A Day In My Life

One Line a Day...

One of my PROJECTS for the year is to continue keeping my journal that i started after reading this book:

It has a completely different take on the daily "gratitude" list and it truly changed my life and way of thinking last year.  Plus it has been great documentation of the stuff...good and bad... that has gone on since I was diagnosed with barrett's Esophagus, and Scott was left out of work due to this injury. BUT I wanted a different "look" at life and this "One Line A Day" book, I think is going to work!

The idea is each page has a day on it...for example January 23. And then it has FIVE spaces

 You add the year 2012 in the top space and write your little tiny bit about the day into it and then move on to the next page. What I soooooo like about this, is as I go to use it next year on January 23 I will be able to read what I was doing a year ago...or what the weather was like etc.

I think my DAD would have loved this as a weather record to be able to look back on. For me it will just be the everyday mundane things that happen. I think this is a reachable PROJECT and a helpful one in so many ways. There is alot going on in our lives right now, and I think it is important to keep a record of it.

Have a great Monday!

Dancingly, Denise

This and That

I have been trying to keep a positive focus  these last few days, ah heck...these last few months!  We are into the 5th month of Scott being out of work and still no worker's comp agreement and no treatment for his injuries.  It's a long story and I will share it on here soon, but for today I wanted to share some PROJECTS (my word for the year)

I have been wanting to make a set of twin baby hats for awhile now and so finally I just sat down and did it!  Meet Thing 1 and Thing 2:

I put them up on my facebook page :All Dressed Up 

and my etsy page www.alldressedupcouture.etsy.com

and promptly got TWO orders within 24 hours!  Now I have to get busy!

Another PROJECT that has been really bugging me... Cleaning out the freezer and fridge!  To some that wouldn't be a project, but for me...UGH!  I did it the other day and it feels so good!  Afterwards I went and grocery shopped to fill in the spaces that we had from cleaning out.  THAT was thanks to some gift card we recieved.

The last project was one that I did today...I keep a book of insiration pictures for my business..alot of people use PININTEREST nd do it right on line (I do use PinInterest for non business ideas).  I print our ideas that I see, cut them up and put them in this binder.  I have been piling up ideas and it was time to cut them up and put them in the binder!  I did that this morning and just completed it a few mintues ago.

Happy Monday.

Dancingly, Denise

Projects...

In keeping with my word for the new year PROJECTs...I did two projects in the last couple of days that I feel great about.  One was simply taking down and packing up all the Christmas decorations.  If you read past year blog entries you will see that sometimes this doesn't occur until...oh...say FEBRUARY or MARCH!  SO I am very happy that everything is packed away.

The other thing I did was to go through my books and put a couple of bags of books together to take to the bookstore for used book credit.  I have been wanting to do this for about a year and finally did it the other morning...I have some more books to take in but this was a great start!

We have had a rough start to our New Year...one thing I can't share as it isn't completely mine to share, but it has caused pain withing our little house.  The other thing is we had to rush our poor little 13 year old Snuggles to the vets yesterday as he was bleeding profusely from his right nostril and his left ear.

The good news is he is okay...here is what I just wrote on Facebook:

 " I just went and got our little Snugs. As far as they can tell the bleeding in the ear is due to the vestibular problems he has and is probably connected to the seizures...etc. He could have a tumor...but it would take thousands of dollars of testing. NOW THE BLEEDING FROM THE NOSE???? It appears as though our little guy has been snorting organic plant matter...yup you read that right...his nos...tril was stuffed with what appears to be grass, grass seed, and other plant matter...UHM grass of the LEGAL kind btw:) They aren't sure how much or what he has up there (nostrils are so tiny to see into) BUT we will just watch for continued bleeding... Can you believe it? Snorting grass... His little brother sniffed his but and then went on about his business like he hadn't been traumatized by the disapearance of him..."

So our little family is right for today:)

I am goping to go work on a couple of Super Hero Cape orders.  Please visit my other blog to see what new items I have been making!

www.dancinglydenise.typepad.com/mepursenalities

Dancingly, Denise

Top BOOKs of 2011

I love to read...I LOVE books...Uhm...I work in a BOOKSTORE:)  I thought I would share some of my favorites that I read in 2011.

Books that made me laugh...

I LOVE Janet Evonavich...her Stephaine Plum novels are honestly Laugh out Loud books.  I got to read TWO  Plum novels and one new novels series in 2011:

 

Books that made me think:

TWO books  that changed my life and how I look at things:

 

Books that I enjoyed for the heck of it:

Don't let this list fool you I read a ton more...some were pretty good...some I started and didn't finish for one reason or another...and some were just okay.

What have you read lately?

Dancingly, Denise

Top Photos of 2011 Warning HEAVY on Photos!

I had a hard time picking just a FEW:)

Dancingly,Denise

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all...and to all a good night.  In keeping with my picture post from the last 3 years:

...My Dad...Buppie...Pete 1937-2008

Happy New Year...

Dancingly, Denise

PROJECT

My One Little Word of the year 2012 is PROJECT. As in all the half done projects I have...including art projects, HEALTH projects, house hold projects, financial projects, business projects!  It isn't a pretty word...but it is MINE;)  My step mother always will say in times of stress, or difficulty that she "needs to get a project started" well  Bobo...here I go!

The word project comes from the Latin word projectum from the Latin verb proicere, "to throw something forward" which in turn comes from pro-, which denotes something that precedes the action of the next part of the word in time (paralleling the Greek πρό) and iacere, "to throw". The word "project" thus actually originally meant "something that comes before anything else happens".

Definition of PROJECT

1

: a specific plan or design : scheme

3

: a planned undertaking

More on my word PROJECT in the next few days!

Dancingly, Denise... Happy New Year

One Little Word

It is the time of year when many of us pick ONE word to help us focus through the New Year.  I have had some great words in the past few years: Possibilities, Created, Peace...and then this years word was HEALTHY.  I hope many of you who follow me see the irony of the word that followed me through this year.  When I chose Healthy it was covering a bunch of different aspects of my life... Physical Health, Spiritiual Health, Family Health, Financial Health and  it goes on:)

Let's look at 2011, shall we?

Scott ran into some trouble in the beginning of the year. (not my story to tell)

Lauren left her boyfriend of 6 years (a part of our family) (we still miss him, but also like her new guy)

She then QUIT school...a beauty school drop out. (She went back into a different program a month later, and is Thrilled with the results, but at the time it was heart wrenching)

I beagn having severe foot problems

I was diagnosed with Barrett's Esophagus

I was diagnosed with gout...no not gout...yes maybe gout...NOW not gout again.

Scott got injured on the job and has been out of work since August with no workers comp...unemployment...etc .

His injury is very painful.

We are fighting lawyers and companies that have no vested interest in our little family.

We are financially so far behind right now I am scraed that we will lose our home...

I still haven't been treated for my foot

Nate continues to stay healthy and relatively happy  LOL

MAYBE choosing the word Healthy jinxed me.  In the beginning I kept saying, when something would happen< well this is just bringing the need for HEALTHY right up to the surface.  By June when I was diagnosed with Barrett's Esophagus I pretty mmuch gave up on my word...seriously.

NOW, this does not go without saying some great things have happened too! 

Two days before Scott had to leave work I was offered a job at a little local Bookstore...I love it there.

My Children's dress up clothing business really took off during the Halloween and Christmas season.

Lauren graduated from Esthitician school.

Nate got his liscence.

Nate was inducted into National Honor Society.

We had elves visit us over Christmas:)

I worked really hard back in April to declutter parts of my house...ah it needs it again.

We continue to meet our morgage payment each month ...so far...by the skin of our teeth,

Our little family is a little closer.

So, it is not to say that I sit around feeling sorry for us...or anything (okay maybe some days...but wouldn't you?)  I continue to try to feel gratitude every day...and pray that things will turn around for us soon.

In the letter to Santa this year (yup my kids write to Santa...they know I will cry if they don't) My 16 year old  son wrote:

"Dear Santa: Well. I hope you've had a good trip around America and hopefully Maine wasn't too cold. We haven't asked for anything this year except for our dad to get better and our luck to change. Maybe you can help us out and have yourself a merry Christmas too." Nate P.F.

I am blessed...just not sure about that WORD!  HEALTHY.

So folks, I need to pick a word for 2012...one continually pops up in my head...but it ain't fancy...and I don't like it that much...so we shall see if I can quiet it down and find a deep philosophical word LOL.

Have a good Friday...stay tuned for my new word.

Dancingly, Denise... Diana is giving away one of my American Girl doll Super Hero capes overe at:

All Dressed Up Cape Review & Giveaway

Saying Goodbye to the Elves

Christmas eve brought the departure of Elvin and Lulu.  Lauren and Nate always get new PJ's from their Mammie and we take a few pictures underneath the tree...so we did that and included Lulu and Elvin:

(oopsies forgot to fix red eyes...ah well)

And the while we were sleeping they left a goodbye..see you next year note.  They left the kids a gift in the freezer and evidently got stuck in the freezer while they were making it.  Luckily Santa found them!

Yup, they made a snowgirl and it is STILL sitting on our tofu dogs in the freezer.

Then evidently they had a chat with Santa...or then took a nap!

and then they took a goodbye picture of themselves under the tree!

They will be missed!  It is amazing how many people I have heard from the have said they will miss hearing about their antics each day!  Maybe they will come back before next Christmas?  Interestingly so far the FAVORITE thing that they have done according to people I have heard from is ...you guessed it...fishing in the toilet! 

Enjoy you evening!

Dancingly, Denise

Gone Fishin"

YUP...this is how we found the elves this morning:)  Fishing for Goldfish in the toilet.

Dancingly, Denise