Sands A Shiftin'

I can feel it coming, it's going to spill out all over my blog...When?  Not sure but it's coming soon.  This blog's gonna be changing gears.

Time Takes Time

New look, old blog...I'm still alive...I thought I was dead but I am certainly not dead.

As for my art, it's on a sabbatical like it or not.

I see that friends from across the WWW are visiting.  Thanks for showing interest in me.

Will I ever blog on a regular basis again?  I do not know.

So much to say, so few people to trust...

Time takes time

Workin' on it Willows!  There's some cute stuff on here beside my ramblings, just have to scroll through some of it!  This is a multi-purpose blog!

Willow Traders Blog Hop

Beginning a weekend Blog Hop with the Willows!

Life

Lots going on in my life, for me lots of good, for others I am deeply concerned.  No blogging means I am busy living life!  Some things I'd like to share but not spoon feed to the masses!

YouTube - Janey Cutler - Britain's Got Talent 2010 - Auditions Week 4

YouTube - Janey Cutler - Britain's Got Talent 2010 - Auditions Week 4

For my "mum"!

Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition, a term I learned while taking World History 101 in college.  I love this word and now have realized my love of the juxtaposition of genre's of music!  I've already demonstrated this in previously posted video's.  Here's a new one for you!

Why Don't People Comment?

You come and you go!  Why don't you comment!  Positive?  Great!  Negative?  I can handle it!  Stop lurking and start commenting!

Something to Remember

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to my wonderful mother who is turning 80 today!  I am so thankful that she is alive and healthy!  Who knows what the day will bring!

Beautiful Dream

I had the most beautiful dream last night!

Southwest Airlines Builds My State's Flag Jet

Matches to Match

Savannah "Matches to Match" Bitty Baby.

I Am So Tired!

Just a short post to say that my husband and I absolutely kicked some major household butt this weekend preparing for his family to visit!  My mother-in-law is coming to stay with us for a week!  I'm a bit nervous about this but the bottom line is, "it is what it is"!

Ancestry

Beware!  This is addicting and with my OCD personality trait!  Look out!

Meet Lucia Micarelli

Picturebook For All You Scrapbookers, Enjoy~!

Scrapbook Sussies

One of the most fun times of each month at my house is the day that I begin stalking the postman for my monthly kit club subscription to Scrapbook Sussies!  The name alone is cause for suspense and anticipation as to what is going to be in that box!!!

I live in a rather rural area out in the middle of citrus groves, cow pastures, sod farms, and sugar cane fields.  The closest scrapbooking store is small and 25 minutes south of me.  There's one store in Orlando near the airport that I drop into from time to time but nothing can beat my private shopper, the owner of Scrapbook Sussies, Lara McClendon.  Lara goes to each CHA and chooses the latest products in the scrapbooking genera.  This kit club doesn't send out old "has beens" but cutting edge new papers and embellishments. 

Now, you may be asking yourself, what the heck is a Sussies?  Want the answer?  Just click away and you can read it for yourself!  You'll find the origin of this unique word to be such fun it will make you fell like that special kid again.  You'll feel the way only a mother can make you feel!

This kit club allows you lots of options, more cardstock, more patterned paper, extra embellishments?  Just say the word and it will land on your doorstep!

This is why I love my kit club!  Each month I recieve not one but two matching lines of supplies to create my own designs.  The two themes allow me to scrap completely different layouts, mini books, and paper craft items.

Here's the stash I'm getting in May!

I highly recommend and invite you to check out this club!  You can scroll through past kits and see what Lara likes to offer as well as buy any that might be available.  Believe me, these sell out fast!  You won't want to miss checking this out for your own personal scrapping needs!

While you are at Scrapbook Sussies be sure to note the great ideas that the design team demonstrates, as well as the Members Gallery where folks like you and me can upload our creations.

The Roller-coaster of My Life

Maybe I am too old to want to go to ride the readily available array of roller-coasters at my disposal here in the heart of Florida but my own life has been and continues to be an interesting ride of twists, turns, ups and downs of life experiences.

After reaching the bottom of an exciting down hill ride or my summer travels I reached what seemed a never ending ride of depression. 

Scratching and crawling my way to hook onto the upward climb I began busying myself with online declutter and organizational classes to refresh and renew my home environment.  Chug, chug, chugging to the top I felt as if the walls of my domain were closing in on me.  Never ending projects of purging and cleaning.  Organizing, painting and planning my new "Scrap Studio".  Void of contents currently stored in plastic bins I find myself waiting for the long promised wood flooring to go into place.

Picture of Texas Trio

My dear spouse had yet another, well deserved, trip to Auburn, AL then over to Athens, GA for a big rival match of football between the Tigers vs. the Bulldogs.  Facing a long stretch of football widowhood and out of town work for my spouse I got on this trusty pink dell and shopped for prices to fly to Houston to see my TX Trio buddies!  I spent several hours talking to Kris about the possibilities including driving.  After I got my "ducks in a row" I called my dear husband to get his approval and was denied permission to drive.

Being the wonderful, giving person that he is he allotted me money to fly.  I did find a flight but my gut instinct (as a Christian I know this to be the Holy Spirit) told me not to do it.

I decided to shop online Thursday night for cubbies and shelves for my new scrap room and then drive to IKEA in Orlando to get them on Friday, only to receive a tearful call from my daughter (also an RN) who had but 3 hours sleep Wednesday night due to the admission of her long term boyfriend to the hospital.  Max had spit up blood and wanted to go to the ER.  He was put immediately (that's 4-5 hours in hospital time) into isolation for respiratory infection, scheduled for a bronchoscopy Friday.  My daughter was needin' a little mommy lovin' by this point.

Picture of Max and Erin

To make matters more complex she was committed to being a bride's maid for a co-worker and needed to attend rehearsal and dinner Friday night.  Max did not want to be alone when he came out of anesthesia from his procedure either.  So, having done my laundry that day I was ready to hit the road in an hour after packing, arranging, pet care, hitting the ATM and running the car through the car wash so that I could see through the windshield.

Saturday morning I dropped Erin off at a Park Avenue Salon to meet with the ladies of the wedding party and have her hair done and then travel via limousine to the church and onto the reception which was held at the Orlando International Airport at the Hilton.  Now this was a long haul from where I had gone back to Erin's apartment to do what mother's do and clean...

Meanwhile, Colin and Kristy, my son and daughter-in-law were hot to travel up to Orlando to see Max.  I then assigned Colin to pick Erin up at the airport and bring her home.  I then continued in my motherly role and waited to have my three children to myself for a moment or two only to have them arrive at 2:00 AM Sunday morning.

Colin and Kristy

While on the way home from Alabama, the football warriors had a break down in their vehicle north of Atlanta placing their ETA late Sunday night or early Monday morning!

Done playing mother for the time, I dashed over to Ponce for a little mother lovin' of my own, spent the night Sunday and watched Atlantis being launched into space from the white sandy beach.

Atlantis November 16, 2009

As soon as she launched, I launched my ready and waiting car, clothes washed that morning and repacked, to head over to Lake County and stay with our friends Linda and Jim at their hideaway in the woods.  There I would meet up with my husband and together we would go to the hospital for him to have eye surgery Tuesday morning.

Linda and Jim's Humble Abode

Linda, Todd and Jim

Earlier on this year when Todd had his first eye surgery we were delighted that we were able to hand pick Linda to be the RN on Todd's case as she had been interning at the hospital where I was coordinating Ophthalmic surgery in about 1990 when we first met.  We grew to be great friends as we both got the hell out of the "big house" in the big city and headed to a suburb to practice nursing in an outpatient setting for about ten years.  Although the following pictures of them were from the first surgery, it's like you've seen one, you've seen them all scenario...

Left Linda at work...Right Todd about to go under the knife...

Having forgotten his dress clothes for work Today he headed back south to our home to retrieve them and carry on to his "out of town" duties on the west coast.  I in-turn, stayed another night for one more evening of girl time.

This morning I headed back to Ponce to reconnect with cyberspace and share my story while sitting and watching the sunset reflect shades of pink, blue, and orange over the Atlantic...Yes, I know the sun sets in the west which I can see over the Inter-coastal waterway as well...life is good.

I'll be heading home this weekend to prepare for Thanksgiving and spend time Monday and Tuesday with this little monkey...

Savannah's first Camping Trip...

It's Going to Happen!

My scraproom is now all crated up and in the process of being painted and getting new flooring!  Meanwhile, I have boxes and boxes of stuff to sort and purge...this isn't going to be an easy project but oh so worth it!  I've wanted this for a very long time!  Goodbye plastic drawers!  Welcome cabinets and decorative baskets!  I'm just now trying to get a vision!