I dont do this nearly enough

Slice of Sunday

Waiting for my men to come home. 

Quick

Someone remind me to breathe!! I LOVE this blog and look its me on there,!!!! (well at least my boobs!!!) With all that fabulosity!!!!  

A to Z, e-i-e-i-o

E is for Elope. 

It took me a bit to think of a word for E, in my self imposed A to Z challenge.  I was even going to ask you guys, when doh! ( insert slapped forehead here), Derr Fred (people still say that, right??), I eloped. Elope starts with e, and our wedding day is a favourite memory of mine.

Sunset at Broadbeach, just me and my sons ( back then only Josh and a baby Tyler) , 2 hired witnesses and Rod. No flowers except the yellow blooms sprinkled upon the dunes, provided by god. 

We didn't think about music, which Kate ( amazing celebrant in QLD) brought along anyway. As we said our vows - You're  Beautiful by James Blunt started. It was all we could do to not burst out laughing, we despise that song and its now our wedding song, but it's an extremely us thing for that to happen so just made it more a perfect day.

A quick dip up to an Italian restaurant, then woolies pavlova by the pool of our hotel. And a whole week to hit the Queensland theme parks. 

I played with some layering, I started with a blue flower serviette, and then paint and more paint then some crackle medium and more paint. 

On the title side, a beautiful bride from a 1950s home journal magazine. The Elope and a few feature words, are written in black pen, then Dm'd and White spots added, just because!!

I stuck to yellow with just hints of blue, because the yellow flowers that stick out so brightly in my mind. 

Ps On that day, I wore a $20 dress. The men/boys wore $60 shirts each. And while this does not bother me, occasionally I use that fact to help decision making processes!! - Hey he knew what he was getting into! 

Scrap Tuesday!

Which I know was yesterday.

I finished scrapping, picked up the big boys from school. And promptly went to bed. At 3:30. In the afternoon. 

It was sleep or play war with my headache. The headache was winning. I didnt even get to enjoy the luxury of sleeping in the afternoon. And I love a nanna nap!

Hang on, Scrap Tuesday??? Where is your scrappin'?!? And what the buggery is that? 

Well my camera, as I might have mentioned before occasionally, likes to throw tantrums. And today is such a day. Its refusing to talk to my computer, so instead Im showing you something crafty I whipped up by accident the other week.  Completely by accident cause Im just that good. 

I died my whites yellow. Not pink, which I have done before, but a lovely, yellow sputem, green ( I remember this colour well from my nursing days!).

So to Mr Linky. Im still trying him out. Add your blog post about something creative you've done. 

Please, with sugar on top.

Today

Is the third of March. This time last year, a wonderful friend I know had no idea by dinner time her life would be changed for ever. Her husband hung himself. Under the veranda while her and her 4 children were inside.  Shortly after this someone I love tried to kill them selves again, ( it was not the first time, but by god I hope it is the last attempt, actually it was close to the 3 year anniversary of their last attempts.). 

Mental health has such a stigma, We keep quiet about it, We hide it. We suffer in silence, because of the fear. There is not good enough help in this country, our hospitals are under funded and under staffed, The mental health wards do not run the programs that are needed. How can they?

So what do I know? I know that they dont think about us when they are trying to end it all, they dont think about how it will all change for everyone. How it will leave us raw. That suicide breeds suicide. That no matter how hard we try, sometimes we cant stop it. That I have had seen enough and felt with the after effects to last me 16 lifetimes. That its not our fault, no matter how much at times we believe it is. 

Ill be back after with my late scrap tuesday post.