Trust & Appreciation

Caution:  This may be a "whiny" post but I need to get some of this out of my head.  I trusted my friend so much that I quit my job and went to work for her.  If it were only the business we were working toward, as I thought in the beginning, we'd be fine.  I had my suspicions last week, and found out yesterday that the business was also paying bills at home, catching up on rent and utilities.  

That leaves no moola left for me.  I don't have a job, and they owe me money that I need right now.  

Which brings us to the appreciation part.  The bather has his job, the groomer has her job, so I took on the responsibilities of cleaning.  Kennels, towels, floors, etc.  

I  think they will appreciate the part I played.  I hope so.   The customers will ask where I am, too.  

And another thing, they brought a dog home from her son's house.  A dog that does not like me, which is so odd.  It really bothered me that they insisted every time she growled to say, "she doesn't growl at me, she ran right up to me and Ken..."  Tell her no, tell her to be nice, to me, like you do the dogs.    

So, my plan is to work on my art, get back to creating.  Hopefully selling.  

I knew I shouldn't have gone with her, I should have waited until she got settled in...but we'd talked all Winter about opening the shop, and it was always us, so I would have felt like I didn't support her when it was time.  

With any luck I can get my job back at Twin Pines.  Sweetheart is going to talk to the guy that is running the Pro Shop about it.  I'd work for cheap, and that would be more than I've made since May.  Plus, it will give me a lot of time to kick back and stitch.  

With all that being said, I do realize that this is something she has to do with the goals she has set, and I will still support her.  We've been friends for a long time, and I have no plans of un-friending her at all.  Nor will it be weird.  I knew getting this in writing would calm me down.

I just transferred my prescriptions to the drug store across the street from the shop.  Good excuse to visit once a month, huh?  

Gonna take a week off, rest, stitch, get some yoga going, back to eating clean.   I've eaten so much bologna the last 2 months, I never want to taste it again.  Got sick from one of those little pkgs of mustard, too.  

Handmade by Cosmo

Play Nice!  xxoo

3 years later

There are a lot of things I'd like to say on social media, Facebook is about the only one I'm active on.  I don't feel like being a target for trolls.

I feel somewhat safe here, this blog has been quiet for 3 years.  Probably not too many check it daily.  So here goes.  My feelings on the things that are going on right here this minute, July 29, 2015.

Cecil the Lion.  The dentist paid the fee to his guide to lead him to a trophy lion.  He filled out his paperwork, he did it by the book.  Why is he to blame for this?  His only "fault" is that he hunted a male lion for a trophy.  He's guilty of being egotistical for thinking that makes him more manly to kill the King of the Beasts.  That's it.  Y'all calm down, because, just like the Confederate Flag Fiasco, what is going on in the background of our government/congress/pack of heyenas while everyone is obsessing over Cecil?  Congress is notorious for electing to raise their wages in the middle of the night while their constituents sleep.  We gotta wake up.

We are in such a fog, sheeple.  Well, you know what?  Us "sheeple" better start banding together.  Everybody,  This race baiting,within our Media, we can't let that form our opinions.  Rioting, Black vs White vs Mexican vs Whatever race...instead of being angry with each other, we need to interlock arms and go after the ones that are making us so angry.  The ones that are doing all they can to scare us and to make us hate each other...aren't we all sick and tired of that?  All of our cultures have so much to offer the others, can't we just all put the color of skin thing aside and save our country, as brothers and sisters of the Human Race?  

If we erase the lines that divide us, we can do what needs to be done.  We can all act as one, and win.

Praying for us.

xxoo

Live, From the Pro Shop

It is 9:38 am, I've been here about an hour, balanced my cash, got all my work stations set up the way I like them, stocked the fridge...

The "old" group started about 9.  One of them always eats lunch here.  He loves my Reuben sandwiches, even took one home to his wife on Thursday.

The friend I've been telling you about...he's here today.  I let him pick out one of my Critters, he picked the patriotic elephant.  :)  I think I'll send him home with the red pig, too, because I was thinking of him when I made it.  His group took off around 9:30, they should be finished between noon and 1.

The Pres. just came in, he's a good guy most the time.  Frank came in, but he and the Pres. got into a little tiff the other day and there's a little tension between them.  Silly boys.  Looks like that group is getting ready to tee off.  My Jack, Pres., Doc (Holy Cow), Chuck and Frank.  This group should be finished about an hour after the first group.

Most of these first groups are my favorites.  They usually always have lunch, especially on the weekends.

There will be another group, they usually start about 11.

I didn't bring any Critter material to work on today.  I was feeling a little melancholy this morning, and couldn't wrap my head around what I felt like working on, so decided to do a little computer work today.

So, that's my morning here at Twin Pines.

Make it a good day and Play Nice!  xxoo

Feeling Kinda Famous

after being "featured" on Pink Cupcake's blog yesterday!  I thought I'd better get on it and share some new stuff I've been working on, since I haven't for awhile.

One "manly" looking pig, done in leather look red felt.

A mini giraffe, he helps me keep an eye on things around here.

Two custom order Unicorns.

Close up with a lime green piglet.  

This was a custom color order for an Easter Gift.

Pink Camouflage elephant, he's hanging out in the equally pink ladies locker room here, hoping for a new home.

I have another "manly" elephant stuffed and waiting for some ears at home.  Today I am working on a hot pink and black zebra striped mini horsie.  

Work has been crazy, after a month I'm finally feeling like I'm getting a good handle on it.  What tickles me is  that I am learning how to cook on this grill by luck, and some guys are coming out here just for one of my sandwiches.  So far I am making hamburgers, cheeseburgers, hot dogs (split on the grill), grilled ham and cheese, and thanks to the generosity of one of the members that is a meat representative, corn beef sandwiches and Ruebens.  

At this moment I have 5 guys playing Pitch, one guy is watching them.  The wind is blowing so hard in H'ville today, my sweetheart didn't even get his cart out.  

Oh, and in case you haven't seen a picture of one of the sweetest grand babies in the world lately...

My granddaughter, Delilah Jean.  She's 4 months old now.

I better go tidy up a bit.  xxoo

On the Road Again

For the second time in 3 months I am en route to New Mexico to visit my daughter and family.  I'll be resuming a job when I get home, so I had to "get while the gettin' was good."  Nice to be able to take a little vacay, we all need a bit of a break.

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!