Miss you Daddy!

Hello everyone--thank you so much for all your prayers for my dad and our family. It has been a very rough past 5 weeks since we lost my dad. He was just so weak and finally is at peace now. Thank you to everyone who came/flew/drove in to his memorial Sunday dinner! He would have been so happy that we were all together! There is still so much to do in getting my mom settled. All I do is make calls and run paperwork everywhere! I feel as though I haven't even had time to grieve yet. I know time will heal -- but I miss him so much!
THank you again everyone--you have no idea how much your prayers have been fealt!

Dad's Coming Home!

Hello my dear friends and family. I want to thank you all for your prayers and support during this hard time. My dad is scheduled to be transported to our home today at 2pm. We have hospice now for end of life care. He has just been through so much and his body is shutting down. He is disoriented - didn't know who I was yesterday but I did get a nod when I told him he was going home. His wish is not to be there at the hospital and since there is no more medically that can be done for him - we want to honor his wishes and just make him as comfortable as possible. Since my parents live in an upstairs apartment - they would not release him to go home there -so we are setting him up in our living room. We just continue to pray for his peace and comfort and for my mom - and all of us really. My sister is arriving here today from WA and my brother will be here so we will be all together.
Again thank you so much for your prayers--they mean so much to all of us! Since my sister and I both have Lupus - I also pray that God will keep us strong through all of this and that we don't flare up too bad.
Love you all!

A CHRISTMAS CAST!

Well, I have another holiday cast! It was 2 years ago I had the same thing - only my cast was red and I put battery powered lights on it. I guess all you can do is add a bit of humor to the whole situation huh?! Only a week to go until I get this thing off after 6 weeks and hopefully I won't be back with another one. I am so ready to walk! My house needs a good cleaning, pantry re-organized, put Christmas decorations away-the list goes on and on. I hate having to ask everyone for things-drives me crazy! I am dying to get going on my scrapbooking and quilting again-I miss my craft room!!!!!

Altered Frame Swap

Here is the frame I made for my partner Samantha. We had to take a dollar frame from M's and alter it for Christmas! I had so much fun making this for Samantha - I was so glad she liked it!

Christmas Cookie Layout Swap

I was so excited for this swap--thank you AmyS!!!!!! We had to make 20 8x8 layouts of the recipe we chose and we get 20 back! It is such a great idea- as soon as I get my pages I will use my Bind it All and post the finished product with everyone's amazing layouts!
Here is mine: I picked Butterscotch Gingerbread Cookies for my recipe and made little gingerbread stickpins to go on the layout! So much fun to make!

Winter Pin Cushion

Here is the back of the elf pant pin cushion I made for my partner. Sorry I cannot find a picture of the front of the pants--we had to have a cricut cut on our creation somewhere--so I put it on his tushie!! I LOVE making stick pins!!