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Sunday, January 26, 2014

This is a Personal Blog so lets get Personal!

This is very personal information, so if you are offended I'm sorry. But I hope this will help someone else besides me.

I have been dealing with some personal issues for many years now. Doctors have not had any good advice, I tend get what is called Sebaceous Cysts. (laymans terms- Boils in the nether regions) I have had 5 lanced or cut out at one time. NOT fun!!! Told for over 20 years, I'm crazy, need to talk to someone professional ... etc.. They had no idea why or how to help. So I turned to the internet for some help.

Can't remember where I read it but back in 1999 I read that some women were getting relief by shaving. Again not what I would consider fun at all, mighty uncomfortable really. But it did help. My Dr said it shouldn't matter if I shaved or not, that I was imagining it helping. Well if I went without shaving for 1 week to 10 days I would have boils.

Just found out from a Urologist I don't have bladder cancer I have bladder ulcers. (Never thought I'd be happy to have ulcers) But I am. He told me that the boils are Staph infection of the Hair Follicles, and it makes perfect sense that if you shave it keeps them down. He told me that if I use a soap called
Phisoderm regularly I should be able to stop shaving and not have the boils. Talk about happy!!
I got good news for 2 problems by 1 Dr that is so caring and professional. I just love him!
Well I am now at 5 days without shaving hopefully I will be done with that!

Hope everyone has a wonderful day and has some good news no matter how you are feeling.
XO Nana

Come check out the FUN!!!

Oh you just have to come check out the new fun days at Card Making Paradise
http://www.cardmakingparadise.com/how_to_make_paper_beads.html
The new fun project is so cool and a great way to use up scraps too. So come and join in the fun!!
XO Nana

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Warning!!! Watch out for scammers

My mom saw an advertisement for some anti wrinkle cream she thought my sister would like. So she read the statement on the site and ordered it. (See below from website) She didn't realize there was more to the Terms than what she saw posted. They charged her almost $200.00. I called and got hung up on 3 times before I finally got a call through. Then was put on hold for over 10 minutes so hung up and dialed again. I got through... FINELY!!! Well the person didn't speak English very well and was upset that he had to repeat himself (sorry!) But CLEARLY stated No Refund! So... Click on all terms and make sure before you follow through with any online purchase, if nothing else research the product too. As this one brings up a lot of Scammer reports.

One is Equinox Serum and the other is Ski Prime wrinkle free. They didn't giver her a confirmation number or anything for a receipt for when she bought it, read below... Get number from bank statement..
Don't know about you but most Banks are paper free or the statement only comes once a month so you are buggered before it comes.

So good rule of thumb----- "If it Sounds TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE~~~ It usually is"
Hope your week is better.... XO Nana

Also the heads up, you get billed from the UK and one is from CA and the other is UT and I checked the shipping and it came from WA.

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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

An Update on the Chickens and Geese

Here are a few pictures of our babies... Not babies anymore. LOL We have 2 roosters, I love to hear them crow.  Today they were competing on which one was better I think as they kept taking turns crowing and chasing the girls. HA ha Typical rooster. The one is Rudy, he is a Gorgeous rooster and the other well.... we weren't sure if it was a hen or a rooster at first as he has no spurs, and just got his comb and waddle all the sudden. He is Cousin Itt... You will understand when you scroll down and see him. Rudy is a brother to Itt, Prissy, Little Girl and one more. Forgot to get a picture of 2 of the hens. Mama (an Australorp) is the one that hatched these out. Itt and one other had mohawks and if they didn't look funny. We called the black hen with the mohawk Hohawk, but a dog killed her. One of the Barred Rocks vanished. Have no idea as there were no feathers or anything.. Out of the ones we bought 2 barred rocks, 2 Rhode Island Reds, and 2 Ameraucana we have 3 left. Sweetheart is a Barred Rock, (Red is a RIR but forgot to get a picture of her) and Gorgeous Flame is a Ameraucana.




 Sweetheart is a Barred Rock
Mama is an Australorp




 Little Girl
 Prissy
                                         
3 Japanese Bantams AKA The Buff Sisters. HA ha ha
And these are the goosers... Not sure if male or female 
But have a suspension that 2 of them are males.. nasty temper and they hiss a lot!
Their knobs on their heads are big too. Not sure if they are African Geese or Chinese Geese.
If you have any comments on breads or anything feel free. I love to learn different things about critters.
Well have a good week, tomorrow is Hump Day!
Hopefully it will be the start of a better year. Can you believe is it 2014?

Sunday, December 22, 2013

You are my Sunshine!!!!

I have such fond memories of this song. Mama use to sing it to us when we were real little. Then when we were old enough we would all sing it together, in round or harmony. (kind of) ;-) I taught it to my boys too. It is a family song, now even Felix sings it with me. When I am down and having a hard time missing the boys or when I would miss mom I would sing this song and bring a smile to my face. (I know where else huh...)
I have a stack of paper I got years ago and never used. I finely decided to use some. I wanted to make the box from the earlier post but didn't want to use paper I really liked in case I messed up the first time. And I have a whole stack of this paper so.... And I love it!! I am keeping this one for myself. I am going to make my mom one with the Chrysanthemums from the previous post. Will post a pix when done.
Well enough chatter... here is the box.

Kind of cute if I do say so myself. 
Have a great weekend!~Nana

Paper Chrysanthemum

I told you last night I would share these, I just love the way they turned out. Will be great to use on lots of things too! Tutorial - Chrysanthemen aus Papier by Steffi Nitzpon  These ladies are so much fun to listen to too. I don't understand German, but they are having so much fun together, I smiled through the whole clip. Enjoy!!  Now here are a couple of pictures of mine.



If you make some, have fun. I sure did. I cheated a bit too. I used my Cricut to cut out the scalloped circles. I was able to get 9 flowers out of one 8 1/2 inch by 11 inch piece of card. Not bad...
XO Nana

Some more boxes

All-righty then.... Here is where I got the tutorial and instructions to make these lovely lovely gift boxes.
http://flowersribbonsandpearls.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/the-origami-box-tutorials.html

Too Cool of her to share huh! Well looky here at some pretties too
http://gardenpinks.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/origami-gift-boxes/  Lynn did a beautiful job on her boxes. Gave me a push to try and finish some of mine. Been half done since Felix was here last. And have yet to photo the first box which I claimed as my own. I'll share why when I get pictures of it.
On with the pictures....





 

I love making these boxes. Keeps my mind and hands doing some thing pretty and good.

I've really been fighting the blues lately. Not seen the sun in a few days and having a difficult time dealing with the deaths of more friends. Well it is almost 3 am and I need some sleep. Been working on some chrysanthemums for cards. Will get pictures of them and a link to the video of how to make them. 
Night Night! XOXO Nana