Monday, March 30, 2020

Quarantine and Crafting...

Hey ya'll!

First I wanted to share a few freebies I've been enjoying during this time:
(Not Sponsored.)

First is this adorable digital stamp from The Greeting Farm, Social Distance Anya, free for a limited time. (Was still available at the posting of this blog.)

Second is a mostly craft class website (Bluprint) that I've been using a lot to learn new tips, tricks and techniques. They do also have kid friendly classes, and classes on cooking, and gardening. Seriously, like 1400 online classes, all FREE until 4/9. (With no C/C needed.) 

There are tons of freebies out there, especially at this current time, these are just my two current favorites.


What I've been working on:

Starting to plan the week in my kikki.k planner. This is my first kikki.k planner, and I think I finally found a planner size that works for me! The bigger ones seemed to be to bulky, I didn't need that much space per page and they were near impossible to take with me. The smaller thinner ones were too small and didn't give me enough room to write ( I write fairly large, always have.)





My Warrior mug! Made with one out of a set of 4 clearance to-go cups from Walmart, my Cricut, and some Cricut brand Holographic Vinyl!
(If interested in a how to leave a comment below!)




Lastly this week is my constant WIP (work in progress). The CRAFT ROOM!!
It's a mess! Cleaning this up is going to be a project, but I'll post updates as I go. I'm working on purging things I haven't used, deciding what crafts I want to continue to do, and getting the rest put away and organized. 






What crafts, or other projects have you been doing this week? Please share below!


Thanks,
Craftin'Wife

Friday, March 27, 2020

Wow.. I knew it had been awhile.. A lots happened since then..

I don't even know where to begin. So real real long story somewhat shorter.

Lost my job in June 2019, company closed that location, all other locations too far to travel on the daily.
Around December started feeling real ill, but hoped it would pass, plus I have white coat syndrome, lol. By mid- January 2020 it was obvious this wasn't going to happen. Made a doctors appointment, Feb 7th, was sent for a bunch of tests, and super abbreviated version here spent over a week in the hospital to remove a HUGE tumor, and ended up also having a hysterectomy. At follow up (Feb 25th) we found out I have Endometrial Cancer Stage 3C.

(If you want to know more of what happened you can read the story and updates here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-wife-amanda-beat-cancer)

Yesterday was Chemo #2. So far I feel great day of, and day 2. Day 3 and 4 last time I was tired and bone pain, then pretty much on the up swing again. My chemo's are 3 wks apart.

On the days I'm feeling good I'm crafting again, something I was too busy to do much of while working full time, then even more so to get the store closed and cleaned out.

Hubby got me Birchbox (1yr) for Christmas, haven't played with everything yet, but look forward to each one.

I plan to blog twice a week for now, Monday & Wednesday. One craft related, one beauty related, occasionally a third for the week, kind of a  what's going on blog, on Friday's if there is one. After a few weeks I'll evaluate and see if more are a possibility.

Thanks for reading, cant wait to share with you all again!

~CraftinWife