When Pigs Fly, Blog Candy Winner and My Craft Room

Beware... this is a long personal post so if you aren't interested just tune back to your locally scheduled program..:)


In keeping up with my personal posts I wanted to share a bit of me..


About 16 months ago I had major surgery.  It was a very trying time for me.  I can't tell you how much love and support I got from the stamping community.  One of those that really understood what I was going through was my sweet friend Lorraine.  She too had a similar surgery but with many complications.  SO much so that she had to have another surgery. Here is what she had done:


  But it has become even more personal to me over the course of this last 14 months and, as luck would have it, I now owe a bit of my health to a pig.  (They used a pig's pericardium to repair the hernias I had in my hysterectomy incision.) 

Last year in March I received my first pig from Lorraine... Here it is:

It is a little glass pig she found and she enclosed it in the plastic fruit jar and sent it with the postage on the jar and my address. I was tickled pink.  Her message to me was on this tag which I use as a bookmark in my Bible:

On the back she wrote this poem:

A pig that has wings

Does impossible things!

Over clouds it can fly

In the wink of an eye!

She may tickle you pink

But she wants you to think

Of her messge to each

"Nothing's out of your reach!"

©LMastalski 2007

This year I got this adorable little pig...

When I saw on her blog that she was going to have a pigs on parade I just had to join in.. This was harder than I thought it would be.. She sent us all a paper mache pig.  

We were to decorate them and I introduce to you my Flowered Petunia Pig.  She is much prettier than the pigs I grew up with.  I attached some wings that Lorraine included in the package.  

Little did she know that Pigs have a significant meaning for my family.  I grew up on a stinky pig farm.  Pigs were our bread and butter so to speak. Many mornings before school I would get up at the crack of dawn and do pig chores.  It taught me hard work and determination.  Determination to be the first one done so I could get the first shower.  WIth 8 kids in the family that was not an easy task. Let me tell ya the pigs got slopped fast.

 I really enjoyed this project.  I am hoping to send this to someone else that needs a healthful lift.  

Now on to my NEW craft room.  It has been 3.5 years in the making and 25 years on my wish list.   I chose a Carribean Blue for my walls.  

My husband designed it with all natural lighting and 8 outlets.. This is my new desk that tilts and the view is of flowers that have not bloomed yet and my bird feeders.  Beyond that fence is the lake. It is so pretty here in North Carolina.   I love the bay window.  When my flowers are all blooming I will take another picture to show you.

My closet is rather small but it really helped me to downsize. I sent a bunch of cards I had made and collected to a friend that gave them to a cancer center for children.  That felt so good.  I have many Stampin Up sets I am going to donate too but not sure where that will be.  Any ideas?
 Can you tell my hubby works for a tote company.. He ordered me 50 totes and I filled them all...lol. I have to show you now while it is still clean.  :)

My first decor element.  A wreath my daughter made.  

Well that is what is new in my world.  I am busy moving and cleaning my stamping area.  

Now on to my blog candy winner.  :)

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Archies MumMar 23, 2012 11:43 AM

Those magnolias are gorgeous. Love the style of your card. Hope your arm is better by now?

Please contact me at dawnburnworth@yahoo.com and yes my arm is much better.  Thank you for caring..:)