Saturday, May 31, 2008

fFRIDAY, MAY 30, 2008 B I R T H D A Y

THESE LOVELY GIFTS WERE SENT BY DONNA BLENIS THROUGH HER LNS, STITCHERY ROW!! IT WAS SUCH A LOVELY PACKAGE AS ONCE I HAD GOTTEN THE MAILING ENVELOPE OFF I FOUND A LOVELY HAPPY BIRTHDAY BAG WITH A BEAUTIFULLY WRAPPED GIFT.
SHE GOT ME A BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF FABRIC IN PURPLE AND MAUVE. SHE ALSO INCLUDED SIX WEEKS DYE COLORS - BEGONIA, PEONY, CELEBRATION, BLUE TOPAZ, BAYBERRY AND HONEYSUCKLE!! THESE ARE GOING TO MAKE SOMETHING REAL PRETTY!!

THIS BIRTHDAY CARD IS FROM DEBBIE JO!! IT WAS NOT ONLY A BEAUTIFUL CARD, BUT ALSO SHE TOLD ME SHE WAS WORKING ON A STITCHED PIECE THAT WAS NOT QUITE FINISHED. AND, SHE ALSO TOLD ME TO LOOK FOR EMAIL FROM 123STITCH AS SHE HAD GOT ME A LOVELY GIFT CERTIFICATE!! i KNEW IMMEDIATELY WHAT I WANTED TO GET AND THAT IS MORE CARRIE'S THREADS TO COMPLETE THIS SET OF THREADS. I WANT TO GET COLORS THAT REMIND ME OF THE CHEERFUL AND BRIGHT PERSONALITY DEBBIE JO HAS!!



THESE WONDERFUL GIFTS ARE FROM HEIDI MC JUNKIN!! SHE SELECTED A VERY PRETTY "DIMENSIONS GOLD" KIT CALLED TREASURED FRIEND TEAPOT.
AND, HEIDI IS SURE DOING HER PART IN TRYING TO RE-EDUCATE ME IN THE USE AND CARE OF FELT TIP MARKERS BY GETTING ME THE NEW RETRACTABLE SHARPIES IN BEAUTIFUL BRIGHT COLORS!! NOW, IF I CAN JUST REMEMBER TO "RETRACT", PERHAPS SOME OF THE NASTY COLORED MARKS WILL CEASE MEETING ON MY BELOVED FABRICS!!





DANNI TODD SENT ME THESE LOVELY
BIRTHDAY GIFTS. DANNI TRULY APPRECIATES MY LOVE OF BLING!!
SHE SENT ME A GREAT BIG 18" X 30" PIECE OF BRIGHT WHITE OPALESCENT AIDA 14!!
I LOVE TO JUST WATCH THE SPARKLE AND LIGHT SHOW, EVERY TIME I PICK UP THIS FABRIC TO STITCH ON IT!! SHE ALSO INCLUDED THREE GENTLE ART SAMPLER THREADS IN SHADE OF ROYAL PURPLE, CLOVER AND BUBBLEGUM!!








BIRTHDAY CARD FROM VICKY
lE VASSEUR


















BIRTHDAY CARD FROM PAT COOPER!!












BIRTHDAY CARD FROM EVALINA IN YUKON!!
BIRTHDAY CARD FROM MY MOTHER!!























I AM REVITALIZED, AND READY TO GO AGAIN!!

THERE ARE A LOT OF PRESENTS FROM A LOT OF PEOPLE!! I AM JUST TAKING THESE GIFTS AS THEY COME ON FROM THE DOWNLOADING!! THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO RHYME OR REASON FOR THE ORDER THEY COME OUT AND ON TO BLOG!! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE EACH AND EVERY THING!! I HAVE ALWAYS VOWED TO MYSELF TO STITCH EVERY GIFT GIVEN TO ME AS SOMEONE TOOK THE TIME AND WENT THROUGH A DECISION OF WHAT THEY FEEL I REALLY WOULD LIKE, AND KNOWING THIS I LOVE AND CHERISH EVERY GIFT I AM EVER GIVE
AND, NOW TAKE TWO !!
AND, ONCE AGAIN I FEAR THIS POSTING GETTING WAY TOO LONG AND FEAR LOOSING IT!! THUS, I WILL CLOSE THIS ONE AND GO FOR, TAKE THREE!!

MONDAY, MAY 30, 2008 THEY SAY IT'S MY BIRTHDAY AND MIPREZIOUS' BIRTHDAY, TOO!!!

EUNICE HAS GOT MAX "HOOKED ON GOODWILL STORES"!!
MAX NEVER PASSES A GOODWILL STORE WITHOUT GOING IN AND SEARCHING FOR THAT RARE TEAPOT FIND!!
EUNICE AND MAX HAVE FOUND SOME OF THE BEST TEAPOTS AT GOODWILL STORES AND HOSPITAL GIFT SHOPS!! MAX DID NOT FIND ANY TEAPOTS, BUT HE DID FIND THIS REALLY VERY BEAUTIFUL "THINGY"!! THE PICTURE DOES NOT SHOW IT'S BEAUTY AT ALL. THIS IS SOLID BRASS AND HAS A DOOR WITH LATCH TO PLACE A CANDLE IN IT.
VERY POOR PICTURE AS IT HAS LEAD GLASS IN BETWEEN BRASS AND IT IS ETCHED. DOES ANY ONE HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THE PROPER NAME OF THIS "THINGY" IS? I WOULD LOVE TO FIND OUT MUCH MORE INFORMATION ON THIS "THINGY"!!

AND, NO GIFT GIVING OCCASION GOES BY ME WITHOUT AT LEAST ONE BOTTLE OF MY FAVORITE PERFUNE, LANCOME TRE'SOR!!


MAX AND MIPREZIOUS WERE THE GENEROUS GIVERS OF THIS "HAVE TO HAVE"!!



THERE WAS SOME LARGE $$$$$$






MOOLA IN THE ENVELOP IN THE CARD!! I DID NOT WANT TO CHANCE GETTING IT LOST IN ALL THE PACKAGING AND WRAPPING PAPERS. THUS, WE GAVE MIPREZIOUS THE IMPORTANT JOB OF GUARDING THE CARD!!







OKAY, I WAS CLOSE!! IT WAS TWO MINI TEA POTS!! WAIT TILL NEXT TIME MAX WANTS ME TO TELL HIM ANY THING!!














THESE BOTH HAVE A LOT OF BEAUTIFUL PURPLE THROUGH EACH TEA POT!!














I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THEM AND THEY HAVE BEEN PLACED ON THE FIREPLACE MANTEL.
















AHA!! LOVELY WRAPPED GIFT FROM MY MOTHER!! LOOKS LIKE REALLY FAT ENVELOPE AND IT WAS AS MY MOTHER IS A BIT UPSET WITH ME AS I NEVER CASH HER CHECKS!! I CAN NOT EVER REMEMBER RECEIVING A WRAPPED PRESENT, OR ACTUAL PRESENT AT ALL, SINCE MY FATHER'S DEATH FROM HER!! I GUESSED TEA POT, AND WAS TOLD - NOT!! I FRETTED ALL NIGHT AS TO WHAT COULD IT BE WHILE ALL THE WHILE THAT "TRADER" MAX KNEW EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS!!





I HAD BEAUTIFUL BIRTHDAY FLOWERS!! RIGHT FLOWERS ARE FROM GRANNY LOU!! THE LEFT FLOWERS ARE FROM MAX AND MI!!

















L.E.D. FLOOR LIGHT AND MAGNIFIER














THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING LIGHT AND MAGNIFIER I HAVE EVER SEEN.














iIT WAS FEATURED IN SILVER NEEDLE NEWSLETTER AND STATED TWO EMPLOYEES TOOK A LAMP IMMEDIATELY UPON THEIR ARRIVAL AS THEY ALL LIKE IT SO MUCH!!
THIS IS MY LIFT RECLINER WHERE I "NEST" SEVERAL HOURS EACH DAY!! MY VERMONT COUNTRY STORE FLEECE SHAWL IS LAID ACROSS THE BACK OF THE CHAIR. IT IS FANTASTIC WARM YOU UP WHILE STITCHING AS IT HAS A POCKET ON EACH SIDE. VERY COMFY, WARM AND POCKETS ARE SO CONVENIENT FOR SO MANY THINGS!!







YOU CAN NOTICE THE OTT FLOOR







LAMP ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE







PICTURE. NOTE DUCT TAPE AND







LIMP MAGNIFIER AND IMAGINE
BRICK ON BASE ON FLOOR!! THE







LAMP WITH THE SHADE HAS A 3-WAY BULB IN CENTER AND THREE OTHER SEPARATE
ON LEFT SIDE IS "LOOK-ALIKE" OTT FLOOR LAMP!! THE NEW L.E.D. FLOOR LAMP MAGNIFIER IS IN FRONT LEFT CORNER OF CHAIR. THERE IS ALSO A LARGE LAMP ON THE END TABLE ON OTHER SIDE OF LEFT LAMPS. AND, MY "LIGHTS UP" LIGHTING TRAY IS BESIDE THE RIGHT SIDE OF CHAIR. OUR ELECTRIC METER DIAL JUST SPINS OUT OF CONTROL!!




























LEGS SIMPLY REFUSE TO COOPERATE TODAY!!









THE PACKAGES HAVE BEEN ARRIVING FOR THE LAST TEN DAYS!!! THE EXCITEMENT HAS BUILT UP!! KATHY K. HAS JOINED ME VIA "MA BELL"!! MIPREZIOUS HAS PLACED ALL HER FURY BLANKIES IN DIRECT BACKGROUND OF CAMERA!! HOWEVER, IT HAS TAKEN MAX FOREVER TO BE FINALLY READY SO I AM GOING FOR THE GUSTO!!




















YESTERDAY, WE HAD BUSINESS IN THE QUAD-CITIES, 50 MILES SOUTH OF US, LATE IN THE AFTERNOON. EUNICE, OF COURSE, WAS RIGHT BY MY SIDE MAKING SURE EVERY THING WAS AS COMFORTABLE AS POSSIBLE FOR ME!!! MY MOTHER, HAS TRULY SURPRISED ME WITH A LOVELY INVITATION FOR EUNICE, MAX, MOTHER AND MYSELF FOR DINNER AT THE TEXAS ROADHOUSE!! WE HAD A LOVELY DINNER AND I HAD HALF A RACK OF BABY BACK RIBS LEFT FOR A DELICIOUS SUPPER FOR MIPREZIOUS!!




















IT IS A WONDERFUL DAY, BUT YESTERDAY WAS JUST A BIT TOO MUCH FOR ME AND I DID NOT SLEEP, EVEN A WINK, AS I SIMPLY COULD NOT GET COMFORTABLE WITH MY LEGS!! THE PAIN HAS GOTTEN AWAY FROM ME TODAY, OF ALL DAYS IN A YEAR, BUT I REFUSE TO LET IT RUIN WHAT I AM GOING TO MAKE INTO A PERFECT AND LOVELY BIRTHDAY!!!




















I STILL AM IN THE LEARNING PROCESS OF THIS BLOG AND SO I AM A HOPING AND PRAYING I GET A WHOLE LOT OF PICTURES RIGHT AND LABELED CORRECTLY!!




















MIPREZIOUS EIGHTH BIRTHDAY










DEBORAH XXXXX-XXXXX BIRTHDAY










TAKE ONE !!!
I KNOW THIS IS LIKE A BAD TELEVISION SHOW "TO BE CONTINUED"!! HOWEVER, I THINK THIS IS A REALLY LONG BLOG POSTING AND THAT I WILL BREAK AT THIS POINT AND BEGIN A "TAKE TWO"!!
OKAY, BORED BLOG READERS, OFF TO BATHROOM BREAK, TAKE NIGHTLY MORPHINE AND HOPE IT WILL KEEP ME GOING ON TO FINISHING THIS YET TONIGHT!!
AND, WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK!!
LOVE & HUGS,
DEBORAH, MAX AND MIPREZIOUS




















Tuesday, May 27, 2008

WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 2008

THIS IS MY THIRD UPDATE FOR "LITTLE PINK HOUSES"!! IT IS MY FIRST ANYTHING THAT WAS NOT AIDA 14 AND IS 28-COUNT CASHEL LINEN. IT IS ALSO GOING TO BE MY FIRST NEEDLEROLL!!

IT WAS A MUCH COOLER AND JOYOUS DAY FOR ME TODAY!! LEGS WERE A WHOLE LOT IFFY, BUT I SIMPLY HAVE TO GET THE REST OF THIS STITCHING ROOM REORGANIZED AND CLEANED OUT AND UP!! GET THE CARPET CLEAN AND WILL GIVE FIRST VIDEO TOUR OF IT!!

SO, I HAVE VERY LITTLE TO REPORT EXCEPT SPENT WHOLE DAY AND HALF THIS EVENING, AS IT IS NOW 10:45 A.M. AND I AM JUST QUITTING MY REORGANIZING AND CLEANING JOB ON IT. IT WILL TAKE AT LEAST ANOTHER FULL DAY!! HOWEVER, I THINK I WILL GO GET MY HAIR DONE AGAIN TOMORROW JUST TO BE A BIT FRILLY FOR MY BIRTHDAY!!

LOVE & HUGS,
DEBORAH, MAX & MIPREZIOUS

Monday, May 26, 2008

MONDAY, MAY 26, 2008 ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL DAY!!

MY "LITTLE PINK HOUSES" SECOND DAY UP DATE!!
THIS IS MY EMBELISHMENT EXCHANGE I GOT FROM BEV BRITNELL!!


HELLO ALL MY DEAREST ONES!!

IT WAS ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL DAY, I THINK, AS MAX DECIDED I NEEDED MY SLEEP MORE THAN I NEEDED TO BE GOTTEN UP TODAY!! TRANSLATION HE COULD RUN ALL HE WANTED AND I WOULD NOT KNOW HE HOPED!! I BELIEVE HE MAY HAVE EVEN TAKEN PHONE OFF HOOK, WHICH WE SHALL DISCUSS THE DANGERS OF ALL OVER AGAIN SOON!!


WITH THE NERVE SYSTEM THAT CONTROLS THE TEMPERATURE OF YOUR BODY OUT BECAUSE OF MY ILLNESS THE HEAT HAS BEEN EXCRUCIATING AWFUL ON ME!! BUT, IT TRULY WAS ONE OF THOSE BEAUTIFUL SPRING DAYS!! WE ARE DISCUSSING GETTING ONE OF THOSE OUTSIDE GAZEBOS THAT YOU SET UP AND TAKE DOWN JUST TO PROTECT ME FROM THE SUN AND ALLOW ME TO BE OUTSIDE AND ENJOYING THIS GREAT WEATHER!!


MY LEGS ARE FULLY BLOWN AGAIN. I FEEL LIKE I HAVE THIGH HIGH COMBAT BOOTS ON!! NASTY!!! AND, MY LEGS ARE BROKE OPEN SO THEY ARE MOST NASTY!!

IT IS ONE OF THOSE NIGHTS THAT I WILL STITCH FOR WHAT IS LEFT OF IT AND WELL INTO THE WEE HOURS AS I HAVE SLEPT TO MUCH TODAY!!


I AM GOING TO ATTACH A PICTURE OF MY PROGRESS ON "LITTLE PINK HOUSES"!!!
I ALSO RECEIVED MY EMBELLISHMENT EXCHANGE FROM BEV BRITNELL!!


Sunday, May 25, 2008

SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2008 - BIRTHDAY WEEK

THIS IS MY FIRST ATTEMPT TO MAKE A NEEDLEROLL AND FIRST ATTEMPT TO STITCH ON 28-COUNT CASHEL LINEN.
I am finding this a very slow learning process, but it is well worth the trouble!!

Today, was a terribly hot and humid day, with plenty of thunder and lighting storms!! I still was in a very good mood!! Got the "pig roast" out of the way yesterday, so I can safely say I have completed this year's "wifely duties", unless some unforeseen wedding or funeral comes up!!

I still have my sights set more than ever, to get this home spring and fall cleaned with major downsizing!! I am going to get a hold of things yet here, and sail into the new year for once with all the old problems and things left to trouble me!!

I am so used to just staying in my Stitching Room that I could practically live in it!! I just love my stitching and trying all the new things that just waiting for me!! This is still going to be a great year!!

But, presently, this officially begins by birthday week!! I am thrilled to death. Never have I had such a pile of gifts sitting here waiting for me!! Kathy had an excellent suggestion for me today.
She told me to have Max take a picture of each and every gift so I have a record of it instantly so I leave no room for confusion!!

I promise some of the things such as Assisted Living and Stitching Room to be on here any day now!!

Love & Hugs,
Deborah, Max and Miprezious

MAY 24, 2008 SATURDAY, A NEW WEEK IS TO START

A VERY BEAUTIFUL DAY!!!
wE GOT UP AND HAD BREAKFAST AND PREPARED TO GO TO AN AA GROUP PIG ROAST. THERE WERE MANY PEOPLE THERE. AN ENTIRE PIG AND ALL THE FIXINGS WERE SERVED FOLLOWED BY SPEAKERS!! HOWEVER, I PROMPTLY FELL ASLEEP AND EUNICE BROUGHT ME HOME!!!

WE CAME BACK AND GOT MIPREZIOUS HER ABSOLUTE FAVORITE OF KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKHEN!!

THEN, EVERY ONE TOOK NAPS!!

TRIED TO CROSS STITCHE THE NEW COUNT, IN NEW CASHEL OF A NEW NEEDLEROLL THAT I HAVE NVER DONE BEFORE!!

ENDED UP SLEEPING IN STITCHING CHAIR!!!!

WITH MUCH LOVE AND HUGS!!

DEBORAH, MAX AND MIPREZIOUS

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Friday, May 23, 2008

May 23, 2008 - BOLD NEW MOVE!!!

This is my new pattern I intend to start as my very first needleroll on my very first piece of Cashel linen. Hopefully, if I can get my magnifier to stay put, I can make some real progress this evening and all weekend!!

This is my "giant" tea cups!! I intend to fill them with needlerolls, fill saucers with biscornus and hang fobs from handles!! How many needlerolls will a tea cup hold?

It has been entirely beautiful day for me!! I woke up for my third bout, in about six weeks, of an all new awful cold and sore throat!! However, it did not stop me from "coon dog" guarding our mailbox!! I knew my new fabrics, threads and ribbons would be arriving!!
I just hope for Max's sake my magnifier lasts as long as I do with this new linen thing!!
I am out of here to BEGIN!!
Love & Hugs!
Deborah, Max and Miprezious

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 I'm Going To Have A Second Finish For This Year Yet

BEAUTIFUL PROGRESS!!!

I am going to have me at least one other finish for 2008!! Am starting much earlier than usual this evening and hope to really see this come to be yet!!

Very beautiful laid back day!! I am finally going to be able to go over to my salon and get my hair cut and permed tomorrow!! I always make Max tote my stitching bag over with me, but I do not know why!! Girl talk catch up day!!!

I am getting very serious with getting my Stitching Room completely reorganized and clean!! I love seeing it come to be also!! Changing my way of keeping rotation!! I want this all done by birthday as gifts are coming in bigger in number each day!! My mother has informed me she is giving me "cash" as "I never cash any checks she gives me"!! Well, Mother is watching more than I realize!! It has been a long time when I have had a pile of 20+ gifts sitting here all patiently waiting here in recliner adjoining Max's!! Quite inaccessible to me!! But, not from my view, and I am looking at this as some thing I really do want to wait and open all on birthday morning for a change this year!! Gee, Kathy, don't you wish "Mom" upped your birthday by the two days!! You know you are really going to wonder when you are receiving gifts from the majority of the same people I am!!

And, I am off to stitch!!

Love & Hugs!
Deborah, Max and Miprezious!!

Monday, May 19, 2008

MONDAY, MAY 19, 2008 - ANOTHER WEEK

Yes, I got flowers again! Red roses!! What are they to mean? NOT!!
This is an update on my "Tea Shop" Teapot!! It is beginning to look like a tea pot!!


Another Monday, another week!! Due to Max so generously giving me his two to three month old and continuing to linger cold I went down with it almost all of last week. It has been bad!! Poor little Miprezious even had it a couple of days!! I have never been so miserable with such a cold, sore throat and even cold in my eye with continual tearing and mattering closed. I am still not feeling tops from it, but I have to try and catch up on everything I can possibly do!! I intend to continue to declutter, downsize and overall Spring clean!! And, Max intends, and will do so, also!! However, come 6:30 p.m. each evening I intend to be in my stitching nest counting them off!!

I do intend to get all my updates done on this Blog this week also!! I am finding all the little and big notes I have written to myself and will be contacting everyone again saying "Did I Do That"!!
Yes, I probably did!!

Love & Hugs!
Deborah & Max & Miprezious

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Thursday, May 14, 2008 - Argh! I am still breathing an can move!!

The above is called Deck The Halls and is definitely going in to rotation as needle roll in my "weekly rotation"!!

This is my Spring Biscornu and I have a good share of it stitched all ready!! I found a Tutorial even I can understand, all the while I have Granny Rene as my back up instructor. It just has to be a success. I also have Summer, Fall and Winter Biscornu patterns ordered. also!!
This is my most favorite ever, Sampler and Needle Roll. This is definitely going in to my rotation real soon (like when special ordered fabric arrives) and will be Number One in my new/old rotation!! I LOVE it, LOVE it and really LOVE IT!!
The above "Red Monochrome and Scissor Fob" is my second favorite Biscornu after the JUST NAN "Rhodes Butterfly" and "Heart" sets!! I must go and rotate immediately to "rotation of the month"!!
And, these I do love also with my tea cups. I am just going to refer to them as my "Mama Bear" size of teacups, so I can also start these immediately into my rotation of Tea Cup Mug of the Month!! If, I like it, I will figure out a way to include it in my rotations!!
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One of these days, I am going to learn how to do these posts!! I just about lost all my pictures again!! I think this "contraption" knew better than to mess with me today!!
I was awaken, about 2:00 p.m., by Max, this afternoon!! He had found me about dawn asleep in my Stitching Chair with fabric in right hand and the good ole felt tip marker, thankfully, secure in the left hand!! He transferred me into my bed, as he knew I was not feeling well and decided to just let me sleep! I had wanted to get up early and really hit my Stitching Room in getting a few more things gone through, sorted, put away, reorganized and all together taken care of. Unfortunately, Mom Eunice came over and I was given large amounts of Vitamin C, Kool-Aid and lots and lots of water!! And, she forbid me to get out of my chair! She also sent Max to store to get some more cough drops. That was the end of my day's working!!
So, today has been one big series of nap after nap with bathroom trips in between!! So, such is the life and another exciting adventure day for me!!
But, there is another brand new opportunity, coming tomorrow and we can see if I can get caught up a bit!!

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Tuesday, MAY 13, 2008 - I Really Am A Housewife!!


Thanks to Max, deciding to terminate Eunice#2, I was again a real housewife all weekend and in to today yet!! I do not think that I am too good to do such work, but, I think every one in this entire country should be confined to a wheel chair and blindfolded at least for a day!! This is the only way people can be appreciative of their health and more considerate of the handicapped!!

Thus, I did not get a lot of stitching done, but I did add to my roatation yet another one!!


A very wise and wonderful member of the ILCS Group and I were chatting over the weekend and I made the remark that I did not think I would ever get my rotation finished as it has to be biggest one on this earth at this time!! But, I also told Mare, that I had never have had so much fun and enjoyment from any thing in quite some time!! Mare replied, "then it is all worth every single one I add to my rotation and whether it is ever finished is not important. It is far more important that I so thoroughly enjoy this so much!! Very wise woman!!


So, I am going to add a picture of my newest rotation which is Chouettalors "Tea Room"!! I am doing it all in a single color of DMC 3837 which is a medium dark royal purple. My fabric is fabulous hand dyed of lavenders with wisps of light teal!! I love it!! But, I have some other real "finds" yet to come!! And for the picture it will probably be above!!


Along with Assisted Living pictures and story, private sanuctuary Stitching Room tour and I plan to add rotation list and possible picture progress!!


Till next time!

Love & Hugs,

Deborah, Max and Mirprezious

Sunday, May 11, 2008

MOTHER'S DAY - MAY 11, 2008 - CONTINUED

And, par to course, I got lost several times trying to put this posting together!! Finally, surrendered to computer, once again and just left the pictures before I lost them for about the 10th time again!!

It is a wet and cold day here in the cornfields this day!! Max has his 20 foot long by 1 foot wide vegetable, he says garden and I say "patch" in!! I always try to make Mother's Day a day to get my flowers redone and planted in Miprezious' play yard. Max usually puts the pond and fountain out as I love watching and hearing it. It sparkles in sun with a Tiffany glass lined bottom!! And, we get the outside fireplace and gas grill usually cleaned up. But, these things simply did not get done last year and if it gets done this year wonderful, if not okay!! Miprezious doesn't want any thing in "her" territory any way as she wants it for total play although she is slowing down as she nearly is approaching her 7th birthday in a few weeks. She has always had a party complete with birthday cake!! This is where our friends all gave us "pay back" for all the obnoxious and noisy toys we had given their "people" kids while they were growing up!! My best friend's husband really enjoys these occasions to this day, however, Garth pretty much gave up his pranks since we both have become "old aged"!!
Garth got DeDe I a large stuffed dog, but he sprayed it with some hunting scent!! That darn dog had "her way" with that stuffed dog each and every time we had company, especially the priest!! We would take it all the way to the basement, or third floor of home we had at that time to hide it and she would always bark until she would get it back just in time for another outstanding performance for company again!! She would hardly go unoticed every time she would come into a room dragging a stuffed dog three times as large as she was!! Very hard to carry on a normal conversation and act like it was not happening!! That DeDe I was spoiled worse than Miprezious I think!! I can't remember a whole lot, but every one always brings up the stuffed dog, Krinkles, each and every year!! When she passed, friends took all of her things to the Humane Society (took three trips) and I often wonder about the current location of "Krinkles"!! I can also remember we had the big console televisions back at that time frame!! When ever that darn "Chuck Wagon" came running across the television screen, we had to get up and physically move the big television out to prove to her there was no "Chuck Wagon" behind the television if we wanted peace and quiet the remainder of the evening!! DeDe I kept us young and moving ,while we are blessed as Miprezious is content to be retired along with us!!

I got very little, like none, for sleep last night and thus my legs were not elevated enough and I am trying very hard to get rid of very huge swollen area covering from tip of my toes to just below my knee. Unfortunately, this is the stage where if skin bursts, I am again hospitalized. Thus, I will not be online very much or long this day and night!! Guess, I am stuck watching "Jon and Kate Make Eight" while I stitch!! I am to point today, I am again "bargaing with good Lord" to get me through this RSD flare up again!!

But, I truly am not feeling, all that bad, but this requires the additional fast acting morphine to control excruciating pain!! But, I thank the good Lord, it does!!

I am very excited and anxious to really start me needles smoking!! I got a lot of tea cup and saucer areas to fill!! I hope they do lookk okay in those spaces!! I am really wanting another finish, or more to point finishes, as I truly believe I have now taken title of having the largest stitching rotation ever even thought of by any one else, who would be so crazy!! I wanted to list and update my rotations, but that is going to have to wait a few days!!

Not a lot to tell, even though it has been over two weeks since my last post!! Whoa, this is starting out like Catholic confession!! Well, Catholics took me off their list a long time ago, with my first husband straying and having another woman pregnant, without "benefit of my consent", so what was I to do!! I divorced him "eventually"!! Max and I actually did decide we would try and get me an "annulment", but the price was way too much!! Thus, I did opt to stay as close as possible to being Catholic, by becoming an Episcopalian and I always refer to it as Catholic lite!! But, I consider our priest one of the very best and she has got me through more than she even realizes!! Very, very caring and fantastic lady!!

Max is still not doing well!! He has had a very bad cold for a couple of weeks!! I think he had an infection thru his January 19 surgical incision for dialysis fistula!! And, I would go by my medical opinion, over locals he has seen for this!! I won't nauseate you with all the details, but when an incision is still needing the bandage changed out several times a day as it becomes saturated with blood three weeks after the surgery something is very wrong!! In fact, he has only been bandage free for about ten days now from this incision!! That just is not right!! I think Max has just never distressed since my Jury Trial in December and he just wants to let every thing stay status quo for now!! He continues to smoke, like a chimney, and is to point of exhausting himself just trying to catch a full breath!! He did try to get into his "wonder" bed (I am still "wondering" why I ever agreed to that darn thing!!) last night, but has been sleeping in his recliner for 3-4 weeks now!! I think he needs the oxygen at night, rather than myself any more!! His kidney specialist says he is right on edge of going to have to start dialysis and his kidney function has just took another nose dive of another 15%!! He only has one kidney functioning at all. My "uneducated" guess is he is going septic!! But, we will continue to pray he is not or makes a very big "about face"!!

I am going to get to the next task on my "to do" list and that is "blog" out the details and show the pictures of our attempting to move to Assisted Living facility!! Just to give you a clue, we lasted only 1-1/2 days!! And, Rene did get to see the pictures. She very well did make a long story, short in stating her opinion of "she has stayed in motel rooms bigger than our entire new home, should we have chosen to stay!! Their first major rule of having to leave your door opened from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. did not set well with me either. And, most especially as our bed and my oxygen equipment would not fit into "bedroom" so staff decided we would have mover's set up the "living room" as our bedroom which was in full view with door opened. I did not like the fact of having my living room exposed to all 39, aging, but gracefully, new members of our family!! Leaving the door open was part of "cottage" mission statement as it made every one a big happy family!! NOT!! I am not used to even being up at 8:00 a.m., much less dressed and wanting to deal with any one!! A lot of these people, a.k.a. family, were on verge of Alheimzer's and I can only be left to wonder how many wandered into your "cottage" and decided to "nest" daily!!

It came to the point of having to start interviewing all over again to place new Caretakers in our home!! Again, I know my limits, and gave it all up and tried Assisted Living facility as looking for a nice person, who does not intend to rob us blind, is equivalent to "looking for a needle in a hay stack!!
I really had a big change of mind towards Assisted Living Facility, a.k.a. Bickford Cottage, came about when I had the perfect Easter dinner prepared and a beautiful table only lacking my silver to be placed on it. I went to pantry to locate it for Max to lift out for me!! IT WAS GONE!! I caught the day girl in a couple of bold wrong moves and I am sure she is the one who stole every thing!! She forever was asking for something from very nice kitchen stool that converted into step stool she wanted as her live-in had just had back surgery and he needed a shower chair to every day taking half of what she was told to bake for here!! She even was so bold to take the baked goods on practically new Tupperware instead of paper plates!! She had asked for some of my stitched pieces for gifts for her live-in's parents for Christmas!! I told her absolutely NOT!! Well, the stitched items were discovered missing and Max confronted her about it and she quickly said it was in a box I had yet to sort and put away permanently!! GONE!!
Max was continually asking me to tell this day girl that he wanted a cake or brownies, etc. made for him!! I just would tell her to do it and paid no attention to it as I rarely ate any of it!! Then, I suddenly discovered three bare shelves in my pantry where practically new Tupperware had been stored!! And, this sparked my inquiry of what in the world was Max doing with so much cake!! I had not really noticed that Max was asking for another cake almost daily!! I had too much on my mine during trial time to think of little else!! But, I was telling her daily to bake a cake and she was taking half out of here on new Tupperware daily also!!
Finally, the weekend before Christmas arrived and I knew we would have many visitors!! I had not realized it was this weekend with my mind elsewhere, so I told her on that Friday to bake a Funfetti Pink Cake and thought that would be a bit festive for holiday visitors to have while visiting with coffee!! Late that evening Max wanted his cake and I heard him just explode with expletives!! I toddled on out to see what in the world could be wrong!! When I got in the kitchen, he was holding a 9" x 13" cake pan with about an inch wide row on both ends with the entire center, and majority, of cake GONE!! I was still in fog, and at first, finally asked Max what in the world was he doing with all the cake!! He then brought it to my attention that he had not even touched this cake yet!! Well, then it was worst expletives out of me immediately!!
I could not even begin to believe this, if I had not seen it and then checked my storage area in pantry!!
And, the kitchen stool!! She put it in our own van and Max drove her home that particular evening!! This gal had to take municipal buses and they quit at 6:00 p.m. Our Court days ran into some nights being 8:00 p.m. before we got back!! She always asked me to call as we were leaving the Court House as we had a 50 mile commute each way every day. And, she always had a beautiful dinner prepared, complete with candle light ready to be pulled out of the oven when we arrived home, as "she had our travel time perfectly timed"!! But, if it was after 6:00 p.m., Max did have to drive her home clear across town!! I inquired about the kitchen stool being loaded into our van and she told me Max had told her to take it!! I did not questions this as we are definitely continue to downsize!! But, after the fact, I find out Max asked her about the stool and she told him I had okayed this. The girls, overall with exception of two, pulled this "con" on us quite often!! This kitchen stool had movable parts and was chrome!! There was no way it would ever be usable without rusty water leaking out of it continually!! And, just to know where it had been I did not want it back in my home - insert instant nausea at though!! We had also caught her "con" game on this and confronted her. Well, she "was drying it off every time and was going to return it when the live-in healed enough so he did not need it"!! Complete repulsion and nausea!! It was at this point, I very "clearly" told her that I was beginning the trial and that I would not accept any BS out of her!! I told her the answer was absolutely NO, so don't even provoke me with another request for early paycheck or cash advance or any thing from this home!! She had never been one minute late and did do a pretty good job until her last "unplanned" day!!
We had to be down at Court House location, but we were to have a breakfast meeting at hotel with my legal team prior to us going over to the Court House together!! This gal, called when she was due here to say she was coming and would just be a few minutes late. Well, 90 minutes later we had not been able to get me ready, and every thing else, so we missed meeting with attorneys!! I was livid with her and we were just in process of locking up home when she came running fast as she could up our hill. It was day she was to clean and I truly needed the home cleaned for holidays or I would have told her she was "history" right then!! She was very evidently, hung over for first time also!! I proceeded to telephone her every recess or break where I could. The phone always rang at least 8-10 times before she obviously answered just being woke up each and every time!!
I had plans of "terminating" this gal myself immediately after Max's surgery as I truly needed help with holidays coming down on us! However, the more I thought about every thing that day, I thought she was "history"!! We arrived home to nothing being done all day!! I was so angry that I just let her have it with both barrels!! She was in the midst, of trying to get Max to drive her home, although this day she had plenty of time to catch bus!! She immediately began on me the minute I came through the door about Max driving her home!! I told her he was at Eunice's home talking to her husband as we had arranged to have the dining room set we gave them for Christmas delivered the following day and we needed access to their home, if Eunice was not home. (And, she sure wasn't as Max had called her and asked her to sit with me as he had an errand to run!! She was sitting with me as furniture was being delivered!! The whole neighborhood heard Eunice scream when she returned home!! Nice ending to awful ordeal!!)
I told this gal that personally I would not approach Max as he had a terrible headache and one hour's sleep the preceding night, but she did the ole "Deborah says you are supposed to drive me home"!! But, it was her last "con" as I had been able to make my way through home and saw it had been untouched!! She plead she had done laundry all day - nice try, but I knew Max had done it all while he could not sleep night before!!
Thus, she got "terminated" on the spot!! I think it was a very fortunate time, as all the things she stole were really not that noticeable to us up to then!! The live-in had to have found "transportation" as he always was able to do after she begged for an early paycheck and I would give it to her just to shut her up!! He was here in minutes to pick it up!! I think he "picked up" each day while we were safely 50 miles away those eight days and she knew there was no chance of us coming home and Eunice was with us. Granny Lou has a pattern of going to workout center and I am sure they planned around her not being home either!!
Eunice has been adamant that I not file charges of theft on her!! I finally just told Eunice the other day that I was going to have Max search this home one more time for my silver to make absolute sure that some one else had not placed it elsewhere to get it out of way and make room for other things!! If it is not found, I am calling the police. I know, and I think this is Eunice's reasoning, that it will not be worth the stresses on me for what she will get, if we can possibly prove she took all she did!! However, I am looking at it, that at least she will be exposed to may be the next victims of her "care"!!

But, this still leaves me in "search and interview" mode!! I am totally fed up with this as it is a good waste of excellent stitching time!!

I think my dear Stitching Room will finally be organized and all put away exactly where it belongs!! No more packed full boxes, but they were at least fun to just feel the wonderful stash!!
I want to get carpet cleaned if such a thing can be accomplished. Since installing the carpet I had a total wall and half a wall covered with near impossible to move shelving units!! The full wall simply can not be at this point. Existing carpet runs under all of these!! This had been the master bedroom before my accident. The rehab time included a 20-ounce Coke being dropped right in middle of room repeatedly!! To this day, Max buys the small 12-ounce Coke in bottles that I can grip, even though many times they cost twice as much as the 20-ounce bottles!! Another, go figure!! But, I do plan on putting on a picture tour of this newly finished room!!

Now, what is my odds of having the "Good Fairy" come finish the other six rooms, entire lower level (which is like another home, that people have lived in before when it became necessary that) and the garage!! Today, I wanted to plant real flowers and, I "think" Cynthia's (sorry if I confused some one again) very good idea of silks in the base of my antique street light!!

Well, I am off to regain complete serenity for the rest of day and completely after supper rest of evening in my stitches!! However, good ole "Mr. Morphine" is making me hope I can figure out spell check on this site, if not hope you all can decipher who are trying to read this!! Hope I can just count and can keep track of my felt tipped pen and things will be real fine for me!!

Deborah, Max and Miprezious

MOTHER'S DAY - MAY 11, 2008

And, guess who got new "wheels" since we last chatted here? I need special ramps installed, before I can really be outside mobile yet!! I also need much more extended "Driver's Education" before I attempt my outside debut!!
And, the above are a Year of Monthly Biscornus. These are my plan to create!!


These are my "BIG" tea cups!! I only wish Max would learn background, background, background!! These are going to be filled with Needlerolls and Biscornus!! That is if I have enough brain cells left to figure them out!! And, for my non-stiching readers, Needlerolls are just useless pretties that will fill the inside of the tea cup and Biscornus are French eight-sided pin cushions which I plan on putting on edge of saucer. Then, the tea cups will be placed out of harm's way in my Stitching Room!!




I do plan on Stitching Room and Assisted Living "Rooms" will be pictured and toured thoroughly later in this week!!