TUESDAY. MARCH 24, 2009 - I AM SO SORRY!!

"STITCHER TRAVELING" is so ever thankfully still "traveling" along!! AND, I still absolutely LOVE this 32-Count Lambswool Wichelt Linen it is being stitched on. This is the large piece that goes on the "envelope bag"!! Slowly, but surely, stitch by stitch.................but, who cares as I am thoroughly enjoying each and every "X" I make!! Have the Needlebook front to start and finish also.

I must be crazy as I did send for and got the Papillion SAL!! I have no idea of what colors to pick, size of fabric or much else other that my dear friend Marl did tell me to start first installment in middle of fabric!! Now, every one knows I am completely "ga-ga" over my pinks, mauves and purples. Some on take pity and tell me what others will complete the "three greens and eight floral colours" should be!!

And, as I am getting serious about this Blog reconstruction, I am also LEARNING A LOT!! Good Grief!! A dear friend, Meari, has offered to come over an vist (YEAH, YEAH, YEAH!!!) to help me with listing and keeping track of ALL of my WIPS to help me keep "traveling" onward with ALL of these!! Now, this is a true friend!!

And, I can not even guess all the long hours, another dear friend, Kathy K., has devoted to my trying to learn how to add all the fantastic Blogs out here, so I can start keeping up better on all of them and quit just "lurking" and stop a minute to leave a few words!! And, dear Kathy B. had even offered to walk me through another part that I totally do not understand!!

Something I HAVE just learned is I am so very embarassed and sorry to a countless number of you!! As most of you are aware, I just have very limited, and very short, minutes to be online a great deal of the time as I simply can not transfer into computer desk chair and sit any length of time becuase my legs have to remain elevated 90% of my day!! If my doctors had their ways, I would be "rotting" away in a "hellhole" Nursing Home and be in bed with legs elevated 100% of the rest of my life!! So, I guess we have reached some what a compromise!!

In going through all the Blogs I can come upon, I am trying to get the "URL" (I think that is what it is called) to "copy" and then "paste" (VERY new process to me!! Thank you Ms. Kathy K.) over on to my Blog. I kept seeing several "Awards" on other Blogs naming ME!! I AM SO SORRY, I did not have a clue as to what to do with them or what they truly meant!! I truly THANK each, and every, one of you who honored me with these lovely acknowledgements and sincerely wish I had known that I was supposed to "copy" and "paste" on to my own Blog and then pass them on!! I fortunately do understand this very lovely honor now and promise to handle them with the care in which they were given from this point on!!

I so SINCERELY THANK every one who did honor me with all the wonderful awards and acknowledgements you have!!

AND, I sincerely hope no one is taking offense to the timing of which your Blog is appearing on my Blog List of being my favorites!! Each of you, and some I have no idea of who you are, sincerely ALL MY FAVORITES and I so look forward to now being able to keep track of all new postings and be able to have method in which to read them!! HOWEVER, in spite of Kathy K.'s patience of a Saint, I am not getting the concept of having to keep my own Blog open to transfer your Blog information over to it!! I got the "transferring" process, just can't get the having to "minimize" my screen to keep my Blog open!! BUT, I do PROMISE I am going to get to each and every one of you even if I have to try and do it the "hard" (according to Kathy) way of individually typing each of your "URL" into the little box!! And, being Kathy knows me like no other of you, she thinks my typing the correct "URL" in is probably also going to result in "problems" as I do not always get every thing letter perfect as this process requires!! So, PLEASE, if you see I am not getting you listed, please send me your "URL" that needs to be typed in, "letter perfect", so I can get you included as I so sincerely wish to do so!!

Very little new around this homefront!! I am still sorting Magazines and Charts from my "stitching nest" (lift recliner) as quickly as I can!! However, Tuesday is Dialysis day so I do not get as much assistance with this job!! Little Miprezious got a long over due "hair-do" yesterday, so she is still well tired out and hopefully will not bedevil me too much today either!!

I know most of you will just shake your head and say "those people have really crossed over"!! BUT, I swear to you this truly happened to us yesterday!! "Daddy" went with Mi to a brand new groomer yesterday and at my insistence stayed with her the entire time she was there. Mi has a tremendous "separantion anxiety" that will upset her to the extent she will be quite ill, the over the top vomiting ill, for days after any type of separation from us!! I believe this got it's start the ten days I was hospitalized and she was left completely alone at home with just Eunice's husband, Marion, and Granny Lou coming in several times around the clock to spend some time and tend to all her needs. Marion would leave his restaurant very late each evening and come straight into our home and usually would fall asleep with her in front of the television so she was not left alone any great amount of time any day!! However, it was enough time for her to chew all the woodwork off the main door we use frame!! Thus, yesterday was an "overkill" spoiling day!! Mi immediately came in to my "Stitching Sanctuary" and made a nest in her favorite spot on top of any chart that might just be laying on the floor - some thing I have to stop as she has begun to pick them up and go on a destroying "mission" should the phone ring and I have the audacity to chat!!

Well, Mi was napping very well and sleeping so soundly that her snoring was quite obnoxious!! Just befor Oprah came on, a darn Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial came on!! That very obnoxious little man must have said "CHICKEN" at least twenty times in a two minute commercial for a new one week sale!! Mi heard the word "CHICKEN" and her head snapped up like a "bobble head"!! Next, the little tongue comes out licking her lips and then her ears perked up and her little head went from side to side, for the next "CHICKEN" and she looks at me like "Hey, dinner is on"!! I immediately said "NO, not yet, that is on tele"!! Mi began to whine which escalated into her screeching bark and she would have it no other way, but "CHICKEN" for supper last night!! And, as she has her "Daddy" wrapped around that little paw, we had the worst and greasiest "chicken" for supper last night that I have had to insult my stomach with in a very long time!! I told Max, "NEW RULE"!! Absolutely "MUTE" from then on ALL commercials and his beloved FOOD CHANNEL!!

And, now that this has bored you all to complete sleepiness, I will go nap in my chair!!

Love and Hugs!!

Deborah and Max

and, Miprezious, too!!

SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2009 - ANOTHER WEEK, ANOTHER STEP FORWARD

THESE STEPS LEAD DOWN INTO WHAT USED TO BE ALL MIPREZIOUS' PLAY YARD. MY FRONT DOOR COMES STRAIGHT OUT FROM THE LEFT OF WHAT YOU SEE. HOOVEROUND HAS PLENTY OF ROOM TO MAKE TURN THROUGH THE WHITE GATE YOU SEE IN REAR OF THIS PLATFORM AND STEPS. IT IS VERY ROOMY ALTHOUGH IT DOES NOT APPEAR SO IN THIS PICTURE. YOU CAN JUST SEE TOUCH OF MY MEMORIAL BENCH I HAD DONE FOR MY FATHER!! IT IS ABSOLUTELY EXQUISITE!! IT HAS BEEN TAKEN DOWN TO GROUND FOR CONSTRUCTION, BUT IT WILL GO IN FRONT OF MY PICTURE WINDOW IN BED OF WHITE MARBLE. I HAVE ALSO HAD A SOLID RED, QUITE SMOOTH, TYPE OF SMALLER STONES MADE WITH A PINK ROSE AND NAME OF DEAREST ONE I HAVE LOST FOR EACH ONE WHO HAS PASSED. UNFORTUNATELY, THERE ARE QUITE A FEW!! THEY WILL GO AROUND THE BENCH. THE CONSTRUCTION CREW HAS LEFT THE ENTIRE AREA QUITE A "MESS". ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT CAN NOT BE HELPED!! I AM MAKING PLANS TO HAVE MORE WHITE MARBLE CHIPS TO BE POURED ALONG BOTTOM OF FENCE AND PLAN TO AGAIN POT ANNUALS AND PLACE THE POTS BETWEEN THE LIGHTS. IN PRIOR PICTURES THERE HAVE BEEN BLACK POSTS EVERY FEW FEET AROUND THE FENCE SHOWN. THESE ARE LIGHTS WITH SHADES SHAPED IN SEA SHELLS. I HAVE ALWAYS HAD A BEAUTIFUL POND WITH FOUNTAIN WITH BOTTOM LINED WITH A TIFFANY GLASS PATTERN OF GLASS TILES. A SMALLER VERSION OF POND WILL BE GOING IN UNDER THE PICTURE WINDOW WHITE MARBLE ALSO!! PLANNING ON LOTS AND LOTS OF PERENIALS AND SMALLER TYPE ROSE BUSHES ON INSIDE. THEN, I AM GOING TO ATTEMPT TO LINE ENTIRE OUTSIDE OF WHITE PICKET FENCE AGAIN IN MY DEEP PURPLE MUMS I HAVE ALWAYS HAD, BUT UNFORTUNATELY MAX KILLED OFF BY CUTTING BACK TOO RADICALLY AT WRONG TIME OF YEAR. I HAVE GREAT HOPES OF THIS BEING ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL PART OF HOME AGAIN SOON!!

WELL, THIS IS PART OF FENCE REMOVED FROM BOTTOM OF RAMP!! IT WAS NOT PLANNED ON BEING PART OF THE RAMP ORIGINALLY. HOWEVER, THE PASTOR AND HIS CREW WHO SO GRACIOUSLY DONATED THIS ALL TO ME FORGOT ABOUT MY COMPLETE NEED FOR PRIVACY AS FAR AS ANY ONE GETTING TO MY FRONT DOORS OR ANY WHERE NEAR MIPREZIOUS!! I HAVE ALWAYS HAD THIS SMALL CAPE COD WHITE PICKET FENCE TEN FEET OUT FROM END OF HOME AND ALL ACROSS THE FRONTAGE. IT STARTED ATTACHED TO ONE END OF HOME AND ENDED ATTACHED TO GARAGE WITH LOCKED GATE THERE WITH A DOORBELL ON FENCE POST!! NO ONE COULD GET TO EITHER MY FRONT DOOR ENTRANCE OR MY GARAGE DOOR ENTRANCE AND IT WAS FANTASTIC DECIDING WHO I WANTED TO OPEN MY DOOR TO!!

AND, IT WAS FANTASTIC TO ALLOW MIPREZIOUS OUT TO PLAY AND NOT FEAR ANY ONE BEING ABLE TO GET NEAR HER!! UP UNTIL LAST FALL, I HAD A LOVELY FIRE PIT FOR NIGHTLY FIRESIDE RELAXING. MAY GET ANOTHER, BUT DO NOT HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF ROOM LEFT ANY MORE.

UNDER THE PICTURE WINDOW, BY THE WHITE ANTIQUE STREET LAMPS IS QUITE A LARGE AREA. MORE THAN HALF IS PAVED IN CEMENT AND THE LITTLE THAT IS NOT WILL BE EDGE TO EDGE TYPE OF FLOWERS THAT THRIVE IN SHADE!! KATHY K. HAS ALREADY SUGGESTED HOSTAS OF DIFFERENT VARIETIES AND I THINK SHE IS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT!!

THERE IS A LOVELY GAS GRILL THAT SITS RIGHT UP AGAINST THE GARAGE AND I HAVE A BEAUTIFUL SMALL "CANDY SHOP" TYPE WHITE MOLDED PLASTIC TABLE AND CHAIRS THAT ALL CAN SET ON THE CEMENT PAVED AREA.

THIS IS THE AREA THAT IS GOING TO BECOME MY NEW STITCHING PORCH!! IT HAS PLENTY OF ROOM TO SET ONE OF THOSE SMALL PLASTIC TABLES THAT OFTEN GO WITH THOSE MOLDED PLASTIC CHAIRS THAT STACK.

IT WILL BE EASY TO SET IT OUT THERE AND HAVE A SMALL TOWEL OR TABLE CLOTH KEPT IN MY HOOVEROUND TO COVER THE TABLETOP TO LAY MY STITCHING THINGS. I CAN SIT AND HEAR THE POND'S FOUNTAIN, SEE ALL THE BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS THAT WILL SOON BE PLACED ALL ALONG THIS AREA AND STILL BE ABLE TO WATCH MIPREZIOUS ALL IN COMPLETE SHADE!! I HAVE NEVER BEEN ONE TO LOVE SUN AS MY MELONOMA DOES NOT GET ALONG WITH THE SUN!!

THIS IS REAL PROGRESS

FOR ME!! THIS IS ON 32-COUNT CASHEL LAMBSWOOL LINEN!! I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO COMPLETE A LINEN PIECE SINCE PRIOR THE ACCIDENT IN 2002!! AND, I AM ABSOLUTELY MESMERIZED WITH THIS PIECE!! I HAVE STITCHED VERY LITTLE FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS EXCEPT ON THIS. I LOVE IT. IT IS A PIECE FROM LITTLE HOUSE NEEDLEWORKS CALLED "TRAVELING STITCHER"!! IT HAS A FINISHING KIT THAT IS SIMPLY A QUILTED COTTON "ENVELOPE BAG" THAT YOU ATTACH THIS LARGE PIECE TO AND ALSO A QUILTED COTTON NEEDLEBOOK THAT YOU ATTACH A SMALLER PIECE TO AND THAN TO THE BAG!! I DID NOT EVEN ORIGINALLY LIKE THIS PIECE, HOWEVER, KATHY K. REALLY LOVES HER "LITTLE HOUSE" AND SO WANTED THE ORIGINAL VERSION BAG THAT WAS RELEASED IN NASHVILLE!! THE BAG AND NEEDLEBOOK ARE IN A CORAL COLOR EQUIVALENT TO OUR DMC 3712. I WANT A FINISH!!

WE ARE JUST THRILLED WITH THE NEW RAMP AND MY NEW FOUND FREEDOM!! THE CONTRACTOR ALSO SET UP A PLAN TO HAVE RAMPS ATTACHED PERMANTLY TO THE BACK OF MY VAN SO IT WILL BE MUCH EASIER TO LOAD AND UNLOAD THE HOOVEROUND AS IT DOES WEIGH 250# ALL BY ITSELF!!

WE JUST DISCOVERED, AND MAX CAUGHT A CLEAR VIEW OF, A NEW VISITOR TO OUR RAMP AND YARD!! THERE SEEMS TO BE A CAT!!! MAX IS LIVID AND I AM NONE TO HAPPY AS THIS RATHER LARGE CAT MUST BE A STRAY AS NONE OF OUR CLOSE NEIGHBOR'S HAVE, OR WANT, A CAT!! EUNICE HAS BEEN COMPLAINING OF A STRAY GOING AFTER HER DOGS WHEN SHE LETS THEM OUT IN HER FENCED YARD ALSO!! SEEMS AS THOUGH THIS CAT IS LEAVING IT'S CALLING "DUMP" RIGHT AT THE TOP OF THE RAMP BY THE GATE. THE GATE WAS JUST PUT UP AND MAX HAS FOUND MEGA EVIDENCE OF THIS CAT USING OUR PLAY YARD AS IT'S "TOILET" ALSO!! SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE, BUT I DO NOT HAVE A CLUE!! I DO NOT WANT THIS, OR ANY OTHER, ANIMAL HARMED IN ANY WAY, BUT I ALSO DO NOT WANT MIPREZIOUS THREATENED IN ANY WAY EITHER!! AND, I CERTAINLY DO NOT NEED THE TIRES OF MY HOOVEROUND "SOILED" EVERY TIME I GO OUTSIDE IN IT!! MAX IS LIVID, BUT I TOLD HIM HE IS FORBIDDEN TO DO ANY THING, BUT CALL ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER!! WE HAVE ALWAYS MADE SURE WE CLEANED UP AFTER EVERY POODLE WE EVER OWNED WHEN WE COULD WALK THEM AND THUS IT DOES FIRE ME UP THAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS "POOP"!!

AND, MY STITCHING IS ABOVE!! I AM EXSTATIC OVER THIS PIECE AND TRULY LOVE IT!!

I AM STILL ON ORDERS OF STAYING OFF MY LEGS!! DOING SECOND ROUND OF ANTIBIOTICS!! I AM SPLITTING MY DAYS WITH SORTING THROUGH MAGAZINES AND CHARTS!! AND, THEN MY NIGHTS ARE FOR STITCHING, STITCHING, AND MORE STITCHING!! AT LEAST UNTIL MAX FINDS ME IN CHAIR AND PUTS ME INTO BED BEFORE I HAVE ANOTHER ENCOUNTER WITH THE HOT STITCHING LAMPS THAT SURROUND ME!! I CAN NOT STAY AWAKE ONCE I GET SETTLED IN MY LIFT RECLINGER!! COULD NOT FIGURE THIS OUT AS I INSTANTLY SLEEP, BUT CONSIDERING EUNICE HAS CHAIR PADDED WITH PILLOWS TO KEEP ME PROPPED UP SO I DON'T FALL OVER TO THE RIGHT WITH MY CONSTANT LEAN SO I AM TOTALLY COMFY. ADD THE WARMTH THE THREE LIGHTS DIRECTLY ON ME WARMING ME IT IS NO LONGER A MYSTERY OF WHY I SLEEP!!

AM GETTING QUITE INPATIENT WITH THE INFECTION IN LEGS HEALING UP!! I HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO SEE KATHY B. AGAIN THIS WEDNESDAY, BUT JUST DO NOT THINK LEGS WILL BE HEALED ENOUGH. KATHY HAS HER OWN HEALTH CONCERN AND DOES NEED IT COMPROMISED IF I AM STILL CONTAGIOUS!!

AND, MEARI HAS VOLUNTEERED TO COME OVER AND VISIT ME AGAIN AND TO HELP ME GET THIS BLOG CONSTRUCTION FINISHED!! KATHY K. HELPED ME OVER THE PHONE YESTERDAY TO ENTER BLOGS I WANT TO KEEP UP WITH, HOWEVER, I AM STILL HAVING TROUBLE "GETTING IT", BUT PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT!! MEARI IS GOING TO HELP ME GET MY STACK OF WIPS LISTED AND SHOWN SO I CAN GUILT MYSELF INTO COMPLETING THEM. SO MANY, ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE ALL THAT MUCH TIME TO BECOME FINISHES AND THUS I THINK THIS WILL BE JUST THE PUSH I NEED TO "GET ER DONE"!! BUT, AGAIN, I DO NOT WANT TO EVEN BEGIN TO HAVE ANY CHANCES OF MEARI BEING EXPOSED TO WHAT EVER HAS TOOK OVER THESE LEGS!!

DOCTOR SAYS THIS ROUND OF ANTIBIOTICS SHOULD TAKE CARE OF IT, BUT WILL RECHECK THE LAB ON 30TH I BELIEVE!! AFTER THREE BOUTS OF "HOSPITAL ACQUIRED MRSA" OVER PAST FEW YEARS, I WILL TAKE NO CHANCES WITH ANY ONE OR THING!! I INSIST ON KNOWING AT FIRST SIGN OF LEGS GOING BAD TO KNOW IF IT IS MRSA CONNECTED OR NOT!! IT HAS BEEN OTHER INFECTIONS FOR ABOUT LAST SIXTEEN MONTHS, BUT AS MUCH AS I WOULD LIKE TO SEE OR DO SOME THINGS, I WILL NOT COMPROMISE ANY ONE!! HOPEFULLY THE MRSA THING IS COMPLETE HISTORY, BUT AFTER GOING THROUGH THE "NOT KNOWING" OF THAT STUFF, I WANT TO KNOW FOR SURE!!

THUS, I AM VERY MUCH LOOKING FORWARD TO MEARI'S VISIT AGAIN WHEN DOCTOR SAYS ALL INFECTION IS GONE FROM LEGS SO VERY MUCH!! AND, I AM HOPING THERE WILL BE OTHER OPPORTUNITIES FOR ME TO SEE KATHY B. AGAIN SOON. I LOVE SPENDING TIME WITH BOTH OF THESE GALS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!! KATHY B. IS ABOUT A HOUR AND MEARI IS ABOUT A HOUR AND ONE-HALF, I THINK, FROM ME!! WISH THIS WHOLE GROUP LIVED IN ONE SMALL VILLAGE!!

WELL, PEOPLE, I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN YOU!! I AM WORKING ON MAGAZINES AND CHARTS WHILE I AM SITTING AND HOPEFULLY WILL HAVE A WHOLE LOAD FOR THE POSTAL MAN ONE DAY VERY SOON!! MAX IS GETTING GOOD AT HELPING ME PUT TOGETHER WHAT I AM TRYING TO DO SO I AM GOING TO START SENDING OUT ASAP AS ONE, AND/OR BOTH OF US CAN GET THE PACKAGES READY TO GO!!

HOPEFULLY, ONE DAY SOON THIS BLOG WILL LOOK MORE PUT TOGETHER AND BETTER!! WITH MEARI AND KATHY K.'S GREAT GUIDANCE IT WILL JUST HAVE TO BE!!

LOVE AND HUGS!!

DEBORAH and MAX

and MIPREZIOUS, TOO!!

THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2009 - LOOKIE, LOOKIE, I AM GETTING VERY CLOSE TO PLAYING HOOKIE

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES!!!

MORE TO FOLLOW!!

ONE MORE GATE AND IT IS RIBBON CUTTING TIME!!

Love and Hugs!!

Deborah and Max

and

Miprezious

SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2009 - I CAN'T BELIEVE........

I CAN NOT BELIEVE this is my Handicap Ramp, two days prior to the Building Permit expires, so says today's mail!! I ALSO CAN NOT BELIEVE this pile of building materials defrosted before the Fourth of July!!

I CAN NOT BELIEVE all this was given to my free by a "Freecycle" lady!! Some body is going to get all that floss sitting in front of you right now!! Who will it be? Hint it will be for an April birthday that is not connected with the I.L.C.S. Birthday Club!!

I CAN NOT BELIEVE that you are looking at 32-COUNT LAMBSWOOL WICHELT LINEN and more unbelievable the stitching below is ME, MY, MYSELF, MOI and DEBORAH'S!!

Hello All My Dearest Friends,

I CAN NOT BELIEVE, I took two of my most serious falls in the past ten days, than the last one which was the final straw and I was ordered by doctors to no longer attempt to walk and stay in a wheelchair July, 2004!! My first was a repeat swan dive from the throne, a.k.a. le toilette, with head being hit by bath tub!! Same ole story, just a bit more severe injuries!!

Then, Wednesday night, I got up from my stitching nest to go to the le toilette and went from just standing still in the middle of my Stitching Sanctuary to totally body slamming the wall to wall unit!! I have literally sweat bullets about could this unit be moved should I need, or want, to recarpet the Stiching Sanctuary!! Well, I have taken care of that one, as I hit with such force that I knocked this entire wall unit off the wall. As I was clinging onto the shelves for lack of being able to move, I prayed to God to make the wall unit quit moving!! I have a collection of very heavy water globes on the very top of this unit and they were teetering on the very edge!! And, par to my luck, I have what I considered to be a quite heavy wooden quilt rack in this room to drape my fabric for works in progress and for holding some of the chart notebooks that will not fit on the shelving unit. Somehow it had to have also tilted or moved so that my left little toe and the top surrounding it became entrapped underneath it!!

I could not move between my left foot being caught and I felt my body was the only thing holding this entire wall unit upright!! Max was taking a nap and he had an early and extremely awfull day, so he was in deep sleep!! I began to scream after deciding he had to be totally out cold to have not awaken simply from the crashing sounds!! I have several large lumps on my head and think I am bruised on every single part of my body!! I have bruises where I did not think bruises could be!! My knees have not been good for quite some time, but doctors have always said, they would not touch them as that would be affecting the RSD and they do not want to be responsible for what it will do!! They also say that the very serious anesthesia problems I have had are not worth any more surgeries!! Well, we started once before without it and I NEVER will allow that one to happen again, now I insist on seeing anesthesiologist's license and at least three references!! And, above all else the doctor's attitudes are "she can not walk, any way"!! Well, little do they realize!!

I am hurting a plenty and I am taking a break just for the weekend!! I have a large gathering of our nearest, and dearest, coming for St. Patrick's Day dinner right down to the Blarney Stones and beautiful green daises I received from Max today that will be made into a beautiful centerpiece!! More on this, come Tuesday!!

I CAN NOT BELIEVE, I am again "Mrs." Markham!! And, neither can any one else I am near and dear to, know well or are merely acquainted with!! The story is way too long and way too boring!! Max was very, very wrong and did many terrible things to too many people, but we have talked it over and over and specific rules have been established. There simply are NO MORE CHANCES!! I am not going to try and make a dozen excuses for Max as there simply are none!! However, there are several contributing problems which I am taking steps to make sure they no longer do contribute again from Max's illnesses to my very meddling

"Mommy Dearest"!! As my dear Eunice has stated, "as long as I am happy and Max behaves himself things should be all right!! There have been a few rough "bumps" in the road, but they appear to be all taken care of and I have been most happy and Max has been on his best behavior!! We will be married 30 years this Christmas and that is a long time to dump every thing!! Honestly, we have had some real good times thus far and I think things are going to only get better!!

I CAN NOT BELIEVE my "Mommy Dearest" could possibly hit lower than the snake's belly she hit while I was "rotting" away in the "hellhole" Nursing Home she helped me get placed in!! BUT, JUST BELIEVE ME, SHE HAS!!

I CAN NOT BELIEVE that this Blog and my Webshots Albums are all still UNDER CONSTRUCTION, but they are!! I had the choice of "constructing" or "blogging" and I think I needed to re-start the Blogging!!

I have found more WIPS and UFOS than any of the ten best stitcher's in my I.L.C.S. combined!! I truly need to start a new blog, only I do not know how to add progress pictures to it!! I need to find something where I can publish more than 300 projects and be able to show their progress!!

That will take a lot of additional thinking out and consulting with some one who does know some thing about a computer!! I plan on pulling out the top ten that I want to show "some" progress on each week and show a running progress of them!!

I CAN NOT BELIEVE, that when the Little House Needleworks "TRAVELING STITCHER" premiered I did not give it a single look!!

Then, the frenze began to get the first edition Coral (DMC3712) Envelope Bags that you are to finish your stitched piece and Needlebook piece to!!

My dearest friend, Kathy Kiley LOVES her "Little House"!! Kathy thought she had the LNS that might place a "hold" on a bag until Kathy went to her next "Stitch and Sit"!! Well, dear Kathy inquired and the only one her LNS had available was for the store sample!! Well, Kathy being the fantastic and most caring daughter she is; had been busy, especially busy the last 12-18 months, giving her beloved mother the very best care possible on this earth prior to her passing December 06!! Thus, she had far more important things going on then simply becoming acquainted with a whole lot of online store owners (only the store owners loss, as they sure do want to meet her and surely will) like this "care free and stitch fancy" woman (only because Kathy directs me step by step on each chart)!! So, I think if one of these darn "TRAVELING STITCHER" Bags exist with her name on it, I would have to pay attention and see if any of my store owner's "loved" me enough to put her name on one of these rare

specimens that were getting more rare each day Nashville began!! So, I began to pay attention!! Well, as always, I over did, and suddenly found myself looking for a store owner who REALLY "loved" me enough to put her name and now MY NAME on one of these rare specimens!! I LOVED those darn things and I HAD to have one of my own!! Dear Karen at Wasatch was most kind, and tried to find one, but could not as all her allotment was sold out and there definitely were no more to be had!! Karen even directed me that if either Kathy or I were sew-ers, along with being stitchers, that we easily could make these bags!! Well, Kathy said she never sewed and my brand new Singer will shortly be having it's two year anniversay of being dusted each week, but never have left it's box so it was a definite NO here also!! But, Dear Linda at House of Stitches sent them out ASAP!! We love Linda!!

But, I CAN NOT BELIEVE, and luckily can not remember, who talked me into ordering 32-Count Lambswoold Wichelt Linen to stitch this on!!

However, I have found I TRULY LOVE IT!! I have not had a successful finish with any thing other than 14-Count Aida since before my life's "Pot Hole" began to open up and swallow me May 04, 2002!! And, by golly, THIS IS GOING TO BE A FINISH!! Above represents one full week's stitching!! Tune in next week...................!!!!

I CAN NOT BELIEVE that I could not wait for the release of "CUPCAKES, GLORIOUS, CUPCAKES, by "The Cat Whiskers"!!

I actually was awaiting the mailman every day for a week!! I anxiously open the package, while Kathy K. and I happen to be having our daily chat and I told her, "good Lord, who let me loose to do such a thing"!!

I told her all about this large book and read her the directions!! And, ever happy and so optimistic, my friend assured me these would make good Fobs!! Okie Dokie!! Well, later I have a chat with Rene, who was already fast "baking" her first cupcake, which was finished before nightfall. She had immediately sent me all the links and every thing I needed to order the Wilton baking cups needed to finish each cupcake, practically before I had even opened my book!! I thought save your efforts Rene, I ain't making mine!! THEN, Rene gives me a sneak preview of her first cupcake even before I have completely read my book and it looked mighty fine!! And, then Rene published her first cupcake and it got rave reviews!! And, then I discussed the cupcakes with Rene again and she assured me I could do it!! And, now I think I CAN and I will be once again be pulling on my cupcake making apron to prove to myself I CAN!!

BUT, I TRULY CAN NOT BELIEVE who I talked to or what drugs I got into that ever convinced me that I could remotely even read "The Victoria Sampler "TEA AND STITCHES"!! Good Grief!! From Thursday till furthermore, I am notifying my suppliers to not ship me any thing that has not been okayed by Kathy K. and at least six other stitchers!! I truly could not tell if those SIXTEEN pages are right side up or down had it not been for the pictures!! WHAT WAS I THINKING!!!! Again, as Max handed me this lovely bombshell, I was on the phone chatting with Ms. Kiley!! And, at first I think she was a bit hesitant and speechless, however, she came up with the amazing recovery that I could make a "real cute Needlebook" surely out of it!! Well, I have done some Crazy A$$ things before, but pay $22 for a Needlebook chart? NOT!! I LOVE tea patterns and I loved "TEA AND STITCHES"!! And, all I can say, is that I have the very best of friends that stitch!! I ever win the lottery all get prepared to move to these Iowa cornfields as I am going to create "Stitching Acres" and move you all on out to this one-horse town!! What a "hood" that would be!!

Of course, Eunice would be mayor!! Thankfully there would be no working, no cooking, no cleaning, no laundry, no shopping unless for needed stash until our STITCHING WAS DONE!! And, most THANKFULLY, shortly after chatting with Kathy, I started chatting online and I soon had a great stitcher, (will not identify until she says it is okay) volunteer to do my edge of big piece and edges of "smalls" with all those Greek (no offense intended to our Greek friends) stitches that surround each!! Then, I can do the center of these pieces!! And, as Kathy pointed out, I "think" I might be able to do the Needlebook!! WHAT A SAVE AND ANOTHER BLOOMING MIRACLE FOR ME!!

I keep protesting and sincerely saying that, "I must not be continued to be rescued from every dumb, and recently dummer, things I do"!! My dear friends, especially stitchers, PLEASE do not listen to me, as it is quite evident that I will be in very deep doggie doo doo with out each and every one of you!!

I CAN NOT BELIEVE, I have went on with this Blog!! And, YOU CAN NOT BELIEVE, how many times I have had to yell, I had to have a bathroom break to keep sneaking in another short computer time to finish it!! Thus, I have just been told NO ONE could possibly need to get up to the bathroom this many times in one evening!! OKAY, I AM OUT OF HERE!!

LOVE AND HUGS!!

Deborah and Max

and Miprezious, too!!

THURSDAY, MARCH 05, 2009 - MAJOR CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENT

DEBORAH TOOK EXTREMELY SERIOUS FALL AT 7:00 A.M. THIS MORNING. IN CHAIR, AND IS NOT TO GET UP AT ALL!!
UPDATE ANY CHANGES AS THEY COME, HOPEFULLY VERY SOON!!

LOVE AND HUGS,
DEBORAH and MAX
and
MIPREZIOUS, TOO!!

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 04, 2009 - UNDER MAJOR CONSTRUCTION!!!

THIS IS WORK IN PROGRESS!!
VALENTINE BISCORNU!!

THIS PICTURE IS THE "AFTER" MI HAD HER DINNER , MINUS THE ONIONS, TOMATOES, AND MUSHROOMS!! SHE ALWAYS FINISHES THE "OTHER HALF" JUST BEFORE SHE LETS IT BE KNOWN SHE IS READY TO BE PUT INTO BED!!

THIS IS TYPICAL DINNER PLATE FOR MI, ALSO A WORK IN PROGRESS!! SHE EATS EXACTLY HALF AT DINNER TIME AND THEN LEAVES THE OTHER HALF FOR BEDTIME SNACK. MANY NIGHTS IT APPEARS SHE DRAWS A LINE STRAIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE OF HER PLATE WITH A RULER!! BUT, SHE WILL JUST TOSS, AND SHE HAS ONE HECK OF A PITCH, ANY ONIONS, TOMATOES, MUSHROOMS AND ANY KIND OF EGGS IF SOMETHING HAS THEM IN IT. MI LOVES POTATO AND PASTA SALAD, BUT WILL TOSS ALL EGGS SHE ENCOUNTERS IN THEM!!

FOUND A NEW RECIPE FOR "FROGGIE TEA"!! THOSE LITTLE CRITTERS COME A CALLING HERE ANY MORE THEY ARE INSTANTLY DROPPED INTO THEIR SPECIAL "FROGGIE" TEAPOT!! THUS FAR, IT HAS BEEN WORKING REAL WELL AND I FIND MY FAVORITE COLOR, PURPLE, TO BE NICE TO THE EYES ALSO!! REAL STRANGE NEW TRUCK INCENTIVE JUST AUTOMATICALLY CAME WITH THE PRETTY TRUCK!! THAT DARN TRUCK MUST STOP AT ALL GOOD WILL, DISABLED VETERANS, SALVATION ARMY, CANCER DISCOVERY AND EVERY OTHER KING OF BUILDING THAT EVEN REMOTELY RESEMBLES ANY KIND OF THRIFT STORE!! THANK YOU GOOD WILL STORE AND MY BEST FRIEND, NEIGHBOR AND CAREGIVER, ST. EUNICE!!

WORK IN PROGRESS OF MY PAPER DOLLS BIRTHDAY PARTY!! THOSE KIDS ARE GOING TO BE GRANDPARENTS BY THE TIME I GET THIS BIRTHDAY PARTY DONE!! GOOD GRIEF!!!!!

AND, THIS IS "GOOD LUCK" BISCORNU AS A WORK IN PROGRESS!! I LEAVE THIS LITTLE ONE OUT EACH NIGHT IN HOPES OF LITTLE LEPRECHAUNS APPEARING AND STUFFING IT UP FOR ME!! AND, ADD THE FEW STITCHES THAT ARE NEEDED!!

AND, AS FOR THE REST OF EVERY THING, AND EVERY ONE, IT IS SITE UNDER MAJOR CONSTRUCTION, WORK IN PROGRESS, UNFINISHED FOREVER OPTION, OR ONLY THE GOOD LORD KNOWS!!

I AM HAVING SOME MAJOR "ISSUES" AGAIN WITH MY LEGS!! MY KNEES HAVE BOTH DECIDED TO "GO OUT TO LUNCH" AND HAVE FORGOT TO COME BACK!! BOTH LEGS ARE SWOLLEN ROCK HARD AND WORSE THAN EVER BEFORE, BUT THEY ARE NOT DOING THEIR USUAL "BURSTING" SO IT CERTAINLY COULD BE A WHOLE LOT WORSE!! ANY MOVING OF MY LEGS IS ABSOLUTELY EXCRUCIATING, IN SPITE OF TAKING THE BREAK THROUGH PAIN MORPHINE!!

I DO NOT WANT TO RUSH IN TO DOING ANY THING "CRAZY", LIKE GOING IN TO MY DOCTOR ANY SOONER THAN REGULAR APPOINTMENT ON FRIDAY, MARCH 13. THUS, I WILL JUST CONTINUE TO NEST IN MY STITCHING RECLINER AND JUST KEEP ON STITCHING AND BxxxxING!!

TONS OF NEW NEWS AND PICTURES WHEN MY BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION PERMITS ARE RENEWED!!

LOVE AND HUGS!!

DEBORAH, MAX

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MIPREZIOUS, TOO!!!