Please join us this evening at 8:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) Thursday, September 13, 2012 for 10 Minutes of Facebook Silence to pay tribute to Elric Childress, an amazing young man who lost his battle with cancer this past Sunday.

No child should spend their childhood fighting catastrophic diseases of any type, please join hands with us and continue to help bring awareness to cancer and fighting for a cure.

Greetings everyone!  I am "almost" to the point where I am ready to begin creating and designing again and offering you some awesome freebies!  Stay tuned by signing up to our newsletter - because when My Creative Muse hits - it hits in a BIG way!

I have a beautiful freebie to offer you today - well I think it's beautiful anyway!  My youngest son, Tre, was playing outside a few weeks ago - running around our apartment complex here, there and everywhere - so I had given him my little cheapo tracfone (could only make phone calls and send and receive text messages on it) to keep on him so I knew where he was at.  Well, he lost it - or so we thought.  An entire week went by, couldn't find my phone - so I had to call and cancel the service and ordered a replacement phone.

I know that I have been quiet since Dad's passing and haven't posted here.  I've been dealing with Dad's passing in my own way - I've literally buried myself in my Facebook games (Cityville, SimCity Social, Chefville, and The Ville - should any of you wish to help feed my addiction and become my neighbor in those games lol) and have cut myself off from the rest of the world except for family.

You never really fully comprehend how much family means until it is taken away from you.  Monday evening, my husband was injured when a truck fell on him, crushing the bones in the top of his right hand and destroying his index finger knuckle and breaking his index finger.  He spent the entire evening at the emergency room and did not return home till 9:30 a.m. Tuesday morning.  He was in severe pain and utterly exhausted.  I was worrying and fretting over him when the phone rang.  It was the county coroner's office calling to regretfully inform me that my father had passed away in his sleep.

Good Sunday to you all out there on the internet!  Have a new creation that I finished up the other night to share with you all (finally).  I also wanted to announce that there will not be a Friday Color Challenge this week.  I've spent the entire weekend working on trying to repair my son's computer.  The eldest downloaded a slew of crazy toolbars and what-not to his brother's computer and just totally fooked it up.  No matter what I have done to try and clean it - nothing has worked. 

Today's Friday Color Challenge is a beautiful summer sidewalk photo with beautiful daisies and lavender and lush green trees.  I am in the process of putting together a summer sidewalk kit to share with you all and will post that momentarily.  I'm in the midst of organizing and getting caught up on season 4 of Ugly Betty (which I've missed watching terribly) so who knows ... we might even get a few tacky flowers and Ugly Betty fashion in the kit - one never knows with 'my creative muse'!

For those of you in the United States who will be celebrating the 4th of July on Wednesday, a few free timeline covers to share with you!  Just click to download the full-size version for Facebook.

Are you a newsletter subscriber?  You should be!  I have a huge tagger size kit (personal use only) available for newsletter subscribers exclusively!  In addition, we are hosting a 75% OFF everything in the store sale now through July 7, 2012.  You must be subscribed to the newsletter though to receive the discount - and it only takes a moment!  Don't forget that we offer a convenient layaway plan as well - break up your payments into 2, 3, 4, or 6 payments - whatever works into your budget!

My daughter has an iPhone with the Instagram App and I love the border that it puts around her photos - so I decided to see if I could replicate it and make a script with it today.  I've tried it out on several different sizes and, while the script will work on most any size photo - it works best on those that are 2000px wide or less.

I know - I'm late with the Friday Color Challenge but its all Mother Nature's fault!  We've been dealing with some wicked thunderstorms this week here in Virginia.  We've had high winds, hail, tornadoes, torrential rains, thunder and lightening - all I can say is I think Mother Nature is a bit peeved at Virginia LOL!  News reports yesterday (before last night's storm that knocked power out for approximately 8 hours at our place) said that over 2 million people in Virginia were without power and that the Governor had declared a state of emergency after Friday's storm.  Yeah, it's been that bad.