The Menu

Here is the Menu for the next couple of weeks (no particular order)

Apple Glazed Chicken
Baked Cod w/mushrooms
Golden Sea Bass
Microwaved Eggplant
Vegetarian Linguine
Macaroni Scrambled

Pineapple Beef Stir Fry
Vegetable Beef Stew
Sausage Macaroni Bake
Oregano Lemon Chicken
Creamed Chicken over Green Beans
Sausage Mushroom Soup


Sides to be determined the day of!

Photoshop CS5 Extended

Before

After

Loving Photoshop CS5 extended...  It was exciting to see the results once I was finished.

~ Coming Soon ~

We are currently updating our master bathroom.  I am "still" in the process of sanding all the cabinet doors to the natural wood color.  I had to strip all the paint that was on them.  There were about three colors including the primer.  The second color, a strange blue color, has been hard to get off.  There are three items done so far, including two drawers.  There are still five more doors to do, the good thing is that it is only the middle parts of them.  So should not take long.  Although, there are grooves in them so it may take longer than I would like.  In the meantime, we are doing the walls for now; mudding areas of them and getting them prepared for paint.  We had a small scare of mold... behind the toilet.  Turned out it isn't.  Which is very good!  Here is an example of the colors... Antique White for the walls and ultra pure white for the trim.  The darker brown is close to what the cabinets will be stained as: American Chestnut is the actual name.  The floor is a honey wood color, hopefully I got it close to it...  So this is what it should look like, however, I will be posting the actual before and after pics!

Till then...

Love and God Bless,

Learning New Crafts

I inherited some of my grandmother's cross stitching and embroidery stuff last year!

The pictures really do not do justice to what is in the suitcase.  There are several more items that are not in these pictures.  Including the item I completed:

Took me a little while to complete this.  Mainly because I was doing other stuff too.  However, I finally finished it early this morning.  So I have officially finished my first cross stitch project ever.  The cross stitch seemed fairly easy.  I am sure that is because the design was already there for me along with where to put the colors.  I did have to adjust the colors on this item I finished because it is so old that the brand of colors it gave does not exist anymore.  So I adjusted the colors to the modernized embroidery colors available today. 

My next item will be embroidering... I am wanting to see the difference and if I will like doing either one.  So I will post another item when I get it finished in the future!  Be looking forward to seeing it!

Love and God Bless,

~ New Beginnings ~

     For years, I have bitten my nails out of stress and nervousness.  Never seemed to fail, I would bite them and pick at them until they bled and hurt.  So, I would get the acrylic nails to keep from biting them.  It helped, but only made my nails more brittle in the process.   This has been a never ended circle of events for many many years now.

However, all of that has changed!  Hooray!!!

     I have stopped biting my nails for exactly a month yesterday!  Yeah!   I have not even been tempted to bite them, as if God has taken it away from me!  Going to take a long time for them to recover after YEARS of biting and fake nails. Over 30 years!  I am using Nail Magic to help this recovery along, supposed to be the best!  Although, all the sanding and paint remover activities lately is surely not helping!  But, this will not last long.  I am truly proud of myself.  This is a true sign that I have reached a new level of healing from previous tragic history.

     I will keep everyone posted on the process of my nails healing over the next year!  So, be looking for updates and pictures!!  I could always use your prayers in the process.

Love and God bless,

Defined Love

Your Eyes Sing Sweetly to the Sound of the Wind
Your Defined Arms Pound to the Beat of My Heart
Your Lips Call to My Desiring Need for You
Your Voice Talks to the Rhythm of My Body

Your Touch Stops Every Breath that I Take