Sorry to hear the hips are still hurting!! Not sure you could get out of the bathtub, just stand in shower & let warm water flow over your lower back as long as you can. Heating pads are great also but don't use for hours. Just take it easy as you can until you find out from dr what is going on. Glad you can craft some, you must be going crazy with mind saying craft, body saying,whoa, don't move!!!Praying that brighter days will soon be there for you! Jan

I love your blog also. I saw beige coffee filters at TS yesterday & almost bought them to experiment with leaves but then i didn't as I thought they might not take color right& would look dirty. Any brand of white bleached ones will work I guess. Better check out MS site & get it down as I really love the roses!! What a great idea jeaninWA has to make the handprints up of each child. Great for the xmas tree & then straight into the baby book as a wonderful memory!! I used my kids hands & footprints once for some craft & that was cute-too long ago to remember.LOL Jan

well, I could've sworn I posted to this thread..but I don't see my comments,lol!....Beautiful plates, I would've gotten them myself,not sure if to decorate or mosaic with...just got my china cabinet back from the finisher,whoohoo!!...Sorry to hear of your troubles SusieSunshine, I hope all is well now... I haven't been "yard-saling" or shopping at my "gettin' place"s..but one sister has been bringing me treasures for my art works, like sky blue feathers from her bird, beads,charms, old jewelry, etc., and another sister bought me a wine-making kit from a yard sale, she just brought a huge box full of bags of fresh corks,too, I suppose I'd better actually make some wine instead of a HUGE bottle tree :P'''....another sister got me a Japan blue willow cup and saucer for my tea cup bird feeder chandeliers...Thanks to whoever mentioned goodwill online, because I LOVE it; I've only spent $17.99 in the last couple months and bought 2 silver plated teapots, sugar and creamer, so no gas money spent, no heat to deal with and it was delivered right to the front door..they're for mosaic'ing...I've been making altered art collages and Artist Trading Cards..so much fun..I killed my digital camera,the lens won't close all the way,or come out all the way(what's up with that??) and gave some away without taking pics, so don't know if I can take any pics, this cell phone doesn't take the best pics,either.lol....and babysitting youngest grandson from morning til night keeps me too busy for much.....

Our Walmart converts the garden center into the Christmas section. Then there are a lot of aisles back there,and sort of a "theme" for each aisle. The one I found the prisms on was the aisle with all the black and white Christmas themed things.(ugly,except for all the cystal-looking pieces) It's a square plastic box,clear. You will probably enjoy all the other prism type pieces in other shapes,a little more money,but not expensive,connected by jump rings.Also,the lady working there said they dont even have all the Christmas things in yet. Good Luck!