Looking at the calendar is increasingly confusing. I could swear we’re barely half way through the year, and yet Christmas is only 3 months away. Yup, that’s right. 3 months. Crazy talk!! I’m winding down on 2008 projects and winding up on preparing for 2009 ones.… Read More
Worker bee
Today’s beading efforts produced part of a Ring Around the Rosie bracelet in bright, happy colors. I did the first circle in our class last night and everyone gave the bold color combo a thumbs up. My mother, however, said “It’s so ugly.… Read More
Patience is a virtue
I got news today on my Big Secret Project – and the news is that I need to wait a little longer for news. Okay, I can do that.
I worked until the wee hours of the morning on this project – it’s a new sample for my Elegant Options bracelet.… Read More
There’s a lovely hint of fall in the air today. I did a triple-take as I was walking past the thermostat in the house earlier – it was showing that it was 77 degrees in the house and we normally keep it set on 79 in the summer.… Read More
Hurricane Ike visited, and all I got was some lousy wind
Not a single drop of rain in Austin. Not. One. Drop. To laugh or to cry, that is the question!
I’m dead tired tonight from my sleepless overnight vigil with the TV. Happily, my class this afternoon was full of life and silly fun to keep me going, and then I unexpectedly got to have dinner with my brother’s family and my mother.… Read More
How can I sleep?
I’m mesmerized by the TV coverage of the the hurricane tonight and it’s so hard to tear myself away from it. I’m supposed to be getting my things together for Saturday’s afternoon class, as well as Sunday night’s class too and all I can do is stare at the TV.… Read More
Vote in the poll
I added a poll over there to the left
Poor little Winston
Mr. Winston had a day at the beauty shop yesterday (groomer) and came back looking particularly fine and more cool. All that hair makes a boy overheated in Texas, don’tcha know. If you’ve been reading the blog since the beginning, you know that the first time we took Winnie to the groomer, it was quite an event.… Read More
Stubborn
A day of can’ts, shouldn’ts, won’t works, oh no you didn’ts (oh yes, I did!) from dawn to dusk today, from multiple fronts. I hate days like this.
On the other hand, if I’d listened to all the naysayers four years ago, I’d still be working 8am to 5pm in corporate cubicle land.… Read More
Watching that darned hurricane
It’s pretty odd to be several hundred miles inland of the Texas coast, but yet still needing to make some hurricane preparations. Ike is predicted to possibly come through the Austin area while still strong enough to be throwing 70mph winds, and up to 10 inches of rain Saturday.… Read More
So close, but yet so far
I’ll admit it straight up. I didn’t paint on Saturday like I planned. And I didn’t do much of anything on Sunday but laze around and read and watch TV. But some days you need the break, right?
Monday I bounced out of bead at the crack of 11am and got down to business right away.… Read More
One of these is not like the other
So I’ve had two different people email me today, both claiming responsibility for the comment that was written about my blog. Now if that’s not funny, I don’t know what is!
Today’s already been very productive – a trip to the post office, a stop by a local bead store, and a Home Depot fix (although they were out of the planter Mom wanted.)… Read More
Interesting Day
People bemuse me. There are so many folks out in the world who make it their life’s work to dwell in anger and misery, and to dole out the same to anyone who crosses their path. Who wants to live like that?… Read More
How much change is enough?
I finished working on a project tonight that turned out absolutely gorgeous, if I do say so myself. I’m conflicted, though, on whether it’s something I can submit for the national shows as a class proposal. It was inspired by another beader’s published work, so the big question is – how much do I need to change it to make it my own design?… Read More
They don’t believe me
It took a full day of sleeping and lazing around the house Monday, but I think I’m finally sufficiently recovered from Sunday afternoon’s bead class. The amount of cleaning that had to go on prior to having company was daunting – but now that it’s all shiny and pretty, we’re going to make a concerted effort to keep it that way.… Read More
Hang on Gulf Coast, hang on…
The news about Gustav is getting more worrisome by the hour. It’s exploded from a tropical storm to a Catagory 4 hurricane in just 24 hours. I’m glad to see people taking the evacuation orders seriously – it takes a long time to get that many folks out of harm’s way and time is running out.… Read More
Of course
It’s been at least a few weeks since I had a technology meltdown so I guess I was due. One moment I was on the computer, checking email. I stopped and had dinner before I returned to the computer to respond to my emails, and when I did, I discovered the monitor had died.… Read More
Bead Jamboree this weekend in Austin
Before I forget again, let me remind you that there will be a bead show in Austin this coming weekend. The Bead Jamboree is being held at the Crockett Center Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 5pm each day.
Two of my favorite seed bead vendors will be there.… Read More
Photos of goodies
I really need to break down and get a better camera/photo studio set up for taking good photos. Right now I slap things down on a flatbed scanner, and sometimes it works out and other times – not so much.
This photo represents the not so much type!… Read More
That was interesting
Well, I’m back at home and have been greeted properly by plenty of boisterous wagging, barking, and licking. It was quite an interesting journey home, however.
A 3 hour plane flight filled with a typhoid Mary coughing up a storm all the way, a small child in the seat behind me throwing temper tantrums the whole way (his mother alternated pleading entreaties to stop with yelling at him that he is just like his father – oh my.)… Read More