Sorry I've been MIA!

Hello, my creative blogger friends!!
I've missed you!!  I've just returned from a trip to Utah and Wyoming with my dear husband to visit family and friends.  We've had an extremely emotional upheaval in our family and we are all still trying to come to terms with it, so I appreciate your patience while we all rally round and help each other through this.  There will be a huge give-away coming as soon as things calm down around here.  I love you all and look forward to returning to more creative pursuits soon!

Sorry about venting yesterday!! New focus!

Hello, everyone!
First I would like to apologize for yesterday's post.  I was upset and let my emotions take control.  Please forgive me.  My focus, today, is totally different!  The first thing I did today was say a prayer for the person who saw fit to destroy my fairy house.  What a miserable person that must be, to think it would be fun to destroy it.  I have compassion and sympathy for whomever it was.  Isn't God great?!  That he can, in the blink of an eye, totally change our perspective back to what's REALLY important!!  Thank you to all of you who posted comments of support!  You gals ROCK!!!  OK, now on to better and more productive things!!!

Blessings and hugs to you all!

I'm SOOOO bummed and angry!!!

Ok, maybe this isn't a big deal, however, I made so many wonderful memories with my great-grandson and the fairy house I built, so I brought it home and set it up under my coastal redwood tree in the front yard.  Branches come down really low and I thought it would be perfectly safe under there.  WRONG!!!  I took my dad back for his post-surgery follow-up today and came home to bits and pieces of it all over the street where it had been getting run over all day.  Apparently, some punk kid on his way to school just couldn't resist smashing it to bits in the street.  Had no monetary value, but it was sure precious to my sweet Chase and I!

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My take on Laura Denison's "Life's A Picnic" mini album

Hi, everyone!
This project is an original Laura Denison design.  I love this project.  It was so much fun!  The most interesting thing about this is that it is actually a mini album!!  The lid of the picnic basket forms a portion of the mini album cover.  Laura used gingham fabric for her cover and trim but since I live in the "sticks" and don't have access to fabric, I used bandanas instead.  I called my mini "A Taste of Summer" and did my inside pages differently.  Laura created a barbecue grill with hotdogs and other picnic-type pages.  I did my inside pages in a summer theme so that it could be used for all those summer funtime pictures.  The pattern for this project, if you would like to make one of your own, is available at:  http://www.etsy.com/shop/followthepapertrail   To see more of Laura's designs, check out: http://www.followingthepapertrail.blogspot.com/.  Hope you like it!!  I love comments!!!

EDITED TO ADD:  I've had some questions about the picnic basket itself.  It is part of the project and is made of chipboard and woven kraft cardstock, inked with distress inks.

Hugs!
Linda

So sorry!!!

I'm so sorry, everyone, that I haven't been able to post my next BIG giveaway!!  I'm still waiting for items to arrive!!! I promise it will be worth the wait, though!!!  So, please keep checking back.  I will post the give-away as soon as everything comes in!!

WINNER!! WINNER!!! #10- AMY!

AMY, post #10, you are the winner as chosen by random.org!!

Please send me your mailing info so I can get your prize on its way to you!!!  I need to hear from you within 2 weeks!!

Congratulations, Amy, and thanks to everyone who entered!!!  I have another BIG giveaway in the works, so check back often!!  As soon as all the items I plan to give away arrive, I will post the next giveaway!!

Hugs!! And thanks, again, everyone!!!