Finally scrapped...

We had a lazy Sunday after an extremely late Sat night. I have been wanting to scrap a page on Bella's Imaginary friend, "Darling", for a while. Her Darling came about last year after our house fire, she talked about her constantly and has only just now slowed down. We felt that she used her Darling to express her emotions about the fire and about my brother who comitted suicide on Dec 31 2008. We were advised to let her go with it but to encourage her to express HER emotions as well as Darling's. It is so cute though that it's a little sad to see Darling is fading out of Bella's life. I took the opportunity to do a page for Aussie Scrapjacked. I really enjoyed participating in their July Jack.
Beginning of the holidays here so I'm off to pop a few valium (joking) and get on with it! Hope all have a good week!

House fires;

Just checked my blog and realised I haven't even mentioned here that we had a house fire or 2! On July 15th last year we had our first fire, the house needed to be gutted. Then in September we had a second fire that left only the back wall of the house standing. They could find no accelerant and claimed it to be an electrical fault. Hard one because we had had vandals hanging around, graffiti in the house and on my son's caravan. The electricity had been reconnected 3 days prior though to have power to the shed....so who knows!
Main thing we are all well and coping fine.
Thanks to all of you that sent us well wishes during that time. x

It's been a long time...

OMG I can't believe a year has passed since our house fire (almost anyway). We are doing well and on the way to building our new home. My awesome husband has done a fantastic job! He has had one friend helping him out along the way, we couldn't have done it without him actually. Anyway I am so excited the frame is up now so you can actually get an idea of the space. I will get on here asap and load some pics.
We have also had a new addition to the family (don't fall over yet) in the shape of my 13 year old nephew Harley. He is my sister's son, my neice, his sister, has been with us for over 2yrs now. It is like having another infant in the house, teaching him all the basic skills needed in life, even down to needing to shower daily and brush his teeth more than once a month, LOL!
I hope to start getting on here more often and actually find time to scrap (somewhere). Hope everyone is doing well in whatever it is you are doing!
Mel x