Sassy Scraps

So as most of you know

I have a hobby

A hobby that I LOVE!!!!!

I LOVE TO SCRAP EVERYTHING!!!!

Here are a few of my creations...............
Enjoy!!!!!

(If you want to buy anything on this page, I can try to recreate it, but it will not be the exact same)

Getting Personal: Felt I needed to share

I don't know why, but I have been thinking about my past lately. All the mistakes, the happiness, the regrets, the sadness, the fear, and now I am ready to let it all go. This is a true story about me, one I hope that no one has to go through:

In my 34 years I feel like I have been through so much. Much more than others, especially when it comes to relationships.

When I was 19 I had dated a guy for about a year, became engaged, only to find out that he was seeing his ex girlfriend and sleeping with her behind my back. I found this out the day she was killed in a car accident, the same day I broke up with him the first time.
After a couple of months, we started talking and things started to get serious again. About 3 months into our relationship things started changing for the worst again. He was very verbally abusive, not physically abusive yet................
One afternoon we got home from shopping at the mall and he was severely pissed at me for not buying stuff for him on my credit card (I knew that he would never pay me back and it wasn't worth ruining my credit over). He proceeded to yell and call me every name known to man to where I felt like a spec of dirt that had been trampled on. When I tried to convince him to wait and talk after he had calmed down, he lost it. I tried to grab my keys and he bit my upper arm. He then proceeded to beat me continuously over the head. I always swore that if a man ever hit me that I would fight back, but by this point, all I wanted to do was cover my face so it wasn't bashed in. I blacked out, not remembering much after the first several blows to my face and head. The next thing I remember is his sister pulling me out of the car and trying to calm her brother down while making sure that I was OK. By this point it took his mom, sister, and grandmother to keep him from hurting me anymore. I jumped in my car and got home, not knowing the severity of my injuries and not being able to feel them from all the adrenaline pulsing through me at the point of his fists impact.

When I got home I was hysterical. I tried to compose myself before going inside, knowing that my mom and sister would immediately see me and know that something bad had happened.
As soon as I got in I immediately told my little sister who in turn told my mom. My mom was livid, I mean you do all you can to keep your child protected and here I am bruised and battered. We called the Mesquite police and they sent an officer over who took a report. The next morning I was contacted by a Mesquite Detective and I went in the same afternoon to fill out an affidavit about the whole incident. I also had pictures of all my bumps and bruises taken to use as evidence.

I just kept replaying the whole incident through my head and asking myself questions: Why didn't I hit back? Why did I let him do this to me? Why me? It took all I had to even get out of bed and go in public for several weeks, only to face the fear of looking him in the eye if we ran into each other. For all I knew he would kill me next time. After all, how many times had he verbally abused me to the point that I was in fetal position on the floor, scared for my life, without him even laying a finger on me.

He did follow me on many occasions.

I always stayed with one of my good friends who lived minutes from the hospital I was working at and he showed up one evening unannounced wanting to see me. I was scared to death. I had no time to leave or escape, so I went to the closet and my friend put all her dirty laundry on me to where I was totally covered. Luckily, Brian, before we were married, and Kevin were there hanging out. He barged in the apartment not caring who was there or who he was going to hurt. He just wanted me! He was yelling "Where is she? Where is that bitch? I will find her and it will not be a good thing!" At that moment I pretty much stopped breathing, I could not let him find me. Luckily, he left and I was scared to death of what was to come. Brian followed me home to my apartment, which my ex did not know existed, and hung out until I was sane enough to be alone.

A few weeks after that the same thing happened again, but this time I was able to get out of the apartment to hide upstairs and I watched my ex act like a psycho path trying to find me again. Luckily, Brian and Kevin were there again and all was fine.

I reported all of the surprise visits to the detective and he issued a restraining order for my ex to stay away ( I know this is just a piece of paper, but somehow it made me feel a little safer)

About a month after the last incident of him showing up unannounced, he showed up at the dance club that my friends and I always hung out at. His friend happened to be there and saw my friend and I. We started talking and he asked to dance, so of course I said yes (I never turn down dancing), and the next thing I know my ex is in between his friend and me. My heart was pounding so fast that I thought I was going to have a heart attack. One of my friends that was a bouncer for the club was up in my exes face before I could blink and he had him immediately escorted out. After this incident I was done. I couldn't live in fear anymore. My ex was arrested that night and spent several days in jail. He was in shock that I would even call the police and file a report, much less have him arrested.

Years have gone by and I know that he is married with kids. I know that he still plays the drums with his band................I know this because I ran into him about 2 years ago at one of my friends nephews gigs. It was a scary moment, my heart racing and all the emotions coming back to me from those horrible moments in my life. He did recognize me and Brian. He came over and politely said how sorry he was for all he put me through, for all he put my whole family through, and for making me live in fear. Maybe he has changed, but I know that I am not sticking around to find out. God Bless his wife and kids that they don't go through what he put me through.

I have to say that I think about this incident often. I pray daily that my own daughters never have to go through this. It was one of the most horrific things that I have ever experienced.

Some Quotes I Love

I LOVE LOVE LOVE THESE ROMANTIC QUOTES:

Once in awhile, right in the middle of ordinary life, love gives you a Fairy Tale!

To love is nothing.........to be loved is something......to love and be loved is everything.

Two of the best quotes ever! I have my prince charming, but I am hoping that my Fairy Tale will pop up anytime.............

Have you had your Fairy Tale come true?

Romance

I am going to start talking about alot of different ideas and examples about how women and men can be more romantic to help their relationships.......

I am a hopeless romantic, so this topic always comes up at our house......Poor Brian tries his hardest.....................


To start with, if you need a weekend getaway, going to Hill country and learning to cook together............Check out chocolatebroc.blogspot.com, and this is the perfect get away for you and your partner.

THATS WHAT LITTLE BOYS ARE MADE OF.............

who would have thought?

A city girl who hates fishing, bugs, and especially WORMS.................

would be helping her 3 year old son dig for worms.................

UGH!

YES WORMS!

\I even held the several worms we found......................David took them for a ride in his Diego "motorcycle" as he calls it.

David loved it...................................

Then he had to do something

He ran towards the house

and before I knew it, he had his pants down and he was peeing.........

Yes peeing in the front yard in daylight while my sweet neighbors

are walking to relax

until they go by the Titsworth household and

they see my sweet son named David Kent

peeing with his butt hanging out.....

SOMETHING MY SWEET GIRLS WOULD HAVE NEVER HAVE DONE

BOYS WILL BE BOYS.......................

Spring

Spring is in the air...............well not really, it snowed on our first day of spring! Crazy, since it is Texas and this is not normal. It was so beautiful! I love seeing the snow, but don't like the aftermath with all the slush and mud. Our house and yard were so pretty!

I would also like to introduce you to Duke, our new puppy. He is a weenie dog and is cute as can be. He has stolen our hearts and everyones that meets him.

We also celebrated my Grandads 81st birthday! This is such a blessing to me because my Grandad has small cell carcinoma and unfortunately, we don't know how much time he has with us. It is hard to see him with no hair from having chemotherapy, but it hasn't hurt his spirit. He is such a strong man that I hope will beat the odds and go into remission and live to see his great grandkids grow up!

SEEING REMEMBER ME

SPOILER ALERT! SPOLIER ALERT!

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Last night my sweet hubby planned a date night!

woohoo!

He took me shopping, to eat at Glorias and to see Remember Me.

If you have not seen Remember Me and you do not want to know what happens

then don't read on!

I do not like seeing movies about history, about sad stuff that has happened in the past.

such as 9/11/01.

Brian is always wanting me to go and see the "9/11 movies", such as United 93 and the other movie that has Nicholas Cage (it slips my mind right now)

I just can't.

Why you wonder?

Well seeing those "movies" just brings back all the feelings of sadness, fear, and anxiety that

I felt on 9/11/01, looking at my sweet baby girl, Katelyn, who was only

15 days old and Ashleigh who was 18 months old and wondering what

lay in store for our future with all the chaos in New York and everyone being unsure of all the craziness that was.

I was married to Ly at that time and he worked in a high rise and I couldn't get ahold of him

by the phone, so of course it was scary.

Remember Me brought back all my anxiety, sadness, and fear that I experienced on that day.

I hate hearing about all the firemen that were there trying to help people that were killed!

I know that is there duty, but to think that Brian could have been one of those firefighters.

What if it happens here?

Remember Me was such a touching movie. Dealing with so many issues. We all deal with all or atleast some of the issues brought up in the movie. Whether it be divorce, remarriage, feeling angry, lonliness, fear, anxiety, sadness, murder, suicide, dealing with peer pressure, being bullied, or just plain unnoticed.

This was such a deep movie so worth seeing! I hope I didn't give to much away, but this movie truly touched my heart. Brian actually liked the movie as well, he says he wants to see it again (I honestly believe him! He was one of three men last night in the theater)

So on this note see Remeber Me! You will feel the movie and Oh, don't forget the box of kleenex!

MEL

SO MANY BLESSINGS

I am truly BLESSED!

I am blessed with 3 beautiful happy children!

Ashleigh

Katelyn

David

I am blessed to have a sexy firefighter hubby that I love more and more everyday!

I am blessed to have some of the greatest friends in the world! Robbi, Candice, & Paula are there for me no matter what & I would do anything for them as they would for me!

and my cousin Brooke to whom I owe alot! I will post a pic of us in a later post! (:

I have so many BLESSINGS in my life! There is no way that I could ever list them all! These are only a few! I have many more blessings, way to many to list!
HAVE YOU COUNTED YOUR BLESSINGS TODAY?

DOUBLE DIGITS

I HAVE A 10 YEAR OLD! OMG! IT JUST SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY I WAS IN LABOR FOR 24 HOURS WAITING FOR A BEAUTIFUL BABY GIRL TO COME INTO MY WORLD AND WHEN SHE DID, IT WAS THE MOST AMAZING THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO ME!

DOUBLE DIGITS ARE SCARY:

THIS MEANS SHE IS CLOSER TO "THE CHANGE"

BOYS

DATING

FLIRTING

KISSES

YOUNG LOVE

I AM NOT READY FOR ALL OF THIS!

NOPE, NOT READY

BUT, I AM EXCITED!

EXCITED TO HAVE MY BEAUTIFUL, HEALTHY (WELL OTHER THAN BREAKING HER WRIST A WEEK AGO) DAUGHTER!

I AM EXCITED TO SEE THE YOUNG LADY THAT SHE IS TURNING INTO

SHE IS SO BEAUTIFUL!

ALWAYS HAS BEEN!

LOVELY, CHARMING, SHY, SWEET, CREATIVE, ARTISTIC, DOUBLE DIGIT 10 YEAR OLD!

The letter about me (well not really, but could be)

I found this website and I thank whoever wrote this, I thank them because you see I am a TWILIGHT FANATIC FREAK! I am the mom would do anything to meet Rob or Taylor, heck I'd even take my clothes off (as a last resort because it would not be pretty!), but if it got me a hug or even a smile from either one, HELL YES! I no what you are thinking "time for an intervention", thanks Brooke! (: I am good, just a little obsessed. Enjoy!

http://letterstotwilight.files.worpress.com/2009/4/02/the-well-rounded-twilight-fan