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!

Birthday Prep

With the family gatherings done and my Mother off to her own home, we spent the afternoon recovering from all the festivities. But tonight, I wrapped presents for my oldest whose bday is tomorrow. We do a treasure hunt each year, so I spent the evening rhyming words and hiding gifts.
It was a wonderful holiday weekend and we've been blessed with family and friends.

I sure hope all of you had a great weekend!

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!

Tamales

Fifty of them are in the fridge as I type awaiting the Big Day tomorrow. It was my first solo attempt at them and I did make a test batch to taste. They weren't bad. Hubby says they are great, but who knows.... I just hope my FIL likes them. He's the one who was raised eating them.
Either way, it's been an experience and if I were to do this again next year, I will space out the time between batches. It took about 3 hours to press all the tortillas (which I made from scratch -so cool!) and put them in the corn husks and then put the chicken mole in and wrap them. My feet hurt from all the standing. So, I'm taking it easy the rest of the evening.
Will start all the craziness again in the morning.

Sssshhhhh...

I missed the midnight deadline for a blog post. I was just going to say I'm too pooped to blog, so I guess this counts not only as my blog for the day, but also since it wasn't much of one, I shouldn't be dinged for missing a post... right?

Yep, too tire to make sense either!

My Baby

Is growing up! WAH!!!!
We took her today to get her ears pierced as an early birthday present. She was a trouper and has been chatting about them non-stop all day!
We've been busy cleaning the house for Turkey Day. So, tomorrow will be attacking the killer dust bunnies!

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.

Happy Day!

Today hubby came home with a nice surprise.... a 42 inch TV!! We got one last year for Xmas, but it died back in June (we were NOT happy!), but since we had purchased the extended warranty, we thought that it was a minor glitch in the road. Well, it seems the part that blew out was back ordered for a year (or more!), and they would send us a refurbished replacement, but then that would void out our extended warranty. We got the refurbished one, and how it made it hear in one piece was a miracle. There was broken styrofoam in the box and that was it. It did have some chunks out of the shell of the TV, but it did work. They then told us that we would have to be happy with that. So, hubby sent both TVs back, got a refund and was determined not to get another big screen TV again....
Good wife that I am, I let him vent, rant, and rave. I put up with going back to our 19 inch TV. I was sort of okay with it. But from time to time, I'd show him a flyer...
I am so happy he bought one! It is nice not to have to squint at the crawlers on the bottom, or guess what the credits say....
Yippeee!

Happy Friday!

Hope everyone has a wonderful night! New Moon is in theaters, hubby is home and finally relaxing, and I'm feeling a bit better.
So, what are you doing reading this? Go have FUN!

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....

Bluck!!

This sinus infection has taken hold and won't let go. Feels like an elephant on my face...
(Nice visual, huh?)
The girls got to meet an author today, Lois Jarman. She writes about real princesses in Medieval Times. She was wonderful!
To see more of her work, click here.

Yipes!

Again I forgot to post!! I do have an excuse.... boogers!
I'd finished my round of antibiotics to mash my sinus infection into submission, but as soon as it ran out, it came back with a vengence. So, it's back on antibiotics, and hopefully this sucker will go away!
I must be better so I can go see New Moon on Friday!
Eeeeps! I am such a dork!

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!

Bugsy's Birthday Bash!

Today our little Samantha turned 2! My youngest calls her Bugsy, which is pretty apropo since she likes to eat bugs (and dust bunnies...).
I made her a puppy pie to celebrate the day, and she let us all sing to her. She was happy to have the pie to herself (it was made with dog food filling...) and kept looking for more!
Anyway, in honor of our little Doofus, I am going to have a sale on my Etsy shop, but more about that tomorrow!