Lazy Blogger Redo…..

I have been a terribly lazy blogger lately and I am also having problems with my blog.

There was a photo bucket icon that would just NOT go away. I don’t even know where it came from?

My husband is working on recapturing some of my old blog design…my header…etc.

Meanwhile I have a new temporary look (I think anyway) that’s not too bad. The other problem I have

with the blog is that it is repeating posts. It has to do with the layout having a double post box.

We can’t seem to get rid of it. Any ideas regarding this would be much appreciated? Thanks.

We survived the holidays. This year we had a lot going on and it left me emotionally drained.

Next year will be different. 2011 was not the greatest year for me. Right after Christmas I got

hit with a really bad flu/cold that set me back about 5 or 6 days. I felt like I was in a fog for that

whole time.My Kleenex box, my blanket, and my

cough drops were my best friends. I think I left the house just once. I  started feeling reclusive.

It’s been a long time since I have been hit with a cold or flu…..and I had my FLU shot this year!!

I don’t want it back….that was brutal. We got some snow the other day….YAY!! I was really

sick of looking at the dead grass in the middle of January! Now it looks normal. We got 6 to 8 inches

and it is perfectly white and wonderful. ~~ I am still selling antique marbles for a friend. It’s his

deal but I take the photos, do the write-ups and listing and mailing. Here’s a link to the

Ebay auction….. MainelyMarbles if you are interested.  I finished my blankets I have been

working on for both my adult kids before Christmas. I was furiously sewing every day, the

weeks before trying to get them done. I don’t have a sewing machine and I am not the

greatest seamstress but I get it done. Hopefully they will hold together!! Here are a few photos of

Kyle and Carissa and their new blankets Christmas day…………………………………………….

     <  < that is the two of them opening, and that

is my mother in law Alice in the photo in the background. I loved my new “fake tree” we got…..

Here they are holding them up……..below……. I added their first initial to each…..

Not the best picture but you get the idea. And here they are together after…..

The back of Carissa’s is a lavender fleece and Kyle’s is a chocolate fleece. She has a white satin binding and he has

a black satin binding. They are not your typical blankets…. just my style lap blankets. Don’t look too close!!

  I love Christmas but this year left me feeling kind of empty. I am in a slump I

guess…..time to do something about that. I have some positive things happening on the horizon in my

life and for that I am grateful. Sometimes things happen and you have no control over it or the people

involved in “it”.  Time to move on and give it all to God. January 3rd I lost my dear cousin to cancer.

I plan on doing a special post just for her soon. Gosh I hope I have not depressed any of you!! Sorry!

I have been in touch with Jean, Dawn’s mom, and Dawn has a surgery coming up soon and she also

broke her kneecap!! Ouchy….ouchy….ouchy OUCH!!! For God sakes….does this girl have to

go through anything else???? Please say a healing prayer for her ya’ll. Enuff’s enuff!!  Take care and

I will be back soon….I promise…..          ~ . . ~