Thank you for finding my blog, or coming across it by accident and deciding to stay awhile.  Creativity has always been the center of my being and I have found that sharing what I create is as rewarding to me as it is to the recipient.

Some, but not all, of the things I enjoy are writing, sewing, gardening, herbal crafts, creating spa items, paper crafts, jewelry making, mixed media, re-purposing, painting, cooking, entertaining, and on and on.  This blog has been a long time coming!  I have so many notebooks, scraps of paper, pictures and articles torn from magazines all waiting to be organized, written and shared. We all have a story.  I will share bits of mine along the way after a brief overview and then proceed onto some fun projects, musings, discoveries and paths waiting to be traveled.  I think (like most things worth doing) the hardest part is getting started!

My name is Susan and I live in a small town in Lancaster County, PA. It’s the town I was born and raised in and when I found myself single again after almost 19 years of marriage, I moved back in 2011. I only lived 15 minutes away, but it’s so good to be back!  I had the wonderful opportunity to purchase my parents home where I grew up and make it home once again.  I have 4 children, 3 are now adults (2 are married) and my youngest is almost 16 years old.   I have also been blessed with two granddaughters who light up my life.   I will share more about my family, as you will soon find out.

Among all of life’s twists and turns that I’ve experience, fighting breast cancer falls in there too.  I was diagnosed in January 2012 with Invasive Ductal Carcinoma, stage 2b.  I had a mastectomy, 8 rounds of dose-dense chemotherapy over 16 weeks, and 33 radiation treatments.  I now take Tamoxifen to hopefully insure that it will not return.  I will write more about that experience later, as I have much to share and most is good!  It’s not a death sentence, and while I thought it would have been a good idea to put me into an induced coma to be treated, (waking up and having it all be over sounded good to me at the time!) my oncologist frowned up it so I pressed on.  I would have missed a lot of things, so I’m grateful that while I “fought like a girl” I also continued to enjoy my life.  I was bald and tired, but none-the-less, I rocked it!

I hope you stick around, come back often and enjoy what is shared here!  I have some things to learn about links and things here, but I’ll get it–just hang in there with me!

Susan