I am happy to announce that the That Painter Lady Website re-do is finally done! In celebration, I am hosting a site warming party with a sweepstakes and giveaway. Prizes include a Deco Art textu… Continue

Have you heard about gluebooks? If not, do the google. Gluebooks are books that are composed of everyday objects, it's like street art journal style. Pages can be made of anything.

I am really interested in carving out some time each day to do art, and would love to start an online and offline space around which to do it. This time would be later turned into the time where I do artsy mama things in my area. Just, baby step with me. ;)

Drop me a line if you'd like to be in on it. I think it wou… Continue

Sorry to all of my e-friends, the ones I talk to online, but I've been gone. I know this. And I'm sorry for my absence. I really thought things would slow down, but they just aren't. I wake up, I do the normal things, then it's time for lunch, then time to get Fiona from school, then we come home and talk about the day, then Derek comes home we have dinner we watch Dr. Who and we go to bed.

In there I work my business... www.longaberger.com/normadycus. Other than that, it seems like nothing get… Continue

Things are looking up for now! Everything is still the same but a little different! I went to the lunch Dr and he went in and didn't find any corn but found some places of concern! Long story short in my lungs there is areas that the air can't though as easily as it needs too and I need medicines to help keep them open! But not all the time! With my weight and health it will come and go! GREAT right! Well I was just glad it wasn't cancer or something!

Now we are getting ready to head back to sc… Continue

I learned today that a mom in my local social network has cancer.

Cancer?

Yes.

A lump in her throat turned into more.

I am lost in this. I can't imagine how lost she is in the whole situation. Apparently in the past she had cancer in a leg or both... I'm not sure on details.

I know people survive cancer. But I know it's terrifying. And that makes perfect sense to me. We like to think we are our bodies, not somehow separated. Knowing something is in your body making you sick... or worse that… Continue