Our Home...

Our home is in danger.  Not from invaders or wildfires, or natural disasters, but from a much more insidious villain.  Money.  You see, in order to keep our home ours, we need money.  Pots and pots of it.  My siblings are talking about selling it, and I’m simply not in a position that I can buy it at the moment.  And I really, _REALLY_ want to be able to buy it.  We’ve started a GoFundMe (link HERE) to try to buy it, but so far, we haven’t even made 1¢...  its really disheartening, and I’m seriously afraid we’re going to lose our home, and have nowhere else to go to live.  It’s really scary to think about...

But on the bright side, my old man still loves me, so I have that going for me.  lol

Wow!

So.  Remember the embroidery stuff I’ve been working on?  Well, someone asked me to make her one that she could then appliqué onto a pillow.  I gave her a price, she was happy with it, and off I went to start working on it.  It wasn’t terribly difficult, I don’t think it even took me 2 hours of total work to complete it, and when it was done she LOVED it.  So I’m glad of that!  And here it is, in all its glory.  It really is a simple project, but it made her happy, and that’s what matters.  🙂

I hadn’t unhooped it yet when I took this picture, as you can tell, but I’m glad I could make someone smile with something so simple.  It really is the little things that can make all the difference.

Finally!

Well!  I’ve been working on an embroidery project for several weeks now, and I am pleased to say that I am FINALLY finished with it!  It was much more detailed than the simple ones I made for my sister and friend, but SOOO worth it!  And I’ll admit that several times I put it down and didn’t touch it for days/ weeks at a time, but now that it’s done, I can show it off!

It took so much to get this done, but I’m so proud of it, too!  I just hope the intended recipient likes it when she gets it!

Glasses

So, among other things, I wear glasses.  This isn’t unusual, a great many people do these days.  However, when I went for my exam this year, I found myself admitting to looking under and taking off my glasses entirely so as to see things up close.  So the eye doctor recommended I get... bifocals.  😳  I was not best pleased with this plan, but at the same time I kinda understood the need for them.  I do a lot of up-close work, especially when I’m working on an embroidery project, so it kinda made sense.  

Well, I picked them up Monday afternoon, and have been attempting to adjust to them.  They’re WEIRD!  And I find I keep running into “the line” at the top, where they change from regular glasses to readers, and that just makes things worse.  But I haven’t gotten a headache from them (yet, lol), so I suppose that’s a good thing.  It’s just adjusting to them that’s taking me some time.  I had to drive to Tallahassee on Monday, so THAT was certainly an interesting experience.  I kept trying to look through the reader portion while driving, but everything just looked blurry.  lol

But having decent vision up close is slightly surreal.  I don’t think I’ve had that in ages, not since before I started wearing glasses, in fact. So here’s an obligatory picture of me with my new specs, what do you think?  🙂