My office/craft room

I got my office chair done! I'm pretty happy with it. I love the material! I think you can click on the pictures to enlarge them.

                                  

This is my crafting table. The following picture is the end of the same table.

I sorted all of my brads and eyelets by color in these buckets. They were a bit big for what I needed, but I was having a hard time finding the right size and at a decent price!  So, this is what I ended up with! I would eventually like to paint the brown wood shelves these buckets are sitting on. What do you think? Brown doesn't look too bad, but I thought white would look better.

Same wall, further down. I have a table on each side of the room, by each of those brown cabinets. The one is my sewing stuff and a table to do bills/office stuff on. The other is for crafts.

 I did have enough material left over to make covers for my serger and sewing machine. They are nothing fancy, but will keep the dust off of them. They are the same material as the chair.

Hello, everyone! I'm sorry I'm so terrible about keeping up on my blog! Lately I've been busy getting my office/craft room painted and organized. I'm so excited about that! That may sound trivial to some people, but when you've been so sick for so long that you couldn't even sort stuff, or even CARE about it, it's a big deal! I created a pretty space to create, dream, work, and relax! Crafts are relaxing to me. I enjoy them so much! Most everyone that knows me, knows I use to do lots of crafts and when I got really bad with my Cushing's Disease, all of that fell by the wayside! I'm VERY happy to say I am now feeling good enough to start back on crafts.

I have not done scrapbooking for YEARS! I hope to get all of my pictures into albums at some point. Right now, I have a new craft hobby. Making cards! I didn't think I'd really like making cards much, but I love it! It's so much fun! My goal there is to get various cards made ahead of time, that I can grab when I need one. It gives me something to do, and it's so fun creating. It does take some time, so I'd rather spend plenty of time, than doing a rush job because I need one right now! Those never turn out well. It takes time to be creative and decide what you want! LOL!

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my cricut! I think it's the best thing I've ever bought for myself! :) I've used it a lot already. If anyone is thinking of getting a cricut, I highly recomment getting a cartridge from Close To My Hart (they are the only ones that carry this particular one) called Art Philosophy! There are 700 images/combinations on that one cartridge! It's very versatile! If I could only have one cartridge, it would be that one! It's expensive, but worth the money! Plus, you get other stuff from CTMH with it, like VERY NICE coodinating stamps!

Anyway, last night, I made words for my buckets hodling my tools and such on my craft table. I made 2 wall words too. Before I cut them out, I used alcohol ink and made some REALLY pretty vinyl! I'm totally in love with ink! You can do such cool stuff with it! I'm really getting into the distressing and it really spruces up stuff. Did I mention I LOVE ink? ;)

I need to get off of here so I can do my mending and get that pile out of here! I want to reupholster my office chair today, so I better get busy. Pics to come. Here's a sneak peak of the office. It's not all done yet. I have some orginazational items coming that I've ordered. Oh, and I made the cornices on my windows! I love them! So pretty! I found the Thomas Kincade material online. I made a cover for my cricut, and I'm going to cover my office chair in it, too. I hope to have enough left over to make a cover for my sewing machine and serger.

Changed the title of this blog!

When I started this blog, I really couldn't even begin to tell you how bad I felt each and every day. I called it "Another Day In The Life Of A Train Wreck". I decided that is no longer appropriate for me. I do feel better. Not always a lot better, but at least I don't feel like I've been hit by a train every day! Now I'm just taking it "One Day At A Time"! :)

Cancer is gone.... well, skin cancer at least

The spot on my head is still tender, and still has a couple knots I have to keep massaging, but it looks pretty good, and they got all of the cancer. Next hurdle? I have to go for a mammogram next week, and I'm waiting on results of my pap smear to see if I have cervical and breast cancer. Skippy! I have symptoms that can indicate both cancers, so my doc is working on it. Hopefully it's nothing. I'm running out of pieces parts to remove!

For my skin cancer surgery, I was not knocked out. I just had local anesthetic. Not the funnest thing in the world. Especially since I didn't stay numb quite long enough and felt them zapping me while cauterizing the wound, while processing my slides. I had to have an extra shot. Those are the worst part. The sound of them cutting on my skin grossed me out! I just started talking to them to keep my mind off of it, and drown out the noise! LOL!

I really like my LDN (Low Dose Naltrexone). It has helped my Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia a lot. I still have some bad days though. It seems I'm constantly reminded of how broken my body is. It often feels one one step forward and two steps back. I guess it is progress, even if it is slow. I long for the days I can consistently feel good! Will they ever come? I have my doubts, but I keep hoping.

New Hydrocortisone by Core Pharma is old Hydro by Glades

This post is for anyone out there who use to be on Glades hydrocortisone, and loved it. Many of us did great on it, and then Glades went out of business and quit making all medicines. Core Pharma wound up with Glades formulation and have finallly started production of it.

A Core Pharma rep told me it is being sold at Rite Aid pharmacies, and if you do not have Rite Aid near you, you can ask your pharmacy of choice to order it for you. They have to get it ordered through their supplier. Here is the NDC# for 10 mg. pills... 64720-331-05. If you want to make sure you get Glades, ask your doctor to specifiy that on your prescription and the doc can even write the NDC# on the script!