FANCY PANTS' IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS

I was looking through some of my posts and thought I have shared this already. The layout was done using Fancy Pants' It's the Little Things Collection (you can see the other layout I made using this collection HERE). I made it a loooong time ago before my self-exile LOL!!!

"You don't find happiness, you make it, you choose it. It's the little things that brings you the most meaning to your life..."


Just some close-ups:


Life is good, indeed.


Live, laugh...


Thanks for looking.

janis

P.S. Was able to finally scrap yesterday... will tell you about that in another post. ;o)

BELLA BLVD FREE DIGITAL PRINTABLES

Make sure you stop by Bella Blvd's blog HERE to grab your free digitable printables!!!


Just an idea of what you can do with the printables (you can make a 5x7 mini-album out of these!!!)


What are you waiting for? Head there now!!! :o)

janis

IT'S BEEN AWHILE

Yup, it's me. It's been awhile since my last entry. How are you all? ;o)

Thank you for all the comments that you have left for me - - I have read them and I truly appreciate them. I am so sorry if I haven't responded to any of your mails (I haven't had the courage to sort through my inbox!!!), I have no excuse except I thought I had to keep to myself.

I am okay, I am holding up and I do miss being creative. A lot has happened since I buried myself in my rabbit hole, but this is one piece of realization that I am most excited and happy about: I will definitely go back to my crazy-scrapbooker self (slowly but surely!!!).

Now that I have the courage to write this entry, I suddenly felt scared: do I still know how to scrapbook? I don't know, I'll find out within the week as I want to do something with my Bella Blvd stuff. I haven't touched any of my papers since my last layout (featured in the post below); my camera got neglected; I haven't updated my facebook account; haven't accessed my yahoo account (my inbox has more than 4,000 unread emails!!!). In five months, my family has grown bigger (we got an additional mini-schnauzer and a German Shepherd - - we have 4 dogs now!!!), my kids have grown super fast (wait 'til you see them!!!), I myself have grown and aged a bit (haha!!!!).

Another question: what will I scrapbook? Let's see - - my dilemma before was that my topics/subjects were too personal for my own good (well, that's the reluctant me speaking) - - I thought I was sharing too much and I just couldn't blur or hide my captions/journaling as I felt that would compromise my art (and I couldn't reconcile that with me being on several DTs). I am still struggling with that right now, but I have come to terms that I need an outlet to get over my relapse. The experience to get out of the dark and face everyone is daunting and humbling...

I guess, I just have to focus on happier things... like breathing... like writing on this blog... like being back...

Hope you all have a happy day.

janis