I'm a Lucky Lucky Lady

Guess what I got in the mail?? 

Did you even try guessing or did you just automatically jump down here to see?  Lazy..... hmph.

Well, I got something really special from our friend StarryDeborah!!  I was lucky enough to win her 100th follower giveaway over on her lovely blog--I won the Tea Package.  The really cool thing was that on the same day, she just happened to be the winner of my Etsyversary drawing...how weird is THAT? lol 

Don't you love getting packages from creative people??   Such a treat...check out the vintage kitty tag...honestly I think this is one of the cutest tags I have EVER seen!  Thank you Deborah for parting with it, I'm sure it wasn't easy!

Inside the pretty hot pink tissue was this sweet little concoction!!  How perfectly lovely! I am going to hang this little cutey by my computer to hold my lip balm and hand lotion. 

These goodies were tucked into that little basket...some cute sticky notes, that darling dimensional teapot magnet, which I've already stuck on my filing cabinet in my studio, and an I Love Tea pin.  Love it all!!  Thank you so much Deborah, what a lovely treat!

Go Ahead....Make my Day.

Our sweet Miss Rosie, doing her Clint Eastwood impression!  lol 

(Cracked me up, she is such a sweet girl that I don't even know how we caught her looking like this!!)

Cozy Cottage Kitchen

Made a pretty treasury today...isn't it fun to browse around Etsy and fantasize about redoing rooms in your home?!  I would love to have all of these beauties in my kitchen at home.  If you would like to check out this treasury with all the clickable links, please click HERE

Tags Galore in the midst of Blabbing

Hello! Well, I did it again...I have every intention of doing a better job at blogging, and then weeks go by! lol I think for today I am going to blab a bit about stuff and intersperse it with some of the cute tags I've made lately--how does that sound??

Puddle Splashers

 

I've been very tired due to chemo and the accompanying anemia, but I can still sit and make tags, and that makes me happy!

Playful Pinwheels

I got a new camera from my Sweety for Mother's day...I must say it is making picture taking much more enjoyable, and the pics are so much clearer!  Love it!

Sweetness

Lately I don't have much to talk about that doesn't involve cancer. I certainly don't want to just sit here and talk about THAT all the time, as if it hasn't already taken over so much of my life, dammit!  But, maybe I'll just talk about it a bit and get it off my chest, huh?  That might help.  There is some good news...I had my last chemo treatment! Yeah! It was my 24th dose and they decided that I needed a break. Yes, thank you :o)

Punky Pinwheels

I think my Sis-in-law and I are going to try and get up to the cabin for a weekend very soon (possibly Memorial weekend)...it would be so great to get away from the city and just relax for a bit and maybe catch some fish. Doesn't that sound nice?

Tell Me Bluebirdy

 

Next week now they have me scheduled to go in and get set up for radiation--BRAIN radiation! YIKES. The kind of cancer that I have has a tendency to work it's way up there and they want to radiate in case there are any rogue cells up there already.  I say, get in there and zap the hell out of them!  Grrrrr!

Oh Happy Day Birdy

(this little bird reminds me of myself...a  chubby little gal that just keeps on flying!)

Know what is really bumming me out? I have cute new little hairlets trying to grow on my head, they are about 1/4" long right now, just as cute as can be (really, I look a bit like a baby bird! lol) and the radiation will cause me to lose those little guys --dang it!  lol  I feel very motherly towards those little fellas!

Sweet Baby Brown

There, thanks for listening...I feel better! 

Etsyversary Drawing Winner!!

Hello! Well, today is the day....let's see who wins The Mrs. Kwitty's 4th Etsyversary, Vintagey, Cottagey, Flowery, Birdy, Papery Giveaway!!

Usually I do something cute with the cats or with the kids or hubby or something, but there are just too many names this time to write them all down, lol!!  So I just went to randomizer.org and   Tah DAH!

 AND...the lucky winner is the lovely Starry Deborah from Starry Night Impressions!!!

Congratulations Starry Deb!!  :o)

I'd like to thank everyone who took the time to stop by and enter and leave your lovely, sweet, thoughtful, kind, funny, etc. comments...I enjoy reading each and every one and I enjoyed stopping by your blogs too and meeting new people and seeing what you are up to!

Special thanks to those of you who helped me to spread the word by posting a link on your blog or FB or tweeting the news--the support was amazing and I ♥ all you gals!

An Etsyversary Giveaway!!!

Hello friends!   Guess who's 4th Etsyversary it is?  Hmmmm?  Hmmmm?  How did you guess it was me?  YOU are such an amazing guesser!  I am amazed by your guessing abilities, it's incredible.  Really.  *goofy grin*

In honor of this prestigious occassion, and to make up for the fact that I have been neglecting my poor little blog so badly the last few months, I've decided to have a GIVEAWAY!  So, the last couple days I have been working on some special prizes to offer you, my bored and faithful readers, and customers, and friends, and future friends!

I went through my stash of beautiful vintage hankies and found the perfect one to use for this special project....first thing made was this pretty little keychain/card wallet!  Don't leave home ever again without your drivers license, debit card, and keys.

Then I made up this matching tissue keeper...because a lady should always have a tissue handy ya know!  For the snots.

Next up, I had to include a few paper items, just cuz' they are so fun to make!  Sweet little tags in bright colors.  Pretty little handmade tags make your gifts extra special you know.  :o)

And, last but NOT least....a few of my signature little birdy tags!!  But of course.  I hope you are not tired of seeing all these birds, because I am SO not tired of making them.  LOL!  I can't help myself, they just make me happy!

So, there you have it!  The Mrs. Kwitty's 4th  Etsyversary, Vintagey, Cottagey, Flowery, Birdy, Papery Giveaway.  The winner will get all this junk, errrr.....stuff, errrr  ....goodies!

**You don't have to check out my shop....unless you WANT to (it WOULD make me happy if some of you would stop by and see what's been going on there)

**You don't have to Twitter it.....unless you WANT to  (I love it when people tweet me!)

**You don't have to friend me on my Facebook Fan page....unless you WANT to  (even though I only have 28 fans so far and it would really make my day.....)

**TO ENTER, JUST LEAVE ME A COMMENT AND SOME WAY TO GET AHOLD OF YOU IF YOU WIN!  That's it.  Easy. Peasy.  I just love you guys and want to have a little fun!

I'll have the drawing open for a couple weeks, just because I hate when I find out late that one of my fav blogs had a drawing and I missed it!  Sooo....on Monday,  May 3rd, I will do the drawing!  Okey doke? 

Thanks for stopping by and good luck!

Lookee What I Won!

I entered a drawing in this scrummy shop, SimpleTraditions, and was lucky enough to win a package of  Leah's lovely lip balms!!  Let me tell you, the quality and smoothness of the balms is really great, I'm tickled pink--and they came packaged so nicely in a sweet little muslin bag with her shop logo stamped on, very classy!  I'm a happy lady :o)

She has lots of yummy flavors, with more to come, she says.  I got Toasted Coconut (my fav), Cherry Vanilla, Pistachio Ice Cream, and Butter Creme.  Can you say MMMMMMM!

Thank you Leah, I really have enjoyed my gift!

OH!  and speaking of giveaways....please pop back in the next couple days--my Etsyversary is coming up on the 17th  (sheesh, I guess that's tomorrow!) and I'm planning a little somethin/somethin to celebrate!! 

Etsy Twitter Shop of the Week!!

The very lovely people of the Etsy Twitter Team have done me the honor of making me the Etsy Twitter "Shop of the Week" this week!!  They did up such a lovely feature article--please stop by and check it out--everything you've always wanted to know about Mrs. Kwitty but were afraid to ask, LOL!   Not really, but it is a very nice article and it also tells you about a little "SPECIAL" for the reader's at the end!

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=43315760

I've added some new stuff to my shop this week, including a couple more new birdies--it is supposed to be spring you know!  There is this pretty pink one (I know, there are no pretty white and pink birds in the wild, but don't you think there should be...look how cute they are!) lol

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=43403159

And then a cutey blue bird too!

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=43389441

I've also made up a couple new Page Percher bookmarks in their pretty library pockets.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=43176114

There are a few more things, but I don't want to load you all up with pics!  Stop by the shop and see for yourself.

I'm so glad that this feature article came out this week...otherwise it would have been a bit of a rough one for me....it was Pauly's birthday yesterday, he would have turned 44.  I sure do miss him and we really felt the loss of his presence yesterday :o(

Also, it is chemo week....they are a bit rough (to put it mildly!)  I go in for chemo 3 days in a row and then on the 4th day I go in for a shot to boost my white cell production as the chemo makes you anemic.  I just finished my 3rd treatment this morning.  Just in for the shot tomorrow and then I have 2 weeks to recover before I go again.  Keep me in your prayers that all this keeps on working and for strength, it makes me feel so tired and weak.

That's it for today, my dear friends!!  Have a great day ♥♥♥

Happy Birthday Baby

I'd like to wish a very Happy 17th Birthday to my baby girl!! 

We're so proud of what a great kid she is...she is so very sweet to others, a kind and compassionate person, helpful and honest. 

She is very dedicated to her dance team, never misses practices (even though they take up so much of her time), keeps her nose clean, and still maintains a very high grade point average!  Yah Linds...we love you!!  Happy Birthday Sweetheart!

Etsy Front Page

Hello all you beautiful people :o)

I was very pleased to find out that my cute vintage Sailor dish towel made it to Etsy's front page last night!!



It did actually sell right away and brought me lots of new visitors and a few new shop heart---so YEAH!!

I know that I've been gone for such a long time from my blog--it's been a pretty rough road for ol' Mrs. Kwitty lately. Losing Paul was so hard on us all, he left a really big hole with his passing--hard on us and especially hard on his wife and kids.

Then, I had been feeling very ill for several months during the ordeal with Paul, and was being treated for pneumonia on top of it all. At the end of December I ended up in the hospital and it was discovered there that it wasn't pneumonia that was wearing me down...I was diagnosed with lung cancer.

Since then has been all the fun and games that goes along with having cancer....getting your mind wrapped around the fact that you have cancer, starting and getting through chemo treatments, losing your hair (oh yeah, being a baldy is really something! lol), and so on and so forth. I ended up closing up my Etsy shop for a while, but you know, crafting is in the heart and soul and I just had to get back into it again FOR MY SANITY! lol

So, little by little, I've been adding things back into life again and I guess it's time to get back to my little blog here and all the lovely friends that stop by to visit. I do love you guys, you brighten my day with your comments and encouragement and I thank you!! Keep me in your prayers...I can use the help from the "Big Guy" upstairs!