I did not disappear....

Hard to believe my last post was July 4th...or something like that...

well alot has happened...I was selling my work at the farmers market in Manteo NC but some one decided I was a threat to them ..

That resulted in Me having to get a JOB...aka the "REAL JOB"

well I applied for a job at one of the funnest , little gift shops on the outer banks ...called Something Fishy ....it is good pay ...but the hours are long and because of it I have been too tired to be creative ...10 hours a day...it reminds me of when I ran my store...except the hassles...of it all.

I can merchandise the place...deal with the nice customers...

But I MISS being creative....in my art so hopefully I can do something about that soon......

right now what little time I have trying to organize the downstairs studio

bought cabinets family laughing saying I will never get it done ...

maybe but never know can only try ....

when daughter moves out next month I will move studio to her room .... and make the guest room upstairs....She received her grants for college and will start the Professional Jewelry making Associates degree...for the next two years....

Hoping things will calm down when she moves out...

Independence.....????

Our we ever really independent ....we grow up become adults but there are few who can walk this life totally alone... we depend on a doctor to bring us into this world ...we depend on our parents and family to raise us up to be respectable...kind...loveing ..human beings. We depend on our friends to support us and help in times of need as they depend on us to do the same. WE DEPEND on GOD to bless us and let us grow to a wonderful old age enjoying our lives and living through the trials and tribulations of life...and then when the end comes ...we have been raised to depend on the pearly gates opening and letting us into heaven ...as all our sins of the life we led have been washed away by the blood of CHRIST.

so we are never really independent...and isn't it a wonderful thing...

Today we depend on the soldiers fighting around the world to keep us safe from terrorists who do not believe we should live...they do not know what a happy life is ....So on this day I salute those men and women...many too young and some too old who fight to keep us safe


Today we walk this world we live..
because soldiers gave all they had to give...
they made the sacrifices of Life or Limb
So today we stand in a Free land...
So remember why we Celebrate Independence Day
and proudly watch our majestic flag wave...
It is because someone refused to see us suffer in a country
where GOD did not live because they gave all they had to GIVE
GOD BLESS US ALL and
Keep US FREE and BLESS the Ones whom we cannot see.
Lorri Chambers
July 4th 2007

Somedays your Heart Picks your friends

there are days as we walk this path we call life...that meet people some wonderful some so-so ...and some of those I chose for friends...

But then there are those that without me realizing My HEART picks them for a friend ...One of them is Sandra P. I met at Caring House last year..she is so special and full of love for the Lord and her fellow humans...

What ?? is the difference you Ponder....???

A friend you pick is one you think of now and then ..wonder how they are doing...and wish a blessing on them.

But HEART picked friends are special because your heart thinks of them everyday with out you even realizing it ...they are there in your mind's eye and you just pray with all your might they are having a good day.

Every one has friends like this ..yesterday I worked a local farmers market ...and met many wonderful people in that 6 hours...One couple I met I believe her name was Patsy and I know her hubby was Chuck have a heart friend going through breast cancer right now...and before I knew what was happening my heart was telling them about caring house and the bead tray and how it really helps cancer patients and caregivers to work with beads while they are undergoing their treatment. Patsy and Chuck said that was exactly what their friend needed and they would get the supplies together to send her...well my heart said not good enough and I got some bags of mixed beads and memory wire plus one of my ATCs(it said inspire) together in a bag and gave it to them to mail to their friend...our hearts linked ..I may not see them again although I hope I do ...I want to know how their friend is doing she has a long hard row ahead of her...

Then when I got home a box arrived with pieces of the most glorious fabrics from a heart friend ..named Sharon ...aka Laff...the special thing about our heartship is we have never met in person...we have talked on the phone once in a while ...but we talk almost every morning for the last almost 7 years in a online game room...we support each other when times are rough and we have had a few too many of those...we miss each other terribly when we don't connect in the morning ...Amazing how your heart can do that ...(but not really because GOD lives there)

I have met a couple of more people I know to be Heart friends ...again without meeting them in person....

Gayle in Florida and Christina in Ohio ...both fiber artists we get to talk about the wonders of our art and our lives...and support each other.We are not as close as Laff and I are but give us time....

Gayle's hubby is fighting cancer too right now ...he will beat it he has her in his world and she strikes me as a very strong person ..it is us strong women that can bring our hubbys and our children and families through tough times ..although there are times we find it hard for us to believe.

She is also an amazing artist ...

Christina lives on a farm with her hubby and kids in Ohio ...they need rain for their crops right now and I can imagine that is difficult to have your family depending on something so uncontrollable ...

I have to tell you one thing I kinda find funny my friend Laff used to live in Ohio and now lives in Florida ...so now I have another friend in Florida and one in Ohio.

anyway back to Heart friends what do all these people have in common

STRENGTH...they are some of the strongest friends I know ...I have many, many others but these are the ones who my heart screamed loudest about today....

Have a day full of sunshine and blessings and a little rain

But remember Let your HEART pick friends too....You will be so happy you did....