I also was working on an Altered Clipboard and altered pen to match it....

Hey Everyone,
Don't forget this Saturday is "Daylight Savings Time". (Saturday March 10th)   Change those clocks.
What I've been working on this week is a swap ...Chunky Charms... I enjoyed making them ... Puts me in the mood for spring which is on March 20th... yes..counting down the days...lol  Here goes a pic of my chunky charms and the boxes I made with a stamp box......

 

 

 

Hi Everyone
Hope you had a great weekend.  Today was the day I went to the fat doctor again for my check up and weigh in....Drum rolllllllllll please.... Since January 10, 2013 I have lost a total of 43 pounds.   Yippie and I'm doing a happy dance. Hubby goes with me to the visits and said how proud he is of me.  He lost another 2 pounds...lol (doing this on his own.)  He supports me and I love him for it.  He said I can tell you are loosing....I can see you are loosing how my clothes are just hanging on me. 
This is something I'm so proud of... "Me" doing something that I am accomplishing not raising kids not taken care of the house and all other stuff in my life.... Just "Me accomplishing this for Me."  Don't get me wrong, I love my sons and love my husband and have always taken care of them....cooking...cleaning..paying bills, grocery shopping,laundry, taxi driver, referee, etc...list goes on and on.  You know how it is to have kids and all and just taking care of all them and not thinking about yourself ...you on the back burner.   I am finally taken control of myself.

I am not in phase 3- Bland foods stage.  I never had Salmon before and now am aloud to have that and other meats, provided my little belly can handle it.  Going to look up some recipes on Salmon, our one grocery store has a fish deli section where there is fresh fish... Will be checking that out this week.  What is strange is... I have no hunger pains in my stomach at all.  I love it.  And some more good news... well for me anyways...lol  I have heard so many people talking about "Tuesday Mornings"... on our way home from the doctor's office I looked over at the side of out Mall, and lord and behold... There is a "Tuesday Mornings"!!! whooo hooo  Over this weekend we will be heading over there...lol


Okay, have a great week. 

Hi Everyone,
Are you up for a swap?  I did a video over on my YouTube channel:  1234arubberstamper19  
I did the ole' Shaving Cream technique, "what's old is new' again..besides, it's been a while since I made some backgrounds with shaving cream.
So, I'm also proposing a swap on "Shaving Cream backgrounds."  You can make cards, tags or Atc's while using the shaving cream technique in the background of your choosing what you would like to make....cards, tags, atc's. So, if you think you would be interested please email me or leave a comment to let me know.  If I get enough players, I will be putting details of the swap here and will also put them over on my YouTube channel... 1234arubberstamper19
Thanks a bunch and hope to have a good turn out for this swap.
Hugs....

Thanks Honey...Every Kiss Begins with Kay Ü

Thanks a bunch Honey...Every Kiss Begins With Kay Ü

     

What a wonderful Valentines Day I had. I have a very wonderful hubby who spoils me rotten.  I was so hungry for chocolate but instead he gave me something sweeter....lol  Bling bling...lol
I also want to thank a friend Denise K from over on "RST" list that we are all on.  She sent me a lovely Valentine's Day card...See card below. 
This month it's been not bad, but I do get a little hungry in my mind... .. I complain and hubby says "I feel bad for you honey".  And I just tell him...let me complain and you listen.  He does. Ü  He waited on me hand and foot when I came home from my Gastric Bypass and catered to my needs.  I love him for all this and then some.  He's a keeper....Ü
I go to the fat doctor on Feb 25th and will find out if I start phase 3 of Gastric bypass.
Hugs to all....

Valentines Card from Denise K....

Hi Everyone,
I've been busy working on some swaps this week for next month.  I'm on a swap over on SplitcoastStampers and we are making 28 stickpins.  I love making stick pins and when done will display them here after they are made before sending out.
      I got a lovely Valentines day card from a friend (laundryqueen88) and a lovely stitched Calendar from a rst friend and another lovely kimono card that opens with a note inside from another rst friend.  They are posted down below.  I just want to update on my loss of weight this week.  Last Monday I had lost 15 lbs. Since then today... Tuesday I have lost another 15 lbs.  Tomorrow I want to get outside before the weather gets bad and walk for 20 minutes.  Ü  It's crazy... I couldn't wait till I was  on the phase 2 food (pureed foods),I was a little frustrated this week, cause the pureed foods don't seem like I have as much food to eat or a bigger variety.  Hubby was like "well, look at the first phrase you were on...lol  He is right... it was nothing but clear liquids.
     I know that this was going to be like this... Just by reading our class notebook per-surgrey.  I'm going to start next month and go to the support group, and find out about our online support group as well.  Everyone who's been through this will probably understand the little complaints I have. Ü Ü  Okay, just my .2¢ worth this week.
Enjoy the rest of the week. Ü Tomorrow here it's going to rain in the afternoon.  -ugh-
Hugs. Ü

Thanks guys for the cards.  Made my day. Ü
 

Hi Everyone and hope someone is reading....
I had my appointment on Monday 21st 2013 with the doctor from the Bariatric Center.  I lost 14lbs since my gastric by-pass.  I'm so happy.  The doctor said that I won't have hunger pains.  But I will have to get it right with my head.  "Eyes Bigger than Your Stomach" syndrome....   I was so happy about the weight loss.  I'm now on Phase 2... "Pureed Foods"
I am aloud to have an egg, low fat sugar free plain yogurt.  I love
Greek Yogurt so I been eating that.  Pureed... peaches, pears, apricots (in juice or in water)  Ü  Aloud to have:
Fat Free/Sugar Free Pudding.... Butterscotch is good and so is Banana Cream is good and so is White Chocolate. 
Protein Shakes ... I bought these flavors from the Dr.'s office.... Vanilla, Strawberry, and Chocolate and Banana.   I have put some of the pudding powders in the Vanilla shakes, and I got to tell you that it made it so yummie, it tasted like a milkshake... lol

        I'm also now taking vitamins and I got to tell you that the Calcium Citrate and Multi- Vitamin, and B-12, and iron . 

I'm going to ask my family Dr. if I can come to him once a month to just get a shot.  First I'll finish the 90 day supply of my vitamins and pills.   I got to tell you that these pills are bigger than the per-natal

vitamins, for you who have kids and had to take them while pregnant you know what I'm talking about...lol

Well, that's it for this week.  Feeling good about myself. Ü

Have a great weekend.

Home....Glad to be home.

I'm so glad to finally be home.  I came home on Sunday and feeling pretty good.  No hunger pains no nothing.  Feels funny that I can walk in the kitchen and see a bag of chocolate caramels and twix candy bars on the counter and can just go past the counter and get a grape water or Popsicle and not want the candy...lol
Monday I will be going back to the doctors office... HopeBariatrics.
I put the link in one of my post down below.  I will probably be put on phase two..puree foods, but at least I will get to eat a little.  Right now I've been on clear liquids since last Thursday.  Day of the procedure (Gastric bypass).   I'm going to try and add something every month on my progress.  And once I get going I will also do vblog.  I'm home and recovering fine.  Thanks to all your wishes and prayers and cards.
Big Hugs. Ü

Giveaway...Go and Subscribe....

This wonderful gal is giving away a bunch of lovely things..
go here and check her out and subscribe.....

http://youtu.be/5SO64s3dsRw

My new life and New Year....

Hi Everyone,
Well it's the new year.  I am getting something done tomorrow to start a new healthy new year for myself.  I've always struggled with my weight all through my life.  So after all thought last year and going through the procedure I had to go through to get to this point was well worth it.

Tomorrow I will be getting Gastric By-pass done... At the Sewickly Hospital... My doctor is Dr. Felix.  He is from the :
http://www.hopebariatrics.com   located in Sewickly PA.

They took a before pic of me for the wall of Fame in their office and will do another photo of me after I have success with the gastric by-pass.

I'm excited and nervous and all going through my head right now.  But I know I will feel so much better after and loosing weight for this New Year and my New Life. 
Here goes a before pic of me taken by the the dietician on 12-12-12.
I will not put my before weight till after I loose my weight and reach my goal weight.  But will blog each month how much I've lost.
Hugs.