Finally Some Good News and A Mini Reveal.

 Mama in Nashville a couple weeks ago...isn't she beautiful?!

After being given a prognosis of 3-6 months, my mama started an oral chemo drug.  She tried it for six weeks, went back for scans to see if it was working, and on Thursday we leaned the drug IS WORKING! 

The tumors in her liver, lungs and ribs are "frozen".  Hooray!  She'll continue on this drug for as long as it works, and many people using it are living 2 or more years.  It's the same drug Elizabeth Edwards was using. It has terrible side effects....they found blood clots in Mom's lungs which she's treating with a blood thinner via a nasty shot in the belly each night, and raw skin on her palms and the soles of her feet.  But we are so thankful the chemo is holding the cancer growth at bay for now.  

THANK YOU for all your thoughts, prayers, and kind words as we live with this terminal disease.  

 And now for the mini-reveal.....here's what one does to this (which I hear tell are old playpen rails....)

You take it apart, 

then go to town with some liquid sander, spray paint, sandpaper and a drill bit or two.

And a lot of wee hooks.

Oh, and the thinnest dowel rod you can find.

A hottie hubby helps things along too.  Just sayin'.

And it becomes this:

 A nice way to display the plethora of jewelry you've accumulated since beginning to Dress your Truth.

And you hang it above your gramma's ancient sewing cabinet-turned-jewelry and accessory holder.  

'Cause you painted it to match.

You hide old high school buttons of yourself, and sentimental stuff in the drawers below.

And for the stuff that doesn't fit on your new handy-dandy jewelry holder, 

you just swag them over your vanity mirror like so.

It's awesome to sit at my vanity and see all my goodies at once.  

I can try stuff on and easily switch stuff out.

So what do ya think?  I'll show you the whole area once it's done.  

I still have some work to do on the vanity and bench.
But my squirrel brain is already onto the school room....

And that's that.  One project down.  

And a Mama who's alive!