First, let me just say thank you to all of you who emailed and commented. And thank you to all of you who didn’t. The absolute worst thing about finding out the love of your life has a potentially deadly disease the day before Thanksgiving is that you have to wait FORFUCKINGEVER for information. So you live in fantasy land which is decidedly tragic. We will hopefully get some more information on Monday, but probably not all the information we need. Bear with me. I don’t really want to talk about this right now. It’s hard enough living in my own head. Not to mention the fact that after weeping through Thanksgiving dinner, I now have a killer sinus infection and snot is flying everywhere. Of course, not on the yarn I’m selling. Don’t be gross. Thank you for your purchases and your affection for me and my family.
I can’t get PAYPAL to work on the yarn purchases, so I’ll do those separately later. For now, here are the notecards for sale. Thank you for your patience.
Palette Blank NoteCards
Box of eight press printed notecards. 5″x7″ glossy card stock. Blank inside. Envelopes included with each box. All cards in box are the same. Will ship in approximately two weeks from purchase. $4.50 shipping and handling charge added to each purchase. Quantities are limited.
Thank you for your purchases. Have a great day!
hi cara
firstly, i know you don’t want to talk about it, but i wish you good thoughts anyways. 🙂
secondly, i’m seriously coveting the purple artyarns merino, but i keep gtting an error message from paypal! 🙁 help…
xo
got it! Thanks Cara!
You don’t know me, I am not even sure when I started reading your blog! You and your husband have been on my thoughts all weekend. I will keep you in my thoughts. I love your photographs. They inspire me to start to work with my camera again, and to frame and hang some of the photos I have already taken! I have no plans to make money from photography, but I truly love it, which is reason enough to keep at it!
i remember how it was when my little brother got leukemia. if i never have a day that bad again i’ll be happy. the whole slog through the treatment sucked so bad that 5 years later we all still have PTSD.
BUT, he’s fine now, and thank god…a lot of people sent good vibes to us so i’ll be sending them to you & G.
Love the notecards, already ordered mine.
I’ve been thinking about those cards for days, thanks for the reminder!
Cara-
Sending good thoughts to you and Georgie. The waiting sucks.
k.
I’m too late for yarn! I’ll have to make do with your fabulous cards. Thanks for offering!
Thanks, just drove in the driveway, turned on my computer and ordered your cards…Take care, my thoughts and prayers are with you both.
Sending many hugs your way. Am interested in yarn when you post it.
Hugs from someone who has been in your place before. Don’t forget to take care of yourself and that sinus infection!
yea, i am thinking about you and G too. my mom has faced a lot of sickness over her life. she is so strong. i have such respect for her. hang on tight to G.
Good thoughts for you and Georgie. Seeing how you’re female you’re probably a little like me. When I don’t know the answer to a question I start making them up. And they’re always the worst possible thing. Because, I suppose, that’s human nature. Best wishes for finding good diversions until you have some answers. xoxox
Thanks for stopping by and for the compliment *blush* I neglected responsibilities for a day playing with that clay and yarn;) {{C&G}}
Just a short comment on your last post, I, personally, have been going through my own health Year O’ Crap, as I have affectionately named it. Waiting is definitely the worst, but seeing how you reacted was good for me. My husband has been a rock throughout everything, when deep inside I know he was freaking out. You helped me see things from his side and appreciate him just that little bit more. So Thank You, and my fingers are crossed for you both.
I know you don’t want to talk about it much now, but just know you’re on my mind and I hope things turn out as well as they possibly can.
xo
I’m not talking to you about anything. Got it! Nothing. Nope. Not me. The goddess of the log cabin and knee highs. Nothing. If I was going to talk to you about anything it would be that you are cared for tons. But. I didn’t say that. Nor would I.
there are no words.
but there are thoughts.
lots.
all good.
Hi there. Okay, no stories about moles but I reserve the right to send love your way. And I will say that I had the unique pleasure of snuggling with your green log cabin blanket at Blue Moon last week! It is gorgeous. I wore it like a shawl and marveled at your lovely sewing-up job. I love it. Great work, Cara.
I just wanted you to know, my thoughts are with you too.
Hi Cara,
Bought your cards. Love your photography, love reading your blog. My thoughts are with you and your husband. Be strong for him. I’ve been to that awful place seven years ago, my husband was in your shoes. My therapy…knitting. Take care.
My thoughts and prayers are with you and yours.
You need a neti pot–they’re gross, but they work: http://www.sinucleanse.com/netipotlanding.htm?source=google&group=neti&campaign=1 Take care of yourself, too. One exceptionally hard squeeze for you, Cristina
Cara, I am so sorry. I don’t understand why bad things happen to good people, but they do :(. You are in my thoughts…hang in there.
I love your little note cards! You are SO talented!
Your cards are great. Perfect to send to my knitting buddies who I just had to move away from. Definately a must buy for me.
I hate Thanksgiving too. 4 years ago my mother was in the hospital getting treatment for leukemia. 2 years ago my mother was in the hospital getting her second bone marrow transplant after she relapsed. last year she was getting sick again, and she died 10 days later.
It’s good to go through that angry, tearful stage. I hope you get some answers soon. Waiting sucks. You guys are in my thoughts.
I am about to celebrate my five-year anniversary as a survivor of melanoma — Stage 3B. There is a FANTASTIC doctor at NYU Medical Center and I have done tons of research on this over the years. Yes, it can be very serious, but there are lots of new drugs out there. Feel free to contact me.
Just wanted to remind you that it is good to feel all that you are feeling.
You & yours are in my thoughts.
didnt email cause you siad you didnt want to hear it… and well I am in as much of a dark funk myself.
but I want you to know that I am thinking about you… and love you just exactly for who you are!
I know you are not “up for good thoughts” but, I want to say: cancer is not the end of the world, it just feels like it. Get mad, get angry, yell, scream, fight, holler— do it all. Then, fight back. Cancer is a bully; it gets stronger if you get weaker. Fight back. My dad, god bless him, had some “trouble swallowing”— stage 3 esophogeal cancer. My mom had just retired, his new company (after 40 years of working for the man) was doign well— and blammo. Cancer. 140lbs, 3 rounds of chemo/rad, and 2 major scarier-than-fuck surgeries that involved stopping his heart and lungs, he is here. he is fighting back.
So, I will think good thoughts for you and G, I will also think strong thoughts for the fight… As my dad said “I’m gonna fight this so hard, it ought to be pay-per-view”. 🙂
🙂 kate
My prayers, thoughts, and well wishes go out to you and your family. My icky time is my birthday for reasons I won’t expound on except to say, my family is usually to sad to remember my birthday over the last 5 years.
I’m going to order the cards as a treat for finishing my Christmas cards next week. Let’s see if this helps me to finish them! =)
Love the cards – can’t wait to see them in person. Sending good thoughts your way!
I didn’t check your blog over the holiday weekend – FIL working on 5th week in the hospital and moving my 83yo mom in with my sister (bless her heart!!) as well as cooking a ham AND a turkey – whew!! I’m a 5y melanoma survivor – no chemo/no radiation. I’m just thrilled that I can start donating blood again next year. You and G are in my thoughts and prayers and just remember 90% of the stuff you worry about never comes to anything anyhoo. thought you might find this article interesting – http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/09/health/09skin.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5070&en=8c4681c2ed406847&ex=1164776400
Now – gotta go order some fabulous cards – I’ve gone back and looked at that pic in your blog several times when I was looking to put some colors together.
I got my cancer diagnosis in the month of August, when all the doctors are on vacation. After several weeks of tests and many wrong turns and much mental agony, I finally got an accurate diagnosis (still cancer, two types, actually) but not the one we were originally told). That time in my life was the most difficult ever – even tougher than the treatment itself. Now one cancer is in remission and I’m facing some short term treatment for the other after Christmas – on my terms and timetable.
Cancer sucks, there’s no two ways about it. But after a while you learn to be a person who happens to live with it, rather than be defined by it.
You and your husband will get through this. Right now it’s ok to give in to the grief and frustration. Sending prayers.
De-lurking here to say hi. Wanted you to know I’m still out here and reading your blog. Hang in.
Beautiful cards! Keep focusing your emotions into words, knitting, photos… know that we are all out here rooting for you!
I met you at Rhinebeck, practically drivelled on your feet, and comment very rarely here, last time probably about a year ago. I was diagnosed with melanoma in my late 20’s, nearly 18 years ago, (my father died of melanoma) had a tough time of it for a while but consider myself lucky. My thoughts are with you and your husband.
I will be back to buy some cards.
Thinking of you and G. Take care. Best wishes to you. I love your blog.
BTDT, only it was my kid. It utterly sucked. I have been and will be thinking about you. Quietly.
Dude. Love your cards. 🙂
I’ve been thinking of G and of you all weekend. Hoping that you got the infomration you needed today.
Keeping you both in my thoughts ……
I’m not going to say anything trite or tell you stories about other people’s dealings with the C word. I am just going to join your pity party with you and agree that life sucks sometimes, we get crappy news on days that will always make us remember when we found out, and things are just not fair! Buy yourself some yarn, enjoy that husband, hunker down and watch out for incoming, and just breathe….