Broken Flip flop story

*Sniff, Sniff*! The other night my dh came into our living room and asked me if we had any sandwhich meats down in our freezer, I told him not unless he bought some. I then told him that if he wanted me to go grocery shopping that I would go, not really actually wanting to go that night but I knew he needed meats for a sandwhich for work the next day. So, off I went child free (which is nice) to get groceries but then when I got into the van I realized I forgot my reusable grocery bags. I run back into the house and got them, see I am forever forgetting them and I didn't want to pay 5 cents for about 4-5 plastic bags.

I get there to the grocery store, all is well so far...I go inside and got about a cart full when trouble snuck up on me and nabbed my flip flop and broke it. Okay, so it wasn't actually trouble who broke my flip flop...it was the fact they were getting kind of old and I did know I needed a new pair. Now, I am stuck there with half an order of groceries with a broken strap of my flip flop (they sort of look like the one's above), and I don't have anything with me to fix it until I get home. So there I am walking funny to get the rest of my groceries, kind of like a slide/drag...nearly decided to take them off to do the rest in my bare feet but I thought they would kick me out. What would you do in my situation???

I then remembered about the cheap sandals one can get in the clothing section, I shuffle over to the aisle and found a great new pair for $4...so off I scooted awkwardly to the cash to pay for my order and to get the new pair of flip flops on my feet. I was kind of sad though about the pair that broke, because they were my favorite pair...

Will have some crafty things posted for you in the next couple of days, sorry I haven't been here posting as often as I would have liked to be but have been busy with taking my oldest son to DVBS. So will be back!

Inky Hugs,

Update

Just wanted to pop on by to give you an update on my middle guy, this is now week 2 on new dose of meds and it is AMAZING the changes we have seen in him over the past two weeks. I am so happ

y, and very exciting too :)!

To give you an idea of the kinds of changes I am talking about:

~He can tell us now without too much trouble what is bothering him

~He can ask for help if he needs help

~He is talking a whole lot more

~He is hasn't had as many meltdowns, and when he does have them he can calm himself down within minutes NOT hours

~He doesn't stim as much anymore either, only if his senses are overloaded or he is very upset

~He is more helpful (telling his sister who is 2 to use her big girl words or to listen to his words)

~He is telling us he loves us, without any prompting

The list just goes on and on of the good things that have been happening with him :)! There is something we didn't think was such a HUGE problem which has become more evident that he is on the meds. He is seriously lacking in the area of socialization, he is at about a 2-3 year old level we think! He has no idea how to act in public, what is appropriate to say, how to start/finish conversations, he doesn't really know how to ask other kids to play with him ( he will introduce himself, then tell them all about who is in his family and then by that point the kids have given him a weird look and run away). He doesn't understand why sometimes people don't want to talk to him or why they don't want to play...we are at the "why?" stage with him when it comes to socialization. He also doesn't know emotions, by that I mean he doesn't know how to read people's faces and tell you how they are feeling...or why they are feeling that way.

This just breaks my heart to see, but it means I have to create a program for him over the next week or two to help him learn all of these things and more. We also have to first figure out how he learns, he is a very visual learner and have used social stories for him but they don't work. The pictures have to be so simple with one to two words on it, then for some reason things click...but now here is the tricky part. How do you teach someone all the socialization skills they need when they are 5 years old by inch by inch pictures??

Inky Hugs,

Passion for ProMakers image by Ruth

I was looking over on the blog "Passion for ProMarkers" and I came across this beautiful image that I just HAD to make a card from, Ruth made this image and what an amazing job she did too. If you want to use this image, please go on over to the blog and get it from there don't take it from here and please give credit where it is due. so here is what I came up with using this image :)! The sentiment is a Unity stamp, and it says "Meditate.Live purely. Ben quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds SHINE" by Buddha

Inky Hugs,

question

As you have noticed I have been adding more pictures to my blog, I am more intersted in getting into photography but I am wondering if any of you have great Digital photography blogs or hints in using Photoshop to enhance your pictures. Am hoping one of my crafty readers has some great sites to check out :)!

Hugs,

catherine

Paper Craft Castle

A friend of mine found this blog that had a paper craft castle, check out this blog to see more pictures of this castle. WOW, is all I have to say...and think of the patience they had to make this!!!!

Inky Hugs,

Creative Antics blog candy giveaway

There is blog candy up for grabs over on the blog called "Creative Antics", Ann is celebrating her first Blogaversary and would love to have her first blog giveaway :)! There are some pretty fab things up for grabs over there, so please go check it out...or just stop by to say hi...

Inky Hugs,

Crafty night with the Gals

Last night, we had a crafty night and our challenge project had to have flowers on it somewhere and so here is what I created for the challenge.

Here is the card I recieved in our card challenge swap, thi

s time I got Kim's card and I just LOVE it...just gorgeous :). Everyone, did an amazing job on their challenge cards.

Yvonne provided us with our group projects for the night, I have seen this one on several people's blogs but just thought it was difficult. It is far from being difficult, WOW...what a great project and Julie used this project for teachers gifts this year. She put paper clips and other doo dads in the boxes, and of course a little bit of chocolate too :p! I can't wait to make some more of these boxes, and here is the link for this tutorial:

http://www.stubbystampers.com/

Here is what the inside of the box looks like, pretty neat :)!

I also made a card (it was more like a postcard) for Deborah to say thank you for holding these crafty nights at her place, the stamp I used is by the Artful Stamper. Here is what I did to create this card:

~Stamped out the image onto watercolor paper

~colored in image on watercolor paper

~stamped out image onto Vellum

~colored in image on vellum, then I cut out the leaves and butterfly wings.

~attached wings and leaves using some glue

~used my glass finish one the butterflies bodies

Here is what the "postcard" looks like from a different angle, it turned out amazingly and yes it did take a bit of time and patience to get it completed. But it was worth it in the end :)!

Inky Hugs,