This has been a trying week for me. Some kind of bug going around but I wouldn't  trade it Barbara Brown Warne who is battling cancer .  The day before she was supposed to go in for treatments her husband was rushed to the hospital. She was under quarantine for a few days and rushed to his bedside as soon as she got out, just in time for him to pass away in her arms.  When I was down she was there for me and encouraged me to come back to Close to My Heart.....I stayed with Kim's team but my heart belongs with this lady who has given me such hope it is amazing. I messaged her the other day to see how things were...she's in pain from the treatments and as for her hubby she says her God is bigger than her and is there with her. 

You know I meet so many people in Close to My Heart.  So loving and creative and they melt my heart each day as they take their burden pick up and go on.  

Then when I took a break this last 6 months I thought I'd look into another craft quilting....Oh my Lord I could never ever do the work involved with my eyes as bad as they are.  But you know what they did they gave my Husband a hand made quilt for him to use in hemo-dialysis . It really gets cold in there.  Made me cry.  But I never had the talent to make a quilt and never went back.

Oh I love choices !!! Go digi or go with the normal cases with cartridge included....if you have a Cricut you have
choices sizes personal, expressions 1 and 11 ...then there is the Explore and Air Explore...now with the Explore you don't need a cartridge with your machine just Design Studio!
I went on Facebook and joined other consultants to see there work on the Artistry Blog Hop!
They did awesome work great talent in every single one of them....

These are great to store your charms in a place that you can see what you have so you can quickly put together your charms and Jewry without running all around to find what you want or need! The feeling of aaawww it's all here just for me!

This other storage area is a dream for me! Hopefully you will love as much...we need to keep our pens/markers laying flat...OK but I want to be able to put them somewhere  where \i can see all the colors handy to wrap and pack in a moment's notice and out the door.  These fit SHIN HAN,  Spectrum Noir and Copic markers....Just so you know Shin Han markers have been known for years for the quality used in the Art world for years....

I'm trying to find everything to load up the pages of great new and wonderful goodies coming your way!

This is my opening picture to re-start my life with Close to my Heart....it's all about the bling!
Life with bling brings you that bright shiny oh so cool and neat on a Holiday  feeling...

My website is up and available for you to look at and shop.....the next thing we need is a calendar and things to do!

Chat with me on messenger on Facebook.. that page will be changing as well...
look at all my goodies I have posted on Penterest..

www.ladyvelosa.ctmh.com

Things have changed around here and with Close to my Heart they have added a few new trinkets and toys most of which I have a few new colors.  The catalog comes out once a year and has three supplements  that come out Christmas, Easter/Spring and Summer.  Then during the year there will always loads of specials .....

I will be learning more on how to give you the best and exciting classes as we travel, crop, chat and laugh a lot!
Going to have classes where you can get the kits in advance we will go through them on your time when you are ready to view the video on how to do them. Even with instructions in the kits we can share and you can go from there. Remember the 1,2, and 3  ...great, better and best !  Well your kit will have what you want in it and you can add better and best to make it the way you'd like to see it.
We will do kits with different papers, you can make cards mini albums, paper crafts and projects of all kinds....I will not leave you hanging out there I'm always a phone call away!

You want cards try these kits, you want pages try those kits, something new well it will all be there for you at affordable prices.

For all of you that love your Cricut we will be doing projects on the Cricut as well!

See you all soon!

Well hello there ladies and gents!

This is my patch that I wear on my vest with all the other Good Sam/Samathas  in our Chapter. Besides trying to be the best wife and friend we camp.  we had planned like most people when they retire to do many things one of them being traveling. At the same time I felt I had to be home to run my Close to My Heart Business....found out nope you can go on the road with us. You can chat with me via messenger, cell phone or email.  I will start doing videos for you to follow here and on You Tube....mostly here to start with. 

We are going to keep it simple until I pack up the rig and we can start our fun as we travel...

My husband Curtis and our Parrot who is the head of our flock Bob-a-lu  will be joining us on this adventure....

yup this is us!

yes he does like to travel and you know all the people who come to the rig well they are there to see him...so say hi when you stop by!

Of course this is my business face at an event...other wise you know the uniform of an retiree is shorts and a t-shirt from the latest places we visited mostly casinos. If I'm wear jeans it's cold!