The Story of A Modern Day Resurrection

Sean George is a member of my old church in Kalgoorlie, and in October 2008, his life changed forever.

I was dead for 1 hour and 25 minutes but came back to life after my wife prayed a simple prayer. Here you'll find my story, my mission and how to contact me.

Read on

Such an amazing story. I was in Kalgoorlie at the time, and we were kept up to date by emails of his progress. Was my faith ready to believe he could come back from this? With all his mental capacities and body intact? But the medical evidence shows that he did!

Even if you don’t believe in miracles, this story is just incredible you have to see the videos.

A snippet of the story.

I hope it inspires you!

Melissa

Learn to Create a Digital Scrapbook Page Live

It's been a while since I advertised on of my webinars here, so I thought I'd share...

• Have you ever wondered how to create a digital scrapbook layout from a template?
• Would you like the tips on how to get your photos and elements looking great when the layout is complete
• Do you want to see how you can customise templates?

Come along and watch as I create a page.

• Are you an experienced scrapbooker? Tune in for some tips!
• Have questions? You can ask them and get answers!

Register now and join me live.
 
 Not sure about the time zone?
On the registration page you can view the time in your time zone. All you need to do is register for the workshop using the form provided. You'll receive a reminder email one week before, one day before, and one hour before the workshop begins. You just log in with your name and email address and start watching my presentation. I am always keen for you to type questions and I answer them live via my webcam. See you at the workshop!

 Melissa
PS Want to prepare for class? Check out my workshop prep page and don't forget to register!

PPS Can't attend this time?

Melissa

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Scrapbooking Classes Galore!

If you’ve even joined me for a free scrapbooking webinar, you know how much fun it is to learn live!

I know that being based in Perth, WA we have buckley’s of ever seeing the likes of Noell Hyman, Lain Ehmann and Cathy Zielske  grace our shores for one event.

But never fear…. Lain is coming to the rescue!

Spawn of True Scrap brings papercrafting inspiration right to your desktop. No need to change out of your PJs because you’re logging on, right from home!

17 high-quality instructors strut their stuff…

Virtual make-and-takes offer you project inspiration…

All from YOUR computer!

What you’ll get:

• Pre-event virtual crop the week of Oct. 10 (for those enrolled by 10/10)
• Live access to all 17 classes
• Five virtual make-and-takes
• Interview with Cathy Zielske
• Eternal access to class recordings and chat transcripts
• More fun than you can shake a stick at AND extra goodies!

…All for the low price of $127!
(that’s less than $8 per class!)

Don’t miss it!

Melissa

PS for those of us down under – recordings mean that while we sleep we won’t miss all the fun!

*If you sign up with my link you help support my blog and site! More free goodies for you!*

Create Art: Memory Logbook Challenge #37

I love to create with paper and glue, ink, pencils and paint. I must have spent hours and hours on art and crafts over my life so far. I've also learnt that I should use my art items, not just let them sit around and wait years. When I was young I handed a barely used art set on to my sister after about five years. I have loved combining digital art and paper craft this year in my one little word album. I am certainly growing my skills, trying art journalling, creating a mini album and using many tools I've been holding on to for far too long!

Template Challenge Eight by Shabby Princess available at The Shabby Shoppe; Treasure the Memory by Sugarplum Paperie available at The Digichick; Fonts: Melissa's Hand

New52: Illustrator #New52

Several months ago I purchased Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard, and it’s taken me until the 28th of July to even open up Illustrator. Here’s my first doodles with my awesome Wacom Bamboo Fun Tablet that I use full time!

I drew these using the blob tool and without even setting up the pressure sensitivity options. Since then I have opened up Illustrator to draw the background for a playgroup activity (oh yes, playgroup is a New52 for me too!) and can’t wait to use it again!

New 52 challenge is keeping me on my toes – but I’ve made it 9 months and 14 posts! I’m finding that looking out for new experiences is helping me appreciate that my life even more. I have to say I have many more draft posts, just waiting for me to finish them! Read more New 52 posts:

• New52: The one that proves how little I use cash! #new52
• Buying some happiness
• Crafting out and about
• Bye-bye Oven
• Souvenirs
• Bible 90 Days Complete
• Watching Playschool
• Not such a good new thing
• Battle of the Facial Cleansers
• Housesitting Edition
• Week 3: New Food
• Change is good

What’s new for you lately?

Melissa

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Scrap happy blog hop: Contemplate the heavens

I've been loving reading Stephanie's blog about the Scrap Happy project over at Scrapworthy lives, so I was thrilled when I found out she's got a blog hop going. You have probably found me from Kiss and Tell Scrapbooking.

This month the theme is:

Contemplate the Heavens

Boethius: “Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.”

Scrapbooking with a feeling of wonder helps me stay peaceful. Here’s a page I created back in 2008 in my early scrapbooking days. I love that over 3 years later I still love this page – the colours and sentiment have me ready for spring to bloom!

This year our back yard doesn’t have an almond tree – in fact it looks a little like this:

But a lot more level now! I must take more photos.

Want more of the Scrap Happy project? Head over to Scrapworthy Lives

Here’s the other blogs in the hop!

• Scrapworthy Lives
• Pie for Breakfast
• Scraps & Sass
• Take a Picture and Remember This
• 1200 Some Miles
• Slice of Life
• Abstracts Mixed with Extracts
• Your Memory Connection
• Kiss & Tell Scrapbooking
• My Creative Days in Beijing

What keeps you focussed on the big picture? Let me know about it in the comments below.

Melissa

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One Little Word September #OLW Blog Hop

Welcome to to my stop on the One Little Word blog hop for August. If you’ve come from Cheri's blog welcome! The full list of blogs is at the end of this post.

August’s prompt was to take a photo of yourself and add some affirming words. To simply take a breath.

I’ve taken an video of my book to date – it’s coming along well! You can see I used the picture above along with some patterned paper and affirming words.

My One Little Word Album so far.

Here's the latest slideshow of my One Little Word album:

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Did you know we have a OLW flickr group? Join us here

For more posts about my One Little Word adventure:

• One Little Word August Blog Hop
• One Little Word July Blog Hop
• One Little Word June OLW Blog Hop
• One Little Word April Self Portrait
• One Little Word–My album so far
• One Little Word 2011–Grow
• One Little Word 2011

Ali sends out monthly emails with a prompt for the month and you just complete it as you are inspired to throughout the month. Did you know that the One Little Word class is still open? You still have plenty of time to catch up or why not just jump in with this month’s prompt?

Want more? Check out Kathryn's blog

Here’s the rest of the stops:

• Margie  http://xnomads.typepad.com/blog
• Monica B http://questtoperfectimperfection.blogspot.com/
• Julie Ann http://julieannshahin2.blogspot.com
• Jill http://jillconyers.typepad.com/
• Cheri http://cheriandrews.blogspot.com
• Melissa http://blog.mshanhun.com – that’s me!
• Kathryn http://www.katlodesigns.com
• Amanda http://scrappnbee.blogspot.com
• Sam http://learncreatedo.wordpress.com/
• Chrissy http://getcraftywithchrissy.blogspot.com/
• Lynn http://www.crafty-creativity.blogspot.com
• Lisa http://backtoallen.com/writers_blog
• Jen http://byjen.com
• Nikki http://www.inkyart.com.au/
• Cassie http://craftycassiescorner.blogspot.com/
• Jamie  http://jmpgirl.blogspot.com
• Cindy http://seriousplay.typepad.com

Thanks again to Margie for organising this hop!

Happy hopping!

Melissa

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