What a Year...

It has been one crazy year... if you have been following my blog all this year... you know exactly what I am talking about. I have gone through a lot. And right when I think my life is getting back to what I thought was "normal," I get laid off! Yup! If you are a friend of mine on facebook, you already knew that. My last day at my job (after 5 years) is September 2nd. What joy!!! NOT! I have been applying left and right trying to get this life of mine back. I haven't done much scrapping.. lot's of cards though... and that's only because of birthdays, and new precious babies being born, etc. I have done a lot of baking! Please make sure to check out my Little Cake Blog and click "LIKE" on my facebook page, "My Sweet Shoppe." You won't regret it, I promise!

Well, I know I haven't been around much.. other than the above mentioned, I'm doing pretty well. I go in for my 3 month check up this Thursday, So I'm praying that all of that goes well. I wanted to share with you a little of my scrapping I have done.

Cards:

Scrappy Pages:

I'm sorry I haven't been around much, even after promising I would. It's just been hectic. The only reason why I'm connected to world much is because I have a smart phone. Which if you notice a lot of my facebook posts come via Android. I love you all and miss you as well. I hope everyone is doing so wonderful and blessed.


Happy Scrapping!

I'm Back!

Whoa! I haven't been around commenting or even posting for a WHILE! I'm so sorry that I vanished so spontaneously like that. I have been one hectic monster. It's been so busy around here. I'm thankful that I get to go back to work this Monday. This crappy Cancer stuff is going to be officially behind me and my life will be back to it's crazy yet normal self. Thank you to those whom were concern for me and asking if I was ok. It was really inconsiderate of me to vanish like I did from the blog world without a trace. But I'm back and ready to go check you ladies out. I have done VERY LITTLE scrapping. Last week I was busy with my cake that I had to make (which you can check out at Nati's Little Cake Blog). And just busy with life unfortunately. But healthy and happy and thankful to God to give me the energy to live life happily. Here are a couple of cards I made and a layout for my Mexico Album.

I also got some carts this month. I got the Once upon a Princess and Spongebob! Yay!

And last but not least I got an awesome rack that a scrapbook store in town was closing down and got for a great price.

Which in turn meant I had to move around some stuff..

I hope you all have had a great time and I wish you all a blessed and happy weekend. Take care!

Happy Scrapping!

GIVEAWAY!!

Time to check it out over at Pink Cricut!

One Busy Weekend!

Since Thursday, I've been so busy! And with Blogger being down for some blogs, it was hectic. I can comment on SOME blogs now, but not on all. I know how to fix the problem so everyone can comment on your blog and never have to have a problem with it ever again.

PROBLEM SOLVED: Go to your blog setting and click on comments. Instead of having the comment section embedded on to your post, put it to come up in another window. There! That's all!

Now, for my weekend.

Thursday-Friday: I went to the movies on Thursday with my friend Sabrina to watch SOMETHING BORROWED! Super cute movie! I love movies like these! Then ALL DAY AFTER THAT and FRIDAY I was baking baking baking! It was amazing how many cakes I made in one day (Friday) PLEASE do not miss out how great my cakes looked. Become a follower of Nati's Little Cake Blog! You won't regret it!

Then Saturday came along and had my nephew's birthday party and then my BFF's birthday party.

Then Sunday we had my grandpa's birthday breakfast/brunch, my friend's birthday, my husband's cousin's graduation, and my BFF's get together party! Yes! That's 4 parties in ONE DAY!

So today, my hubby was off and we decided to take our little guys to the park where we got engaged. Here are some pictures of it.

Peanut and Maxx enjoying the wonderful weather!

The bench where my Husband proposed to me 5 years and 4 days ago.

It was so nice to be there just enjoying nature. I didn't scrap at all with all the baking I did this weekend. I only got around to work on one card for my grandpa!

I can't wait to get scrappy again! I hope you all had a fun and NOT so busy weekend. I also want to say that we appreciate all our military and veterans for the service they give! God bless them TODAY and ALWAYS!

Happy Scrapping!

Well Since I Can't Comment...

I'm scrapping! Well, these layout I'm about to share with you are from last week, but I hope to soon finish the ones I'm working on right now. Tomorrow will be a busy day. I'm going to the movies with Sabrina (Check out her Blog!), we are going to go see "Something Barrowed." I hope I like it.

Anyways, I've also been BAKING!! Please check out my Cake Blog (click on the cake on my sidebar)! I am really proud of my creations!

Here are the layouts I made:

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful Evening!

Happy Scrapping!

Should of...

KEPT MY MOUTH SHUT! lol! Yesterday everyone was complaining about not being able to post comments.. and I was like.. THANK GOD I CAN POST COMMENTS! Well, guess what.. this morning I was leaving comments fine.. and I left comments on two blogs.. one that was where I won and another... and then I went to the thrid and fourth and fifth and etc. and NONE OF THEM WOULD LET ME POST!!! Grrrrr! I tried Angi's blog abot 6 times and it was an endless loop of logging in and trying to post. grrr. So ladies.. you know that I am faithful to you all and I'm trying to leave you comments on all your beautiful work BUT its not letting me. So I'm hoping this gets resolved quickly! God Bless!

Happy Scrapping!

Quick Card: Disney Classics Cartridge

So I got the Disney Classics cartridge as a gift from my friend Sabrina. Please check out Sabrina's Blog, she's new to the bloggin' world and would love to have more followers (other than me). Thanks ladies, by the way she's still working on the design on her blog so bare with her please! Anyways, I wanted to work with it a little and decided to do a little card.

Here's the Cartridge if you haven't seen it. This image was taken from The Cricut Website!

Isn't it just darling! I love it! Thanks for stopping by! (If you are interested in this cart. Joann's has a sale for them online or in-store!)

Happy Scrapping!

Busy Week!

I have a very busy week coming up! Some cakes need to be made! Which I'm really excited about. Check out my cake blog to see the new creations when they are done.


For now I wanted to share some cards I made using my Imagine. Check them out.

And then I made this wreath for my cousin's luau party.

We had two parties to go to this weekend. Here are some pictures. We had a blast!

Thanks for stopping by! Can't wait for this weekend! Those cakes are going to be so awesome!


Happy Scrapping!

Ekkk! What a week!

First and far most, THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your words seriously touched me so much! I was in tears just reading them. My husband told me I'm one lucky gal! And I don't doubt that! You are all so wonderful and fabulous and just absolutely amazing and I appreciate everyone of you for your way of showing me that you care. That Heartfelt Post was really hard for me... yet you all welcomed my feelings and made me realize how "normal" I was to feel this way! Thank you from my heart to yours and may God bless you all, my wonderful and amazing scrappy friends.

I have been so busy, yesterday and today. We had a yardsale and I was at it all week getting stuff out to sell. As well May and June are our BUSY months for us. EVERY WEEKEND we have something going on. And this year is NO exception. Plus, I've been going around (my hubby driving me of course) buying gifts for people and their events that we will be attending PLUS all my cake supplies since I have two orders to fill for this coming weekend! What week is coming up as well!

I have been crafty though. I made 3 layouts as well as some cards for a babyshower that I'm attending tomorrow as well as a retirement party that we are attending tomorrow! *Did I say we are busy?* lol! Check them out.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend! Love ya!

Happy Scrapping!

Heartfelt Post

I've only shared these feelings with my husband. I never ever thought that I would go through something as hard as dealing with Cancer. Especially with me. I've had only a couple of expirences in family and a dear friend and it was horrible. Truthfully, I was destroyed inside. I felt that my last days were among me. Nothing really helped me. I heard encouraging words and I saw faithful faces, but it was so hard for me to believe. I only asked why? I couldn't stop crying and yelling to our Lord WHY!?!?!? I couldn't stop myself and my husband would just let me cry like a baby and let all my anguish and anger and sadness and everything I felt just spill out. He would hug me and he would try to make me feel protected, and it helped a little. Only but then the thoughts of death came back. That horrible depression that wouldn't leave me. There were some good days. But mostly bad. Everyone, I mean EVERYONE, thought I was handling everything so well. But if they had only known what I had inside. There is one night that I'll never forget, my husband was asleep already, and I was trying to get tired so I decided to scrap a little and see if it worked. I was fine... for a small while. Normally, when I scrap, I have shoutcast.com on to Country Music (which I love) and one of my favorite artists came on. Brad Paisley. And I thought it was a message of God. Seriously, I was starting to feel so horrible again.. So I got on my knees, crying, looking at a cross that I have in my scraproom, and asked God one more time... "Why am I going through this God? Why me? I don't want to die! I love my life. I love you. I love my Husband and family and friends. Why me?" And this song was in the background which by then I had ignored. But I'll never forget how it made me feel. I'll never forget that night. Thinking about it now.. and typing this out has brought me to tears. I'm so thankful for this chance in living. And I won't let our Lord down.

It's interesting to remember what I told my husband one night that he was on the computer and I was "trying" to scrap. I said "Hey babe, if I die, at least you'll have all these albums I made of our relationship and our love and our wonderful moments together." He looked at me mad and said quietly,"Don't say that." I quietly sobbed. But was happy to know that something was going to be left to remember me. And I'm so thankful to scrap and craft, because I know that when I die, there will be something to remember me with. There was one specific week that was my hardest. The week where I waited for the Biopsy results of my Uterus. That week felt like a year! It felt like it would never end. My husband couldn't concentrate at work, to the point that he would call almost every hour to see if the dr. had called. That biopsy was important because it would determine if the Cancer had spread. I don't even want to remember that.

But there is always hope. And I prayed and prayed, and all your prayers came through and God listened and God helped me, because of all of you. Katie  (you know who you are), God is amazing, and I continue to pray for you. I continue to pray for all of the cancer patients out there. The Power of Prayer is amazing. I know how all of you felt. Like there is no hope sometimes. But fight! Because there will always be hope. Always. Hope to be alive and continue life. And when the time does come (when we are old and gray and over 98), there will be the hope of seeing our loved ones in heaven and seeing our Lord. Our loving God that we are forever in debt to.

I'm sorry that you had to read this.. for most it might not be interesting. But being able to let my feelings out like this brings a small feeling of closure to this whole Cancer thing. God forbid it ever comes back. God has plans, and I shouldn't of questioned him.

Thank you for being such amazing friends. It's funny that some of you were more concern about me (even though you haven't even met me in real life), than some of my "real" friends. In cases like these, you truly do find out out who your TRUE friends are. :o) I love you all! Thank you!

Now, here's the Brad Paisley song I was talking about: Get a box of Kleenex :o)

Happy Scrapping!

Silhoutte Giveaway! Check it out!

A Bowl Full of Lemons is giving away a Sihoutte! Check it out! Hurry!!!

CRICUT BLOG?????

Yup! You read it correctly! And Royal Things is giving away a $150.00 giftcard to check out her blog and the Cricut Blog! The Cricut Blog launches tonight at midnight!! How exciting! Check them both out! Hurry!!

Award and Craftiness!

Let's start of with something so dear. I got an award! Another wonderful lady named Trish sent over to me the BFF Award! Thank you so much Trish! Your blog, Trish and Treasure, is very inspiring and this totally means a lot to me! Thank you! Please ladies, go over and say Hi to Trish! You will be mesmerized by her wonderful work!

Well, now I have the pleasure of passing along this award to other wonderful crafters/commenters. The rules for the BFB award are two-fold:



-Post about the award on your blog with a link back to the sender.


-Pass onto those who visit your blog and leave comments regularly.


So my list of BFB award winners includes:

1. Angi over at Cokie Pop Paper Boutique
2. Jan over at Papercraft Pleasures
3. Julie over at Life With the Tucker Wolek Clan
4. Amber over at The Country Scrapper
5. Nancy over at HomesCool In My Little Corner

Thank you for everything Trish! And I hope that all of you wonderful ladies go check these talented ladies' blogs. I wish to give this award to everyone as well! You all make my day so much nicer and you really do bring my spirits up with all the wonderful comments and love you show me. I truly do appreciate you all!

Now, for the crafty part of the blog.

I have had the Mini Monsters Cricut Cartridge sitting on my desk FOREVER. I got it for Christmas this past year and I just never have had a chance to play with it. Truthfully, this is one of my FAVORITE carts, but it doesn't seem like it because I had never used it. Well, I finally figured out a creative way to use it. Hope you enjoy my cards! I also used my i-rock! Yay!

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a wondeful rest of your Tuesday! God Bless!

Happy Scrapping!