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We bought some fancy smancy carpet shampooing solution and tried that on the carpet.  It still smells awful, so we’ve come to the conclusion a section of the carpet must come out too.  So, we went to Lowe’s today to look at our options, and we checked on the extra pieces of carpet left over […]

{New look}
Decided it was time for the blog to switch over to fall.  I made a new banner for my store and for an ad in the upcoming Sept SBB newsletter, so thought I’d use it for the blog too.  Everything used on this one is from my new kit “Autumn Splendor” that will be […]

Ahhh jeeze!
Here I thought moving away from the coast and to the MIDWEST, I moved away from hurricanes, and today I found a section of my carpet in the basement soaked!!! The basement is wet from all the rain we had for about 3 days straight…we had some storms that passed through and already soaked […]

I’ve been sleeping a LOT and doing almost nothing now for sooo long.  It’s hard to motivate myself to really get back into the groove and do things that I should be starting to pick up again.  I haven’t really had a lot of pain.  The pain meds did a pretty good job keeping that […]

I got home about 2:30 or 3 PM today, walked around the house a bit and then finally went to nap a little and let the drugs take over. Had some dinner, and then even ran to Michael’s with the family to get some frames for some photos I’m entering into the photography contest tomorrow.  […]

Please keep me in your prayers as I go in for my surgery now in about 13 hours.  Pray that this goes smoothly, and remains a simple laparoscopy (yes, I realize that surgery is still surgery, but I’d rather take the couple of days recovery over an actual incision again and 4-6 WEEKS of recovery).  […]

Sept 1 Store Releases from Sarah VanDyke:
Wallpaper Templates updated to include 2008 AND 2009 date overlays now.
2008 and 2009 Wallpaper Template date overlays available now individually as well.
Commercial Use versions of my Snappy Scraps Calendar and Wallpaper Templates.
Happy Labor Day to those of you in the US!!