I can't believe that I'm doing this. I'm blogging. I'm a pretty private person. For instance, when I worked at Blockbuster Video in 1995 I was 18 years old and refused to pick my favorite movies for a row of "Jean's Picks". I simply didn't want people knowing my favorite movies. At that time, as is true with most teenagers, I was more self-conscious than I am now. Now I'm going to air out all of my dirty laundry.
Sometime during the summer of 2010, I started feeling lightheaded when I would stand up. I told my doctor that when I stood up, I felt like all the blood in my body rushed to my head and I heard a "whooshing" in my ears and felt like I was going to pass out. I was getting migraines for the first time in my life and had extreme fatigue. My doctor gave me a prescription for an MRI along with a referral to a neurologist. I scheduled my MRI for an evening so that I wouldn't miss work. I was working full-time as an attorney and my three children were all under the age of 5 years old. When I checked in for the MRI, the technician told me that because of the late hour she couldn't give me a CD of the results. But when the test was done she did give me a CD, which should have been my first clue that something was wrong. By the time I got home, my phone was ringing. It was the physician on-call for my primary care practice, whom I did not know. I r...
I have always been "crafty", as my college roommate would put it. I started with latch hook rugs and tin punch pieces with my mother. She is my inspiration for my crafting. My mom never looks at a craft and says "I could never do that". If she wants to make something, she does. She may make a lot of mistakes along the way and have to start over a few times, but my mom makes what she wants to make. I try to channel that spirit. For instance, when my husband and I bought our house I decided that I would sew curtains even though I had barely used a sewing machine before. I make rectangular, super simple curtains for the dining room and then decided that roman shades would look best in the living room. I purchased a pattern for roman shades and many yards of fabric and just did it. My mom was really impressed. Here's a selection of my projects:
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