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Thursday, April 28, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
just the beginning...
i'll put up the new things later this evening. for now, here's a few that i just love!
these are just the beginning... so many more to come. i'm just trying to get all the custom pieces finished and in between get photos edited and loaded. they're all on the way! hope you love them!
happy thursday to you!
these are just the beginning... so many more to come. i'm just trying to get all the custom pieces finished and in between get photos edited and loaded. they're all on the way! hope you love them!
happy thursday to you!
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
back in full swing...
hi and happy wednesday :)
i'm really in shock over how fast easter has arrived. are you? i'm sure if you go through posts from years past that you'll find where i say it every year. yeah. pretty sure.
it's almost may! crayzee.
last week this time i was in an ICU room waiting to hear about jeff's heart condition. today we spent a good portion of our day at the Gill Heart Institute at UK, talking to his cardiologist on how to proceed from here. thankfully he's doing great and feeling like his old self again, ready to take on the world. while his doc said it was rare for someone so young to have this condition, it wasn't uncommon. from here on out, should he begin to feel strange, he can email his cardio doc and then they'll figure out what to do. i'm really amazed at the care we've received. have i mentioned i'll never leave kentucky? i love it here. it's almost been twelve years. this is home.
thank you again for all the wonderful emails. i had close to two hundred (194 to be exact). you have no idea how appreciative i am of your kindnesses to us.
so i'm back in full swing! tomorrow (possibly tonight) depending on the weather, i'll have the things i intended to put up for last weeks easter sale in the shoppe. they're so darling. lots of bracelets with peppy colors, fun, bright earrings and necklace sets. love love!
sorry for the triple no-pictures-posts. ::sigh:: it's been one of those months i guess. :)
love you all.
i'm really in shock over how fast easter has arrived. are you? i'm sure if you go through posts from years past that you'll find where i say it every year. yeah. pretty sure.
it's almost may! crayzee.
last week this time i was in an ICU room waiting to hear about jeff's heart condition. today we spent a good portion of our day at the Gill Heart Institute at UK, talking to his cardiologist on how to proceed from here. thankfully he's doing great and feeling like his old self again, ready to take on the world. while his doc said it was rare for someone so young to have this condition, it wasn't uncommon. from here on out, should he begin to feel strange, he can email his cardio doc and then they'll figure out what to do. i'm really amazed at the care we've received. have i mentioned i'll never leave kentucky? i love it here. it's almost been twelve years. this is home.
thank you again for all the wonderful emails. i had close to two hundred (194 to be exact). you have no idea how appreciative i am of your kindnesses to us.
so i'm back in full swing! tomorrow (possibly tonight) depending on the weather, i'll have the things i intended to put up for last weeks easter sale in the shoppe. they're so darling. lots of bracelets with peppy colors, fun, bright earrings and necklace sets. love love!
sorry for the triple no-pictures-posts. ::sigh:: it's been one of those months i guess. :)
love you all.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
what a week.
so. it's been a week. probably the most stressful i've ever had. ever.
sometime early last week (sunday?) jeff says he really feels funny and 'not right'. he continues to work and do his regular things, even going to class on monday night. looking back, i can't believe he was driving.
i went walking with moon on wednesday morning {it's getting easier, btw} and we went to lunch afterwards. jeff calls and says he's going to see his doctor just to get checked out because he still doesn't feel right and now he says he's dizzy too. ::sigh::
he gets to his doctor and wasn't there but a few minutes before they want to send him to the ER at UK. jeff calls me and tells me the situation and that i don't need to come in but that he'll call me later. i think ok, this must not be too bad. right? great. good. really glad about that.
the next call i get is from jeff's ICU nurse at UK Good Sam. she starts with, "hello, mrs. eller? this is lena. i'm your husbands nurse and he's being sent to the ICU. when you get here i will take you to him and explain what's going on." {she does mention that he's doing okay but gives me no information at that point}
when i got that call i was standing in the middle of the street talking with my neighbors, talking about grass and how we hate yard work. benign conversation in comparison. definitely.
after the call i can't tell you how i felt. it was this internal emotional pull going on. i was jumpy and wanted to shout out why is this happening and pray and cry at the same time. i have to tell you that in light of my past situations {that have never been anything like this} i think i did okay. so i'm getting better, right? i hope anyway.
i digress.
so i get the kids settled, my neighbor came to my rescue and got them dinner. i was really appreciative of all her help. {thank you rhonda! -- makes you think of that song, right? help help me rhonda? lol} and i headed to the hospital. didn't call anyone other than my bff because i didn't know how this was going to go and she has a way of making things very calm. {her best attribute, btw}
i get to the hospital and lena takes me to the ICU floor where i find my 42 year old, never-been-in-a-hospital husband hooked up to all sorts of monitors and getting ready to get IV #2. {totally freaked me out} i got the chance to talk to his cardiologist {who introduces himself to me as "david" --which made me love him right off. i mean what chief of cardio do you know who gives you his first name as a call sign? yeah. none. but it gave me that feeling that we were friends and we would get through this}. he tells me that jeff's heart is out of rhythm and needs medication but if that doesn't work we'll "shock" it back into good sinus. {my mind was reeling. i can't imagine how jeff was feeling right now.}they would monitor him through the night, giving him this medication {cardezim} and if that didn't work he would bring in another cardiologist to do several procedures on his heart. he also talked about the reasons for the irregularity was due to low potassium and a high level of stress. ::sigh:: by the way, we had such amazing care at UK, that i really don't think we'd go anywhere else from here on out. it was truly fantastic.
i won't go into all of the horrible things that went on while they were trying to get his second IV going, but let's just say that his arms are literally purple, black, blue and yellow. ::sigh:: more than 14 tries and 4 nurses all with no luck. what a mess. bless his heart.
jeff's mom and aunt rushed in late wednesday night to be with him on thursday. we were both glad they came. that night our close friends, the jones' kept the girls and our other friends, the cissell's took nathaniel. we have such precious friends. they all came to our rescue at our time of need. so so blessed. {i'd also like to mention that both of these families have a lot of kids! one has four -- with a 3 mos old --and the other has three, so to take on our kids was just supernatural stuff. love you all!}
early on thursday morning we prepared for the internal ultrasound of his heart and then they would find out if there were any clots and if everything was clear then they'd go on with the plan to get his heart back in rhythm. during this time i was in the waiting room and they began to sedate him. i think this was the scariest time for me. i had every emotion going on and the thought of not having him in my life, even though this was a remote possibility, still made me so scared. sure, it's all in God's will. yeah i get that, but i'm pretty selfish and i certainly don't think that God needs him as people will often say when people die. i'm not one of those who thinks that way. i'm more like sally fields from steel magnolias where she says that we need him here. remember that scene? powerful to say the least. anyway, that's the way i feel. so just the idea that my husband of nearly seventeen years might not be around just wasn't on the table.
it makes me realize how important he is to me. i've always known this. he's my best friend and honestly, i knew from the moment we had that first date back on december 26th of 92' that he was the one. i was lucky. not everyone is as lucky as i have been and although we have struggles like every other couple we know that in the end we're in this together. that's really all that counts.
everything turned out just fine and his cardio doctors did a fabulous job. it was difficult to come into his ICU room and see him but i was so relieved that he would be okay. when his doctor asked him how he was feeling {he was still sedated but coming out of it}, jeff replies with, "that was so much fun. let's do that again." lol i'm not sure if he'll remember that but it made everyone laugh. then he asked if he could get "the shirt" lol cracked me up!
i know my post is somewhat of a ramble and there's much more to the story, but i've been writing it over a series of days so i hope that it makes sense {a little}. really the bottom line is that we should never take a day in this life for granted. it can be gone in an instant. as i sit here on my bed writing this i listen to jeff's quiet breathing and think how grateful i am to have him in my life. his doctors did say that there's a good chance this could happen again so jeff's going to begin taking things a bit easier on himself. :) i love him so.
jeff was able to come home late thursday and he's been resting ever since. he's very weak but will be back to his normal self soon. for me, i'll be getting back to work on monday so i'm about a week behind. if you're waiting on something, it will be shipped out soon. my goal is to have everything off my table by next friday. it's been a crazy time around here and i am so thankful to all of you who've sent me emails. i was overwhelmed with your kindness and it touched my heart more than you'll ever know. :) thank you so much.
another big thing happened today. our first born turned thirteen. may he have a wonderful year in this the first of many teenage years! :) we are so blessed to have such a wonderful family. i might complain now and then {okay all the time lol} but really i think they're each so precious and they make me laugh every single day.
hugs to you all. :)
sometime early last week (sunday?) jeff says he really feels funny and 'not right'. he continues to work and do his regular things, even going to class on monday night. looking back, i can't believe he was driving.
i went walking with moon on wednesday morning {it's getting easier, btw} and we went to lunch afterwards. jeff calls and says he's going to see his doctor just to get checked out because he still doesn't feel right and now he says he's dizzy too. ::sigh::
he gets to his doctor and wasn't there but a few minutes before they want to send him to the ER at UK. jeff calls me and tells me the situation and that i don't need to come in but that he'll call me later. i think ok, this must not be too bad. right? great. good. really glad about that.
the next call i get is from jeff's ICU nurse at UK Good Sam. she starts with, "hello, mrs. eller? this is lena. i'm your husbands nurse and he's being sent to the ICU. when you get here i will take you to him and explain what's going on." {she does mention that he's doing okay but gives me no information at that point}
when i got that call i was standing in the middle of the street talking with my neighbors, talking about grass and how we hate yard work. benign conversation in comparison. definitely.
after the call i can't tell you how i felt. it was this internal emotional pull going on. i was jumpy and wanted to shout out why is this happening and pray and cry at the same time. i have to tell you that in light of my past situations {that have never been anything like this} i think i did okay. so i'm getting better, right? i hope anyway.
i digress.
so i get the kids settled, my neighbor came to my rescue and got them dinner. i was really appreciative of all her help. {thank you rhonda! -- makes you think of that song, right? help help me rhonda? lol} and i headed to the hospital. didn't call anyone other than my bff because i didn't know how this was going to go and she has a way of making things very calm. {her best attribute, btw}
i get to the hospital and lena takes me to the ICU floor where i find my 42 year old, never-been-in-a-hospital husband hooked up to all sorts of monitors and getting ready to get IV #2. {totally freaked me out} i got the chance to talk to his cardiologist {who introduces himself to me as "david" --which made me love him right off. i mean what chief of cardio do you know who gives you his first name as a call sign? yeah. none. but it gave me that feeling that we were friends and we would get through this}. he tells me that jeff's heart is out of rhythm and needs medication but if that doesn't work we'll "shock" it back into good sinus. {my mind was reeling. i can't imagine how jeff was feeling right now.}they would monitor him through the night, giving him this medication {cardezim} and if that didn't work he would bring in another cardiologist to do several procedures on his heart. he also talked about the reasons for the irregularity was due to low potassium and a high level of stress. ::sigh:: by the way, we had such amazing care at UK, that i really don't think we'd go anywhere else from here on out. it was truly fantastic.
i won't go into all of the horrible things that went on while they were trying to get his second IV going, but let's just say that his arms are literally purple, black, blue and yellow. ::sigh:: more than 14 tries and 4 nurses all with no luck. what a mess. bless his heart.
jeff's mom and aunt rushed in late wednesday night to be with him on thursday. we were both glad they came. that night our close friends, the jones' kept the girls and our other friends, the cissell's took nathaniel. we have such precious friends. they all came to our rescue at our time of need. so so blessed. {i'd also like to mention that both of these families have a lot of kids! one has four -- with a 3 mos old --and the other has three, so to take on our kids was just supernatural stuff. love you all!}
early on thursday morning we prepared for the internal ultrasound of his heart and then they would find out if there were any clots and if everything was clear then they'd go on with the plan to get his heart back in rhythm. during this time i was in the waiting room and they began to sedate him. i think this was the scariest time for me. i had every emotion going on and the thought of not having him in my life, even though this was a remote possibility, still made me so scared. sure, it's all in God's will. yeah i get that, but i'm pretty selfish and i certainly don't think that God needs him as people will often say when people die. i'm not one of those who thinks that way. i'm more like sally fields from steel magnolias where she says that we need him here. remember that scene? powerful to say the least. anyway, that's the way i feel. so just the idea that my husband of nearly seventeen years might not be around just wasn't on the table.
it makes me realize how important he is to me. i've always known this. he's my best friend and honestly, i knew from the moment we had that first date back on december 26th of 92' that he was the one. i was lucky. not everyone is as lucky as i have been and although we have struggles like every other couple we know that in the end we're in this together. that's really all that counts.
everything turned out just fine and his cardio doctors did a fabulous job. it was difficult to come into his ICU room and see him but i was so relieved that he would be okay. when his doctor asked him how he was feeling {he was still sedated but coming out of it}, jeff replies with, "that was so much fun. let's do that again." lol i'm not sure if he'll remember that but it made everyone laugh. then he asked if he could get "the shirt" lol cracked me up!
i know my post is somewhat of a ramble and there's much more to the story, but i've been writing it over a series of days so i hope that it makes sense {a little}. really the bottom line is that we should never take a day in this life for granted. it can be gone in an instant. as i sit here on my bed writing this i listen to jeff's quiet breathing and think how grateful i am to have him in my life. his doctors did say that there's a good chance this could happen again so jeff's going to begin taking things a bit easier on himself. :) i love him so.
jeff was able to come home late thursday and he's been resting ever since. he's very weak but will be back to his normal self soon. for me, i'll be getting back to work on monday so i'm about a week behind. if you're waiting on something, it will be shipped out soon. my goal is to have everything off my table by next friday. it's been a crazy time around here and i am so thankful to all of you who've sent me emails. i was overwhelmed with your kindness and it touched my heart more than you'll ever know. :) thank you so much.
another big thing happened today. our first born turned thirteen. may he have a wonderful year in this the first of many teenage years! :) we are so blessed to have such a wonderful family. i might complain now and then {okay all the time lol} but really i think they're each so precious and they make me laugh every single day.
hugs to you all. :)
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
tuesday's table
i'm desperately trying to get ready for the easter sale and get custom orders out the door, plus i need to finish all the cupcake bracelets...so as soon as i can get the tuesday's table post edited (photos), i'll put it up. :) i'm sorry! it's getting pretty busy around here! if you're waiting on a custom order, the majority will ship this week and the others (double-strands) will ship on monday. i'm still waiting on silver. ::sigh:: (isn't that always the case!?)
if you have any questions, drop me an email.
have a great evening!
if you have any questions, drop me an email.
have a great evening!
Monday, April 11, 2011
i know. i know. i've been MIA.
i know what you're thinking. where have i been? right? yeah. i know.
last week was spring break and i packed our four kids up and drove them to grandma and papaw's house. grandma was the entertainment coordinator and took them to so many places i can't even tell you how many, but the big event of the week was great wolf lodge. the kids had a blast! they went out to eat every single day and had places to go and things to do. they had a great week!
what did jeff and i do?
we worked.
every. single. day.
it's fine. you can feel sorry for us. lol but i had a good time, no matter what you think! :) i've always been the crafty sort (no! you're joking! yes. yes. it's true.) and this was my week to tackle some unfinished projects (no i have still not finished my chair...soon people. soon!)
first came nathaniel's bedroom. he's turning thirteen this week (what!? when did that happen?) and we wanted to do something pretty big. so we redesigned his room. honestly, it wasn't all that difficult since the room consisted of a mattress on the floor surrounded by hundreds of candy wrappers. i'm not joking. however, before the mattress landed its way to the floor, he had a really nice maple loft bed but he didn't like having to climb into bed anymore. so we sold it. i don't have any before photos, because like i said, it was a mattress and a lot of candy wrappers so just imagine what that looked like will you? lol
here are some afters (they're a little blurry. took these with my tiny point and shoot... i'll take some better pics after i paint the closet doors, or remove them, i haven't decided yet).
last week was spring break and i packed our four kids up and drove them to grandma and papaw's house. grandma was the entertainment coordinator and took them to so many places i can't even tell you how many, but the big event of the week was great wolf lodge. the kids had a blast! they went out to eat every single day and had places to go and things to do. they had a great week!
what did jeff and i do?
we worked.
every. single. day.
it's fine. you can feel sorry for us. lol but i had a good time, no matter what you think! :) i've always been the crafty sort (no! you're joking! yes. yes. it's true.) and this was my week to tackle some unfinished projects (no i have still not finished my chair...soon people. soon!)
first came nathaniel's bedroom. he's turning thirteen this week (what!? when did that happen?) and we wanted to do something pretty big. so we redesigned his room. honestly, it wasn't all that difficult since the room consisted of a mattress on the floor surrounded by hundreds of candy wrappers. i'm not joking. however, before the mattress landed its way to the floor, he had a really nice maple loft bed but he didn't like having to climb into bed anymore. so we sold it. i don't have any before photos, because like i said, it was a mattress and a lot of candy wrappers so just imagine what that looked like will you? lol
here are some afters (they're a little blurry. took these with my tiny point and shoot... i'll take some better pics after i paint the closet doors, or remove them, i haven't decided yet).
i scored the bamboo blind from Lowes. it was 90% off and cost us less than $5 bucks. i know right!?
the only things we had before the room makeover were the two posters which had yet to be removed from their wrappers...so everything was brand new (oh and the tv isn't new). when he opened the door, this was what he saw... and he was SO surprised!
still need to paint (or remove) the doors... not sure what i want to do yet.
we found everything for his room at Ikea and Target. you know how i love ikea! it's the best place if you want to keep to a budget, it's really amazing what they have to offer. the room "idea" came from a show room floor design they had in their actual store... pic below:
i really liked how they had the best behind the wall unit, it acts as a privacy... so cool.
we still have a few things to finish but you get the idea. :)
more to come! stay tuned! (how have you been?)
Friday, April 1, 2011
april fool's and my son
the news man said we were a quarter through the year. what? when did that happen? he's right though. we are. kinda scary really if you stop and think about it. it's A P R I L.
this year brings two big birthdays. nathaniel will be turning 13. a teenager. ::sigh:: i'm not sure i'm ready for this. i never saw any of my kids past the age of ten in my mind, and we're way past that now. lol way.
so when he came running into my room last night, yelling about the cut on his arm and did i have anything for it or should we go to the hospital, i about had heart failure.
this year brings two big birthdays. nathaniel will be turning 13. a teenager. ::sigh:: i'm not sure i'm ready for this. i never saw any of my kids past the age of ten in my mind, and we're way past that now. lol way.
so when he came running into my room last night, yelling about the cut on his arm and did i have anything for it or should we go to the hospital, i about had heart failure.
{snapped with my iphone}
so then when i begin to freak, he stops me and says "early april fools mom!" lol
he made this fake blood with a prank kit he got for christmas that he's finally putting to use. it also comes with itching powder. i sure hope i don't get that on me today. lol
what a boob. this tells me i'm in for a lot of craziness with his teen years. :)
thankfully he's a good fella and won't try and torture me too badly...i hope. lol
the other big birthday is me. i turn forty this year. {moon will be forty before me though. just sayin.shh. don't tell her i told you. she turns the big 4.0 in august. i'm november. see? i told you. she's way before me! lol} not sure what we're gonna do yet to celebrate it. something big and fun. :)
i'm not into april fool's jokes {aren't you glad!?} but i do have a fun april sale for ya.
this bracelet is in the shoppe for order only while supplies last...
Spring Cupcake
it is so cute! grab one while you can. they'll be gone soon because all good things have to end sometime {or when i'm so overwhelmed that i can't take on any more. lol}
* * *
after school today we're taking the kids to my folks' house for a week to spend spring break with them.
my mom is a big entertainer and my dad goes along for the ride. lol cracks me up! so while they're
having a grand time living it up, jeff and i will be working on our master bathroom. i'm going to take
photos so you can see. :) we're gutting it to the studs. ack!
i might do some painting too. you just never know. i'm pretty sure i'll be doing something with paint. lol
have a great weekend! happy april everyone! summer is so close! yay!!!
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