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Showing posts with label crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crafts. Show all posts

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Looking Backward and Foreward

 Looking back at 2013 some of it was not very good.  Not sure why I have a hard time blogging about difficult times in my life...but I do.  Thinking about it now it may have something to do with wanting to have people accept and like me.  Good grief I think I'm in a therapy session!  

In January 2013 I started a new eating plan to lose weight by March I'd lost 15 pounds.  One day towards the end of March I told my husband that I felt better then I had for a long time.  Then that very same night an ambulance had to come and take me to the hospital with vertigo so bad I could not stand or move.  Doc's could not find why I had vertigo...I asked could it be my Lyme Disease and they said no.  Well I finally went to a doctor who specializes in Lyme Disease and have been on antibiotics since April.  I think it has helped me but still have some symptoms.  Needless to say I gained the 15 pounds back...plus more!

In June the non-profit I work for (from home) told me they would have to lower the amount they paid me they just did not have the funds to continue with the original amount and they would let me know in November.  My contract was up in December and they decided to make changes to my job description some of  which I was not willing to do so now I have no part-time job.

I did post last year about all the bins I have full of treasures to sell on Ebay  (see post)   That is the only bin I got listed so there are many more to list that can help make up some of the money I've lost from the part-time job. Plus I'm going to sell some crafts I make.


In August my husband went to the emergency room and had congestive heart failure and a-fib.  He had been on medication for this for about 4 years but for some reason he went back into a-fib and his heart was not pumping like it should and that's why he had congestive heart failure. He is doing better now but the doc's are waiting to see if his heart starts to pump better...if not they will give him a defibrillator and maybe a pacemaker.  It's not easy getting old!  Now on to


Some of my thought for this year.

Get on an eating plan and stick to it! 

 If I lost weight I'd have more energy. 

 Lyme Disease feeds on sugar so I must stop feeding it!

Keep listing items on Ebay must make some money
 to supplement our retirement.

Blog more....and be more open about my life!



Warm hugs,

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Organized clutter!!

Yesterday I was getting my website ready for the upcoming Christmas Carnival on SaturdayNovember 28th which I'm participating in. Last night about 1 AM I was working on my needle felted Angel Snowman for my giveaway and needed some blue ribbon...it has to be here some where!

Maybe it's in one of the bins - sitting here at my computer I see 4 plastic bins and don't really know what's in any of them except stuff for crafts, Ebay, personal?

Pulled all of this out of the green bin (my favorite way of organizing)
no blue ribbon in there!




More clear plastic bins!



Maybe I bought some at Big Lots



More clear bins

Pretty boxes for ribbon storage




Here's a bag from the church thirft store - everything was 1/2 price paid $1.25 for all these treasures!

Never did find any blue ribbon but I'm really frustrated and unhappy about my cluttered Shabby Cottage. This isn't something that just happened recently but the clutter had gotten much worse since selling on Ebay (inventory!), blogging and my re-interest in crafting.
So today I decided to clean up around here and started a new blog
DeCluttering Our Shabby Cottage

I know something else to take up my time but I'm hoping this will hold me accountable and keep me on track.

So I'd better hurry up and finish my Angel Snowman!


Warm hugs,

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Looking Forward to 2009

Since Christmas I've been wondering around the internet kinda lost in space...you know going from one site to another, one blog takes you to another blog found lots of great blogs! So maybe I want to change my course in life? Make another New Years resolution? Do I sound confused..oh yes I am! My husband thinks it is the after Christmas let down, well maybe.

I don't want to make another New Year's resolution...what to lose weight,it's not happened in the past and only makes me miserable. Maybe this is the year I'll get organized - I keep trying but have not been able to give up my treasures and I don't want too! Many of the blogs I've visited are to showcase beautiful crafts the owner makes, maybe I'll start crafting again. Let's see I've had everything to make a mosaic table for my back porch for about 2 years. Painting supplies and patterns to start painting again, especially want to learn to paint roses, the paint is probably dried up by now! Plastic bins in basement filled with all kinds of craft supplies but never used. Is it just me or do others have problems with motivation?

Think I'll just show you some pictures of my favorite things in 2008. Pictures of my garden always relax me.






And Felix and Happi make me happy!




And here is the love of my life after Christmas dinner!



I feel better already.

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