D'Ambrosio Arts (formerly Ambrosia Arts Of Virginia)

Monday, August 4, 2025

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.

Saturday, November 9, 2024

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.

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

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.

Monday, August 26, 2024

Another hot August day and a freebie

Had trouble sleeping last night. Itchy skin whichI think is due to mold spores since we've had so much rain latedly. Got out of bed at a little after 5 a.m. and took Benedryl but couldnt get back to sleep. Started on a challenge page and in looking for elements to use, guess what I found? Yes, that big folder with all the Birthday Girls stuff and more/ Just happeened upon it after having done searchespreviously to no avail. So now I've loaded August Girls to dropbox [sigh of relief]. I really love my old computer (using it now) but it runs on Windows 8.1 which is no longer supported. It has been giving me trouble with Google too and dropbox notified me it will no longer support the box I have come September. I'll have to use the new Windows 11 computer which is slower than molasses and use dropbox there. Wouldn't let me transfer this account but has it attached there to my gmail address which I rarely use. I'm going to have to transfer everything to new computer and that is going to be a nightmare All that aside, here is the promissed kit:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hhgup2gqa6aqldt3nqqqi/ws_AugGirls_ppr_1.zip?rlkey=bg8j5ct86clgmcgtcankmsao3&st=bkcksz0y&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ttqnmhjr95nb0ayj0vimq/ws_AugGirls_ppr_2.zip?rlkey=57h4ivbd0j5a2n7xr07nc38f1&st=he198g0b&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/95uenqu07no21cwo33rqf/ws_AugGirls_ppr_3.zip?rlkey=al2lu98hs5dzmbum9755vkgfa&st=9oyrzrhy&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1j3h2xst3st6k1mhakv60/ws_AugGirls_ppr_4.zip?rlkey=9aw67e6agp0cq7zu5k6525bks&st=qr7iputy&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/42gfmfokesp61z1oc85w6/ws_AugGirls_el_1.zip?rlkey=ijofhlbgzg75rshbwpo6q1hpw&st=xavby6we&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1jn3jseyax9hr8qb6xr78/ws_AugGirls_el_2.zip?rlkey=sadw5vlwk4cxc2t71m8rio644&st=2e9kmfpm&dl=0

Saturday, August 24, 2024

Bad News

I had the August kit ready to be loaded to dropbox but got called away. No problem; I could do it the next day. Wrong! The entire folder that contained all the finished Birthday Girls kits plus notes and partial kits for the remaining months - vanished! I figured one of two things had happened: it got deleted by mistake (that would be huge mistake and costly in terms of all the time I put into it) or somehow I mistakenly moved it into another folder. I'm hoping but so far no luck searchign. Just wanted to let you know I haven't forgotten you.