Just How Long?

I hurt my back cleaning out a flower bed on Mother's Day.  I love working in the yard, but haven't done so in quite some time and should have known better than to do all that bending and pulling! Just how old did I think I was? Just as old as you feel, and I felt great that day and slept so good that night!

The next day was the end of feeling good for awhile, and I wonder when this pain will end? The last two weeks have been nothing but sheer torture! Doing my little exercises and finally got some pain med. The muscles in my left leg have been tight for so long they just ache, in fact they have been throbbing. It seems like the pain med has given them a little relief, so keeping my fingers crossed and still praying continuously.

My daughter loaned me her laptop for a little while. The only time I've been on the computer is when I walk around a little. I can stand at it for only a short time. Sitting at my desk is a definite no-no! So, all the things I love to do that involves sitting...visiting my blogging friends, beading, taking my daughter to her ball practices, watching a little tv....well, they can only be done in short spurts. My bed and my heating pad have been my best friends for the last two weeks.

Cannot wait until I can enjoy life again, and hopefully the rest of the summer. Meanwhile, I will visit all my inspiring blogging friends when those little short spurts let me.

Global Jeans Project

Going to just post my bracelet I made for the Global Jeans Project, 7000 Bracelets of Hope.  I had written a great post and somehow, I guess I am just computer illiterate, lost the entire thing! :(  Also, using my daughter's laptop and not used to it.  So, without further ado, here is the bracelet I enjoyed making so much for the 7000 Bracelets of Hope.

Please visit Lori at Pretty Things to see all the other beautiful contributions to this project.

Global Jeans Project Bracelet

Please come back and visit later today. Tried to get this posted, but desperately need a little sleep. Have to get up very early to take my daughter to her District Varsity Track Meet on Saturday.  She will be throwing the discus and the shot put. She loves this sport, along with her slow and fast pitch softball and basketball. Please keep her in your prayers as she will be competing with a healing broken pinky finger and a terrible cold and allergy bug that she cannot shake. Thanks, and please come back. I wll visit all when I return from the meet. God Bless you all!!

Old Computer!

Having to work from my husband's old computer is a 'drag', old word too!  :)  Have a couple of fun things I've made this week that I want to post, but cannot get this old thing to load the pics directly from my camera. Not enough room on the hard drive to load them there and then upload. Told ya it was O-L-D!! At least I do have one so I can keep up with all my favorite blogging ladies!! Hoping to resolve this picture situation soon! Have a great weekend!

SEED BEAD GIVEAWAY FROM AUNTIE'S BEADS!!!

Lori, at Pretty Things is having a giveaway from Auntie's Beads! Beautiful glimmering silver-lined beads to hematitie-toned to jet black beads are all included in this prize package.

Beads you will receive!!!

DEADLINE -- MARCH 31st

All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on Lori's blog.  To be entered again, just post it on your blog!



GOOD LUCK!!!

Thoughts and Prayers

The devastation I have seen from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan are heartbreaking. It is one of those acts of Mother Earth/Nature that make us ask that "why" question that we never get answers to.  And, sometimes, we are not supposed to know those answers, we are just to trust that it is part of the Master Plan. It still hurts. It is still scary.  My thoughts and prayers have been with those people involved all day. It is one of those things that will stay with me forever, like a lot of the other natural disasters that have happened in my lifetime. God bless these people as they try to regain some type of normalcy to their lives.

New Bracelets!

There are only two, but these two bracelets are ones I made while on my short little vacation to Florida. I always take my beads on vacation, whether I get to them or not. I'm not much of a tv watcher, so after dishes are done, this is what relaxes me ...... making jewelry! Hope you like them!


The bracelet below is made with some leftover beads, mostly glass. The orange nuggets I picked up at the annual Rock, Gem and Mineral Show I attend every year at the end of February. Not sure what they are exactly, but I usually buy what I like and not because it's a certain gem. I really liked the combination with the blue and have worn this more than I expected I would.








I love the finding that allowed me to have these pretty dangles! I thought it just set this bracelet off!





The bracelet below is my "Sparkler"!! I love sparkle, and this does nothing but sparkle! I purchased these brilliantly faceted beads at the same Rock, Gem and Mineral Show.