P and P

So I have my and my and I’m working on a few design ideas. Then I’ve found a pattern for the knitted drawing prize, thanks to “Debbie”:http://sternski.com/debbie who just finished a “way adorable quickie project”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/sternski/31714808/ today. So after some designing, I’m going to retire to the comfy chair, with the powerbook, so as to keep…

Losing a Mom/Best Friend

Now this one is really tough for me, too. Our dear friend Teresa, from Texas, lost her mom, her best friend on February 10, 2001. So young – so important – such an awful time for her and her family members to go through such a loss. Darlene Gardner, so vibrant, so excited about being…

One hour to first drawing

As “previously reported”:http://starzabove.com/2005/08/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it by _Angel_ we will do the three drawings a third of the way through, or every 8 hours. So, you still have one more hour to make a pledge and get in on the drawing. Any suggestions on which drawing to have first? If not, maybe we’ll do a drawing to see…

Okay, so even pick some colors?

I neeeeed some inspiration here, PEOPLE! Give me color suggestions at least? Color schemes? Themes? An image? Okay, I’ll go and mess around in photoshop and come back with some ideas for you to give me feedback on, how about that? Wherrrrrrrrrrrrrre arrrrrrrrrrrrrrre youuuuuuuuuuuuu? Wow, it’s like hollow-sounding in here. Am I all alone? p{font-size:.75em}.…

A Friend of a Friend….

Our dear friend Jill, up in Canada VERY recently related the loss of a local, hockey player’s Dad. Mark lost his dad, Ron Scriver, only a couple of weeks after his diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. bq. _Ron was well known throughout the University community here in Canada and he died 2 days before Mark was…

To Dave Vizgaudis

He was one of my Gramma’s husbands, but I’ll say he’s Papa, because that’s what we called him before he died. The terrible chain of events started when he got a heart-attack on his motorcycle, from that he got brain-damage, and he lost most of him memory. But what actually killed him, was the cancer…

More Blogathon Weather

Just in case you were wondering… Yeah, that’s right, it’s already HOTTER than the forecast predicted and don’t you just love the whole ‘_feels like_’ thing where they factor in the humidity/heat index stuff and make it HOTTER?!?! I say just say how how it feels, sheesh! It’s HOTHOTHOT! There, my weather forecastor immitation for…

Angela’s Dad – Harold Stanford

Another dear friend Angela, just suffered the loss of her father a few years ago. Her dad, Harold Stanford, technically survived cancer of the esophagus in early 2001, only to die of a heart attack in November, 2001, though it is suspected that the radiation to his chest, to fight off the cancer, was what…