Finally: Finishing Touches - Fanciful is in store and on sale!

Yes, that's right - a new product from me! The broken wing is starting to heal after five weeks (three weeks to go til the next check-up but who's counting?), and I am finished with the February Muse and able to create again!

Finishing Touches: Fanciful -


And remember to snag my newest freebie if you haven't already!


Catch you later!

Let me explain - no, there is too much. Let me sum up:

So. Towards the end of last year, my world fell into a dark, dark hole. I got the phone call that every one dreads - my mother was diagnosed with cancer. Very rare. Very aggressive. So many questions, no answers forthcoming just a barrage of tests and no real details in sight. To get her as strong as possible for the fight ahead, she and I enrolled in the gym and three days a week til her surgery (9 Dec 11) she and I went to the gym. It wasn't much, in the grand scheme of things, but it was time with my mother whilst we waited out the storm that was brewing. She's had surgery and now is waiting to start her chemo and radiation treatments, which will kick off in the next week or two.

My American sister, Cherie, dropped everything and managed to squeeze several weeks off to help out over the Christmas/New Year period, and indeed just went home yesterday. What a blessing her visit was - one week after she arrived, I fell out of a door (long, embarrassing story right there) and fractured my right humerus (the greater tuberosity). Talk about painful AND debilitating - I can't drive, write, type (well, one-handed), sleep or eat properly. Her visit meant that my mother had 24/7 care during the worst of her post-surgery recovery, doubly important since I am now useless as an assistant.

I had finished uploading the January muse the night before the injury, so I am grateful that I was able to be up-to-date with The Muse as it would have just capped off my misery if that had gone to custard. But the time off with my own daughter during her school holidays has been crappy as all get out. Being 8, she gets cabin fever pretty easily, and all I can do is not a whole danged lot. She has done very well, and shortly it will be my husband's turn to care for her for two weeks... heh heh heh.

I have an image that I found on pinterest (oh, what a dangerously time-consuming place that is!) that pretty much sums up my feelings about 2011:


It is highly likely that you won't be seeing a whole lot of me til my wing is healed (approx 10 Feb) but at least you know why.

New element pack and a freebie

I've just released my newest element pack, Messy Frames:


I've been meaning to do a Remembrance Day kind of kit, but time has escaped me, so here is a little Personal Use Remembrance Day gift.

(click on the image and then you can right-mouse click save it)

A big thank you to those who serve our countries, protecting us and keeping freedom free. Bless you all.

International Digi Scrapbooking Day SALE!!

Yes, it's that time of the year again,

when all the digi scrappers break stores all over the world,
shopping for bargains!



My store is 40% off, with some items 50% off
(which makes $1 and $2 items, and nothing over $4).

Click on the image above to be taken to my store!

Sale is on til 7 November,
so come on and bag a bargain!

Coming soon to Altered Emporium...

... yes, coming soon!

It's a Chick Thing

I don't know about you, but sometimes I get things stuck in my head, and there they stay until I've created them... such as it is with Chick Thing which I've literally just uploaded to the store.

My little chick is home sick and oh well, if I have to stay home then I might as well create.

I created this page using one of the play on word arts, along with a paper from Finishing Touch: Foofaraw, and two of my Written Overlays:

Have a happy day!

Shadowland is Live!

Yes, Shadowland is in store and on sale!

I asked, and received in abundance, assistance from not only my wonderful creative team but some other amazing artists from Deviant Scrap. Thank you, my dear friends, for working with Shadowland and for creating such insightful and inspiring art.

Okay, because I've crammed as many images into the one area, you'll need to click on the images to see them clearer. They will get larger when you click on them, I promise!

I hope these previews give you an idea of the amazing talent in these ladies, and encourage you to check out my store gallery over the next few days as they upload their art. Leave them love - it is well deserved!!