RUN W SCISSORS

Some of my old work

2009-04-26T12:08:00.002-05:00

Unfortunately...

2009-02-24T18:10:00.005-06:00

How about a little diversion?

I laughted out loud when I read Jenny Harris' blog Alsorts This is what she shared and I just had to try .

Here's how to play... just do a Google search of the phrase "unfortunately, _______" but put your first name in the blank (be sure to enclose it all in quotation marks). The resultant phrases are hilarious if you have a slightly twisted sense of humor and an appreciation for random absurdity.

Unfortunately, Mary has been making some public statements that have hurt her reputation

Unfortunately Mary’s headaches just began

Unfortunately Mary’s fell down before bedtime, but she sure did enjoy it while it lasted.

Unfortunately, Mary’s story doesn’t end there, as even the Reverend Mother could not protect her from cruel abuse at the hands of others

Unfortunately, Mary forgot to cook the pasta shells

Unfortunately, Mary wasn’t too bright so she went to meet her unknown, what she thought friend.

2009-02-19T20:09:00.000-06:00

The day of hearts.

2009-02-12T19:39:00.004-06:00

This is the poem I wrote on my first Valentine's day alone

To my Enrique on 2/14/2007

The roses have died the violets too.
My heart has been broken through and through.
Promises made that can't be kept
My head is so heavy I haven't slept
You were my love this much is true,
Now I'm lost, alone, and feeling blue
Plans we made to do together
I have to do without you, forever.
Where will I go? Who can I be?
I'm unhappy that there's just me.
The love we shared will live forever
To go on without you I must endeavor

By your wife MaryD.C.

2009-02-06T19:14:00.002-06:00

This is a Mask I made a number of years ago. It is large and made of cloth if I was to hold it up in front of me it would cover the top half of my body. Kinda what I feel like now half a person.
I call it" Who are you? wHo? whO? Who?"
I wonder sometimes who I am now. I play so many roles daughter, sister, aunt, friend, but the one role that I wanted most of all is gone. I am no longer a wife. Some days I am OK and I know I am adjusting to a new normal just like I adjusted when I got married. It is so hard and I do not like it not at all!

Facebook tag 25 things

2009-02-04T18:59:00.004-06:00

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you.
1) I love blue
2) but I like to wear red
3) I am the secons oldest of 7 children
4) I have a sister who is my best friend
5) I wear size 10 shoes
6) I have a masters degree
7) I tat
8) love to sew
9) say I am a quilter but I do not get any finished
10) I have 4 dogs
11) I forster for Cairn rescue
12) love to read
13) just started a blog
14) have five brothers
15) just got rid of a computer virus
16) I have been sleeping horrible lately
17) Just replaced the windows in my house this summer
18) have too much fabric
19) have just as much other craft stuff
20) like talk radio
21)wish I could sing
22) love jazz
23) hate living alone
24) still pissed my husband was killed two years ago
25) trying to make my life again

the dog that changed my life

2009-01-27T21:47:00.002-06:00

She was my angel sent here from Heaven,
To make certain I was doing my best.
Encouraging me to help another.
Letting me know it was not time to rest.

Oh I could go on with my day to day
And ignore what she had to say
She showed me the things I had to see

And reminded me of who I needed to be.
She was my angle sent her from heaven
And she changed my life.

I would have never known that a phone call in December of 2002 would change my life forever. It was a friend named Debbie and she was calling to see if I could help her place a 5-year-old Cairn Terrier named Bailey. I was shocked a little dog needed help? Someone was giving up a Cairn? I spoke to my husband to see what he thought he said, “let’s meet her and see what we think.”

Well for me this little red girl it was love at first sight but I said nothing and let Enrique make the decision. Charna and Leeca liked her so she was staying.

Adopting a "used dog" was something new to me as I felt a dog would always miss the first owner and never bond to number two. She got me thinking about how I could make a diferrence. About this time I discovered e-Bay and was searching for Cairn stuff when I came across Col Potter Cairn Reacue Network auction with a link to the web site. I filled out my application and poof I was involved I fund raising for Cairn Rescue.

Well changed Bailey’s name to Cookie and I was on the road to learning about patience, love, acceptance, compassion, and communication.

She was taken from me February 13, 2006 by a sudden illness but all that she gave me is still in my heart. I still can’t believe that she is gone but I thank her for how she changed my life.

Alone again.

2009-01-26T19:47:00.000-06:00

I made this quilt to work through issues of my being a widow. It documents my journey to find who I am again now that I am alone.

She speaks to me and is me.

The story I tell is in the border. It begins with the upper left hand corner with the moon and the stars a normal night in the life of Mary. It moves down and over at the same time it moves to the right and then down the story surrounds her.

I am awaken to turmoil (people on my front porch telling me my husband has been killed) that sends me spinning, (this the curved lines,) this continues until I come to the triangles which is sharp painful that poke me and hurt me, I then move to the squares which is "blocking it all out" I am moving through my berevement a maze, hitting dead ends, feeling lost, I move on and find the road is smooth I am learning my 'new normal' I drift along finding my way ... until bang I hit one year and pain is renewed and starts all over again

Yet like Pandora my journey ends in "hope" the circle of green.

About me!

2009-01-19T21:48:00.001-06:00

The kid in the pool is Jeffery.

This is Sadie.

This is Vonnie and Brook.

Hello my name is Mary and this is my fist blog entry.

A little about me I live in the Chicago metro area. My day job is a Social Worker for a Dialysis Company. I live with my dogs, the girls are Cairn Terriers: (oh sure you know Toto from the Wizard of Oz) Sadie, Brook and Vonnie. The only boy and King of the heard is Jeffery he is a Terrier mix.