Sad times

in less than 3 days we lost two very important people from our family. Uncle Alvin, my dads brother, had a massive aneurysm in his brain which exploded on Wednesday causing a massive stroke and leaving him on life support until he passed away on Wednesday night. That was hard enough but then on Saturday Uncle George final succumbed to the cancer he has been fighting for the last 2 years, passing away in his sleep.

my two very favourite uncles, one for each side of the family, both gone in less than a week. Its almost to much to bear. I still cant get my mind around it. I didn’t got to Uncle Alvin’s tangi, thinking it would be to hard on Katie to travel up to Waikane so close to our trip to Australia. Dad, my sister and two of my brothers went up. But Uncle George’s funeral isn’t until Wednesday and we leave for Australia tomorrow. Aunty Shirl wouldn’t let us postpone our trip till after the funeral but we will be taking the funeral in our hearts.

I keep feeling tears well up whenever I take a moment to catch my breath. Mum and I have been keeping ourselves busy packing and cleaning the house and other senseless occupations so we wont have time to think. It will be a relief to get on the plane tomorrow and spend time with the family in Australia.

So this time tomorrow we will be on the plane on the way to Sydney! after 6 months of planning and organising passports and tickets, motels and rental cars, we are finally going…I just cant wait!

so in case I dont get a chance to blog again before Christmas, everyone have a wonderful and safe holiday!

hugz

V xxx

Been Lazy

I have been as a lazy blogger as I have been a scrapbooker lately. I have done very little of both. There just isn’t much to write about. I have been very quiet and not a 100% well, though I have been ignoring the fact for the last few weeks but today its sort of caught up on me so I am couched up feeling like throwing up or sleeping, or both! not a good day and Mum and Dad are due home tomorrow and I wanted to get organised today…not going to happen but my home help lady has just been so at least the house is tidy. And if I rest today I will feel better tomorrow right? well that’s the theory anyway.

I have done a couple of layouts for the SBO Christmas Challenge which has been great, I enjoyed going back in time for the first one though it was hard to find a photo. (yes that’s me, sitting on the ground, all of 15 years old!

I took these photos at the beginning of Spring, I just love taking photos of these two, they are both so cute! (don’t tell Steve I said that, its not cool to be cute at 17 lol)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

this weeks should be fun, making Christmas decorations! I love making Christmas decorations!!!

I have finished all the mini books for the neices and nephews and decided to do a clock for my brother and s.i.l which I ordered from trademe, it hasn’t arrived yet but I have a few ideas already.

but right now, I am going to have a rest and try and concentrate on getting better.

be good

hugz

V xx

Cosmo Cricket

I found this on the Cosmo Cricket blog, which has to be one of my all time favourite blogs. Lindsay took this while in Europe and I sooo want to go to this shop! its so very cool.

A Healing?

I had a rather strange appointment with my GP today. He is trained in trauma healing, teaching people how to deal when they have gone through a trauma in their lives like I have. After being so depressed for a while now I decided it was time to seek help so last week I went to see him and he made another appointment for me to see him today for some more in-depth help. it was all a bit bizarre in the fact we didn’t really talk about what happen and 5 minutes after walking into his office we both walked out and went down the road to grab a coffee!!! Never done that before. I suppose it was a way to make me relax and I suppose it worked. It wasn’t easy not so much reliving but reviewing my life before, during and after what happened (which I wont go into) but I think it has helped. Time will tell. But now I am exhausted!!!

I spent the better part of this afternoon playing with my silhouette, i just love it! I finished making the embellies for the Scrap the Girls fairytale swap and made a few bits a bobs for the fun of it. I have been making things for Katie’s room, her wardrobe door is now covered with birds and unicorns and allsorts lol

hope everyone has a good night, I am off to play farm town on facebook lol

night night all

hugz

V xx

It’s No Use Crying

No use crying over spilt glitter! Katie, my sweet, darling, daughter decided to start the day with a spot of scrapbooking. And because I am so very clever, I left my 3 favourite colours of Doddlebug sugar coating glitter on the table last night. I now have one new colour and 3 jars of it!

I didnt know whether to laugh or cry until Katie used the big eyes and the cute wee "I sowwie Mummy" then I just had to laugh, especial with her sweet wee face all covered with glitter shinning in the light. It will be weeks before I have got all the glitter off the floor, chair and table but it could have been worse, my laptop was sitting open right next to the glitter….just imagine what she could have done.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

on another note, you may have noticed my rather erratic posting of late. I have been rather erratic with everything of late. I went to the doctor for a routine check up yesterday and ended up in tears, seems I am more than a little depressed, hence the lack of motivation for anything. So he has given me something to help me sleep and next week he is going to help me with some coping mechanises. Hopefully that will help because I really don’t need any more drugs than I already have to take.

Anyway now I am off to wash the floor and try and get rid of more of this glitter. Hope its not raining where you are, it is here…again

take care

hugz

V xx