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Saturday, April 14, 2012
Ravengood Wands
It took a while but now I'm proud to release a new line. Ravengoode Wands are handcrafted and are lovingly created.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
So Much For Successful Dragons
I thought that this was supposed to be the 'successful' Year of the Dragon? You know, good things all around? Ha! So far this year has been more like the vindictive black Dragon.
My husband went from being treated in the local hospital for a toe that need to be amputated to being rushed to Herman Hospital in the The Woodlands by ambulance for bypass surgery! His sister and BIL came rushing down to the Houston area again(they were here just last week) to be with us as they rushed him into surgery..
The surgery went well and they had to work on two arteries instead of three. We will still have to go through a procedure for the severe blockage in his legs and the amputation but that is for another day. My SIL and BIL have had to play sitter with him since I cannot go to the hospital due to finances. Now I hear through the grapevine that my piddling-poor job at Walmart may be in danger. They scheduled me to have an entire week off due to seasonal cuts but may get rid of several people(including myself).
I'm now struggling through bills that my well-meaning dh neglected to pay and looking for a job all at the same time. But through it all, I have been making new pieces for the shop. As Rome burned, Nero still fiddled away.
Hopefully February will kick the Dragon out of his slumber and get him to chase that dang rabbit away for good. I need a year of success and prosperity.
My husband went from being treated in the local hospital for a toe that need to be amputated to being rushed to Herman Hospital in the The Woodlands by ambulance for bypass surgery! His sister and BIL came rushing down to the Houston area again(they were here just last week) to be with us as they rushed him into surgery..
The surgery went well and they had to work on two arteries instead of three. We will still have to go through a procedure for the severe blockage in his legs and the amputation but that is for another day. My SIL and BIL have had to play sitter with him since I cannot go to the hospital due to finances. Now I hear through the grapevine that my piddling-poor job at Walmart may be in danger. They scheduled me to have an entire week off due to seasonal cuts but may get rid of several people(including myself).
I'm now struggling through bills that my well-meaning dh neglected to pay and looking for a job all at the same time. But through it all, I have been making new pieces for the shop. As Rome burned, Nero still fiddled away.
Hopefully February will kick the Dragon out of his slumber and get him to chase that dang rabbit away for good. I need a year of success and prosperity.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Dead in the Water
Okay, that is exactly how I feel.
This past Friday I took the husband to therapy as usual but when I picked him up, everything changed. EVERYTHING. Friday is the day that the new doctor was going to change his dressing and explain the results of the culture that was run on his toe. Instead, as she peel away the blue netting bandage, she always peeled away all of his flesh.
You remember those mummy horror films we all watched as kids when the mummy would peel back his skin to reveal his true self; a bloody, pulpy face? Well that would be Gary's toe. 48 hours it was 'looking good' and now this. All I thought was 'Oh God, Oh God, Oh God.'
Within 4 hours of waiting for approval, he was admitted into the hospital and I was having emotional arrest. The waterworks gushing everywhere; Niagra Falls baby.
On the more logical end of the spectrum, this is a good thing. He gets the IV therapy he needs and the vascular surgeon who wouldn't see us because we have no insurance is forced to see him in the hospital. Ah don't you love politics?
But it left me raw and upset. I couldnt stop crying for I saw down the road and there is an avalanche in the middle of it. Why, you may ask. Well hold on to your hat grasshopper....my part-time jobs have become more part time; my hours have been sliced and diced so much that there isn't much to make a julienne fry out of! Officially and financially I am now paying to go to work since what I will be making with be going solely to gas. And we won't even go down that path of how to pay the bills.
It's hard to keep positive so I just work. Mush better keeping the hands busy or my mind will turn into more than just the Devil's playground...more like an amusement park full of roller coasters!
So hopefully these will be up on Over The Hill Designs by tomorrow. Keep watching!
Red Dragon Earrings
Pocket wands
Wand
You remember those mummy horror films we all watched as kids when the mummy would peel back his skin to reveal his true self; a bloody, pulpy face? Well that would be Gary's toe. 48 hours it was 'looking good' and now this. All I thought was 'Oh God, Oh God, Oh God.'
Within 4 hours of waiting for approval, he was admitted into the hospital and I was having emotional arrest. The waterworks gushing everywhere; Niagra Falls baby.
On the more logical end of the spectrum, this is a good thing. He gets the IV therapy he needs and the vascular surgeon who wouldn't see us because we have no insurance is forced to see him in the hospital. Ah don't you love politics?
But it left me raw and upset. I couldnt stop crying for I saw down the road and there is an avalanche in the middle of it. Why, you may ask. Well hold on to your hat grasshopper....my part-time jobs have become more part time; my hours have been sliced and diced so much that there isn't much to make a julienne fry out of! Officially and financially I am now paying to go to work since what I will be making with be going solely to gas. And we won't even go down that path of how to pay the bills.
It's hard to keep positive so I just work. Mush better keeping the hands busy or my mind will turn into more than just the Devil's playground...more like an amusement park full of roller coasters!
So hopefully these will be up on Over The Hill Designs by tomorrow. Keep watching!
Saturday, January 14, 2012
9 cats and another snafu
OMG! If it's not one thing, its another! Most people adopt or foster children; I think my role in life is to foster cats! All 5 of my cats were strays that we found and took in and, at our last home, I foster about 6 outside ones.
Our next door nieghbor has been gone since Thanksgiving and told the gentleman across the street to watch her house. Simple enough. In the plan, he was to feed the stray cats and kitten that she feeds on a daily basis.
Well this guy's idea of feeding 9 cats was a miniscule bowl of feeding about the size of a Fancy Feast can! Well our friend, Melissa, who lives across the street from us decided that just wasnt enough and stepped in the feed the cats. So every morning she would take dry food to the happy felines and leave it on the woman's driveway next to a flower pot. That is ALL that she did.
Apparently that didn't over well with the male neighbor because three, yes THREE, no trespassing signs appeared. One was directly position so that Melissa would see it and another was positioned, interestingly enough, inside the flower pot where Melissa had been leaving food. Soooo, Melissa asked us for help.
What could I do? What could I say? Its kittens man! 2 adults cats and 7 half grown kitties and its 29 degrees here. Besides, they all take refuge under our house anyway and we have 4 cats inside that we feed and...oh hell.
So every morning I trudge out in the old pink fuzzy robe and fill a planter try full of food and Melissa does the same thing in the afternoon. Now we have kitties lounging in the house and in the yard.
Some people foster kids but I am THE cat foster mother of 13. Well someone's got to do it!
Minor issues abound today however. If the cat/kitten issue wasn't enough I have found that the PhotoSmart program on my computer doesn't seem to want to work. All sorts of photos of new jewelry and I can't even show them off! So I'm going to spend the afternoon re-installing and uninstalling. Then I need to dig out my old program for making business cards and circulars and...oh a whole bunch of other stuff that I've been too lazy to take out of the box!
Our next door nieghbor has been gone since Thanksgiving and told the gentleman across the street to watch her house. Simple enough. In the plan, he was to feed the stray cats and kitten that she feeds on a daily basis.
Well this guy's idea of feeding 9 cats was a miniscule bowl of feeding about the size of a Fancy Feast can! Well our friend, Melissa, who lives across the street from us decided that just wasnt enough and stepped in the feed the cats. So every morning she would take dry food to the happy felines and leave it on the woman's driveway next to a flower pot. That is ALL that she did.
Apparently that didn't over well with the male neighbor because three, yes THREE, no trespassing signs appeared. One was directly position so that Melissa would see it and another was positioned, interestingly enough, inside the flower pot where Melissa had been leaving food. Soooo, Melissa asked us for help.
What could I do? What could I say? Its kittens man! 2 adults cats and 7 half grown kitties and its 29 degrees here. Besides, they all take refuge under our house anyway and we have 4 cats inside that we feed and...oh hell.
So every morning I trudge out in the old pink fuzzy robe and fill a planter try full of food and Melissa does the same thing in the afternoon. Now we have kitties lounging in the house and in the yard.
Some people foster kids but I am THE cat foster mother of 13. Well someone's got to do it!
Minor issues abound today however. If the cat/kitten issue wasn't enough I have found that the PhotoSmart program on my computer doesn't seem to want to work. All sorts of photos of new jewelry and I can't even show them off! So I'm going to spend the afternoon re-installing and uninstalling. Then I need to dig out my old program for making business cards and circulars and...oh a whole bunch of other stuff that I've been too lazy to take out of the box!
Monday, December 12, 2011
We're Back......
Events, beside the seasonal holidays, have been backfiring around here like a bad Chevy. My last post stated that I was getting overwhelmed with job, lack of money, kid's school and just general stress everywhere.
Now things have changed in major season-changing ways. Just a few weeks ago, I came home to find the husband's foot inflamed and swollen. It stayed this way for several days. I also found a place where had once housed a callus was turning darker. I was assuming gout but by Monday it had turned black.
Yes sir, we had gout-driver diabetes. My never-sick-a-day-in-his-life husband was stricken with severe diabetes and a blood count of over 359 (the average being 100-120). We thought he would lose his toe or even his whole foot and he was so weak that staying in bed all day was not an issue.
Lots of healing prayers later, we have a man who doesn't necessarily have to be on solely 'white foods', doesn't have to have insulin and appears as though the oxygen chamer therapy will save his toe. He knows how lucky he is. Although he still has to wear his irritating rehab shoe to keep weight off of his foot and poke himself daily, he is thrilled to know he will live. Now job hunting has changed altogether...no more driving a truck.
I don't know if it was because of this but things have changed for myself as well. I got off my butt and the etsy site for over the hill is open for business once again with a brand new banner as you can see above. And the writing bug has returned with a vengeance. I've written 15 articles in 2 weeks! Still have issues with paying the bills but now I dont care. I do the best that I can and if that isn't enough; then its just not enough. I can't make the drive any closer nor can they get blood out of a turnip. I suppose that is my New Year's resolution....dont sweat the small stuff that you can't control. So there ;p
Now things have changed in major season-changing ways. Just a few weeks ago, I came home to find the husband's foot inflamed and swollen. It stayed this way for several days. I also found a place where had once housed a callus was turning darker. I was assuming gout but by Monday it had turned black.
Yes sir, we had gout-driver diabetes. My never-sick-a-day-in-his-life husband was stricken with severe diabetes and a blood count of over 359 (the average being 100-120). We thought he would lose his toe or even his whole foot and he was so weak that staying in bed all day was not an issue.
Lots of healing prayers later, we have a man who doesn't necessarily have to be on solely 'white foods', doesn't have to have insulin and appears as though the oxygen chamer therapy will save his toe. He knows how lucky he is. Although he still has to wear his irritating rehab shoe to keep weight off of his foot and poke himself daily, he is thrilled to know he will live. Now job hunting has changed altogether...no more driving a truck.
I don't know if it was because of this but things have changed for myself as well. I got off my butt and the etsy site for over the hill is open for business once again with a brand new banner as you can see above. And the writing bug has returned with a vengeance. I've written 15 articles in 2 weeks! Still have issues with paying the bills but now I dont care. I do the best that I can and if that isn't enough; then its just not enough. I can't make the drive any closer nor can they get blood out of a turnip. I suppose that is my New Year's resolution....dont sweat the small stuff that you can't control. So there ;p
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Overwhelmed
Since moving to Huntsville I have been so overwhelmed. We arrived here in late August and my husband still hasn't been able to find a job. It has gotten down to Mike, a friend who rents a room from us, and myself struggling to keep up with the bills. Being in his 50's poor Gary has been running into that glass ceiling and it has been difficult at best.
On a brighter note, I have started a Pagan-Non-Wiccan group of cafemom called The Witches Dance. It is more of an educational group and I hope it goes well. I've been working the local Renaissance festival and it has been exhausting to keep that up and work and make sure the youngest gets through her high school studies plus pagan studies.
My shop will stay closed a bit longer as I adjust to all the new changes. Please hang in there.
On a brighter note, I have started a Pagan-Non-Wiccan group of cafemom called The Witches Dance. It is more of an educational group and I hope it goes well. I've been working the local Renaissance festival and it has been exhausting to keep that up and work and make sure the youngest gets through her high school studies plus pagan studies.
My shop will stay closed a bit longer as I adjust to all the new changes. Please hang in there.
Friday, July 29, 2011
CLOSED FOR A SHORT TIME
Over The Hill Designs has closed for a little while. We are moving from North Texas to South East near Houston. It is a college town called Huntsville. I am very happy for this move because it brings me back to the closest thing that I could call my home. I even graduated from Sam Houston State in Huntsville.
We will be living in a small house built in the 1800's that is part of the original homestead of Sam Houston himself! Yes, the word 'cool' is in order. So I will definitely open back up in early September. See you soon!
We will be living in a small house built in the 1800's that is part of the original homestead of Sam Houston himself! Yes, the word 'cool' is in order. So I will definitely open back up in early September. See you soon!
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