November Girls

Yes, I'm late with this. Too much going on here and my computer is giving me trouble. Ever since Messenger went over to Meta I keep getting locked out of stuff that I can only assume is somehow related to Meta. Anyway, here is a little of the situation here at home. I think I told you that my step-son's wife has been diagnosed with congestive heart failure? She is trying to follow doctor's advice but still having problems. Meanwhile my step-son, Eric, and I have been going back and forth to pain management for our spinal problems. He finally got in to see a neurosurgeon and is scheduled for surgery December 1st to remove the L5 vertebrae which is totally out of place and pinching a number of nerves causing lots of pain and mobility issues. We are hoping an earlier date will become available. He has been a lot of help to us but now it is rare that he is able. After surgery he is going to need at minimum 4 months recovery time. My orthopaedic updated my diagnosis to cervical spondiliac myelopsy. In short, the spinal cord in my neck is being compressed. Surgery is recommended but I have no one to help my husband, or me for that matter. I am trying to put it off as long as possible, relieing on epidurals for pain and reduction of nerve inflammation. Unfortunately, the effects of last epidural are wearing off and I can't get another until after the first of the year. It seems a number of things are contributing to setting off my fibro and chronic fatiigue. All I want to do is sleep whenever I can. But I'll have to get out tomorrow to take hubby to NewportNews to a lunch with his old co-workers because the only other times he goes out is to the doctor. Friday I will be running around trying to get him a wheelchair. But here is the kit preview which does not show everything as I went overboard with it and still am not satisfied.

and an example I made

October Girls

I am so sorry for not posting sooner as this was complete by October 1 but many things going on here at home. As you know, the Birthday Girls kits were inspired by birthstones and flowers asociated with birth month. Generally it works out pretty well. However the main birhtstone for October is the opal (which does come in many colors) with secondary stone of pink tourmaline. So far, so good. But the main birth flower is the marigold and I just couln't make those yellows, orange and bronzes work with the stones. I omitted the marigolds and went with secondary flower, the cosmos. That said, here is your belated kit.

Links: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0ms4k2tfwb6e246u7a5eo/ws_OctGirls_pprs.zip?rlkey=2hv1q3gs9su3ju47zzwly2aez&st=3075q2nv&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7imgl9eu28vzaijfyx202/ws_OctGirls_pprs_2.zip?rlkey=6ku4u64d31pjasxynrbvp41pd&st=lm0e0x6m&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1hc272tbotlmtmrlvrl88/ws_OctGirls_el_1.zip?rlkey=13k3p0e7bnthr45bkuw81z8yt&st=4aruxgaq&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/sf9t8xfrkokl4v7d3b0f0/ws_OctGirls_el_2.zip?rlkey=eqpbpjko2yriimfe7hpwtrpjt&st=gguvf7yo&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/cfq7nzosahh5tiaz5btpe/ws_OctGirls_el_3.zip?rlkey=33sn6pjryfwu4hqxxl846mfi1&st=5lkz8nw6&dl=0

September Girls

Links: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nybphgiukj91q7fukub77/ws_SeptGirls_pprs.zip?rlkey=trefxxw12ccu0ej0q71uyhml7&st=8fvxiyk1&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qexkzqjmvtod0ga8bfcl3/ws_SeptGirls_el.zip?rlkey=r2sus1q4b4ftdli7k2qhipjcz&st=er9v4uk4&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7xk5iigcydofs0w8w8bze/ws_SeptGirls_el_2.zip?rlkey=gssq5wyqwii6nb6xdlooiw2zg&st=x0gn8bav&dl=0

Thank you and a preview

I certainly appreciated your sweet comments. Nice to know that some still remember me. I'd like you to know that the September Girls kit is finished and loaded to dropbox. I'm going to schedule it to post here on September 1st. Here is a preview:

Extra for August Girls

I don't know if anyone still checks this blog but thought I'd try a post. It has been ages since I posted here. Too many health problems between me and my husband. Long story you don't really need to hear. Recently I gave my Just Art group links to the August Girls kit plus a zip of extras. I'm going to repost all the links plus the extra one.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pv2uniqp1fx6fz9rqj64n/ws_AugGirls_el_1.zip?rlkey=un03s47sbwfmx7kklakkyi5np&st=m6bwp3zt&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mo78gcl94oefmb1et8eey/ws_AugGirls_el_2.zip?rlkey=emjgwlehdkl6hzayocxmdz3kf&st=msativuy&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/os47yyhufmotd2t2renvz/ws_AugGirls_extras.zip?rlkey=7zae1hb2o3fgz6xzt4tzg33kd&st=jos4cyvt&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8xqomgwl94cd71241uu4j/ws_AugGirls_ppr_1.zip?rlkey=o3gxhwj7518rcad60cln0mrka&st=gwg6vv06&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wkcnntmsxy057lsyaasid/ws_AugGirls_ppr_2.zip?rlkey=k35tk1uhrsk9ik5gmc8qc0n28&st=uqyncsn9&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/srzha6xpugccjazzesq84/ws_AugGirls_ppr_3.zip?rlkey=kxq08t648d8j97rjof9j8qmia&st=hjl1q348&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/9jgg4seiasu0v8hk30emx/ws_AugGirls_ppr_4.zip?rlkey=jkamuhihhgqabfyntxhj66rkn&st=q71bawih&dl=0 I do have the SZeptember Girls kit almost ready and intend to post it here the first week of September. After that I will finish the series posting one the first week of each month until year's end. I don't know what 2026 will bring.

Still alive but not well

I have been in h ospital 3 times since 9/27. Just got back home a week ago and am recovering from pneumonia.Things rough here as I normally rake care of my husband. He is trying to take care of me but has trouble standing or walking due to severe neuropathy and lymphodema. He also has degenrative spinal disease and just now is in terrible pain and can barely move. We get some help from his son who comes twice a week to change the compression wraps, and do small chores for us. H\Grandson who live in NC has helped out too but generally it's a disaster are here. I can only bear to be at computeer for short periods. I think it will be January before I can get things back to what passes for normal here.

Catching up

The September Girls kit should have been up a couple weeks ago but I started having health issues.At first I thought it was some virus but. I had no fever. Started making a list of symptoms to discuss with my doctor last Wednesday at my regular checkup. Wednesday came and I was so weak I knew I could not walk from parking lot and down the long hallway to his office. Had husband drive me to ER concerned that the racing heart was the problem. Got an EKG within minutes and was told it looked good. 5 hours later on saw a doctor who felt my symptoms were troubling. Was kept for observation. Returned home Saturday, followed up with my doctor yesterday. He happily told me all those blood tests and all the other (many!) tests were in normal range, no explanation for the continuing symptoms. It was not a good visit because he got irritated that I was emotional. Seems a normal reaction to what's been going on. May need another doctor. Enough about that. Hospital has set me up for Home Health to try to improve my strength. will see what developes.