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Thursday, March 28, 2019

Wow...it's been a while eh?

Hey there!! I hope someone is still reading...I have been away for so long. I have had a ton of stuff going on so when I just realized that I hadn't been here in so long, I decided to drop in and give you an update on the activities that have kept me so distracted.

Depression. That's the first one. I was in a pretty dark hole and just felt really bad for a few days.

Appointments. I have to take my 13 yr old daughter to therapy every week. Plus, we are now taking my 10 yr old son to OT once a week. He's Autistic and is starting Occupational Therapy at a local place that my mother in law used to take my nieces to when they lived here in town. The main therapist lady there is really super sweet and my son really seems to love her so far. Which makes my daughter jealous because she does NOT love her therapist. I think it's better this way though. I love her therapist and feel like he is exactly what she needs. She only doesn't like him because he pushes her to answer questions that she would normally only say "I don't know" to  and that drives me MAD!!

Life. My surface broke. Well, my daughter broke the screen to it a while ago and it just finally quit responding to touch functions so I didn't love it anymore. If you don't have one or if you do have one, don't ever break it! It is so expensive to repair. I am used to iPads and I can fix an apple product in nearly 10 minutes flat, but these Microsoft products really make you work. I just bought a new computer. I love it. It's not portable like my surface, which does make me sad and I'm sure I will eventually cave and pay to have my surface repaired or buy the parts and let my Mr. do it for me if he ever has any extra time. However, for now this one is great. It's an AIO Sony Vaio with the touch screen function. I love how it fits in my work space that is pretty chaotic over all, but I think it is working.

Business. I have found a few vendor shows to sell at in April and May. I have been trying to get used to my new Babylock machine, and learn to accept how much stabilizer is wasted on the 7x12 hoop~ugh that is hard...I hate it so much. I am also having to buy everything to set up at the show. Table. Chairs. Displays. Canopy because one of the events is outside. EVERYTHING.

I've missed chatting so I'll be back soon. Hopefully I'll have lots of great things to share over the next few months as Spring time rolls in and life is getting more active.

I hope all of you guys are doing well, staying healthy, feeling good, sharing love and life with your friends and family everyday. If you're feeling not so great, but you happened to stop in, thank you, I hope you know you're not alone, and you are so important. Please, keep going, keep breathing every day <3 Love and light to you~

Saturday, March 16, 2019

New machine fun

I have been using a Brother HE1 embroidery machine for a while and I thought I loved it. I never had a real problem with it and if anything did start acting wonky I could get in there and fix it myself. It just had such a small embroidery area, being only a 4x4 machine. I realized quickly that I was going to need a bigger machine.

After a bunch of thought and researching and searching and more searching...I finally decided I loved the Viking Ruby machine. Well, that, as almost everything else in my life, was way too expensive of a machine for my budget! Used ones run close to $1500 on the cheap! Mostly they are around $2k~ yea, a lot..so I started looking around for more affordable options.

Everyone screams PE770! I scream UGH! Only because it only does a 5x7 hoop..that's only 1 size up from my tiny 4x4..I wanted BIG!!

I ended up going with a used, BabyLock Ellegante. It is definitely my budget machine, but it does go up to 7x12 I believe or 7x14? one of those...which is pretty nice and big enough for some great designs from my most favorite designer, String Theory Fabric Art.  You should totally check out her site, even if you don't stitch, you will enjoy just seeing all the amazing things she has on there. She is amazing and she makes gorgeous designs, but sometimes they need to be in the bigger sizes to get them to really stitch well enough to showcase her talents. I think the most popular, or most well known design of hers are her twists on Van Gogh's Starry Night. She has a Hogwarts starry night,  star wars starry night, and Tardis starry night I believe. Now they take hours to stitch out on the machine, and have a bazillion jump stitches to clip by hand but they are so beautiful.  Now I can get the bigger designs and stitch them comfortably and really do her designs justice.

Ok, that's all I have for today, I hope you are all doing well, staying healthy, and checking in on all your loved ones. Live today, and just keep going!!

Why do I ever leave my house!!??

I swear, if I could find a nice little cottage in the middle of a field and I could live there with not interacting with any other real person I would totally do it...Or maybe I just don't like my in laws...I don't know..

I love my family, I love my mom, and I am pretty sure I do love my inlaws for the most part...but when we go to family functions and all the cousins are brought, and my sister in law brings her daughter that has been exposed to the flu, and doesn't tell anyone...that is what I hate.

I have a lot of kids..I also have severe asthma/allergies. I generally only have a difficult time when it is rainy because of the mold spores. However, this year has been exceptionally wet, and we brought home a tiny virus that is attacking our respiratory systems.

For the last week or so I have been tending to fevers, snotty noses and general breathing problems. Honestly, until yesterday, I wasn't doing too badly.

Then, I couldn't breathe. Even after using my inhaler, I still couldn't breathe. So I go to the Dr. I love my Dr. by the way. She is really nice and her office is small so I can always get an appointment and that keeps my from having to go to the ER or to a walk in clinic that I would have to see some weird person, probably a nurse, that doesn't know me or my issues...ugh! The horror! 

When I called the office I was already pretty close so I got an appointment within 7 minutes, I was at the office in 3.

I had to have a breathing treatment in office, plus steroid shot, plus she gave me a whole list of meds to try and help.

I don't know if they are working or not...I can't breathe but now it's because my sinus are clogged..although I am still coughing a lot and feel tight in my chest.

I hope it passes quickly, I hope to get back on here more frequently once this yuck passes..I hope all of you are doing well, feeling healthy, and moving forward. I think I am at least moving forward..a little haha

Friday, March 15, 2019

So I love things that smell good...

I have always been one of those weird people that love to have my home/car/space smelling really good. However, my version of good, is usually not on track with the trends.

I hate the smell of vanilla.

I cringe when I smell Lavender.

I really get nauseated at the scent of heavy cinnamon too.

So, my opinion of a good smell is usually a light clean air "fresh" smell, that reminds me of laundry hanging on the clothes line when I was small. Or I enjoy lovely citrus scents, although, that can quickly go awry if made incorrectly.

I used to sell scentsy, well I used to buy it a lot so I signed up to be a consultant, and I love earning free goodies on my purchases. I don't have to have "parties" or stalk and sell to my friends and family.

I'm not a sales person..I suck at talking to people.

I recently jumped back in because they now have the cute disney character stuff and while I'm still not a disney fan, I know most people are and so this time maybe I will be able to sell stuff to someone other than myself! haha

If you want to check out the new goods, check them out here Welcome Back Party. If you don't it's cool :) I'm totally chuffed you are reading this far!!

Thank YOU!!

I hope you're doing well, getting on every day with minimal grief, and most of all I hope you keep going!

Till next time :)

Friday, March 8, 2019

My oldest son teaching his baby brother to play Ark ...



Seriously, I love my son...always...BUT when he does something like this it just makes me get all the feels!! His baby brother is 5, and loves to be like his big brother and play games. My oldest is always working on his YouTube channel, trying so hard to get the 1000 subscribers it takes to set up his adsense account. He's at 25, but he never gets bummed or discouraged. He is on there every night putting up his game clips every day...I can't wait to be able to get him set up so he can make his videos even more awesome and really grow his channel. He's amazing, if you have a few minutes take a look, drop a thumbs up if you can, it will really bring a smile to his super cute awkward fuzzy puberty face hahaha <3

Sunday, March 3, 2019

It's cheese sauce and I paid for it, yet my Mr is judging me...

So the Mr and I rarely get to go out by ourselves to do anything so the other night when we got to go out to a quick dinner we ran! haha

I picked him up from work and we went to Culver's. If you don't know what it is, it is just another burger place like Steak & Shake or Freddy's...I think..They do have really good ice cream..they call it frozen custard...I call it ice cream and the one with Andes Mints in it is so good I'm not sure it's only mint they are putting in there!

So we go and order our food, sit down, they bring it, we start eating and when we are almost finished, I see there's a few fried cheese curds left and well..that just can't be so I grab on e and dip it in the cheese sauce I had to pay for for my french fries...My Mr. stops eating his french fries and looks at me all kind of sideways like I had just put pickles in cottage cheese or something! Like he seriously couldn't believe what I was doing and says...

"you know those are fried cheese, right?"

"uhhh..yea.." I replied.

"why are you dipping them in cheese sauce?" he added, as though he realized I must be in the beginning stages of dimentia and I just thought it was some other kind of dip!

"I paid for the cheese sauce...I'm not going to throw it away! That's like throwing away 76 cents! Who does that?" I say, slightly offended and more confused as to how he doesn't already know and understand everything that is happening in front of him.

He just laughed at me, and said I was pretty...I momentarily considered telling him we need to seriously re-evaluate our relationship, but I just enjoyed my cheese dipped fried cheese curds instead, while wondering how I married a man that could ever have said these things to me..

I hope you are all having a wonderful day/week/month/year...I hope this made you laugh a little, or al lot..it's ok..no judgement :)

I'm working on my videos for the new embroidery machine my Mum sent me last week! If you are interested in that kind of thing it will be on the YouTube channel soon, I'll post it here as well when it's finished.

Until next time, please keep going, keep breathing, keep pushing forward..don't forget to check in on your loved ones and friends, even those who you don't think need it...give love and hugs to  all your peeps..every day!

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