kitchen pile up and my Sensory Sensitive child

Lol, this was too cute... myself and my dh were making French toast and eggs for brekkie on Saturday morning it is kind of a every Saturday morning thing but sometimes we switch the French toast for Pancakes. Anyways, my oldest came in to the kitchen and lay down in the middle of the kitchen on a blanket...next thing we knew the other two came in and laid down on top of him. We called it the Kitchen pile up or the E* sandwich, believe me it didn't last long at all!!

(Warning put down your drinks and swallow before proceeding)

Later on this same day, I made some yummy chicken rice soup with veggies for lunch. While I was making this soup, my son E* hurt his finger and got a cut on it. So he got a band-aide by himself, put the band-aide on himself and left the wrapper on the table. It finally was lunch time, when E* decided that he didn't like the smell of the soup I made ( yet he has had this soup 100's of times before and wasn't bothered by it).

He just couldn't handle sitting there smelling the soup, so he left the table for a few minutes and came back looking like this. He thought outside the box, and developed this nose plug himself and then was able to eat his soup. He literally scotch taped this band-aide wrapper onto his face and it worked enough for him, and then he had no troubles eating his lunch. He did the same thing yesterday for something he didn't like the smell of, but this time instead of using the wrapper of the band-aide he used the actual band-aide.

Inky Hugs,

Catherine

a foggy sunrise

One day near the end of last week, here is the second most amazing looking sunrise that I have ever seen. Yes, I said sunrise...yes I was up, as my oldest son gets on the bus at 7 a.m.!

Anyways, check out this gorgeous foggy sunrise...

Inky Hugs,

Catherine

Christmas card

I had to make 2 cards for this months CCE card exchange, and here is one of the cards I came up with :)! I used the "Worship the Lord" stamp set by Our Daily Bread Designs, I actually won this stamp set last year on someone's blog candy and I must say that I really like this set. I have checked out the different cards on Splitcoaststampers site, which helped me with creating this card.

Some of you were wondering if my coasters would be good for placing a spoon on, and I would have to say it would be good for that sort of thing. The stamped images don't smudge or run, because I spray each of them with Make it Last Clear Acrylic sealer. I use Archival jet black ink to stamp my image on the tile, and I picked up the coasters at my local Home Depot or Kent store in my area. I also should mention, that for the backs of my coasters I use cork board that comes in a roll from Michael's Craft store and I cut the cork to the size I need. I usually cover the whole back of each coaster, not put squares on each of the corners :)! Hope this helps...

Inky Hugs,

Catherine

bad bad blogger I am

I am such a bad blogger lately, I think it has a lot to do with just all the illness then my knee surgery and then the complication to the surgery plus allergic reaction to meds for the said complication. Anyways, I promise I will have cards up on here for you to enjoy soon! In the meantime, a friend of mine who owns her own little gift shop in my area is having a Christmas sale at her store and has asked me to make some of my coasters to sell. Here are two of the coasters I have made so far. I think I will do at least 15 sets of coasters for her to sell :)!

Please keep Julie and her family in your thoughts and prayers this week, her mother in law isn't well and they have gone up to spend as much time with her as they can before she passes. HUGS to you and your family Julie and Jim!

Inky Hugs,

Catherine

Another Update

Well, just when I thought life was settling down...I woke up yesterday morning to find out I had allergic reaction to the meds that I was taking to make my leg not swollen. I am now officially covered head to toe with a pink ITCHY raised up rash :(! I am taking Reactin for the rash and am hoping it will be gone when I wake up tomorrow morning but I am not holding my breath on that.

Am going to be crafty today though, I have to be, since I haven't been in a few days!!!

Inky Hugs,

Catherine

Passion For Crafts blog candy giveaway

WOW, Debbie over at the blog called "Passion For Crafts" hit the 200,000 mark on her blog and is celebrating with this HUGE blog candy giveaway. Hurry on over and check it out :)!

Inky Hugs,

Catherine

My dh and a project he did for me

So awhile ago I put in a request for my handy dandy dh to make me a light tent, as he saw me wandering all over my house to take the perfect card picture as well as using sheets and paper etc. Well, yesterday since I came down with this not fun flu bug he finally finished the tent part and now he is working on the lighting for it :)! I was shocked when he came into my bedroom where I am stuck pretty much to show me what he had made me, I was wowed by how big it was. I didn't realize he was making a BIG one, but that is okay no complaints here except where to store the thing :p! Any lighting ideas??

Sorry still no crafty things from me, but thought my dh's project might help with something for you all to check out. I am feeling better, I have no fever since yesterday early afternoon and no headache either but I do have this cough and am very stuffed up. Both my poor parents who were out here helping me recover/looking after us all during my knee surgery etc. are now both sick :(! Am trying to work on bending my knee more and more as I am lying in bed, am now not using crutches am walking the best I can for now.

The one thing that surprised me was having the flu, you know how you hurt everywhere?? Well, this is super weird, well I hurt MORE in my leg/knee where I had my knee surgery than anywhere else which made it difficult for me to get up when I had to. I am however, thinking my antibiotics for my knee has helped me recover faster!

While I am here I thought I would add my 2 cents for what I think about the H1N1 shot, my dd had it Monday but on Tuesday she woke up with a BAD headache and a high fever and had flu like symptoms. They tell us that the vaccination won't cause one to get it, oh yeah ours in Canada does have Mercury in it same with several other vaccinations which we have been told they don't. Anyways, Friday is when my dd had to be rushed in to the children's hospital to get checked out as she had the same symptoms as she did the day after her shots but worse in the sense that she now had a cough and found it hard to breath. So many people I know are having effects from having the needles, to only get sick with the H1N1 a few days later. Hind sight is everything, if I knew my dd was going to get the H1N1 I don't think I would have gotten her the needles. Plus, the H1N1 vaccination takes 2 weeks to kick in...so in that time you too can get the H1N1...crazy eh? I am sure I am not the only one who is confused and felt like we are left in the dark about this vaccination...

Inky Hugs,

Catherine