Sad News.................

Hey Everyone,

I am sure that you all have been wondering where I've been. Well I have some very very bad news. Besides not being able to get on the internet there for a while after Christmas, I had something happen to me or you could say "us" that has changed my life forever.

My sweet dear husband, Jose, passed away on the 12th of this month right before my birthday on the 13th. We had his funeral on the 15th. Yesterday was the first day I've even looked at the computer. I'm just beside myself feeling like this is all a really bad dream. I just can't seem to wake up from it.

After Christmas we caught a cold or that's what I thought it was. I got better and he didn't. He just kept getting worse. On the Saturday before what happened I begged him not to go to work because he was just so tired. I had just gotten him on my insurance and told him we could go to the doctor. He hated spending money. He kept saying he was ok. I made him take his phone to call me when he got to work and when he called he told me they were taking him to the emergency room. I got to the hospital at 3pm and they had oxygen hooked up to him and he was awake at that time. They send him to the ICU where I could only see him for 30 minutes on the even hours. They took him up there at 8:15 pm and then I had to leave him. He wanted me to go home get some rest and be back in the morning early. But I didn't. I went home got my phone charger and a few odds and ends. By the time I got back and saw him at 10pm he was out of it and I never got to talk to him again. They ended up intibating him (a tube down his throat) and told me he had pneumonia. Later they said it was N1H1 and then send me down to get checked too because I had been coughing. They finally said I was fine and that my lungs were good. His weren't though. THey had to take some of the fluid out of his. Then they finally told me it wasn't N1H1 and that it was influenza A.

We were in the hospital from Sat thru Tues morning and I guess his body finally gave out. I held his hand when they turned off the machines. I'm sorry this is so bad but this is what happened and I need to get it out. The rest had been just a bad dream that I can't wake from.

I just wanted you all to know what I'm going thru. It's really hard. Today is the first time that I'm staying alone in my house. So its going to be a little hard. I'm just hoping everything will eventually work out with the insurance and everything. I may end up loosing our beautiful truck. And my little puppies Shaylee and JoJo are all moping around the house. I think they keep looking for him to come home. It's so heart-breaking.

But I have really good friends and family that are helping me. They are all keeping me strong. At least I hope so. My puppies are helping too. It's just so unreal right now. So just bear with me. If I get too sad I'm sorry. I had so many photos I wanted to scrap and share with you and now it just doesn't feel right. I miss him so much.

Thank you all for listening/reading.

Love
April

New Kit "Mardi Gras"

Hey everyone,

I managed to do some work on the computer. Trying to keep my mind busy. I made a kit called Mardi Gras. And honestly I had my honey (husband) in mind. I had actually started making it before all of this bad stuff happened. Now I've so-so finished it. I probably could have done more but my mind doesn't seem to think straight right now. I don't know. Maybe ya'll will think its a good kit. It's mostly purples (his favorite color), greens, yellows and teal colors. I hope you all will like it.

I made a page using the kit and you'll get the quick-page from it.

Here's a preview of the kit.



Here's the page I made using the kit. This is a photo from Jose's 33rd birthday.
I also wanted to thank everyone for the nice comments that you all left me from my post the other day. You guys are the greatest. Someone advised me that scrappin' my memories might help. So I decided to take her up on it. I plan to scrap everything anyway.

And here is what your page will look like.

Download Here

$2 sale at ScrapitSassy!

Quick pages from Ginger and Nita

Sorry I haven't been on her for a while. Never got that freebie to you. Been having problems at home. Or a few plus being a little busy.

Our bathtub is stopped up. My hubby is desperately trying to fix it himself but I'm afraid we're going to have to get more help. It's driving us crazy. We're hoping a root from one of the trees isn't the problem. Also, our thermostat isn't working correctly on our central heat and air. Which wouldn't be too much of a problem but it got down to 38* the other day and it was really quite cold in the house. Brrr! Now it's raining. It's funny though because the air conditioner works but the heater doesn't come on. Go figure.

On good new. Shaylee turned 4 on the 17th. Two days after Ginger's birthday!
I got her more stuffed animals of course. But yesterday I think I got her her greatest present along with my little JoJo. My boss gets her yorkie puppies groomed and her groomer had a photo shooting for puppies. She asked if I would come. Well, I decided to go. At first I wasn't going to get them groomed because I cut them myself but I gave in. And to my complete surprise, I vowed never to cut them myself again. They are both gorgeous. I mean gorgeous. They look like little teddy bears. I'm gonna upload photos that I took and show them to you in a little bit. I also got their photos taken at the groomer's. I had to leave the building for her to take pics so I hope they come out cute. I won't know until Dec 4th. I cannot wait. My bosses dogs were adorable too and I think she got them (4) all in the shot. My friend/fellow worker also got her little coco groomed and he was so cute. He's kind of a brother to my Shaylee and JoJo. They have the same mom and dad but are all from different litters.

Anyway here are some quickpages for you from Ginger and Lori.

Ginger made me another page using my Let it Snow kit.
So beautiful!

Download Here on Ginger's blog

Here is a quickpage from Lori using my Cowboys & Indians kit.

Download Here on Lori's blog

See ya later

"Let it Snow" kit at ScrapitSassy and Dazzling Scraps

I have a new kit that I just put in my store at ScrapitSassy. It's called "Let it Snow".

It has lots of penguins and snowmen in it. I hand-drew the penguins. I left some hand drawn like and the others I made into a sort of 3d effect. I think they look pretty cool. All the papers have snowflakes on them except the 4 solid papers. There are also 2 extra papers (not in preview) that are scenic drawn. I hand painted you might say 1 fur tree and a regular tree. There is also a hill of snow or snowdrift to put on the bottom of your paper. I also included an snowflake swirl/wind and 2 snow with snowflakes overlays - on is just heavier snow.

and I made 3 alphas to go with the kit. They are sold separately.

They include upper, lower and numeric alphas.

Hope you like it.

Ginger made a quick-page using my "Let It Snow" kit. And it's beautiful.

Ginger likes my hand-drawn trees. I told her the penguins are hand-drawn too!

Download on Ginger's blog Here

Also, Nita made one too. I love both of them. Here is hers.



so so pretty!

Download on Nita's Blog Here

You can get this kit from either ScrapitSassy or Dazzling Scraps.
My kits are 45% off at Dazzling Scraps through the end of November!

This one is so pretty. Great job Ginger!
Download Here on Ginger's Blog
and don't forget her Wordart too!

and here's another page from Nita



I love what she did with the snowflakes.
Another so so pretty page.

Download on Nita's blog Here

Holiday Baking plus freebie at ScrapitSassy or Dazzling Scraps

Buy this kit

at ScrapitSassy Here
(On sale now 45% off until Nov 9th)
or
Dazzling Scraps Here

Get these recipe cards free until the end of November.
Use these plus stuff from the kit to make your recipe cards.
But you have to use both to make the cards.
However, If I get some recipes that are just using these recipe cards only
and not the kit then I'll hand them out to you all on my blog.



Download for free at ScrapitSassy or Dazzling Scraps.
(they are free for only a limited time until Nov 30th)

Also, you are welcome to download the cards for free
without making a recipe card but remember
they are for free for a limited time only.

Can't wait to see what you all come up with.

Collab Kit at Scrapitsassy

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