Almost 3 months...

I cannot believe I have not posted on my blog for 3 months! Time has certainly gotten away from me and a lot has happened since I last posted. I haven't even had time to craft like I usually do but the mojo is coming back and hopefully I will be able to post pictures of a creation very soon.

Since moving to the 55+ community we have been busy it seems every night and weekend. I have finally finished up decorating our new place and feel that there are just minor touches that still need to be done, but have yet to find that certain something for a couple of the rooms to give it a "WOW" factor. But the important rooms we entertain in the kitchen , livingroom and diningroom are completed and people who visit state it is warm and cozy and definitely has a WOW factor when you walk in and we love it.

The Lord has blessed us with two couples in our life that we have befriended here. I knew from the start when I first met the gals that God had something special planned and how special he has made it! We are inseparable and we are always having hot tea and sharing our most inner secrets of things from the past and we each have had a BFF moment where you can just let it all out and cry and the great thing is that when one of us don't know what to say but are feeling the pain of that particular friend..we just cry with her. You have girlfriends in school, when you are young and sometimes when you are older. But God has truly blessed me with these women who are of the same morals and values as I. Who love their families and grandbabies, who worship God 24/7 and attend his church every Sunday, who make you laugh when you done some silly antic and who are there to give constructive critisicism when needed. Who love you unconditionally and help you sing the words to a song you had forgotten. I have truly been blessed by these two women and I know that is of God's hand that he placed us all in the same place at the right time.

Wayne has become close to their husbands and we teasingly call them the "Three peas in a pod" as they are always getting into trouble with us gals and or doing something goofy. LOL!!! The men are just inseparable as us women and they don't go anywhere without the other two when running errands.

I pray that you will continue to visit my blog. I know it has been far and few beyween posts and I am sorry for that but life has just been happening and wonderful. Please visit soon as I promise their will be new creations and even pics of the new place.

Hugs!

Finally...I've left some love :)

Okay I think I have finally caught up visiting all of your sweet gals blogs and leaving love on your beautiful creations. I know it was promised way back when after the move, but life has finally settled down and I can now began staying on top of things of blogging, emailing and creating. I should have some pics this weekend to share. Hope you all have a great weekend. By the way I forgot to mention when commenting on your blog, please grab the award that is below this post as it goes out to all of you in the various groups on my side bar. Hugs everyone!

Sharing a Blog Award

So many of you are truly an inspiration to me and continue to be faithful in your comments on my blog and it was so hard to chose just five bloggers to award this too , so I have decided to award this to all that are listed on my side bar and hope that you will share it with the others who are deserving of it. Rules pass it on to 5 bloggers who may not have received this award yet.

Valentines...

Hope you all are having a great weekend. Mine consisted of being involved in a "Valentine Bazaar" and it was a smashing success!!! I was little apprehensive in being it as I wasn't sure what kind of turn out we would have due to the weather (cold, rain and it being the Superbowl weekend) and not being a really big holiday compared to Christmas, but I was glad I was involved as I sold everything I had made and could have sold more if








I had known it would be such a great success LOL! Here are some of the items I sold. My Photograph cards were a success as well and those pictures can be seen in the archive labels. I made several of these large and small pail containers filled with Hershey Kisses. I was able to find them in bulk at $2.29 lb instead of purchasing several of the 10oz bags at $4.79 a piece! These were a big hit for the mothers who visited the bazaar as a valentine gift for their children to give to their teachers. I did not realize how fast the Hershey filled Sour Cream Containers would go! I stamped the acetate using Stazon Ink to decorate them. Two ladies came in made their rounds through the bazaar, came to my spot and bought them all. Again I could have made 100 of them and I believe there would not of been one left. (I'll remember this next time) LOL! These were so easy to make and I should had thought to make these back at Christmas time. I saw these heart suckers and knew I could do something with them and decided to use my Cricut cartridge Tags, Bags and More to make the cover for these suckers. I ran them through the cuttlebug using the the new Valentine folders to give them a special look. The MS punch I used was the lattice heart. I was fortunate enough to be asked to be in another one in March by one of the other crafters at the bazaar who is in charge of it. So I am now busy working on what I plan on selling and of course ideas are running through my head as I type this and we shall see how much I get done with these grandure ideas running through my head. Hope the Lord blesses you this week in some way as we gear up for Valentines Day.

I am still here......

Okay, honestly I am getting forgetful in my old age. LOL!!!! This month has been crazy and full of new resposibilities at work and then trying to create when I get home is nearly impossible and to be quite honest I am just pooped! I truly believe that mental tiredness takes more out of you than physical tiredness does. Especially when you spend all day crunching numbers and preparing year end taxes and making sure all the numbers are correctly entered before the forms are printed. I am getting ready to be in a Valentine bazaar next weekend and do have some pics that need to be loaded and shared and promise to load them up this weekend and visit my sweet blogging sisters who I am sure thinks I have forgotten them..I haven't honestly!

I appreciate all the lovely comments being left and would certainly like to know who the anonymous ones are and why all of sudden I am being hit with comments of windmills and turbines ??????? and a language I have no idea how to decipher! I'll just pray that it is a nice comment and not some absurd way of telling me off in their language. LOL!

Have a blessed day and I promise I will be back blogging on a regular basis! Hugs!

Ornaments to share..

I had forgotten that I had made additional ornaments. With the sudden move and sale of the house, I hadn't realized that I had not posted them for all to see. I know I had several requests for ornaments that I had made asking to buy and my sincere apologies for not getting back to you. After being here for two weeks and we had been trying to settle into our new home, we lost our two sweet animals to cancer. Happy was 11 years and Olivia was 10 years. It really took a toll on us. Its funny how you become so attached to them and they become your children when you nest is empty. I still get emotional thinking about it as I write this and my sweet husband has really taken it the hardest and has cried almost everyday and of course it just breaks my heart to see him break down as they definitey were his babies.

Okay here are the ornaments I had made. I know Christmas has past, but still wanted to share them with you all. I still have three more to share, but need to locate them on my drive.