Hi - New Video link

Hello fellow crafters,  I have been having fun making videos, and for right now I am posting again on YouTube.   I'm not sure if this link will take you directly to my site but here goes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKCR78-Kkys&t=1685s    The layout of the video is currently only uploading in a vertical form.   Which is disappointing, even though I have watched several videos suggesting ways in which to rotate the videos,  it seems that google is intending to keep new video creators in the dark.   But with all that said I will still keep creating and will not allow that to stop me.   I hope that you will go and check out what I have made, and maybe become a subscriber.   :)   

I am off from work today which is always nice.   I found out that there was an opening to move up in my position, I have volunteered for that position and now its a wait and see.   Nothing is set in stone.  There are areas at work that I still need training that would be in conjunction for this job... but ya know I had to learn the cash register I didn't know what all goes on with that before I got my current job.   Of course my imagination has been on major overload.   I got so "excited" after learning about that they had an opening.... you know how that goes.... it took me forever to go to sleep, couldn't seem to turn my mind off.     Anyway I won't bore you all with the crazy details of everything.    I just hope that they will consider me, and I am willing to learn.   

Well, all I have been eating is snack foods and need to get into the kitchen and cook even though hubby must work a late shift.    Thanks for coming by for a visit, leave a comment if you wish and I will see you later.  

Happy Thanksgiving & chat

 Hello!  I've been MIA for several days,  due to being ill.   Flu like symptoms, but just with a head cold.  So needless to say, I haven't felt much like crafting.   I did work on a page but just not sure I like it enough to share it.   I don't craft well when I don't feel good.    I am feeling so much better and more like myself.       Thanksgiving is just in a couple of days, and I guess we'll be going over to my nieces house.   I really don't know what to bring yet, as its a pitch-in.   Seems like they have all the basics covered, and the one thing I like is mashed potatoes, but someone is already bringing a potato dish.    I thought about making homemade cookies.   Its terrible of me to be a cliffhanger but I am.   Heck, I could still make mashed potatoes but just keep them for us to eat.   :D     And instead of making cookies I could do bar cookies instead, not so much work involved.  Since I am still in recovery mode.    

And yes, since it is the holidays, I have been doing some online craft shopping.   I wanted to get some items from an Etsy shop I hadn't tried before...  I am still waiting on those items, it wasn't that long ago that she sent out the package.   It's little ephemera packages of Christmas bits and bobs.  I would like to use those in a card possibly, we'll see.   And as much as I look around at our local hobby store, they don't always have what I am looking for...  I like cardinals, poinsettias,  but they never have anything.  It drives me just a little nutsy!  LOL     And I can't forget about Black Friday, it will be a big shopping day for sure.   Not that I will be enjoying it.  Hah!    I will be manning my register from 9-4pm that day.   Thankfully, this time I was able to pick the hours I wanted to work, last year I worked a late shift, and stayed until 11:30pm to help straighten up the store shelves and such.    I don't really enjoy working on those particular events, but someone has to do it.   

Believe it or not I am still trying to get my side of the craft room organized, its been an uphill process.   I found a stamp I thought was lost.  It was just pushed up under a bunch of other things. That'll teach me.    And I found a cookbook I thought was lost.   It was tucked away in a bookcase in the living room.  :)   My husband couldn't understand what I did to "lose" it.  Well!  That's just how I am I guess.    When I was younger I could remember where all my craft things were, cause I didn't have as much to work with, and back then my desk drawers held it all.    Maybe once everything gets put away,  I will take a pic and show you.   I know you're just waiting at the edge of your seats.  :D     Well,  hope you all are doing well, like I said, I am feeling so much better.   Hugs, Mary ♥ 

Around the garden...and a chat

 

Thought I would pop in for a little visit.  Here are some photos taken earlier today, I just love to sneak up on little bugs that might be hiding on the top of flowers or between petals.   All the while I was looking for the perfect picture, a bug that sounded like a big jet kept buzzing around me, it was probably a horsefly.   

  I haven't worked on any crafting lately, just haven't had any motivation.   The other thing that happened recently and wasn't even sure that I should mention it but I will, my eldest brother had to have open heart surgery, on the day of the funeral for my sister-in-law.   So that could be another reason for my "low" feeling.    I received word that he is home now and is feeling okay.   If you think about it, please say a little prayer that all turns out well for him.  

On a good note, I got to visit with a friend I haven't really seen since the early 1970's or late 60's.  She and I grew up in the same neighborhood, right next door.   And how did we meet, well, she had come into my line at work.  When I turned to bag up her stuff, I thought she looked very familiar to me.   I asked if she remembered me, she looked into my eyes, because during that time I was wearing a mask.... and she said yes, I do remember you.   From that time on,  I have sent her some cards, and we've texted.... and this past Saturday we got together for a long chat and lunch at my house.   What a wonderful time we had.   ♥     And honestly for me, it was just refreshing to have this time together, especially since I no longer have my sister-in-law... I really feel like the Lord orchestrated that meeting.  ♥   Praise Him.

I wrote something down, in my journal... to remind me of God's love during this time of grief, and scriptures too.  I want to share with you.  

Neither be ye sorry: for the joy of the LORD is your strength.  Neh 8:10  

The righteous is taken away from the evil to come.  Isa 57:1

Willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.  II Corinthians 5:8   

KJV

When I think of my loss, I am thinking of just me, how I feel when that person is gone.   I wasn't ready to see them leave.  No final goodbyes.  No kiss on the cheek.  No I love you.   But I know deep in my heart she loved me.  I don't need to look downcast - look heavenward to our Heavenly Father as she rejoices always in Him.   She would want that.   Don't worry about me, she would say.  Keep trusting in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.   Amen.    You are loved, we miss you. ♥    

Thank you for coming by today, share some love, leave a comment.  

Hugs, Mary