a card for my buddy....

Hi everyone,  I was just looking about blogland today and ran across a hop called: http://coffeelovingcardmakers.com/The 2016 Fall Coffee Lovers Blog Hop, and they have tons of lovely prizes, so I thought I'd contribute and send a card to a friend.  I'm not a coffee lover myself,, but she sure is.  So, here's the card I made this afternoon and it will get mailed on Monday.  I hope she likes it.

Edited:  Thank you so much to everyone who has commented.  I've not been a good blogger for such a long time, and I've missed those comments and hadn't realized just how much until now.

For my coffee lovin' friend Jennifer

My updated, new to me Craft Room!!

Photo heavy, but here's my new craft room,  Many months after my hubby passed and no one using his TV/man cave at all, I decided to turn it into my craft room and get my guestroom back in order. So here's some pics of what happened.  It's not completely done (only about 3/4 of my stuff has been moved in already) but it's taking shape.  At least my granddaughter and I can work in here together now (we have in fact a couple times!!)  And with my disabilities it's very slow going for me to get things settled, but it will happen!


Sorry I cannot get the layout of these pics right, but you get the idea.

 

slowing back down for a bit....

Well, my last 3 months has been really hectic.  My Mom and Stepdad Mel visited from Florida.  Mom's alzheimer's is so much worse the visit wasn't great, but I'm still very glad I got to see her.  And she arrived  here the same day my newest grandson Ewan was born!  After a 3 week visit I thought my Stepdad was putting her in a nursing home back in Florida but he backed out of it once they arrived.  Then a couple weeks later she fell and was injured and while in hospital the staff realized her advancement of Alzheimer's so they basically took legal control of her case and she was ordered into a nursing facility 24/7.  That didn't set well with either of them, but finally many weeks later they are BOTH settled into what appears to be a great facility just a couple miles from their home.  Now they are back together, even my Stepdad is improving because he was so worried and stressed while they were apart.

EDITED:  My Stepdad's son has now somehow taken control of everything and is planning to move them out of Florida and  up to Ohio where he and his wife are supposed to be taking care of them.  Don't like this at all.  Trying to find out more information about  how this happened.


I've been making great progress on converting my husband old TV viewing room into my craft space, thanks to some Outstanding Help from my bestie Laura!  It's still a work in progress but I hope it keeps moving forward.  I can hardly wait to have everything out and in reach!

New grandbaby has arrived

Well my newest little grandson arrived a little early.  He was born April 29 at 10 am and his name is Ewan Christopher Scott.  His first name is pronounced "You-N".  I had to be told too!!  He's just adorable.  

Here's the proud dad, my son Andy.











And here's his brother Finn greeting the new baby brother.

And here's a little better close up of Ewan.

Hi everyone....

*** I get to edit and add that my son Andy sent me a pic of my grandson Finn last night after I posted this.  Finn was enjoying his Mac n Cheese!  

Well, as you can tell it's been a while since I posted again.  Just cannot get back into the flow of putting things on here.  I enjoyed a visit with my two little granddaughters today and my son Steve and he took a picture.

I was pretty tired today, had been out to a meeting with my clinical trial coach Brittannie and then went to Pulmonary rehab for a couple hours, and then tried to nap, but neighbors were mowing the lawn and my little Brady was barking his head off.  But boy did I bounce back when these two and their daddy arrived.

I'll try to get more into the mood to post some cards.  I have been making some and in fact made several for Easter this year, but either didn't get a good pic of them or just got them mailed off too soon.

Thanks for stopping by.  I do appreciate you sticking with me on this journey.  I'll try to do better.

Saturday is Dahlia's 5th Birthday...

So I made her a card, using a character from Frozen.  She loves that movie, and asked that it be the theme this year.  I saw a card like this on the internet (sorry,didn't keep track of who or where) but I loved it and thought it appropriate for her.   Sorry I'm not good at videos but you get the idea!

Simon Says Stamps World Card Making Day....

Update:  well, I didn't win, but I had fun making this card, and hopefully my classmate enjoyed it.  And, I've since made a couple more really similar ones for relatives.


Here's a card I've made for a former classmate's birthday this week, and I'm entering it into a drawing at Simon Says Stamps for World Card Making Day!  Boy, I'd love to win that!

I hope my friend likes this card.  It's for a guy, and they are sometimes tricky about cards, unsure what they'd like, but hopefully this simple fall card will work!

Little Daphne Gwen Scott has arrived.  Yesterday at 10:17 am.  Weighed EXACTLY the same as her big sister Dahlia, 6# 6oz.  She is 18 1/4 inches long and  has a head full of dark hair and really long fingers just like Dahlia.  So adorable.

Here's a cute family pic.  Mom Karen is doing well also.  And as you can see, Dad is still beaming!

Also, I'll be back to finish up the blog candy by this weekend (kinda busy for the next couple days).

I'm really disappointed.... no one likes blog candy any more? EDITED

My blog candy has been posted since June 16, and NO ONE has signed up yet. What's with that?  Usually there are several in the first few days at least.

 I realize I haven't shown all the candy, but with that many dies I thought sure someone would have signed up already.  Did I totally lose all my followers?  I know I haven't posted much in the past year, it's been a very bad year for me, but I have received a few comments here and there so I thought I'd do something nice for those who continue to follow and have the candy.  Now I don't know what I'll do.

I will try to gather some of the other items up in the next few days and get it posted, but if there is no more interest in this candy.... well..... we'll see.

EDITED TO ADD:
Well, the baby shower is tomorrow, and I've been so busy with that.  I have Not gathered everything up for the rest of the blog candy, but know that I do have a lot of things I should be gathering.  So, the baby is due actually on the 26th, so she's coming soon.  (did I tell you, they have chosen the name DAPHNE and I don't think they've finalized a middle name yet, I just know they didn't particularly like one I suggested).
 I hope a few more people sign up. And again, for my lovely followers who aren't in the good old USA, I promise that I'll have a gift certificate before too long just for all of you (maybe at another milestone, like when my husband's stone gets placed).  

Oh, I almost forgot.  I won a card from Amazing Paper Grace, and if you would like to win too, there is still time.  Go check out Becca's blog and comment, that's all there is to it, except maybe a lot of luck too.  Her cards are so very fabulous!! She's having a month long celebration by giving some of those wonderful cards away!

Blog candy ...UPDATE another UPDATE.....

Sorry for the big delay.... Additional things happening in my life besides the new baby Daphne arriving.  I'll detail things a bit more later on.
  So, I have now decided to give something to the 4 people who made comments here on my blog candy post.  So, please send me your mailing address (terriavidreader at yahoo dot com), and something will be coming to you.  I'll divide up the dies to the first 4 commenters (one for each), and add some other items,  and get them all mailed soon. I'm sorry I can't get something for everyone who commented on the other posts.


I've ordered a few extra dies and I hope to have some blog candy up soon.  I am expecting a new granddaughter by the end of July, so that will be the reason!  I also need to clean out my craftroom.  There is tons of stuff that I know I won't use, so I need to just get it sorted and get it gone.  Some is really nice things I've won, but that just aren't my style.  So I hope someone wins it who will use it.  I can only offer this to the USA crafters because of postage. Sorry.  I really wish I could afford to send it anywhere.  Maybe I'll do a gift cert later this year that's open to anyone.  Anyway as soon as the items arrive, I'll take a picture and post it.  Stay tuned!!


Well, the dies I ordered have arrived, and here are some that I will be adding to the blog candy.  I got a GREAT sale on these.  Now I haven't had time to go through things just yet, so I'll be adding pics when that is done.
I'll keep this up until the new baby has arrived in late July.
Some requirements will be:  must be a follower of my blog, and leave at least a couple comments between now and when the winner is chosen.  And must have a USA mailing address because of the postage.

By the way, this little one's name is going to be Daphne, but I don't think they have a middle name yet.  Stay tuned.

Here are the new dies I bought to give away.  All the other items will be added really soon.  I still have to go through a lot of stuff to get them sorted.

Updated Blog Name...

It's been suggested that I should rename my blog... so here goes.  My sis-in-law Joan was the most recent to suggest it.  But since it's been out there for such a long time - I didn't want to change it too much, but maybe this is a better title now.  And, since I do mostly just make cards, it still fits.  Now don't get me wrong, I'm still "trying" at this, still trying to find a style that's mostly me and I will continue with that, but I have actually been able to make some pretty cool cards during all this time since I started (wow! back in 2009!) and so keeping the trying in my blog title just isn't accurate so much any more.

I'm sorry to my followers that I haven't been posting much.  I have been making a pretty good handful of cards, and I'll try to get some photos up soon.  I haven't always taken pics of them, but I do try to capture most of them.  I'd had to recently make many more sympathy cards and I hate those. Well, hate the need for them anyway.  Mostly they have been birthday and thinking of you cards, and those are fun still.

My grandkids are growing like crazy and I have a new little granddaughter expected in late July.  Can't wait for that!  Dahlia and Finn are such fun that I can't wait to see what this new little one brings to the family!

So... I'll try to get some pics of the recent cards up soon, and I hope you continue to follow me and enjoy some of what I bring to this blog.

(oh, and one recent change is that I do now have a roommate!  His name is Brady.  Well, it's a long story, but I've always wanted a Yorkie.  Many years ago we went to a pet store to check them out, and a Cairn Terrier latched onto my youngest son Steve and so we adopted him and  he was part of the family for 18 years.  And since he died I've been wanting to still get a Yorkie, but the timing was never right.  While my husband was so sick we discussed getting me one, for companionship but couldn't because of all the stress and obligations we were under.  At any rate, at Bob's funeral, a lady came forth to state that Bob had reached out to her through our friend, and she was searching for a rescue Yorkie for me, at Bob's request.  She found me one recently.  He is helping me tremendously with the loneliness and also keeping me pretty busy!    I've posted a picture of him here with my granddaughter Dahlia (who was too close to the lamp to show up well) .  I'm sure you'll be hearing more about him later on.

Take care everyone, ,and please, tell those you love how much you love them every day.  You never know when it will be the last time you can say it face to face!!

I want it, I want it!

EDITED:   Well, I went to check to see if I won, and very sadly I did not.... someone who saw it here (and said so!!)  did.  Way to go REGENA!

I do want one of these, but it's not in my budget this year.  I hope I'm lucky enough to win this one. she's posting a winner on April 26th, and after the past few weeks of trials I've been through I want it to be me!!  You can go to  http://yourmemoriescanada.blogspot.com/  and check it out yourself.

Husband passed....

Bob, my husband of 42 years, passed early yesterday morning.  He met the goals and more that we had set and died peacefully in his sleep.  It's been a long road since July and his terminal diagnosis. We've had some really good things happen during this time, but they were overshadowed by the knowledge that this day was coming much sooner than we'd like.

I don't know how much I'll be on this blog for a while.  Definitely not for many upcoming days.  I ask for your prayers to help me and our sons and family get through this time.

EDITED:  wanted to add this pic.  My local newspaper delivered yesterday - WOW, what a surprise.  My husband would be so happy (as a reporter) to be both what they call above the fold, and nearly all the whole front page!  The paper has done several articles, and you can go to  jconline.com and find them if you are interested at all.

Very little blog candy out there lately.....

Is it just me, or is there very little blog candy showing up any more?  I don't seem to find much.  I admit that I don't offer it nearly as often myself as I should.  Course, if you follow my blog, you'll know why the past several months have not left me any time to blog myself, let alone look at as many as I usually do.

But there is a blogaversary I found with candy:  go check it out:  http://sugarcards.blogspot.ca/  She just posted her 1,000 blog post as well.  You can find the link over on my sidebar!

update on hubby....

Well, I haven't posted again in a long while.  My husband Bob got to come home from the Nursing home and my youngest son Steve and I are taking care of him.  That happened back in late October.         Well today we had another checkup with the Oncologist, and they are placing Bob in Hospice care today.  His recent MRI shows that the lesions in his brain have grown and there is nothing else that can be done.  He's had all the brain radiation allowed, and the chemo isn't affecting the brain lesions at all.  So there is no point in continuing the chemo for the rest of his body. So we are just going to try and make him comfortable and without pain as much as possible.  We've had 5 months since the diagnosis and that's good.  We'll push for all we can get.
      One thing we were hoping for early on was that Bob would last long enough to see our new grandson, and that has happened, even if not in person yet.  Finn Patrick was born on Sunday, and after a few days recovering with his Momma,  we hope to see him next week or at least by Christmas Eve, which is our family traditional get together.  He's adorable.

Thank you all for the continued prayers for my husband, and the entire family.  We can use them all.

And Merry Christmas to you and yours!

Some lovely halloween candy

I just saw this, and would love to win them.
LiaStampz has a new realease on discount! until the 26th of October !!
DON'T MISS THIS CUTE SET OF 9 HALLOWEEN STAMPS!

Aren't these cute?

https://www.etsy.com/listing/207220996/digital-stamp-witch-girl-halloween?ref=shop_home_active_1

We will chose, randomly,  3 blogs that will share our promotional link below, and send them the Halloween collection FOR FREE! 

A couple more cards...

 Here's a few cards I've made recently.

I'm trying to remember to post some before I lose track of them, or my computer crashes again like it did in February and I lost everything because my backup failed also!

These were all done before my husband's hospitalization.

Need PRAYERS from everyone! UPDATE!

Prayers are needed, desperately.
We have just received really bad news about my husband.
He has Stage 4 Kidney Cancer which has also infected his lungs and brain.
He's a strong, faith filled man and is determined to beat this despite the very poor prognosis.
Please pray for my family as we deal with this.
I won't be posting much or even checking in often, but I would so appreciate all the prayers.  You guys have helped me through some bad times before and I have come to really appreciate all the blessings from having such blogging friends!

This is his "mug shot" used when he was still working at the newspaper!  I love it  I think it shows clearly what a positive outlook type person Bob really is!!

UPDATE:  Aug. 27, 2014

Bob is getting to come home later today!!  He's been doing really well in rehab, and although he must continue a stringent range of therapies, he is getting to come home tonight.  We are so looking forward to that!  He's completed all his radiation to his brain, and is currently doing his chemo.  But his strength is returning to his left arm and leg and he's doing so much better!  Thanks for all the prayers. and keep them coming.  I've received a lot of emails, and comments on my facebook as well!  So appreciated.

first attempt

Well, this is my first attempt at this type of card. Overall I like it.  Sorry that my photo isn't too good.  I'm way out of practice with that.  This is for Pat,  a former classmate of mine who has a birthday this coming week.  We just lost another classmate last week.  I come from a very small town and we've tried to stay in touch with each other.  I use my cards as one way to do that.  I hope that Linda (the one who passed away) enjoyed all the cards I had sent to her.  I heard back from most of them that they enjoy getting the cards.  And of course, there are a lot of them I don't have snail mail addresses or birth dates.

a few of my recent cards...

 I'm way behind in posting here, but I have been making a few cards.  Here are a few of those.  Many I've not even taken photos of, but wish I had.  Oh well, things do continue getting a little better.  Hope you enjoy seeing some of these, and I'll try to do better.