Happy New Year!!! A year of allowing to have an amazing life full of abundance!

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Heres to a New Year. Cheers!

"Take a Nap Snow" & FREE "Families are Foreve"r printable

Good Morning!

Rise and shined to a white landscape here in farmington, utah.

My Max (toddler) saw the snow falling, he doesn't yell but in a lil hefty voice he says "NO snow, take a nap snow!" It's pretty cute even though we don't mind the snow. Love him. Ok, so my mind is not all here, joys of this week, joy of being a mom, and a multi tasker/perfectionist in more ways than one. Yet SO forgetful. Oh well. So, I thought it would be fun to offer for just a few days a FREE download of "Families are Forever" stickers, along with the 30% OFF promocode to my etsy store, Little Miss Missy

On to the good stuff- SO the stickers (second pic shown) are 1" circles. You can make stickers by printing it on label paper and punch them out with a 1"punch. Use as table confetti or make a lil bunting banner.

There are 2 sticker sizes, 2 files:

8.5x11 Size

or a

4x6 Size

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Please use them for personal use only, no reselling, please do not claim as your own, or reproduce, alter them in anyway. Let's be honest. If you aren't your nose grows and you become ugly. 

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and heres the promocode to SAVE 30% OFF on the whole store. 

Check out all my other designs, Forget me not Magnets or bookmarks, I am a child of god bookmarks, prints, and my scripture mastery flash cards. The others will be coming soon. Almost done. So many fun things coming in the new year. I am excited to share with you all.

If you like my facebook page, Little Miss Missy and blog you get the latest and greatest, promocodes giveaways, freebies, contests. You will LOVE it as I get up all the new stuff and new goals for the new year for you and your children.

I hope you love them!  :

Missy

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Hello All!!! 

I hope you had a fabulous weekend! Mine has been bittersweet.

My parents leave the country to Manila Philippines for a LDS temple Mission, we had our

early christmas party and their farewell as they leave soon.

I love my parents they are the most humble, kind, giving and helpful to everyone.

They are always helping several families, some refuge families, others who they meet,

or friends and family. They will be amazing in the Philipines and know they will fit in

and can't wait to hear the people who they meet.

So with this week finally here, I have been thinking of the darling theme for Primary this new year

"Families are Forever" and thankful for this knowledge and blessing we have. I made these

last week, i think it was, my days are meshing together. I wanted them to be short simple and colorful.

This message makes me happy and I hope it does for you.

With the sweet bittersweet week. I wanted to offer a discount for just a few days of these fabulous printables and also everything in my store of 30% OFF promocode

Stay tuned for new items for next years theme, lesson/scripture helps, FHE changes in my ETSY store,

and some life time goals that I am finally allowing myself to have or try my foot at.

Like my facebook page to be the first to hear of my new projects, childrens crafts, design tips, latest addition to my store, giveaways, contests.

I love the quote that says the things in life that get in the way are sometimes the shadows of ourselves or somthin like that. It is true. I know it has been for me. So, I hope you will join with me as I share more of me and my art with you and this journey on allowing us (you and me) to live our dreams. :)

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Hello All!!! 

Sorry I have been MIA. Life is crazy as you know it.

I have so many fun projects that I focus on that my blog gets abandoned.

So hopefully this lil somthin somthin makes up for my absence?! please. :)

Ok, so the new school year is on its way and i thought for new school year it would be oh so fun

to design some flash cards to help memorize Seminary/Institute

Scripture Mastery of the Book of Mormon.

Right!? 

So I have designed and listed Book of Mormon Scripture Mastery Flash cards on my etsy store.

Truly they have been so fun to design and I am happy to say the scriptures and teachings have be rememorized into my mind. :)

I love how doodles/art help me and others so much to learning,

memorizing and makes more sense of it all. I truly love doing this for you and hope that

it not only helps your kids but you and as a family to help study the scriptures.

I feel blessed and love to hear how it help all of you.This makes me happy and this

is one of hte reasons why I keep doing what i am doing!

Thanks for letting me share with all of you.

As a lil gift I am giving you a promocode to even save more on these new printables.

USE PROMOCODE: MY35YEAR

for a 35% (how appropriate) Discount

Only for a limited time and only from this site for a few days. 

But these clever designed cards are here

and you can get them already colored

or black and white to color as you would like.

Enjoy! Have a great day!

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Who likes pretty pictures? Raise your hand!

I LOVE pretty pictures. Clean, fresh, lively and simple that capture the subject and set the mood. Well, Every Now n then I do take some pretty pictures but I forget how to use my camera because I am not always around it. Sometimes its faster just to use my camera phone. Some things in life just get abandoned because we don't know how to fully use or control it. Like my sewing machine that I got from mothers day 2 years ago and have never used it.Yes, I hate to admit this but it is true because I have so many ideas and projects I want to do yet, it scares and it is a little intimidating and the thought of My Toddler, Max, "helping" me sew is a headache in its self. 

So yesterday...

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I took a photo class yesterday from the amazing Katie Dudley (Photography).

At first we had a problem with my camera of the metering focus thingy

being locked in the top left area. So this one area was always the item in focus.

Anything closer to me was blurry. not cool. not pretty. not fun. very frustrating and

I was ready to cry. Thankfully Katie figured it out and on my way to a great day of learning tricks. I need to keep repeating to myself  ISO, Aperture, Shutter Speed and PRACTICE. PRACTICE PRACTICE.

NO more of this take some pics do good, 3 months pass, TRY taking pretty pics again,

getting frustrated cuz i forgot all that i learned previously and now all i get are blurry images.

Well I am happy to report I don't think I will need a photographer to photograph my babies.

Look what I was able to do. It is so fun and rewarding to see and get amazing results & understand what I need to do to get these results. Its all there for the most part we just need to know how to utilize the tools

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Here we have busy boy get into everything, Max (2 1/2 years old).

He was too fast and I didn't get the dumping of scrabble

and tossing the bag but I did get this that lasted for a few seconds.

He loves his ABCs and knows and recognizes all his letters.

Then on his way to playing peekaboo with West (the pretty dog).

Some of these next pics of my darling Miles David and West together

are truly my favorite. I love that my boys are not afraid of big

strong, active, curious , powerful dogs. 

Could he be any cuter?? Even with drool and sweet potatoes on

his face those eyes and smile just captivate my everything.

Oh how I love my "sweet potatoes". "Oh my Max"

and "Oh my Miles"

(all these pics are the raw original images. no photoshop, no cropping, no altering)

as natural as it comes baby! "Whipppeee" for me. I feel proud. In a nice way.

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It's amazing what one can do when you really put your best foot forward.

think of what you are doing.

trusting yourself to get amazing results

(this is an ongoing battle at times in many areas of my life)

take the time to learn

allow someone else to teach you

(we don't know everything and we can learn many great lessons,

tips n tricks we didn't even think about when we get out of our comfort

zone..again we aren't just talking photography here.)

Just bite the bullet and do it!

Quit talking about it and just DO.

A saying me and my roomies "the 3 M's" Miss (me), Mem and Moe)

would use was: "Buck up (name), Buck up!"

If we want to be good or amazing at something WE got to do it.

I loved in conference the talk about flipping the switch, let the light in.

I believe it was Ucthdorfs talk. I love the whole concept of light when you really think

about it all & the symbolism that it has for the SUN and also the SON of our Heavenly father.

So, there's a lot in life that no one is going to do for us it is all up to us to do.

We have to act upon and flip the switch, want the light in our life

This is my lil reminder to myself to get my butt into gear! "COCO ATTACK"

-Well, I hope you have a fabulous day!

— Moi

Good Morning, Good Morning to you and you and you and you...

Ya know how there are certain songs that just add to a better mood?

it only feels better if you are dancing or clicking your heels..yeah think Gene Kelly

and me singing, or trying to sing. but it feels good. I love mornings like this!

Especially when I can do a nifty move!

Which brings me to my post for today.

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LIVING WITH LUPUS

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There are those trials that we bring on ourself by our agency and

pay the consequences or the others that are placed before us that all we can do

is take each moment, or each day at a time, hope for the best give all we can

physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually and not give up.

I was in an accident in May of 2000. No, it was not my fault.

With it I had some body aches, stiff neck, pain and thought over time,

like a few months tops I would be back to my "normal" hand standing crazy self.

I tried doing a handstand and collapsed, and knew something was really

wrong with me with such a sudden loss of strength. 

A few months passed with more unusual pain allover, feeling beyond weak,

deep muscle aches, swelling, chest/lung pain, I was sensitive to the sun more than ever, terrible circulation, my fingers would get white and then blue, gray. I couldn't do much of anything. Everyday basics became very difficult like opening door knobs ( i have a funny story about this), even hugging others or people touching me hurt so bad that all i could do was cry and express begging them to not touch me. So sad and not fun at all to tell them this because you saw in their eyes how much they wanted to relieve me of this pain. 

I had 7 months of no answers, back n forth ER visits, pain gallore. Finally a ER doctor that could direct me and had a answer. This was a huge relief to have a name to this, feel a lil better that I wasn't some weird unusual "wolf" thing, it was just lupus. What ever lupus is...

Lupus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune, inflammatory disease.

Simply, we all have an immune system. When we get sick we have antibodies

that fight the viruses. Well in lupus these antibodies not only attack the invaders

but also our healthy important organs they can't tell the difference. :(

When I was diagnosed I was working full time, going to school full time and had just a lil more than a year left, I was young, single and wanting to date. The Spring Student Art Show was around the corner and I submitted a few pieces. Surprised & shocked

I won "Best of Show"  with this charcoal piece of mine of some darling old men.

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5 years of a complete hell that I do not wish upon anyone. I was 22 that walked

like I was 92 . This disease robbed a great deal of my life, time, goals, vision, health. Yet I learned many great lessons, my faith was strengthened, my sense of humor changed, focus and priorities changed as did my relationships with my family and many others and with my Savior. Thankfully I could continue to do alot for myself especially when it came to dressing and going to the bathroom—Oh yes the bathroom! OK this is funny! With my symptoms I lost a lot of strength in my fingers & hands and still today hard to open jars and turn door knobs. I finish in the bathroom, wash my hands and dry them, and I try to open the door. Yeah I couldn't open it. I was weak, tired, I yelled for my brothers to help who were downstairs. I laughed, I waited, I was bored...finally Justin came to my rescue asked if I was ok... I laughed and said I have been yelling for you guys because I can't open the door (as I am laughing). It hurt but it was truly funny. I made up a song called

" I hope I go into remission" in the tune of a LDS song

" I Hope they call me on a mission" I will have to share those lyrics sometime.

As of today, I have been off all drugs (13 pills) for almost 4 years now. I changed my eating habits, diet, exercise, and put my health into my own hands and had faith that it wouldn't last forever and there was more to my life to still achieve and have.

Being able to laugh at myself thru hard times has been my medicine

when life brings not the greatest times and to not give up, take each days as it comes.

Click those heels together (if you can) and enjoy all the things you do have or can do.

Hello all. I hope you are having a fabulous tuesday.

So I have been redesigning my website and blog, and 

I don't know about you, but I go back n forth of a few designs

I have created. Somedays it is SO hard to settle on a design

when it comes to represents MOI. Anyone else out there like this?

I hope so..raise your hand to make me feel better. haha

So this design will have to do until I do finally pick and quit changing my designs.

OK. Well today I thought let's improve one thing right now.

Where I can DO & BE better.

Better in what?? you may ask

POSTING!

I will do my best. "baby steps" right?

talking about "baby"

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check out my new profile pic. It is sort of old. 

My cute, 2nd "sweet potato" is just a few weeks old.

He is now 8 months old.

CRAZY! How fast time flies.

SO, I am a firm believer everyone has a story to tell.

We all are here to learn some great many things and to SHARE

many great and wonderful things that only we can do. So with that said
I want to share more of moi, who I am, my craziness and completer randomness,etc.
But I need some "follow suit" of organization with my random chaos thoughts so

I will be having new themes or things I post about every now and then.
I hope you like this new change and idea. I hope you will add to it
and share with me what you have learned, or feel free to email me or post
pictures of the cute printables you have from my Etsy shop.
I would love to see!

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DESIGN

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GOURMET CHEF? I WISH

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LIVING WITH LUPUS

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MY RELIGION

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MY RANDOMNESS

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FAMILY. MARRIAGE. RELATIONSHIPS

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BEHIND THE SCENES

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thats it for now..I'm sure I will add down the road to it.

SO heres to a new goal. It's never to late to start improving right?

:P Tomorrow will be a post with following suit of one of my themes.

Have a great night!

-Moi

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Fall is here!

Holy Cow! It has been a LOOOONG time since my last post!

Well well well I do have my new baby here, Miles and he is DARLING! Just saying! He came August 17th. It was a very short fast delivery and stay at the hospital which= happiness in my book.
However I forget about hte post baby things that can have a not so pleasant feeling and dealing with.
My Miles was not grasping on (correctly) to my boobies a few days after we got home. Which meant I got bigger, and infected with Matistits (?) NOT FUN!!! I looked like i had porn boobs or dolly parton boobs, they were so heavy, so sensitive, I had to take a shower and as I was crying of the amount of pain it was I had to literally hold my boobs up to have some relief.  My Miles was trying So many times to latch on and he could n't hence being to big. I felt SO sorry for him it was making me cry and very frustrated , he was going hungry, I was in pain, it was so hard to see him try so many times and then it not work for him. That was the most heartbreaking thing about it.

truly it was the worst pain and never knew my boobs could hurt that BAD! THANKFULLY  I learned about this Nipple "Shield".  I called the lactating nurses where I delivered, went in for a lil help and she showed me this nifty tool/product. I cried I was so happy this was so much easier, he latched on like a charm, I was getting the relief I needed. Overall happy! This Medella nipple shiled acts as a suction cup and nipple extender. PURE GENIUS! It is made out of plastic, rubber and sticks on to your bare skin. I LOVE THIS PRODUCT! So grateful for it!

It is amazing what we go thru for these cute lil babies of ours, but I am a firm believer my breast milk is best for my lil one. I don't want to do formula til he is older and if I have to. I love what it does for him and helps me too. There is a sweet bonding feeling too that is unexplainable unless you have breastfed. I truly love many aspects of being a mom, having a newborn here,

So with this New baby, my favorite time of year, FALL, and because I can I have a great Giveaway going on right now for a FULL DIY PARTY PACKAGE from my shoppe. Oh Yes! it is true.
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 AND like the post where it is mentioned to like (you have to make a comment or like post to be entered).

...
I know many of you know that I have lupus and I have been writing a post about it, editing it ( i have a tendency to go on tangents), and it is almost done hopefully soon. I find it interesting what is given to us while we are here on earth. what we let get us down or interefere with our happiness and those trials that pick us up and never give up! I wish some of these smaller things were as "easy" to deal with as my trial of lupus was/has been.

well, here is a cute picture of my lil one just after bath time :)
hopefully i can stay a lilmore consistent with posts and get on to doign more hands on crafts..ahh so many things I want to do :)