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High/Low + Freebie Friday | Mulan

My LOW this Week is that I am very impatient with my financial situation. I have been taking a personal finance class and I am making progress in my communication about money with my husband and we have been working hard to get back on track with savings and living within our means. But, I have made so many mistakes, that it has been a struggle to get to where we want to be, and I am a bit frustrated with it this week!

My HIGH for this Week is that it’s Game Night tonight with some friends. I am in desperate need of a night of laughter and fun and its going to be great!

I do have a freebie for you today!
The next in line of my COLOR SKETCH SILHOUETTEZ!
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Have a great weekend!

I get a little personal and share my high and low points of the week
and then offer a digital scrapbook freebie for everyone to download for FREE!!

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Product ReleaseZ | Store Upgrade

I have been very busy lately with the blog and creating! Its been amazing to be back blogging and designing and figuring out where I want my business to go and grow. So I am in the process of re-organizing and adding to MY STORE, but I wanted to inform you of what products are going to be available. Some might be available now, but I’m still working on getting stuff set-up, so thanks for your patience! Please check it out and keep coming back for more! 🙂

So when you go to MY STORE you will see the following categories (there are sub-categories as well):

- Art | Here you will find downloadable printablez and professionally-printed items of my designs, like art prints, mugs, shirts, etc. that are shipped and printed from Printly.com and/or PrintAura.com.

- CuttableZ | I am excited to be now offering SVG cuttable files to download and cut using software and your favorite cutting machine! PNGs of the design will also be included with the SVG file.

- Digital Scrapbook Products | This is where you will find all the old and new products that I create for Digital Scrapbooking. There are lots of categories and collections to look at.

- Digital ImprintZ | I’m excited to be starting a shirt (and other wears) shop with my designs. These will be professionally-printed by PrintAura.com and will include my Mouse WearZ (Disney-inspired)!

- Graphic Design | If you have need of some custom graphic design, like logos, branding, flyers, invitations, posters, brochures, ebooks, etc. You will now be able to purchase my graphic design services from my store.

- Illustration | Here you will find wonderful illustration products from typography to character illustrations.

- Podcast TherapyZ | Hopefully you saw my new blog series. I am so excited about it! Here you will find the products that I create to help us understand, remember, and HEAL!

So what do you think?
What other kinds of products would you love to see?

Sharing my recent product releases, so that you are in the know!

Mondays

Jolly Holiday Surprise Adventure | Planning

I’m so excited to finally be scrapbooking my family’s Disneyland 2014 trip. It is so fun re-living these moments! Today, I scrapbooked a spread about the planning of our trip and I loved how it turned out! I also love the Project Mouse Collection that Britt-ish Designs & Sahlin Studio are doing. They are amazing and I plan on using them a lot for this album!

I used the Project Mouse Collection by Britt-ish Designs & Sahlin Studio

jollyholidayheader I’m so excited to share my family’s magical Christmas adventure of 2014 with you!
To see all the postings in this series go HERE.

Jolly Holiday Surprise Adventure | Cover

For the last month or so, I have been on an interesting journey of discovery about myself. I’ve been struggling with depression and anxiety for several years and it has zapped all the creativity out of me. But I have found myself wanting to dig myself out of this hole that I have been in and I have been actually having fun creatively again and that is an amazing breakthrough. I have discovered that I get burned out when I try to do just one kind of creative thing. But if I do a little of blogging, a little scrapbook designing, a little crocheting, a little bit of wood crafts, and a little of graphic design, etc, I find myself being exhilarated by the things that I am creating and it makes all of my other creative projects better. I have been dabbing it a lot of different things lately and I am finding success and JOY again and it is making my life so much happier. I’m so excited about transferring my blog over to WordPress and I’m excited about reformatting my posts and making everything so much more organized and better. I’m excited to blog again. I’m excited to design again. And I’m excited to SCRAPBOOK AGAIN! I have been making plans and getting organized and I have a lot to do and a long ways to go on my blog redesign, but I’m working on it and I’m excited about how its going.

One of the plans, is that Thursdays are my actual day to scrapbook pages. I’m so excited to finally be scrapbooking my family’s Disneyland 2014 trip. I haven’t actually scrapbooked in a long time and it feels really good. This trip was truly amazing and the highlight of our family adventures. So today, I only scrapbooked the cover of this album, but I love it already. It’s so good to re-live this great moment in my family and to HAVE FUN creatively again!

I used my Happily Ever AfterZ: True LoveZ Kiss and the Project Mouse Kits by Britt-ish Designs & Sahlin Studio

jollyholidayheader I’m so excited to share my family’s magical Christmas adventure of 2014 with you!
To see all the postings in this series go HERE.

Project 365 | Week 50

Monday, December 7, 2009

I bought a Gingerbread House Kit and tonight for our Family Home Evening activity we put it together. Even with the kit – it was a bit hard to do. The Frosting just wasn’t quite the right consistency or something and it didn’t want to stick very well. So we didn’t try to do anything very fancy – but we still had a good time. Actually the drippy frosting turned out to be pretty good icicles when it finally hardened!

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Lots of snow this week. Other than the fact that I have to occasionally drive in it – it has been really fun to have. I love the peaceful feeling of snow. Orderville got like 19 inches of snow in a day and so I know my parents are so grateful. They really needed the moisture!

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Last night was a difficult one. JJ had a hard time sleeping since his cough was so terrible and he had a fever which made us all worried that a seizure might happen. So JJ stayed home from school today and mostly just rested. The fever finally went away and it was definitely a relief. Beth had a bit of a cold too so she skipped school too and we just had a day of Christmas movies and resting.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Although JJ felt lots better than yesterday – he still has a pretty bad cough so we decided to keep him home one more day. Today I was reminded how important it is to scrapbook. I have been so into the design part that I have not put actual scrapbooking as a priority. I have all the photos and thanks to this Project 365 project I have a lot of journaling – but I have slacked off on the actual layouts. My kids got out the very few albums that I have today and just was so excited to see the pictures. My poor Bethie complained about how few photos she actually had of her in books. I really need to remedy this. This year my goal was to find balance in my life – between designing, scrapping, family time, etc. and I just didn’t accomplish it. I think I’m just going to have to try again next year.

Friday, December 11, 2009

JJ & Beth were so excited today because they each got to have PAJAMA PARTY at school! They got to wear their cute pjs, eat snacks and watch movies in their classes. JJ was so excited to be able to have hot chocolate and watch the Polar Express!

Saturday, December 12, 2009

We woke up today to find a nice big leak in the roof of our bathroom with water everywhere. Not a great thing to start the day with. It was warmer weather and the snow started to melt, plus it rained a lot today and just made things worse. It seems as if our trailer is falling apart and it is not good news. So today we just hung out at home. Bethie drew a picture of me with the Magna Doodle. Apparently I’m a fairy because I have wings and a magic wand 🙂 It was actually one of Beth’s best pictures so far!

Sunday, December 13, 2009

I had the opportunity to participate with my Church ward in our Stake’s Annual Christmas Fireside. This is the 3rd year I have participated and it has been a wonderful tradition. We were told tonight that this stake has put this on every year since 1978. Each Ward choir prepares a song to sing and with 11 wards in our stake – that’s a lot of great Christmas music! So each ward sings their song and then after everyone is through, the whole congregation joins in singing a couple of pieces from Handel’s Messiah. They have a small orchestra and some soloists that come and help with that part of the program as well. Very fun times!

I have really struggled the past couple of months with many things, especially through our financial hardships. It’s been really hard to hang on and have faith and trust Heavenly Father that we’ll make it through. It has just been taking its toll on me and this week it hit extra hard. I have been really wanting to move and get out of the trailer before anymore problems come up. I’ve been wanting SO MUCH to just leave and start over. I have been praying for an answer and just not feeling like I was getting one. I’ve cried, I’ve yelled, I’ve worried, I’ve stressed. I’ve talked things out so much with Joey and I just wanted to get out of where I am right now. I’ve been on a constant search of a new home. Well tonight everything came out. I cried and worried and talked everything through with Joey again and suddenly the answer the came. Heavenly Father finally was able to get through to me and I realized that all the stress/confusion that I have been feeling WAS my answer. In the scriptures it says that when you are seeking an answer to prayer – if what you are praying for is not right then you will feel “a stupor of thought.” I guess I always thought of that as maybe feeling nothing. But I now know that it can also be confusion and not being able to focus on things. When the spirit finally got through to me tonight – and I realized that the answer was to WAIT – not move yet – everything immediately got better. We are not in the current financial situation to try and move with deposits/rent money and moving costs and all that. But its going to be okay. I’m finally finding peace and it really really really feels good. Sure, I still want to move and get out of here – but its not right yet and I know that we will know when the time is right. I know that Heavenly Father is there and that he hears me and he loves me, even when it takes me a long time to actually hear him.