Love You...

Howdy! I took some time today to make a card for the Moxie Fab World Beautiful Borders challenge:

I used patterned paper from Basic Grey, Echo Park (2 or 3 lines) and Cosmo Cricket. All of the patterned papers (and Echo Park borders) were on my craft table {you know it's time to clean when you find papers from the PC Go-To-Sketches 2 call on your desk}. I punched or used scissors to decorate the edges of the borders. The sentiment is from Technique Tuesday's Love Always Wins set.

I opted on that sentiment as a tribute to my dog, Gracie. This weekend, we had to make the gut-wrenching decision to put Gracie to sleep. For the past 3 weeks she had been going downhill quickly, and she spent all of last week in the vet clinic or animal hospital. We brought her home on Friday after the vet told us she would probably would not live through the weekend.

Needless to say, the grief has been pretty overwhelming. It's been hard to undo 14 years of habits. I keep finding myself at the back door trying to grab a leash... I keep looking for her in her bed in the living room... Our cat keeps wandering around looking for her, too.

I got Gracie when I was in graduate school, living in Texas (I always imagined she had a Texas drawl). Hubby came into the picture about a year later, and she thought he was acceptable. :) So, it was the 3 of us for the next 7 years until the first kiddo came along. She was such an awesome dog...zippy but not high strung. She was a trooper through our many moves. I miss her so much. Here's one of my favorite pictures of her; I think she looks like she's smiling:

Thanks for reading....I still haven't been able to talk about her, but it helps to write. It was also helpful this weekend to get lost in the card blog world and look at some amazing cards.

Thanks, friends.