Monday Blahs & Vintage Find

It is Monday and I so did not want to go to work today. It took everything I had to get myself dressed for work. I so wanted to call in and take a personal day. I have about 36 I need to take this year. I carried 8 days over from last year and I even cashed out two weeks! I no longer can cash days out so I must use them but thankfully I can carry over 150 hours each year. Regardless I still did not want to go to work. Ever have one of those days? Hopefully the rest of the week will pick up.

I met a longtime friend for lunch and was saddened to find out she has cancer. She had a spot on her intestine last year but that was taken care of and when she went back in for her 3 month check up they did some sort of urine test and found cancer cells. Sill more body scans and MRI's and no mass anywhere. The cancer cells are floating in her body somewhere and her body is trying to fight them off and in doing so she is having so neurological issues. She goes to a neuro surgeon this week and hopefully he will have some answers for her. I pray so. She is a wonderful, beautiful lady with an incredible husband and 2 beautiful young daughters. We've been through a lot stuff together and she certainly does not need this.

I found a great use for some of my vintage postcards. I placed them in some frames in my bedroom over the holidays. Oh and the small one is a tag made by my friend, Jennifer Ellefson. Don't they all look so cute in my frames? Now to find some Vintage Valentine's ones to place in these frames.

Ok, so right before Christmas I found this cute salt and pepper shaker. They don't go with my holiday decor but they were just too darn cute to pass up. Isn't Mrs Santa adorable in her glasses. That is a mitten she is holding in her hands. I guess it is her honey's. I think I paid $7.00 for the set at a local antique store.

Stay tuned I am going to host my first blog give away later this week......

White Itty Bitty Book page - final

White Itty Bitty Book page - final
Originally uploaded by Valita's View

So I had a little problemo with my EK heart punch. The small problem being that it BROKE when I went to make the small hearts for the 26 copies of the original. UGH! It was the only tiny heart punch I had and I had already printed out all 26 copies of the front so I had to find a way to cover the small hearts on the copies with some sort of other embellishment. Luckily I did have 2 other heart punches I could use to cover up the small ones on the printed copies. For my other embellishments I also used vintage 1930's rhinestones, a small silk flower and stickles glitter. I thought of adding more but sometimes ya know simple is good.

Now to see if I can get EK to replace my pratically new heart punch.

Swaps

I decided to join a few Valentine's day swaps. I figure it is one way to get something in my mail on Valentines day since I do not have a sweetheart plus make the holiday fun and hopefully get my out of the dumps I am in. I think they are all closed now. I found 2 of them them through Jessi's blog and one from Jenn's. I think I read their blogs daily. They all sounded like fun and I can't wait to start creating for them.

My Itty Bitty White book page

Itty Bitty White book page
Originally uploaded by Valita's View

Ok here is the front page to my White Itty Bitty Book I am doing for a swap with Danielle Miller over at vintagedragonfly.com
It is 2 3/4" x 3". Now to make 26 of them.

2008

I can not belive I have not posted since December 13rth. It has been a rough few weeks. I had part of my family over for Christmas Eve night and day. My house is not that large but I wanted us together for the night. When I say us I mean the "us" of my family that is not married. My oldest brother and his wife and huge house, but we, the "us mentioned above" have never been asked over ot spend the night on Christmas Eve night. Her entier family has done it but none of us. It actually works out great since we are used to getting up in the morning eating breakfast and then opening our gifts, this year it was changed up a bit since My brother, Damon has a girlfriend now and she has a young believing son who all spent the night at my house. This year we all got up opened gifts and then ate breakfast, but it worked out since my other brother and his family didn't open gifts until around 4pm or so. Now how they managed to keep their 8 and 4 year old back away from the gifts except for santa gifts is beyond me, but my SIL just didn't feel like dealing with opening gifts until way after dinner and the kitchen was cleaned or so. I mean what a way to ruin a holiday for a kid by not allowing them to open gifts until very late in the day. So when I say it all worked out it did since the "us mentioned above" like opening our gifts early in the morning.

Christmas Eve night my home was full it included my mom, sister, brother his girlfriend and her young son, my couins , her husband, and their two childern, plus 2 cats and 2 large dogs and my small Walker. (The only way I coul dget my family over for the night was for them to bring their dogs with them and it actually worked. Theonly thing broken was a very old ornament that used to belong to my Grandmother and it was done by an adult and child rough housing as my family says. I saved the pieces to make glass glitter and hopefully create a special ornament with the glitter.

The tree is all put away and only a few stragling pieces of decorations are left out to be put away. i could not belive it when I counted over 53 Hallmark Wizard of Oz ornaments and some of those boxes have more than one ornament in them, 27 Ashton Drake Wiz Ornaments and another 2 or 3 dozen of various random wiz ornaments, plus about 5 dozen glass, acrylic and glitter ornaments that were on my tree! No wonder it took me so long to put it up. How did I ever think I didn't have enough Wizard of oz ornaments to fill a tree until now is beyond me.

I didn't do anything special to celebrate 2008. I am in a bit of a funk and feeling a bit lonely these days. Ever have one of those days where you just want someone to love you and hold you while you cry in their arms, well that is how I feell only that no one is ever in my life to do that and it sucks to be honest. I want a man in my life and it just never happens for me and this year it has hit me hard that I am alone yet again. I want this feeling to go away, but I am not sure how to shake it just now. I am very happy for my freinds that are married and even happier for those that are having babies this year, but I am sad because it isn't me. How many times do I have to ask God when is it ever going to be my time and at this point will I still be able to have a child at my age? So if I am not posting for a bit it is because I am bit down these days.