It's Leslie's day - January 28

Two years later how can I still not be used to her being gone, how can I still wait for the phone to ring and hope that it is her on the other line, how can I still be scared every time the phone rings that something has happened to someone else I love and cherish. How can another year without her be over? I still have her e-mails, I still have her phone number programmed in.

I feel so sad that Mikayla will only know her through us telling her how special she was and how much she loved her.

Leslie would would have been involved in so many of Mikayla’s firsts, we would have scrapped countless pages together, would have gone to our cake classes, would have continued to get our nails done together (well she got a mani and I got a pedi)….numerous shopping trips together, gone out for ice cream, planned Mikayla’s parties together, she was the best neck/back masseuse ever, we would have laughed ourselves silly who knows how many times, laughing at all of our little silly private jokes and we had a LOT of them. I still hear her and feel her. We talked on the phone every day and e-mailed back and forth all day every day (work days anyway)…. 52 more weeks of NOT seeing her and hearing her. 52 more weeks of missing her, I find myself wishing we had more... more sleepovers, parties, time..... It makes me so thankful for what we had. It makes me so thankful that we were all together on her last day. It makes me thankful her last hug in life was from Mikayla who she loved so dearly.

So I just continue to fill my days to brimming, some to overflowing…. and at this exact moment in time, I feel older, wiser, heart broken, and not innocent anymore and at the same time so fulfilled, genuinely happy, thankful, at peace, and loved.

I want to thank each of you for helping to fill my heart and helping me continue to put its shattered pieces back together again, one day at a time. I love you!!!


Here is one of my favorite pictures of the two of them.

Another creation

Here is a layout I made for my girlfriends (and scrappy buddy) baby shower. It was sooo much fun and I used some new techniques that I can't wait to try again!!

And the outfit to match.

A diaper rocking horse (yes, it's 100% made out of diapers)

Booties made out of styrofoam cups.

Here is a picture of what was an absolutely beautiful sunset the other day. I wish I really could have captured it but this is close.


And of course, what is a blog post w/out the star in my life? Here she is having some fun play time!!

Such busy times!!!!

We seem to have soooo much going on these days. I've been in project heaven lately, I can't post here just yet what I've made because I have a sneaky suspicion the recipients are checking and and they just don't need to know yet LOL. Here is a layout I managed to squeek in :)


Here are some shower invitiations that I did (along with 4 other hands for assembly). We made 40 of these bad boys, I absolutely love how they came out.

Weekend Layout

My fingers have been itching to play with some paper and do some layouts for pictures I had printed. So this is what I came up with. More to follow but I had to do something.

A few Christmas Creations

I know it's over now but now I can finally share some of what I made this year :)

Here are some chocolate bars :)

Her is an iTunes folder I made

Hot chocolate packets.

These card tins were a labor of love!! I made five tins and all the cards to go inside. Over 80 cards at the end of the day, good thing I started in August. I really enjoyed this project though.

Happy New Year!!!!

I can't belive 2008 is done!!!! What a great year. We're looking forward to an even better 2009!!!!!