Merry Christmas!!!!!!

Merry Christmas to all our family and friends.   Jim and I are having a great  timing hanging out with Kurtis and Amanda.  We wish that our other kids could be here with us today but they can't but they are in our hearts.We hope that you have a Blessed and wonderful day .    Getting ready to go to church where Jim is speaking this morning then back to Kurtis and Amanda's for another day filled with love and the joy of being with family.
Love you all of you.
Remember that Jesus is the REASON for this Season.....

Hugs
Donalda

12 Days of Giveaways!!!

Go Make Something

Go Make Something  has her 6th Annual 25 days of Christmas collage pages up and running.  She always has such beautiful vintage images and they are free so go grab them while you can.  
Hugs
Donalda

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!  We have so much to be thankful for.   We have moved and things are going good, enjoying our little home.  Our kids are healthy and are all living their lives to the fullest.   I thank God for all of my family and friends.
Just wanted to do this post to wish everyone that has followed this blog a wonderful day
Hugs
Donalda

Well We Did It!!!!

Well We Did It!!!  We moved.  We are now living in the Nashville area.  Wow who would have ever thought that we would move here.   Our middle son Kurtis and his wife Amanda moved here so we came to help them move and we fell in love with the area so Jim applied for a job and got it. So as of  this last weekend we have finally gotten our furniture and of course all of my crafting supplies here.   Now the hard part begins.....  putting it all away.   We found a small 2 bedroom older home that needs a lot of tender loving care but we can put our own taste to it....   I wonder what that will be?  LOL  Anyone only has to look at my things to know that I love Victorian and have made a believer out of Jim. We will miss all our friends and family that we are leaving in Indiana but we know that this is God's will in our lives at this time.   Just wanted to let you know that I haven't forgotten my blog and will be back to posting more of my things and getting my Etsy account restocked ASAP.  
Thanks for everything   
Hugs
Donalda

Making Changes

Jim and I are in the process of making some big changes in our lives.  Not able to put them all in writing right yet but we are in transition.   So that is the reason I haven't blogged.  Where were at we can't always get on line and our cell phones don't work as well but we are among the living.  God is doing great things for us and as soon as I can I will put it on here.  So for now just keep us in your prayers.  Will post again soon.
Hugs
Donalda

A Day Of Living!!!!

As many of you know that I had weight loss surgery on March 18th 2010.   I have lost close to 200lbs this last year and still have some to loose.  I had what is call the Duodenal Switch.  It is a very aggressive surgery but it was the one that best suited me.   I have had a weight problem all of my life but I always was what I thought in control of my life.  About 10 years ago I started having other health issues such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, which lead to Pulmonary  hypertension.  Then I started having problems with migraines and after several years they realized that I had glaucoma I lost my sight in my right eye.  On November 14, 2010 they removed my eye which was the second best thing I have done for myself.  During this time I had to quite working and I only left the house to go to church and to Dr appts, or if I did go I would wait for Jim in the car while he did the shopping or whatever.   I couldn't walk very far or do anything that I always did.  I was dying a slow death of my own making.  So over this last year I am getting my life back.  I am able to do things that I haven't been able to do for a long time.  This weekend we went to a swap meet not far from here and I walked all the way around.  Then we went to another one further from here and I walked all around it also.  Then on Sunday I sang with the praise team something I haven't been able to do for about 3 years,  after service we went to Staples and I walked all around there also.   So today my love asked me if I wanted to walk with him to the post office and library.  I said sure let's give it a try and so we did and I wasn't out of breath at all.   Yes I have had to make some life style changes but was it worth it.  Yes a thousand times yes.  Is weight loss surgery for everyone.   No!!!!! It's not.  It's not the easy way out,  for you have to change everything you know and thought you knew.    I just wanted to put it out there that there is help for us.

The first  picture was taken the night before my surgery and the second on was taken on March 13, 2011 and I have lost more since then just haven't taken any pictures. 


Now to what I have been working on.   I found this little rocking chair at a garage sale and decided to alter it and make it into a pin cushion for the stick pins that I make and swap.   I found the lace that I put on it at the swap meet that we went to this weekend.    I also got the wooden thread spool this weekend.   This was really fun to do.

 The paper on the spools is K&Co, The flowers are Recollections for Micheal's and Bling is from Hobby Lobby. Everything else is from my stash.

Thanks for looking ...  Please leave a comment for I do read them.
Hugs
Donalda