Quick Update and an Altered Cup

Hello everyone!

Since a lot of you have been wondering, I wanted to keep you up to date with what's happening with my Emily...I also wanted to take this opportunity to share an altered cup I'd forgotten to share with you.

First things first though...Emily is doing much better...little by little it seems that she's retuning back to her old self. She's finally smiling here and there, something I missed because she truly does smile all day, all the time thank God. She is finally responding to me when I ask her questions, and she has started at least drinking a little bit. She slept through the night last night, and that's the first time in almost a week. She's still on antibiotics, has a terrible cough (her poor little chest hurts every time she coughs), terrible runny nose, and well, since she has not been eating much at all, she's barely had any bowel movements. I know she's lost a ton of weight because she just looks so skinny to me now, but I'm praying she gets some appetite soon, so she can catch up again.

Again, thank you all for all your concern, prayers and well wishes. We appreciate them very much, and are very happy to say, it's looking like we're almost at the end of this terrible time. I'm sure I grew some gray hairs with all that I've been going through lately!

Ok, now for the fun stuff. This is an altered cup I made on the Tim Holtz cruise and totally forgot to share. They sell all sorts of alterable cups out there, and using paper, rub-ons and some distress ink definitely makes them look really nice. You should definitely try one out.

Thanks so much again for all your support, and I'll catch you next time with another project :)

Totally forgot!

Hello everyone. Happy Sunday!
Just wanted to stop by today and link you up to my Tim Holtz Cruise video. I totally forgot to share it over here. I know that many of you don't follow my videos, so I wanted to make sure I shared it on here, so no one would miss it. It took me a while to edit, but I think I did a good job on it, considering I don't know too much of this editing stuff. It pretty much sums up my whole cruise experience, and I know if you watch it, you'll get a feel of how everything went about if you weren't able to attend.
Tim will be taking the next year off from these kind of big events, but he says that in the future, he has many more activities coming our way.  I'm so excited and curious to know what he has up his sleeve! Totally enjoyed this cruise, and can't wait to take more classes with him again in the future. He truly is a talented artist and wonderful person, and so are all his crew members.
Hope you too can enjoy this video!

Here's some of what we got...

I've been busy doing everything you can imagine, and cutting up video footage from the cruise....I have no idea how I'll be able to cram in a whole week full of video footage into less than half an hour (that is my goal, but I'm not succeeding at the moment LOL). That is without pictures too!!! I have a ton of those as well. It is driving me nuts.

So, in the meantime (because it is taking me sometime to edit everything), I wanted to share some pictures of some of the products we received for participating on the cruise.... 

I definitely did not expect to receive so much product, on top of all the materials we got for the projects we made on board, but I was happy we did! Who doesn't like free stuff, right??? Some of the things we received just came out at Summer CHA (like the Prima Paper Pack and embellishments, the Kraft Core Cardstock etc.)... some are really hard to find...many stores seem to be sold out off some of them. We even got a Tim Holtz messenger bag that isn't even on the market yet. That was fabulous. It was hard trying to figure out how we were going to bring back home all the stuff they were giving us on each class day, but it was awesome!

The cruise sponsors were very generous, and also supplied a ton of product to be given away at the raffle, on the last class day of the cruise... even complete lines of product (like archival ink for example----you didn't get a few of them, if you won, you won ALL the archival ink pads!) It was insane! I didn't win anything at the raffle though, but my friend Dale did. I'm glad at least someone from my group got some extra goodies.

So this was my sneak peek for today. I have to get back to editing... there is so much video I need to go through...and email...I'm still not caught up with my email either! It definitely was a fun trip. Stay tuned!!!

I'm baaaaaack!

Yes, I am back and totally exhausted! What a fun and active week I had. It was definitely fantastic getting to meet Tim for the first time and get spend so many days doing what we all love to do, get our craft on!

It was great to see how down to earth, patient, nice, and professional Tim was, as well as his entire crew. It was fun getting to meet so many other crafters at once ( I believe it was a group of around 170 people----we were divided into two groups, which was a great size for the type of classes we took---and to be honest, I didn't  even notice the large group, because most of time, it felt like each and everyone of us was getting one on one instruction and help from Tim himself. It was awesome!
I don't have much time to sit and write now, and to be honest have not even unpacked completely yet, even though I got home yesterday... After picking up my dog and cutie pie daughter, I ended up getting home at about 5pm, and all I wanted to do was lay on the couch and watch everything move around me LOL. However, I ended up cleaning my daughter's room,  tiding up her playroom, doing two loads of her laundry, and taking a 20 minute nap. Ha!
There's still tons I have to do today, and nothing is related to YouTube, blogging or organizing all of the amazing goodies we got from this trip. They gave us so much stuff!!!
I need to catch up with my work at home, before I start editing all the video footage from the trip, uploading all the pictures I took, and finishing up some of the class projects I wasn't able to complete while aboard the ship. I'd like to show you those when finished. They are AWESOME! Tim will be sharing his version of them on his blog soon too :)

I just wanted to stop on by here, and let you know I'm back home, but with lots to do, so it might take a while for me to get back to my routine and get uploaded all I have to share about this great cruise. Stay tuned and thanks for stopping by!

I'm off!

The day has come and tomorrow I'm off on the Tim Holtz Caribbean Cruise!!! I cannot wait to step into this baby tomorrow afternoon!!!

I have no idea if I will sleep tonight, but boy I better, because I have to be ready for pick up at 7:00 a.m. I'm not a morning person as you all might already know, but I bet I'll be up before my alarm rings, because I'll be too nervous thinking I might oversleep! (of course if I get to sleep at all lol).

Once I'm back from my trip, I'll be sharing tons of my trip details over here. Wow! I can't wait to get started!!! Hope you are having a wonderful weekend!

Less than to weeks to go!

I'm so super excited! I've been so busy trying to make sure I get everything done that I need to get done before I leave for the Tim Holtz Cruise! Yes, I'm going!!!! (I really have no clue if I shared that with you yet!---sorry, my lack of sleep does not help my memory much LOL).

I am wondering how I'll get any sleep in the days to come, I'm so anxious! I'm a little worried that a storm might ruin it all, but hoping nothing happens and we can sail away blissfully! Did I mention, I can't wait?!?!

Have a great week!