Sheryl Schmidt Artistry

Hi everyone. I had such great intentions of keeping my blog up this summer but life has once again gotten in the way. I have a very close family member in the hospital right now. The Dr.'s are preparing us for the worst. They are not optimistic that he will survive. He is battling a very serious infection and the medications that are supposed to help him fight the infection are causing his kidneys to shut down. I have been "living" at the hospital for the last 10 days. My poor husband and children have been left to fend for themselves. I am living on coffee and little sleep. DH has a few days off this week so I hope to lock myself in my scrap room and create some art. I need to find a day to just decompress. I will still be making my draw on June 30th so remember to sign up to be a follower of my blog.

Sign up to be a follower of my BLOG and your name will be entered into a draw. I will be making 2 draws: 1 for local followers and 1 for those that don't live close by. If you are already a follower your name will automatically be put into the draw. What am I drawing for???? For those who live near Saskatoon a $10.00 gift certificate to my favorite local scrapbook store, Just Scrap It! and for those who don't live near by how about a fun Jar of Whimsy filled with all sorts of goodies. I will be making my draw on June 30th. I may even have an extra goody for the person who leaves the most comments on my blog by June 30th. You just never know when I might surprise you.

A few weeks back I took part in Just Cre8's Happy Be Scrappy Crop. It was a blast. These 4 LO's were created using Amanda'a Recipe I really enjoyed her recipe and will definately be using it again.

Hi everyone. Please bare with me as I change my blog around. Feel free to leave me comments telling me what you think.

We celebrated Ruby-Jean's birthday a little early. Her "real" day is next Saturday and she will be 4.She asked for a Princess party so I tried to give her a little of that. We went shopping and picked out some balloons and napkins and party hats. I wanted to keep it pretty low key and thankfully she was thrilled with all that I let her pick out. She had her Oma and Opa here for the day but I think the highlight of her day was when her "special" friend came. We will call him W. I forgot to ask his mom if I could post his picture but I'll tell you all about it. W and Ruby are as thick as thieves. Ruby calls W her "boyfriend" it really is quite cute but I think it may distress W a little. He knew exactly what she would love for a gift (thanks W's mom) and he made her Birthday card himself and wrote in it. It was way too cute. Ruby gave W a huge hug after opening her gift and reading her card. Lets just say it was adorable. Being a man though he w...

Roses for Mother's Day. I was playing around with my macro lens and a spray bottle. My Mother in law received these from my sister in law for Mother's day. I'm happy with the way the pictures turned out but I do want to play with depth of field a little more.

I made this altered sign during Just Cre8's online crop. I forgot to take before pictures but let's just say that seagulls and lighthouses aren't really my thing. It was a Dollar Store find. I love how it turned out. The quote says"Dream as if you'll live forever...live as if you'll die today." -James Dean