Big Sister Time

I'm off to my little sister's for a few days. She's just had surgery on her knee and needs help to look after her girls until she's on her feet a bit more. I'll be taking my laptop but just not sure how much online time I'm going to get looking after an 18month old and a 9 yr old! :)

Blended Photo Art Backgrounds

Something new I'm working on - blended photo art backgrounds. I'll be selling these from my art website in the next month or so. Packs of 6 - each one is unique and in 2 different versions - a semi-transparent one - just drag and drop your photo - plus a flattened jpg one. I'm also doing a detailed tutorial for adding more than one photo and how to do a nice faded collage look using the backgrounds.

Thursday Thoughts

Nearly Friday. Another week has flown by. I've not been too well the past couple of days. Just monthly stuff. In a lot of pain. Much better today though. And I've managed to work through it with the help of some super duper pain killers. But I did sleep just over 2 hours yesterday afternoon.

So yeah. Friday tomorrow. I'm going to my son's to babysit my gorgeous little Jorja. She's a doll. And I can't wait to see her. Here's a photo art piece of me and her that my hubby just did. He's been messing around in Photoshop trying to achieve pointillsm effects on photos. I love it!

Thoughts for the Day

• another week's gone by
• rain
• in pain again
• planning stages for a book
• digital crafting
• submissions
• blessed beyond
• loving
• missing my daughter
• Christmas
• more rain
• Christmas cookies
• thinking of how I can help a friend in so much turmoil and emotional pain
• desk needs tidying
• more pain

All Change

I've decided to leave Scrap Girls. With one thing and another I had to accept that it just wasn't good value for my time any more. And at the end of the day, I needed to be able to move on. I'd been thinking about it for a long time but was worried about losing the income albeit not a huge amount, it was paying the bills.

And then something happened and I realised it was the Lord giving me a shove in the right direction. I talked to my hubby about it and he's been wanting me to work with him for a long time now but I haven't been able to fully commit to that due to my obligations at Scrap Girls. He's never been truly happy with the time I spend working on Scrap Girls products/requirements versus money at the end of the month. After a long chat and some tears this morning, I took the plunge and resigned.

It's such a huge weight off of me. I was amazed at how free I suddenly felt. Even though I was worried about losing the income, I needed to find enough faith to believe that God would open another door for me. I really believe that. It's important to sometimes take a leap of faith even when it seems like a silly thing to do. I realise now that I lacked that faith when I left last time and ended up going back thinking I needed the money more.

It will also give me much more time to work on my own store that I launched back in September. I'll be able to add all my SG products to the store now. Exciting times.

So yeah. All change.

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