost everything we had then walked out on us...i felt used..and abused, and that i couldnt trust anyone..

But i under estimated the fantastic community which i was about to move into .I turned my back on this man who said he loved me, but showed me nothing but pain.....and struck on my own with my two younger sons in tow...the older ones also left home to start their own lives closer to the city...


..A small town has soo much to offer, the people are real, their friendships true and their generosity amazing...My family and new collegues helped me through dark times and into what i thought was a brighter year..

Ooops like i said, funny how life does not always give you what you ask for or what you even think you have ..i thought that May and june would see me getting out of this rut and getting my life back on course but i was wrong....May brought with it a new problem to complicate my already complicated start to the year.....




Well thats enough for one night....

Now for something more pleasant some layouts ive been doing....

Wow its been so long, i must be the worse blogger in cyber land..

But my life has been so hectic, but now is starting to settle back down, just in time for xmas!!!

Well its hectic beause my kids all left home late last year, was only Jack and myself. Then at christmas nik came home, only for xmas he says...and he is still here 7 months later. Mike comes home for new yaers with his girlfriend and asks if he can stay, i say sure, he says forever?...lol..sure i say.....what else can i say? So with three teenagers back in the house, its just not big enough!!!!!

So my scrapping room was delegated to the garage, hot in summer and freezing right now, so im typing fast!!!!

Ive begun to do a little more scrapping, perhaps its the cold, scrapping fast keeps me warm!!

So ill share some recent layouts...

Ok promising to be a better blogger!!!!

Well here we are another month gone by...but at last im scrapping!!!!! yay!!!
so i have some to share this month...





so till next month enjoy!!!

My goodness its been so long.......but here i am back again....

Now i havnt got much to show in theway of scrapping but i have some photos to share..Jack started prep today so very exciting!!!

I hope to be back with some scrapping soon!!

Gee doesnt time fly!!!!
im back at work, another term, one week down nine to go..hey but whose counting right?

Well i havnt scrapped much so ill just throw up some ones i did a while back but havnt shown...this is just a quickie post as im now addicted to FACE BOOK!!!!! New i shouldnt have joined up..lol...

ok so just a quick share...

So ill pop back in tommorrow and have a little more time...

Well i know its been quite some time, and i didnt die or fall off the earth, but i have had a lot of changes in my life...

But apart from the many changes ive scrapped a wee bit...not much but i thought id start with a share and ill tell my story later.....

Well thats all for now, till i get back in the swing of things...cheers scrapcat!!!

Wow here we are the end of the month already!!!

Well ive had a couple of hectic days...

its taken me a day to get over..lol Yester day jack had two appointments at the mater childrens hospital, one for hearing and one for speech. Last week we had our first speech appoinment after a year of waiting and me telling everyone he had a problem and everyone saying, no he doesnt.. but guess what..he does have a problem quite a big one or two... so before they could do a formal speech assessment he needed his hearing checked as Alex had grommets at his age and his speech could be related to hearing loss. So i left at 8am just me and jack (as craig started new job yesterday.)left early so could get carpark, food for jack and find exactly where to go with time to spare..or so i thought.....what should have been a 40 minute drive turned into two hours due to a break down on the M1 in peak hour....grrrr, i get to the hospital 10 minutes late by now to find the car parks fulll...what the !!!!! had yto park at the mater private parking..just got in before they closed that...turned up late, hot and sweaty for running around looking and jack starving.... go in for check look in ears, only to hear the doctor say..he has something wedged in his ear, blocking it.... great..just great i murmer. after two other doctors look at it they inform me its not wax but a foreign body.(yes there was probably an opening for a joke there but i wasnt in the mood, still angry over the car parks full, how you supposed to get to appoinments....) any how i digress,,,the doctor informs me....needs to be removed...but we will givve him the hearing test and see what happens..well left ear is pefect right ear, where foreign body is holidaying we cant give a positive reading as he isnt responding to testing in this ear which could be because of the blockage pr perhaps somthing else...so they ring ENT could they look at it...no we need a refferal from a GP..what!!!! im at the hospital surely they can reffer me?..oh no..i can go to emergency and wait to get looked at but they seem to think its going to need surgical removal due to where it is and jacks age (not good for keeping still) ok so then we go off to our speech appoinmetn only to be told we cant do formal assessment until hearing test is done... what the!!!!! yes by this time its 1pm and i am going home..what a waste... but on the other hand i went to day care and got jack in ..so today he had his first day at day care and he loved it...yay!!!!!! couple of photos to share...

Now here is a link to a blog that has some interesting stuff on it!!!
HOUSE OF 3

Now for an end of month share...

And here is an advertisement for our Cyber crop over at scrapping4less: ill be hosting it next month (March)hope you can pop by...

Well thats all for now..cheers Fran

Hi all...

Gee the weeks are flying..3 weeks of school already over...The kids have settled in to thier new home wonderfully and we are looking at moving next month...

Over at Scrapbooking for less ill be hosting The March CC so i hope you will join us, there is a link on the side bar and ill put more information closer to the day..

At Scraplounge they have put up the new blog, great reading go take a looksie..

scraplounge blog

Also our CC is on this weekend of 20th, 21st and 22nd so come and join us for some scrapping time...will have some hints soon..

Well this time around id like you to take a look at this blog....S4L`s pink with 1

Its a challenge blog for scrapbooking 4 less, a girly one but all the gilrs can do this one..

Now for some shares

Over at scraplounge i whipped up this sketch for this month..

Why dont you whip up a layout and enter it into the monthly sketch comp..

And this is my take on the sketch using Jacks world papers from "3 angels scrapping."..who are this months sponsors at scraplounge...

And from our sponsors more gorgeous papers and a couple of layouts...

And from over at Scrapbooking for less this month DT pack. They have a competition for monthly packs so go and grab one and join the fun!

And some just for fun......

Well hope you had a wonderful valentines day...catch you later on...

cheers

Happy Australia day aussies!!!!!

And happy birthday to my man..he is the big 40 today...wooohoo baby!!!

Well ive been back to work and this week the kids are back to school, so no more holidays for ten weeks. So perhaps not as much scrapping getting done..

But i have done my DT work and done some competition scrapping as well.

But before i have a share of what ive been scrapping here is a site to go and check out.. Its a paper peircing site that has lots of cute stuff for cards and layouts..go check it out.

Precious piercings by Lisa.

Now a few layouts to share.....

This was for white with one:

This was for the sketch challenge at scrap n art.

And this was for sketch challenge at Mystical.

Cheers and have a great day..and if the weather is better than ours an aussie BBQ!!!