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#redballoonsforryan

i still can’t believe it.
i keep thinking it isn’t real.
how can it be?

this sweet young boy was struck by a truck last friday. i know we are all in shock.

all day i sat and cried my eyes out and i put myself in Jacqui’s shoes. what could she be going through? what would i do?

after a day like that i don’t just turn a 180 and smack a smile on my face and act like everything is peachy.

i am distraught.

but this isn’t good either. now i am doing my family a disservice. my family doesn’t have to lose their mother to commiseration and wallowing in empathy for another family we faintly knew. of course i held all my children closer and listened to them better and paid them constant attention, but this isn’t about me. my intense feelings for this sad tragedy should move me into action. action that helps. action that gives. action that is still there for my family. i am still a wife and a mother and just because depression is a slippery slope for those who have dwelled there doesn’t mean i allow myself to fall back in.

evil wants us to fall, God wants us to rise above and take action.

here’s how we can help. if you live nearby sign up to bring meals, help with the house, bring whatever it is they need. if you do not live nearby send money, prayers, and cards.

here are some ways to send money in Ryan’s name:

• lisa leonard created a necklace just for this cause. $5 goes to the family for every necklace purchased.
• donate directly to the family at Thrive Moms
• this week i am giving 100% of the sales from my planner directly to the family.

what this what i love wednesday is:
i love this family and i love how we are all going to move to action and help.

you can read the tragic story of what happened to sweet Ryan, here on Alissa’s blog.

xoxo,
krystina 

i would love for you to link up your loves and i understand if you are not feeling up to it today. what ever you chose is right. thank you for stopping by today.

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scrapbooking!
i have been scrapbooking since Soleil was 6 months old, so i guess that means i have been scrapbooking for almost 15 years now. i was drawn at first to all the pretty. and preserving family history seems wise.

i can’t frame all the pictures i take and i makes me sad to think they’ll be sitting on a hard drive somewhere unseen. we take so many photos – even when i started scrapbooking while taking film photos! now we take an exorbitant amount of photos with our digital cameras and now on our iPhones.

we share via facebook, twitter, and instagram.
but have you ever tried to go back a year on your social networks? it’s hard.
i can pull 2007 off my shelf and look back at our move to Lake Tahoe and back.
i can look at our trip to New York City in 2008.
family and friends that come over can share in the experience and look through the years as the kids have changed and grown.

the most precious reward for me is to see how much the kids love going through the scrapbooks i have made, talking about trips and memories, and family visits, and things they used to do. they pour over them. sigh, this is gold. i love it.

when i lived in morro bay my friends who introduced me to scrapbooking would get together monthly and scrapbook… together. i know! in real life! this was not just scrapbooking, this was building friendships, bonding, creating together. sharing our stories with each other. besides my family pouring over my scrapbooks this is the other beautiful reward that comes with scrapbooking good friends, old friends, new friends, and a lot of laughs! i still go up about once a year to a 4 day scrapbook retreat with those ladies. but i need to get a group going where i live too.

scrapbooking is not dead. i thought maybe it was because i can’t seem to find anyone in san diego county that wants to do it with me. but i see women in the scrapbook isle at michaels and my heart skips a beat – oh! they scrapbook, yay! should i go up to them and invite them to my house? yikes, probably not a good idea. and i see a large following for the project life series. and i see tons of gorgeous sites dedicated to scrapbooking, such as studio calico, crate paper, basic grey… with online classes and kits. there is hope, a flickering light of a small candle burning, glowing brighter.

i encourage you to find a way to preserve your photos where they can be seen not just on your walls, and definitely not hiding on a hard drive somewhere. have you had a picture on your wall and had to explain where you were and what the kids were doing and what happened and maybe why you took that photo in the first place? that is scrapbooking, now put it on a page and write those things and thats it. easy as pie and definitely sweeter.

scrapbook images via studio calico

what are you loving today???

xoxo,
krystina

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i love books!

i think i have posted books for what i love wednesday more than once…
but i really do love them!!

i could sit here all day!

from here and here

can’t wait to see your loves today!
xoxo,
krystina

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i am so thrilled i get to go to Creative Tea Time at The Printed Palette!

i cannot wait!

i promise to post all about it next week :)

now what are you loving?
xoxo,
krystina

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i am still loving faux calligraphy! it’s certainly drool worthy!
here are a few gorgeous faux calligraphy fonts i am seriously crushing on…

i just love all the swashes don’t you?
sold on myfonts.com here, here, and here.

can’t wait to see what you’re loving today!
xoxo,
krystina

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i am loving hand lettering and faux calligraphy!

from here, here, and here.

i can’t wait to see what you’re loving today!
xoxo,
krystina

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i love being creative with nail polish!

this time i used borghese grape, with some generic white, and some of icing’s gold glitter. i use whatever i can get my hands on that still works and strikes my artsy side. i do a coat and do some web design, phone calls, and emails. then another coat, and so on. i was actually inspired to do these colors from a little notecard i saw the other day: black, white, and gold :)

happy wednesday!
xoxo,
krystina

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