Krazy KT

just another day..

  Not a whole lot of interesting stuff going on with me. I've been getting a lot done, but nothing exciting. My store is ready to go up! I'm excited about that! I still keep plugging away at it, TONS of products and companies to add to it still. I just keep telling myself baby steps. I know my Dad would be proud that I've finally got my act together. I don't think he would be too proud of the fact that it's taken me this long though.

Sunday, is my 23rd birthday. Things have been really hard for me lately. I am trying to use my tears as my drive to keep going. I just don't know when I will feel like "me" again though. I am having a really hard time accepting that I won't be able to celebrate my birthday with my whole family. My Dad's never missed my birthday. I keep telling myself over and over that this is real to try and help me understand all of this and accept it but it's just not working. I don't want to do anything special for my birthday, so I'm not. I just want it to be like every other day, and hopefully it won't hurt too bad. I do want to go see the new "Role Models" so I think we might do that. I have wanted to see it since I saw the previews on the last movie we saw in theaters, so I just have an excuse to see it now. Which reminds me.. I canceled the crop I was suppose to be vending at tomorrow. I just haven't been feeling like doing much that involves people and I knew I would be pretty upset so I decided I wasn't going. I mean who wants to deal with a vendor that keeps crying, because I'm sure that's what people would have to deal with.

A couple weeks ago, my Dad's friends Chuck and Karen came over, and Jason. Chuck, Jason and Brandon cleaned out my Dad's shed. I worked on some ATC's and Karen and my mom talked. It is amazing how much crap he crammed in that thing!! I mean how many Folgers cans of nails and screws does one guy need?!?

And my brother even assisted for a little bit!

Art Journal

Obviously it's been longer then a day since I blogged, but I figured what's it matter no one reads this thing anyway... lol.. A couple weeks ago I came across the blog of the AMAZING Rachel Denbow. I've been to her blog plenty of times before but this time was different. She was talking about the art journal class she was offering on etsy through her blog. It was perfect timing because I have been wanting to find a way to express my feelings but scrapbooking just wasn't going to work for me. I figured an art journal would be a place I could unleash my anger and true feelings, but I didn't know where to begin. So, I decided to sign up for Rachel's first art journal class. I LOVED it!! I haven't actually done any of it yet, but I followed along and know that I'll enjoy doing it. I planned on working on it that weekend at the crop I was vending at, but decided last minute that the crop might not be the best place to work on it. I figured I'd get pretty emotional while doing it. I emailed Rachel and told her how much I LOVED the first class and thought it was exactly what I needed to help deal with the loss of my Dad. She sent me the second and third class too! I was and am still so excited! I can't wait to get started on it! If you get a chance be sure to check them out in Rachel's etsy shop!

The next day, I was checking out scrap scene and saw that Dina Wakley was doing an online class at Debbie Hodge's Get it Scrapped Online Classes. I love Dina's work and her art journals are awesome! I decided right away I had to sign up for her Art Journaling 101 Class! I'm in my third week of the class and LOVING every minute of it!! I have actually been following along with the class, which is why I haven't done Rachel's class yet. I can't wait to do Rachel's, but I wanted to be able to really follow along in Dina's class. All i've got to show is some painted Art Journal backgrounds that I posted in my flickr album, not the most exciting thing.. but I'm going to share them anyway since I'm so proud of them.. lol.. and all the texture I did on them with Gesso. You can't really see it too good in photos but here they are anyway..