Journal page # 8

The background with peach, blue-green and black reminded me of the 50's. And I could not think of a thing to do with the pages...so I looked at them for two days...the first thing was to ink in the butterfly and flowers.....I liked it, but how do I stay with the theme getting my weight off...then it hit me that I had seen charts where ladies were large down to small. And the rest fell into place. Have a great weekend...Hugs, Mary

I just love my Dentist:(

After 21/2 hours in the chair....well you know what I mean. Today my mouth feels like a car crash. My Dentist is a cutie pie! Keep that drill out of my mouth!!!! Oh well, tomorrow is another day!

sometimes we just have to cry! page #7

This is a digital page I did today....I will probably put it in my Journal. Have you ever had a day where you just had to cry, to many thoughts, or maybe behind the smile things are happening that you just can't share. Today was about tears, and sometimes it is a good thing. So I made this page with the understanding that tomorrow is another day, and everything will be fine. But a good cry can be healing...so if you find yourself needed to shed a few tears....it is a good thing.

Journal page 6

I started with the checked background and had no idea what I was going to do with it. On this gray day, it was bright and boy I needed color! click to enlarge:) Have a wonderful weekend!

In tht Land of Sandra Dee...just for fun!

Sandra Dee... Long ago and far away,
in a land that time forgot,
before the days of Dylan
or the dawn of Camelot.

There lived a race of innocents,
and they were you and me,
long ago and far away
In the Land of Sandra Dee.

Oh, there was truth and goodness
In that land where we were born,
where navels were for oranges,
and Peyton Place was porn.

For Ike was in the White House,
And Hoss was on TV,
And God was in his heaven
in the land of Sandra Dee.

We spread our crinolines to dry
In circles on the Lawn,
All starched and sprayed and rustling
In the land of Sandra Dee.

We longed for love and romance,
and waited for the prince,
Then Eddie Fisher married Liz,
and no one's seen him since.

We danced to "Little Darlin"
And sang to "Stagger Lee'
we cried for Buddy Holly
In the land of Sandra Dee.

Only girls wore earrings then,
and three was one too many,
when only guys wore flat-top cuts,
In the land of Sandra Dee.

Not even in our wildest dreams
Did we expect to see
A boy named George with lipstick
In the land of Sandra Dee.

We fell for Frankie Avalon,
Annette was oh, so nice,
And when they made a movie,
they may have kissed just twice.

Miss Kitty had a heart of gold,
And Chester had a limp,
And Reagan was a Democrat
whose co-star was a chimp.

We had a Mr. Wizard,
but not a Mr. T,
And Oprah couldn't talk yet
In the land of Sandra Dee.

We had our share of heroes,
we never thought they'd go,
at least not Bobby Darin,
or Marilyn Monroe.
And Elvis was forever,
In the land of Sandra Dee.

We'd never seen the rock band
that was Grateful to be Dead,
Beatles lived in gardens then,
And Monkees in a tree
And the Madonna was a virgin,
In the land of Sandra Dee.

We'd never heard of Microwaves,
or cell phones,
And babies "grown" in Jars,
And Gay meant fancy-free,
And Microchips were what was left
at the bottom of the bag.

Hardware was a box of nails,
and bytes came from a flea,
and our rocket ships were fiction
In the land of Sandra Dee.

Bathing suits came big enough
To cover both your cheeks,
Coke came just in bottles,
and skirts came to the knee,
we had no crest with Fluoride,
or prime-time ads for condoms
In the land of Sandra Dee.

Middle-age was thirty-five
And old was forty-three
And ancient were our parents,
And now I get invitations
to join AARP,
we've come a long way Baby,
From the land of Sandra Dee.

So now we face a brave new world
In "slightly" larger jeans,
And we wonder why they're using
Smaller print in our magazines.

We tell our children's children
of the way it used to be,
Long ago and far away
In the land of Sandra Dee.

Journal page #5

I have learned so much doing these pages... I am still a little unsure of myself while doing them, but they are healing. In the search for what I want to say brings out thoughts I needed to put down in word and graphic. I continue to fight for my good health and the idea of some new clothes when I am ready. But we will save that thought for another time. With the sent of Roses and the love I have been given....I wish you the best of days with the hope that my adventure is interesting along with a little creativity. click to enlarge:)

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change.

Homemade Hearts

Lynn at Getting my Feet Wet wanted us to show as many hearts as we could find around our house. And since I made hearts with Lavender in them I thought this might be my found hearts.

Happy Valentines Day...I heart Ya!!!

Happy Valentines Day....Winter Olympic's

I have on my parka, and my snow boots....ready for the opening of the games. Arney and I love the Olympic games. I think my favorite is the figure skating. But for now we are getting ready to watch the opening night, always beautiful to watch. A cup of hot chocolate would teaste really good right now.

So what are your plans for your Valentine. I am backing cookies and using snow sprinkles to decorate them. They are a shortbread cook, or butter cookie. No big plans right now, so we will see what the day brings. I didn't go to lunch with the girls today. So spent the morning on the phone with Trevor. He is doing good, but it will take time. He goes in for Therapy this month, that is never easy. I haven't done another page yet in my Journal...but I have lost 15 pounds, people say they see it in my face and neck right now. So I continue, working to get that first 30 pounds off before I see my doctor. I hope you know that you are all a Valentine in my heart. Have a great day... she is yours to take.

Journal page 4 and California Coast

Don't you just love Valentines...you walk in the store and everything is red....Love is in the air! No candy for me this year. I have had a few hard moments and I have cheated a couple of times, but I think it is apart of the journey. I need to feel this in a personal way, I can pick myself up and dust off the sugar and start over again. I got out the sewing machine and did some of my stash of paper and made the striped background in reds. It is so true, you want to do more and more of them. Click to enlarge:) I want to thank everyone who commented on page 2 and 3...it means so much to me. Everyone has a story, it was healing to share this, to write the words even though it was painful. I almost didn't send it. Trust! I am working on that....
Arney bought me this a few days ago on line. I got it yesterday. It is a DVD of the coast of California. I can put it on the TV and spin away on my bike. I really didn't like the background music, so I will play something else while I am spinning down the Virtual Reality Road..

Journal pages 2 and 3

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Once upon a time there was a little girl who tried to please everyone but could not. She was lonely and afraid because she believed that she was Bad. Nothing ever lasted, if she became happy there was fear in that moment. Even though there were people who loved her, she never trusted that feeling. Love came with large amounts of mental pain. She often could not catch her own breath, and her heart would beat so fast that she thought it would come out of her chest. She was a lost child, and there are so many of them walking around wondering why they were left by there parents. What did she do wrong, wasn't she pretty enough, was she unlovable so they left her behind. Where they just to young to understand that the things they did would leave holes that could never be filled. And when they decided to bring this little girl into their life, anger took the place of the love she had been given by her care givers, her Grandparents. I would have loved to have talked to that little girl, tell her that she was worth something, that she was a good person and one day she would grow up and someone special would find her and love her forever.

My Arney

I go to church, but I left the SDA church when I was 14.

Woolworth

When I found this menu it took me back to a time when I would get a cherry coke or a ice cream at the cafe' within the store. It was one of my favorite places to go. My Mother would buy fabric or yarn most of the time. I remember the money would go into a tube of some kind and go up to a person on the second floor...that was really cool. This menu is from the 1950's. They had penny candy and popcorn too, it was fun looking at the glass jars of goodies. I can remember making that popcorn last all day. You could smell it the minute you came through the door. My Grandpa loved the cafe', he would be with us sometimes...he would get a cup of coffee, they filled it over and over for the price of the first cup. My little sister almost always had a little brown bag of candy when we got home, Grandpa loved to by candy for us kids. If you had a quarter, it got ya a lot. I remember when Mama decided we could have a couple of Turtles. You could smell the Hamsters, the fish and the turtles as you went toward the back of the store. She bought a glass or plastic bowl with a island with a Palm tree in the middle. You put water in the bowl and they could swim or go up on the island. We thought they were really cute, gathered flies to feed them. I know we named them but I can't remember the names. Our cat was interested in them too, so we had to keep watch over them. We had gold fish too, the bowl was always cloudy, you could hardly see them. We would get all nerves when they would flop onto the floor while cleaning the bowl. It was always sad when you found one floating on it's back in the bowl, Mama would flush the poor things down the toilet, I thought that was wrong, just wrong. So here is my little memories of the Woolworth...I hope you are having a wonderful day.
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