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a regular here  Joined: Apr 13, 10 Messages: 1289 Feedback: 6/100.0% Location: in hiding | That was sad and exciting and interesting.Sometimes it takes more than one marriage to find Mr.Right.I am happy for you. finch |
Jun 14, 10 15:24:08 | |
 Joined: Mar 28, 10 Messages: 9091 Feedback: 251/100.0% Location: Bluff Dale, Texas Online | Thank you finch. I am not proud of the marriages, I wish I knew then what I do now. Might have done things a little different, not sure. i was thinking today, I am the only one in the last 4 generations in the family to divorce even once. Everyone teases me because I will be with DH 15 years in August. You are right, I found Mr Right finally....but you know, if I had met him years ago, it would not have worked. I am so different and more settled now than I was then. guess we all mature. I honestly believe it is what all I have done, where I have been and lived, who I met, and all that I have experienced that brought me to the person I am now. I like this person and will continue to make myself better as I go. I want to be the person no one wants to do without. At least not for long. Life is so wonderful, I accept all the challenges. After all, I now have this quilting board and these friends and you all.....please believe me with all my heart, this board has been a godsend for me. (((((((((HUGS))))))))))  "Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure.That what friends are for... http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-47906-585.htm#3704924 Doodles from Deb |
Jun 14, 10 16:06:33 | |
 Joined: Dec 31, 09 Messages: 1689 Feedback: 2/100.0% Location: Colorado | Hey Debbie! Glad to hear your news was "good"  No surgery is always good (at least no surgery for now.....) I was wondering how you had made out! |
Jun 14, 10 16:11:17 | |
a regular here  Joined: Oct 8, 09 Messages: 4335 Feedback: 9/100.0% Location: Maryland | Goodness, I am just getting caught up on reading here! Your quilt is beautiful and the dolls are so adorable, a lot of work making those no doubt! I continued on to read the next pages: I am happy to hear that the drs visit had some ups as well. I can only imagine the shots and how they hurt, I have only had a cordisone shot twice in my heel for a start of a bone spur, that Ouched, so I can feel for you with two needles worth. I feel from reading and feeling your energy and high spirits, that you will get through this next phase and do it with the grace you have shown here. Bless you and know you are thought of, Sharon  [url=http://www.TickerFactory.com/weight-loss/wEEu5nk/]  Keep an open heart.. listen with your eyes.. lend a hand and life will be filled with purpose. |
Jun 14, 10 19:19:12 | |
a regular here Joined: Mar 5, 10 Messages: 3307 Feedback: 23/100.0% Location: Florida | GEE Debbie..i was moved by your blog. I guess living in a sheltered life as mine gives me no clue to the real world but the last few years has opened my eyes since undergoing 2 breast cancer but i have found a few friends online & a new hobby (quilting) now only if i can get my butt in gear and find the right pattern to start off on..it will be good! Hope your life is in better shape now.Wow all that acres and room to roam! take plenty of pic of family & friends, keep tabs on loved ones but make time for yourself ! |
Jun 14, 10 19:47:40 | |
 Joined: Apr 25, 10 Messages: 131 Feedback: 0/0.0% Location: Spring,Tx | Hi debbie,So glad you got some good news from your Dr. At least no surgery for now. And PT isn't too bad,in fact it helps. I had six months of PT after my long stay in the hospital.. It helped me to stand on my feet and take a step.{my legs were like jello when I got home} And the cortisone will help too. I had shots in my knees before my knee replacement. Sorry I'm so late. We had our cable Co. changed this afternoon and my network wasn't up til after 8:00 PM. Glad you're ok .You'll feel better in the morning.{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}} Gr8Gr8 Gran Quilter |
Jun 14, 10 19:58:50 | |
a regular here Joined: Mar 5, 10 Messages: 3307 Feedback: 23/100.0% Location: Florida | What do you mean you're not beautiful? Looks aren't everything...your personality is the greatest thing! Yes you are gorgeous! take plenty of pic of family & friends, keep tabs on loved ones but make time for yourself ! |
Jun 15, 10 09:30:35 | |
Joined: Mar 28, 10 Messages: 9091 Feedback: 251/100.0% Location: Bluff Dale, Texas Online | This morning I woke up at 9:30....I never sleep that late. But at least I slept thru the night. I got up and went to the kitchen for coffee , DH always has it going, and made a cup, sat down a minute to wake up, then went to the sink and put up dishes, and all of a sudden...wham....it just occured to me my left elbow is not yelling at me this morning. LOL. I stopped and looked at it, the swelling is going away, still quite a bit there but not "bulging", then I moved my arm a little and there is motion again. Wahooooooooo, ok so yesterday was traumatic with the shots but they are working..... I am not going to over do it just because the pain is better though. It was just nice waking up to a wonderful new day and not immediately running for the meds. I thank GOd for those doctors and future doctors who care for us so well. Without you, the population would not be this high. My only regret is that you have to wait so long to see the doctor unless you go to ER and we know how much that costs. So I am going to follow all his directions and, yes, even go sign up for the PT he ordered. I do have two "quarter-sized" bruises where the needles went in...see I told you they were huge needles. ROFL. My mind is already feeling relief and so much happier. I am overwhelmed but how our minds and body react to pain. We are forced to keep our spirits up so our minds cannot tell us "bad things" while we hurt. Thanks to all my quilting friends who supported me during this last two months. From here on out it is all good. I am not going to sewat the visit in August to see how it is all going now. I have quilting to do, Now today if I can just get ahead of the boxes of scraps I send out I can get some sewing done. I decided to finish these boxes and take a break. The post office is not getting my support this month. ROFL. I rec'd my May secret pal gift and also found out who she was...She PM'd me this morning so I know who she is now. Board names are so important in everything we do on here. Well, a little "board" business. As you know I like to go to Chat with friends on here. One day we can be in color, the next day in black, etc. We don't always know what is going on Behind the scenes, so to say, so we follow the rules and figure, whatever it is, as long as I adhere, I am safe. Right??? Wish there was a way to know when changes occur. It takes me longer to read because Red is a good color for my one good eye. LOL. Black takes longer to focus on...strange thing colors. It takes both of our eyes to see the workd the way it was meant. So when my right out lost vision from surgery, it took the left eye almost a year to adjust without the help of the rt. eye. Your peripheal vision changes ( ground is closer than you think), you field vision changes ( I can see just barely to either side of me without turning my head)=. Just showing how things mean so much to have them. Without them it is so different. A funny story here. When I drive, yes I drive well, I cannot see past the radio on the right so whoever rides with me knows I cannot look at them unless I turn my head completely sideways, and we all know my eye should be straight ahead while driving.LOL. So I was sitting and driving and all of a sudden my mom yells at me...why are you ignoring me??? SHe was holding up a piece of candy to pass to me and I did not see it. I reminded her again about my field of vision, and guess what? Now when she rides with me and wants to give me something, all of a sudden there is a hand in front of my face while I am driving. ROFLMBO. Gotta love her. One time my DH was a little perturbed with me and he was making faces at me so I couldn't see....I just happened to look over at him and we both died laughing. He got caught. So funny. I am so glad we can all joke about my "little health issues". I was riding with a friend and I helped her look both ways and I told her, you are clear, go... and she did not move. I asked her why and she said " because you are blind on that side and I couldn't trust your judgement". She had to buy me a Route 44 vanilla coke for that gesture. Life is great. I am happy. Hope the world is happy with me. It's going to be a great day. "Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure.That what friends are for... http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-47906-585.htm#3704924 Doodles from Deb |
Jun 15, 10 12:01:22 | |
Joined: Apr 25, 10 Messages: 131 Feedback: 0/0.0% Location: Spring,Tx | See,Dear,I told you it would be better in the morning {been there,done that} and it will last several months if you take care.At least until your next app't in August,or even longer . So glad you're feeling better. TTYL {{HUGS}}...Margaret Gr8Gr8 Gran Quilter |
Jun 15, 10 14:16:31 | |
a regular here Joined: Mar 5, 10 Messages: 3307 Feedback: 23/100.0% Location: Florida | so glad to know you're feeling a bit better! You may not see out of R eye but im deaf in my L ear and 50% hard of hearing on the R side. I know how irkesome it can be at times! But we go roaring ahead in life regardless of our situation and keep plugging. Hope you can get back on track soon with your quilting or whatever makes you the happiest! take plenty of pic of family & friends, keep tabs on loved ones but make time for yourself ! |
Jun 15, 10 14:21:04 | |
 Joined: Apr 10, 10 Messages: 25410 Feedback: 74/100.0% Location: Whitewater, WI | Aw, so glad to hear you are feeling better today! A country girl will survive! |
Jun 15, 10 22:22:42 | |
moderator  Joined: Jul 31, 08 Messages: 17395 Feedback: 14/100.0% Location: Northern Indiana Online | Lost this for a couple says so had to catch up  Glad all went well at the doc . I have had those shots in my elbow, well maybe not exactly the same, but I am sure close. I found the secret is to NOT look at the needles  LOLHope you remain elbow pain free fro a while  sharon b |
Jun 16, 10 06:46:42 | |
 Joined: Jul 28, 07 Messages: 427 Feedback: 3/100.0% Location: indiana | I'm so glad your better now ! (((((BigHugs))))) Sew, sew, it's the threads that keep love together :>} I love sunbonnet sue,old-fashioned things like 1950's or older housewife things, and like hankies,tea towels and aprons but don't own any yet. |
Jun 16, 10 12:33:39 | |
Joined: Mar 28, 10 Messages: 9091 Feedback: 251/100.0% Location: Bluff Dale, Texas Online | This morning is even better. My elbow is losing some of the sewlling very quickly and feeling better. I went to the post office again and mailed packages. Then I cam home and have two more on PM's. I have over 100 completed quilts here for Project Linus and they are everywhere, so I am going to put about 15 in each bag I have and vaccuum it down to a tight square to put on a shelf till I go in July. I will have 4 of the XL vacuum bags to fill and close. They work. I figure having that many quilts laying aorund all over is like going into the room with millions of balls and trying to get around in them. LOL. I called my mom today, the infection in her knee is gone, her Pic is out of her chest (antibiotics) and she gets to rest two weeks before they schedule her next surgery to put her knee cap back in. SO she is getting better. Here's som e great news....I am on dial up sloooooooow speed and have been. Part of living in the country out of wire distance. Well, I finally caught a special at Hughes net and they are coming monday to install hughes net for me. Yahoooooooooooo. Now I can watch videos on quilting on herem, Mark Lipinski and Jodi on QNN. It'll be fun. I am just worried that between the board and the videos, when will I ship and quilt? I have to get a schedule going. So by this evening, I am hoping to have the hallway and both extra bedrooms clear off quilts and stored correctly. Then I am gathering up fabric from the hallway, wellhouse, and my DH's shop and stuffing it in here to so I can slean it out and ship more to people. After a short break. I have been to the Post office every day the last few weeks. I think I have more than paid it forward to lots of us for now. I will still do it, just taking a break. Everyone is so excited when they pm me and tell me the colors they need, so far I have found the, too. Now I have got to stick to the crumbs and scraps and empty the 6 black bags I have. They take up too much room. SO the next ones out will be real scraps. Good ones but scraps. I am moving my computer into the guest room and out of my sewing room. It is too crowded in here wiht this corner taken up. I will put my second machine in this corner. I am doing it sunday night late and I don't miss toom uch on the board, or course I can use my laptop. I am so excited. I have dealt with slooooooooow speed for so long. I am posting on here and love it. I have made new PM friends and given others someone to chat and vent to also. It would be so easy to stay on here all day. Next week I decided to get a few recipes off here and try something new every day. Poor DH, he's my guinnea pig. I only eat maybe 2 oz of meat and a few veggies. Fits in a cup. He has to eat the rest and I can send a plate up to my MIL on the hill. SOmeone told me recently they do not come in here to read because they heard we argue and there is a lot of fighting. WHAT!!! I never see it. Guess it goes off before I do. So now I have a few more willing to come in and read so let's all behave. ROFL. I know there are rules and I am going to follow them. I promised a moderator if I see something that trips my trigger I will go out, have some chocolate and not reply to those. So far it has worked. I am not going to play with those children who behave badly. LOL. And when I slip up myself, I may ground myself off it for a week. So I won't let it happen again. Promise. Have a great day everyone, I am off to organize some more. Next week I plan on sewing again all day and night. FInish all my outgoing projects for other people and relax the rest of this hot summer. ((((((((HUGS))))))))0 "Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure.That what friends are for... http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-47906-585.htm#3704924 Doodles from Deb |
Jun 16, 10 14:32:30 | |
a regular here Joined: Mar 5, 10 Messages: 3307 Feedback: 23/100.0% Location: Florida | gOOD TO HEAR YOUR MOM IS BETTER AND THAT YOU'RE GETTING STRONGER. wOW...YOU MUST BE IN FABRIC HEAVEN FROM THE MENTIONED OF CLEARING THRU YOUR STASH EVERYWHERE IN THE HOUSE. I THINK YOUR HUBBY IS A LUCKY GUY TO HAVE MET YOU WHEN HE DID!! YOU KNOW U SHOULD ASK FOR POSTAGE, IT'S ONLY FAIR. HAVE FUN TRYING OUT NEW RECEIPES AND LET US KNOW WHAT YOUR NEWEST PROJECT YOU'RD DOING NEXT. I HEAR DIAL UP IS SLLLOOOOOW TOO. LOL take plenty of pic of family & friends, keep tabs on loved ones but make time for yourself ! |
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July 6th surgery is over and done. Came home the 11th. Resting well.
Surgery is still on for july 6th. They will be rebuilding my skull adn doing all other repairs using itty bitty nuts and screws, etc. I am ready to go.
UPDATE - 5-31-11 My surgery for my skull has been moved again to July 6th. They are having to make the bionics for my skull in CHicago and it won't be done until middle of June, then Doctor is out of USA doing two surgerys for children in Chec. So July 6th. Istead of using hips bones, they are using bionics/titanium only. Less invasive on my body. LOL. So waiting a month is good for me to get my strength back. My hair is growing in now and my stitches came out last monday while NP3 and GRamma Mo were with me.
Update. 5-2-11
Had surgery on the 27th to remove the titanium plate on my forehead and clean it out again from my bone disease growing and thought it was a quick in and out. Well, It was. After 6 hours being late to take me in to surgery and my family not knowing where in the world I was, they found me. While in surgery, everything they went in to do was put on a quick hold while they removed a brain AVM ( like a mass of arteries, nerves, cappliaries,e tc) and then removed the benign boney tumor that completely took over my skull. I heard the Doctor could not get any of it to loosen up so a tangled mess was totally removed and I was sewn back up.
Now, I am home and waiting for the 23rd when they will go into my skull again and use hip bone to replace bone in my skull, layer it with titanium and enamel and rebuilf my forehead. So glad he has lots of pictures and a skull bust to use. Right now I look different to me but I know he is a great reconstructive surgeon and will put me back well.
DUring my recovery, an over zealous nurse literally over sedated me with morphine and what a mess. A roomfull of staff trying to figure out what was wrong. And on the phone, my qb board friends in a frantic. They have all posted after I returned home, their part in my experience. Like they say....What a ride. No dull moments in my life.
My AVM they removed, explained the major pain and headaches and such I had for almost three months prior to the surgery. Gaigai explained that they would have found this in an autopsy as it would have eventually burst and not good. So another one bites the dust, so to speak, and off to enjoy life again. BTW, I am now 55 yrs old. LOL.
Angels on my shoulders !!!!!!!!!!!!1
After reading so much on this board and wrestling with myself about this, I decided to write a blog on here because I have some unusual things I have been through and live through. Talk about writing a book. Mine would definitely be unbelievable.
Where to start..I am 54 years old and have been married to husband number (are you ready for this) 4 but 5 marriages.
My first hubby was my high school sweetheart, lasted a year. My dad is very controlling and lovingly so but I still listened to everything he said and my hubby coudl not deal with it any more. I grew up with a military dad and I respected my parents so much, of course I listened to them.
After 6 months we remarried and I got pregnant with a boy, names him after his daddy, and unfortunatley lost him in birth. I found out I don't go into labor normally and the naval cord came lose and he died. SO sad. Then we divorced again. He met my best friend, had an affair and married her after our divorce.
My second was 3 yrs younger than me. Had my daughter who is 29 now by him. Divorced him after 2 years of paying an attorney to get him out of jail for DWI's and a lot of them. Was a single parent for 11 years.
Number 3 was my first boyfriend who I met in Japan in 1968. I was 9, he was 15. WHo would think a crush would go on for that long. I moved to Washington state and married him after two years of writing and visiting. Like a fairy tale...right? Wrong. He kept all my letters we wrote since meeting in Japan, he went into the service and came stateside to visit me. He was a drummer in a western band and owned his own mechanics shop. NOt a happy ending. I sold my house and came back to Texas.
Now the fairy tale really starts. My mom had a lake house in Granbury Texas so every weekend I would come down here and visit with relatives and friends. I met my now hubby, who is retired from TexDot and is 64. A little older. This man is wonderful and loves me unconditinally. His two children , age now 31 and 35 love me too. We live on a small ranch with acreage. His mom lives on our property about a half acre back. Another long story. I married him one month after my divorce was final . My mom jokes with ehr friends that I was trying to beat Liz Taylor's record. Her friend said at least I could find husbands, his daughter couldn't. Funny I guess. Anyway, enough of this subject.
It is so strange to open up to people on here. Not too many people know the story behind me. I am an open person, love to travel, play cards, quilt, have lots of friends, am in a few guilds, quilting bees, etc. Life is good.
I will tell you about my medical illness next. You won't believe it.
"Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure. That what friends are for...
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-47906-585.htm#3704924 Doodles from Deb
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My medical issues....to start with I am called a "miracle Patient" by many doctors. Five years ago, I was having bad headaches and went to the doctor. While looking at xrays, they found I had an "inoperable tumor" in the left side of my head. And while they were looking, they saw that my bones in the right side were extra large and thick. I had Osteo-fibrous dysplasia. The bone grows and thickesn adn gets spongey and then tumors attach to them and it starts to push things out of whack so to speak.
After three months of preparation by 5 doctors, I had surgery that lasted 22 hours. It took five teams of doctors to do this "thing" to me. While I was in the surgery prep room I looked around and said "there must be a lot of surgeries today" and they said, no these are your medical teams. No shock there. I wasn't nervous or scared, just numb for the months leading up to it. This was the first time a group of Skull base surgeons would try to remove this "inoperable" tumor and fix my bones disease too.
To make a long story short...I woke up with 462 nuts and bolts in my head made out of titanium. My forehead, both my eye sockets, and my jaw were now titanium. The bone literally crumbled while they were in there. I really have an excuse when I have my memory lapses. My right side of the brain is missing the first 2 inches, so that explains some of my short term memory. Other than a few scars and being now "robotic" and a 4 million dollar lady (LOL) I had no problems. I was in the hospital two months and came home.
Forward to the present. I am blind in my right eye, and have had numerous surgeries to make it look "normal" and it does. Even had a brow lift and botax. I take MRI's and CT's every six months to watch the bone growth in my skull. They gave me 6 months to a year to live...let's see..that was three years ago. Duh???? Doctors don't always know. The reason was my bone was surrounding and crushing the main artery into my brain which provides oxygen and would eventually cause a deadly stroke. However, a few months and years later, I am still here. TYhe bone surrounded and narrowed my caratid artery and now it is growing away from it, so unless it starts to move again, I am safe.
So I live day to day. I love that song about finding out you were dying and doing all the things you wanted to. I gave all the things away to people who I wanted to have them, and prepared my family. So I know how precious life is.
Now I don't stop, I quilt, I crochet, I travel, meet new people, go places.....I don't sit still long. I appreciate my life and all it is. So I can empathize with those who are going thru "terminal illnesses". I do believe there is not a date on my back for when I am to go....I will go when he is ready to take me.
Hope I did not bore anyone. I do a lot of talks to different hospitals and am a mentor for those who go thru what I did. They have come a long way in the medical field. Years ago I would have been long gone.
For those who get to know me and those who read me on the board, you say this lady is way to over the top? Well, this is why. I love life, friendships, and live it to the fullest. We are not guaranteed tomorrow. Therefore, I pay it forward every chance I get. I share with everyone who needs it and am a good friend.
To look at me you would never know I have all these illnesses and you won't see me act like it either. I stayin when I am having a crisis nad take my meds. I always have a smile on my face and live life to the fullest.
Thank you for letting me share this. Today, as I write this, I found out I have another tumor in my left elbow and the bone is really growing and you can tell my left arm is bent at the elbow and doesn't move too well. This bone disease atacks major joints. Last year they went in and cleaned it all out and the bone debris and removed the tumors in my arm. Now there backkkkkk,. So June 14th I go to a specialist to see what is next.
Life gives me such challenges. I also have 4 tumors in L1-L4 in my lower spine. They sewll and put pressure on my spinal cord . I take injections once a year to take down the swelling. Won't have surgery..don't believe in pushing it. This is the last place I want hands messing with me. I have to be able to walk and runa nd play. No time to sit or lay around. There's quilting retreats, guilds and lots of quilts to make still.
Life goes on. This is hust to mention a few things. LOL
After three months of preparation by 5 doctors, I had surgery that lasted 22 hours. It took five teams of doctors to do this "thing" to me. While I was in the surgery prep room I looked around and said "there must be a lot of surgeries today" and they said, no these are your medical teams. No shock there. I wasn't nervous or scared, just numb for the months leading up to it. This was the first time a group of Skull base surgeons would try to remove this "inoperable" tumor and fix my bones disease too.
To make a long story short...I woke up with 462 nuts and bolts in my head made out of titanium. My forehead, both my eye sockets, and my jaw were now titanium. The bone literally crumbled while they were in there. I really have an excuse when I have my memory lapses. My right side of the brain is missing the first 2 inches, so that explains some of my short term memory. Other than a few scars and being now "robotic" and a 4 million dollar lady (LOL) I had no problems. I was in the hospital two months and came home.
Forward to the present. I am blind in my right eye, and have had numerous surgeries to make it look "normal" and it does. Even had a brow lift and botax. I take MRI's and CT's every six months to watch the bone growth in my skull. They gave me 6 months to a year to live...let's see..that was three years ago. Duh???? Doctors don't always know. The reason was my bone was surrounding and crushing the main artery into my brain which provides oxygen and would eventually cause a deadly stroke. However, a few months and years later, I am still here. TYhe bone surrounded and narrowed my caratid artery and now it is growing away from it, so unless it starts to move again, I am safe.
So I live day to day. I love that song about finding out you were dying and doing all the things you wanted to. I gave all the things away to people who I wanted to have them, and prepared my family. So I know how precious life is.
Now I don't stop, I quilt, I crochet, I travel, meet new people, go places.....I don't sit still long. I appreciate my life and all it is. So I can empathize with those who are going thru "terminal illnesses". I do believe there is not a date on my back for when I am to go....I will go when he is ready to take me.
Hope I did not bore anyone. I do a lot of talks to different hospitals and am a mentor for those who go thru what I did. They have come a long way in the medical field. Years ago I would have been long gone.
For those who get to know me and those who read me on the board, you say this lady is way to over the top? Well, this is why. I love life, friendships, and live it to the fullest. We are not guaranteed tomorrow. Therefore, I pay it forward every chance I get. I share with everyone who needs it and am a good friend.
To look at me you would never know I have all these illnesses and you won't see me act like it either. I stayin when I am having a crisis nad take my meds. I always have a smile on my face and live life to the fullest.
Thank you for letting me share this. Today, as I write this, I found out I have another tumor in my left elbow and the bone is really growing and you can tell my left arm is bent at the elbow and doesn't move too well. This bone disease atacks major joints. Last year they went in and cleaned it all out and the bone debris and removed the tumors in my arm. Now there backkkkkk,. So June 14th I go to a specialist to see what is next.
Life gives me such challenges. I also have 4 tumors in L1-L4 in my lower spine. They sewll and put pressure on my spinal cord . I take injections once a year to take down the swelling. Won't have surgery..don't believe in pushing it. This is the last place I want hands messing with me. I have to be able to walk and runa nd play. No time to sit or lay around. There's quilting retreats, guilds and lots of quilts to make still.
Life goes on. This is hust to mention a few things. LOL
"Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure. That what friends are for...
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-47906-585.htm#3704924 Doodles from Deb
Jun 1, 10 00:45:02
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Obviously, I don't like to sleep alot. I usually get by with 4-5 hours a night and get up on the run again. I have had 14 surgeries in the last 5 years. So much for not getting so much anesthesia. If it's dangerous, I beat the odds again. LOL.
Now about hubby. Three years ago he had a major heart attack that detroyed all but 27% of his heart function. He has diabetes and for the last 2 years his kidneys have gradually been getting worse from the meds for his heart and the diabetes. So we take care of each other. God has really challenged us with our illnesses. I am there for him and him for me. I am blessed.
During all this, I take care of my mom who has beginners Alzheimers and his mom who lives on our ranch. Mine is 79, his is 84. My dad passed away at age 53 from wounds rec'd in viet-nam years before. He was a retired Major in the Army and disabled. I was 29 when he passed.
I am one of those who have been there and done that. I have to watch myself and not jump in when someone mentions a wonderful vacation, a cruise, travel, etc.
When I was 3 months I moved to Germany. Started school there and spoke fluent German, then we moved to other places. Becasue of his Service, I have lived in or been to every state and a lot of countries overseas. I skipped 11th so I graduated when I was 16 and started college.
My mom is Japanese but was raised in teh British colony in SIngapore so was raised speaking good english. Met my dad in Japan in 1941 and married. My dad is frmo Paris, Texas.blond hair, blue eyes. I have black hair and brown eyes. I can pass for spanish (which I speak also), mexican, and any other foreign entity that has black hair. I laugh. I went to 26 elementary schools, 6 Jr. highs and finally one high school. Sop I am able to blend in and meet people and am not the least bit bashful. I make new friends daily, always talk to everyone who will listen, volunteer for anything I am asked to do (I reached my limit this year).
I lived overseas until I was 14. When I came to Texas, I was shocked by the ugly green money they had. In Japan, I got a red five dollar bill for allowance.
My mom's parents were both doctors, my dad's parents were farmers. What a combination.
I live comfortably now even on our pensions. I am spoiled but not rotten. My parents were able to give nme a good life. I always had a new car, still do. My mom buys me a new car every two years. Love her to death. Spoiled? Who me? Even at 54 I am grateful I have her to help me when times are tough. I read how hard everyone is having it and I pray for them. I count my blessings too. Therefore , as my mom says, "I will give the shirt off my back" to help. Always have, always will.
I have friends from age 31 up into their 90's. I love this quilting board and live to read it every day. I am making friends left and right. I will be a good friend to all I meet . I am not embarassed by what I have done in my lifetime, I make amends daily. I guess it may have been different in my marriages if I wasn't the one who had the houses, etc. I got tired of it and could turn them out without batting an eye. I am keeping this one though. He is so wonderful.
Well, I think I had a good start on this post. Even if I am the only one to read it, I feel better putting things to paper. I have had an eventful nad eclectic life. Been there done that. WOn't tell you everything. Never know who is going to read this. LOL. I would live my life again and make the same mistakes because I learn from them. Curiosity killed the cat so I was always into things and trying things. Not proud of everything I used to do but so proud of what I do now and who I am . My life has made me the person I am and I am loving her. Until the next time. Thank you "self" for being honest about your life. Hopefully you have years to make up for it and many lives to touch in a good way.
Now about hubby. Three years ago he had a major heart attack that detroyed all but 27% of his heart function. He has diabetes and for the last 2 years his kidneys have gradually been getting worse from the meds for his heart and the diabetes. So we take care of each other. God has really challenged us with our illnesses. I am there for him and him for me. I am blessed.
During all this, I take care of my mom who has beginners Alzheimers and his mom who lives on our ranch. Mine is 79, his is 84. My dad passed away at age 53 from wounds rec'd in viet-nam years before. He was a retired Major in the Army and disabled. I was 29 when he passed.
I am one of those who have been there and done that. I have to watch myself and not jump in when someone mentions a wonderful vacation, a cruise, travel, etc.
When I was 3 months I moved to Germany. Started school there and spoke fluent German, then we moved to other places. Becasue of his Service, I have lived in or been to every state and a lot of countries overseas. I skipped 11th so I graduated when I was 16 and started college.
My mom is Japanese but was raised in teh British colony in SIngapore so was raised speaking good english. Met my dad in Japan in 1941 and married. My dad is frmo Paris, Texas.blond hair, blue eyes. I have black hair and brown eyes. I can pass for spanish (which I speak also), mexican, and any other foreign entity that has black hair. I laugh. I went to 26 elementary schools, 6 Jr. highs and finally one high school. Sop I am able to blend in and meet people and am not the least bit bashful. I make new friends daily, always talk to everyone who will listen, volunteer for anything I am asked to do (I reached my limit this year).
I lived overseas until I was 14. When I came to Texas, I was shocked by the ugly green money they had. In Japan, I got a red five dollar bill for allowance.
My mom's parents were both doctors, my dad's parents were farmers. What a combination.
I live comfortably now even on our pensions. I am spoiled but not rotten. My parents were able to give nme a good life. I always had a new car, still do. My mom buys me a new car every two years. Love her to death. Spoiled? Who me? Even at 54 I am grateful I have her to help me when times are tough. I read how hard everyone is having it and I pray for them. I count my blessings too. Therefore , as my mom says, "I will give the shirt off my back" to help. Always have, always will.
I have friends from age 31 up into their 90's. I love this quilting board and live to read it every day. I am making friends left and right. I will be a good friend to all I meet . I am not embarassed by what I have done in my lifetime, I make amends daily. I guess it may have been different in my marriages if I wasn't the one who had the houses, etc. I got tired of it and could turn them out without batting an eye. I am keeping this one though. He is so wonderful.
Well, I think I had a good start on this post. Even if I am the only one to read it, I feel better putting things to paper. I have had an eventful nad eclectic life. Been there done that. WOn't tell you everything. Never know who is going to read this. LOL. I would live my life again and make the same mistakes because I learn from them. Curiosity killed the cat so I was always into things and trying things. Not proud of everything I used to do but so proud of what I do now and who I am . My life has made me the person I am and I am loving her. Until the next time. Thank you "self" for being honest about your life. Hopefully you have years to make up for it and many lives to touch in a good way.
"Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure. That what friends are for...
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You are one strong lady! I'll keep you on my mind when I'm complaining about some trivial thing and feeling sorry for myself. Hang in there girl!
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Oh, oh. I see I had company on here. Thank you all. I am so blessed for having found this quilting board. I know there is a reason for everything I do and everyone I meet in life. I don't take it with a grain of salt...I appreciate life. When you read this, you will think, there is no way this has all happened to one person. Oh yeah.. and more to come. Happy quilting.
"Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure. That what friends are for...
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Wow, you have had lots of things in your life, take care of yourself, hubby and family!!!!
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I had chatted with you last night on private message, glad you created a pda for yourself on here
I am 53 years old, married, no kids but we have a spoiled dog.
I am 53 years old, married, no kids but we have a spoiled dog.
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I remember you well, Karen. Hope you don't think less of me now. LOL. I learend alot about you reading your diaries too. Isn't it wonderful to share. I don't think any of my friends know this much about me. It felt like the thing I wanted to do at the time. You are the perfect example of the friends I have met on here. Love the way you always help and find answers for so many. YOu are a night owl too I see. I have a blood hound and a dog named Harley who is a mix of Great Dane and akita. Duke is my hound. We howl together well. I love animals. Thank you for posting.
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If you gave away all your stuff when you got your diagnosis, did you promise away your stash? I know just the use I'd put it to. If you don't think I am crass for making a joke out of it and asking if I can have your stash for my pet project? You have to remember ... I've seen your stash so I know what I am getting into.
You have come to be a dear friend to me since we swapped that yellow fabric. This last couple of days that I have been struggling with my own illnesses you have been right there for me and understood. May I be the kind of friend to you and others that you are to me. May God Bless You and keep you.
You have come to be a dear friend to me since we swapped that yellow fabric. This last couple of days that I have been struggling with my own illnesses you have been right there for me and understood. May I be the kind of friend to you and others that you are to me. May God Bless You and keep you.
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always remember you are never alone no matter what life throws at us ,i can relate to a part of your history, medical no personal yes, you are one STRONG lady, you have the ultimit in strength ,always here for you to vent anytime you need, prayers are with you
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Hey, Cupcake...LOL, I always thin of Quilters Home when I see your name! I LOVE your avater, kitty is so cute!! Wow, youre one strong lady, been through ALOT, and still hanging in there! Good for you, I love reading these diaries, help you get to know people!
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I feel like I've gotten to really know you now and I am grateful to have a freind with such strength and conviction! I will pm you sometime soon and we can talk again! Maybe we can even call each other once in awhile if your not too busy! lol Hugs, Julie
Sew, sew, it's the threads that keep love together :>} I love sunbonnet sue,old-fashioned things like 1950's or older housewife things, and like hankies,tea towels and aprons but don't own any yet.
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God has a special reason for you! To let everyone know how to love!!! You are an inspiration to everyone you touch!! I;m so glad I clicked on this link You are a true child of GOD and a great testiment to his LOVE. Thank you so much for sharing such a touching and brave and faithful story. GOD Bless you with every minute of your life. Remember this God has prepaired an eternal home with him and I'm sure he has a quilting room set aside just for you!!!!!!!!!
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Cupcake, here. Yes I love Mark Lipinski and all he represents. His magazines are great. Today, I got up early a usual. I mailed 6 packages out to 6 different ladies with 6 different thing. YOu know who you are. Let's see there were scraps, crumbs, hankie patterns, Care bear fabrics, flannels, and red and blue and turquiose, etc. Took me some time to run and gather it all up. But I kept your PM's so I would not forget.
I am a Project Linus Chapter Assistant too in this area. I manage to make at least 20-30 quilt tops a month on top of all else I do. My next quilt retreat in at the end of August so I am busy making my fellow retreat ladies something special. I love to give and exchange. Those 4 days are mine and my friends. No phones, no doctors, not taking care of any one but "Moi". Hope this doesn't sound selfish. I am teh one who has the most issues and I am the one who is always there. I stay with my mom when she needs me, help her recouperate, my MIL too. Some of you have written some nice things on here. When you deal with as much as some people do you do like me....live each day as if it were your last, make sure all you love knows how you feel, don't leave anything unsaid, definitely do not go to bed mad at anyone, treat everyone like you want to be treated.
Yes, my quilting room has a Quilter's Living will posted on the wall. My DH knows to honor my wishes and distribute my stash and other things in this room as directed. LOL.
I am vane in a way...I love to walk into a meeting with quilters and have lots of ladies come up and give me hugs. They call when I miss a meeting to check on me. This tells me I am doing something right to continue to have and touch so many lives.
When I went to the post office, the Postmaster, Stephanie, just smiled and said,"let's see what we have this time". She helps me ship the best way. I feel like I am sending something I love out to everyone who is going to receive a package this time. I enjoy knowing I put a smile on their face. I know when people do for me, I can't thank them enough. Send thank you cards, remember birthdays, just to keep in touch cards.
Today, I am looking at the "Swish" pattern got from Danmar, and am trying to figure out the fabric I will use. Batiks of course....colors I will work out. Danmar is another quilter who has lived a "book worthy" life. I thank everyone for sharing their PDA's with us and trust us to understand and not judge us. I am me, everything I have done and will do is because I learn from my mistakes and have to make a few to do so. I know I am not perfect, not even a perfect quilter (lol) but I will always look at the good in everything I read and do. I will not put a negative in a place where it can be a postive.
Well, I am off to read the posts on here and to again share in the lives of all you wonderful people. Sometimes I feel like I am peeking into their lives. Other times it feels like my best friend is sharing with me. What a wonderful world...
I am a Project Linus Chapter Assistant too in this area. I manage to make at least 20-30 quilt tops a month on top of all else I do. My next quilt retreat in at the end of August so I am busy making my fellow retreat ladies something special. I love to give and exchange. Those 4 days are mine and my friends. No phones, no doctors, not taking care of any one but "Moi". Hope this doesn't sound selfish. I am teh one who has the most issues and I am the one who is always there. I stay with my mom when she needs me, help her recouperate, my MIL too. Some of you have written some nice things on here. When you deal with as much as some people do you do like me....live each day as if it were your last, make sure all you love knows how you feel, don't leave anything unsaid, definitely do not go to bed mad at anyone, treat everyone like you want to be treated.
Yes, my quilting room has a Quilter's Living will posted on the wall. My DH knows to honor my wishes and distribute my stash and other things in this room as directed. LOL.
I am vane in a way...I love to walk into a meeting with quilters and have lots of ladies come up and give me hugs. They call when I miss a meeting to check on me. This tells me I am doing something right to continue to have and touch so many lives.
When I went to the post office, the Postmaster, Stephanie, just smiled and said,"let's see what we have this time". She helps me ship the best way. I feel like I am sending something I love out to everyone who is going to receive a package this time. I enjoy knowing I put a smile on their face. I know when people do for me, I can't thank them enough. Send thank you cards, remember birthdays, just to keep in touch cards.
Today, I am looking at the "Swish" pattern got from Danmar, and am trying to figure out the fabric I will use. Batiks of course....colors I will work out. Danmar is another quilter who has lived a "book worthy" life. I thank everyone for sharing their PDA's with us and trust us to understand and not judge us. I am me, everything I have done and will do is because I learn from my mistakes and have to make a few to do so. I know I am not perfect, not even a perfect quilter (lol) but I will always look at the good in everything I read and do. I will not put a negative in a place where it can be a postive.
Well, I am off to read the posts on here and to again share in the lives of all you wonderful people. Sometimes I feel like I am peeking into their lives. Other times it feels like my best friend is sharing with me. What a wonderful world...
"Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure. That what friends are for...
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Joined: Mar 28, 10 Messages: 8583 Feedback: 250/100.0% Location: Bluff Dale, Texas | P.S. YOu know that saying.."it's too good to be true"? My life is like that and I thank my parents for providing a good life for me. They taught me everything I know and then some. I have been on a plane, took a train, (lots of them in Japan and New York), been on cruises, flew in a helicopter over the Grand canyon. The I have skuba dived, skied, snow ski, ice skated, roller skated, played baseball, ran track, gymnastics...Oh my, I always thank my mom whenever I think of all the things I have done. Not everyone has the chance. I play all the woodwind instruments, my favorite is the clarinet, then oboe, sax, bass clarinet. I joined the Youth Symphony, ALl District chamber orchestra. I really am vane. I wanted the list under my graduation picture to be longer than any one else' s and it almost was. If you show me an award, I want to have it. I had piano lessons as a child and loved to show off in the recitals. My first play was in Germany and I played "Mistress Mary, Quite Contrary". I love music. Therefore my avatar. The singing and dancing kitty. Now my challenges are quilt patterns. I don't think I will ever try an Artsy one. Too hard. LOL. As usual just blogging along. As you can tell, I always have something to say. Never a dull moment here. I am the clown at the gatherings, you can't catch me off guard, always know a joke for you, when I do book reviews, I have door prizes. Love making people happy,,,makes me happy too. I will sometimes play the piano while we eat lunch when we gather to quilt. There I go again, showing off. LOL. Life is Great!!!!!!!!!! Off to quilt. "Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure. That what friends are for... http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-47906-585.htm#3704924 Doodles from Deb |
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a regular here  Joined: Dec 5, 09 Messages: 8726 Feedback: 0/0.0% Location: Outside St. Louis | It was an absolute pleasure to meet you through this PDA. Your life has been so remarkable. Your Doctors were way off on your life expectancy, you are right, only God knows when it is all over for each of us. You are such an inspiration to everyone that reads your PDA. 2 Dogs - 4 cats - 1 Cockatiel |
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Joined: Mar 28, 10 Messages: 8583 Feedback: 250/100.0% Location: Bluff Dale, Texas | This evening I posted a new pattern by Diane Weber on the Pay it forward and a lady has already claimed it so off it goes tomorrow. I just got a call about an hour ago and it was from a lady I met at the Tax office. Her mother was a quilter and she passed in May. So I am to call her thursday and meet her at her mom's Quilt Barn...woohoo....and she is giving me everything in it except for a few things she wants to keep. I can hardly wait. More to pass around on this wonderful board. I love to ship packages but the postal fees are starting to add up fast. Then I think...I could have used the 48.oo for fabric. But then it goes on out my head and off go the packages. LOL. I will post again when I pick up and load up this Quilt Barn. I want the barn too.LOL. Iw was a wonderful day, got up to 103 here, and My elbow is a little better, I can move it a little more without the shooting pains. Thanks goodness for meds. Sometimes I go months without an incident if I behave. It's when I over do it that things go bump in the night. Like my elbow.LOL. Have a good night all. Can't wait to share my find with you. "Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure. That what friends are for... http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-47906-585.htm#3704924 Doodles from Deb |
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Joined: Apr 10, 10 Messages: 25406 Feedback: 74/100.0% Location: Whitewater, WI | Aw, Debbie, its so nice of you to help so many people! I know everyone really appriecates it! A country girl will survive! |
Jun 2, 10 07:56:32 | |
Joined: Jul 28, 07 Messages: 425 Feedback: 3/100.0% Location: indiana | You are a Wonderful woman and this world should be glad to have you in it! it gives my heart joy that there are wonderful people like those here in this world! Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy! Sew, sew, it's the threads that keep love together :>} I love sunbonnet sue,old-fashioned things like 1950's or older housewife things, and like hankies,tea towels and aprons but don't own any yet. |
Jun 2, 10 09:43:03 | |
Joined: Mar 28, 10 Messages: 8583 Feedback: 250/100.0% Location: Bluff Dale, Texas | Good morning, world of quilters. I made the trip to the post office again with packages to go out all over. Last night I found out there was a lady in Bluff Dale on this board. Talk about small world. SO I PM'd her and we are meeting next week. ALso found one in Benbrook, about 30 minutes from me, Going to hook up with her later too. I am loving the friendships I form on this board. Finally got the call from the hospital to schedule my MRI and xray of my left elbow. I have it in a sling today with lots of ice. My tumors like to surround things around them to cause havoc. They couldn't just grow by themselves.LOL. This one is wrapping on my nerve gonig thru my arm and it zaps me evry time I move it. Feel like a bug hitting one of those electric zappers. One step closer to getting this one fixed nad removed. Well, I have a little dilemma. I went to the post office nad mailed my packages. I don't ask for postage, and it was just over 50.00 to mail. My heart sank. How long can I keep sending people who need fabric at these prices. I did finally rebox the fabric to be able to mail in the 10.70 priority boxes> So when I give fabric away, I will make sure it is in one of these and will stuff it to the limit. LOL. As much as I have to share with people, I am to the point I will have to hold back when I see posts of need. It's gonna take willpower too. Money keeps the world's hands bound. I will think this out. Do you guys think paying me 10.70 would be worth getting a large amount of good quilting fabric and not scraps? It will embarass me to ask but might have to. Then those of us who just want free fabric can pay it and those that come back and declineb ecause they don't have the postage, I can send them those few. Questions...questions..I will think on this. Have a good day all. "Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure. That what friends are for... http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-47906-585.htm#3704924 Doodles from Deb |
Jun 2, 10 09:59:51 | |
Joined: Mar 28, 10 Messages: 8583 Feedback: 250/100.0% Location: Bluff Dale, Texas | Just an afterthought. I am getting supportive PM's and posts from people. I appreciate their thoughts and concerns. I know people get tired of hearing things when they hear them all the time. My friends and family know what I go thru and they just go on and don't ask. So thank you for the board giving me a place to share. If anyone needs fabric or patterns. PM me,. we can work it out. It doesn't matter if you can afford it or not. I have lots to share. I have tons of magazines with patterns, have lots of books with patterns.Especially the newer ones using Fat qtrs, layer cakes, jelly rolls, etc. I enjoy precuts. I mailed my SIggie Blocks in and am so excited. I am also ordering a label from one of the ladies on the board who is making them and selling them. Good idea I got from reading someone else's post who also did this Swap. It will be my center block and just say Siggie Block Swap, Quilting Board, 2010. I am so looking forward to sewing the quilt top. I can imagine all the ladies who sent in signed blocks are friends from all over the world. Wish I had time to write or call them all and say "what's up?" I am hoping I see one where I have lived before to share with them. One of my IM friends just told me to get dark karo syrup and freeze it, it gets nice and cold but doesn't get hard. Good idea. She lives in Cordelaine Idaho. Met he on another site 4 years ago. Aren't friendships wonderful? I made a good pen pal when writing letters was still in. Now we IM, EMail, post,e tc. GOtta love the changes. Well, happy quilting folks. I am off to check out the board for the day. Thank you for all your support. I started the PDA to "vent" to myself and opened a new avenue for friendship. "Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure. That what friends are for... http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-47906-585.htm#3704924 Doodles from Deb |
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Joined: Mar 28, 10 Messages: 8583 Feedback: 250/100.0% Location: Bluff Dale, Texas | Good morning. Today I woke up and my left elbow was saying "help me...." so I took a little med. Did not take all of them as I hate to feel so light headed. I pray for the 14th to come soon. I decided today to call a good friend and ask her to come and help me organize my hobby room yet again. The fabric is gathering on the floor now, thank goodness no pets in the house. I have been so busy the last three months. My MIL had her left shoulder replaced, I helped her and then my mom had her left knee operated on, so off to Grand Prairie to help her. I love doing it though. I baby them so bad they want me to stay forever. My poor DH. He has been so pachient with me. He worries more about me than the ones who had surgery. Aften 12 I call Brenda, a good friend, and meet her at her mom's to clean out her Quilt Barn. I get it all. waahooo...more to share with my board friends. Have to spread out the postage though. I can only imagine what all she has. Of course,, I will take fabric to Project Linus the second thursday this month. I am determined to go. Last night we had the biggest storm, hail, thunder, heavy rain, the whole shebang....Then is is so muggy today. Good ol Texas humidity. This morning I put out three black bags of clothes and shoes, etc and sat them by the trash bin. My trash fellow gets out, looks through them and puts them up front with him. I have fun doing this. We have never spoken as to what he does with it but I am sure it goes to good use. Funny how these little things make one feel so good. Makes me feel mischievious too. Like a little Hidden fairy. I am going to get ready to go pick up the quilting things being given to me. Going to come home and sort it out into boxes and bags and label them. So when someone mentions needing a certain something...off it goes. I know I will find something to keep for me too. I really want to maek another soft doll to add to my "Wall of DOlls " in my bedroom. I found a box full of paint and books, etc for one stroke painting. I may have to pass it on too before it gets too old. I haven't painted since last year. I love DOnna Dewberry. I watched an old tape on tv with Eleanor Burns. SHe is so funny. I just looked at the brushes and I have whole sets of them from Donna's show. Anyone out there do one stroke painting? I have paints for oil, glass, plastic, etc. Until the next time. "Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure. That what friends are for... http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-47906-585.htm#3704924 Doodles from Deb |
Jun 3, 10 07:44:30 | |
moderator Joined: Jul 31, 08 Messages: 17382 Feedback: 14/100.0% Location: Northern Indiana Online | Just found your PDA and wanted to say Hello You have an amazing view on life When others would have given up , you picked yourself up, dusted off your back side and said "what can I do for others ?" Good for you Have fun in the barn today  sharon b |
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a regular here  Joined: Dec 27, 09 Messages: 7062 Feedback: 2/100.0% Location: north east | I've always wanted to do painting the Donna Dewberry way but don't think I could actually get the hang of it. She makes it look so easy, but I can't draw at all, so I have not tried her system. You'll have to post pictures of what you paint using her methods. My avatar is a table topper called Center Stage by Pieced Tree Designs. |
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Joined: Dec 31, 09 Messages: 1689 Feedback: 2/100.0% Location: Colorado | debbieumphress wrote: Just an afterthought. I am getting supportive PM's and posts from people. I appreciate their thoughts and concerns. I know people get tired of hearing things when they hear them all the time. My friends and family know what I go thru and they just go on and don't ask. So thank you for the board giving me a place to share. If anyone needs fabric or patterns. PM me,. we can work it out. It doesn't matter if you can afford it or not. I have lots to share. I have tons of magazines with patterns, have lots of books with patterns.Especially the newer ones using Fat qtrs, layer cakes, jelly rolls, etc. I enjoy precuts. I mailed my SIggie Blocks in and am so excited. I am also ordering a label from one of the ladies on the board who is making them and selling them. Good idea I got from reading someone else's post who also did this Swap. It will be my center block and just say Siggie Block Swap, Quilting Board, 2010. I am so looking forward to sewing the quilt top. I can imagine all the ladies who sent in signed blocks are friends from all over the world. Wish I had time to write or call them all and say "what's up?" I am hoping I see one where I have lived before to share with them. One of my IM friends just told me to get dark karo syrup and freeze it, it gets nice and cold but doesn't get hard. Good idea. She lives in Cordelaine Idaho. Met he on another site 4 years ago. Aren't friendships wonderful? I made a good pen pal when writing letters was still in. Now we IM, EMail, post,e tc. GOtta love the changes. Well, happy quilting folks. I am off to check out the board for the day. Thank you for all your support. I started the PDA to "vent" to myself and opened a new avenue for friendship. Oh, I miss the days of Pen pals!!!! |
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Joined: Mar 28, 10 Messages: 8583 Feedback: 250/100.0% Location: Bluff Dale, Texas | Sharon, glad you found me. Learned more than you figured huh? Quilter7X I am going to learn how to past pictures as soon as I get some back on a cd. I am not too computer savvy so will try. Donna makes it look easy and it is after the first few lessons. You can go online and see her wonderful books, stencils, etc. If you catch her on HSNshe has sales all the time. If you were local we could share. I am going to keep your name and when I go thru her books, I might send you a few "How to's" for you to try. YOu really lay the brush on the paper and move it around. YOu don't have to be an artist per se to do it. You can even trace wheat you want to paint. I love her flowers, so easy. Give me a few days and PM me your address. I will send you what you need to do some practice pieces. I paint on glasses, little wood bridhouses, anything...plates, etc. BKinCO....I will PM you. I miss those penpal days too. It's never too late. I have two people I still write to and exchange cards,etc. SO fun. "Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure. That what friends are for... http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-47906-585.htm#3704924 Doodles from Deb |
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Joined: Mar 28, 10 Messages: 8583 Feedback: 250/100.0% Location: Bluff Dale, Texas | Sewred.. did you get the SunBonnet Sue quilt top yet? It's on the way. Well, diary...today I went to pick up fabric that a friend gave to me after her mother passed. I am back. My car runneth over. Now all I have to do is go through it in the morning and sort it out. Let's see...there was of course lots of cotton fabric, lots of beautiful light drapery fabric, lace, ribbon, patterns, a few stencils, more non=-quilting fabric someone can use (poyesters, doubleknits, felt, etc), And a box of cheater quilt fabric. Cute patterns on them too. So these would just have to be sewn together and quilted. I have done a few before for Project Linus. After I hand quilt them you can't tell they weren't really pieced. I picked up 6 black trash bags full of just fabric. Let her keep the boxes so I could get more in my car. After my arm ease up on me I intend to post free fabric and see what else. Then another good thing came out of the visit. Mind you I have known Brenda only a few years but she went to school with my hubby. I am so jealous of this because I moved so much I had no close friends until after college. Now I have some I have had for 20+ years. Love it too. Now I actually know people and been around a while. Oops back to the subject at hand. Brenda showed me around her mom's place and in one room there was a room full of furniture and she mentioned it had to be moved. So what did I do??? Funny you should ask. I called People Helping People and they are picking up the bed and stuff BUT....there were two large bookcases that each had 6 shelves and I thought. Wow those would hold a lot of fabric...So DH is picking them up for me Saturday morning. I feel so blessed.Now all I have to do is move my sewing room around enough to accomodate the shelves. Yeah. DH just rolled his eyes. LOL. Today as I was getting my jewelru to wear for the day, I noticed my gold charm bracelet in there. Started to look at it and it gave me a new idea. (Like I did one). I thought I would get a silver bracelet and start one for sewing type charms. They sell them at quilt shows, etc. The reason is...My first charm was a little girls head with a long pony tail. I paid 25 cents a week for her when I went to ballet, I would stop and pay the store. Then I realized each charm on there was a part of memories in my life. Did anyone else do charms? I have them on there from Italy, Japan, Germany, CHina, Korea, Iran, and places I have traveled too. It is full. I realized we make memories on things we do that we cherish for all our lives. I wonder how many are still out there that are as sentimental as I am. I think in today's world people don't take the time. Of course in my bedroom in a bottom chest drawer I have every letter my dad mailed me when he was in Vietnam,Iran , and whenever he was away from us during his army career. I can read them and remember birthdays, etc. And he kept the ones I wrote. My handwriting is still just as bad. I am going to put them in a binder soon. I wonder what will happen to them after I am gone? Will family find them and read them and enjoy them like I do? Can you imagine reading your mom's letters she wrote when she was 8 and 9 and on up? Maybe I can be around to see what happens. But then again, I know there is a quilting bee in heaven just waiting for me. Oops,. I am going on and on again. It would take me so long to tell about my whole life.Have a good day, self, talk to you tomorrow. "Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure. That what friends are for... http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-47906-585.htm#3704924 Doodles from Deb |
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I haven't recieved it yet but am waiting impatiently ha ha ha!
Sew, sew, it's the threads that keep love together :>} I love sunbonnet sue,old-fashioned things like 1950's or older housewife things, and like hankies,tea towels and aprons but don't own any yet.
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hi Debbie...I only have a second, been very busy and on the run again. Enjoyed what I have read so far...if it is appropriate to say that! (sorry you have been through so much, by your an inspiration with your attitude )
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Good morning. Finally, I get to go to town and have my MRI and xray. Closer to going to the doctor on the 14th. Been there, done this before. I know I have a surgery coming up after this, I will have to schedule it around my swaps and guild meetings. It usually takes 1-2 hours in that machine, all closed in, so I know while I am laying there, I always think about the quiltingn projects I ahve going, my swaps, so I get lots of good ideas. There is a clinic opening soon with open MRI's so you don't go into that "tube" again. No offense but being that confined feels like a casket.LOL. There goes my imagination.
I have a friend on this board who is going thru a tough time. I don't know her well enough to pull her out of the temporary hole she is in. I know what it is like but I know people handle things differently. I have never let myself get to the point of not wanting to deal with my illnesses or should I say challenges. I am always up to a challenge. I think to myself, maybe I have been able to travel all over, do anything I put my mind too, pretty sure I have left nothing I want to do out....could be the reason my road could end at anytime. But then again. I know my eagerness to help others, my love of life and family, I stay active to the point I get so tired doing it (LOL) that it is just not my time to go and I will not give in to it.
So when I meet someone who is so close to falling into that rut, I am at a loss for words. What???Me at a loss for words. Well, yes.
That old saying...when I hit the floor running in the mornings, the devil says oh no she's up again. I will probably be late for my own funeral, if I was going to have one, and come sliding into my casket and say"Whew,what a ride". I love that saying too. I am not going to buried. I have decided I am going to continue to help others even when I am gone. It will either be a Forensic farm, they put you out somewhere and learn as your body goes through the stages of becoming ashes. I think it would be so funny to see their reaction when all the titanium I have in my body shows up. They will wonder....what is going on here. Then again, all the universities need cadavers to study for the new and upcoming doctors. Hopefully by the time I pass, my procedures will seem ancient and they can say "Look how far the medical field has come". So one way or the other, I my spirit goes on.
Did you know I am blind in the right eye? Well, did you also know that if a person getd my beautiful brown eyes, they can see with it? It's my optic nerve that was crushed by my bone, so my eye can go to someone. Hope this is not offending anyone. It is life after all.
I know how my family is. I have to take flowers and put them on the stones every holiday season. No one is going to have to come to mourn me. They can think of me and laugh and remember me for who I was.
Oops. I am not depressed, honestly. Just typing what comes up. How silly at times.
Well, This morning we are taking my MIL for her haircut and she is doing her own grocery shopping for the first time this year. Her surgery went well. It was a challenge keeping two carts separate.LOL. Then We will have our monthly lunch with her somewhere, and off I go to the Xray dept.
My A/c went out last night. Kinda made me upset becasue it is a totally new unit, inside and out. Finally, we had central air and heat added to this 1908 ranch house we remodeled. So the gentleman came out and it had something to do with the storm the night before. Blessed again.
Have to go, until next time. Live life and be happy.
"Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure.
That what friends are for...
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Good morning. My GD is coming over today to spend the day with me and we are goint topick out fabric and she is going to make a quilt for her other Mimi for.xmas. She has been sewing since she was 8. Do it will ge a grand day.
She even hand stitches like me too but this is going to be her second machine pieced and stitched quilt. She wants to make a quilt with whie center blocks so we can transfer pictures she choses to it.
Hope it is a good day for everyone. I know my day will be special. Happy quilting
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That what friends are for...
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Aw, sounds like you are gonna have a wonderul day!
A country girl will survive!
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# ^ Jun 5, 10 05:57:00
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Sounds like a fun day! Let me know your secret to hand stitching and getting even stitches, please. I know i need to practice too! LOL
Sew, sew, it's the threads that keep love together :>} I love sunbonnet sue,old-fashioned things like 1950's or older housewife things, and like hankies,tea towels and aprons but don't own any yet.
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Sounds like a perfect day to me I have no daughter ( just a very recent DIL ) and no grands yet either. So at the moment no one to pass the "bug" onto I have been working with a friend , who is starting out in quilting LOL
Just take it easy
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Sharon B This is a little test to see if I can post a picture yet or not. I am learning slowly but surely. Hope it works. Then I can figure out how to post my quilt pictures I have done. Thanks for letting me try this out on you. LOL
Deb and Granddaughter Kat
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OK it worked. Yahoo.......FInally. Not the best picture of me but it'll do. My right eye is the one I am blind in. Can't tell it too much. Well, time to go to bed and be happy. Another successful day.
"Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure.
That what friends are for...
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ReRe, I finally figured it out with the help from the board. Now everyone will know I am not beautiful.LOL. I should have stayed in hiding like Marsye. ROFL
Me with my first Cloth doll, Jazzy
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# ^ Jun 5, 10 23:15:11
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UhOh DOn't know how to roate pictures yet. Ya'll just bend your heads a little till I get this mastered.
"Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure.
That what friends are for...
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# ^ Jun 5, 10 23:34:57
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Hello Debbie.. I have read over your blog/diary. I can only say that you are a special lady and meant to be around a long time. You have so much life and happiness in you to light up a football field! I am happy to have made your acquaintance via this diary. Many happy days ahead and happy quilting.. looking forward to your quilt posts!
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# ^ Jun 5, 10 23:41:28
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What GREAT pics No reason to hide !
Glad you got the pictures figured out
Is that the granddaughter you are quilting with ? Both of you are beautiful
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Yes, this was my quilting GK. And Thank you. It was a fun day, we put her project in a nice project box for next time.
Today I am going to get my new Gadget out and try to use it with my camera SD card to download pics. If it works I can take pictures of my new Singer machine, haven't figured out her identity yet but soon will. Have a lot of super sleuthes on the board helping me out. I am gonig to play with it now. This is a thingie you put the sd card into and then it plugs stright in to the computer to download. Saves me from having to go to town to make a cd. Happy quilting all.
"Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure.
That what friends are for...
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# ^ Jun 6, 10 11:21:50
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You should also be able to plug your camera directly into the computer and download your pics that way Take you camera cable and plug it into a USB port on the computer. I make a new folder on the desktop, when I open the camera I download the pics into that folder , no need for a disk
sharon b
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I haven't recieved it yet but am waiting impatiently ha ha ha!
Sew, sew, it's the threads that keep love together :>} I love sunbonnet sue,old-fashioned things like 1950's or older housewife things, and like hankies,tea towels and aprons but don't own any yet.
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hi Debbie...I only have a second, been very busy and on the run again. Enjoyed what I have read so far...if it is appropriate to say that! (sorry you have been through so much, by your an inspiration with your attitude )
ta ta for now! Mousie
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Good morning. Finally, I get to go to town and have my MRI and xray. Closer to going to the doctor on the 14th. Been there, done this before. I know I have a surgery coming up after this, I will have to schedule it around my swaps and guild meetings. It usually takes 1-2 hours in that machine, all closed in, so I know while I am laying there, I always think about the quiltingn projects I ahve going, my swaps, so I get lots of good ideas. There is a clinic opening soon with open MRI's so you don't go into that "tube" again. No offense but being that confined feels like a casket.LOL. There goes my imagination.
I have a friend on this board who is going thru a tough time. I don't know her well enough to pull her out of the temporary hole she is in. I know what it is like but I know people handle things differently. I have never let myself get to the point of not wanting to deal with my illnesses or should I say challenges. I am always up to a challenge. I think to myself, maybe I have been able to travel all over, do anything I put my mind too, pretty sure I have left nothing I want to do out....could be the reason my road could end at anytime. But then again. I know my eagerness to help others, my love of life and family, I stay active to the point I get so tired doing it (LOL) that it is just not my time to go and I will not give in to it.
So when I meet someone who is so close to falling into that rut, I am at a loss for words. What???Me at a loss for words. Well, yes.
That old saying...when I hit the floor running in the mornings, the devil says oh no she's up again. I will probably be late for my own funeral, if I was going to have one, and come sliding into my casket and say"Whew,what a ride". I love that saying too. I am not going to buried. I have decided I am going to continue to help others even when I am gone. It will either be a Forensic farm, they put you out somewhere and learn as your body goes through the stages of becoming ashes. I think it would be so funny to see their reaction when all the titanium I have in my body shows up. They will wonder....what is going on here. Then again, all the universities need cadavers to study for the new and upcoming doctors. Hopefully by the time I pass, my procedures will seem ancient and they can say "Look how far the medical field has come". So one way or the other, I my spirit goes on.
Did you know I am blind in the right eye? Well, did you also know that if a person getd my beautiful brown eyes, they can see with it? It's my optic nerve that was crushed by my bone, so my eye can go to someone. Hope this is not offending anyone. It is life after all.
I know how my family is. I have to take flowers and put them on the stones every holiday season. No one is going to have to come to mourn me. They can think of me and laugh and remember me for who I was.
Oops. I am not depressed, honestly. Just typing what comes up. How silly at times.
Well, This morning we are taking my MIL for her haircut and she is doing her own grocery shopping for the first time this year. Her surgery went well. It was a challenge keeping two carts separate.LOL. Then We will have our monthly lunch with her somewhere, and off I go to the Xray dept.
My A/c went out last night. Kinda made me upset becasue it is a totally new unit, inside and out. Finally, we had central air and heat added to this 1908 ranch house we remodeled. So the gentleman came out and it had something to do with the storm the night before. Blessed again.
Have to go, until next time. Live life and be happy.
"Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure.
That what friends are for...
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-47906-585.htm#3704924 Doodles from Deb
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Good morning. My GD is coming over today to spend the day with me and we are goint topick out fabric and she is going to make a quilt for her other Mimi for.xmas. She has been sewing since she was 8. Do it will ge a grand day.
She even hand stitches like me too but this is going to be her second machine pieced and stitched quilt. She wants to make a quilt with whie center blocks so we can transfer pictures she choses to it.
Hope it is a good day for everyone. I know my day will be special. Happy quilting
"Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure.
That what friends are for...
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-47906-585.htm#3704924 Doodles from Deb
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Aw, sounds like you are gonna have a wonderul day!
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Sounds like a fun day! Let me know your secret to hand stitching and getting even stitches, please. I know i need to practice too! LOL
Sew, sew, it's the threads that keep love together :>} I love sunbonnet sue,old-fashioned things like 1950's or older housewife things, and like hankies,tea towels and aprons but don't own any yet.
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Sounds like a perfect day to me I have no daughter ( just a very recent DIL ) and no grands yet either. So at the moment no one to pass the "bug" onto I have been working with a friend , who is starting out in quilting LOL
Just take it easy
sharon b
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Sharon B This is a little test to see if I can post a picture yet or not. I am learning slowly but surely. Hope it works. Then I can figure out how to post my quilt pictures I have done. Thanks for letting me try this out on you. LOL
Deb and Granddaughter Kat
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OK it worked. Yahoo.......FInally. Not the best picture of me but it'll do. My right eye is the one I am blind in. Can't tell it too much. Well, time to go to bed and be happy. Another successful day.
"Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure.
That what friends are for...
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ReRe, I finally figured it out with the help from the board. Now everyone will know I am not beautiful.LOL. I should have stayed in hiding like Marsye. ROFL
Me with my first Cloth doll, Jazzy
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UhOh DOn't know how to roate pictures yet. Ya'll just bend your heads a little till I get this mastered.
"Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure.
That what friends are for...
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-47906-585.htm#3704924 Doodles from Deb
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# ^ Jun 5, 10 23:34:57
roseOfsharon
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Hello Debbie.. I have read over your blog/diary. I can only say that you are a special lady and meant to be around a long time. You have so much life and happiness in you to light up a football field! I am happy to have made your acquaintance via this diary. Many happy days ahead and happy quilting.. looking forward to your quilt posts!
Sharon
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Keep an open heart.. listen with your eyes.. lend a hand and life will be filled with purpose.
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# ^ Jun 5, 10 23:41:28
sharon b
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What GREAT pics No reason to hide !
Glad you got the pictures figured out
Is that the granddaughter you are quilting with ? Both of you are beautiful
sharon b
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