I'd like to apologize for being MIA the past week. One of our kitties, Busha, got really sick and had to be rushed to the Emergency Vet one week ago Friday night. Since then, she had visited the vet 4 times and had to be put on Prednisone, a Diuretic and finally an appetite stimulant. We thought we were over the hump because Wednesday she was like her old self. She sat in her tent next to my husband in the living room and talked up a storm to him. She was eating for the first time since her first vet visit, (we gave her Tuna to bribe her), she drank a ton of water and she even got up on the extra bed with her "sister" Hazel and they cuddled like they used to. Fast forward to the next day: she was lethargic, flopping around like a fish out of water, wouldn't even come near food or water and was hiding under the bed again and crying/moaning. We called the vet and he got us in immediately. Originally he thought she had water around her heart and lungs but she had lost so much of that along with more weight that he was able to finally find out what was wrong with her. She had a large mass on her liver and declining extremely rapidly. So we made the decision to have her put to sleep as it was so visible how much pain she was in. She was 13 years old, which I guess made her an old cat. Mike and I have cried almost every day until today when we finally got around to doing some much needed things like grocery shopping etc. Our other kitty, Hazel, is so lost without her sissy. I ended up working on my scrapbook room some more today to get my mind off from missing Busha but it will take quite some time to get over this sudden change. As a tribute to Busha I made some photos with an app I downloaded to my phone. She is now over the Rainbow Bridge and no longer in pain and is looking down on us as our angel.
As I mentioned above, today I spent most of the day doing more organizing in my scrapbook room. I was able to get the rest of my clear stamps and embossing folders into clear envelopes and I also got all of my dies onto magnetic pieces and put into clear envelopes also. My room has also had some furniture moved around, which I like much better. I was also able to finally find the 3 missing tins I needed for my Quickutz Mag Pie holder, which has been discontinued for quite a few years. Persistence paid off by checking eBay constantly for the missing tins. I was also able to get all of my extra albums off the top of my IKEA TV unit and they are all now behind closed doors! YAY!! I'm attaching pictures of what was done this weekend also for you. Most of my organizing inspiration has come from Jennifer McGuire's blog. She is my organizing hero!
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| The TV unit minus all the albums across he top. We also added doors to all of the cubbies and moved the pull out cubes to the Kallax unit. As you can see I still need to get one more door. |
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| And here is where all of the albums from the top went - they are now located on the right hand side of the TV unit behind doors. A much better look! |
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| This is the 4 drawer cube in the TV unit. It is now home to all of my clear stamps. I've put each stamp in an Avery Elle clear envelope according to size. I still need to sort them by theme and then label them in the top left corner with my P-touch. |
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| I've done the same thing with my embossing folders as I did with my clear stamps. They are now located in the 2 drawer cube on the left side of the TV unit. As with the stamps, they still need to be sorted by theme and then labeled. |
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| We totally changed the area to the left of the door when you walk into my room. And I still need to get one more pull out box for the bottom right corner. I had Mike take out the huge paper rack and instead now the Kallax unit is in it's place, along with ongoing albums and at the end is a unit for friends to use to scrap at if they come over. It also has storage inside where I have all of my coloring books and other items. |
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| My Stampin' Up stamps and tiny clear stamps are located in the cupboard to the left when you first come into my room. |
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| This is my Alex Drawers that I got in Bolingbrook IL. I'm finally starting to put things away in it. The top drawer is all the items I used to keep in my tool tote bag that I took to crops. But because I can no longer attend crops due to the cancer, I wanted those items at my fingertips, which they will be when the Alex Drawers are made into my work desk. |
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| This is the 3rd drawer down - it'll contain all of my cutters. I'm sill not sure how I've accumulated so many. Probably because I wasn't organized and had to buy a new one when I couldn't find one. No more of that! |
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| Right now the next drawer down is holding items I'm not quite sure where I want them to go but I want them protected so they don't get lost or broken. |
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And finally my Project Life cart (a Raskog IKEA cart that we painted pink). I thought I had all of my Project Life items organized and then I found the brown bag with pink polka dots full of more Project Life cards! So I'll be doing some more sorting soon.
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So that pretty much sums up our live for the last week. Not a great one but I didn't want anyone to think I had given up on my blog like I did before.
I hope everyone gets some scrapping or stamping done this week.
Joyce
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