Drum rollllll please, may I introduce Cathy. She is my bestfriend! She has creativity the like's of which you have never seen! I am going to start to post what she creates on my blog. I told her she needs to share what she creates and she is bashful and doesn't think no one will think what she makes is good enough. But I keep telling her that everyone will love your work. So with her permission I am now going to post her stuff on my blog, since I am in the middle of a move and all my stuff is packed up. So please leave comments as to what you think, then she can get in here and read what you all think. I think she will be surprised at the responses she will get.

So help me convince her that her stuff is really good, and she really has talent! Judge for yourself and leave your comments. Think of yourself at a craft fair or trying to create a memory of an event or just "playing around" being crafty. I haven't got the kind of talent that she does and you'll see that she sure does. Ok, so below is some of her work, that she has sent me pictures of....................but this is her right below here....................

Crafty Cathy :) I love you!!

Another by Cathy-key holder

On this Christmas present - she took cut pieces of a tree glued the pictures on and salacked(sp) over the photos, then took chain and put the two pieces together. Added the chipboard letters for KEYS and put wire in it to hold the keys. This is going to be special for the recipient, because the picture is a women (a man's mother, which passed away) and she didn't know what to get him, so she came up with this idea.

This is a close up of the top!!!

This is a close up of the bottom!!!

Wouldn't you say this girl has some talent. She can make anything look good and she has such good creativity. he he he..........i get some stuff too.....YEAH for me.

Crafts made my best friend Cathy

Ok, my friend Cathy, which I will post a picture of her is so creative, I am going to start posting some of her stuff on my blog, since I am still not able to make stuff due to being in the process of moving and all. But I have to show her stuff off, she does such neat stuff. These she got when they were white - she painted them and gussied them up for her daughter for a Christmas present. I just love the little booties :)......so this is the front and the back of them.
GOOD JOB CATHY!!!!!

PEOPLE AND LIFE

I just wanted to come here and vent.........Do you ever wonder why people treat other people like they are nothing, but yet again when you treat them the way they treat you, they get mad. I know it takes all kinds of people to make the world go round. But why do people do this? They don't even know that they are pushing other people away because they can't see what they are doing. It is sad! I was always raised to treat people like you would want to be treated. I still do that to this day. I can see when people are sad, mad, happy or glad or whatever mood they are in. If I can help make their day I do. I am a people person and would so very much like for everyone to be happy. But I know that is impossible! I just can't once again figure out why people just can't see what they are doing to other people. You try, try and try and you get shoved, shoved and shoved away. I don't know about you, but you get tired of being shoved away after you have tried so many times. At the end of all of this the people that are not happy with life is going to be left all alone and maybe just maybe they will wake up but it will be too late. I am so confused on how to deal with people like this.

Any advice anyone has, please let me know.

My email is: eflower@cox.net

P.S. Thanks for letting me vent!!!!

:) - Happy Happy Joy Joy, Happy Happy Joy Joy, Happy Happy Joy Joy Joyyyyyyyy-thanks Ren and Stimpy :)

WE ARE HERE-FLORIDA

Well we made it. We are in Florida and what a fantastic welcome home did we ever have. My second son Drew is still skinnier then a stick. Our friend Paul M. is still happy go lucky and drives like Mario Andretti. I have already had one massage from my friend Melisa and boy oh boy does she do a VERY VERY good job. We are living in a hotel still. We just signed a lease today with a lady up in Harbor Palms. Just thought I would let you all know we were here.....Talk to you later and keep that fancy work of yours keep going it all looks REAL good.

UPDATE

Well hello everyone:

I haven't posted in awhile, it's been a zoo around here. Well they have released me from Tucson, I'm free white and 21 again, LOL, well I have a few stones, but he thinks they will pass. I have been battling an urinary tract infection for 3 weeks now - trying this antiobiotic and this one and I think possibly they may have found one now finally, it is Keflex. I have now taken 6 pills and my pee is looking better, still hurts after, but I'm dealing with it.

Ok, now what is happening now is..................I know I mentioned that we are moving back home to Florida. Well it has been pack pack pack pack pack and more packing. Geez how does a person get so much stuff. We are almost done - 95% I would say. We will be leaving soon, so I will be without the internet for awhile. They don't have where we are going the internet people that we have here, so I don't know who we are going to pick. I'm very excited to get back down there, I can already smell the salty air. And just picturing myself on the beach, geez what else could I want...........Maybe perhaps a house that would be good. We thought we had a couple, but when the inspections went through, they came back really bad. So we decided just to go there and pick them ourselves and we would be able to be there for the inspection and what not. After finding a home we will then have the movers come here and get our stuff and move it down there for us. Then of course comes the un-packing, but I don't think that is as bad as packing. At all!!! We found out today, that a friend of a friend needs someplace to rent and we think we are going to rent to their family. YEAHHHHHH, cuz we can't get what we even paid for this place right now. That way MAYBE in a year or so when the housing market picks back up we could sale and get more for it then we could now. And too this person is a very trustworthy and honest person and that made me and my hubby feel so good.

Our puppies (kids) are doing good, the five days on the road, well my eyes might be crossed by the time we get there (3 puppies), they are not exactly puppies but that is what we call the group of them. We have been putting on their collars and putting out their temporary cages (for the car) and letting them play with them to try to make this transaction better.

Well I think that is all for now. We are temporarily planning on leaving the end of this month. But if the packing gets done earlier we will be leaving then.

Keep up the magnificant work on the cards and stuff that you all are making, I keep checking everyones blogs and they are all fantastic.

Hugs,

Ellen

KIDNEY STONE UPDATE

Well we just got back from Tucson today (8/12/08) from the re-check from my left kidney surgery. I'm good to go. But remembering I still have the stents in both sides. What he would like to do is, for me to go in sometime in September (hopefully the middle of) and go up and crush and suck all the kidney stones that are all ready accumulating on my right side (yep, I already had that side done before my left side and they are growing again) and then take out the stents. He said that would be done as an outpatient (YEAHHH), they will lightly put me to sleep do it and at and at it I will be, HAR HAR......We'll see!!! So that is the update for now.

We are waiting on the inspection papers for our house in Florida, the inspector is really slow and we have to have it before Friday(8/15/08) because that is when our 10 days are up and we don't want to lose the earnest money we put down. So my hubby is on the loose and not making people very happy right now. The inspector has had over a week now and we still don't have the report. I'm trying to think "NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS" but I am beginning to wonder. So tomorrow something will happen, I just don't know what. Keep your fingers crossed.

You all keep making beautiful stuff, as I get the time I go and look at it all and you all still amaze me with your creativity.

Hugs, Ellen