It's Monday again.

No matter what happens, Monday morning always comes, doesn't it? Mine was an early one as my DH left for a business trip and I had an early Doctor's appointment. And here it is after 6:00 p.m. and I'm still at the studio. I have a festival this weekend and I'm painting things for it. I'm taking some windows, glasses, crochet items, clay items, and whatever I can get my hands on. I'll take some photos and post them. I just hope that it is a good festival for me and that it helps to get my name out in the surrounding areas.

You know, it is the small things in life that are blessings. And I've got to tell you that I am blessed each day by a kind word or a promise of a prayer from all of my blogging buddies. You will never know how much your words mean to me, and they seem to always come at the right time. Thank you.

Yesterday DH and I went and spent some money. Guess what we got? We bought bikes. Now we started looking at bikes back in January and then when we decided to move we realized that there is a bike path all over the area and that made our desire for a bike even stronger. The ones that we were looking at were around 300 dollars, and that is without the accessories, I need a basket so I can take Myles with me. Well, yesterday we went to Wal-Mart and bought two bikes, a basket for Myles, a bell for my bike, and a bike carrier for the car and we still got out for less than one of the other bikes would have cost us. Now why do I share this with you? Because, months ago we would have paid the big bucks and not thought anything about it, but now we stop and think about what we are doing, do we really need it, and we keep reminding ourselves that we don't need the best of everything. I was so proud or ourselves yesterday. I really was.

Okay, that is it for now, just wanted to share my thoughts with you. Have a blessed week.
Charlie

Taking a blessing when it walks through the door.

Hi, I was sitting here filling out forms for a show, second time mailing them because the first ones never got there, and wondering how I was going to get to the post office because people were actually coming in the studio today to look around. I was sitting there when I looked up and one of my sweet ladies came in to get her supplies for next weeks lesson and she said that she would take them to the post office for me. What an Angel. Okay, that's all, just wanted to share my blessing with you.
Believing,
Charlie

It's Monday, a new week.

Hi, thank you so much to all of you that have sent me prayers and best wishes. Leaving our home is not an easy thing to do, but we are working on it. Today I spent the day going thru my clothes, and I am so disappointed in myself. As I was going thru them, dividing them into 3 categories, I found so many that I have never worn and that still had the tags on them. What a waste of money. Some were things that I let others talk me into getting, I've got to learn to say no, and stick with my own taste. whatever that might be. And the shoes......some have never been worn. I've got to tell you, this whole experience is teaching me a lot of different things and I hope to be a much better person when we come out on the other side. I feel like I only need a few shirts, jeans, one or two dresses or skirts and a couple pair of shoes. Nothing fancy or much to the extreme. I'm a simple person and I only need simple things. I think. LOL.

Anyway, I wanted to let you all know that my friend Sandy is having a giveaway for her 300th post, so go visit her and enter. You will love what she is giving away.

take care,
and I'm still believing.
Charlie

Please be careful, a virus is being passed along.

Hi,

Last night I posted for the first time in a month, and I got, what I thought was a nice comment, a virus. I was so scared, I have never gotten one like that before. Thank God my anti-virus thing on the computer caught it. I am so sorry to anyone that came on my site and clicked the same comment and got a virus. It has been deleted and is now gone. Shame on the ones that send out viruses, especially in a place like blog land where we all just want to share our lives and interest with others.

take care,

Charlie

Pictures from Dewberry Designs.

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Here are some photos from Donna's home. Just want you to see how she incorporates her art in her home.

Sometimes life is just too much.

Hello, Yes, I'm still here. My plate has just been so full for the last month that I haven't had the energy to even come in here and write. I am so sorry. I guess you might say that I'm dealing with a little bit of depression too, and that has a tendency to make you tired and to lose all interest in your activities. I will try to get you caught up on my life really fast, don't want to bore anyone out there in blog land. Okay, here goes.

My husband and I are losing our home. Yes, you read it right. He is in the building business and it has died in our area, has been dead for a while and we have held on to the things for as long as we could but about a month ago, maybe a little longer, we decided that we just couldn't do it anymore and made the decision to let the house go. We are getting a modular and putting it on a piece of land that we own, and we will just start over. I have been spending the last month going thru all of our things and making three piles. 1. things that we need to keep, 2. things to sell, and 3. things to let go of all the way. This has been interesting, I still have things from high school. I love having things that meant a lot to me in the past, but now I'm at the point of do I keep them or let them go. We are going from a house that is over 3000 sq. feet, plus a garage, storage unit, and a huge back yard with hot tube and swimming pool to a small modular with not much land at all. So I am really trying to downsize things. Then I'm running out of time. Time is short here in the house, but the modular hasn't even begun to be set on the lot yet. I'm concerned about where we will go. But then I have been given more time than I thought, so that is a blessing in itself. Let's be honest here, I never ever thought that this could happen to us. We have always done pretty good, nice homes, cars, and could get pretty much anything that we wanted. Whoa, talk about a wake up call. but I have to tell you, I am believing that God will use this in a special way. This is one of our valleys that we are walking thru, and like the Bible tells us, this shall come to pass.

My trip to Florida was nice, but it was hard because I kept getting phone calls all the time about what was happening back here at home. but I've got to tell you, Sandy, my roommate and friend that is in Ga., and Donna was wonderful to me. God blessed me that week with the two of them. And I learned so much. Sandy and I were invited to Donna's house on Tuesday night for a chocolate tasting, check the link for the healthy chocolate on the right of my blog, and her house is wonderful. You just feel comfortable when you walk in, and at the same time you are so busy trying to take everything in. Sandy and I were both amazed at all the paintings that were in here house. I mean, the things that you see in her books are really in her house. I loved it. And, i really need to tell you this, Donna is such a special person. Her heart is so big, and she truly cares about her OSCI and students. I was fortunate to sit with her for two meals, and I just love her. And she is so funny. Really. The certification for the HD paints was the first one, and it was hard. We painted about 12 hours a day, for three days. To me it was hard, this is something that I've never really done before. But I learned and have already been playing with it some at home. I will post some pictures soon.

Well, I'm going to go for now. I've taken some sleeping pills and need to go to sleep. Tomorrow is a new day and the sun will be shining.
Believing,
Charlie