Ahhhhhhh. . . . .In a Good Way

We've had some nice temperatures the last couple of days and boy what a difference it makes to my mood.  I have loved waking up and hearing the birds chirping and anticipating a sunny day.

Officially another hockey season is in the books.  We had the banquet on Tuesday night and as always it's nice to look over and see all the boys sitting together.  Some talking between whipping out their phones, but I will say many times it was three of them around one phone as they shared a funny video or something.  It was a successful year for our hockey association with three teams winning OMHA Championships and the B~man's team making it to the semis, nice to see all acknowledged. Now we wait for baseball.

Recently I have attended a couple of workshops through work that were interesting and intense.  The first was a two day for ASIST, which was about suicide and how to ask the questions we are all scared to ask.  There was a lot of wonderful information and we did some role play that got pretty intense, but so worth it.  I feel better prepared to ask the questions as well as recognizing some clues that I hadn't necessarily thought of.  The other one was about Mental Health and how many of our students are being diagnosed with or experiencing higher incidents of anxiety. Heavy duty topics but very worth my while.

I have another 5K this weekend!  I will be walking it again and no goodies for this one though.  I will be participating in the Run for Rocky on Sunday and it is to benefit GSAs in our local high schools.  A wonderful cause and our school has been the recipient of a Run for Rocky grant for a guest speaker.  Think I will bring my camera and hope to get some pics of the kids in their Bulldog gear.

On the digi front:

Rachel/Captivated Visions has a beautiful new kit in her store over at Scrapbookgraphics I am dying to play with.  It's sitting on my hard drive but have not been in the mood to sit and scrap. Here is a preview of her latest collection, I just love the colours!

Create, Captivate & Inspire: Signature Collection by Captivated Visions

 I think I have only completed one page since my DigiDares entry.  I had some fun with blending and masks and I think I came up with a cool effect.

My credits for this page are; Artful Intentions: Sunshine in my Soul [Value Bundle] | Artified: Cotton Candy [Layered Template]

Awesome Scrappy News--For Me

What an exciting month in terms of scrappy news for me.  I have always been a huge fan of Captivated Visions and was so excited to become a part of her team helping to  do promo and some other tasks.  Needless to say I didn't have to think long to answer 'yes' and am so happy to be working with her again. Then just this past week I was blessed to get back on ViVa Artistry's CT. I was with them a few years ago when they first started and have missed them and their wonderful designs.  I am still with Cheryl of Fiddle Dee Dee Designs and loving her templates. Do I feel lucky?  Incredibly!  My scrappy life is varied again and I love it.  I still have my duties at Scrap Orchard and Scrap Matters and am very content, at least my scrappy life is exciting and full, lol.

Speaking of new ventures I am slowly dabbling in art journaling.  I am trying to get used to the 'no rules' and go with what you feel and feel quite inadequate when I see other pages.  Yes it is a 'me' thing and I am working on it.  So here are my fist pages in this venture, using products from ViVa Artistry and on the laughter page some items from Tangie Baxter.

I haven't quite decided what this blog is going to be...........in other words it will be a mish mash of a bunch of things.  There will be personal stuff, rants, musings, digiscrapping and whatever else my little heart desires.

With that, even though no one reads my blog, I am wishing the one or two people who may accidentally find it a wonderful evening!