Oh How I've Missed You All!

My dear sweet blog friends oh how I've missed you! My last post was in November... one week later I was diagnosed with endometrial cancer! I had surgery ..a hysterectomy and so far so good.

Then you must all remember my daughter Anjelina who was a victim of a violent crime in July of last year...well she had to have another emergency surgery which was related to the first surgery! I was in Florida visiting my new and first granddaughter when I received the news that she was rushed to the hospital....I had to get the first flight back home...all you Moms out there know how bad I felt knowing my daughter was having surgery and I wasn' there!

I am going to keep all the other unkind things that happened in between simply because all of you must be tired of hearing me talk about unhappy things....I swear I am not an "Eeyore" type of person...one who complains about everything...you know the "woe always me" but my family has really had a lot to deal with!

All that said...I can't wait to visit all of you and catch up on things. I have been trying to create as much as I could to try to add to my little Etsy shop. Here are a few...I hope you like them!

I created this piece for the Aceo Challenge.."What do you see when you look out your window"...however I didn't make it on time...my cats all do this...they scratch on the window to come in!

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"WARRIOR WOMEN" new series in honor of Anjelina

I truly hope you enjoy this ACEO series-it means so much to me

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Here is a 4x6 original watercolor...it is the newest of my "Bruised and Broken Series"...this is my very first painting I did after Anjelina was assaulted...I saw some people look at her sometimes like she put herself in a dangerous enviornment.

...and last one is an ACEO original watercolor with a Hiaku I wrote!

1,001 Blessings to you all!

ANJELINA ANNOUNCES THE WINNER!

Congratulations Ann! Please send me your address to carterdealejos13@yahoo.com!

Thank you each and everyone of you for all the love!

It's Time To Smile Again!

Hello to all my sweet friends! I would like to give you all an update on my daughter Anjelina. As many of you know she was brutally attacked almost two months ago by a monster who will be charged with attempted murder. However, that is all I am going to say about him because he doesn't deserve my time....Anjelina is doing absolutely wonderful and she is so thankful to be alive to smell the flowers...enjoy the warm sun...have tea with me on the deck....lol....I could go on and on.

We both totally appreciate all the love, light, and prayers from everyone! Thank you to all of you who kept the prayers going by mentioning it on their blogs and lighting candles...I believe wholeheartedly that all of those prayers helped her to heal so quickly....she was in  the hospital for only six days....and that included 3 days in Intensive Care!

So....I painted a canvas for Anjelina about the power of prayer and wrote her this note on a piece of parchment paper...rolled it up like a small scroll and placed it the back of the canvas!

Dear Anjelina,

On July 7, 2011 your life changed forever but not in the way that most would believe. You didn't allow the monsters hand hold you down...you didn't allow the fear to immobolize you....no not my daughter...you were brave and bold and soon you rose above your circumstances. You found your inner "Women Warrior" and have the battle scars to prove it. You found your courage and now my daughter it is yours for life!

With all my love...Mom

I debated whether to show you what I wrote but so many of you were here with me from the beginning and I felt that you should know.

Now here is the surprize....I made a second 6x6 canvas painting and I am going to give all of you a chance to win it! Anyone can enter...this is for all of you that wrote on my blog....prayed silently...passed the word that Anjelina needed help...this is for anyone who has ever prayed for themselves or someone they loved...this is for anyone who believes in the power of prayer! Please just leave a comment and your name will go in the hat!

Good Luck....Anjelina will do the drawing on September 7th. Oh...I almost forgot...the words I choose for the letter to Anj were inspired by one of my favorite books..."WOMENS BOOK OF POSITIVE QUOTES"!

Thank You all for the love and prayers...

A very special thank you to http://rosepetalsfromheaven.blogspot.com/ for this beautiful picture of Mother Mary.

My dear friends....thank you so much for all the love, light, and prayers....for my daughter Anjelina who was violently assaulted two weeks ago....this experience has been devastating...it was a mothers nightmare...this man was a friend of a friend and Anjelina didn't know him very well nor for very long...he was a coward who attacked my daughter from behind...he tried to strangle her and she was going in and out of consciousness...she told herself she wasn't going to die and certainly not by this monster...she finally got the belt loose and he stabbed her numerous times from head to toe she had stab wounds including many defense wounds...the worse on her hands...he repeatly punched her in her face even breaking mirrors with her face....she said she just kept on telling herself to get to the door where the police were trying to get her out...she played dead and watched him walk away...she crawled on her elbows ....opened the door and literally fell out into the arms of police...Anjelina is only 100lbs. and she is only 21...I have always called her my little firecracker....she survived because she is a warrior...she survived because she loves life...she survived with the help of the many angels in the room with her ... she survived because she believes God has a plan for her...she is delighted to be alive and wants to thank you all for the healing prayers.

I choose the above picture because I love Mary...she understands what it is like to be a Mom...I always loved her but a few months ago I started to pray to her again saying Hail Marys before bed every night and asking her to help me be the best mother I could be...I asked her to protect my children and to allow the White light to surround and protect them....maybe Mary knew what was going to happen...I have a statue of her by my bed and she always seemed sad...when I received the phone call that something bad happened to Anjelina...I prayed to Mary all the way to the hospital in between my sobs...she had emergency surgery and when we were able to be with her I never left her...on the second night a kind nurse gave me 3 warm blankets while I leaned into my daughters bed holding her hand...I opened one blanket..then the second and I smelled a beautiful scent...I held the first blanket up to my face...nothing...then I brought the second one up to my face and I swear it was the fresh scent of Roses...I believe that Mary was telling me she heard my pleas and she was there with me and Anjelina...I felt at that moment a true calmness and I fell to sleep for the first time in days. When I came home after one week I held the statue of Mary and thanked her and I swear when I looked at her face it seemed like she was smiling..I can't explain any of this but then again...I don't really want to.

I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your concern and prayers...with special thanks to Stacey from Magic Love Crow for taking immediate action to ask for prayers... Mina,Shelle, Magaly, and Ann (who didn't even know me) ...and for all of you that kept the prayer candle lit.