Saturday, May 28, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Hail from storm tonight
This was the hail from our house today! Thank Goodness we were safe! Wind and hail was the main thing but there were some trees and power lines down just outside of town. This evening is just beautiful though. You wouldn't know what has been going on out there by the weather tonight! It is perfect!!
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
She Art Swap Coming Soon!!!
This is a 4X6 painted on a Bind it All cover. I have tons of those white chipboard pieces and got a few down to see what would happen if I painted on them. Turns out they're great!!
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Recovery in our little community
Last night brought us more storms, more tornadoes, and another death from the storms. This time it hit really close to home. Only a few miles from where I live a tornado came through about 9:15 or so last night. Taking with it were homes and trees but also a very, very sweet lady. Her name is JoAnne Bradley. Her son wasn't home and had called her and couldn't get her so he left work and went home and found her. According to this site it said she was thrown 50 yards away from her home.
I knew JoAnne from scrapbooking. Sounds odd to say it that way, but I used to work at The Scrapbook Attic in Batesville, just a few miles from home. She and a friend came in to the store and I helped them pick out some things. After that we'd always talk and she was the friendliest person! She came to my very first class to support me when I first started selling Close To My Heart scrappin supplies. She ALWAYS had a smile on her face! A great big pretty smile that let me know she was happy. She always seemed happy! My heart breaks for her husband and her son. Her son is close to my son's age and they have a class together. Hunter always talks about him and what a good kid he is. He works at Sonic at town. She was so proud of him for working and was always talking about how good he is. She must have been a fantastic momma to have such a good boy!
JoAnne showed me a picture of their dream home that her husband had built for her. I think he and JoAnne were the ones that actually built it too. She would tell me each time I would see her how it was coming along. She invited me up to see it and her craft space but I never got up there... and it was just a few minutes away from me. I wish I had gone now. That beautiful home was built on top of a hill. I can just imagine the view she had up there. The front had big glass windows...it was just gorgeous!! I'm afraid being on that hill was a bad thing. As the crow flies, it was probably a straight shot from where the damage started to her house. The National Weather Service hasn't said if it was a tornado or not but my nephew was out with working with the fire department last night and he said the trees were just snapped off. On the site I linked above the Sheriff said it was. I would think we could hear it if it was that close, but I just don't know. It just bothers me so bad to know that while I was sleeping, so relaxed here in my home, that one of my friends was going through something so bad. I know there was nothing I could do even if I'd known what was going on, but things like that just bother me so badly! I just hurt for her and her family. I know this... we have NO cell phone service out here and hardly any internet reception-especially when it rains. I think it is time those cell phone people think about upping our reception out here! She might have known what was coming if that was the case! I have to stop blaming and just pray because I know that placing blame won't bring her back.
She worked in town at Dollar General and seemed happy to be there! I don't think I ever heard her complain! I'll miss her smiling face when I go in there now. I'm sure we all will!
I am just stunned because I don't think there was a tornado warning out for our area. In fact I was asleep on the couch and woke up to hear the wind blowing hard and it was pouring down rain. But I had looked at the radar earlier and it didn't show anything that looked too bad so I wasn't worried with what i heard. The power started to flicker, but for our area that is definitely nothing new as it does it a lot. It finally went out and stayed out. Still I didn't worry. Had I known there was a tornado only a few miles from my house ( and we live in a double wide mobile home) I would have been worried for sure! At least up and not snoozing on the couch. But we didn't hear anything roaring or nothing like that. I guess things happen for a reason and I just have to leave it at that. Please keep JoAnne's family in your prayers... as well as the other storm victims from Arkansas and all across the areas that have been hit by these awful storms. There were also two people critically injured in the little town of Calamine, just a few miles up the road from me. We live in a little spot called Grange, about 8 miles northeast of Cave City. I haven't heard who they were or how the are this morning. The sad thing is, there is more coming today. I just pray the ones coming are not as strong as the one from Monday and Tuesday. If anyone reading this out there is in the path of more storms, stay safe.
Have a good day!
Lisa
I knew JoAnne from scrapbooking. Sounds odd to say it that way, but I used to work at The Scrapbook Attic in Batesville, just a few miles from home. She and a friend came in to the store and I helped them pick out some things. After that we'd always talk and she was the friendliest person! She came to my very first class to support me when I first started selling Close To My Heart scrappin supplies. She ALWAYS had a smile on her face! A great big pretty smile that let me know she was happy. She always seemed happy! My heart breaks for her husband and her son. Her son is close to my son's age and they have a class together. Hunter always talks about him and what a good kid he is. He works at Sonic at town. She was so proud of him for working and was always talking about how good he is. She must have been a fantastic momma to have such a good boy!
JoAnne showed me a picture of their dream home that her husband had built for her. I think he and JoAnne were the ones that actually built it too. She would tell me each time I would see her how it was coming along. She invited me up to see it and her craft space but I never got up there... and it was just a few minutes away from me. I wish I had gone now. That beautiful home was built on top of a hill. I can just imagine the view she had up there. The front had big glass windows...it was just gorgeous!! I'm afraid being on that hill was a bad thing. As the crow flies, it was probably a straight shot from where the damage started to her house. The National Weather Service hasn't said if it was a tornado or not but my nephew was out with working with the fire department last night and he said the trees were just snapped off. On the site I linked above the Sheriff said it was. I would think we could hear it if it was that close, but I just don't know. It just bothers me so bad to know that while I was sleeping, so relaxed here in my home, that one of my friends was going through something so bad. I know there was nothing I could do even if I'd known what was going on, but things like that just bother me so badly! I just hurt for her and her family. I know this... we have NO cell phone service out here and hardly any internet reception-especially when it rains. I think it is time those cell phone people think about upping our reception out here! She might have known what was coming if that was the case! I have to stop blaming and just pray because I know that placing blame won't bring her back.
She worked in town at Dollar General and seemed happy to be there! I don't think I ever heard her complain! I'll miss her smiling face when I go in there now. I'm sure we all will!
I am just stunned because I don't think there was a tornado warning out for our area. In fact I was asleep on the couch and woke up to hear the wind blowing hard and it was pouring down rain. But I had looked at the radar earlier and it didn't show anything that looked too bad so I wasn't worried with what i heard. The power started to flicker, but for our area that is definitely nothing new as it does it a lot. It finally went out and stayed out. Still I didn't worry. Had I known there was a tornado only a few miles from my house ( and we live in a double wide mobile home) I would have been worried for sure! At least up and not snoozing on the couch. But we didn't hear anything roaring or nothing like that. I guess things happen for a reason and I just have to leave it at that. Please keep JoAnne's family in your prayers... as well as the other storm victims from Arkansas and all across the areas that have been hit by these awful storms. There were also two people critically injured in the little town of Calamine, just a few miles up the road from me. We live in a little spot called Grange, about 8 miles northeast of Cave City. I haven't heard who they were or how the are this morning. The sad thing is, there is more coming today. I just pray the ones coming are not as strong as the one from Monday and Tuesday. If anyone reading this out there is in the path of more storms, stay safe.
Have a good day!
Lisa
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Typical day at my house!
Gracie is somewhere barking - as usual! And perched on the coffee table is Bella- as usual being our little oddball"! She keeps us laughing always!
Have a great day!
Happy Scrappin
Lisa
Have a great day!
Happy Scrappin
Lisa
Friday, April 8, 2011
Look at this!
Monday, April 4, 2011
Changes Coming On.....
Sometimes you just have to do things you don't want to do and it's a coming. I just hope I'm tough enough to hang on for the ride, 'cause it is going to be a wild one.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Gracie the Couch Potato
Friday, March 18, 2011
Lenses (Alien)
Sunday, March 13, 2011
A fantastic day!!
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Be careful who you talk to on the phone, they might be contagious!
Well, I've dropped the blogging ball - again! Yes, I was doing so good ... and then.....
well here's what's been going on. I started the She Art Workshop on Feb. 28... the same day I went out of town to go shopping. Next day enjoyed the videos that went along with it. Love love love Christy Tomlinson! I so want to just BE her! Wed. still loving the videos and playing around with a canvas I'd started earlier (the one in below in a previous post) Thur. went to get groceries and that usually takes all day as I drag my feet (that is what the hubs calls it) at getting it done. But hey, I usually don't go anywhere during the week so my trip to WalMart is like a mini vacation, so I look- at everything. You'd think I'd never been in there before I look so much, thinking I might find something new HA HA! Ok, back to the whining/ er I mean story... Before me and my lil guy left Thurs. morning he asked if he could stay with his mawmaw. So he called her and we found out she was really bad sick. I told her I'd take her to the ER as she thought that was what she needed to do because she couldn't get her doctor on the phone. She told me no she didn't want me around her because she didn't want me to get sick. WELL, LET ME JUST TELL YOU.... I GOT IT ANYWAY AND I GOT IT THE VERY NEXT DAY!!!!!!!!!!!! BE CAREFUL WHO YOU TALK TO ON THE PHONE, THEY MIGHT BE CONTAGIOUS!! So mom is STILL sick and SO AM I!!! I'm better and so is she, but a long way from A-OK. I STILL cannot smell OR taste anything and it is driving me C-R-A-Z-Y! I mean I know there are worse things in life as I was sick last Sat, Sun, and Monday and stuck in bed and DIDN'T care that I couldn't taste. I would just like to rush things along. Hey the good news is if ya can't taste you won't overeat. I've been wondering why bother lately.... seems like a waste, to eat food you can't taste. Or why eat 2 slices of pizza? Thinking if you keep eating it might come back? Nope, tried that, didn't work either!
It hasn't been all bad though. I got an order from Scarlet Lime with my mixed media order, received my swaps from the Flea Market Matchbox Swap and they were fantastic I might add. ****Will post more about that later****
Well, now that I feel like setting up and messing with this computer I think I'll go check my blogs I read and just enjoy not feeling like mud under a shoe!
More creative stuff later as I've started 2 new She Art projects. I'll have to post those, and oh yeah! I have a new niece! She is adorable!! Hailyn is her name. She is so sweet and makes me want another one so bad. BUT I snap back to reality and think --- NO. I'll love her and spoil her and maybe that'll do me??
Have a great day everybody!!
Happy Scrappin' and God Bless,
Lisa
well here's what's been going on. I started the She Art Workshop on Feb. 28... the same day I went out of town to go shopping. Next day enjoyed the videos that went along with it. Love love love Christy Tomlinson! I so want to just BE her! Wed. still loving the videos and playing around with a canvas I'd started earlier (the one in below in a previous post) Thur. went to get groceries and that usually takes all day as I drag my feet (that is what the hubs calls it) at getting it done. But hey, I usually don't go anywhere during the week so my trip to WalMart is like a mini vacation, so I look- at everything. You'd think I'd never been in there before I look so much, thinking I might find something new HA HA! Ok, back to the whining/ er I mean story... Before me and my lil guy left Thurs. morning he asked if he could stay with his mawmaw. So he called her and we found out she was really bad sick. I told her I'd take her to the ER as she thought that was what she needed to do because she couldn't get her doctor on the phone. She told me no she didn't want me around her because she didn't want me to get sick. WELL, LET ME JUST TELL YOU.... I GOT IT ANYWAY AND I GOT IT THE VERY NEXT DAY!!!!!!!!!!!! BE CAREFUL WHO YOU TALK TO ON THE PHONE, THEY MIGHT BE CONTAGIOUS!! So mom is STILL sick and SO AM I!!! I'm better and so is she, but a long way from A-OK. I STILL cannot smell OR taste anything and it is driving me C-R-A-Z-Y! I mean I know there are worse things in life as I was sick last Sat, Sun, and Monday and stuck in bed and DIDN'T care that I couldn't taste. I would just like to rush things along. Hey the good news is if ya can't taste you won't overeat. I've been wondering why bother lately.... seems like a waste, to eat food you can't taste. Or why eat 2 slices of pizza? Thinking if you keep eating it might come back? Nope, tried that, didn't work either!
It hasn't been all bad though. I got an order from Scarlet Lime with my mixed media order, received my swaps from the Flea Market Matchbox Swap and they were fantastic I might add. ****Will post more about that later****
Well, now that I feel like setting up and messing with this computer I think I'll go check my blogs I read and just enjoy not feeling like mud under a shoe!
More creative stuff later as I've started 2 new She Art projects. I'll have to post those, and oh yeah! I have a new niece! She is adorable!! Hailyn is her name. She is so sweet and makes me want another one so bad. BUT I snap back to reality and think --- NO. I'll love her and spoil her and maybe that'll do me??
Have a great day everybody!!
Happy Scrappin' and God Bless,
Lisa
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Valentines Day *early*
Monday, February 7, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Week 5 / 52
Thursday, January 27, 2011
I finally have it!!!!
What I'm working on now
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
10 Things You Might Not Know About Me....
Christy Tomlinson Has listed 10 things on her blog and challenged everyone to do the same and link back to her blog... so her goes...
1) I'm only 5' tall. I get called all kinds of "short" names, I don't mind though. I was known as "half-pint" when I was little, er, um younger!
2) I homeschool my youngest boy. He loves it. I love it. AND I haven't strung him up by his toenails yet! That is what I used to say would happen if I tried homeschooling!!
3) I have a fear of water. Once I was at the lake with some friends and had 2 life jackets on. That's right- 2!! One one the right way and one on like a pair of shorts. I couldn't feel the bottom when they FINALLY persuaded me to get out of the boat... well, I banged my knee all up on the prop of the boat trying to get back in. I cried over that one and looked like a freak to all the "boat people" and haven't been back in one since then!!
4)I have a scar below my right eye. Kinda looks like a wrinkle now that I'm older, but it is a scar. I was around 4 or 5 years old when I jumped to get in to the bed, missed and hit the metal bed railing. Busted my eye/cheek up pretty badly. Mom said I needed stitches but Daddy gave me a dollar to ease my pain and wouldn't let her take me because he knew how bad they would hurt me sewing me up! I was a daddy's girl! I miss him so much! He's been gone for 10 years.. 11 years this April. I can't believe it's been that long. Schleroderma is what took him from us. He fought such a brave fight though. 2 years after diagnosis he was gone, but I have his memory with me. I'll see him again someday though!
5) OH THIS IS A BIGGIE!!!!!!!!! I HAVE FALSE TEETH!! Yep that is right.. a whole set! I had to have oral surgery because they were so bad. I just decided to go ahead and have them all taken out. And surprisingly, it didn't hurt. I was put to sleep when they took them out, but the way they do it, it's not like having one pulled. I was swollen and bruised a few days after and uncomfortable, but it didn't really hurt. I had to go back to work (I worked at the local grocery store then) and worked for about 2 months without a tooth in my head. And this comes from a girl who doesn't like to be seen with out makeup! So I just sucked it up and took the "teasing". I lived. :) I got one set of "falsies" ha ha... and they didn't fit right. I have a set now that is pearly white and perfect! I wanted that for years. I do miss the ease of having teeth and not having to "go find them" ha ah!! I can't believe I'm telling ya'll this!! But I'm healthy now because I got the infection that was in there gone! I'm gummy though!! My kids now call me granny gums.... I don't like that too much!
6) I have a brother. No, not a major thing. But most people that know me don't know I have one! He lives in Missouri and is 12 years older than I am. We don't hardly ever talk unless he and his family comes for a holiday. I have a sister that lives in Tennessee and I can't make it without her- I LOVE YOU SISTER!!
7) My husband is 17 years older than I am! We met at the groc. store I was working at, talked 45 minutes right there... and the rest is history as they say.
8)This is hard... I don't have a very interesting life to tell about. Um here's one. I was pregnant with my first child, Cody. It was really close to my due date so I was going in for weekly checkups. My doctor felt of my belly and asked if I could feel anything. I said , well, no. I was in labor and didn't even know it! He checked me and I was at 5 cm! WOW! He broke my water and 2 hours later I had a baby boy! Baby #2, Hunter... was very quick... baby #3 - I warned the doctor when he said he was going to induce me that he wouldn't have enough time to give me my epidural. Well, I didn't! They broke my water and 45 min. later Dakota was born. They were giving me a saddle block and I could feel him coming! They laid me back, pulled down the lights, put my feet up and he was there!!! The saddle block was barely starting to take affect when he was stitching me up. I know if I ever have a #4 I better not be stranded anywhere! My babies are in a hurry to greet the world!!
9)I love to smell books and paper... Yes I know I'm weird! I open a new book or magazine and stick my nose right in and sniff! Now, keep in mind that I won't do this in public.. .it is only at home. BUT my youngest little boy does it too! and he doesn't care WHERE he is! In his noes goes!!!
10) I love Ice Cream sandwiches for breakfast! Something about ice cream first thing in the morning after just getting up is so good! Cold and yummy!
THere you have it. 10 things about me. Not really important, but stuff and that is what makes us - US, right?
Hope ya'll have a scrappy day! I'm off to work on my Christy Tomlinson inspired wall hanging (#2)- pink and "loveee". Don't forget to go check out her workshop - THE SHE ART WORKSHOP. I am counting the days!!!
Happy Scrappin' and God Bless!
Lisa
1) I'm only 5' tall. I get called all kinds of "short" names, I don't mind though. I was known as "half-pint" when I was little, er, um younger!
2) I homeschool my youngest boy. He loves it. I love it. AND I haven't strung him up by his toenails yet! That is what I used to say would happen if I tried homeschooling!!
3) I have a fear of water. Once I was at the lake with some friends and had 2 life jackets on. That's right- 2!! One one the right way and one on like a pair of shorts. I couldn't feel the bottom when they FINALLY persuaded me to get out of the boat... well, I banged my knee all up on the prop of the boat trying to get back in. I cried over that one and looked like a freak to all the "boat people" and haven't been back in one since then!!
4)I have a scar below my right eye. Kinda looks like a wrinkle now that I'm older, but it is a scar. I was around 4 or 5 years old when I jumped to get in to the bed, missed and hit the metal bed railing. Busted my eye/cheek up pretty badly. Mom said I needed stitches but Daddy gave me a dollar to ease my pain and wouldn't let her take me because he knew how bad they would hurt me sewing me up! I was a daddy's girl! I miss him so much! He's been gone for 10 years.. 11 years this April. I can't believe it's been that long. Schleroderma is what took him from us. He fought such a brave fight though. 2 years after diagnosis he was gone, but I have his memory with me. I'll see him again someday though!
5) OH THIS IS A BIGGIE!!!!!!!!! I HAVE FALSE TEETH!! Yep that is right.. a whole set! I had to have oral surgery because they were so bad. I just decided to go ahead and have them all taken out. And surprisingly, it didn't hurt. I was put to sleep when they took them out, but the way they do it, it's not like having one pulled. I was swollen and bruised a few days after and uncomfortable, but it didn't really hurt. I had to go back to work (I worked at the local grocery store then) and worked for about 2 months without a tooth in my head. And this comes from a girl who doesn't like to be seen with out makeup! So I just sucked it up and took the "teasing". I lived. :) I got one set of "falsies" ha ha... and they didn't fit right. I have a set now that is pearly white and perfect! I wanted that for years. I do miss the ease of having teeth and not having to "go find them" ha ah!! I can't believe I'm telling ya'll this!! But I'm healthy now because I got the infection that was in there gone! I'm gummy though!! My kids now call me granny gums.... I don't like that too much!
6) I have a brother. No, not a major thing. But most people that know me don't know I have one! He lives in Missouri and is 12 years older than I am. We don't hardly ever talk unless he and his family comes for a holiday. I have a sister that lives in Tennessee and I can't make it without her- I LOVE YOU SISTER!!
7) My husband is 17 years older than I am! We met at the groc. store I was working at, talked 45 minutes right there... and the rest is history as they say.
8)This is hard... I don't have a very interesting life to tell about. Um here's one. I was pregnant with my first child, Cody. It was really close to my due date so I was going in for weekly checkups. My doctor felt of my belly and asked if I could feel anything. I said , well, no. I was in labor and didn't even know it! He checked me and I was at 5 cm! WOW! He broke my water and 2 hours later I had a baby boy! Baby #2, Hunter... was very quick... baby #3 - I warned the doctor when he said he was going to induce me that he wouldn't have enough time to give me my epidural. Well, I didn't! They broke my water and 45 min. later Dakota was born. They were giving me a saddle block and I could feel him coming! They laid me back, pulled down the lights, put my feet up and he was there!!! The saddle block was barely starting to take affect when he was stitching me up. I know if I ever have a #4 I better not be stranded anywhere! My babies are in a hurry to greet the world!!
9)I love to smell books and paper... Yes I know I'm weird! I open a new book or magazine and stick my nose right in and sniff! Now, keep in mind that I won't do this in public.. .it is only at home. BUT my youngest little boy does it too! and he doesn't care WHERE he is! In his noes goes!!!
10) I love Ice Cream sandwiches for breakfast! Something about ice cream first thing in the morning after just getting up is so good! Cold and yummy!
THere you have it. 10 things about me. Not really important, but stuff and that is what makes us - US, right?
Hope ya'll have a scrappy day! I'm off to work on my Christy Tomlinson inspired wall hanging (#2)- pink and "loveee". Don't forget to go check out her workshop - THE SHE ART WORKSHOP. I am counting the days!!!
Happy Scrappin' and God Bless!
Lisa
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