~Some kind of crazy!~: The latest....

I'll be honest. Things are hard right now. Things are STINKIN hard. I'm not even remotely keeping up with my (3!!) blogs, heck, i'm not even remotely keeping up with housework, or personal hygiene... Someday i'll look back and this, and wish my twinnies were 3 and a half again, so i'm trying to stay in the moment as much as possible, but with Asher, (my twinnie with autism) being so incredibly demanding, i have to admit, its HARD. He requires 24x7 care pretty much one on one, except at school, where they really have a good setup for him, he doesn't break stuff there. Anyway, on top of that, its been one crisis after another at home, the latest- my hard drive died :( Since my computer was only 10 months old, Hp replaced it, (OVERNIGHT! awesome service, HP!) but i lost everything on my computer... the last year's worth of homeschool materials i've bought are gone, most are redownloadable, but that will take a ton of time, and a good chunk are not. I'm going to be doing some emailing, begging, pleading... plus i lost all of the last 10 month's pictures. Now, not entirely lost, as i'm pretty compulsive about uploading pics to walgreens, so i can get them burned to CD and back in my stash, at least most of them. but still, it was a hit. So i missed deadlines for most of the challenges i participated in and don't even remember where some of them were for, but here's what i've been working on!

My sweet turkey and i sent the rest of the fam off to the YMCA, and we stayed home to SCRAP!! She took the bed, i took my desk. Super fun, we'll have to do that more often. Today, despite having a lot to catch up on, i really was feeling artsy and detail oriented.

This was from my Citrus Twist December kit. and the sketch from http://letscapturethesesketches.blogspot.com/ The brown strip of cardstock was a scrap, it had a bracket cut out of it in a strategic place, so i used it as a design element, i pasted some extra cardstock on the back of the bracket shape, and doodled to enhance the bracket, i like how it turned out! Also i doodled white on the wood veneer letters. I am pleased with the embellishment clusters on this one. i normally have a very hard time making them look good...

This one was also made with the Citrus twist December kit, and the sunday sketch, and while i love the kit, i love the sketch, i love my twist to the sketch, i do NOT like the embellishments. I"m not good at embellishments! WHY is that so hard!?