I haven't forgot about you all

This is a picture from a beautiful organic farm in Vermont, that I took on our road trip.

I have been so busy over the past month that I have not had the time or energy to post. I have been back in school since July 14th, and the girls started back on Aug. 1st. I have been crafting. I have made a baby blanket, a sample scarf for a kit that I am making up. I made a quick lap blanket for the house, and 7 balloon valances for the school that the girls go to. I have also been working on finding a job. I feel that I have not been keeping this up a well as I should be anymore. I will come back and post when I can. The last time I said that I was taking a break I ended up posting like crazy for a while. I thank you for reading. I really plan on posting as often as possible.

I have been going nuts over at YouTube lately. I am able to watch it on my phone and I have found a few that I would like to share.

Road Trip and no Cell signal

I am on the first day of a few day road trip and I do not have any pictures yet, :-( so sorry. I really need to get back to my old blogging self. I have no cell phone service here in VA but I am able to use my air card for my laptop, I know it doesn't make sense. They say that it is something about the type of towers that they have here is messes up out of state cellphone. ARGHH....
Well I may have no pictures but I do have a couple of links to recommend. So here they are in no particular order.

This one is an Etsy crafter that I found through her ad in Ready Made and my girls really think that her creatures are cute. She is Debbi von Zyl, and she makes one-of-a-kind hand-knitted toys/creatures. Here link is here.

The next one for today is a really good food magazine called, Clean Eating. I just discovered this one and after only one issue I am hooked. The recipes are great and are very healthy and the way they are presented even a picky eater will try it. Here is the link.

Let me know what you think about these 2 and I will try to post more soon. I am going to take a few pictures of the beautiful views of the Virgina countryside and post them in the hotel tonight.

What I have been up to for the past few weeks.

I think that a couple pictures with captions will explain it all. Both of my girls have had the stomach bug that has been going around, and each of them have visited the hospital because of it, Anastasia only was borderline dehydrated and so they gave her meds and it really helped her along with 2 days of rest at home, but Shae on the other hand had to have IV fluids and meds to get her symptoms to stop. She also had to have 2 days rest per the doctor and it seems to be helping, but she is still very tired. We are at home today for her last day of rest before she can go back to school. Before this she had never missed a day of school this year and she was very upset that she would not get to go to school. She really loves going and getting to be with her friends. By the way in the first picture you can see a new finished object that I made for Anastasia. I made it with Lilly's Sugar n' Cream. The pattern is a improvised shell blanket.

I have been spending the day today updating my Etsy shop and I have alot of new items in the shop and I have taken so many pictures of items that I hope to get uploaded today. I have really not been keeping my shop up and I feel like I need to have a good showing this time around. I have books (with multiple copies) , yarn, knitting needles and handmade items that I really enjoyed making.

New Pictures

I have been sick since Friday afternoon. We spent the long weekend at a friends about an hour and a half from our house. They have 2 children about the same ages as our girls and we only get to see them every couple of months or so. Well I ended up sleeping most of the weekend because of my cold and any medicine that I take knocks me out for the count. I did get a few new pictures of the girls though. They are very experimental so please let me know what you think.

Paper Crafting Blogs

This picture makes me feel cold just looking at it. I took this last evening in my back yard.

Here are a few paper crafting blogs that I found today, so I thought that I would share a few links that I thought some of you might like to check out. Let them know that I sent you.

I hope that you all have a good evening.

{Letters from Lizzie}
The Scrappy Chick
Stampin' Spots & Other Crafty Thoughts
Stampin and More with Crystal
pine is here.
No Time To Stamp?

NGT
Musings of an Addict
little treasures
Listen to this...
Just Give Me Stamps...

Inky Paws
imagine. dream. create.

erika designs
card creme

Cupcakes Cupcakes and more Cupcakes

We spent the afternoon a couple of weeks back and made 2 dozen cupcakes. I have been meaning to post these pictures but I keep putting it off. So since I said that I would post everyday for the month for the month of November. I would love to be a little more creative with my post but I am having a little trouble being creative off the computer also. I guess I am in a creative block right now. I have completed 5 more Zentangles, 2 last night and 3 more today. I need to get them scanned in so that I can post them. So my post today is all about the inspirations in my life. My baby girls.

A Post a Day for November

I am going to try to make a post a day for this month.

The subject of todays post is my dream to go skydiving. I have been dreaming about this for the past couple of years. I have wanted to do it longer than that but I started doing reasearch about 2 years ago and this summer I started visiting Dropzones, (this is what the skydiving centers are called), There are two within driving distance of my home.

The most popular one is almost two hours away, at over 90 miles away, it is called The Farm or Skydive the Farm. I liked the way it was laid out and how open the area is, but the drive adds alot more to the cost of the jumps. If it were closer I would do my jumps there.

The other one is called SkyDive Atlanta, it is only 50 miles away, it is located at an airport, so the only area to land is in the middle of the runway. They are very nice there, but the only drawback is they are about $$ more than The Farm but with the gas savings I guess that I will have to do my first jump there. I really wanted to make the first jump this year but the season is ending here as it is getting cooler. I guess I will have to wait until next spring.

I might have to go to the Thanksgiving Boogie which is a jump all day event and the price is lower for jumps and tandems. I have put some links in this post if anyone is interested checking out the info an skydiving. I also thought I might use these post to share some of the Many Layers of Me. Please let me know what you think. I hope with the daily post I will draw some of the lurkers our of hiding and get a few comments.

What a busy month

October is the busiest month for birthdays in out family. My niece starts the month off on the 5th (she turned 20 this year), then it is me next on the 21st (29 here this year), My cousin's daughter on the 25th (8 this year), My oldest daughter on the 26th ( she turned 7), and my mom and her twin sister today ( I will not mention how old the are here).

I worked all last week at the school and by the time I get off, help the girls with there homework, get dinner on the table, the bathed and ready for bed I barely have time to take a breath. Planning a birthday party for my little girl I felt like I just pulled if off. We had finger food and over 30 people here and oh my. She did have fun though. I got her an MP3 player because she had been wanting my I-Pod and I did not feel like I should let her have it because her little sister would have a fit.



For my birthday my mother gave me money and so I decided that I would buy something that I really needed and that I would remember after the day and so I bought a new bedding set that I have been looking at for sometime now. I purchased it at Linens N Things and they have it on sale now so here is the link.

I hope that I can make more time for making some of the things that are on my christmas gift list.

If you would please pray for me, I am going through somethings that I don't feel that I can go into here but it is very personal and important to me. Thanks in advance for your prayers.

Oh My, Oh My

I cannot believe that it has been over a month since I have posted. So mush has happened over the past month that I do not know where to begin.

On Sept. 11, I left for a few days of relaxation in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I went with the ladies from my church for our Ladies's Retreat.

Here I am with my BFF Amy, duting one of our nightly meetings.

Here I am getting ready to go Parasailing, I had so much fun, this was my second time doing it and I plan on doing it every year I go now.

I had planned on posting the week after I come home but I never seemed to get a chance and then on Sept. 19, our family suffered a great loss. My Cousin Greg Garner passed away very unexpentantly. I really have now felt like posting because I really did not know what to post.
Please keep my Aunt Jean and his family in your prayers.

New job and much more

I started a new job on Thursday and, so it means early to bed and early to rise and not much more than housework in-between. I have been able to get some crafting done though. I started a crochet blanket for my bed. It is in the round, and I am about 20 inches from side-to-side. I was gifted a full cone of yarn at the Peachtree Handspinner's Guild meeting last Saturday and I came home knowing exactly what I was going to make. The yarn is a mercerized cotton in a creamy color. I really love how it is turning out. I am just using a double crochet stitch with an even increase all around. I just finished a pair of baby booties today with a dark pink cotton and a brown ribbon as the tie. I really need to take some pictures. I feel bad that I have no pictures to go with this post.
On the job subject, I am not working as a Substitute Teacher at my girls school. I love the time that I am there. I have been there most of the school year as a parent volunteer and I really just love knowing that I can be there if my children need me and I can help out where I am needed, and help their teachers.

The Baby Surprise Jacket

AGHHHHH, I ordered the Knitting Workshop, and it came in today I put that I was casting on today because I planned on it for tonight. Then I find out the pattern is not there it only talks about it. I feel like screaming. I wanted to start working on it tonight and now I do not have the pattern, I don't know what to do.

A Day In San Antonio

We spent the day in Downtown San Antonio and visited the Alamo and Riverwalk. We rode the boat cruise around the river and the girls had so much fun even though Anastasia said that she was hot, but she said that she had fun. I wish that I had took a picture of us on the boat. We ate lunch at the Republic of Texas resturant. It was a really fun side trip, I am glad that we took the time to go there. Going to the Alamo makes you appreciate the people who give their lives for our freedom. I felt like I would let the pictures speak for themselves today.

The above ones were from lunch at the republic of texas

The ones above here are the views from the river boat



All of the others are from the Alamo. I took a lot more that this but I did not have time to post them all.

A few FOs for you

I really feel like I have neglected this place to spend more time crafting so I will give you a few FOs to get a little feedback, because I really need some after spending so much time making them.

These are a couple of the crochet hair clips that I have been making I have 6 completed and my girls like them.

I have also been going magnet crazy lately, they are very enjoyable to make and I have made 7 boxes of 7.

I hope to be posting pictures of my visual journal that I started on Monday with a very nice graph paper journal with a red vinyl cover.

Today's RANT

I have had a rough day today. Last night I went to WebMD and started entering my symptoms and it came up that I am suffering with Menopause, at 28 I have according to a few sites, Premature Menopause. All I could think about everytime I look at my youngest is that she is more than likely my last baby. I feel like crying. Here is my symptoms you might can let me know what you think if you have been through this.

• Night sweats
• Hot Flashes
• Aching Joints/Musles
• Insomneia
• Lack of Energy
• Tiredness
• Mood Swings (sever)
• Depression
• No Interest in any thing to do with S.
• Headaches
• Not being able to get pregnate and stay that way for the past 4 1/2 years, I have had 2 miscarriages in this time period.

I will not get into any more graphic details, but you get the picture. I have had a bad day and I did not feel like speaking the words. Sometimes I think that having a blog is more help because I can say what I feel like and not have to look someone in the eye and see the pity. Forgive my rant, I hope that you all have a wonderful weekend.

Lack of crafting today

I have been sitting here reading my textbook and thinking that I wish that I was crafting with my girls. I cut a chunk out of my knuckle with a rotary cutter and my finger is throbbing and I can't really move it. I am sitting here typing with one hand.

I set the girls up to make rocks to put on Chester's grave. Shae painted her's yellow then decided to put red on one side and blue on the other side and well when they mixed with the yellow we ended up with green/yellow/orange. My DH thought it looks like the mexican flag. She had so much fun painting it. Anastasia's contribution to the rocks was a red/blue/pink/yellow/gray one and she did not mix the colors you can see distinct separation of the colors on hers. I had to paint the name and a flower on each of them. Shae wanted me to add a heart and a few dots to her's. They wanted to make something to "give" Chester.

Our Sweet Chester

Tonight we lost our sweet little Guine Pig Chester. He was fine this morning but when I went out tonight to give him a treat of tomatoes, and he was just laying there. I can't help but cry now just thinking about him. The girls are asleep so they do not know yet and I don't look forward to telling them. Shae my youngest is the most emotional one and she is not going to take it very good. Anastasia will take it hard but she will not be as emotional, she will be very practical and want to have a funeral. So we will prepare for a funeral and try to be prepared to deal with the crying that we know is to come. Please keep the girls in your prayers.

This is me

Is There Life Out There

(susan longacre, rick giles)

She married when she was twenty
She thought she was ready
Now shes not so sure
She thought shed done some living
But now shes just wonderin
What shes living for
Now shes feeling that theres something more

Chorus:
Is there life out there
So much she hasnt done
Is there life beyond
Her family and her home
Shes done what she should
Should she do what she dares
She doesnt want to leave
Shes just wonderinIs there life out there
Shes always lived for tomorrow
Shes never learned how
To live for today
Shes dyin to try something foolish
Do something crazy
Or just get away
Something for herself for a change

Repeat chorus

Theres a place in the sun that shes never been
Where life is fair and time is a friend
Would she do it the same as she did back then
She looks out the window and wonders again

Repeat chorus twice

Found via Lyrics Freak

I married just shy of my 20th birthday and it has been 8 1/2 years now. I think this song explains me, so I had to post the lyrics. I hope that you all are having a wonderful day.