Go Figure (I bet YOU knew)

SOOOO...

I can't tell you how much I have appreciated all the comments, facebook posts, and emails I have gotten over the past month and a half. You all seriously ROCK! I just love how much we support each other.

Yep. I was going through something extremely heartbreaking. So I took a break. It was supposed to be for 1 month. After March was over, I made the following decision.

I quit.

I resigned from all of my design team commitments except Fancy Pants. And I thought I would resign from Fancy Pants too but I just got a huge box from them and didn't feel right quitting right after receiving it. So I hadn't resigned from them yet. But I gave it all up. I couldn't imagine ever really putting much into this hobby or this industry again. My life seemed so different. I seemed so different.

I even gave up Scrapbook Challenges. The fabulous Brynn is now the owner and operator for the group.

I have spent the last two weeks cleaning out my scrapbook room and selling stuff on ebay. A LOT of stuff. I mean, you should see all the purging I have done. And now that that is done...

I want to scrapbook.

Seriously!?! Isn't that crazy! But it's also incredibly encouraging. I thought that part of my life was over. But now that my room is getting clean and has a lot less in it, I actually feel very inspired by it. I WANT to go sit down and work on something. I am itching to break out my FP box and work on assignments...I'm full of new ideas!

And for the first time in a long time, today I even sat down and looked at some blogs. :)

I'm not saying that everything is going back to how it was. I probably won't be posting every day. I have to make the decision to still keep my focus where it needs to be. I'll start slow. I like the idea of only being on the Fancy Pants team...except I may be willing to do one more team (the right team *wink wink*). I just saw that I have missed the one DT call I have gone for the past 3 years. It's that time again, and I missed it. Well technically there's still a week left. Don't know if I will get my act pulled together in time or not. But that is also another encouraging and inspiring thought. I'm really starting the believe that Pamela, the scrapbooker, may not be gone after all.

So there you have it.

I thought I had quit, but here I am.

And thank you to all of you who shared with me that I had won on the Prima blog! Again, you all ROCK! :) In case you missed it...here's the layout I made that won over there last month...

I took a large circle embroidery thingy (lol...sorry, not sure what they are called) and used it for the background misting. I just love how beautiful and delicate the whole page looks.

Ok...

well, I'll be back. I have to catch up on posting my Fancy Pants projects and I still have a bunch of My Little Shoebox to share with you all as well.

Take care. And again, thank you for caring.