June 19th Update

Hey Ya'll!!

Chemo #6 was yesterday, today (the 19th) is my birthday!!

Recap thus far:
Chemotherapy 1-3 followed pretty much the same timeline, and same side effects. 4 kicked my butt with constipation, hot flashes, pain, and fatigue for what felt like forever. 5 I had a little bone pain, hardly noticed it, and only lasted the day, that was it. Just had 6, the benadryl hit hard, and I actually slept for a little over an hour during treatment, that's never happened before...

So far I'm in a love/hate relationship with neulasta on board today. She put it further back so I keep bumping it into everything, doesn't hurt, just annoying. And could not get to sleep last night do to it's super slow green strobe light/dying flashlight glow every 5 seconds, and the steroid &menopause hot flashes. Glad it's only on for a total of 29hrs, meds start at 27hr mark and run for around 45min to an hour, remove an hour after that. The neulasta has been doing its job though, and that's what really matters.

I'll have a scan in 5wks to see how chemo has worked. If all is well, I'll see my gyno oncologist team every 3mo for 2 yrs, then every 6mo for 3 more. (A total of 5yrs.)
If chemo hasn't done the job/hasn't finished the job in 6 treatments, we will discuss further treatment options.

Pics from yesterday/today can be seen here:
Helping Out


Have a great day!
CraftinWife

What I've Been Working On!

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Haven't been working on much, been kinda lazy. I feel perfectly fine, just too busy vegging out to YouTube.

I did finish my mom's door since she plans to list in the not so distant future. (Her roof is metal, and green, and her siding is a light yellow, everything is accented in a medium/dark brown.)

I used Cricut removable vinyl in Yellow from the Tropical Sampler, and (Bright) Green from The Paper Studio. The green was almost impossible to work with. It didn't want to weed, or stick to anything but me, LOL. I do have more The Paper Studio vinyl, and I'll use it up, or at least attempt to, but depending on how that goes I don't plan to purchase it again. Anyone else have trouble with it?






Other than that I've been playing around in Cricut Design Space quite a bit, here's a small sampling of stuff I'm designing:

What have you been working on?

Have a great day,
Craftin'Wife

BIRTHDAY HAUL!!

Hey Ya'll!! 

I decided to post this over here because it's so much easier to add photos here.

Makeup!!!!

 Sephora B-Day gift, Point spend, and bought the Supergoop Setting Mist.

 More Sephora!

 Supergoop! Pretty Vulgar Blush, & Anastasia Lipgloss

 Jeffree's Morphe Palette!

 Lots of TooFaced! Plus more.

 Juvia's Place!

 More makeup!

 All the makeup!!!!

Cricut Disney Vinyl!!

My Birthday is the 19th,  this Friday. Tomorrow, the 18th is Chemo #6! 

Have a great day,

~Craftin'Wife

Posted A New Blog

Crafty Blog Posted Here:
http://craftinwifescreations.com/

From now on everything will be posted on the site linked above.

~CraftinWife

New Site

New blog posted here:

craftinwifescreations.com

~CraftinWife

Not Monday, Not Crafty..

Hey Ya'll!


Yesterday, 4/27/20, my Dad's dog passed away. Instead of blogging we spent the day with my Mom, sister, & her family out at my sisters house (where Boots was buried).

Regular blog will return tomorrow, at my new site:http://craftinwifescreations.com/
(Monday=Craft related, Wednesday=Beauty related, & sometimes Friday=Life/anything goes.)



Have a great day,

Craftin'Wife

Something I noticed while doing home clean up.. Clothing sizes

Hey ya'll!


"Vanity sizing, or size inflation, is the phenomenon of ready-to-wear clothing of the same nominal size becoming bigger in physical size over time. This has been documented primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom." 

I noticed while cleaning out the closet that I had to try on almost everything, even though I've lost 50+ lbs.
Anything from a 12-18 currently fits sometimes, but not always, depending on brand, cut, style, etc.

I have 2 pair of shorts, for example, both from Old Navy, one is a 14 and fits perfectly, the other a 16 and those are a little tight. How is bigger smaller?

I could care less about the number, same goes for most women I know, we just want some consistency! Heck I'd be happy to be consistent in brand at least. 

It goes past vanity sizing at this point.

I found these articles on the subject interesting.

Why isn't there standard clothing sizing?
https://extranewsfeed.com/why-clothing-sizes-aren-t-standard-8134acdd6e9c

https://time.com/how-to-fix-vanity-sizing/

https://www.thredup.com/bg/p/vanity-sizing?tswc_redir=true


Thoughts? Insite? Share in the comments below!


Have a great day,
~Craftin'Wife