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Life can be a challenge but we still move forward

  When your body says Slow Down and your                              Mind say Lets Go

Well I'm sorry it has been a few weeks, But I've been down with my back. I found out today I've got degenerative disc disease with disc space narrowing at L3-L4-L5 and more  prominently at L5 on S1 there is a grade 1 spondylolisthesis L4 on L5 There is mild retrolisthesis L5 on S1 Facet degenerative joint disease is present at L3-L4-L5 and L5-S1. There is mild degenerative joint disease of the bilateral hips. I guess all in all I'm getting older and just can't do the things I have always done. I've been in so much pain it has made me nauseated. So Thursday I go to another Doctor to see if he can help if not I'll have an MRI next. I Hope that we can fix this with some therapy. There is always Hope.

I have made a few new things over the last two weeks and want to share what I've made. I'm in a group on Facebook where we post things we make and do swaps. Here is the fb page   https://www.facebook.com/groups/inspirelaughcreate/ This is a 4x4 book that I did for a swap, we could make it however we wanted but also could do the favorite book of my partner. I changed the making of this book four times and ended up with this. First mini book I've ever done. Hope I get better as I make these. 

I did another Coffee and Canvas at church and really enjoyed it again. If you can find one in your area you should go and do it. I found we have one in just other town next to ours. And I may go to it because they have a picture of a dandelion that has gone to seed and the seeds are flying in the air, so cool. Here is the one I just painted a couple of weeks ago.

I love this picture.

The other thing I finely finished was the Ink pad holder I found the holder at Goodwill which I think it was a cassette holder. I took all the contact paper off of it and painted the two center area's and papered the rest. I may never fill it up but hey I only paid $1.00 for it I think it was half off.

Now the next thing I did was decorate some Bibles I got at Dollar tree. They are to pass out to people that God may lay upon my heart. I have already handed 6 out and mailing one to someone. I follow Michelle on YouTube and she started doing this and made it a challenge and I believe I heard her say in one of her last video's that 374 Bibles have gone out. Awesome! 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw-qm8_XW1XcLNSumegKyHw/feed

And the last thing I just finished were these flowers which I will be doing again because I think these are to big for me but will be good for the hats I make for the Bassets to wear. These flowers are made out of 2 inch satin ribbon. 

I Hope everyone has a wonderful next few days and keep crafting and remember smile at the people you see, You may make their day.

 Hugs to all My followers

Life never seems to never give us a Break

     Well it has been a crazy couple of weeks and I'm sorry I haven't posted anything. As you will see with the different pictures I have posted I've been busy with life and my poor baby girl Emma.
      Emma my Basset Hound went in last week for a teeth cleaning and they found a lump on her side by a mammary gland which it was hard and being in the area it was, wasn't good so they needed to get it out. I am still waiting on the report back to what it is and if it is cancer did they get it all and what stage it is. I'm hoping it is nothing. So if you would say a few prayers for this sweetheart she deserves it.

Emma was a rescue from a backyard breeder about two years ago this month. The lady told me she had 13 litters and Emma was only 6 when we got her I ask her how many litters did Emma have and she told me 13. And that she didn't breed to make money. Did this woman think I was an idiot? Emma has a lot of hang ups but she is so much better than she was when I got her. Her story would make you cry if you read the story I wrote. And maybe someday I'll post it a little at a time so you can read what she went through.

I did make some tiny suitcases out of matchboxes that I had seen on Graphic 45 Blog.They are cute and fun to make to add in a gift bag to send to someone. 

I also made some Thinking of you cards a cople of Saturdays ago at church when we had a craft day. Had a fun afternoon with all the ladies and got a head start on my card stash.

And then I helped a friend redo our window boxes at church for Spring so as you can see I've been quit busy and concerned for my baby doggy. And here I didn't think I had done anything. I will be making a mini album for my niece for her birthday so I should have that to show you as I'm making it.

I almost forgot and had to update the Blog, yesterday I got my mail and thought I had Happy mail from my "Let the Wishing Begin" but it wasn't. I belong to a webpage called Just A Pinch and have for a few years. It is a wonderful site where you can put your recipes for other to use and you can even make your own cookbooks on it. I posted a recipe from my great aunt Gibby who was one of the bakers in the family. Who I took after. She had this this recipe of a Carrot Cake that everyone always asked her to make. Larry  he loved aunt Gibby's carrot cake. Larry and my cousin went to Indiana State together and have been long friends since then. MY aunt Gibby was a funny lady and called my mom and ask her to go to Walmart and buy the ugliest thung she could find. Aunt Gibby made two cakes one she put the thung in  and the other one she didn't. She took both cakes to Larry's office and told his secretary to give him the one first and after he cut into the first one she could give him the second one. When I saw him at aunt Gibby's funeral we talked about that and he told me that was the funniest thing ever and that he will miss my aunt Gibby's carrot cakes. So anyway I open the mail and out comes a Blue Ribbon for my aunt Gibby's carrot cake. I was so shocked. Aunt Gibby to this day still talks to me I hear her a lot. Shoot one day I was at the store to buy oil for he cake and I was going to buy the oil I always get and I heard her tell me NO I said only Wesson oil. so I put back mine and got what she said. ( I know oils are the same cause I checked mine and the wesson) The people at Just A Pinch are the ones who make the recipes and test them and then they vote on them. I take no credit for this recipe it is all my Aunt Gibby's so when I do

my recipe book I'm going to do just a page on the Carrot Cake and use the Blue ribbon on it.

Thank you all very much for visiting my Blog and we'll see ya the next time.

Reclaiming your heart

Many of us have had things happen to us in one way or another and it has affected our relationships with family and friends and mostly ourselves. Not realizing your doing it at first but it can change the way you think and the changes you do in your life. The biggest thing for me is trying to be the person I use to be the one who laughed and made others laugh. I know one thing I have changed the way I look at people. I give them a chance and not judge them. I let there story unfold as I may find out they have had a rough life too. One of our pastors told us in a sermon one time that he and three other pastors were eating and that their waitress wasn't very nice and that they weren't leaving a tip, pastor Bob told them "that we have no idea what kind of day she has had and that if we leave a nice tip it could change her mood or out look for the day" that has stuck with me for years. I always try and smile and look at people as I come face to face to them. I have a hard time looking at people in the face I have since I was a child. I remember my mom always saying " look at me when I'm talking to you" never could. Not sure why but it was hard. I want so much to be the person God wants me to be, sometimes I feel I have feld. So reading this might help bring me back to who God wants me to be but better than before. 

I started reading this months and months ago and now I'm reading it again but all the way through this time. So far it has hit home more than once or twice so now I think I need to finish this book. If you have been divorced or have lost a loved one or lost a child, lost a job, or terribly hurt by someone in your life this is a book for you to read. Denise Hildreth/Denise Hildreth Jones is one of my favorite authors of Novels butch this book is not a Novel it is about her life and how she and we can live again.

I've got a few new things to show you will post soon. I've been down with server pain in my lower back and legs. Hopefully I can get the pictures taken today and post. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and mind and strength 

Tuesday Morning/Joann's Haul

Just wanted to share my haul from Saturday of many good things to come in projects.

B is for Blessed

Well I have been hitting up the Goodwill stores and found this B letter in white, it had black marks all over it like someone took a pen to it. I knew I was going to paint it anyway so I brought it home along with this brown thing that I knew from the first look what would use it for. Ink pads. I'll never fill all the slots and not sure what it was ever used for the first time. 

I painted my letter B with acrylic paint and then sanded the edges so the white would shine through. I painted the inside of the B with a little bit lighter color turquoise. Then I added flowers that I had purchased at LA fashion District in California and a couple from the dollar tree there are also doilies and a key with the word hope, and the word joy that I got from SaCrafters. I paid $.99 for the letter B.

This letter B is heavy not sure what it is made of but the outside of this was for Formica  the countertop material. 

I hope you look for things at garage sales and thrift stores that you can use in your craftroom and around you house or even give as gifts. We have so much stuff in the world that I like trying to repurpose what we have already have.

I have added the picture of what will be my Ink pad holder of what it looks like now. I am tearing off the woodgrain contact paper off so it can be spray painted white. It came with hangers to hang on the wall not sure if I'll do that or just place it on a table up against the wall. 

Have a Blessed day and may you enjoy crafting things to cheer you and your friends.

Cross of Life

Hi to everyone and hope you all had a wonderful Valentines Day.

At church we had two ladies come in and show us how to paint this cross. It is the large size canvas 11x14. They do this in different church's for fundraisers we paid $30 and that included all paint, canvas, what brushes we used and breakfast and lots off coffee. You didn't have to know how to paint to do this painting. On there painting they had painted everything flower and the white dots. I had a friend say "Teri one of your fabric flowers would like great on here" I was already thinking of how I could change the flower to something different than what they had as I didn't think like how they had painted theirs. I had also decided I was going to put flat back pearls on mine where they had painted white dots. So I finished my painting here at home and found that I didn't like any flowers I had made so I made one that would look just right on the painting. I love how it turned out. Next month I will be painting a tree on a hill, I think it signifies the amount of olives. There is also a cross on a hill with a rainbow behind it. I like the tree so I'll do it.   

It is amazing how different all the paintings looked when everyone was done. So will be fun to see how these two look when done. 

I have added my finishe painting of my cross hope you like it. And ask around your area and see if any church's are doing this kind of thing. We had people there I have never seen before. It was fun fun.