winter wonderland: Januari 2018

Sabtu, 20 Januari 2018

Update

Hey everybody! I just wanted to give ya'll a little update on my 'throat issue'. Well I had the steroid shot on Monday and by Wednesday I was still having a little swelling and not 100% back to normal (but it was better!) . So I called the Dr. and they wanted me to come in and get a ultrasound on my thyroid and glands and I had some blood work done to see if there was an infection. I should have those results by tomorrow. The Dr. gave me a low dose of steroids to try and clear up the rest of the problem, I started those this morning.
I really want to Thank everyone SO much for the prayers! They really do help! :)

I wanted to post some cards, but my computer is having issues again. So I guess they won't be posted today! I have a very busy day today with Autumn's pep-rally, open house at Chace's school, and Autumn cheers at 2 football games tonight.
Have a Blessed day!

~Winter
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I LOVE coloring! :)

Hey everybody! My computer has finally decided to work today, so I thought I would post some cards. The first one I started making on my 'Friday night WCMD'. I really love how simple it is. I made it for a friend who just got married. I really love these Wplus9 Design Studio Ever After stamps. I have really been working on my coloring now that I have lots of markers and I LOVE it! I still need lots of work, but I am self taught...so it might be a while! :)

I made this one for Chace's friend's family who just lost their Grandmother. The card was given to them from our 'football program'.

I love coloring these flowers. :)

Supplies: {May all the days ahead be happy ever after! card} Cardstock- (White, Leaf Green) PTI; Stamps- (Ever After) Wplus9 Design Studio; Ink- (Tuxedo Black) Memento; Other- Copic Markers, pearl sticker

{With Sympathy Card} Cardstock- (White, Melon Berry, True Black) PTI; Stamps- (Ever After) Wplus9 Design Studio, (Mega Mixed Messages) PTI; Other- Copic Markers, Black pearl stickers

Well I am doing better. My throat still is not feeling 100%, the Dr. also suggested I try my acid reflux medicine, so I guess I will start that soon and see if that helps. I think it's just irritated from all the swallowing and my mouth has been pretty dry so that doesn't help. But who knows?! Thanks for all the prayers! Ya'll are the Best!

Have a Blessed day!

Happy Birthday Courtney!

Hey everybody! Well I am here today with a card I made for Courtney Baker! Today is her Birthday! Happy Birthday Courtney! :) And of course I had to use a couple of her stamp sets for the card. I love how alot of her sets can be used together. I used the tires marks and the license plate from the You're the Man set and the Bicycle from The Whole Cycle set and the sentiment from the Chatterbox set. I really like how it turned out and I hope she does too! :)

Supplies: Cardstock- (Aqua Mist, White) PTI; Stamps- (You're the Man, The Whole Cycle, Chatterbox) Practicing Creativity; Ink- (Tuxedo Black) Memento, (Red Magic) VersaMagic; Ribbon- (Yellow) Michael's; Other- Copic Markers, (Slot punch) The Paper Studio

It is also my SIL's Birthday too. Happy Birthday Amanda! Love you!

Well I wanted to give ya'll another update on my throat issue. I'm sure some of you may be getting tired of hearing about it, because I am really tired of talking about it! But I know some of you may want to know and I still need prayers, so I wanted to let ya'll know.

Chance took me to the ER last night to get the uvula 'hangy thing in my throat' looked at. I started having a little swelling in it Friday afternoon and I hadn't noticed it before, so I wanted to be safe and get it looked at. The Nurse Practitioner came in and said it was swollen and long and he thought I should be admitted in the hospital for a few days to get IV steroids. He said he was going to get the Dr to let him see what he thought. He looked at it and said that I didn't meet the criteria to be admitted. He said it didn't look very swollen and that he sees WAY worse, so he didn't think it was necessary. So they sent me home. I will follow up with my Dr tomorrow to get the test results from last week and she said she might want to send me to a throat specialist.

I am still praying that the Lord will heal it completely because I know there is still some issues going on in there! It is still not 100%, but I do feel like it is way better than before. So Praise God for that! Thank you all some much for the prayers and concerns! It's really helped me!

Have a Blessed day!

~Winter

EBTKS #25 Sketch Challenge

Good morning! It's time for another sketch challenge over at the EBTKS blog! This week our host is Courtney. I really loved this sketch and I can see myself using it again and again!

Our sponsor this week is Paper Manic! They are giving away a $20.00 gift certificate to the winner! They have great stuff at their store, go by and check it out.

And here is my cards. (I made two!) :)

I LOVE the new Practicing Creativity stamps!

I hope you all can join us for the challenge! Stop by the EBTKS blog for all the details!

I wanted to Thank ya'll again for all the prayers and well wishes! I am doing ALOT better than I was! I am trying to claim the healing in Jesus name! I ask that you would Please continue the prayers!

I would also like to ask if you will be praying for my step-brother. His name is John Wayne, he was in a car wreck on Sunday and was hurt pretty bad. He is in a medicated coma right now to help the swelling in the brain. We are going to see him and pray for him and his Mom at the hospital tomorrow. It is going to be really hard to see him like that. He has been apart of our lives since he was 2!

And Please keep Kelley in your prayers too. She is having surgery today.

Thank ya'll SO much and have a Blessed day! :)

Hey!

Hey everybody! Well it has been a week since my last post. I thought I would check-in and let you know what I've been up to. Well Monday was my Birthday! I turned the Big 3-1! I had a pretty good day! My sweet hubby bought me a new laptop. I went with a HP & it's Pink! It is alot better & faster than my old computer, I just need to get use to using something different! Thank you for all of the Brthday wishes and Thank you to the friends who sent me cards! I LOVED them all! :)
I also called my Dr. on Monday and found out that they got my results back from my ultrasound that they did on my thyroid (almost 2 weeks ago)! Not sure if they would have let me know if I didn't call them about something different! :( It has been a very scary month for me and it feels like they have just overlooked me! (I'm not very happy about that!) But anyway, I now have an appointment with my Thyroid Dr. I found out about 4 yrs ago that I had a nodule on my thyroid, so I started seeing a specialist and he checked it often and everything seemed normal and the nodule wasn't growing. I missed my appointment 2 years ago and and I didn't ever reschedule. It was on my to do list untill all this throat stuff started! Not sure what the size of the nodule was before, but it is now 3mm big. I will find out if it has grown since 2 years ago, when I go to the Dr. on Tuesday. My throat has been pretty good, I still feel something in my throat, but I guess that could be the nodule and it still has flare-ups like it is swelling sometimes. But I am very Thankful that it's better than it was!

I found out tonight that my Step-brother is making progress! Sunday will be 3 weeks since his car accident. He has been in a medicated coma since then. But today he opened his eyes, his mom stuck out her tongue at him and he stuck his back at her, and she said give me a kiss and he puckered his lips! PRAISE GOD! We are all so excited about this news! The Dr. said they are unsure how bad his head trauma is, but after today.....we are seeing the miracle God is doing in his life and health! :) He has had some set backs with infections and things, but today is a GREAT day! Thank you all for the prayers for him and for me and for our whole family! Ya'll really are great friends! Thank you!

Well I guess I need to get into bed! I have a busy weekend! I do get to sleep in in the morning (I am very excited about that)! Then Chace has a football game and I am hosting a baby shower for a friend of mine. I have been making LOTS of cute stuff, so I hope to be sharing that soon! Stay tuned! :) I am trying to get all my info from my other computer onto my new one so I can post my card pics!
Have a Blessed weekend! :)

~Winter
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EBTKS Challenge #26

Good morning! It's time for another new challenge over at EBTKS blog. The host this month is Kelly Marie and she chose these vases from her house to be our inspiration. And I love the color combo too! Here is her inspiration pic.

And here is my card. I always need Thank you cards, so I figured I would add this one to my stash. I love this new stamp set from PTI! Although it took 11 days to get my order from them this month! GRRRR!

And a close up of all the dimension.

And the sponsor this time is Lawn Fawn! They will have the Frosties stamp set up for grabs to the winner! :)
Stop by the EBTKS blog for all the details and to see all of the other DT's cards.

Have a Blessed day!

~Winter

Card Drive for Logan & Bekah

Hey everybody! I have been crafting the last couple of days! I have been doing some card drive cards, and I really LOVE doing that! I need to do more of them! I haven't been submitting lately. I just really needed a little break from all the deadlines and I guess the Lord knew I would be dealing with all of the health issues too, so I guess it worked out! I have had more time with my kids and husband...which I LOVE!

I saw on Giovana's blog that she was doing a card drive for two sweet little kids who are dealing with health issues and I really wanted to help out! When I had the card drive in February and SO many people helped out, I really wanted to pay it forward and give back! So I made a card for little Logan. Here is his card.

Supplies: Cardstock- (Pure Poppy, White, Aqua Mist) PTI; Stamps- (The Whole Cycle) Practicing Creativity, (Sentiments) Stampabilites; Ink- (Tuxedo Black) Memento; Other: Copic's

And one for Bekah, here is hers.

Supplies: Cardstock- (Pure Poppy, White, Aqua Mist) PTI; Stamps- (The Whole Cycle) Practicing Creativity), (Up, Up, & Away Sentiments) PTI; Ink: (Tuxedo Black) Memento; Other: Copic's, (Printed tape) ColorBok

I really hope they like them! I had fun making them! I hope you all will help bring a smile to their face! :)

I can't believe it is already November! October has been crazy for me with all the throat issues and my step-brother being in the accident! I do have some updates for you!
Last night I got a surprise call from my step-brother! He said they took the trac out and he wanted to Thank me for all the prayers! It was so good to hear from him! Thank ya'll for all the prayers! We are truly seeing God's hand in this! :)
And for an update for me: Well the Dr.'s and I are still unsure what is going on! I went to my thyroid Dr. and he said that the nodule was 7.5mm 2 years ago and it is now 3mm. So that means it has shrunk! Praise God for that! He also said that he doesn't believe this has anything to do with the thyroid! All the blood work came back normal! Praise God for that too! But I am still left not knowing anything! He suggested go back to the throat specialist, so i went back there last Thursday. He did a scope to look at my throat and he didn't see anything wrong there. He seems to think it is a stone in my salava gland. They can cause pain and swelling, (Praise God I haven't had pain!) So he wants to do a CAT scan on that area and see if there are stones in there and see what is going on! I know the Lord is going to take care of me, I am just SO ready to get back to normal! Not knowing is very frustrating! Thank ya'll for all the prayers through all of this!

Have a Blessed day!

~Winter

Caring Hearts Card Drive

Hey everybody! I am finally getting my old programs downloaded on my new laptop, so it is starting to feel more normal for me. So I was finally able to post my pics of the cards I made for Vera's Caring Hearts Card Drive! She is collecting cards for the elderly in nursing home for the holidays. I really do enjoy making cards for card drives and I really want to make it a point to do it more! Thanks for the card drive Vera! I ended up making 16 cards for this drive, but I am going to just show a few of them.

I LOVE the new Practicing Creativity stamps!

I love adding glossy accents too!

Love the new PTI stamps too!

And who doesn't love this turkey?!

These lights are so fun and glossy accents make them even better! :)

There is still time to send some cards in for the card drive. I hope you will join us in making some elderly people VERY happy this season! :)

I wanted to give an update on my step brother. He was released from the hospital on Thursday and was moved to a Rehabilitation center for 5 to 7 days to work on his walking. He is doing REALLY well! Thank ya'll for all the prayers!

I did go in for my CT scan on Thursday and I have an appointment with the throat specialist on Monday to go over all the results. Praying that they figure out the real issues and that there is a quick fix for it too!

Have a Blessed night!

Handmade Gifts

Hey everybody! I have been going through all of my pics and getting them edited so I can post them. I have SO many cards and gifts that I have never posted and I really want to post them. So here is a set of gifts that I made for my twin nieces and then I figured that I could make their sister (my other niece) a set too. Their school mascot is the Bull Dogs! But I did give the twins money too, so they felt like they got more than their sister! :)

This is the first time I have ever made bows like this. I looked it up on YouTube and figured it out how to do it! They were really easy, I will be making more of those!

Here are both of them together. I also bought black shorts to go with all of them and they looked SO cute when they tried it all on.

My niece Gracie is cheering for the Pee Wee football team this year, so she needed a shirt and bow like this for spirit day at school! :)

I made a tag to match for Gracie's. (The twins tags matched their cards and bags. I will post those next time.) I made some little pom poms for the tag.

And the tag on the bag.

I used a PTI (Ploka Dot Basics II) stamp for the dots and Lawn Fawn's (Harold's ABCs) for the name.
We have had a pretty relaxing weekend! I LOVE when we have those! :)

Have a Blessed day!

A Note of Thanks Card

Hey everybody! I wanted to share a card today! It's for all of you who have been praying for me! I really Thank Ya'll SO much! Prayer is VERY important in my life and I take it very seriously. Please let me know if I can ever repay you, by praying for you too!

My little man 'Chace' is home sick with strep throat! :(
But praise God there hasn't been any fever! Remember last year when he had it and had 105.3 fever! That was SCARY!! But it is very contagious, so he has to stay home from school until tomorrow. I don't like for them to be sick, but I do enjoy them being home with me! :)

The card looks better in person. It's a little hard to get a good pic with this Smokey Shadow cardstock for PTI.

Well that's it for today! I'm going to hang out with my little man! :)

Have a Blessed day!

Wishing You A Speedy Recovery & Thank You Veterans

Hey everybody! I have been trying to get back into posting on my blog. I have so many projects and sometimes it just seems like to much work to even get started on editing pics! But I edited a ton of pics this weekend, so that helps alot!

So today's card is a card I made for my sweet friend Kelley! I tried to make a card that she would like, so I made it on kraft and used a single black pearl! And that is what she told me she noticed first! I love when that happens! :)

I also want to Thank all the Veterans that have served, are serving, and will serve one day! At my son's school they are having a book fair this week, and the theme of the book fair is 'Hero's'! They had to do a project, where they had to write about their Hero and draw a picture of them. Chace wrote about his Grandpa David (Chance's Dad) and how he fought in the Vietnam War. He told his Daddy he would have wrote about him, but he wanted to write about how his Grandpa fought in the war! How sweet is that?!

Me and the kids never got to meet David, he died from cancer when Chance was 13 years old. But I know that we would have LOVED him and he would have LOVED us! He truly loved Chance and I know now that Chance shows his kids love the way his Dad showed him love! I wanted to share a pic of his dad when he was in his late 20's. He looks SO much like Chance! :)

I hope you all have a Blessed day!

A Simple Layout

Hey! Happy Friday! It will be a busy weekend for us. We have the 'Super Bowl' for the Pee Wee football league at our school, so that means 6 play-off games tomorrow at our field and hours of working in the concession stand! Chance will be announcing 3 of the games. Our team did get beat a couple of weeks ago in our first play-off game. The other team did have some cheating going on and the refs had some bad calls and the score board wasn't working, which meant the clock didn't work! So they had to keep asking the press box what the time was! Very aggravating, and I'm not just complaining because I'm a sore loser...really I'm not! If the team was better, than I can admit that...but they weren't! Our boys were Devastated! :(
Our older team from our town is in the Supper Bowl, and I really think they will win! :)

Ok, I wanted to share a layout that I made over the Summer. I know...I am waaayyy behind on posting my projects! I really am trying to get caught up! :)
I have had this pic printed out for awhile, I usually would have wanted it in black and white, because of all the colors. But it was printed, so I just went with it! I really like the collage of flowers and the butterfly.

Well that's it for today.

I hope ya'll have a Blessed weekend!

Thanks for everything card

Hey everybody! I wanted to share a card I made for a PC publication that didn't get accepted. I used the Mehndi Medallions for Wplus9 Design Studio. I really love these stamps and I love this color combo! :)

Here is a close-up of those Beautiful stamps!

I have still been dealing with my throat. I am still taking the antibiotics the Dr. prescribed, but still having issues. The thought comes in my mind, will it ever go away, but I have to keep believing in the healing! I'm getting very frustrated and starting to wonder if it has anything to do with the shot I received from the dentist that day, like damage to the nerves or something! A million ideas have went through my head,of what it could be, but I still have no answers!
I am still praying for a complete healing in Jesus name and ask if you would continue to pray to. Thanks so much for praying so long already!

Have a Blessed day!