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Saturday, October 17, 2020

Chloe Bear's Fight is My Fight

 This blog was originally created to showcase my work that I create for Kenzie, my now 10 year old daughter. I have taken a huge hiatus for few years to focus on my family and we have actually added to it! Kenzie now has a step brother who is 11 and a 1 year old baby sister! She also has a brother or sister on the way, due in December. 


Kenzie's little sister Chloe just celebrated her 1st birthday on September 15th, 2020 and 1 week later was diagnosed with AML leukemia. Below is a picture of her at her Moana birthday party, and a picture taken today in the hospital.



If you have been here a while you might be familiar with my niece Emily having leukemia and joining a blog hop that some scrappy friends and I did to raise awareness and get Cards for Emily started. Her link is still on the left side of my blog, but she has since gone into remission and is now 15 years old!!

Chloe has been at the Stanford Childrens Hospital in Palo Alto CA since October 5th. They started her on continuous dialysis due to renal failure and chemo for her cancer right away. Her daddy and I have been by her side since the doctors visit that sent us to the ER and from the ER straight here.



She has made great progress so far! Her kidneys are functioning on their own and she already is off of dialysis and the "long term" line they had put in was actually taken out after only 6 days! She surprised everyone! She was intubated when we first arrived as well. That has since been removed and she is breathing on her own. She still has a long way to go as her left lung is not filling with air properly yet hence the need for the giraffe CPAP machine you see above. It is to help air go into her airway to help pop her lung open fully so she doesn't have to work so hard on her own. That, plus the chemo treatments that she will get for 10 days at a time every 22 days. She will also need lumbar punctures into her spinal cord to treat her spinal fluid with chemo every Friday, and a bone marrow biopsy every 22 days to test where she is at after every chemo treatment. 

I am now asking the scrapping and blogging community yet again for your support during this incredibly difficult time. If you could find it in your hearts to create a card or something to put up in her room to make her hospital walls look a little more happy and colorful, we would really appreciate it! We are still currently in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit until we can get her stable enough to move up to the Oncology Unit where she will be staying as a full time inpatient through the course of her chemo. As of right now, we know that means at least through the holidays and maybe into January-February. 

Our address here is:
Chloe Sullivan
Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital at Stanford
725 Welch Rd
Palo Alto, CA 94304

If you could also share our GoFundMe link to your friends and family to help get the word out, we will be needing some additional  help with her medical expenses so we can focus on getting her healthy and keeping her comfortable. If donating is not for you, please do not feel obligated at all, we just would like to thank anybody and everybody for the love and support while we help our Chloe Bear fight leukemia and beat cancer's butt!






Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Project life... week 5

Last one for the day...

Week 5:
Only one page spread because week 4 had very little pictures, so I had to use up the other side of the spread. Lots more pictures, but not a busy week so it worked out perfectly :) Love adding little journaling here and there and little tags right on the pictures..

Bought these new roller stamps from 2 peas in a bucket (love that store!) finally got to use it and I love the way it came out!

TFL!
Be back soon with more weeks! :)

Project life... still catching up

Back again, sharing the next week of my project life, that I never posted... better late then never right?!

Week 4:
So far this is my favorite, colorwise :) Only a one page spread due to lack of pictures, but that's ok!

I am trying to stick with the little calendar for each week and keep the circle title throughout, so far I'm really liking them :)

Used lots of dimension on this page, with the little dots, and letters, and stickers, OH MY!

My little cutie!

TFL! :)

Project Life....Catch up?

Hey guys!
Did ya miss me?? :) I missed you! I have been taking a break for a little while but I've been having that itch to get back into my creative ways! LOL

I fell behind on Project life a few months, but all of my pictures for every week are in their respective folders, just waiting to be edited and printed... and a few weeks are still just waiting for embellies and papers in the pages but the pictures are all placed... So I'm hoping to get back into the swing of things once I get Photoshop back. (I had a trial and now it's expired and I'm putting off buying the full version)

I'm here to share with you the next couple of weeks in the book that I never posted. ENJOY!

Here is week 3:
(as always, click on any picture to enlarge it)
The whole double page spread, how it looks in the book.

Left side:
I printed my "week 3" title and stamped the weeks dates on it, slapped it on some paper, doodled a bit and called it done. LOVE when it's easy and simple! :)
My zebra and giraffe cups and bowls are from World Market, don't you love them!?

Right side:
The music note is an svg cut found online
I am loving journaling directly on the photos!

The top right is a flip flap that I made my folding a 6x8 in half at the 4" mark and stuck one half in the pocket and made a little tab and taped it down on the outside.

Here is what it looks like open

& the whole page with the opened flap

Some of my favorite embellies on this page (the journaling goes with the image to the left of it, not the napping sweetheart) :)

TFL!

Friday, February 8, 2013

Blog Giveaway Winner!


It's Friday!
I have chosen a winner for my blog giveaway, and according to random.org

The winner is....

Ardilla said...
I posted on my sidebar...
Thanks for the chance to win, although the first three numbers are never too lucky :)
Hugs,
Ardilla


Congratualtions!! Email me your address and I will ship it out to you asap!
Michelie510@hotmail.com


Thursday, January 31, 2013

Prima Grab-Box for Sale!

This box is full of Prima and Ruby Violet products and paper and is worth over $50!

I am selling it today for only $30 plus shipping! That's 40% savings! Email me to get an exact shipping quote to where you live.

Payment is to be made by paypal, I will send you the link to pay once you are ready, there is only one so first to pay gets it!!




Please comment with any questions and I will respond ASAP!





Giveaway!! & Stash-Cleanout!

About a week or two ago I posted that I would be having a giveaway the next day.. I know it has been a while but as promised here it is! I have a whole giant box stuffed FULL of stuff that needs love from somewhere else as I have not used it in so long, it is feeling neglected! :)

Click on any photo to view it SUPERSIZED!
In this giveaway there is seriously A TON of stuff!
Including: MAMBI 12x12 paper stack
DCWV Collage musing paper stack
6x6 paper pad
Misc. 12x12 papers
Oval cutting templates and blades/tracks
Letter and Number stenciels (purple)
House mouse stamp, ink pads
Prima stamp
Plus xmas ribbons, baby girl stickers and embellies, beach stickers and embellies, love stickers and embellies, 2 mini albums, misc. die cuts and much much more!!

Close up of some of the stickers and embellies

2 barely used or not used at all 12x12 STACKS!
and other papers

more stickers and embellies

and more!

misc 12x12 papers

stamps and inks and ribbons...

better view of just the stickers and embellishments

stamps, vellum, metal pieces, 3D stickers, jewel stickers, love elements, beach elements...etc etc!

and soooo much more!! This box is stuffed!!

All you have to do to win is:
1. Follow me!
2. Post my giveaway on your side bar
3. Post about my giveaway on your blog
4. "Like" me on Facebook if you have one!

Thats's 4 entries! Come back and comment letting me which one you did, one comment for each entry and I will pick a winner from my comments (So make sure you comment for each entry!) one week from Friday.

Winner will be announced Friday, February 8, 2013!

Have fun and good luck!


Friday, January 25, 2013

Giveaway! and Prima Sale!

Okay!

So sorry everyone that it has taken me so long to get this giveaway all set up.. I now have a giveaway...
AND
A Prima Sale! I bought a kit a while back and I haven't used anything from it and I know someone out there will get more use from it than I am!
(and maybe even some cricut cartridges?)

So in just a little while I will have BOTH up and running so stay tuned! 

:)

Sunday, January 20, 2013

PL13 Week 2 + Tips on organization

Welcome to PL13 Week 2!

This week I used a lot of freebies from Pinterest. All of the rainbow hearts and stripe cards are from here.

I took the pictures of my pages while they were still in the book so sorry for the ring shadows and the crooked left side lol. Next week I will take them out to get a "flatter" straighter picture.

I used an instagram of a collage I made this week, love this look so I think I might use more instagrams, but maybe a little smaller. For my "week 2" cards, I cut it out using my cricut and scal2 and then used the negative cut out for a 3x4 card with rainbow stripes behind it. Then punched out some butterflies to fill the empty black space and used the positives on the title card. I LOVE all the rainbow I used this week!


The camera is a Dear Lizzy stamp by American Crafts, popped up on pop dots.


Annddd... my journaling for the highlights of the week :)

So I mentioned in my last post that I would share how I organized my layout and here is the weekly planner template that I downloaded for free:
And how I used it for this week to organize my thoughts and plan where I want my pictures to go. It really helps with deciding how to print my pictures in the correct sizes and to see if I need more pictures to fill spots, or to cut back on pictures. It definitely speeds up the slowest process for me. :) Hope it helps you too!

HAPPY SCRAPPING!

Up next...... GIVEAWAY!
better late then never!

PL13 Week 1


As promised, here is week 1 of my PL13! I am very proud of myself that I have been caught up so far! Just a little slow on the posting part, but I am trying to work on that this year :) So far I have been able to finish the weekly spreads before the next week is over and that to me is a HUGE accomplishment since I'm such a perfectionist, and it seems that the deciding what pictures should go where and how to resize them is what takes me the longest.... I found an awesome freebie planner that I will share with you for next week's spread, so keep an eye out! ;) It definitely helps in that department!

Remember: any of my pictures that you would like to enlarge, just click on the picture for the SUPER close up version!
This week was a lot of fun! We went to the Oakland CA Zoo, so I wanted to do a whole 12x12 page of my weekly spread just for that day. My favorite thing to do so far is journaling directly on the photos! I love the look, and freedom that it gives me that I would never do in full size scrapbooking! I also love that everyday pictures are getting scrapped!

My calendar is a freebie printout that I have pinned on my Pinterest, all I did was cut out the calendar part of the 3x4 card with a little border and I'm going to add one of these to every week, I love the look! "This week" and "smile" cards are also freebies I found on Pinterest!

For this project I also learned how to use Photosheet to manipulate my pictures to be ready for printing in sizes that I want, I love the ease and quickness of it! Much quicker than resizing and adding white space in photoshop! I used it to make my 3x4 picture and those little 2x3 pictures too!

Don't you LOVE that craft zebra print!? I do!

And here's my favorite girl! and my favorite animal!

Thanks for looking!!

HAPPY SCRAPPING!