My Sunday Blessings!

Ahhh, Sunday! A day of rest. And resting is about all I have the energy for, because it's been a long, tough week for me. Even though the Doctor upped my neuropathy medicine dosage, it seems to no longer be working. At all!!! So I'm back to constant foot and leg pain, with night-time electric pain and very little sleep. NO FUN!!! I have an appointment this Thursday and I'm going to discuss with him other treatment options. I've done some research on different medicines and we'll see what he thinks. The higher dosage wasn't more capsules like I'd been on, but a much larger tablet. Knowing the military likes to go "as cheap as possible", I'm going to ask him if perhaps it's a different medicine I'm currently taking, because it's not effective at all. We shall see. All I can do is pray and hope we can figure this out together. I'm blessed to finally have a Doctor who cares, and after the one I had to deal with in Germany, it's a huge blessing!!!

The weather seems to have cleared up a bit, which is fabulous! It was soooo overcast and dreary, and it was killing my sinuses. It's still a bit hazy, but the sky is definitely blue again and we have the sun back. Temps are slowly lowering, so the building is cooling off. I still can't believe they shut off the A/C arbitrarily like that. We also found a standing fan at the PX yesterday, so we have that in our bedroom. It even came with a remote control of all things, so you can regulate the speed and whether to oscillate or not, plus turn it on and off. Fancy Smancy!

Although we had a bumpy start, we finished our homeschool week on a high note. Friday was a very easy day (no math on the schedule!! Yippee!!), and we got to go to the school's book fair and picked up some great books for Bella. The school was really huge, and Bella mentioned several times about how glad she was not to have to go there. So she has some fun books she picked out for her daily reading, and we will also be using her new microscope and slide collection during science too! Should make things fun!!!

The sleepless nights and nerve pain have really kept me from doing the unpacking/decorating on the apartment as quickly as I would have wanted. What little energy I had was used to do homeschool, and minimum housework. Then it was time to collapse on the couch!!! I did most of the rooms already, but my stamping studio was really still a hot mess. But every now and then I would go in there, unpack some things or organize a shelf. Finally on Friday and Saturday I got a bit more serious and by Saturday afternoon I was completely finished, including hanging up some "pretties". There were a couple of things I couldn't hang because I had only saved medium and large cement nails from Germany, not the small ones. But I think it looks great!!! Want to see????

View when you first walk in.

The cubby unit is my wafer thin die collection.

My WorkBox!

Getting a bit worse for wear with each move, but the old girl is still standing!

Two bookshelves and plastic drawers (was used in my bathroom in Germany)

This took a long time to get "just so".

My little table, with ink stand and ihome.

I use this table to use my Big Shot mostly.

IKEA cubby

Holds my embossing folders, Magnolia collection, Big Shot items

and Rosalina from Italy!!!

Most of the things are where they've been before, but some small changes.

Many things from below the desk were put into storage.

Ribbon and flower stand

FINALLY got all my ribbon untangled and ready to go!!!

Inside the closet

The larger IKEA unit had been in our old livingroom, on it's side. I had a closet with shelving in Germany and this pretty much replaced that for me. I have most of my photo polymer stamps on the left side and 8.5 x 11" paper on the right. The bottom two cubbies I used the canvas drawers to hold 12 x 12" cardstock and DSP. It's super heavy and this is a great place to store it. We also found the smaller unit here in the PX, for the "overflow" of paper and other misc. items. Very handy!!! My new baby, Scan 'N Cut is on the shelf above.

Close-up views

And here is where I will sit and create....hopefully soon!!!

Setting up the new Stamping Studio!!!

The day our household goods arrived! Ugh, another move, another setting up of the Stamping Studio!!!

My Workbox...getting worse each move, but still standing!

Bookshelves...and boxes!

And more boxes!

With surprisingly little motivation...I start unpacking.

(Love my stuff; hate moving my stuff!)

(Yes, I say that every time!!!)

Ribbon nightmare!

Finding some stamps and ink pads

Putting back in the shelves I told them NOT to take out!

Imagine me looking at these boxes and saying bad words...

Another box unpacked!

Meanwhile, in the livingroom...this china cabinet is FULL of crafting stuff! Stuff I brought with me, mailed to myself, that was in unaccompanied baggage and things I had ordered. Top AND bottom completely stuffed full. And needing to find a new home in my room!

OK, so making some progress here.

I took things out of boxes and just put them on a shelf, as I didn't know where everything was going to go exactly.

Until I ran out of shelf space and started using the windowsill, lol!

Moved things around, and found Rosalina from Italy! :D

All the stuff on the floor was from the china cabinet in the livingroom. This will never end!!!

Stamp sets now in numerical order and shelves starting to take shape.

Ribbon still a mess, but I found the other stuff for this shelf.

Workbox nearly complete!

How I've felt for a couple of weeks now!!!! You'd think I'd be so happy to have my stuff that I would go all-out to finish so I could play! But...my pain/sleep issues have been pretty bad and that completely kills my mojo! But...babystep by babystep, I'm getting there. I just close the door at the end of the day, lol!!! New photos of a completed room will HOPEFULLY be shown very, very soon!!!!

Just because...

A little bit of this and that...that was just sitting on my desktop! Not enough for a post by themselves, but that I wanted to share and remember.

The rising "super moon" in September. This was the last of the blood moon tetrad. Unfortunately, the eclipse couldn't be seen in South Korea, and I missed the other three living in Germany. Major Bummer!!! My poor cell phone didn't even begin to capture it's beauty, or how huge it looked in the sky. God is amazing!!!

One good part of my insomnia lately, is that I'm awake for most sunrises! They are magnificent here!!! Such vivid colors...all the reds and pinks, shades of purple and gray. The low laying clouds look like a distant mountain range, but it's an illusion. We really do have the prettiest sunrises and sunsets here!

Bella just watching a movie.

(She's getting so big!!!)

Buddy - my furry friend!

We had the most amazing rainbow recently!!! I don't remember ever seeing a full rainbow before, where the entire arc was visible. It was soooo cool and all the colors were shining brightly! There was even a partial double rainbow at one point!

Gorgeous bright colors!

Trying to show the full arc. Such a thrill!!!

Wanna know the secret to getting new bedding you don't really need? Stand there in the store hugging it tightly and don't let go!!!! Your husband will get annoyed a bit, but you'll win the standoff because he wants to keep moving, LOL!!! Then after it's securely in the shopping card, mention that none of your sheets will match the new set and quickly throw in two that will!!! *smile* After we got it home and set up, Thomas agreed that it was beautiful and was happy we got it. The sheets are soooo soft and it's a dream to sleep on them....you know, when you can actually sleep! The set also includes two Euro shams (which we aren't using), and sheers, curtains and two valances but sadly we can't use them here. There's a spot for drapes, but there's no rod!!! I may call housing and see if they can install one. Squeeky wheel gets the oil, right???

Bad lighting - it's silver, gray and a sage green.

(And now we need a new area rug to match.....)

Another shopping adventure...Art Box AND Diaso!!

I had heard that there was a store named ArtBox, and naturally I had to find out what it was all about!!! It really isn't an art supply store like I was expecting, but it was fabulous anyway!!

Bella in the cab

Some wandering around...and we found it!

We found these humidifiers....which I found odd because it's already so humid here naturally, lol!

And these used water bottles! Weird!!

Super cute and super tiny clocks!

Need a fish comb, perchance???

PENS, PENS, PENS!!!!

I had seen these Japanese kits on another YouTube channel, and was so excited to see them here. But....all the directions are in Korean! They are basically kits to make these intricate candy snacks.

This one is a sushi kit...all candy!

Donut kit

Hamburger and fries kit!

Little lovies

Oh yes, a mustached bear hat - I needed one, lol!

This mascara had the HUGEST brush I had ever seen!!! It was crazy big! And now I'm wishing I had picked one up to try it, lol! Next time!

Gobs of fake eye lashes

Did I mention they had PENS?????

For some reason I didn't take a photo of our things from ArtBox! I got quite a few stickers, some Hello Kitty post-it pads and flags, Bella got a Minecraft toy....I can't think....but a ton of stuff, lol!

Since we were right there, we decided to pop over one street and visit Diaso again!

This is just part of the nail art section!

(aka shaker card refills!!!)

We weren't sure what these were, so we bought them to try. It was sort of a gross, stale-tasting roll of a puffed snack of some sort. Oh well, they were cheap anyway!

These were every bit as gross as they sound, lol!

Pastry covered leaves? Um, no. Sorry, but no.

Candy and snack display

Cell phones and their covers are serious business here!!!

Bella got cotton candy from a street vendor.

Orange trees!

Downtown

More cell phone bling-bling!

Not sure if he's Pinocchio or there's a poop on his head, lol!!!

We went back into AK Plaza and found Korean dippin' dots!!!

Bella had banana split

Thomas had strawberry and I had cotton candy!

This photo was taken at Osan AFB - they had a huge Hello Kitty stand full of stuff!

Don't you wish you could come on our travel adventures with us??? *smile*