Changes

I have had to cut back on my blogging and have decided to merge some of my blogs due to circumstances at home. My life was changed earlier this year with my son being so ill and now i have less time to play online and so many of my blogs have to go. I adore blogging and feel sad and torn as to which blogs to close so i am merging them into just two or three blogs in total.

Sadly this one will have to go but i will be still carrying on with the same kind of things over at my ARTY RETREAT blog.
I have so many wonderful friends here and i know some of you also follow my arty retreat blog already but please if you don't could you go there and add to follow that one instead of this one. I like to keep up with everyone and would hate to lose followers

I also have challenge blogs and a freebie blog which i am going to merge with one of the challenges. So now the ART FREEBIES blog will also hold a weekly (saturday ) challenge for crafters as well as digital artists. Please add to follow there too if you dont already and would like to.
Lastly i have a darkside challenge which doesnt fit in to merge with anything as it is for the darker side of art and i know many of the followers there love that challenge for its differences so it shall remain just as it is on its own. that one is called ART FROM THE DARKSIDE and if its your cup of tea you will be welcome there.

Thanks to each of you for your wonderful comments and support so far here and i hope with all my heart you will keep on following my blogging efforts
Hugs June xxxx

Party Time - You are invited

Its party time over at Dotties world. An exciting time with lots of prizes to be won in celebration of their birthday. How exciting is that !!
Go on ... go check it out and see - Just click on the invitation !!!

Altered fridge magnets

Isn't it wonderful how many things that we can recycle, alter and turn into beautiful art? I found these magnets in the original wrapper unused but as boring as anything i had ever seen. They were in the bottom of a box of car boot items that the seller wanted just pennies for. Plain white and silver round magnets which just begged to be altered. That was the only cue i needed ..
Alcohol inked in two sets of two colours. Then tiny little pictures of baby angel collages. They then were glazed and it was that simple !

Update and thank you

Hello everyone.
I just wanted to come and explain whats been happening so that you very kind and caring people who have left beautiful comments and prayers will know how things are.
As many of you know, my son had a stroke in february and we have been very lucky that he is here with us. He has been recovering since then and having medications to try and bring his blood pressure into check as its still too high. Before i left the last message, Adam had paid a visit to his doctors and his bp was high again and he had been feeling dizzy a lot. The doc did some checks and arranged immediately for a scan at a hospital out of town after the weekend. At the time it all seemed to really close in on me, maybe because we had already been through so much and it seemed like a new worry and i also have asthma and chest problems right now so i maybe was just vulnerable. I was trying to be strong but it all got too much so i just couldn't cope with managing all the things i do and also be happy and upbeat online .. couldn't face blogging etc.
Since then we have had the results back from the scan. Without going into details, the news is that nothing has changed. This is good news because adam still has a small anuerysm which he worries about. The doctor rang him and told him that the dizziness is caused by the healing of the site where the stroke was so its very sensitive. This is huge relief and i feel much better in spirit now and able to cope again, however i am a little under the weather with my cough and asthma so i shall be taking things slowly.
I hope to get back to setting challenges next week which will be on wednesday.
Thanks so much to all of you for your kind thoughts, and hope to get around to visiting each of you just as soon as i can
June

sorry

To all my friends and fellow bloggers. I won't go into details but my life at the moment is pretty scary and pretty full as recent events in my family have happened and i am finding things too hard to cope with in addition to me not being so well myself so i am unable to cope with juggling all the things i do on the internet too including my sites,forum and blogs. This means that for a while ( I don't know how long as i have no way of knowing when things will get better for us all ) I am not going to attempt to keep up and post blogs, freebies and challenges. I am sorry as i do like to try to keep up and have managed ok until now, with the help of Vron and a few other friends here, but this seems like the best thing to do for now as my family needs to come first. I will be back when i feel able to cope. Thanks to all my friends here

June xxx

TORN

A card I made called Button Dreamer with torn photo and torn papers for the lovely challenge over at One Stop Craft Challenge

Crafty Inspirations Valentine card

Here is my card for Crafty inspirations first challenge. Its a lovely one with valentines being the theme as long as there is black in the image. Mine is a SWALK turquoise and black and i enjoyed this challenge Thanks ladies