Me & Mimi's Crafting Nook

I want to take a moment to apologize for not posting sooner, the last several months have been super crazy.  Let me tell y’all whats been keeping us so busy lately.

Right after we did our Easter bunnies, I decided to work with my horse that was acting rather strangely(nervous, jumpy, spooky).  She has been acting strange for a few months, so I wanted to work with her.  I decided to do some ground work with her so I started to lunge her.  She wouldn’t lunge for me,  so I got the bright idea to run and have her run behind me……. oh boy was that a mistake!!!!!!! I guess something spooked her again and she knocked me off my feet and I hit the ground(that sudden stop was not fun at tall) landing on my left elbow.  As soon as I saw she was fine my arm flopped on the ground, I knew something wasn’t right and I would need to go get an x-ray.  I had Mimi to watch my kiddos and asked my Aunt to take me to the hospital.  That was prom weekend for several schools in the area, and that night had some major tragedies( I felt so sad for those families of the lost loved ones) I waited my turn and sure enough I did such a wonderful job breaking my arm they sent me immediately to Jackson to the hospital. I spend Easter there and that week where I had my elbow replaced(the ball joint) and put several plates and many screws in my arm.

Here are some pictures of my arm:

Before surgery (night it happened).

After first surgery (1st time I got to see it after surgery).

Here are the x-rays of the inside of my arm after the surgery.

So on the mend I went….. or so I thought, in roughly June I again had surgery to clean out the wound my arm was swollen and kept fever in it( very very uncomfortable).

After Second surgery(a view looking at a mirror).

Now

I am currently doing therapy and trying to get all my motion back in my arm.  It is slowly, slowly coming back this is going to be a long process but I am up for the challenge.

BUT while all of that was going on, and on the brighter side, we are working on a shop.  I have an trailer that I used to live in and we are turning that into a shop,so we will have more room to work and my munchkins wont be destroying what we are trying to get accomplished.   We took out the carpet and are repainting the floors and putting down wood flooring.

We aren’t quite finished with it yet BUT keep checking back on our blog because I will be posting the pictures of the renovation.

We are super excited to get this project up and going, and cant wait to be able to get back to working on crafting projects ( quilts, shirts, blankets, etc.).  We have so many things that we are wanting to start that I’m excited to see which project we pick to start first.  We are two excited people.  🙂

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