happy new year! my only resolution this year is to get back to me. my schedule. my clothes. my style. my size. my happy place. my routine. my blogging. somehow in the land of new babies, the ultimate sacrifices are made. one of the hardest for me is my shape. losing my size and shape means losing all my favorite clothes. you know the ones that you wear when all is crumbling around you. no comfort clothes. next, my sleep. my stroke left me with the stamina of a seventy year old. that's what they told me, i'm not trying to be dramatic. (though i am very good at that, too!!) so my sleep and rest is a non-negotiable for me. without it i am a mess. truly. and well, new babies just don't sleep alot in 8 hour increments. :o) so now i am misshapen and grumpy tired. so then everything else just overwhelms. everything else just adds in to make a big ticking bomb that so scarcely resembles my usually sunshine-y self that even i tend to avoid myself. eleven ear infections and one dental implant in eight weeks took me to a place that one should not go when misshapen and grumpy. so i went to bed. early. and woke up late. for days. and i have emerged a much nicer person. glimmers of me coming through. the implant also helped with a few pounds (hooray!) so i feel sunshine filtering in. it is coming, i know. the return of the happy me. what a relief. with that return comes my blogging return. you didn't miss much. i will catch you up on the pages, the rest you are happy to have missed! really!
so with that we will begin anew. i saw an amazing page in the studio gallery by melanie louette. i loved the overlapping flourishes. i am digitally challenged so i tried to mimic the effect with rubons from heidi grace. felt so frivolous to use so many on one page!! teehee. such fun. i'm not sure about the final outcome, but it was fun to try, and really, that's what we are here for, right? to play and preserve.
thanks for stopping by! (oh, just as an fyi, the grey border is not on the layout itself. i just added it so the white wouldn't get lost together!toodloo!)
