CREATING KEEPS ME BALANCED

     What I like most about creating is how it helps me to express my self.  It's also an outlet for me.  I have a bedroom in my home that I call my work room, filled with everything you can imagine and some days I spend the whole day in there.  I even take my lunch down there with me.  I feel for me that it helps me to stay balanced.  We all need something in our lives that keeps us balanced and some times we need many things to do that.  Even throughout the day we wear many different hats, mother, wife, caregiver, religious leader and many more.  We can do all of these well when we keep balanced and fill each pitcher properly.
     But what I like most about creating crafts, books, etc. is sharing them with someone.  People are usually surprised to get something that is homemade.  But for me its not just homemade, its from the heart and I love that.
     Take time to fill your cup/pitcher today with whatever make you happy. (sometimes for me its as simple as a tall glass of Diet Dr. Pepper!)  And be the best that you can be!

So basically, how this works is, you have your engagement pictures taken, or send me whatever pictures you want to work with, I create your pages, book, or framed art and send it back to you and viola!  You have a wonderful keepsake!  Contact me and let me know what you would like to have created.  I'll be posting more ideas and projets very soon, so check back often.  kelly7francom@gmail.com

Childhood Friends

My daughter Sarah is 21 and one of her best friends from grade school tied the knot this summer.  Nikki is such a beautiful girl and their reception was also.  Congratulations cute girl and best of luck!

I just love the colors she chose.

ALOHA!

If you can't go to Hawaii then I guess the next best thing is to create it on paper for someone!  My niece was married this summer and that was the theme of their reception.

Back to work...

Ok, well we had some cute friends get married over the summer and what great fun that was!  I helped my friend Liz with her daughters wedding.  Liz and I have been friends for about 33 years now.  We met when we were in college and have been fortunate enough to live close to eachother ever since.  However, now she must move out of the state becuase of her husbands work and I'm of course devastated!  But life will go on (only lonelier).

Here are their pages.

So lets talk shop.  As the new year begins, my desire is to create more pages for you.  Please email me at kelly7francom@gmail.com and let me know how I can help you.  Tell your friends and so on and lets create some memories.  

So my husband and I decided to do something crazy this last summer.  Well, it wasn't really crazy, it was actually wonderful, exciting and all around amazing!  We went to Italy!!!  What a beautiful country and the food!  Words cannot describe how delicious everything was.  And the gelato!!!!  Oh the gelato, made to perfection.
So I must share a few pics with you, and go down memory lane for just a few minutes.

This is on Lake Como in northern Italy.  Breathtaking isn't it?!

And the gelato.....did mention the gelato!

Verona!

Venice

The David!

Florance!

Crazy food.....

And Milan!  That's way to small of a nut shell, but thanks for indulging me:)

I'm Back! Yaaaaaaah!

And where on earth have I been.................we'll get to that later:)  So I have since quit my job in order to devote more time to my passion.  Pretty crazy I know, but I'm very excited.  Who does that!?  I have been somewhat busy, I just haven't taken the time to keep things up on the blog.  So here we go.  I thought it would be a good idea, since I'm always showing the wedding sign-in pages, to show you what they look like at the end of the reception.  Duh, so here are the ones I did for my son's reception a few years ago.  As with all of the pages, when they are completed, we put them in an album for a beautilful keepsake.

So, some of the pages are a little hard to make out the writing, becuase the paper is darker than usual.  So some of them you'll be able to see it better than others.  Enjoy!

They have since had the cutest little guy ever, Owen and their second is now on the way!  Arriving in March!