merry merry

I guess I've not been real regular with blogging! I hope everyone had a very merry Christmas and the new year is right around the corner! 
The 2010 BJP is getting underway and I'll bet there's lots of you already working on January... me, i'm still trying to figure out what to do... 

My brain has been going in a million different directions lately.  For those of you keeping track of my health, all of my tests turned out just fine.  Whew! I can't believe it's been over a year now since my bilateral mastectomy...  a year ago I still had hair and was on the verge of chemo.  One thing I can say for the last year, I learned a lot more of what is important to me, that I can do anything I really want, after all, my second bout of cancer and I am still here to tell about it!!!  So maybe that is what I will bead journal this year, the important things to me.... or maybe not, when I can wallow my way through all the junk sitting in my beading space, well, then I can sit down and think about it. lol...

here's hoping everyone has a great New Years, and hello to 2010 very shortly!

-9 degrees out there this morning!

brrrrrr! Tis a cold one out there....

Anyone like creepy books?  This one is for you.  Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan. 

Read it several years ago, it stuck in my brain and when I saw it for $1 at the book sale at our library, had to get it. 

suffice to say that it will probably stick in your brain a long time too.

Tests scheduled for this coming Monday, bone density, CT scan and an echocardiogram.  Gotta get those things in before the end of the year and a new deductible!  LOL.

Slowly getting Christmas preparations done and hope to get the house done this weekend, baking, cards, yada yada yada....

have a great and warm weekend everyone!

counting down the days...

First and foremost....... I want to wish my brother Mark a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!  He's 5 years older than me and you know what? I will never be as old as he is!!!  LOL... get it?

Anyway...Christmas is just around the corner and I'm sure we are all incredibly busy, I know I've been, and it seems I get caught up in all sorts of senseless and inane things in the meantime and forget the true meaning.

I have a cancer checkup this coming Tuesday with both the surgeon and the oncologist, so everyone keep your fingers crossed for me!  Can you believe it's been a whole year since I was diagnosed with breast cancer???  And I'm still here, and very blessed to be so. 

Sam was admitted to the National Honor Society this past week, and we are incredibly proud of her.   She's in the purple and black way on the left in the group photo, left pic, signing the roster for the NHS...

wip

here's a WIP that has been a WIP for a loooooong time and I finally dug it up and am almost done. Just have to finish edging it and putting a clasp on. it's beaded on ultrasuede, which is one of my favorites to bead on if I don't want a lot of background showing, in which case I might use Pellon or Lacy's...and then paint it. The dragon is bone; it was a gift from a friend and I added some color to it with Setacolor. The green and purple ribbons are silk and I just kinda looped it around and then stitched in place.  Haven't quite decided if I am keeping this yet or selling it....

I had SUCH an incredibly frazzly day at work. Eight hours of training on a new computer system, which will be wonderful in the end, but training chews up the brain cells! 

We are getting more registrants yet for the 2010 BJP..... awesome! and what's even better is that Wisconsin registrants are picking up a bit! Sorry to say, no help from me..... :(

wow, seriously in November already!

Wow, halloween is over and I am just getting pics on here.  To the left is Makayla and Sam... lovely girls, huh?

to the right is Sam's mask - Frank from Donnie Darko... anyone seen that movie? it's great. and Makayla in her devastated fairy garb...

and down below, of course Sam and Ozzy....he's such a huggable little guy. (so is Sam!)

Tomorrow I am reserving time for a little bit of work, a little bit of creativity and A LOT of housecleaning.  Everyone get outta my way!

Happy Halloween!

I painted this shirt a long time ago and finally found it again just in time to wear it for Halloween! I just thought it was kinda fun for the holiday... the shirt was an old one of my husband's and I free handed the painting with Setacolor paints.... I'm talking a long time ago, probably when Sam was just a wee baby!  Kinda fun though.......to find something this old and still LIKE it.... :)

Hope everyone has a great weekend...... it is snowing here, great for the BIG KIDS who want to trick or treat.....

photo thursday - simple

Simple.....
the theme for this week at Photo Thursday:
"SIMPLE" (Minimalist, Simple Things, Simple Composition, Pure,...)

these are rocks along the shore of Lake St Joseph in Ontario....

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