Just A Little Spooky Day 2

Here is Day 2 of your Halloween freebie:

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Just A Little Spooky - day 1 freebie

Sorry to be running so late today. I'm in process of setting the remaining days up on a schedule for you. Today you will find

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Quick note - watch for Halloween freebie

It's already Monday morning and I've got to get some sleep. However, later today I will post the first installment of a free Halloween kit. It's one of my older kits but might be useful to someone. I'll be posting a piece daily for next 8 days - 1 paper and 2 elements a day so be sure to check back to get all of it. Here is the overall preview:

Better Day & Sharing A LO & QP by my CT

Sciatica better today; shingles not. Still managed to finish a couple small projects for DigiStyleDesigns'Harvest Moon CAK:

My sweet Ct, Judy, made this page with my Watermelon Smoothie kit (little girl is granddaughter, Inara):

and she saved it as a QP for you too: http://www.4shared.com/zip/oY1AAz5A/ws_watermelonsmoothie_qpbyJudy.html?

The Thrill Is Gone & Pain Here to Stay

After 3 miserable weeks of sciatica, I've learned I have arthritis and degenerating discs in my lower back. So now it's bad discs at cervical and lumbar spine. Naproxen, Celebrex, and lidocaine patches made no difference and I've now finished a week of prednisone which has, at least, dulled the pain. Looks like I need to spend less time at computer. So, tonight I decided to drop back further, resigning from both Scrapping Your Memories and Your Scrap Addiction at the end of the month. I will then be selling exclusively at Digi Style Designs (a little easier for my ad person at least). I intend to stay at Digi Style to the end of the year and then re-evaluate. Let's face it, the digital scrapbook market is glutted and considering all the hours we put into what we create, digital scrapbook designers are just making pennies for our efforts. Granted, I didn't get into this to get rich - what a laugh. I've met a lot of great people and designing distracted me from a lot of my fibro pain, gave me a creative outlet and, to some extent at least, a sense of accomplishment. But with sciatica, it's a different game as sitting (or lying down or standing for that matter) is painful. 2013 will soon be at an end anyway and I'm 62. Old age can have it's limitations and new responsibilities too. There are some projects I'd like to finish before my years are up and some business related things that need attending to. Just bought a neat little bool called When I'm Gone which gives you places to record all the information your family will need readily available when you die. No, I'm not thinking morbid thoughts, just being practical. My husband would need to know where I stashed insurance policies and so on if I pass on before him. And I need to leave notes for my son about such things as items I might want to go to a particular person, who to contact at the local quilt guild to take all my fabric and craft stuff away for use in their charity projects and so on. Heck, we haven't even had a will made yet and that is something we ought to do before the year ends. Practical things, in other words. Meanwhile, I've gone back to my writing on a more regular basis, have some games I can play on my Kindle when I have to lie down, and planning for upcoming holidays etc. Now just to find some good low pain days to get household stuff done. Tasks have piled up these last few weeks.

Back from vacation, new stuff, and a freebie!

Didn't realize it's been so long since I posted. Just got back from a short vacation in Cherokee NC. Had a great time in the mountains and at casino. Met the granddaughter of famous Cherokee potter, Louise Bigmeat Maney. She was such a sweet person and talked to us about her grandmother's pottery and grandfather's basketry. Saw a fantastic family collection of their work. You might know that Digi Style Designs' current Create_A_Kit is Art Nouveau Digi Style. If you love art nouveau like I do, please check out all the products our designers have created. I have about 20 in now and will be adding these tonight:

You can find them in my store here: http://digistyledesigns.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=85&sort=6a&alpha_filter_id=65&page=1 My next newsletter will have this freebie:

Which you will be able to download here: http://www.4shared.com/zip/4oZR9wO0/ss4cu_anpaper_free.html? Enjoy!

Lavender Dreams by Myst Designs

I scrapped some photos of the first tea party I gave for my granddaughter, Inara, right after her fifth birthday, using Myst's beautiful new kit.

This link will direct you to stores where you can find the kit: http://tiny.cc/MystDesignsStores