It is amazing how in just a few weeks your life can go from normal everyday to something you don't even recognize anymore. I guess that is what has happen to me. For those of you who follow me you know that I have not posted in a week.
It is not because I have not been in my craft room handling paper and more paper and more paper. I have been going through 15 years of samples. (I had over 20 boxes of different sizes and shapes filled to the brim with 3-d projects, card samples, 12x12 scrapbooking pages and that is the stuff that has already been stamped on) You might ask why I would do such a thing since I have never done such a complete job in the past. (I promise you I have cleaned out every 6 months or so along the way but never looked at everything I just thought I had to save before).
Well, here is why... Ted has a job offer from an oil company called Aramco and if all goes well we will be moving in July. I know, I know I have moved many times in the past but never like this. The job will move us to Saudi Arabia. If you are like me it might take you a few minutes or weeks to get your head around that one. We will be living on the Persian Gulf in an Americanized camp (it's a small city). I will still be a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, (I got the approval from SU! on Friday). I will still have this blog and will be able to sell on line to any and all of you my customers as well as have workshops when I come back to the states. The problem lies in that fact that we will have to ship our "stuff" slow boat to Arabia and we are limited on how much weight we can take. (I hate to guess that even after cleaning out my craft room the bulk of the weight will be in crafting supplies.. ha ha)
Well, I have promised a few of my customers that heard about this possibility a couple weeks ago that I would put more personal stuff on my blog. They want pictures and information about Arabia and the lifestyle there. So for those of you I am raising my right hand and promising to do that. (We had to raise our right hand today getting passports for my younger daughters so I thought I would do that here).
In cleaning out I decided to create this page. It was using an old 2 page spread I have had stacked here to use someday and an email my daughter sent me one night that touched my heart. I really miss this daughter. She is serving a Spanish speaking church mission and they were planning to keep her in Arizona until August 19th but with all the changes going on with us they are letting her come home on her early transfer so she will be home July 8th. Yea! We will be moving soon after. The page uses Rose Romance cardstock, for those of you who are old like me... that was a color they discontinued last time SU! made a color change and a stamp set I can't even remember it's name. I do love the pocket I tucked journaling into. It was perfect for this page that the major part of the journaling is the email from my daughter and yet I wanted to add my personal thoughts as well.
For those of you who are interested, some of my scrapbooking two-page spreads are now available for purchase at my other blog http://wowscrapbookkits.wordpress.com and I hope to get some listed here as well in the near future.
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