It's been a rough few weeks

Sorry I haven't kept everybody up-to-date. It's been a couple of weeks from hell, to say the least.

DH has been sick for a couple of months I would say and we just assumed he had a bad case of the flu, although his symptoms didn't sound like a cold. Night sweats, no appetite, fatigue to the point of not getting off the couch. It started to sound more and more scary until I insisted that he get some bloodwork done. Well, it came back that he was anemic. Physician treating himself knew what all his symptoms could be pointing to, so he completely freaked both of us out. We had him dead and buried! First we thought of colon cancer and had him do a colonoscopy and EGD which were fine. So no cancer spread all through his body. The GI guy suggested a CT scan of the abdomen, which was scheduled a few days later (after we moved it up, it was supposed to be even later). Those few days we did nothing but cry and worry, it was horrible. I felt so bad for him, while he was worried about us! anyway the scan came back okay also. Next we had a CT of the chest and more bloodwork, plus a consultation with a hematologist he knows. he wasn't worried about his bloodwork being off and seems to think that all this is caused by a lingering viral infection. What a relief that was! I have never heard of such a thing, especially not lingering for a couple of months, but he must know what he is talking about. The chest CT did show calcifications in all three of his heart vessels though, so he just had a stress test this morning and an echo. Now we have to wait to find out if there is any blockage yet or not and what the next step will be. I know loads of people go through stuff like this every day, but man, this was awful and still is. To top it all off, he got up this morning and could hardly walk. Something from his back is radiating into his leg, which is partially numb. Isn't it great? Do a stresstest with a leg that doesn't work. I just hope everything will be okay.....

Anyway, that is my excuse for not posting in such a long time, I just didn't have the nerves. All I did was scrap, that is good therapy, it really takes my mind off things. I hope I won't be posting double pages, it's been so long, I forget what I showed you already :)

these were all for Designer digitals and you can see the credits in my gallery there.

these are all from Vinnie's site, I have a lot of fun playing with these pages, I feel so much more artistic using her stuff :)

these pages are for PaperbagStudios, the second page isn't really supposed to be posted yet, I think the kit is coming out tomorrow, so check the store then. it's really cute and has a ton of elements. It's called Cottage Trace Kit.

And one more page, which I made for DSM online. One of the designer from DD asked me to do this, that was a couple of months ago and I had fun with it.

Here is a link to the site, so graciously provided by one of my online friends. I didn't even know it was out LOL. The other ladies are such masters, it was such a privilege for me to be published with them.

Well, guys, keep praying for me and hubby please, I will really try to keep this darn blog more up to date, especially because I feel bad dumping all these pages on you to look at all at once. I just hope you enjoyed them anyway. I better go and practice the piano for a little while, my lesson is at one and I haven't touched the keys all week. she'll be really happy with me! I just really didn't feel like it with all this stuff going on. I guess she'll understand, right Sarah? she is such a sweetie!!!!

Just a quickie

Well, I promised, didn't I?
Not that much happened today. I had to help in school with lunch. I don't mind that, the kids like to see me and I get to eat a junky lunch with DS, because he is in the last group to be fed. So I sit with the boys and listen to their goofy stuff. In the afternoon I had to take him to get his new glasses, then make dinner and so on. Just a regular Monday. I was able to do a couple of pages though. I did one for RobenMarie at PaperbagStudios. Here are the credits for this one. I did another one, but it's done with a new kit that won't come out for a little while, so I can't put it out yet.












I finished another 365 page

and the last one is in the works already, I should be all caught up by tomorrow (if I have a second to sit down tomorrow, it's one of my run around days). Anyway, that was my day today, isn't it exciting? We'll see how tomorrow goes. Off to bed now

It's been a while

I hope you all missed me :) I am afraid it's been almost 2 weeks or even more, but on the other hand at least you didn't have to come here and leave comments every day LOL. I will really try to do better. After so many days have passed, it almost becomes overwhelming to start posting, because I have so many LOs to put on here and I forget which I posted already. What a dilemma to have, isn't it? Life has just been going on, school projects, doctor appointments, glasses, sports, you know what I mean. It's busy! Maybe if I try a little every day it's easier....I might just try that, I hope you'll put up with seeing a post every day. Let me just do the pages and get that done with

The next ones I did for PaperbagStudios. She just came out with a new kit called Spring in my Step, it's quite cute. There is another one coming out in a couple of days, those pages later.

I made a few pages for Vinnie but I can't post those yet either. She has a bunch of kits coming out the beginning of April and man they are cute! I made the Energy LO above with her stuff. It was an inspiration piece she had posted and that is what I came up with. I am getting caught up with my Project 365, just a couple of weeks to go. I just can't scrap all of them in a row, I need to do other stuff in between. It's all because of the vacation, that kind of threw me for a loop.

Yesterday was funny. DD was having a chat at 11AM but I had to take Gabi to a Diversity seminar in Altoona, which is about 1 hour away. I took my laptop and went to Panera's because my GF told me they had Internet access. So I sat there, had my lunch and participated in the chat challenge and made the Josie page (on top, 3rd LO). It had to be done in 30 minutes and there were certain requirements. I love those challenges, it's pressure but fun. People at DD were teasing me about sitting in the restaurant scrapping but I really didn't want to miss it. I have reached a new low! Or maybe I should say a new level of addiction.

The class with Pattie is over but she is coming out with a new one in a couple of weeks. I am pretty sure I will take it. Although some of the things I already knew, there were always steps that were different, so I did learn quite a bit!

All right, this is it for tonight, I'll have to save some for tomorrow :)