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Peek-a-boo Cards: Parrots!

 It is JUUUNE! That means a new swap over at Alpha Stamps. This month is peek-a-boo cards and they're so fun. I made a couple of cards using the Parrots CS, because it's my favorite collage sheet EVAR. 
I love this pink cockatoo.

Now just in case you love parrots and peek-a-boo as much as I do, watch this video...Because it's the cutest. I mean, a teeny tiny parrot playing peek-a-boo with a kleenex? Come on.


Star Trek Crafts

I want to thank everybody for your comments and support on my post from the other day. Your words do a lot to lift me, and I really really do appreciate you. I'm feeling a bit better, probably because all the medicines are working their way out of my system. So I feel better physically at least, and that helps. I'm still pretty down in the dumps... but I won't give up. Bobby and I decided to take a break from trying for at least a few months. Gotta take a breather and focus my energy on something a little less emotionally draining! I decided to sign up for a craft show next weekend. I think the prep work will distract me.

Anyway, I made some Star Trek crafts for a swap the other week and I want to show you what I made.
 First is a journal made from the covers of a recycled old Reader's Digest Condensed Books. The pattern on the book looked retro and kinda perfect, even if I did paint/draw over most of it. I saw a t-shirt that said, "Trek yourself before you wreck yourself" that made me laugh. Took the same sentiment for this journal.
Mister Spock.
 I also drew a little watercolor monster in a Star Trek uniform giving the Vulcan salute.
 And finally a totebag... 
The lot. Live long and prosper.

Beside myself

Our IVF cycle failed. I ovulated too early despite the medicine I was taking to supress ovulation. The chance of ovulating while taking that medicine was 1.5% and it happened to me, two days before my scheduled egg retrieval. I am so sad. I went through all the shots and side effects and driving hours and hours to appointments for nothing. Feel sick. Don't know what to do. When will I get to have a baby?

Sorry if this post is TMI, but I don't care right now.