Its been some time since I;ve been here. Every time I wanted to update my blog something was going on, or I just didn't feel like writing about what was or wasn't going on. I've been down lately, and the closer to Christmas it got, the worse I got. I went through about a month with my blood sugar shooting sky high, and know how hard that is on my insides. Well, I finally got it stopped and now my sugar levels are normal again, but the meds I take have side effects. Nothing I can;t live with. Not complaining, just explaining.

With the melt-down of our economy, I am reminded every day how lucky I am, I needent worry at all, my husbands retired from a goverment agency, and we are secure with his pension. But, so many others are hurting, it so sad... and the oweners of small businesses... how can they stay in business??? I was one before I had to retire, I know how stressfull this time of year is! Not that it hasn't effected me too, I lost half of my savings which , thankfully, we don't need right now, but it still stings. Like I fell into a beehive! Oh well, that's life. I'm still here and that's all that counts.

On to more pleasant things. I'm going through the artwork I've done this year, and I am going to put it in order, for a slideshow about 2008. I may not do as much designing in 2009 (making digital scrapbook pages), I'm instead going to redo some of the things I rushed, and others that need more work. My creative jucies are starting to bubble up, and I can't ignore them. I'm starting to feel to restricted to certian colors. And I've thought about getting a booklet together about how to do some things in the program I use. I've been asked to make tutorials and it is a real stretch for me. I can do the pics but hate the writing part. I thought if I make it a project of mine, I'd put more effort into it. there's about 4 other projects I want to start too. well, maybe. I don't make plans anymore, just take life one day at a time. It lasts so much longer that way.

All for now. Hope I get back sooner than last time. Will be posting some of the pages I did this last year. Come back and take a look!

I'M BACK!

Oh, you didn't notice I was away, well, I guess I don't get out in public much, maybe that's why nobody noticed. Anyway, I was on another cruise. Just a short trip over to the Bahamas. Only 4 days, or was it 5? It was nice and relaxing. Had great weather, took some pics, ate too much, and was glad to get home. Didn't take my laptop. Fred thought he'd never get me out of the room if I did. He was right too, hehe! I'm trying to write a tutorial for making glitter in Digital Image Pro,

and it's going slow. When it's done it will be at http://www.snlscrappers.com/ Lots of other good tuts there also. Go have a look!

I really like the way this background turned out! I was also playing with a different technique to use on some of my photos. So I put the two together and this is what I came up with. I will probably do more work on this page, but wanted to put it up on the blog now!
What would be your suggestion to finish it off?
What kind of element should I add?
What would make it a "WOW" page?
Help me out here!
Thanks, Koko









This is for a kit I'm working on for later. I take my time on lots of page kits. It usually takes a lot of tweaking before I'll use it, as this one does.
















These backgrounds were made for the SNL scrappers group http://www.snlscrappers.com/.

















Another unfinished page. Yep. I do have lots of these!

More Pages!

Metal Backgrounds by Koko

These sure turned out great, if I may say so myself! (HeHe!) What do you think?

OUCH!

I knew I should have gotten out of the market. But I didn't, and now I'm watching my savings slide downhill. Life is tough. So is the stock market. I've lost lots of money, now I just hope the market will recover at least some of my losses. Oh well, it's only money.

Let's change the subject! Here's some of my latest pages.

Another day, just wasting away.

Here it is Oct. and I feel like I have unfinished things to do. The problem is, I don't know what they are. It's just a feeling like I should hurry and I don't know where it's coming from. Does that make sense? I'm not to sure if it's because my blood sugar is totally out of whack, or if I'm just loseing it. Sugar count has been anywhere from 250 to 450, and that's way high. It makes me spacy and forgetful, thank goodness for Fred to keep an eye on me. I'm not eating any sweets, and watching what I eat, but I can't get my sugar levels down. I need to either go back on byetta, or go on insulin shots now. Yuk. Byetta is shots too, but at least they're pre-measured.