This time a challenge over at the Websters Ning InspireMe.
This month's challenge is to use some of their Dazzle gems. I gave it a go. Here's what I came up with.
The journaling reads:
Mum, are you a puffer fish today? The perfect word to describe how I feel some days. Just like a puffer fish. All annoyed, so I get spikes and puff up. Leave me alone I’m saying. And while it’s a great word to help the kids understand how Mummy is, I also hate it. I hate the fact that my illnesses this year have left me with no patience (like I had any to start with?! LOL), that I’m tired all the time. That I can’t handle things that used to be easy.
It gives the kids some definition to something they may not otherwise understand. It lets them know it’s not their fault. That Mum is just not coping as well as she normally would. They know that when I’m a puffer fish, you just need to give me a little bit of space. And that’s a good thing, for all of us.
No one said being a Mum was easy, but it’s these little things that make it less stressful. It’s the tools we all make for ourselves that help us get through each hard day so we can enjoy the ones that aren’t so hard. I love my kids! And this funny name “Puffer fish” has been a blessing to us all.
Sarah took the photo of me, and promptly annouced that she didn't like it cause I look too grumpy. Grin.
I used a mix of Websters and Prima. Loving these two mfts together right now.
and last one
Challenge yourself to have a go. There are plenty of websites out there with different ideas on what you could create.
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wahooo love this one!!!
scrapping the ALLS and the YUCKS
mmmmm might need to do this too!!!!
as for lack of patience i am like this too...thursday afternoons and sometimes fridays too!!!! eeekkkkK!!!!
Posted by: mandyb | September 16, 2011 at 08:39 PM