(Re) Chic

I have been trying to think of things to do with my Silhouette Machine for quite awhile now, I had made t-shirts for Megan and I to go to the Price is Right but since then I have done NOTHING! Strangely enough during my family's unfortunate circumstances I was surprised to find this woman on a Silhouette Facebook group I follow have the same thing happen to her, and she posted this tile she had made with a beautiful sentiment on it.  She kindly provided me the Silhouette cut file and I was able to adjust it to fit what I thought would be best. About a month ago I had found a shadowbox at the thrift store that was exactly what I had been looking for, larger than the 12x12 but not huge.  I brought it to the counter and she informed me that there was a whole SET of shadowboxes for the (cheap!) price of $5.99.  $6 and 8 shadowboxes later, I was on my way home.  The largest of the set that had first caught my eye I used to put some photographs with a t-shirt from my l...

"Depression Hurts...Cymbalta can help" I hate those terrible advertisements for anti-depressants that tell me that I will feel better when someone prescribes me some "magic pill" that will make everything ok again.   I'm recovering from a bout of Depression that has pretty much made me have to start over in the "happiness" department.  Until I started working on this...I couldn't remember what it felt like to be happy.  So here we are...one day at a time.   I hate being on medication...but I take it.  I'm currently displeased with it because I'm taking 225 mg of something that I didn't feel was helping: I still can't get out of bed in the mornings, I still have a fair bit of apathy about life in general (especially fun), and my eating habits are pretty out-of-whack.   Well this weekend I discovered that it really works...I spent 2 days of my weekend trying to hide crying fits for no reason.  Nothing serious had happened, I was ...