Happy Thanksgiving: Holiday Turkey Frame Freebie

As this Thanksgiving comes around I find myself in a very strange position. My seven + year relationship with someone I thought was a decent and caring man crumbled to dust in the span of four short months. This man was my best friend. However, I have never been betrayed this badly by anyone in my life...and my life has not been without its tragedies.

So at Thanksgiving I am asking myself what do I have to be thankful for? Well I can honestly say that there was some good to come out of all the pain and misery. Before this happened I would have said I don't really have any friends. I know people, but I don't go out or socialize with them and we don't talk for hours on end on the phone at night.

But when this upheaval occured I discovered that there are many, many people who care about what happens to me. People at work I thought were just my clients were actually deeply hurt that I was in pain. Several people I thought barely knew me have told me how much I mean to them.

And then there is the internet. I tried really hard not to go into details about this whole ordeal because I did not want my blog to become a bitter place that no one wanted to visit...even if I was giving away stuff for free.

I did mention something when it all happened because I knew my writing would reflect the sadness of my life. What no one knows is that for the last two months I had been trying with every ounce of by being to show my fiance' how much he was loved and how deeply I cared. This was based on why he told me he had left in the first place. He said he felt I didn't love him anymore.

He basiclly let me make a fool of myself the entire four months because there has been another woman and he, while telling me he loved me and wanted to make it work out and moving back in with me in September, was in the process of becoming engaged to her. Yes, we were both wearing his ring at the same time. And he was probably telling us both the same thing: "I love you." I slowly found out what was going on and two weeks ago I told him to leave.

Because he couldn't be a man and tell me the truth from the very beginning, he was a coward. He made me believe that we were going to be ok. If he had just left and said "I've met someone else" then it would have saved me these two months of torment and pain. I honestly believed he wanted us to work things out. Yes, he even made love to me during this time.

How cruel humans can be to one another.

But back to what I was saying about the internet...there are so many of you out there who have stopped by to wish me well (four months ago when I first mentioned this and also now.) People who never visited my site before are saying they are praying for me to feel better.

How wonderful humans can be to one another.

So at Thanksgiving I have decided instead of feeling sorry for myself that some fool hurt me so badly, I am going to be thankful for my true friends who genuinely put themselves before me. A couple of you know who you are...you have heard every detail at least 10 times! But you never tell me, "You said that already." You just listen, and hold me and love me.

I can not thank you enough, so instead I am thanking God on your behalf.

Ok, enough with the sob story....this should be a happy time. So here is today's freebie. It is very small but it comes from the heart. Here is the Holiday Turkey Frame.

Pilgram Hat Alphabet Freebie

Here is another Thanksgiving freebie for you to use this coming weekend. It includes the regular alphabet as well as one with a Thanksgiving theme.

Get the Pilgram Hat Alphabet freebie here.

The other day I said there would be a special announcement today. I had intended on telling everyone that due to the ongoing problems in my personal life I was just not feeling up to continuing my blog at this point.

But Kyra at With A Russian/Dutch Heart actually took the time to email me and talk with me about my problems and I'm going to take her suggestion that I stick with something I love doing to help keep my mind off of other things.

Thank you to someone who doesn't even know me at all but who took the time to touch my heart when I needed it the most!

Freebie: Thanksgiving Word Art

Since it is getting closer to Thanksgiving I am offering another holiday freebie. I know that once Thursday comes most of you will be off your computers and busy with the holiday, family and then shopping.

I want to make sure you get your freebies first so that you can sort of plan some photo opportunities around the digital scrapbooking elements and papers you already have.
Here is my Thanksgiving Word Art freebie.

Look for something totally special tomorrow and then a huge announcement on Wednesday. See you then!

Hungry Turkey Kit Add On Freebie

Here is a quick post to give you today's digital scrapbooking freebie. It is the add on to yesterday's post.

The Hungry Turkey Kit Add On is available right here and you can get the rest of the Hungry Turkey Kit from yesterday as well.

If you don't normally read my blog every day, please come back on Wednesday for a very special announcement.

Freebie: Autumn Collection Add On

Is it cool where you are? Are you using your fireplace? Do you have to wear a coat yet? The answer to all those questions here in Florida is, "yeah, right."

I miss fall SO MUCH! Yesterday it was in the upper 80's here (and that was at 11:30 am.)

Well at least in my mind it is autumn...as you can tell by my last few freebies. Today's freebie is the Autumn Collection Add On. Get the rest of the pumpkin and leaf motif papers, tags and elmements that you can use for fall, Halloween or even Thanksgiving scrapping.

Here is the link to the rest of the kit if you missed it: Autumn Collection.