A Break From The Joy....

I know this month has been all happy jolly Christmas cards, but I wanted to take a minute today for something else.

I loved the show Glee.  I even saw them in concert in 2011.  And I wanted to use my project today to remember Cory Monteith and Naya Rivera.

Glee was a super special show for me.  I have always loved music, obsessively, and Glee gave me so much amazing music.

Just a few challenges:

DLArt Linky Party

Crafting Happiness - #125 Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge

Word Art Wednesday - #552 Anything Goes 1/5

Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting!  Laters!

My Heart Still Hurts

Two years today and I still can't believe it happened.  If you're a Gleek you know that today's the anniversary of Cory Monteith's death.  I sometimes feel like I felt after Kurt Cobain shot himself, pissed off and cheated.  But lately I've just been sad, and watching S1 episodes, and I made this.

31 Days of Crafting - Day Twenty - The Beat of Your Drum

This is an emotional card for me to make.  Glee airs its series finale tonight, and even though it is a million feet removed from the show it once was, I'm still really sad about it.  I loved Glee with a firey passion, and I made this card in tribute to it.  It was great, the first three years, and I'm gonna miss it.  I thought, for a minute, about making a sympathy card (which wouldn't be inappropriate, really) but I decided to make something inspirational instead. Mr. Schue always tried to inspire his kids, and I think that was what the show was originally about before Ryan Murphy got struck by lightning and lost his mind.*

And full disclosure: I did love the finale. It was done exactly how it should be done, given what we did (and didn't!) have to work with.  There are things I would've changed but it was good and I loved it.

The colors of this card were chosen based on the colors always used in Glee's logos and the outfits they performed in.  The purple and dark blue are in tribute to the many slushies that were thrown over the years.

Oh and I picked the black bow because the girls often had bows on their competition dresses and sometimes in their hair.

Challenges, of course:

• DLArt Thankful Thursday - #152 Anything Goes
• DLArt Linky Party
• Creatalicious - #73 Anything Goes
• Sister Act Card Challenge - #98 Anything Goes
• Imagination Destination - #25 Anything Goes
• Not Just Cards - #15 Anything Goes
• My Craft Creations - Anything Goes
• Eclectic Ellapu - Anything Goes
• Little Tangles - #54 Anything Goes
• Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge
• Crafty Catz - #271 No Designer Paper 1/3
• One Crazy Stamper - Anything Goes 2/5

Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting!  Laters!!

**I'm kidding about the lightning strike--he's perfectly healthy he's just sadistic, cruel and crazy!!!**

Unforgetable

I don't know why people "celebrate" the day that someone died.  I know they remember it, there's no forgetting it.  But people have get togethers and masses and things, and I'm always confused by it, a little.  Then I realized a few weeks ago that it's only confusing to me because that's not how I cope with things.  I don't wanna talk and be maudlin and depressed.  I try to remember good things and go on from there.

This day is NOTHING compared to the day my grandmother died, and I have a whole other set of emotions set aside for that day.  But today is a sad day for me, because I don't have to know someone to feel bad for them and to miss them.

A year ago today, Cory Monteith died.  And 364 days ago, at this exact time, I read on FB that he had died.  Glee changed forever that day.  Music changed.  I changed.

Everyone has stuff that they love, and I loved Glee.  The most played songs on my iPod?  All Glee covers.  Glee was Finn and Rachel and now that's broken forever.  No happy ending for that show.

It makes me wonder, a little, why some actors can't behave like adults just long enough to finish a freaking series (see: Gossip Girl) without hating each other so much that the series suffers.

I mentioned before not understanding how other people remember the day someone they loved died.  I realized that I remember things with art and with music.

So today, I'll watch Glee, and I'll listen to Cory sing, and I'll make art.  That's how I deal.  That's what makes me feel better.

Also, I made this.

I don't like sympathy cards, so I made this instead.  My contribution on a day like this.  Hugs to all my Gleeks today.

**PERSONAL POST** Gone But NEVER Forgotten.....

I have no words.  Rest in peace, Cory.  We loved you.

A GLEE-duation Card

Good morning.  In fifteen hours, my favorite show will have its season finale.  It's the last of my show's finales not counting the cancelled shows, which I don't.  GLEE is pretty special to me.  I love the music, I love the cast, and even though sometimes it pisses me off more than I can put into words, there are a lot of things in the show that are so real it can at times be hard to watch.

So I had the idea the other day to do a graduation card in honor of the finale tonight.  Not a bad idea, right?  In the super-duper hurry that I was in, this is what I came up with.

I think it came out pretty good, don't you?  I made sure to use McKinley High's colors (though lots of schools have red and white as their colors) and I think the silhouette stamp represents the large amount of the cast that's graduating.

I'm a GLEEK, and I'mm not afraid to say it.

Now to sleep a few hours and get some more cards done.  Laters!