Re: good morning/Bev/Chelle

[Guest guest]

--- Hi Chelle,

I wish I could do quilting, that would be soooo productive for me. Im

thinkin of taking a class if we can afford it. Right now I am trying

to sign up for a computer course to learn Microsoft Word, Excel, and

PowerPoint. I am on Vocational Rehab and they only cover so much.

Sigh.

I hope you had a pain free day today-I pray all of my new friends

have a great day!

kelizabeth

n Hugs-N-Pain , " Chelle " wrote:

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> Kelizabeth,

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> I cross stitch all the time. I'm also supposed to working on a

quilt, but it just sits here beside me. I only pull it out when I

make a cross stitch mistake that I don't know what to do about. LOL

I am finding that if I spend too much time sewing, my hand, arm and

shoulder complain, so I'm trying to limit my sewing hours a little

bit. It is a great stress reliever though.

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> Chelle

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[Guest guest]

Kelizabeth,

My mom owns her own quilting business. That's what she decided to do to fill

her days when she retired, and now she does it almost to the exclusion of

everything else. I think she felt like she HAD to teach me to quilt or the

tradition wouldn't be carried on. But....I don't have any daughters, and I'm

not that good at it. LOL I like the cross stitching WAY better.

Chelle

[Guest guest]

--- Chelle

I can relate to your moms excitement with quilting. I had that

excitement before my knee pain made me stop doing stained glass. I

would have 4-5 projects going at once and I loved it! Needless to

say, I havent done any in about 4 years, I still have all my stuff in

the closet, which I need to get rid of cuz it makes me sad to see it.

Cross stitching is something I can do (sitting down) and Im doing a

real cool wolf one for my dad for xmas (cross my fingers). Im having

kind of a bad pain day today our weather cant make up its mind what

it wants to do. Yesterday we had a terrible rain storm in the

afternoon which made everything humid-ewww! In addition to the

chronic pain, I also suffer from bi-polar disease and the meds I take

for that make me sleepy. So between the knee meds and bi-polar meds

nighty nite, lol

Hope you are having a pain free day (hugs)

kelizabeth

In Hugs-N-Pain , " Chelle " wrote:

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> Kelizabeth,

>

> My mom owns her own quilting business. That's what she decided to

do to fill her days when she retired, and now she does it almost to

the exclusion of everything else. I think she felt like she HAD to

teach me to quilt or the tradition wouldn't be carried on. But....I

don't have any daughters, and I'm not that good at it. LOL I like

the cross stitching WAY better.

>

> Chelle

>

>

[Guest guest]

Kelizabeth,

I'm so sorry you had to give up something you love. That just stinks. I am

working on the Apache Wedding Blessing in cross stitch and want to finish it

before Christmas for my husband if possible. He already had a 3' X 4' indian

chieftain head that I did for him in cross stitch in his office, and that one

took me 5 years to finish off and on. It came out really cool though.

I am also bipolar, but only take klonopin for anxiety. They discovered that

lithium was the cause of my major stomach problems last year, so I have not gone

on anything else since I stopped taking that in January. So far I have only had

one major mood swing and that was into depression last week, but it hasn't

lasted too long. I'm still irritable and cranky though. Are you bipolar I or

II? I'm bipolar II so I tend more towards the depression. What are you taking

for it?

Chelle