I´m still alive, even it´s been a bit crazy here lately.

Hello there dear friend,
Sorry it has again been a while, since you heard from me, but that crazy health, I´m dealing with, have a way of kicking me, every time I think, that now it´s finally all over and going soo fine, then something just seems to pop in right away, so if it´s not one thing, it´s another LOL. I have just been bragging about how well it´s been going here the last couple of years, and I finally had my eyesurgery, because it had been 2 years now since my last infection, but not as soon as I had it over and done with, the infection hit again. I suddenly got a huge abscess in my left breat, so they thought it was a lump, but thanks god, it was "only" an really nasty abscess, as if that wasn´t enough, but I was sent to the hospital a couple of times here again to deal with it, and it finally bursted, so it gave some relief, but it also cost me a few more weeks on very heavy antibiotics here again, and I admit, my energy level has been almost equal zero here the last many weeks, but now it finally begin to go much better again, so I can hopefully soon get back to normal days here again, as soon as I get caught up a bit on all that I´m behind with here now, which unfortunately is quite a bit. And I´m very aware, that I owe soo many of you some answers to sweet mails, I´ve recieved, and I promisse, I will get there eventually, but things just don´t goes too fast here right now, and there´s also still all the everyday things to care about too, but I´ll get there soon, I promisse.

Sorry venner, jeg ved godt, at det nu igen har været så længe, hvor I ikke har hørt fra mig her, men det åndsvage helbred, jeg må trækkes med her, har det med, hver gang jeg tror, at nu er det endelig alt sammen et overstået kapitel, så stikker det sit grimme fjæs frem igen, så er det ikke det ene, så er det det andet.
Nu havde jeg lige pralet sådan med, at nu var det helt sikert overstået, for nu var det over 2 år siden den sidste omgang, og jeg fik endelig opereret min stær og skulle rigtig til at nyde det igen, men ikke så snart var det overstået, før en infektion brød ud igen. Jeg fik pludselig en kæmpeknude i det venstre bryst, som bare groede helt vildt og gjorde virkelig onddt, men da jeg lige havde fået årets mamografi syntes jeg jo de burde kunne se det, hvis der var noget, men havde endnu intet hørt, så måtte til lægen, som gik helt amok og sendte mig på hospitalet akut samme dag, og blev da også undersøgt og de fremskaffede resultaterne fra mamografien, som ikke viste noget, så de gik jo så igan, og kom frem til at det da heldigvis "kun" var en kæmpe stor beskidt byld, men for pokker hvor gjorde det godt nok ondt, men da den sad lige ind gennem vorten kunne de ikke lige skære den op, så jeg måtte i antibiotika behandling og lade det gå sin gang, så det blev en længere omgang med noget ret hidsigt antibiotika, fordi jeg har den lange forhistorie med rigtig grimme infektioner, så det blev til nogle ture til hospitalet og en lang periode med medicin, så der har godt nok ikke været energi overhovedet til ret meget andet, så det er ikke meget, jeg har fået lavet her de senere uger, er jeg bange for, kun lige det, der skulle bruges ellers intet. Men heldigvis sprang den da endelig af sig selv, så det lindede en hel del at få noget ud, så nu går det meget bedre igen, og forhåbentlig får jeg også indhentet noget af alt det, som jeg er bagud med her. Jeg ved godt, at jeg skylder mange et svar på søde mails og beskeder, og jeg skal nok få det gjort efterhånden, det lover jeg, men energi niveauet har godt nok været ret lavt, må jeg indrømme, men vi når det lidt efter lidt kan jeg love.

I have only made a very few things here, as I said, and one of them is a chocolatecard fro Trine, who celebrated her birthday here last friday, where she turned 7. She just absolutely love chocolate, so it was an easy choise, when I had seen a lot of people made these, and as we had participated in a bigger birthdaygift with her mum and dad too, it kind of gave her a little gift more, so she didn´t feel we came all emptyhanded, because she had already got the gift earlier, so there was a plate of chocolate inside the card as well. Hope you like it.

Som sagt er det ikke blevet til meget, jeg har fået lavet her på det seneste, men jeg har da fået lavet et chokoladekort, som er så populært her for tiden, til Trine, som fejrede sin 7 års fødselsdag her i fredags. Hun er helt vild med chokolade, og da vi var sammen med hendes forældre om en større gave, så lavede jeg et af dem og kom en stor plade chokolade indeni også, så hun ikke følte, vi kom helt tomhændede, nu da hun havde fået gaven tidligere. Håber I kan lí det.

 This is the chocolatecard, I made for Trines birthday.  Her er chokoladekortet jeg lavede til Trines fødselsdag.

 And these are some small parchment tags I made for  an adventswap we have on Scrapsisters forum. They were colored earlier, so I just finished them of here now.
De her er Pergamanotags, som jeg havde malet tidlifere og bare gjorde færdige til en adventswap på Scrapsisters forum.

 And these next pictures are just the same closer up.  Og de næste to billeder er de samme bare tætterre på.

That´s all from me here today, I have a bit more, that I´ll try and share with you one of the next day, I hope.

Have a wonderful day and lots of fun til we meet again.

Det var alt fra mig her idag. Jeg har lavet en lille smule mere, men det vil jeg vise jer en af de næste dage, håber jeg. Há en rigtig god dag og maser af sjov også, til vi ses igen.

Biiiiiiiiig hugs/ Knuzzzer 

Maryann

Finally a bit of news from me here.

Sorry dear friend, it´s taken a lot longer to get some updates done here, than I planned, but for some reason this house has been a real nuthouse all summer, so it´s not been much, I´ve got done on the crafty side either.
As you all know, I had my eyesurgery and it also went really well, but after a little, I caught some kind of infection again again, so I had to suddenly be very very careful again, but thanks god, I got over it once again, so now I just want to forget all about that LOL. And then there´s been sooo much going on with everyone in the family, so every time I thought, that now we just had to get over this or that, something else just showed up, so it has just seemed like, it´s been going on and on forever, so I must admit, it haven´t been much at all, I´ve been online all summer. Last hubby had a shouldersurgery here last thursday, and I got him home again already the same day, so it also means more work for me ofcause, as he just can´t do anything these days, but luckily he seems to get on really well too, so hopefully it wount be too long with that either, but he has to be on sickleave for at least 10 weeks thoug. Then he has to go in for a check up and they´ll then see, if he will need more time, or he can go back to work then, depending on how good things are then, so we´ll see about that. But all there has been all summer has draggged my back way back again too, probably because I´ve been trying to do way too much, so I´ve had big problems with backpains and haven´t been sleeping very well, which ofcause also has meant, that crafting hasn´t been my first priority lately.
But ofcause it haven´t all just been bad stuff, there has definitely also been a lot of good dtimes in between, and I have got some things done, but not been able to show them for various reasons. One thing has been because I´ve been creating things for a couple of weddings, and some birthdays, like I´ve participated in a big International swap too, so I couldn´t show any of that until it had been recieved by those, who was meant to have it first ofcause. And then I´ve also been joining a birthdaygroup no 3, on the Danish forum I´m on called Scrapsisters, and there I´ve had to make a couple of cards for too, which should also be recieved before I could show the here, and finally I was soo lucky to be choosen as a guestdesigner on a Danish webstore blog too, but afgain, ofcause they need the rights to show it first too, so I´ll show it, as they come up, but there will be more to see here very soon ofcause, so I hope, you´ll all come back here the next days, as I´ll have quite a few things to share here the next days now.
But first today, I want to share the 2 wonderful Icad cards and holders, that I got from that swap, I mentioned before, so here they come:
The first one here is from Astrid at  http://astridsartisticefforts.blogspot.dcom/
She´s an absolut amazing artist, and everything she ever makes looks simply stunning. She´s such a wizard with ink and paint and makes the most amazing creations, so you should really go and pay her a visit, I know, you´ll never regret it a second, it´s truly amazing work, you´ll see there. But here´s the gorgeous card and holder, she made for me:

 This fisrst is the holder and a tag, she had made me beside the swapcard inside the holder too.

 And here´s the holder opened with the card inside it.

 And this is the front of the card/tag inside the holder.

 And the other side of the card.

 And here´s the backside of the holder too, just as beautiful as the rest.

 And the tag for me close up too.
And then here next comes the beautiful card, that I recieved from < sweet lady in the UK, who was all new to me too. Her name is Brenda, and her blog is this one:    http://www.bumblebeesandbutterflies.com/
She also makes some amazing work, and share here, so she´s definitely also worth a visit, I can asure you.
She made this gorgeous card and holder for me in the swap.

 The front of the folder here.

 And this is the back of the folder too.

 And here´s both the folder and the tag taken out of there.

 And here´s the front of the tag, she made for me.

 And here´s the backside of the tag too.
Both cards and folders are so beautiful and sooo stunning work, and unfortunately the pictures just don´t do any of them the justice, they deserve, but I hope, you can see the beauty in them anyway.

And ofcause I also had to send out two as well, even they were sent to 2 different ladies in the swap, so we didn´t recieve from the ones, we sent to, But here´s the 2 cards and folders, that I made for my partners, who was a lady in the Uk and another lady in Germany, so I just hope, they liked, what I had made for them, even I ran into more crazy problems. As you can probably see, from the ones I got, these ladies were really stamping, and inking ladies all of them, and as much as I absolutely love the look of that, I´m afraid, it´s not exactly my normal style to make, and even I really tryed my best in the same genre, I gave up and threw it all in the bin and made some others that was more like me, and also got them mailed out in good time before the swap was due, together with more birthdayscards and other different things, I had to get mailed, BUT the friday or saturday, not sure anymore of the sday, but right before I expected them to get it, I just got all my cards and parcels back in my mail for some reason, so I had to take them all back and ask, what the heck they thought they were playing at?? But ofcause the postoffice didn´t know, why I had got the entire load back, it had to be an accident, but ofcause they sent them all again, but I had to repack and rewrite all the adresses again, to make sure, there wrere nothing that could be misunderstood in any way, so now I sure hope, everyone has recieved everything they should, LOL.
But these are the cards and folders, that got such a long journey to their recipients here lately LOL:

 First cardholder open

 Backside of the card inside it

 Front of the card inside it.

 The holder with the card in it.

 Backside of the holder.

 And finally the first card wrapped up and ready to go.

 The back of the second card

 The front of the second card.

 Front of the second folder.

 Back of the second folder.

 Second folder opened.

 Second folder with the card inside

The second card wrapped and ready to go.

I hope, both ladies liked, what I eneded up making for them, and ofcause I also hope, you´ll like it too sweet friends.

This is all I´ll share with you here tonight, but come back again tomorrow, then I´ll have some more new works to share with you too.

Have a wonderful day everyone and lots of great fun, til we meet again.