Cranky Monday

I'm feeling a bit like Garfield today and hating Mondays. This has no real information to share, but I just feel the need to vent, so if you want a rant free day, just click away from here...

Why am I so cranky?

Well, 10 days ago, we had some 90 degree days and I got into the pool. (Not for long since the water was REALLY cold!) Then, we had a week of rain, as in TONS of rain. The weekend was OK, sunny, but chilly. So much so that yesterday I had to dig out my slippers and then I had to put on layers! Yikes!
At 1:00pm, hubby and I sat down to watch the Steelers totally blow their game against the Ravens... Being in the Baltimore area, lots of news stories about the win and all the screw-ups of the game. Like I need to be reminded....
I am not going gently into this Fall season. It wouldn't be so bad if it would just stop raining!
UGH!!!

Now back to your regularly scheduled program....

What is Your Favorite Color?

People ask me that and I immediately answer, purple. I love all the shades of purple, fuschia, and magenta and the like. However, when I look through my bead stash, I see I almost very little in the way of purple.
I've got lots of greens, blues, and even a smattering of browns and yellows. I did make a conscious effort to purchase more purple (like I need a reason to buy more beads!), but it still doesn't compare to the amount of blue I have. I wear blue often (blue jeans being my uniform) and black since it is a slimming color. Purple, I have a couple of shirts I rarely wear. My favorite sweaters are green and blue respectively. I have blue glassware, my china is blue and my everyday plates are blue floral.
Now, why this little bit of introspective? Well, it's Fae's fault. (For those who don't know, she is an evil bead maker who makes sparkly and swirly beads that I find irresistable....) This past week Fae, or EBM (evil bead maker) put up some bead auctions. One had a turquoise swirl and another a beautiful cobalt blue set of beads. I immediately put in my bids and was thrilled to be the high bidder. Then life got in the way and I noted that eBay had sent me a notice that someone had outbid me on the bead set. I meant to re-bid, how could I let those yummy beads go to someone less deserving?
Unfortunately, I didn't win the blue bead set. I was quite saddened at that. Those beads made me rethink my favorite color! But EBM, being an EBM, sent me an e-mail asking if I wanted her to make me a similar set. She had read my mind! An EBM with ESP!! What is not to love? I had planned on asking if she had any other cobalt blue beads hanging around that I could snap up.
So, if anyone asks my favorite color, I will probably still say purple... .
Go Figure!
What is YOUR favorite color?

A Beaded Cane - A Story of Procrastination!

I knew that in my recovery from a knee replacement, my cane would be used for a few weeks. It's a plain old black one and I thought it was silly for it to stay that way! Now, of course, I'd scheduled this surgery 3 months out, so I knew I was going in on February 1st. So, of course, I didn't start this project until February 10th, a week after I got out of the hospital! I planned on blogging as I went along, but of course, that didn't happen.
So you get to see it all at once. Isn't that exciting?!
I drew out a pattern:
I started to bead.


I got a little further...

You can see I don't follow patterns very well, not even my own!
Finally, two weeks later, I was finished.
It didn't come out exactly as I wanted, but I wasn't going to start over!
So I put it on my cane...
It looks pretty good on it, I have to say. But alas, after a week of using my newly decorated cane, I finally started walking without it... sigh...

Nothing to See Here......

...but SNOW! Hubby is going to take some pics when he's out clearing the driveway. Friday and Saturday gave us 30" of snow! Makes me wish for my snowmobile I had when I lived in Upstate New York. I have two nephews in Florida that don't get to see snow, so we will email them some pics too. They get a kick out of it. I wonder if they would if they had to shovel the stuff!

I will not be able to help hubby this time around and probably not for the rest of the Winter. On 2/1/10 I got yet another knee replacement. This one replaced the partial I got a couple of years ago and failed. This time, I got a full knee replacement from a doctor who specializes in the type of joint that I needed.

So, for now, I'm laid up and will probably blog more. I will definitely be reading more, so if you are interested, I put a link to my Good Reads page. Feel free to recommend books! Maybe I'll even bead a bit. I did finish a bracelet that I have to post.

Have You Ever Tried...

Pretzels dipped in Fluff? Okay, I realize how gross that sounds, but since I have one kid that LOVES hot dog buns with chocolate syrup drizzled in the middle, I am an old hat at gross sounding items.
One of my little ones must have pretzels and peanut butter every day or else her day is incomplete. So when she asked for them, I asked the others if they wanted some too. One chimed in 'Can I have it with Fluff?'. I figured why not. After the three of them said it was an awesome combo, I was tempted to try.
I have to say it was pretty delicious!
Could it be that I've been trying really hard to behave myself (food wise...) since my Cardiologist gave me my test results and a resound thumping on my horrible numbers, so anything tastes good...

So I challenge all of you to dip a pretzel in some Fluff and let me know what you think!

Holiday WiP

I thought I would post some wip pix on the RAW bracelet I've been working on, but I haven't taken any pics yet and with the kids home because of the snow and all the holiday craziness, I haven't gotten back to it.

However, all is not lost! Instead, I have a holiday WiP for you!

My Hubby Cutting Down the Christmas Tree... Each year, we go to this great Tree Farm and cut our own tree. This year we brought Sam the wild dog with us. That made it all the more fun!


Here is the Tree all decorated. I did the lights and the kids did the ornaments.

What would be a tree, without a tree topper? This year, Bumble is the Yeti of honor!

Here's Wishing You All a Bright, Happy, Healthy and Safe Holiday and New Year!

My Turkey was Featured!

If you click on my little Butterball, you will go to Eugena's site and see other great polymer turkeys too! What a great thing to wake up to the day after Thanksgiving. Thanks Eugena!
While you are there, take a peek at her gorgeous work. She does some amazing stuff with Polymer Clay!

I hope everyone had a great Turkey Day! Today, we'll get a nice lazy start and then head back to my in-laws for leftovers and presents! Yipee!

Happy Birthday Nicki!

We lost our sweet Nicki last month, October 20th, a month shy of her 14th birthday. Our loss has been immense, but today, we celebrated her life with messages written on balloons and then released so she could read them all in Doggie Heaven. Rest in Peace Sweet Pup.

Punkin Pie!

For all of you that are like me and spelling mistakes drive you batty, I did it on purpose! Anyway, another trip to the Doctor and am now starting my third round of antibiotics, nasal steroids and also regular steroids, so I am feeling hopeful that this will knock the snot right out of me! (TMI!) So, in honor of feeling better, I decided to give you a giggle. My friend Jean Bernard sent this to me...

It is how Pumpkin Pie is Made....

Forced Creativity

With a two hour block of time just to watch some television, I made myself get out some beads and work on something. Many years ago, I made a netted disc bead and I tried to re-create it. So, during Desperate Housewives, I struggled with it, only to tear it all out.
During Brothers and Sisters (or is it the other way around?), I decided to work on a RAW project. I figure it will be a bracelet since I won't have to do a whole necklace and I have a little more freedom with embellishing. So far, I have about 2.5 inches done of the first RAW row....
Good thing I don't depend on my bead skills to survive!

I Can't Believe It!

I'd been doing SO good and for some reason, I blanked on blogging!
EEK!
Well, I am going to count this as yesterday's entry and figure out something to write about for tonight.

Sock Hop

Tonight was the Girl Scout Sock Hop. The younger girls in our troop weren't up for the dancing, but liked the Hula Hoop contest as well as the Limbo.
So, I did what any self respecting Mom/Troop Leader would... When they started getting bored, I started to dance. They were particularly embarrassed by my Chicken Dance...
It's good to be Mom!

Turkey Time on Etsy!

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Originally uploaded by ClaynPrazy

Here is just one of my turkey necklaces that I put up on ETSY.

I also put some pix up on FLICKR.

Let me know what you think and if you have the urge to buy one, feel free!

Speaking of Free...
Until Sunday night (the 15th), BUY ONE GET ONE FREE!

So shop away!

Time Flies!

You'd think with a Drs appointment today at 9am, I'd be up and out early, get tons of things done, come home, clean up the dishes, take and edit my pictures and list them...
Who knew?!
Actually, I did get a bunch of errands done, mostly for my oldest's upcoming bday party. But, before I knew it , it was 2:30 and I'd just gotten home.
Enough time to take the dog out, talk with the hubby, check my email and then go and wait for the bus.
Now, it's about 9:30pm, the dishes are still in the sink, I didn't get around to taking the pictures, much less edit them, and I'm pooped!
On a positive note, I did finishing reading Dead After Dark by Charlaine Harris and am looking forward to reading more of her series. It's always fun to watch the series (or movie) and read the book(s) too!

Stinkin' Vampires...

I blame them all! While my creativity has left the building for awhile, I've been reading. After a friend got me hooked on the Twilight series, and I read them about three time each, I decided to look for other books. So I picked up Mary Jane Davidson's series, and they were fun, though some were a bit too raunchy for my taste, her 6th book really sucked me in and now I wait on the library list for her latest...
Then, I picked up the book Magic Bites. Gotta love the title. Then I read it and really liked the character Kate Daniels. But, now that I've read the first three and the novella, I have to wait until GASP June of next year! (of course that's when Eclipse come out in theaters, so it will be a great month!)
So I read that series twice and Ilona Andrews paid a wonderful tribute to Laurell K. Hamilton. So, I picked up her first book and thought it was pretty cool. I am now reading Blue Moon, which is somewhere in the middle of the series.
Great news is that she's got TONS of Anita Blake Vampire Hunter books in the series! Maybe they will get me to Nov. 20 and the New Moon premiere.
Stinkin' Vampires!

Under the Wire

Just about midnight, but I had to watch Project Runway... I'm not much of a reality show watcher, but I do love to watch stuff get made! This episode wasn't as snarky as the last, thank goodness, and the three that are going to Bryant Park are the three I picked from the beginning.....
Off to bed.....

A Guest Blogger

One of my kids is home from school today. I asked if she would blog for me today and she agreed.
Here she is:
Hi,I have no clue what to write.

Yep, my kiddo...queen of the words!! LOL!!!
I did get something via email today. It's the Story of the Day, and I loved this one:

	Here's the Story of the Day: Out to Play No hurt survives for long without our help, she said & then she kissed me & sent me out to play again for the rest of my life.

A final comment from our Guest....
I have a blog too!!

Have a Happy Wednesday!

2nd Day of Posting...

...and I almost forgot to blog! Yeesh!! I thought since I'm on my computer first thing in the morning, I'dblog then. However, today I was watching True Blood since it's due back to the library tomorrow.
The series is pretty graphic, but I love how at the end of each episode it grabs you by the throat!(pun intended.)
I have another episode to watch tomorrow morning, so I hope I don't forget to blog again!

Wacky Wednesday at Caradidi!

Dwayne is featured on their blog!

Take a peek here....
http://caradidi.blogspot.com/2009/06/dwayne-one-wacky-guy-from-boodlers.html

Following....

Pattee ( you really should see her coolio work) asked how she could follow me. So, I went into my Handy Dandy Blogger Dashboard and added the gadget. So, if you'd like to follow me, now you can!