I've had such an outpouring of prayers,love, and care from my blog friends--for which I am so very grateful and humbled!!!! Thanks so very much--I love you gals!!
I feel pretty bad that I haven't kept in better touch. The thing is that when you get sick with something like cancer, sadly, it has a way of pretty much taking over your life. I just didn't feel like having blog posts that are full of my treatments and being sick and tired, and so forth, but really didn't have much else going on to talk about. After radiation, I ended up with a weird head thing and it put me out of commission for almost 2 months! BUT--I have been feeling better and have been able to get back to my studio a bit lately---which makes me happy!
I recently finished up an order for 200 of my little birds for a wedding out in WA state, they are using them as placecards at the reception--isn't that a cute idea?!! Let me tell you, though, all my birds are cut by hand, so cutting out 200 birds and 200 little wings was quite an undertaking! They turned out wonderful and the bride was tickled pink with them!
I found a really pretty and colorful little yellow tea towel with lovely hand embroidered pink flowers (the embroidery is exquisite!) and ended up using it to add a splash of color to a new cover for a composition notebook...I think it turned out gorgeous! What a great journal for gardening or for keeping all your Etsy info or a project idea book!
I've also made one with these fun florals and dots. Sadly, there is an "OOPSIE" in the dots fabric, so I ended up deciding to lower the price by $10 and list it anyways! The cover is fully functional, so if you don't mind a little flaw, here's a good deal for ya!!
Sending out congrats to our friend Ginny from iSew.blogspot.com . Her and hubby have a brand new little girl!! Yeah!
Well, that's it for now. I'll try and do better with my blogging -- I miss you guys!! ♥♥♥
1...We were set up by a mutual friend. A friend that I worked with at the nursing home kept on bugging me to call this "guy who is PERFECT for you!" I never was the kind of gal who called guys in the first place so it took a long time (around 6 months!) for me to finally tell her that I would call him if she would just shut up!
3...The guy my friend wanted me to call was named Mark---and there were 2 other men who I was dating occasionally, at the time...both named Mark. LOL At least I didn't have to worry about calling them the wrong names!
5...I went to a local bar one night, to meet up with some friends, and ended up meeting this handsome and sweet guy--we really hit it off right away! We spent most of the evening talking and shooting pool and dancing to the great blues band that was there (both die hard blues fans!). Come to find out....guess who it was?? Yup! LOL Want to know how I found out it was him?? When we had arranged our first date (the one I missed), he had told me to look for his bright green coat (the one that I had seen going out the back door !!) Soooo.....at one point in the evening he went to grab a pack of smokes out of his coat that was hanging on a chair over in the corner....tah dah! Yup...that crazy bright green coat!! I just couldn't believe it! 
6...We seem to have a weird psychic connection--even from the beginning! Seriously, the first night I met him, we were talking about families (Mark comes from a large family) and I asked him to guess how many kids my Grandparents had had....(my Dad comes from a LARGE family!) and Mark looked at me for a minute and then said "17". Just out of the blue!! He was exactly right! LOL AND Now...after all these years of marriage, we totally are in each other's head! It's a little weird really.
8...When we knew that things were getting serious between us, I had to tell him my sad news. I was unable to get pregnant. I had met his family and saw how he loved them all and was so good with all his nieces and nephews....and I had to tell him that he might want to break it off with me and find some nice girl to marry and have babies with. I thought for sure that would be the deal breaker! lol Nope, silly man....he wanted me anyways. :o) Turns out---I was only unable to get pregnant with my FIRST hubby! LOL ( Guess who ended up preggy right away? huh?) 
9...Mark proposed to me and gave me a ring...and I turned him down. I loved him but I really didn't want to get married again. He told me to keep the ring, and I put it in my underwear drawer and kept it there for a long time. He finally convinced me that we were going to be together forever and I might just as well get used to the idea...and he was going to be my husband and that was that. Period. He was so right. We got married at the courthouse. 
10...In 2007 we finally got our church wedding ♥
