Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas! I hope all of you have your wishes come true, love surrounding you, a home to be warm in and Gods love to hold on too! God bless and Merry Christmas!

Closing My Shop

After several weeks of consideration, I have decided to close my business. It was a very difficult decision but for me, it is the right one. I am pulled in to many different directions, can barely keep up with my school and kids so keeping my crafting business was just to hard. I am sadden for sure, this is a very hard thing for me to do, it is my passion, but for now, it is the right thing to do.

Please stop by my website to see all the specials I have going on. Many finished dolls have been drastically reduced and I will continue to cut prices as I near the holiday. Patterns/Epatterns are $6.00/$5.00 and under, some are free, my holiday gift to you.

Thank you for being so wonderful to me and so supportive. I will still blog and will try to continue with Lemon Poppy Seeds but below are listed the sites I am on that I'm dropping out of.

Snugglebug Prim Blessins
The Humble Arts
Arts A Flutter
Etsy

God bless all of you and may you have a blessed, wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!

I'm Still Alive, Yippee

Hi Ladies, got lots of ya's asking if I'm still alive. It is true, I am. But I am so very busy with cosmetology school that I hardly have time to write. It is going great. I am very much enjoying school, although I don't enjoy the new music that they play and is out there, Its very graphic verbiage and sailor mouth, cuss words. That is hard to hear. But I love learning all the new ways to do hair and have some very nice friends.

Well, about my husband. I have not received child support. DHHR (social services) has dragged and dragged and dragged their feet until I finally put my foot down and called child support services. I am not even listed to receive any support because DHHR never filed even though they repeatedly assured me that they are "working on it"! Ha, Ha, Ha. RIIIIIIIIIIIIGHHHHT!

I saw my attorney (legal aid) and she and I are asking for well I can't tell you until my husband is served, in case he reads this but will keep you posted. Lets say if I do get what I"m asking for he will be really mad!!!!!! Bummer I say. Your kids come first, not getting even with your wife. I asked him to provide coats, pants, hoodys, and winter items since he won't pay support and my little cash from DHHR is barely keeping my car tanked up. None of that has happened. Wonder how the judge will feel about that, hum?!? So with fingers crossed and you gals a prayin' hopefully things will turn around for my kids and me, oh, lets not forget my Rottie and Triscuit (he's found on the left).

Has it been hard living here with 11 people, you bet, very hard! Some days I want to go home even with my husband just to have my kitchen again, and QUIET. There is no such thing here at this house, only in the wee hours of the morning when I get up for school. But God is good and he always comes through when we need him and he has. Thank you Lord.

I want to thank all of you for your prayers, support, kind words and always being an encouragement to me in the hardest time of my life and my kids. We are grateful to have you. Have a wonderful, creative day and may God bless you all.

New Dolls and Patterns Come Peak

NEW!
Pumpkin Scarecrow
$.8.00 E-Pattern
$10.00 Pattern
Found at www.snugglebugprimblessins.com
Pumpkin Scarecrow Doll
Found at:
www.lemonpoppyseeds.com

NEW!
Primitive Santa Door Hanger
$8.00 e-pattern
$10.00 Pattern
found at:
Found at: www.snugglebugprimblessins.com
Primitive Santa Door Hanger doll found at:
www.thehumblearts.com

Thanks for stopping by!

Shops Reopening Soon

Hi everyone. I want everybody to know that I am not closing my shops down. I am having some financial troubles and will be reopening them as soon as I can. Please pray for me and my family. It is very hard right now and sometimes almost unbearable. But God is good. Please forgive me for any inconvenience this may cause.

It Ain't Pretty

So need to get this off my chest folks. For 17+ years I have been married. It has not been a good marriage. I will not bash my husband even though sometimes it would feel better to do so. But I will tell you he is an alcoholic and has always been very verbally abusive. Just recently he threatened to hit me and that is the reason I have finally left him. I really feel he threatened me to get me out of his life for good. And so it is.

My life is in upheavel not having my crafts and supplies here at my moms. All my craft stuff is at my old house so making dollys is out of the question for now and that is killing me. If I'm not creating then I'm going mad! So today I go to pick up some things such as my sewing machine, fabrics, sewing supplies and some of my patterns to work on. Or I will loose my mind. I have stacks of things to do, stuff to pack and phone calls to make and all I really want to do it craft. I need it for sanity sake. So off I go to my old house.

This is not the first time he has threatened me. It is one of the several. I have been thinking of leaving him for a long time anyway. He was worned back in March, but he didn't do anything about trying to make our lives better. The worst thing is how he treats his daughter. It is horrible to say the least. For a child to say she would rather walk down the isle alone instead of having her father walk her, that should tell you something.

So sorry that I am dumping like this but if I don't I will go mad. Thanks for listening and thanks for being there my friends. I don't feel so alone when I hear from you all. I hope in the future I will have positive things to write about but as for now, I'm gloomy and broken hearted.

There are several things that are good. The first one is that I will be going to beauty school in just a couple of weeks. I need something to help feed my family and working at Walmart just won't pay the rent. Also, I have my mom's to stay at for the duration but the adjustment is still taking some time to get used to. We all are working together for that.

Please pray for my kids, me and my mom that we will get through this and God will heal our broken hearts. Most of all that he will show us his will and guidance through it all. God bless. Cathy