MEMORIES

Sometimes I like to look at my posts from years past.  This one is from November 13, 2009...15 years ago today. I still LOVE Laura J Perin designs, and need to do more of them:

Idaho Star

Laura J. Perin

18ct. mono canvas

Vineyard Silks, Silk&Ivory, Mandarin Floss, Ribbon Floss

Also...a little more progress on the Autumn Mandala diamond painting:

Off for my second cup of damn good, Dearies! Happy Futzingday!

SUNDAY...LOVELY SUNDAY

 

Hello, Dearies.

I've had a delightful, quiet, happy, healthy Sunday.  It started a bit late, but that's because I was up watching my Irish beat the Seminoles until the wee hours, and then the sun came into the window and across my pillow, and we all know how much I love to put my face in the sun while snoozing away in the big girl sleigh bed.

I finished the Autumn Birdhouse diamond painting on Friday night and am just so tickled at how much fun I'm having with these. The only one I've "framed" is the huge Village Under The Moon, but all I did was stick it in an inexpensive magnet frame from the Amazons and hang it on the front of my cabinet, because it wouldn't fit in my book.

(I have a book/portfolio that houses all of these finished pieces, and it lives under my chair.)

I started another Fall-themed DP...this one is called Autumn Mandala:

(It has a protective plastic covering on it, Dearies...that's why it looks so dull in the photo.)

I'll play with this for a few hours tonight as soon as my nails dry:

I'm back to using stickers/wraps...these are from an enormous gift of wraps that I received from a lovely stitchy friend. I know I've explained them before, but there are basically stickers that you apply to clean, dry, alcohol-wiped nails, and then after you've trimmed the excess, you add a nice clear top coat. I can usually get between 2-3 weeks out if them, and as long as I don't pick and remember to use my Solar Oil every night, my nail beds stay nice and healthy and the nails themselves grow long and strong.

For those of you convinced that I have abandoned the Good Ship Stitching, never fear. I spent the afternoon gathering and kitting four Christmas projects...one canvaswork WiP, two cross stitch WiPs, and a cross stitch do-over, but methinks I might wait a few more days and play with Autumn at Hawk Run Hollow just a bit longer. I'll reveal the Christmas projects later, but for now...

This will be a busy week and a rough week. Tuesday will be 37 years since my mom died, and then Thursday will be 8 years since I lost my Stewey. In between will be a few doctors' appointments and tests, and then Saturday will be the last Notre Dame home game.

Nothing else new to report, I'm afraid.  

How was your Sunday? Full of everything you wanted it to be, I hope! Come tell me all about it!

 

IT'S NOT EASY BEING ME...

 Holey Schmoley...recovery day is pretty rough thus far. 😱  But never fear, Dearies. I am from hearty peasant stock, and a few more cups of damn good and a vat of Tylenol will have me right as rain before you know it.

In the meantime...

IF YOU KNOW...YOU KNOW

OH...MY VERY DEAR DEARIES

I am always so overcome with love when I come to this here blog and see that you are sending me your thoughts and prayers and good wishes. 

Gobsmacked, really, since I am not feeling very much like somebody who deserves such lovely treatment...especially when you consider that I have been (and still am) a MAD. COW.

I'm not going to bitch and moan and complain about it here. God knows I'm doing enough of that in real life, and this is our Happy Place, right? But for those of you who are reallyreallyreally worried that it's something catastrophic...the truth is that I just don't know yet. The big game of Whack-a-Mole that is my medical life at the moment will continue with some tests this week that might get us closer to answers. 

So in the meantime, why not a quick little update on crap I've been up to when awake and upright(which has been about 6-7 hours in the afternoons). (Imagine the following as a moving picture display with some lovely music playing in the background):

That's it for now, Dearies. I'm sleeping, eating, slurping, reading, stitching, and diamond painting...pretty much in that order. Not a lot of any one thing, but enough to keep me going. BellyBean is still hanging in there (thank God), and he has endured a lot of poking and prodding and medication changes with courage and good humor.

Bear with me a bit longer, please. Until I feel better I might need to stay quieter than usual.

I love you...most sincerely...I do!