I want to apologize for somewhat disappearing for the last few months. Believe me it wasn't planned. SO much happened within such a short period of time- having 2 sisters die and my brother missing so long- not to mention the things my own family (my kids and remaining living sister) was going through, I was battling my own demons to say the least. But now I'm back going strong (well maybe not as strong as I use to- ), but strong, never-the-less. I felt I owed you all some sort o... [More]

I thought I would take , and go through what I have written at the beginning of the year and see how good I've done- I'm not looking forward to this This is why I usually DO NOT make resolutions- but these were NOT resolutions, just goals! Is there really a difference? January 21, 2007 Dear Me, It’s hard to believe another year has come and gone. 2006 is now a year in history. It was a pretty good year, except for the sad event of losing another sister. Two are ... [More]

I have been tagged by, , you can find her 8 facts here, THE RULES: Link to your tagger and post these rules. List 8 random facts about yourself. At the end tag 8 other people. Let them know in their blog comments they’ve been tagged. give sugar food Now I have to tag eight other people. These are my eight facts: 1). I have a horrible memory! I told my hubby, I was concerned about my memory being so bad at my age, that if it's this bad now, how bad will it be in a ... [More]

I started working on a Poetry Journal and I'm so excited on how it's turning out. What a great and unique way to display writings that are near and dear to one's heart. I type out the poem and print up pictures and graphics that corespond with that particular writing. I also hand journal some of the thoughts and emotions I may have been going through at that time, to show how I may have came up with that particular piece. It's sort of like scrapbooking, but instead of using... [More]

I'd like to introduce you to the newest addition of our growing family. He made his debut on August 20th, 2007. He wasn't playing in his Momma's belly, he was busy eating! He weighed 8lbs. 11oz! Doesn't he look like a little boxer? He does have eyelashes and eyebrows, but you can barely see them, because they're sooo blonde! He joins my two beautiful granddaughters, Mikayla- 3 yo and Gracie- 2 yo. This picture was taken on a family vacation in May, 2007, ... [More]

Hello everyone, I hope you all have been doing good. My first grandson will be born on August 20th He's a big boy. The doc said he should measure 36" and he is measuring 39"! So she couldn't have him naturally, even if she had a choice. It's going to be so nice having a grandson to go with my two beautiful granddaughters. I have another blog- I'd love to see you visit: http://acraftersreality.blogspot.com I have been running quite a few stores at a time, but I a... [More]

I want to thank all those who has given me free upgrades I actually came on to close down my account. I couldn't believe after being gone for over 2 months that some anonymous members had given me first a one month upgrade, then a two month upgrade. This has really touched my heart and made me realize why I had come to love WDC so much in the first place. The heart and love of WDC has touched me again after so long. I'm going to take this second chance and treasure it. I was goin... [More]

Sorry I just dropped out for a while. I am on a much needed break. I'll be back soon Everything's going good. Catching up on a lot of things that needed to be done. Putting my house back together- it's been packed up in boxes for quite some time *from the 'move'* and putting a lot of time in my business. After the business gets going, hopefully things will run a bit more on a time scheldule We're also going to start having our jewelry in a little botique ... [More]

Hey everyone, Thanks for your notes of concern. Everything is fine. Just a lot going on right now. I guess you can say I'm sort of on a fork in the road right now. A good, but extremely busy one. Looking at some business with a botique in my city. ebay is going to be down-sized, too expensive and not getting quite enough for the pieces (yet) but I have opened a store at ecrater. Stop by :) I'll box, wrap, ribbon, bow and ship, complete with a card your purchase to the address of your ch... [More]

Hello everyone, Great news My daughter is going to have a little boy!! YAY! We'll now have a little boy to run around with our two beautiful spunky little girls :) As you all know we're all totally ecstatic! Everything is going good with the pregnancy and the baby seems to be very healthy! Thank you, Lord! I know I haven't been on much at all, but with getting the ebay store opened, there just has been so little time for anything else. By the time I put a full day in the j... [More]

I hope everyone has a blessed easter day! Remember the reason for the celebration and take a quiet moment to thank the Lord for all of his sacrifices- it is by his love alone that we are not cursed to stay in a state of unforgivable sin. The family will be over after church. I'm cooking a ham, collard greens, corn-on-the-cob, homemade mashed potatoes, rolls and a coconut cake. Yummy. And the girls will bring a dish as well. It's gonna be soooo goooooodddd! I'm a great cook, if I s... [More]

Things that happen in life will often cause us to reflect upon the past. Sometimes it's easy to see where the roads forked off, other times it is often blurred. It's nice when we can look back and know that some major decisions brought us to a good place in our lives- today, in the present. Then there are times I often wonder why all my sacrifices don't seem to matter at all. That's what's been happening to me over the last couple of weeks. There are only a very few that k... [More]

I finally got a few pics downloaded to WDC- a few of my son and his wife at their wedding ceremony at the courthouse and a few of my first trip to the beach this year I hope you enjoy them! This is Eddie and Lori right at the beginning of the ceremony. As soon as the ceremony began, so did Lori's tears My son stayed red as fire during the whole ceremony I now pronounce you husband and wife: The very first family portrait after the ceremony: It was a beauti... [More]

I've been pretty busy, so I haven't been able to spend a lot of time at WDC Great news! My brother who has been missing for a few years (again) is safe and back in town. He called us out of the blue this past weekend, and came to see us. It's a long story of why he didn't keep in touch- but we told him we've been checking the jails, hospitals and death registries for almost a year now! We couldn't find him anywhere. He has quite a story that I won't go into- I don&... [More]

My first born is getting married today They're just getting married at the courthouse for now and will plan a future wedding. I'm so proud of him and my daughter-in-law. They're doing so good and seem to really be pulling their lives together. They have been together since my son was 16- she was 19 ... tsk, tsk, tsk Both of my children seem to like older mates *laughs* My son will be 24 next month, so they have already been together for almost 8 years! They have been through a lo... [More]

A couple of days ago, I read in Party's blog about hiking and skiing (without skis- forgot the name for it) and it reminded me of the time when me and hubby were young and living in NE Georgia. It was freezing and that night we were suppose to get ice participation. So we turned on the outside water faucet (on low) to keep it from freezing up. When we awoke in the morning our front yard had a big area of approx.15x8 ft. sheet of ice. My brilliant husband said, "Why don't you get o... [More]

I wanted to share this awesome meditation that was forwarded to me by my sister. It makes perfect sense! No better time like TODAY to start revitalizing your body From: "Infinite Being" To: Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 2:40 AM Subject: Article: Spiritual Aliveness > > Spiritual Aliveness > by Owen Waters > > Spiritual aliveness is the result of making your spirituality > the day's number one priority. Achieving this is fairly simple ... [More]

My daughter is moving out this weekend!! Praise the Lord I love them dearly - but she needs her own place. She has her own family now They got a nice little house with a decent size fenced in back yard. It's only 2 bedrooms, but it will do for a few years, then they'll have to find a 3 bedroom. I'm sooooo happy! She is too My son and hubby and two of their best friends have trucks, so they have plenty of people to help them move. I'm already planning my craft room I ... [More]

No one visits my blog anymore. Yea, yea, I know- I did it to myself, 'cause I dropped out of the blogging ring there for a while. Couldn't help it, so much was going on. But since I've been back, I don't get many visitors .. of course I haven't been visiting as much either - so it works both ways. I do visit other blogs, just not as regularly as I was - so I have to get back in the groove of things I only have 5 views from my last blog entry yesterday, and I don't thi... [More]

Okay, this is one you may want to pass on by- 'cause it's going to be a bitchy, woe is me, entry. My husband has been drinking entirely too much lately and I'm about fed up with it! I'm not one to ride his ass, but this week I have been,(a little). One thing riding his ass doesn't do any good. I found that out years ago -- and it just causes tension between us, making him rebel, like a child. It's the truth that you marry what you're use to. No, I didn't m... [More]

If you stop by to read my blog, please feel free to leave behind a note I always have quite a bit of views, but not too many signatures I promise I won't bite (always :) I can't say much though 'cause I do the same thing. I don't leave behind my 2 cents a lot of times either Went out to lunch today and to the mall -- that's about it. I really don't know where the day has went. It's one of those days where you try to figure out where all the time went, and wha... [More]

I hope everyone had a blessed Valentine's day! We don't make too big of a deal here about VD day (as likes to call it Mostly it's for the grandbabies. But hubby always brings everyone in the family home something little. I usually get flowers, candy and a stuff animal You should see the one he brought me home this time. It's the cat looking one from Hallmark, that wags his tail and sounds like Pepe le Pu He says all kind of things - my favorite line is, You are a littl... [More]

It's only 5:30 am, and I am speechless! Thank you everyone for filling my mailbox up with so much LOVE Ya'll are truly the BEST!! I am already overwhelmed! I've gotten so many MB's, sigs, gifts, cards, awardicon, etc ... it is unreal! What a blessing to open my mailbox up to it over-flowing with love and friendship. (((thank you ya'll))) My daughter, sister and I went to go see "The Messengers" yesterday. It's not quite what I expected, but it was a really ... [More]

The in-laws left yesterday and I crashed I was sooooo tired! Non-stop from the moment we opened our eyes till we laid our head down. I was able to sneak on for a short period of time (mainly early in the morning). But today ... awwww, today - peace, quiet and no demanding scheldule. Of course they were here the days that I had to take care of a lot of paper work and a meeting with the bank and the underwriter for our home. The home is all ours now (well, except for signing on the dotted line) ... [More]

How's everyone doing? Things are going good here. We got approved for our loan to buy our home So getting the ends put in place. We really were going to look into buying some land and building on that. But we decided to go ahead and buy this house, then next year when Eddie gets his Christmas bonus, using it as a down payment on a few acres of land. I've been putting off buying from here, because I didn't want to live here- I kept thinking we'd pick up and move out of this city... [More]

My daughter is doing so much better! Thank goodness! This new medicine is finally working, after trying everything. The only thing is this new medicine is 30.00 a pill! And we don't know how many insurance will cover. We've tried so many different medicines to keep her from vomiting, and nothing worked! Not even suppositories. They said if this didn't work, they were going to hospitalize her- she was in the ER 3x, and at the doctor's twice, in just a little over a week. The po... [More]

This list of strange facts, contains information you may have missed in the Bible. Or maybe you have read them before, but the fact has since slipped your mind – either way, I do hope you enjoy these, and maybe learn something new! Solomon had 700 wives, 300 concubines, and 12,000 horses. (Now what in the world was this man thinking? Having to please 1,000 women? Please! ) Noah was 600 years young when he built the ark, and 950 years old when he died. Genesis 7:6 and Genesis 9:29 Mann... [More]

I woke to some very disturbing news yesterday. It made me want to cry - WARNING- this is a very disturbing story: A picture flashed to the humane society and showed a medium size, to big red dog. He looked scarred a bit, and absolutely terrified and in shock. Before I even knew what happened to him, my heart was breaking -- it didn't take an expert to see this dog had been severely abused and neglected. The woman next to him who had her loving hand on him made him pull back, with ears dow... [More]

I finally downloaded the picture of the necklace I finished a few days ago. I love it In the middle of the necklace is earrings my sister made to go with my necklace: This necklace is made of turquoise, vintage aurora borealis (sp?), and swarovrski tanzanite bicones with swarovrski dk. gold pearls. The earrings are turquoise and sterling silver bali balls and bead caps. These are the two bracelets I made for 's Christmas gift swap for . She also won some homemade soaps, a... [More]

Hey everyone, This new year has started pretty rough But I truly have faith it's going to get much better! My hubby is just getting over his sickness which has lasted about two whole weeks - it kept him down for 9 whole days - if you know my hubby (type 1 personality), that is SO NOT like him. He'll go to work half-dead, which unfortunately, is what he has done today. It started yesterday at about 1:45 pm with a call from my son (he works for my husband). My son called and said, "... [More]

Time sure can slip away from one, can't it? Hubby's finally better. He had the same thing I did -- the flu, with bronchitis and a bad inner-ear infection. His ear was so bad it was bleeding. It bled on and off for two days, but finally stopped. He still can't hear out of it though. He may have to go get it checked, if it doesn't clear up - he's still hearing a constant ringing also. On a happier note (well, sort of) my daughter is having another baby .... I know, I know... [More]

Sorry for my extreme absense. I will try to do much better in this wonderful new year. Seven is a lucky number and a blessed one, so hopefully this new year will be blessed with dreams being realized, projects coming to completion, smiles being multiplied, worries being decreased, prosperity being fruitful, friendships being bond, and love fulfilling your spirit and overflowing to all around. I hope you all enjoyed the holidays. I got the Ipod Creative Zen from hubby. I absolutely love it! ... [More]

Good morning everyone I hope you're all having a fantastic weekend. I'm reading a book from Joey Green, called Country Time Store, it has a lot of great old recipes in it about all kind of things -- from furniture cleaners, air fresheners, toilet bowl cleaners, linaments for colds and arthritis, rubs to help nerve pain and circulation, old-timey candies, toys, etc ... SOOOO, if you ever wanted to know how to make an old fashioned 'anything' ask me!! And I'll see if the... [More]

I hope everyone is having a good Sunday. I'm a little upset with my daughter. I watch my gdaughter, Gracie just about all of the time. I've asked my daughter a few times to just let me raise Gracie (at least for a while until my daugher gets things together) but she refuses. I told her it would just be between us -- no papers and no one has to know.That way I can get Gracie on a routine and regular scheldule. Which would make it easier on both of us -- and then when my daughter gets ... [More]

Sorry ya'll, I took a little break away from the blog entries, I've missed all of you I'll be making my rounds today. Not much happening -- same ole' same ole They arrested another person for animal cruelty, a copycat -- dragging his poor horse behind his car. The horse is being treated. I really don't understand people. How and why do they hurt innocent animals. Why can't they just offer the animal to someone who will take care of it? Then we got some ... [More]

How many of you watched "The Hawking's Paradox" last night? Wow! That man is one mean genius, whether you agree with his findings or not, you can't deny Stephen Hawking's unbelievable physicist's brain *laugh* Not only is he stubborn when it comes to his, "prove me wrong", attitude about physics -- he is also the same way physically. Thirty years ago he was diagnosed with Lou Gherrigs(sp?) Disease. The doctors gave him two years to live. Well, he may be severel... [More]

(Okay, so maybe the men won't care to read this Maybe next entry You'll never run out of pictures for scrapbooking your baby and toddler. This article will give you even more ideas for layouts. The themes for layouts are endless. Pay attention to your surroundings and pick up creative ideas from all around you. Leaves outside that your toddler can't quit looking at – a page about their favorite cartoons, and them interacting with the show, etc. . . can be found. Below is a lis... [More]

Well my daughter seems to be getting serious with the guy's she's with now. I had a feeling when she got with him, it was going to be a serious relationship -- it's going on about 5 mths, now. They're talking about moving in with each other after the new year. Gracie, my granddaughter, is starting to call him, Dad (as her real Dad has never even seen her) - ASSHOLE! He pays child support, erratically -- and calls and writes a lot, but has never made the 6 hour trip to come see he... [More]

Has your dog been laying around, moping about the house and just in general acting like she's not feeling well? She may have a cold, or if she's a little older in years, she may be feeling the weather in her bones. Animals are much like humans in the way that they show illness. They all have their good and bad days, just like any of us do. They also have times when they have a bug, and just need to relax and drink lots of fluids. Do you have a thermometer and Buffered Aspirin, (children&... [More]

Hey, Just a quick hello, with a couple of great links to share. Check out my photos (if you haven't already) at: http://community.webshots.com/user/intuey I put the pictures up I was telling ya'll I had of some more photo anomalies. Also, I got the video from 's blog. It brought tears to my eyes. You have to watch this beautiful video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4 Enjoy! And ya'll have a great and fun weekend ... [More]

Hey everyone, Sorry I've lost touch for so long. So much going on. I have been busy, busy, busy I'm looking forward to visiting everyone's blogs to see what's been going on with ya'll, during my absense. I hope everyone has been doing okay. I have really been concern about our earth's health. Things seem to be deteriorating at an alarming rate. In all of our world's bodies of water, we are seeing serious trouble. Wetlands, coral reefs, shell fish beds, etc ... a... [More]

I'm not kidding, ya'll. This is definitely an unexplained flying object(s). I took it from my backyard a few nights ago. I live about 15 miles from Gulf Breeze, Florida, which is one of the top places for the UFO sightings. Of course I believe a lot of those sightings have to do with our military bases, where they do do a lot of experiments. Two of the objects are very easily seen, the third is above the main two and the fourth is to the left by the tree -- the other two just look like a... [More]

Hey everyone! I've really missed you all. My computer gave out on me. It's so good to be back~ I didn't think I was ever going to get it back. I'll be taking care of all the things I'm behind on because of it - please bear with me just a bit longer. Missed you all~ Tracey... [More]

If the unthinkable happened and God decided today was the day to call you or one of your loved ones home. Would the person/s responsible for final arrangements know what to do, what to say, where all the papers are kept, where your safety deposit box/key is kept, and all other things that are important? Do you have things left unsaid that you would not want to leave this earth without telling that special person? We don't like to think about things like this, but we need to. The only thing t... [More]

We were able to finally bury Norma yesterday. The service was short, but nice. We started it off by playing Elton John's "Candle in the Wind" Her name was Norma Lou, but she always said her name was Norma Jean- lol. It was beautiful. This is the poem I read for her: God looked around his garden, And he found an empty place. He then looked down upon this Earth, And saw your tired face. He put his arms around you, And lifted you to rest. God's garden must be beautiful, H... [More]

I'll Fly Away- Allison Krauss (among many artists) Some glad morning when this life is o'er, I'll fly away; To THAT home on God's celestial shore, I'll fly away. Chorus I'll fly away, Oh Glory I'll fly away; (in the morning) When I die, Hallelujah, by and by, I'll fly away. When the shadows of this life have gone, I'll fly away; Like a bird from these prison walls I'll fly, I'll fly away. Chorus I'll fly away, Oh Glory I'... [More]

Haven't been on in the last couple of days, but literally a minute or two I see we have some new merit badges Very cool! It looks like there's a flicker of light in the horizon. Won't go into the details- I just want to lay it all to rest, put it to peace and let her rest. My nights have been haunted -- I can't hardly close my eyes. It's been a very busy and emotional last 8 days. Especially the last couple of days. My sister and I have just about collapsed with al... [More]

Shit! This is getting so freaking ridiculous. We were suppose to give David, Norma's husband, yesterday to come into the funeral home and sign over rights. Then if he didn't Megan, her daughter, was suppose to give us permission, and we could handle it that way. Now, they are freaking saying that we have to still have David's signature, with Megan's!!! That we may have to fu**ing go to court to get rights!!!!!!!!!!1 I don't know how much more my nerves can take. Xanex has ... [More]

For those who have been sending me emails, cNotes, flowers, thought and prayers (((thank you))) You don't know how much it means to me. It really touches my heart and is helping me through. Please don't feel like you have to leave a message -- you have already done so way more than enough!! I just thought I'd let ya'll know what's happening. We still haven't put her to rest. A bunch of crap going on where her husband is playing games. We called the medical examin... [More]

This is my sister the short time she was clean, just a couple of months ago. I want to thank everyone for your well wishes and prayers. We have been having a long on-going fight for some time, since she went back to her sorry ex-husband. We knew she would be back on the drugs again if she went back- and she did. She stayed 3 years in prison for stealing a bathing suit while she was high (she had a previous record and wouldn't take the plea deal -- so she gambled and lost) but those 3 ... [More]