TGIF!

Yay! It's finally the weekend! This week at work has been the most busy week I think I have ever had in over 2 years! Insane! I'm waiting for John to get home so I can go back into work. I just have sooo much do, and I don't want to do it saturday or sunday, so I am going to work as late as I can tonight. Just sucks John doesn't get off work until after midnight! lol. I'll probably be there until 4 or 5 in the morning, and even THEN I won't get everything done! lol. Oh well, at least it's a START and I won't have AS much to do next week. And it'll be the middle of the night so there won't be as many distractions as there are during the day. Energy drinks are my friend! :)
I'm so looking forward to this weekend. I'm planning on staying home most of the time, working on my scrapping, making stuff for my Etsy shop and to sell in my mom's art gallery. I'm so very behind on that stuff it isn't even funny!
I was avoiding doing chores tonight and did a little photo shoot of myself :) hehe.

Oh Me!

I've noticed that I keep making layouts of myself a lot lately... it's not because I am obsessed with myself or anything! I think it's just because I have discovered a LOT about myself lately, and I love it! For a long time I never really understood myself, didn't understand what was going on in my mind. I finally feel like I am starting to figure things out. I feel like I'm maturing, if that makes sense. :) I have learned how to be a mom, how to give my all to my son, but still feel like ME. I have learned how to be a good girlfriend, and I owe a lot of that to my wonderful boyfriend, John. I swear he is what I have been waiting for all my life! lol. He is so laid back, sweet, funny, caring, giving, I could go on for pages! In my past relationships, I have always felt like I am forcing myself to try to be a good girlfriend, and forcing myself to change for my boyfriends. John loves me for ME, he encourages me to be myself and do the things that I love, and he has helped me a lot in finding myself and helping me mature. I have learned how to live on my own, to rely on myself. I know that my son relies souly on me, and that means so much to me, I always do the best that I can to take care of him and make him happy! I love taking care of John too, even though he doesn't need me to take care of him. He is very good at taking care of himself. When I do things for him though, I don't feel like I'm forcing myself to do it, I WANT to.
This past year I have moved up in my career, I am making more money, I have more responsibilities. I have worked sooo hard to get where I'm at, and I think if I had had this job a few years back, I would never be where I am now. I used to give up too easily on things. Now I know what it takes, you have to put your ALL into what you want, and work your hardest until you get it! That's why I've been scrapping so much too! I have to keep working on my creativity, work to get on a design team, work to teach scrapping classes. I know it will happen, it will just take work and time.
I can honestly say, despite everything that has happened these past few years, I am happy that they happened in a way. Not ALL of them, but most of them. They have created the person I am today, and I am starting to like myself more and more. I am not becoming full of myself, or obsessed with myself, but I am happier with who I am! I no longer wish I was someone else. So, that's the reason for so many layouts of ME lately! lol. They are helping me discover things about myself along the way :)
My friend John ordered a kit for me from the Red Velvet Art kit club, and I am sooo stoked to get it! It's a kit to make an art journal, and I know it'll be a blast for me! I need to start more journals. I used to try to write in journals, but I was never really into it. THIS will be a lot different for me, I know I will LOVE making an art journal, incorporating art into my writing will definitely inspire me to work on it every day! There's a lot of reasons why, I'm not going to get into it now, I will save that for a later post!
Layouts I have done lately!: :)

New *Love, Elsie* Layouts!

I just got back from alaska, I was there for a whole week, but it feels like it's been a month!! I went there with my family for my dad's memorial service and to spread his ashes, it was sad, but it was nice to finally get some closure too. It was nice to see my old friends though, I grew up there until I moved to Montana in 2001. Not very many of my friends are still up there, but there are a few, including my best friend, Stephen! It was fun to see him, I don't get to see him too often. It's weird how much my friends from high school have changed so much over the past 6 years. I guess I have changed too, but it doesn't seem like I've changed as much as some of them!
I have been playing with the new Love, Elsie lines over the past couple weeks, and realized I haven't posted any to my blog! I plan on playing with them some more tonight :)