It's been a long long time!

Almost three years have passed since I have last blogged and A LOT has happened since then.  I am hoping that I can renew my blog and start fresh blogging again.  I have not forgotten all the bloggers out there.  I do read all your blogs faithfully and enjoy all of them.  It has been a long journey and I hope I can fill in some blanks from that last three years in this blog.  I have been inspired to restart blogging, hope you can stay with me.
Sherie

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to Blogland Folks!  2013 will be a great year!

I found it!

I actually found it by searching some more. I was able to get the papyrus font on my header.  But alas, that is all I could get yet.   I still need to find out how to move it and increase the size.   I actually went in to HTML and changed some of the code.  Wohoo!!!

Here is the tutorial that I found to change:  http://www.betatemplates.com/2009/06/change-blogger-header-title-font.html

It takes a while to do it but I hope this helps.  Not sure if this is supposed to be done (giving out secrets? ) but it is always good to help others.  

I am still looking to see how I can move the text and enlarge it but at least it is a start.

Well, on to more searching. 

B. Prim…..Sherie

 

How Do You....

Good Morning All,

I hope everyone is up and moving around on this great Monday Morning.  I just have a quick question.  I have searched and searched to find out how I can put my new Blog name on my header page in the Papyrus Font.  As yet I cannot figure it out.  Any help or a place to go find help would be wonderful.  Thanks in advance for helping.  B. Prim. ... Sherie

New New New

B. Prim

First of all I would like to apologize for not posting in a long long time.  I have not been inspired to come up anything good but hopefully things will change.  I have kept up with a lot of your blogs and they have helped me.  Thanks for that. 

I have changed the name of my blog because ever since day one, when I was just learning this blog world, I did not do my research and find out if there were other names like the one I picked.  I was inspired by a pillow I had that had Bittersweet Primitives on it.  I even typed the name of my blogspot incorrectly and it took.  It has bothered me ever since.  So, after all this time I came up with a shortened version and came up with B. Prim.  Now as many of you know it is a chore to change everything and start again, so I am just going to shorten the name and leave it at that.

I have been kinda busy with work everyday (UGH)…when is retirement going to get here? Sooner I hope.   I have been cross stitching some and that has been very relaxing. I did a couple of  pin keeps from Primitives by Betty’s freebies and I thank her for sharing her work with everyone.  Here are a couple that I did for Valentine’s Day. (I need to send her these photos for her Friday’s Finishes…quite late).

I also found a great cross stitch shop in Salisbury, NC called Spring Robin.  Robin was so helpful that day I went there and she even taught be about 1 over 2 and gave me a lesson.  Boy, that is not easy without a magnifying glass.  That really makes me feel old (needing a magnifying glass…LOL).

I have also been simplifying things around the house.  Moving furniture,  TVs, getting rid of old chairs, taking clothes to G.W. Speaking of Good Will, the picture below shows the “new” chocolate brown chair and the lamp and shade that I got a GW all in one day.  Lucky that day!

Here are a couple of pics I just took  of things I have moved around. 

 

The picture above is where my old TV was (it was huge).  Now I have no TV in the living room. I have made my DH’s TV room into my new TV room with a love seat and some of my crafting stuff.  

This is kind of a divider between my foyer and the living room. It works pretty well for now. 

In the meantime I have taken a trip to Florida with some  friends who wanted to take a long weekend and visit some other friends (Ron and Barbara) who are camping down there for a month.  I was so excited when Roy and Donna asked me to go.  I only hesitated for half a day and told them I was ready to go.  It was great and we had a good time.  Spur of the moment things are good for me right now. 

Another thing that I am excited about is taking a short weekend trip with my daughter to my brother’s home in Georgia this coming weekend. It has been a long time since we have gotten away together.  I know we will have a grand time.  So looking forward to it.

I am also so excited because in about three weeks, my cousin Cathy will be coming to  visit for a week  and we will be poking around in some new places I want to take her to (the new antique mall outside or in Concord, and many more places) .  I can’t wait.  We always have a good time. 

So, with all that being said, I guess I need to post more often, so the postings won’t be so long.  Thanks for hanging in there with me. 

As Always, B. Prim…..Sherie

 

Thank you, Thank you

To all the folks who made just great comments on my blog.  I really appreciate them and all of you.   Your thoughts mean a lot to me. 

It has been a moment  by moment time for me.   I am  back to work and that has helped to keep my mind busy.  Just when I least expect it, the tears come and  that is good , I guess part of the mourning process.  That is the time of memory of  my  husband.  It is getting a little better each day. 

I have  gotten out and had dinner with  our friends and have a  dinner planned  this Tuesday with a great friend, Cook’e  who owns Mount Pilot Antique Mall  across from the shop I used to  own, Pilot Mountain Peddlers. On that note, I was able to get there and replenish my booth in the Peddlers.  It was a long time  getting there but  I made it happen. 

My sister-in-law sent some pictures out to the family of the time they were here in N.C. and they turned out great.  It really was  nice to have them all here during that time.  Family and friends and neighbors  and bloggers can really make us feel great and I thank you and thank you all again.

I need to go now and be constructive and get a few things done .  Thanks again.

As always,  Sherie

 

His Journey’s Just Begun

Don’t think of him as gone away-

     his journey has just begun,

    life holds so many facets -

     this earth is only one.

Just think of him as resting

    from the sorrow and the tears

   in a place of warmth and comfort

   where there  are no days and years.

Think how much he must be wishing

   that we could know today 

   how nothing but our sadness

    can really pass away.

And think of him as living

   in the hearts of those he touched…

   for nothing loved is ever lost -

   and he was loved so much. 

                      E. Brenneman.

On January 7, 2010 my dear husband went on  to  be with the Lord.   As many of you know he has been suffering with renal failure, diabetes, heart failure  and just not feeling good at all.  He had a long struggle with his quality of life for the past year or two.  His body has been ravaged by the effects of these illnesses and he was worn out.   In a matter of three hours he was gone from us, way too quickly, way too soon.  I miss him so much.  After 38 years plus, we have been together and now he is not here.  It is so quiet, so lonely.  There is no noise in the house.  After an intense  past few months with even making sure he was breathing EVERY day, and taking care of him, now there is no purpose to my life.  Don’t get me wrong, I am not being morbid or self destructing by any means but the emptiness is overwhelming at times.  I want to tell him something but he is not there.  I told him when I last saw him at the funeral, that I would be talking to him and I have. 

It has been 12 days and each day is a little better .  I came to the realization yesterday that now I have to  do things that make me happy.  I have to get out of any kind of rut I am in or might get into and  move on inch by inch every day.  I will be going back to work tomorrow so that will  get my mind on different things. 

The poem above says so much and  came on a card that my cousin Cathy sent to me and made me cry but is so sweet and true.  Thanks Cathy. 

His  journey has just begun and so has mine.  We will both be starting a new path and he will always be in my heart. 

Thank you for letting me tell my story and  wish me luck on my new journey, always with him  by my side.

As always, Sherie

 

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all of you
in blog land. This has been a wonderful experience to see into everyone’s lives, homes and all our ups and downs!  Thank you all for sharing and I hope that each and everyone of you have a great 2010.  Just a little while now (if we can stay awake, LOL) and we will be there.  Let’s make is a great year for all!

The Best Christmas Present

I  HOPE EVERYONE HAD A GREAT CHRISTMAS WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS.   THIS YEAR  WAS ONE OF OUR BEST EVER!    WE HAD  ALL OF OUR SMALL FAMILY WITH US TOO. 

ONE OF DH’S AND MY  GREATEST GIFTS WAS A LETTER FROM ONE OF OUR DAUGHTERS.  WITH NOT A LOT OF MONEY THIS YEAR , SHE SAT DOWN AND TOOK THE  TIME TO WRITE ABOUT HER FEELINGS TO US.  NOW LET ME TELL YOU SHE HAD US  BOTH CRYING MORE THAN ONCE.  I CAN’T SHOW THE LETTERS  CUZ YOU  WOULD HAVE TO  GET A TISSUE TOO.   THE WORDS SHE WROTE WILL BE FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS AND THE LETTERS WILL GO TO A SAFE PLACE.

ON ANOTHER NOTE, I HAVE TO TELL YOU  WHAT I  FOUND  AT THE OUR LOCAL GOODWILL….I WAS SO EXCITED  I COULD  NOT STAND MYSELF….LAST FRIDAY AFTER WORK I WAS TRYING TO DECIDE WHETHER TO EVEN STOP AT THE GOODWILL..I GOT IN THE WRONG  LANE LEAVING WORK AND THOUGHT, WHAT THE HECK, I WILL JUST STOP.  I SURE AM GLAD THAT I DID. 

I GOT TO THE HOME GOODS SIDE OF THE STORE AND LOOKED ON A SHELF AND WHAT DID I SEE BUT….

 

OH MY….A SMALL STARFLOWER WATT POTTERY PITCHER…BE STILL MY  HEART!

I TURNED AROUND  AND SAW THIS..

A  MEDIUM  SIZED WATT APPLE PITCHER.  AND……

RIGHT NEXT TO IT THIS LARGE (#17)  STARFLOWER WATT PITCHER… CAN YOU BELIEVE IT. 

NOW THESE ARE NOT REPRODUCTIONS….THEY ARE  REAL THING……SORRY   I CAN’T TELL YOU  WHAT I PAID FOR THEM, BUT LET ME TELL YOU  IT WAS  A STEAL, ESPECIALLY  SINCE WE HAVE PREVIOUSLY PAID  A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT FOR PREVIOUS  WATT POTTERY THAT WE HAVE.   I WILL BE TAKING THESETO MY SPACE AT PILOT MOUNTAIN  PEDDLERS.  

SO,  LIKE I  SAID  IN THE BEGINNING, THINGS WERE GOOD THIS CHRISTMAS.  I HOPE YOU ALLHAVE  A SAFE AND HAPPY BEGINNING TO THE NEW YEAR.   WE WILL TALK AGAIN SOON….SHERIE

 

Oops

Oops!  I was trying to make different effects on my pictures and this one got published from Live Writer.  Please excuse  the playing....I am trying to get warm looking pictures and I am not sure how to get that.  I will keep working...MERRY CHRISTMAS. Sherie

Winter time in North Carolina

Boy did we get “snow.”    It started snowing here in mid afternoon on Friday and did not stop until sometime in the middle of the night.  It was gorgeous! 

Here is a peak of what we saw this morning…

 

This is a picture looking out our front door over to the neighbors.   It looks like a postcard to me, doesn’t it.  

And here are just a few more pictures that I took around the house.  I am trying to work with the camera I have (I even went back to the instructions to get some help….imagine that…LOL)

This one if for  my cousin Cathy….see I CAN hang up a sign (LOL). It might have not been quick in getting there but hey, I did it…LOL.

And just one more picture what I thought was neat. (without the flash …. see I am learning, I hope). 

Well, I am creating this post in Live Writer and saving it as a draft because DRAT, I cannot connect to the wireless network for some reason. I have spent over an hour trying to connect…UGH…so frustrating.  I guess  I  will go  start dinner and perhaps get this posted later.  

I hope you all have a good weekend and a  MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS..

Sherie

**Sunday  afternoon and  I finally got the connection back to the wireless network.  WOO HOO.  Life is too good. 

Sherie

Just a little Christmas!

Here  in North Carolina.  I hope  every one  had a great weekend and now counting down the days til the big Christmas  Day. 

I thought I would just drop in and  show you a few pics of decorating and let you all know how things are going. 

Right now I am waiting to take DH to another doctor’s appointment …way too early in the morning. (8:30 appointment).  He has been doing somewhat better lately.  (I thank you all for your prayers and thoughts  - see they work) . 

This  past weekend our granddaughter spent the weekend with  us.  We got to go to the movies to see The Princess and the Frog.  It was well worth it.  It really was a cute movie.  I didn’t know what to expect but we were both  surprised at what we saw.  It was worth going for sure.  We had a good time. 

Now, let’s see if we can  open up some pictures  in this new Live Writer.

Small twig tree in the foyer. 

 

 Another  view in the foyer!

Well, that’s just a little bit of Christmas for now.  I hope to show a few more later.  Thanks for stopping by.  Soon..Sherie

Beginner

Live Writer Beginner.   Well here goes.  I have just downloaded Live Writer and  I am just trying this out.  Not sure how it works but with a few “tweaks” here and there I hope it will work.   More  later.  Wish me luck.

Sherie

Happy Happy Thanksgiving

I would just like to take this moment and wish everyone out in blogland a very very Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you have the best turkey, gravy, stuffing and all the trimmings and most of all the best time with your family and friends. We all have so much to be thankful for if we just take the time to think about it! We truly do....So again, Happy Thanksgiving to All. *Sherie*