The End of January

I have a funny feeling that I will be traveling in February.  My darling daughter is feeling a little homesick for me.  My new granddaughter is growing very quickly, and I think I could stand to be gone for a couple of weeks.

Last time I was there, we were waiting for Granddaughter to arrive.  She was late.  It was cold. I will talk to him about it soon.

First I will figure out where I want to stay overnight on my trip there and back.  Last time was my first time stopping half way, the time before, I had my young son with me.  I will choose more carefully the places I stay and the towns I stay in.  Now that I kinda know...coming home last time, I got caught driving in the dark for longer than I was comfortable for.  Do not want that to happen again.

Mr. Stubborn is off his sick bed, and back out to the golf course.  Unseasonably warm winter, thanks to the Good Lord Above.  He's still sleeping across the hall, due to his deep cough.  My days are back to "normal" and my nights, well, I seriously could get used to this.  As it is now, he likes to come in to watch TV for a little bit.  While he's watching TV, he also is watching the never ending golf videos on YouTube...checking his emails, which are usually golf videos that his golf friends have found on YouTube, and now, for some reason that I don't know, we are watching "Wheel of Fortune" every night.  Now if he'd go across the hall after that, that would be ideal.  He could watch whatever, and I could watch my whatever, and we'd both be happy.  But, that's not how it goes.

He will flip through the Netflix offerings, what he has in Instant Que, won't be able to decide for a long time, then he'll pick some war movie or something, so out come my ear buds (but I can still hear the warring and shooting from his movie because apparently he's deaf now) to watch my whatever on Netflix on my computer while I work on a Critter.

There's no communication, because of the ear buds.  At least from across the hall, we can converse...well, after I say something then he says, "What?" and I go over to where he can see me because apparently he can't hear me unless he can see me...

I've been busy with my Critters, as you can see by the photo stream above.  I really, really like how the Zebras turned out.

I have some pink cheetah print, too.  I ran up to Hancock Fabrics last Friday.  It was a cold, gray day, but I needed to get outta the house.  Got a Huglight, too.  It's a flashlight that you can drape around your neck, LED lights with 3 settings, really makes my hand sewing go a lot faster, smoother, and accurate.  Imagine that, easier to sew when you can see what you are sewing?  I got mine at Target, for $9.99.  2 AAA batteries.  Awesome invention.

A little absent (minded)...

Wait, what?  Just kidding.  My sweetheart, (from this day on he will be called Mr. Stubborn) has been ill.  Ill enough to take himself to his bedroom across the hall Thursday evening.

And there he's been, except for his sneaking out of his bedroom to do things I'd prefer him not to do when he's sick,  like emptying the dishwasher, folding towels, getting a snack...and doing things he shouldn't even be worried about, like the litter box.  I told him the first day to stay in his room and not germ up the house.  Then he has the nerve to say, "I hope you don't get this."

In my trying to take care of him, all he's done is piss me off & put me in a cranky ass mood.

So...I'm not saying another word to him.  We've been cooped up in here since Friday...well, I "got" to get out of the house to go to the grocery store this morning.  While I was gone he was all over this place.

I have kept myself occupied, during this duration, by watching LOST and making critters.  I know there's at least one new picture up there.  I'm trying a new technique with the eyes, which led to new ideas and techniques in my mind...

He just slipped down the hall again.  I'm going to shut my door a little bit so I don't have to see him when he comes back through.  And then I'm going to finish up a couple of critters, and hopefully my head will not explode before the end of this day.

Why Oh Why

Why do I keep posting here day after day, especially if no one is commenting?  Because just because.  One of these days, someone will stumpleupon or hit one of my tags, and they'll read it and enjoy it so much they will tell all their friends, and pretty soon everyone will be reading it and that will be so cool...  Oh the things I will do!

It is a blowy but very warm day here.  My sweetheart is out golfing in this, or playing cards...30 mph gusts would be hard to play golf in, much harder if you were outdoor playing cards!  Ha, that image just flashed through my head,  seemed funny to me, thought I'd share.

I made three new Critters over the weekend.  Here are 2 of them:  

I made a Dragon, too.  I'll have a pic of it tomorrow.  

xxoo

Cindy

Saturday Morning oops, Afternoon

I've been to Wally World this morning...I swear, again, that I am never going on a Saturday again.  

I had my eye on a couple of Christmas Sweaters I was going to snag at half-price, but apparently someone else in this town had the same idea.  They had some cute turtlenecks for a dollar, but I can't wear a turtleneck longer than 2 mins.   

Dinner was the conversation over morning coffee.  Like he doesn't remember from yesterday and the day before, and last year, and the year before that, that I don't want to talk about food first thing in the morning.  Seriously, my eyes are still squinting, my coffee is still brewing...and besides that, there are 7 -10 dinners that he will eat, so just pick one it doesn't matter, just pick.  

Because if he really cared to know what I'd like for dinner, it would be some new recipe that I'd found and was really wanting to try out, it sounds delicious...but when I shared that with him he would say, and I quote, "That's just fine if you want to do that for you, but I'll have *insert 1 - 10 here*."

How fun is it to cook something new to be the only one eating it?  I mean, it would be awesome if I were alone, but when there's someone else sitting right across the table from you eating the same old same old bland bland bland, it's just awful.  You want to share what you have created with food stuff, with your own hands, with the one that you "love."  I'm right, right?  

You've tasted it, you know it is the best thing you've ever had, you want someone else to taste it to confirm.  It's normal to want some approval/acceptance/notice that you have done something creative and talented with your own hands.

You shoulda see him when I made tacos with turkey meat instead of hamburger!  *gs*  He'd been thinking all day about those tacos, I knew he had been...he made one itty bitty burrito, took one itty bitty bite of the tortilla, threw it in the trash.  Hilarious, looking back.  At the time, yeah, it was hilarious then, too.  

So, for dinner tonight, he's going to Sonic.  I'm having a frozen oriental dinner thing.  

Play Nice!    

Pancakes for Supper

A Beautiful Sunset...

Really, what more could a girl ask for?  (Yes that is snow on the ground, but you can still see the grass, so it doesn't really count)

Tonight, I am working on the modified project of the project I was working on last night.

It's about time for us all to settle in back here in my bedroom.  Time for Karma to start acting like a little spoiled pup.  As soon as he gets back here, she goes into spaz mode.  Ah well.  It is what it is.




 

Blue on Blue Pig

I like how he turned out.  The Donkey, I am still working on.  I hadn't slept very well the last couple nights, so I decided to hit the feathers early last night.  And I did sleep very well, until I woke up at 3:00 in the morning, having to use the bathroom...

What I forgot was that the handle that attaches to the flushy thing broke yesterday...but at 3 am, well, I wasn't thinking very clearly, I'm sure I was quite anxious to get back to that dream I was having...finished up and went to flush...I gotta take the lid off the tank, find the handle to pull up, which slipped through my sleepy, fumbly fingers, which meant I had to plunge my hand into that cold water...

Needless to say, the dream was gone.  Being ever the optimist, though, I figured out how to use this as a fun opportunity...dried my hand, slid back into bed, placing my hand squarely in the middle of my sweetheart's back.  He jumped, flipped over to see what the heck had happened, and I faked being asleep better than I have ever faked anything!  *gs*

Nothing was said this morning, but he went out early and got the part to fix it.  I love my life!  

I've learned how to add a link (yay me), so that's exactly what I did over there to your right...

Free Felt Patterns and Tutorials.  

Nice to find a place like that.  

Y'all have a good day, please try to do something really fun and or funny today.  xxoo

Sleeping

I've not been sleeping well the last few nights.  Maybe staying up too late?  Maybe sleeping to late in the morning (8:00 ish)?  Maybe what I watch before I go to bed, maybe what I listen to while I sleep?  I am not doing anything out of the ordinary.

Does it drive you crazy when someone has earbuds in and you can still hear what they are listening to?  That drives me crazy.  CrAzy.  cRaZy.

These are the times when I repeat to myself, "I love him."

My brain says one thing, my heart says another?

My Chihuahua is bored.

She has done nothing for the past two days but lay on the bed and watch me sit here in my chair working on a Critter, or computering, or something...she got crazier than a cootie last night about 10:00, so I know she's going berserk in her little Chihuahua head.

I tried to take her with me to the post office today, but she was not interested.

Today, I am taking her for a walk.  The sun is shiny, the wind isn't blowy, a brisk walk around the block would do us both a world of good.

My darling Karma Carmella

Oh yeah, she was all, "yeah, let's go, come on, come on, come on..." and she made it all the way around the block (1/4 mile), only trailing a little bit there at the end, it's a little incline for you and me, but for a dog that is 6" at the shoulder, it's a pretty big incline.  ;)

We may go again, it is a pretty day.  

Guinea Pig I finished last night.  

xxoo

I Love my Weekends

The dilemma today...should I go up to the pro-shop this afternoon, of should I stay home in my Jammie's?  I could wear my Jammie's to the pro-shop, except they are Halloween Jammie pants, and I just don't feel comfortable wearing "seasonal" out of season.  Out in public, anyway (and I do kinda not like wearing them at home, but I like how these fit, just long enough, just baggy enough, perfect).  

My thought in the shower this morning - I am going to make a few simple shirts and pants, in a muslin or a linen fabric, neutral colors... (I feel very strongly about these thoughts I have in the shower).  I've had this thought before, but haven't acted  on it.  I'm not a fashion hound by any means, I'll be the canvas for the accessories.  

Because I just never know what my next phase of creating will be.  Right now I'm happy as can be with my little felt critters, but before that it was handbags (big ones), and I was seriously looking into making puppets.  I went through a "feed bag" stage, making what I thought were very cool dresses and jackets, and I did sell a few things...but my point here is that I just never know when a thought is going to occur to me to try something new.  

And I really love some of the handmade jewelry I've been seeing on Pintrest!  

There's a new picture in the photo stream up there.  If anyone were reading this, I'd offer up a shout out to the first one that picked out the new one, but that's kinda moot, for the moment anyway.  

(This is the new one)

(I just figured out how to put a pic there.  Woot for the noob!)

It makes my weekend so much more pleasant when the weather is so nice.  Especially in January.  He can golf, I have the house to myself.  Love That.

Tomorrow morning, I will have coffee while I go through the Sunday paper.  My favorite part of the weekend.   I especially like it when I don't actually have to go outside to get it, but I do now and then, it's not like I'm spoiled or anything.  

I have another elephant to put together this afternoon, for one of my daughter's friends that I really like.  Another friend of hers is crocheting a gray winter hat for me, she may get this little gray elephant in return.  

That's probably enough rambling for today.  Enjoy your weekend!  

xxoo

First Blogger Blog

So, here we are.  You've probably already read my profile and all that stuff, so I'll just start out telling you about my day.  


Up at 8:30, coffee with my sweetheart, he went to play cards, I went to the grocery store...did some laundry, cut out some fabric for a project I'll be working on tonight...


Spent the most of the day trying to think up some clever name for this blog.  That is no easy feat, well, it wasn't for me.  I kept looking around, thinking, trying this and that, until it dawned on me.  


Yeah, at the moment I'm lucky enough to wake up in the morning, have a shower, and if I don't have to go anywhere, put on clean jammies and get about my day.  


My Flicker photostream up there should be proper tomorrow.  I've "lost my light" for taking pictures today (I am not a photographer, I just heard someone say that one day, but it works in this sentence, I think.)  Tomorrow, tomorrow...


I'm trying to knock this Queen of Procrastination crown off my head.  It's on there pretty tight, gonna take some work.  


Ok, I'ma gonna go eat some fried chicken.  


Play Nice!