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

New Selling Blog, Please Come for a Visit

You are cordially invited to visit my new "Snugglebug Selling Blog." Just click on the Title in the upper right hand corner of this blog where it says "Snugglebugs Selling Blog or type: www.snugglebugssellingblog.blogspot.com. There, you will find whimsical dolls and cans, vintage inspired jewelry, mixed media and more. I have been following "Somerset Studio" magazine for several years now and have fallen in love with mixed media. It has been refreshing to work with different types of mixed media and love the ability to just let go.

So I invite you to visit this new blog and see some of the offerings I have there. If you like a little bit of the different and unusual, then you will like what you see there. Some of the new items to be added will be: vintage bags for carrying all those wonderful goodies and books, sachets, potpourri, dollies and more. Thanks for stopping by there and if you have a moment, please drop me a comment. God bless all!


PS. Folks I am sorry for not being able to respond to your wonderful comments lately. My computer is giving me a fit. But I do appreciate each and every comment and plan on taking this old jalopy of a computer back to the computer doctor. Thanks again, and please be patient.

A Frog, a Wish and a Place Called Cheeseville?

Miss Fairy Mouse

Meet Miss Fairy Mouse. She grants wishes. Lots of wishes as long as they are nice ones. This little gal can be found at my "Arts a Flutter" page and is just $26.00 ppd. (Snugglebug Blessings Original) Miss Fairy Mouse is SOLD! Thanks so much.

Lilly

So what is green with big lips, webbed feet and wearing a pink dress??? Strange discription for a frog, but yep, that's what she is and she is so very adorable. (Sweet Meadows Farms pattern) She is found at my "Humble Arts" page and is selling for a mere $42.00 + $4. s/h. You can e-mail me for purchase from this blog. Thanks so much.

Cheeseville Mouse

This sweet mouse is found a my Lemon Poppy Seeds site but has been SOLD! (Kentucky Primitive pattern) Thank you so much.

Hope you enjoyed my July offerings.! God bless and have a wonderful, creative day!

Blessings from Fathers

This is my husband. Can you tell what he loves to do the most. No, it's not working, nor is it gardening all though he does like that. He loves to fish. Is there anything else in life?!? He is always catching fish even when the other guys he goes with don't. He's got the touch. The man below is my father. He passed away two years ago. My grandfather died on Fathers Day 16 years ago.

Do I missed them, you bet. But I have such wonderful memories of both of them. My dad loved to horse around with the kids. He would play ball, cowbows and Indians, even barbie and all babies, bar none, bounced on top of his knees. My grandfather was a story teller and quite a good one. He always new how to bait and hook you in a story and bam he'd get you at the end of the story. Everybody would always laugh. He used to tell the same story to my dad over and over but tell it a different way each time and always have the same ending. My grandad and father always had a great sense of humor.

Here my dad is playing monster. You can't hear the roaring from him, but my kids and all adults alike would laugh and run!

This is my family when we went to Hatteras Island. It was wonderful. I want to move there. Can we go now.

This is what all fathers should be doing with their kids today! Not necessarily fishing, not all like to fish, but spending time with the blessings God gave them. This is a father's opportunity to share what he knows, enjoy the laughter of a child and ask God to help him grow in wisdom and grace. My husband is very smart. He is good at anything he puts his mind to! He loves his kids. Happy Fathers Day!

How Many Ways to Mess Up a Blog

How many ways can you mess up a blog? Well I have become an expert at that. I originally had a wonderful designer create my blog for me. She did a lovely job. See the banner above. But I found free blog templates and wanted to try it out. Little did I know that my blog was very well programmed to stay the way it was. I entered my newly found template, very excited to see my new look for kicks and walla!!! All that hard work GONE! What did I do??? I didn't want to change anything but the background to see if I could. Oh brother, everything was gone, gone, gone. I slumped over in my chair horrified at what I had done, terrified to approach my wonderful web designer. So off I went to fix it myself. Do you hear the song "We're off to see the wizard" playing in the background? That's what I heard.

I looked at several different blogs to see where they got their graphics and researched each and every one. Checked out how to load them into my blog. Contacted anybody who would listen and bombarded them with blog questions. Everyone was wonderful! I finally ate crow and told my web designer (Kim, Craftisan Graphics) what I had done and how I messed it all up. She was so sweet. Thank God for folks who just know that some of us should NEVER be computer designers, maybe we should never go near computers. LOL!

Next I tried several different backgrounds on and finally settled on one. I contacted my banner gal (Deena Davis) and asked her to create a matching banner for my current blog color at the time. She did. It was wonderful, I love those fairies. Aren't they sweet. But my blog looked too busy. Well I wasn't gettin' rid of those fairies, no way now how. I found yet another blog background to fit with my new fairy banner. Yep! I think it finally looks groovy. Hope you all like it because I'm a to tired to fix it again. LOL!