Unexpected inspiration

I have mentioned in other posts about the fact that we have moved. We lived in our home for 7 years. My baby was in second grade when we moved there, now she is a freshman in high school, and not the high school she expected to go to for most of her life, which I'm sure you can understand is quite a change in her life and 14 year olds don't do change well. So, when we looked at the house that we wound up renting, the previous tenants had stenciled some inspirational words on a couple walls. Our first thought was to paint over them, because I thought it was weird to have words on the wall. However the day we moved in she and I both decided that maybe we will keep them for a while.

This is what is painted on the wall in her bedroom. "If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies" totally appropriate to help her through the change she is going through right now.

This is what is painted in the breakfast area of the family room. Besides the change of our move, I have mentioned my recent diagnosis of diabetes in previous posts, therefore I have decided that I might keep this as well, because I need a reminder now and then that "Life is beautiful".

I never win any blog giveaways...

Until now.

Several weeks ago I see this plee on Facebook from Kim at Texting My Pancreas looking for "Grammie" who had won the medical id bracelet. I thought to myself, "I'm Grammie, does my google screen name say Grammie" so I went back to my entry, and sure enough it was me. I totally forgot that I had entered the contest on the You Can Do This Project site, and like I said I never win anything, so I didn't really give it another thought. With the help if Kim and the wonderful folks at Hope Paige Medical, I ordered this really nice medical id bracelet.

It's sweet and simple. It is called the Sweet Heart, look the links are shaped like hearts, they are soooo cute. I love it. Thank you to Kim for hosting this giveaway, and to the people at Hope Paige.

Disclaimer...

I started this blog a couple years ago, mostly with the intention of showcasing my creations. Then I decided I had stuff I wanted to say so I added the "& Such part". Six months ago my life changed forever with my Type 1 diabetes diagnosis, so now my "such" isn't always sunshine and roses. If you have come to my blog for my creations I truly hope to be back to creating soon. We have also moved so it's hard to sit down at the sewing machine when I have so many boxes to unpack. Thank you for your patience and please stay with me till I get back to creating.

Does this remind you of something???

A week ago we moved to a town near the Bay Area, and it is windy most of the time. Here is Bentley.

Reminds me of this. Falcor from The Neverending Story

This reminds me of something

When Bentley and I go for a walk we go by a house that has these daffodils planted in their yard. They remind me of when I worked at American Cancer Society. They had a fundraising campaign called "Daffodil Days". Daffodils are the first flower to bloom in the spring, symbolizing new hope for a cure for cancer. I now add Diabetes to that hope.

But mostly, It reminds me of this.

I love lady bugs