Heart Attack Scare!

Hi Everyone, I will not be here for a bit, I was sick over the weekend, and on Sunday, I felt awful! I was throwing up, sweating, and had one of the worst pains I have ever had, that came across my back, chest, and down my left arm. The other day, I had horrible chest pressure, and this incredible
pain in my jaw.  I have never been so scared in my life!! I also made a few deals with God in the ambulance, and now I have to lose weight, and never have ice cream again!! haha  In the ambulance, they did an EKG, and it showed something, that I can't remember a word they said, but my blood pressure was really high, and they tried to get an I.V. and after 20 mins they gave up, and we left for the hospital.  They did a bunch of test's and didn't find anything thank God, but now I am left with what is wrong.  Anyway, I am doing well, and will be back soon.  Karen♥

Beagle Babbies

I just thought that I would share with you what I am doing this weekend!!

Here they are!! I just don't know how I am ever going to give these cuties back!! Karen♥

I Would Love to Start a Stamp Line

Hello my fellow crafters!!! I hope the New Year will be good to you!  Does anyone have any New Years Resolutions?  I will tell you what mine are, I have never gotten past the first day before, but I hope that this year will be different So here goes, and I hope if you feel that I am cheating, please call me out on it!!  My First one is :

1.  I am going to loose weight! I don't have a choice, I really, really, really NEED to lose weight!
2.  I am going to try to faithfully go into my craftroom everyday, and try to make at least 1 card, anything more would be a bonos
3.  I am going to try to get a stamp line going! I don't even know where to start, but I am going to try! Everyone that has one, is less than thrilled to help anyone (or at least me) figure out how to begin.  I have asked a number of fellow crafters that have started a stamp line within the past few years, if they could just tell me where they found their manufacturer, or what kind of material do they use for their stamps, or just how do I go about just starting!  I am not trying to steal their designs, or take away from what they are doing at all, but I got NOTHING! The thing that kills me, is one of the people that I have asked, is someone that I chatted with pretty frequently, and it is her daughter, who technically has the stamp line, and I think that she is like 12, she was probably younger back then when I was asking about it, amd do you know what she said?? she said (this is the mom) she said that her dad was sick, so she couldn't tell me cause she was so busy taking care of him,  He was not seriously sick, I think he had a cold.  I asked her to get back to me when he was feeling better, and guess what, she never did!! I really don't want to steal someone else' designs, I just need a little help.  I really get depressed, because I always am happy to help someone else out.  Like I met a girl at a scrap booking sale that I had at my house, and she was living with her Aunt, while she and her hubby were saving money to buy a house, so I helped her and gave her some things that I wasn't really using, and quite a bit of stuff, I gave her a Sizzix tower filled with Dies, there were 4 sides, and each side held about maybe 20 dies, unless they were the big ones, then they went all the way through, anyway, I also gave her paper, flowers, everything, and I wanted to, she was sweet, and I wanted to help, and eventually she bought her house, and I was needing one of the dies that I gave her, and I asked her if I could borrow it, and do you know what she said?? Yup, she said NO, I can't remember why, but she said NO.  Then there was another woman, that was looking for jewelry making supplies, and she was talking about her husband was in charge of the money, and she didn't have much, so I showed her what I had, and I sold her about $2000.00 worth of jewelry supplies for $100.00.  I was just trying to help, and on that same day her husband bought a keyboard stand and bench for $10.00 from my 10yr old son.  Do you know that after they put everything in the car, they left without paying my son the $10!!  And they had the nerve to come back the next year and asked if I had any more jewelry supplies for sale, and when I mentioned the money that they owed my son, she said, "Oh my gosh, let me go get it for him" do you want to know what happened? Yup, they got in their car, and sped down the street, over $10 for a child!! Well sorry I have been ranting,  I was just looking for some info from some of the people that I have helped, I have my own ideas, drawings, ect. but people don't want to help you, if they think that it might hurt them, which is farther than the truth of what I want to do. My Lupus has not been very kind to me the past few years, but lately I have been feeling pretty good, so I thought I would get back to it, I have asked some of the girls that have stamp lines, but they don't want to tell me even the name of the manufacturer that they use for the stamps.  I do understand where they are coming from, but I have no intention of copying what they have already done. I would like to do my own drawings, ect.  So I have noticed that the crafters that I have seen so helpful, are a little less helpful when it comes to their own stamp line.
 So I am going to stick to these 3, anytime I make a big list, I usually only read the top 3, so it makes sense to only start with 3.  It is about midnight as I am posting this, and my rational side is telling me to wait till the a.m. when I could read it all the way through, but I am gonna be a risk taker, and hope that I didn't ramble to much, or I will be re-writing this again! Happy New Year! I hope it is a safe and healthy one for you all!      Karen♥

Update

Hey guys, I just wanted to update you on what has been going on with me.  First I want to say that I have missed you all so much!!!  I have been having problems with my hip, and my back, so I finally went to have an X-Ray, and the Dr. called today, and told me that I have arthritis in my left hip, and my lower spine.  I am just so tired of health problems, and especially health problems that no one can fix.  I know that a million people have Arthritis, and I should be thankful that it is nothing more serious, but I was really hoping that it was something that they could fix.  To know that I will have this unbearable pain for the rest of my life, just kind of bums me out.  So as soon as I am out of the funk that I am in, I will be back, and I love all the things that you all have been working on!!! You are all amazing, and I hope to chat with you all real soon!!    Karen♥

Water and Pictures Don't Mix!

Hi Everyone, I am writing you in bed.  I pulled a muscle, and I have a muscle spasm, or my muscle is in spasm, frankly I did not really listen to the Dr. I just wanted it to go away!  Anyway, while looking through some pictures, I found some pictures from some of the deepest, darkest, places that I have ever been in.  I had depression after my youngest child.  On top of that we had a fire in our home, and water damage, but my point is, that I came across these pictures, and they are every scrappers worst nightmare!! After a pipe burst in our basement, and we had just moved into this house, and a box of pictures that should never have been down there in the first place.  Anyway, somehow these pictures of my wedding, and others were wrecked, and these are of me trying to save the only pictures that we have of our wedding.  I am making a Scrapper Public Service Announcement:  Never Store Pictures in Your Basement!!!

Guilt No More

Hey Y'allI
I just wanted to share a photo of the inside of my garage. Now I know you are all saying,"Karen, Why are you showing us a picture of your garage?", and normally I would say "Guy's, I don't know!) but I am showing you this, because every once and a while, and I mean once in a very rare while, I get these little pangs of guilt because off all the thing's craft related. My hubby is so good about never questioning anything I ever buy.  He always tells me not to even think about it, so after I recently went out in my garage, and saw this.......

Now if he is now going to be one of the lost Sanford and Son's. then the guilt is no more!! Have a great day!!Karen♥

MIA In Reality Bliss

Hi Everyone!!! I have missed being here so much!! I have been finishing up babysitting for 3 adorable little guys that my daughter was watching over the summer, and the mom needed someone to fill in until the new sitter could start.  So while I was at their house every day, and not being home to craft, I have been trying to keep up on my new Reality T.V, blog  therealrealhousewifesrealityrants.blogspot.com  I just love reality shows, so I was happy to take the free time watching as many Reality Shows as I possible could!! We are supposed to be having our new granite counter tops installed this week, and hopefully our new hardwood floors and bathroom, but we have been trying to find a contractor for months, and then we found one, but we got a call telling us not to hire him, cause he is not paying his employees, or his vendors, but the best part was that he has been taking deposits from customers, and then not ever coming back. So we have finally found a new contractor that is trying to squeeze us in this week, so keep your fingers crossed!! I hope you all get a chance to check out my new blog till I can get back to crafting!!! karen♥

Hi Guys!!

Hi All,
I will be missing for a few days, My Baby girl turned 21 today!!! We all went out to dinner, and we had her first "Legal" drink together!! Cause lord knows, it was not her first drink!! She was such a good girl all through high school, and then she decided that she was not going to go to college without ever having a drink, so in her brilliant mind she decided to have her first drink at 18 at a Blink 182 concert! She didn't have it in out house, or at a friends house, she decided to have it at a CONCERT where there are 95 THOUSAND cops all over the place!! I know that this is where she had her first drink, because she told me, when we went to go pick her up at the Police holding tank at the concert!!! We got a phone call about 2 hours after she left to go to the concert, it is that phone call that as a mother, or a parent, you never want to get.  The phone rang, I answered it, and I heard, "Mrs. Driscoll" This is Officer so, and so, and I have Amanda, she is fine, everything is fine,but,  she has been drinking, I wish I could tell you what his name was, or the rest of the conversation, but after I heard she is fine, and everything is fine, I couldn't tell you how I made it upstairs to tell my husband, or how we got to the concert to pick her up. I do remember walking into the holding area, and seeing about a thousand teenagers, I saw one fall out of her chair, and laugh her head off on the ground, and then I saw her, she had this petrified look on her face, with her back up against the wall, and a police officer came over to us to see which one of these idiots we were there to get, and when we told him, he said, "Oh Amanda, she is the best drunk we have" Now there was not a moment to prouder of than when a police officer tells you that your drunk teenager, was the most well behaved drunk that they have!! It is one of those moments that you put right in the memory book with her first step, and the first time she had carrots!!! Anyway, I found out all about how this was her first drink, ALL, and I mean ALL the way home!! There is one thing that you cannot stop, and that is a drunk teenager from talking. Talking about anything, and EVERYTHING!!! There was a part of me that was so angry, and the other part that had to bite my lip, (really hard) not to laugh at whatever she was rambling about!! T also thought at that moment, what I had put my parents through, because I, unlike my daughter did not wait to have my first drink till I was 18 like my daughter did. The only thing that saved me half the time with my parents was that I had 4 other sisters, and there was a good chance that one of them would come in after me, and would be more drunk than I was!! hahaha.  So I will be spending this week with my wonderful, daughter who is on spring break, and who is still out "Celebrating" her birthday, she does have a designated driver(for those of you that are curious) and she did have one the night of that concert also, which helped with the level of anger that I had that night, but as for tonight, I am not sure what time she will roll in here, but the thing that I am sure of, is that I couldn't have asked for a better daughter, friend, and just the best person that I want to hang out with.  So I will be back in a few days, and I Love You Manda!!!    Karen♥

Hey Guys!!

Hi everyone,
I just wanted to update you as to where I have been.  I am having a few health issues, and I have been going from doctor to doctor.  I have just not been feeling up to blogging. ( I know, right!?!?)  I am schedule to go see a few specialists, and hope to get things figured out, and taken care of.  Today while waiting to go to the doctors, I was eating a pretzel, and broke my tooth, so now in addition to see all these specialists, I had to go to the dentist, (I cannot even begin to describe how fearful I am about the dentist, I usually cancel my appointment when the date of my appointment comes closer.  I have even been known to drive to the dentist, and then cancel while in the parking lot!!) I mean petrified of the dentist!! With my son's help, I did go into the dentist, where I was told that I broke the tooth, I have an infection, and need to go to an oral surgeon for a root canal to try to save the tooth!!! If that works, I then have to go back to the dentist, and have a crown put on, whatever that is, but it sounds frightening!!! I would love to hear from all of you, so please leave me a comment, if any of you know a way to actually leave your body while at the dentist, please leave me that info, cause I am up for anything! I will hopefully be back soon, as soon as I am done with all of my tests, and they find out what is going on, and they fix me!! Please keep your fingers crossed, and say a prayer or 2 certainly wont hurt!!! I miss you all, and would love to hear from you!!  Karen♥

Hey Guys!

Hi everyone, I know that I said that I would be back right after Christmas, but I have to confess, I lied, :( I have no excuse other than my Daughter Amanda, left for New Orleans to do some service work with the YMCA class that she has been involved in since she was in the 5th grade. Now that she is a junior in college, she is president of the club at her college, and she will be working with the youth from the YMCA when she graduates next year!! I am so proud of her, I just can't even explain!! Anyway, she came back on Sunday, and we have been catching up, she goes back to college next week, and we have been doing the mom and daughter things, that I want to take full advantage of while I can.  We have been making cookies, watching movies till all hours of the night, having sleep overs in the living room, having junk food, and just having fun!! I am so sorry, and as soon as she goes back to school next week, I will be back, I promise!!!! We will even do a fun contest with a Cricut Cart for a prize!! I miss you all, and I will make it up to you!! Karen ♥

Miss You All------ Happy New Year!!!!

Hi Everyone!! I hope you all had a Merry Christmas, and Happy Hanukkah, and I hope you all have a Happy and blessed New Year!! I have been busy with all the holidays, my sister and brother-in-law are up visiting with my 3 nieces from VA!! I never get to see them, so I am spending as much time as possible with them.  They will be leaving some time this weekend, and I will be so sad to see them go.  My nieces are 5, 4 and almost 3, it has been so much fun to have them here for Santa and all that good stuff that you don't realize that you miss as your kids get older.  Anyway, I will be back after Wednesday, when my hubby goes back to work! So I hope you all have a Happy new year, and I can't wait to hear all about your holidays!!!
Happy New Year,
Karen♥

Crazy Day!! Scroll down for Challenge!

Hi guys, I have been laying kinda low lately, cause I hurt my back, and I am so mad, cause I have so much to do.  Well, you know, stuff to make which doesn't look like a lot, but once you start making the stuff, it's a lot of stuff!!  I haven't started making my Christmas cards, I am supposed to be making an album for my Brother-in Law of his 50th Birthday, which is his Birthday present from me, which was in August, and this is November!! Then like I don't have enough of my own junk to do, I offered to make his mother an album of his birthday, because she couldn't come to his birthday, cause she lives in Michigan, and she was sick. Whew, are ya still with me??  So as you know, I have been making my 92 year old  Great Aunt Nellie, (yes that is her name) my year of tree, and I had October all set, with the Ghosts, till I decided that it was a little lacking of color.  The tree is white, and the ghosts are white, so I decided that it needed a "punch" of color, so in the middle of doing my Christmas ornaments, I am now back to October doing some Jack-O-lantern ornaments!!  I do like the Jack-o-lantern ones, and I think that it does add that little bit of color that it needed.  Oh I forgot about this, last night, my son went to Wendy's to get Frosty's for him and his brother, now i was just about to type on, totally leaving out the fact that I got a Frosty too!! I know, I think that if  I don't put down the fact that I also got one, that there would be no calories. I know, you should of seen when i used to do Weight Watchers, at the end of the week, I would be the one with nothing written in my book, the instructor would start off the meeting every week, with " Hello everyone, I again am sad to report that Karen has withered away again this week, after she had a glass of water at 8am on Sunday followed by a cracker on Friday!  Anyway, I actually had to read this whole thing, because I had no idea what the heck i was talking about! Anyway, the kid at the drive thru, never gave him my debit card back to him, which he didn't bother, or what he calls "forgot" to tell me! By the time I found out, and checked my balance, this person, (who I thing was the kid who worked the take-out-window) had a great time for himself all day today!  He rented 3 movies, went to McDonalds, went to Walmart, caught the 10: 15 showing of Paranormal 3, had a great pizza lunch, and by the amount of the transaction, had lunch with a few friends, got some gas,and a couple of other little things.  Clearly not a crafter, because if it were me, I would clear out Joann's, Michael's, and follow it all up with a trip to my LSS. Anyway, I spent the day on the phone talking with Wendy's managers, District managers, Regional managers, ect. and with my Bank going through each transaction, one at a time, but first i had to spend over an hour punching my phone numbers,social security number, account numbers, ect. with a freakin' COMPUTER, only to then repeat all that info to a real person, after the computer!!!! So after the longest day of my life, and I am sad to say that it is only 5:00!!!!! which leads my to the point of this overly huge Random Rant, OMG, I forgot what the point is of this Overly huge Random Rant, OH yes, I remember, I just finished my little penguin ornament for Nellie's tree of the year, that I got the idea while laying in bed at 3:00a.m. this morning, you know those ideas that if you don't get up and write it down, or in this case draw it down, it will keep you up till you go insane!!  So here it is for any of you that are still alive after reading this, sorry :(  Karen♥         

I can't ever keep a secret!! (scroll down for the challenge)

Hey guys!! Do you guys remember my Halloween Tree?  Well I really plan on it being a all around the year tree!! I am making one for me, and one for my Great Aunt Nellie! (yes, that is her real name) anyway, I also plan on trying to only use old burnt out light bulbs to do it. Well I am working on Christmas right now, and I love these ornaments, They are sooooo cute!! There is Santa, a Snowman, and Rudolph!! I have been trying not to show them till my challenge is over, but I want to show them NOW!! I still have the finishing the little touches, but I really can't control myself!! It wouldn't hurt if I just showed a little peek, would it??? Oh I don't know what to do, I have always been like this. If I buy a present more than 1 week before the occasion, I just give it to the person, and go out and buy another one.  I bought my daughter a ring, and we were going to give it to her for her 16th birthday, my parents did the same thing, they bought all of us girls (they had 5 of us) our birthstones for our 16th birthday, so I wanted to do it for my Amanda.  Well I was watching QVC one day and they had these beautiful 14carat gold birthstone rings with little diamonds on the side, so I bought it. The problem was, she was 14.  Now I told myself over and over that I could wait, when I told Paul, my hubby, he just rolled his eyes at me. I got so mad, and told him how wrong he was, and this time I was going to do it. Well the ring came about 2 weeks later, and it was 3 days that I held out, and gave her the ring! (she loved it though) I also did that when I found out I was pregnant for the first time. I went to the doctor, cause I thought I had a UTI, and they asked me if I was pregnant, and I said not that I know of, after a test, they said "you're pregnant, Congratulations" I was so excited, but I said to myself on the way to my mothers house that I wasn't going to tell her, because I wanted to tell Paul first, I got to my mothers, I pulled in the drive way, went into the house, and said "I'm PREGNANT!!!" then I said "SHOOT" Well, I was going to wait till I saw Paul to tell him, so I am at my mothers, and I say, I am just gonna call Paul, and ask him what time he was coming home, my mother looked at me, and just shook her head, so I said"WHAT" and she said nothing, nothing, so to prove her wrong, I called him, he picked up the phone, and said hello, and I said, "I'M PREGNANT" oh well, I tried. So after writing this, I will be taking pictures and putting them up tomorrow. Next time I will tell you the story about when I found out the 2nd time I was pregnant. Let me just say that I got stopped for speeding on the way home from the doctors, my mother, nor Paul were the first to know, and I didn't get a ticket!!  haha  Karen♥

Hello all!!

Hey everyone, I want thank all of you that have given me encouragement in your comments, and I was going to tell you of this great idea that came to me after watching Good Morning America this morning.  They were talking about these 2 website's loanables.com and snapgoods.com, they have people that have things that they are renting out to people that need things. Like if you need a ladder but only once a year when you hang Christmas lights, but you don't want to buy one,so you rent it.  Anyway I got this brilliant idea that I could rent out my Cricut cartridges to someone who just wants to try one out before they buy it, or just want to make baby favors once so they don't need a baby cartridge for anything else, so they could rent it. Well apparently it "was" a BRILLIANT idea, for about 10 other people that already have been renting them, that I found when I thought to Google it! Anyway, I thought that I would share how Brilliant I almost was!! Karen♥

Hey Everyone!!

I wanted let you all know that I have been sick, my Lupus, and Colitis, are not happy, and I am being punished!! Although i have been sick, and not crafting, I wanted to share with you what happened the other day.  Does anyone remember the 3:00a.m. Crash back in January?  Well it happened again!!! We had a hurricane a few weeks ago, and our roof leaked, so the insurance guy came out to check out the roof, and take pictures. Seems like that would be fine, what harm could come of that?? Well I will tell you, The guy got his ladder, and climbed up on the roof, but unfortunately he decided to bang the wall in my craft room, where I had a bunch of cubes on the wall, and when he put the ladder up on that wall to get on the roof, the bang from the ladder must have loosened the cubes, and as I was getting a drink, I heard that awful familiar CRASH!!!! Yes, it was the buttons!! I have about a gazillion buttons in jars, that all came crashing to the floor!! The jars luckily did not break, however the covers all came off, and the buttons are everywhere!!! I think I have learned my lesson, and I am moving where I store my buttons!! I will be back one day this week!! Miss You, Karen♥

Hi Everyone!!

You know, there are times when we as parents just need to brag about our kids.  I find that this is one of those times!! 2 of my 3 kids are very involved with the Y.M.C.A and their youth groups.(I am not sure what happened to the my other child, none of us are perfect) Anyway, my 15yr old son spent Sunday morning on a walk for Autism. This is something that my 2 children (again, I can only try) have done for a number of years. When he came home, I asked how it went, thinking I would hear stories about the children with Autism that they met, and what he did to help out.  The answer that I got from my 15yr old son was, I saw Becka, now Becka was his girlfriend untill last week when they decided to break-up, because they live in different towns, and she has dance 4 days a week, and it was too hard to see each other because neither of them have their license, and how he was really upset, but they have decided to be good friends for now, but he saw her and she looked so beautiful! Now as most of you are wondering as was I why am I hearing this, all I wanted to know was how was the walk, how did it go making the cotton candy ect., yet this is what I get.  I blame this on my self teaching my children about being honest and open with us as parents.  Be careful what you wish for my friends!! My daughter Amanda who has been with the Y since she was in the 7th grade, and then went on to run the group all through high school, and it helped her to get into college, because the College she goes to is also the founder of the Y.M.C.A. This weekend my daughter Amanda spent her Saturday volunteering, for the show Extreme Home Makeover, who happen to be in the city where she goes to school.  You have to understand where she goes to school, that we pay $37,000.00 a year for her to go, as you make your way to her campus, there are burning cars on cinder blocks, graffiti everywhere, bars on all the windows and doors.  Then as you turn the corner to enter the campus, it is like the garden of Eden. The president of the College's house, is nicer than any house that I have seen on any Houses of the Rich and Famous!! It is the strangest thing I have ever seen, The kids on campus are not allowed to be out on certain days, such as Halloween, they are all locked in their dorm's because it is gang initiation bight in the city.  Gang initiation night!! That's right!! Anyway, they were doing the show in the city where she goes to college, so all the girls in her suite all went to volunteer. Now if I didn't know my daughter better, and know her volunteer history, I would say she was going just to get on t.v. So they dolled themselves all up, and picked out the cutest outfits, and headed down to where they were taping.  She called me later that night to tell me how everything went. She told me how they were exhausted, how they were there all day, how they had to stand around for hours, until finally they were needed.  so they gave them the shirts, to which my daughter and her friends, had to make them "cuter" I have no Idea how this was accomplished, but I believe that it was a success.  They were then all given hard hats, that were not "cute" at all but the rule was that they had to be worn while "on set" a t.v. term apparently.  So they followed some guy who them put them in a room where all 10 of them were given their jobs. Now I am picturing in my head, my little girl and my adopted girls all wielding hammers, building walls, putting in windows, you know, jobs like that.  She proceeds to tell me that they they had to get water for the other workers.  That was her job, getting water!!! I guess everyone has their part.  Then they did a scene with Michael the designer, and that was the end of the day, and they were going to return the next day to yell "Move that bus!!" So I called her to Sunday night to see how things went, and she told me that they all got up, and got dressed, (as cute as possible) and headed down, excited to see how excited the family was going to be. When they got there, it was packed, there was hardly room to breathe!! They all got in with the group that were packed in like sardines, ans she informed me that she was so "hung over" to stand there all day so her and a couple of the girls went home! Now, here is where the open lines of communication with your not quite legal child come into play!! I am proud of the work that I have done, that my baby feels that she can tell me how she was so hungover, she could not stand, and yell "Move That Bus" now I have never actually yelled at a bus to move, but I am thinking it can't be that difficult, hung over or not.  This is where I am wondering why I did not leave well enough alone, and savored Saturday night's phone call, and left it at that, but no, I had to call to hear what more of how wonderful my child is. Especially when I need 2 of my children to make up for the other one that I am still trying to figure where we went wrong.  So my friends, the moral of this story is keep the lines of communication open with your children, and leave well enough alone!!!!

I AM BACK!!!!!!

O.K. I know that alot of you are saying to yourselves, " Wasn't she back last month?" and you would be right.  It has been 1 crazy thing after another.  I was even thinking wow that lady is a mess!! Then I realized, that is ME!!  So now that my daughters surgery is over, and Thank You all so very much for your thoughts and prayers.  Even though it was an elective surgery, it is still a surgery.  For those of you that did not know, my daughter, Amanda who is 20, had a breast reduction.  She was sadly cursed with my family, or should I say my female family's chest size.  Now I know you might say, "Karen, people have to pay for a plague such as Big Boobs." to which I would say, (I am not going to keep putting the quotes in, o.k.) thanks. Big boobs are great, if they are man made big boobs.  People that have big boobs, will tell you the truth, and that is.... When you are 13 and all of your friends are getting their little training bras, that you don't fit in them, so you have to go to the older teens dept. to get "real" bras that your friends think are cool, but that is because they don't have to go with their mothers to buy them.  When they get a little older and are ready for the teen bras, and you have to go with their mothers to the womans dept. because they don't make your new size in cute lkittle teen bras in like Victoria Secret, they might say that they carry your size, but what they call a "D" at Victorias Secret, is really a size "G", and yes there is a such thing as a "G" in the real world of Big Boobs, sadly.  When you have Big Boobs that are naturally Big, they are not the same as man made Big Boobs. Man made big boobs are not even on the same region of your body as natural Big Boobs.  When you have natural Big Boobs, they start off on your body at the right place, but then at some point, usually around the point where you get pregnant, they start to move south, and end up resting on your thighs, and that is only if you never gain more than 10 pounds at one time in your life. Usually if you ngain more than 10 pounds, you gain it right in the Boobs.  Some people might come to work on Monday and say I ate so much this weekend, I think I gained 10 pounds, and then there are the people with Big Boobs that just come in on Monday and you just see their Boobs and say huh, now she, gained 10 pounds. Because when you have Big Boobs, everybody knows when you eat more than a grape over the weekend.  I had my breast reduction almost 4 years years ago, and it was the the thing that I always wished for, and dreaded at the same time. I was afraid of it, but the thought of it was scary too.  When I found out that Insurance would pay for it, my husband said you should do it, and I made the appt. I was also afraid that people would think that it was a vain thing to do, but if you don't have natural Big Boobs, you have no idea how miserable your life is.  When your friends are all buying their bathing suits, they go to Target, whern you have Big Boobs you go to Target and but the bottoms, and you go to Lane Bryant to buy the top, and that is if they carry it, Lane Bryant usually only go up to a "DDD"  the other sizes you need to buy online.  It really is a sad  thing to watch.  Especially if it is your daughter, and you have to watch the disappointment time and time again. Don't get me started on Prom Dresses. When you finally find a dress that fits, and doesn't look like a Grandmother of the bride dress, you  now have to find some kind of a bra to where underneath, to which you wont find one, so I would have make one, and then pay extra money to have a piece of fabric to close the cleavage in the dress, because she is so un-comfortable whearing it otherwise.  It really is sad to watch. So, now that she has had it, it has only been 3 weeks, but I see a whole new Beautiful Girl emerging. As a mother it is the happiest thing in the world to watch!! I threw her an  "Out With The Old And In With The New Boobs Party"  It was so much fun!! There were,  " Hope you feel better" and  "Congratulations" Balloons, (the guy at the store was confused to say the least) haha   There were cup cakes that were shaped like boobs, and NEW BRAS!!!!  We had an old Bra Burning!!! It was great!!! So with all that said, There is really a reason I call these Random Rants!!! You just never know where they will go, and what I mean when I say you, is me!!!  So this is where I have been, and I do apologize for not being here, but I will tell you guys now, that my Family does, and always will come first, I will do my best to do both, but my Family is first.  So I also want to say Thank You to Heather, she has been so Patient with me during this whole thing, and she also told me that Family always comes first. Heather won the Your Story in my last Challenge, and Heather because you have been so patient, I am going to throw in some extra Candy for you!! I wont tell you what it is, but it will be GREAT!!!!  So thank you guys for letting me rant, and I hope you look at the next person that you see with Big BOOBS with a little bit of empathy, not sympathy, but empathy I feel that now you will feel some compassion for what we, and I feel I am still part of that club, (yes there is a secret card carrying, club, there is even a secret handshake) go through on a daily basis!!
Karen♥

Hurricane Irene!!!

Hi everyone, so sorry I have bben gone for the past week, 2 weeks.  We just got our power on, since Irene came to visit us!!  I cannot explain how much we all depend on electricity!! Half of our town, still have no power!!! So.....  I will be shipping out Heathers Candy on Monday, and I hope to be on here A.S.A.P!!!!! Thank you Heather for your patience!!  Hope everyone is well, and I can't wait to come up with a new challenge!!!

VACATION!!!

Hey Guys,
Sorry about the delay of The videos, and projects that I promised you.  I PROMISE that I will make it up to you when I get back from a little family vacation to Cape Cod.  There will be some Candy involved with a contest, so I will be back next week, and you better be ready for a fabulous contest that I haven't figured out what it is yet, but I will make sure that it is FABULOUS!!!!  I hope you all have a great 4th of July!! See you next week!!

Karen♥

Hey All, My Blog is working again!!!!

Hi Everyone!! My computer has been broken, and then when I got it back, the new post button was gone from my blog.  I have been lost without you all!! I tried logging on with a different browser, and this seems to have fixed the problem, unless this doesn't post, and then I will be talking to myself.  Actually technically I am talking to myself anyway.   It is not as if I am actually talking to anyone, but imagine if blogs were live, and we could all chat together, all day, and we can neglect our children, housework, paying bills ect. I guess that might be a little overboard, but it would be fun.  I would like to catch you all up on blog news, and the winner of the blog candy (Give a Hoot Cricut Cartridge)  I apologize for the wait, bit the winner is Sue from CT.  I have left her a message on her blog, but CONGRATULATION'S Sue, and as soon as you email me your address, I will ship it out to you asap!!!! I have a couple of videos to put up on my blog, and now that it works, that might work out.  So Congrats again to Sue!!