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I'm 29 years old. I've been married to Michael Reitmeyer for 9 years and I'm incredibly grateful for that; he takes excellent care of me and allows me to be a stay-at-home-wife. I'm mom to Gambit Lebeau Reitmeyer (9) our brown tabby cat, Viggo Sanders Reitmeyer (6) our purebred Golden, and Sirius Lupin Reitmeyer (-1 year) our black purebred Pomeranian. I have Cystic Fibrosis, Anxiety Disorder, ADHD, and Osteoarthritis and as much as I try not to let that define me, it does. It's not something I can forget easily and it affects every part of my life. I just have to deal with that. I'm a housewife, a writer, and a crafter. My passion is writing LGBT romance novels. When I'm not writing I'm either colouring or scrapbooking. Sometimes both! My scrap closet is my happy place, although I wish it were bigger. I'm not too terribly interesting, but I talk a lot to make up for it. I'm sarcastic, I'm snarky, I'm honest to a fault, I always speak my mind, I swear, and I'm a childish brat sometimes, but if you can handle that and get to know me, I'm pretty fun to be around.

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Odd Idol Top 15


Thanks to my lovely friends I have made it into the top 15 contestants in Some Odd Girl's Odd Idol competition with this card. Thank you so much to everyone who managed to choose this card out of the amazing entries offered in the gallery. 

I must submit my next card by 8pm on May 22nd. You can vote ONCE between May 24th and May 29th. As before, I cannot tell you which submission will be mine, but if you poke around here you'll hopefully get an insight into my style of colouring and embellishing. Again, thank you to the wonderful that *tried* to vote for me, and those that just plain liked my card. You're ALL amazing!

Sunday, May 12, 2013

MiC Mirror Post: Happy Mother's Day

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Hello, everyone! Aeryn here with a little gift for my mother on Mother's Day. What can I say, I don't do anything "simple" or "timely". I don't know why, I just plain don't. Therefore it's now nearly 4pm before I was able to present this to her, lol! But she's my mom and she's got to like it, it's a rule, yeah? I tell you, I had a heck of a fun time colouring this, and trying out the whole "word clouds" thing. I mean, how neat is that "love" in the sky? Very fun, definitely doing it again. This card is a full 5x7 image so maybe Mom will frame it or something, that'd be cool. Anyway, I hope you like it, and if you're a mom I hope you had a great Mother's Day and your kids made you something awesome!

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Saturday, May 11, 2013

An Exercise in CAS

This is me attempting that whole CAS thing. I've tried before, with not much success. I woke up very early this morning and said "I want to colour something cute" so, yeah, you get a blue tiger.
Stamps: Stampendous (Tiger Baby), Paper Smooches (sentiment)
Cardstock: XPress-It, Recollections Kraft
Paper: WRMK
MME brads
Heidi Swapp heart
washi
pearl
Copic Colours: B29/26/24/21/60, C9/6/3

Friday, May 10, 2013

Best Dad Ever!

I originally picked this image to use for Dad's birthday. You can see the card I ended up making in the post below. But I still loved this image and I wanted to colour it *now*. I've been having a tough time, since the beginning of the month, cos of the meds, but I managed to put colour to this sweet little digi. I gave the Daddy a moustache, like my own dad has, and I coloured them, best I could, to look like us. I think this card will have to be used as my Father's Day card or something cos it's just too cute not to send to him. At least I'm ahead for June, right?!
Digi Stamp: Make it Crafty (Kayla Loves Daddy)
Stamps: Lawn Fawn
Cardstock: XPress-It, Recollections Kraft
Paper: Basic Grey True Love
Make it Crafty "Swirly Corners"
washi
pearls
Copic Colours
Skin: E11/21/00/51/50, BV20, R30
Hair: E49/79/59/37/23
Clothes: BV17/13/11, B99/97/95/93, T9/7/5

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

MiC Mirror Post: Happy Birthday

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Hello all, Aeryn here! Silly, I know, but I still like making cards for my dad on his birthday. When I saw the newly released Sarah here I figured that she'd make a good card for my dad. She looks like me when I was a little girl. I gave her dark eyes and hair like mine, add in a little purple, and I'm nearly indistinguishable, lol! I paired her with Simple Stories Awesome paper, a few stickers, and some happy washi. I'm very much trying to make use of my washi!

Anyway, enough of my rambling. Little Sarah here is brand spankin' new and she's adorable, so go pick her up in the shop, yeah? Sarah Digi Stamp