migraine is getting in my way today...

added some new friends to the playroom...

found all these wonderful girls at Goodwill last weekend...

and remember the vintage ear rings that I found online?

guess what's going to happen to them...

I got up with this pain in my head this morning, but it started fading...

so I went in to finish the valentine bags...

with things I have bought...

and things that I had made that are just hanging around...

but it came back worse than this morning...

waiting on the ibuprofen to start working and then I am going to hide in my dark bedroom until it goes away...

prayers for blogger NanaNor who is recovering from surgery yesterday morning...

her daughter reported that the surgery went well...

but she is going to be sore and the recovery won't happen over night...

so keep her in your prayers the rest of the week...

have a good day- heading for the dark and quiet...

;0)

playtime...

I have been working on these off and on the past several days...

cover and inside...

using the vintage images that I found online...

I just googled vintage valentine postcard images...

there are plenty more out there if you don't like these...

I had those 3 done and decided to do another...

and there it is...

I am going to do one more, but they are so fast to do...

I am going to wait until tonight, when the guys are watching the boob tube to hide in my room...

I also decorate the gift bags with my cards...

just glue the envelope face side down...

you can decorate it up, too...

and just tuck the card inside so it shows...

its really super easy to do...

and when you get a gift like this, the card is so easy to pull out and read and then tuck it back in while you look inside the bag!

I think I will print out some Happy Valentine's Day banners to glue across the center of the envelopes...

and here is a very simple DIY project!

no paint, no glue, no glitter!

these are those wood/? letters that they have in the craft section at Walmart...

today's project is brought to you by the letter 'T'...

for Tete...

I covered it with washi tape...

also found in the craft section at Walmart...

its in the scrapbooking area...

turned my mouse pad upside down for a surface to trim it on...

(because I was too lazy to go get a piece of card board)

I used a small box cutter...

then I just took a sharpie and colored the sides...

I was trying to come up with a fun thing to do that anyone could handle...

I could have painted it easily, but understand some just don't do paint...

so there you go...

it would be fun to do with kids as long as you do the trimming..

you can also print out images and just glue them on the whole thing...

then cut them out...

so, there are some ideas for you to use...

have fun!

a rather warm weekend...

went shopping on Saturday and a drive after lunch on Sunday...

it was sunny until we ate lunch, and the clouds started rolling in...

by the time we hit the road, the sun had been swallowed whole...

but it was still in right at 50...

and it was nice to see things I hadn't seen before...

and we saw one lone deer...

but there is never just one, but I couldn't find the rest in the woods, too far away...

a large doe running full speed...

didn't have much time to shoot her...

but I got a couple before she crossed the road in front of us...

I bought these from a friend of mine online last week...

found this victorian canister at Goodwill on Saturday...

and these are the second round of cadbury eggs to enter here this year...

I have been doing one a week...

so far...

I have been looking for the mini ones, but so far, they aren't out yet...

I am sure as soon as Valentine's Day is done, the Easter stuff will pop up overnight...

I got more stuff, but no photos yet...

I found some great linens, too, at the Goodwill...

I am home alone today, as soon as the guys head out...

DH just left, but Craig doesn't go in until later...

and then I am heading back to the playroom...

(I got all the housework done yesterday and last night!)

so today is play and nap day for me...

have a good week!

more vintage valentine images...

we went shopping today...

found some things at Goodwill...

and we ate at Arby's...

stopped at Walmart...

and County Market...

we got home right before dark...

it got up to 50 today...

it was a good day with my old man...

so I am late getting my post up today...

staying home tomorrow...

and resting up before another work week starts...

hope you had a good day...

piddle fartin'...

I did get a tiny bit of time in the playroom yesterday...

it has been so cold here, so just biding my time until it warms up...

found this in one of my scrap drawers...

and switched this frame out...

super easy, super fast...

and I started on a valentine...

I need to print off the wording that will go inside and glue that down...

so will finish that later this weekend...

but in the meantime...

here are some more of the post card images that I found...

this is the one I worked with today...

and since some of you have asked...

here is an update on Courtney...

that spunky girl came home this week...

and other than some pain one night, she is doing great...

not ready to run any marathons yet...

but so happy to be home...

with coffee and vanilla creamer!

;0)

everything is functioning as it should be...

and they got all of the cancer...

you can't ask for more than that...

she is counting her blessings every day...

so grateful for all the prayers going up for her and her family...

because they have all gone through this with her...

her faith has just been amazing through all of this...

and her husband's...

she has a really good support system surrounding her...

just give her a couple of months to really get back on her feet...

and watch her go...

she is so ready to give back what she has been given...

  

now, I need more prayers to go up...

Craig's friend's (Tia) grandmother saw her doctor yesterday...

and they basically told her she was dying...

her organs are slowly shutting down...

she is having to get infusions...

got another one yesterday, and they set her up to get one every Thursday now...

her liver and kidney's are failing...

she is older...

but she hasn't done well since she had knee replacement surgery...

she had is done, but she kept having trouble and infections in it...

they finally decided she was allergic to the metal in the replacement and had to remove it...

so she hasn't been able to walk since then...

there is just no bone in the knee...

and not being able to get around very good has been hard...

and she's been like this for several years now...

on her last blood work she had done, she had no iron in her system...

so they did the first infusion...

and now another one yesterday with this news...

they didn't say how long she has, but it can't be very long...

so if you could remember them in your prayers this weekend...

it would be so appreciated...