how do you start again?

[scrappinsweetie]

i am sitting here trying to figure out how to start scrapping again. i am not sure i am ready. i have very few pics. that one still gets me. i had over 2 thousand, and now i have just a few burnt edge ones. i am having a hard time picking up the camera to take pics of my kiddos. i am still shooting a LOT, just mainly clients though :( tonight is halloween and i am just not feeling it. so, how would you start over? oh and i guess i need to look and see what is out there since i lost all of my scrapping stuff, ugh, sick feeling all over again.

[16122A]

Ohhh...HUGS Laura!! I can't even begin to imagine what you are going through! One day at a time...thats all you can do!! My heart aches for you and what you have lost!!

[ColleenSwerb]

It must be so hard Laura, I'm so sorry. Try and take some baby steps into it to get your feet wet again. Maybe that'll help a little.

(((((big hugs)))))

[16567A]

Aww Laura, I feel for you sweetie! I'm not sure how I'd start again. You need to grieve, but you also need to start making those steps forward so you don't miss out on the life and joys you still have. Maybe if you remember how it felt when you first started scrapping, the excitement and thrill of doing something new. You kind of get to have that experience all over again. Of course it's bitter sweet, but you can do it...concentrate on the good stuff and it will all come back to you eventually.

And I just realized that I'm incognito! LOL! I was going tell you to buzz me on hello whenever you need to talk, but I guess I'll hello you instead! :)

[Mandy]

Awww {{hugs}} I am so sorry for everything you have been through.
:(
I don't know how to tell you to start over. I think it's just something you have to be ready to do on your own terms. If you're not feeling it, it's ok.
Maybe scrapping what you all have been through, the feelings and emotions you and your family have been dealing with will help you get back on track and be therapeutic at the same time. I know sometimes when I'm having personal issues, it helps to blog about it so that I can rant and rave about it and get everything out of my system.
Maybe scrapping can be that outlet for you, too.
BIG HUGS.

[FlirtatiousBrat]

(((Laura)))

Hope that you find a starting point..Maybe scrapping your emotions and feeligns will help you vent that frustration and eventually help to heal

Wishing you the best hun!

[scrappinsweetie]

thanks girls. i have tried to scrap a good-bye to mouse for days now and i just can't. i DON"T want to say good-bye. i have tried to scrap about the happy times together, the fun stuff, but that subject is just too hard to touch right now.

i would love to scrap some fall pics. they are my fav, but i just haven't. how do you go about seeing if designers will let you re-d/l stuff you had bought? I dont' want to feel like i am asking for hand outs bc i am not, but i really don't have the money to re-buy things either. does that make sense? dont' get me wrong, i appreciate EVERY single peice of help we get, I just dont' want to take advantage of it like some try to do. I just hate situations like this...LOL i keep thinking that one day i will wake up and it will all be fixed. then i wake up and reality hits you smack in the face.

[MyEbella]

soo sorry for everything...
My aunt and uncle went thru the same thing and I know how hard it was for them to lose everything...

New Memories are being made every day....

I agree keep a journal, blog, scrap the memories of what happened...
Vent away if you need to, that is what we are all here for!!!

[ColleenSwerb]

Do you have any kits that were your absolute favorites Laura? Maybe PM those designers and see. It can't hurt to ask, the worst they can do is say no right? And if they say yes, that's a little bit more money you save.

I'm not a designer, so I don't know if that's naive of me to think. But I like to see the good in people and hope that they will help if they can.

[Julie Billingsley]

You know that Robin Carlton will reset links, right? I think it is for stuff upto 6 months old. Just PM her here.

As for starting over, I've never had to do it from your situation. But I can say that I've started over in other situations (divorce, loss, etc.) and I always try to find something good about each day. Maybe just finding that good and trying to capture it on film... and on a layout... would help. Scrap the tough stuff later- when it is right to do it, I think it will really flow for you.

((hugs))

[scrappinsweetie]

thanks for pointing that out. i actually forgot that robin would do that.

[gandcsmama]

I am pretty new around here and don't know you, but wanted to say that I am sorry for your situation. I would start scrapping the new memories and face the tough stuff when you feel a bit stronger to do it. Good Luck to you and your family.

Kristy