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i didn’t get up until 3pm today. i kept waking up last night and early this morning and izzy would be sitting there with one of her ponytail holders wanting me to throw it for her. i wonder how long she sits there for before i wake up. we really should get a video camera. i would probably catch them farting on my face or something. oh wait, they already do that. izzy is a gas machine. she regrets that her lack of bum cheeks makes them silent. poor kitten. when she was a baby, the actually made farty noises.

i got a bit of spinning done, i planned to update and then fell asleep with the computer, so you know how that goes. i do have a bit of stuff to show, though.

i had really strange and sad dreams about my grandfather (who died a little while ago) dying, and being with my mom and granny waiting for him to die. i hate the hospital. one of the things i do remember was that the mattresses had goldfish inside of them. anyway, i woke up in the morning and the power went off (it was off all day, too.) and got my favorite mysterious malady, the junkie blues. i have no other way to describe it other than what i imagine kicking drugs must be like. my skin crawls, i can’t sit still, everything hurts, i literally feel like i will do anything to make it stop. it lasts hours. this time, it lasted from 10 am until about 4 pm. in that time, i took 5 showers and 1 bath. odd as it sounds, i lay down in the shower and let the water hit the soles of my feet.

needless to say, that was what i did today. i did my best to try to work on something else, but i couldn’t. after jake got home, i fell asleep for a bit. feeling miserable like that really makes me exhausted. le sigh. i feel better now. tired, but much better.

otherwise, i have done a decent amount of spinning lately, i was supposed to do an update on sunday and didn’t feel up to it, and still haven’t. i will get to it ASAP. i swear.

my friend katrina is going to have to get surgery soon and i just wanted to give a shoutout to her and her amazing partner sending my love and positive thoughts. she has been a wonderful, thoughtful friend to me. she is one of the sweetest people i have ever met. she is one of those few people that make it past age 20 without being jaded and negative, despite having a less than perfect life. that is quite an amazing quality. she is always open to learning new things and she rocks.

xoxo
n.

i was supposed to do a big yarn update today, but i was lazy and had a headache all day, which has gotten worse and i shouldn’t be online, but ya know. anyway, i will be doing it to-morrow, along with working on some other new things that i am excited about. really excited. i have some lovely valentine’s day yarns, as well as some that would easily double as breast cancer awareness that are much more subtle than my usual, but lovely and squishy. i promise, cool stuff to come. i am also planning to add some of the circle collages to the update and some softies i crocheted that i was being clingy with, and i need to cut the cord (or yarn, as it were. hee. cut the yarn. i crack myself up.) so that should be done by suppertime to-morrow eastern time. i will be sending out an email to those of you on the list. here is a little taste of em…i have several striping ones, that are really fun to work with, and several with organic green (unbleached) cotton sections that are all poofy and soft. i am stunned that i love spinning up the cotton so much even though it is such a short staple, but i really do. who knew?

so, here are some nice things i ran across over the last few days online…
1.this sweet girl has started a charity to ger new art supplies for herself to use in the hospital, to make her crafts to sell for more supplies for herself and other kids to use in the hospital. what an adorable little girl. a little girl with a spirit like hers and wonderful, upbeat parents like hers has just gotta be okay, right? doing and making art and craftsy endeavors have really been instrumental in my mental welfare, particularly when i am too sick to get out of bed, so i really think that this is a wonderful idea, not just for her, but for anyone that is sick, or really, even depressed. it gives you something to show for your time.
2.how about thislovely book?.

3. yarn made out of newspaper? funnily enough, i apparently read this article before because i commented on it and don’t remember, but anyway, this artist made yarn out of newspaper that is really lovely and then it was woven into a rug. i would be interested to know how well it holds up, i am sure once woven it would be okay, as long as it was sealed in some way. it looks really cool, though. someone commented that she had spun rice paper and crepe in college in the 70’s, which would be lovely, too. hmmm. anyway, here it is

4.more links? okay. thissy one
a LJ friend’s lovely new bookon blurb. i have been wanting to do something myself, but i am so disorganized. still, it looks like fun. i would love to do a children’s book, too. with my favorite buddy gabe although we never get our act together. i can’t, at least. i keep meaning to pop by again and see him at work and pop into the antique place and call my antique hook-up mick to see if he has a few of the odds and ends that i am looking for. he always tells me just to call, but i forget. and i know he has all kinds of storage units, including a little garage in town that i poked around in before. full of dusty, rusty, broken stuff. swoon.

5.and here is another wonderful charity that you could donate your old sewing machine, or whatever your could afford to give, or even your teaching services to help people who lost everything in katrina to get back their lives. i have 2 vintage sewing machines that work, but need to be worked on that i could donate. my local antique/thrift store gets tons in all the time, too. i know he would love to get rid of em. you can also donate lil preemie caps, which even a child could make and would probably love to make!

otherwise, i best get going and try to sleep to get this pain in my head out. jake, the consummate musicophile actually taps his feet in time to any music playing on tv or otherwise while he is sleeping. how cute is that? too cute. jake made perogies for dinner tonite and i had thought you could bake em…we did that and they poofed up and got crispy and chewy sort of like a fried ravioli or something. they were so so good! thanks jakie! you take such good care of me!

you guys are so sweet for all of your concerned comments and emails and phone calls when i made the migraine post. i didn’t delete it because i really do want people to get to know who i am, good, bad and ugly, but even still, i know it freaks people out a bit. i had a longtime friend get “sick” of my illness shennanigans and i cut ties after that. now, i lay it all out and if someone doesn’t want to deal with me, no problem. i think i am a good friend. i think i stick my neck out for others. drive you to the hospital. hold your hand. let you complain, or cry and tell me how bad you feel. i don’t question that you actually feel bad, or worse yet, i don’t ever try to make someone feel guilty for being too sick to go to a show, or dinner, or to the mall. i know that the sick person got the raw deal, not the well person, who can still do whatever they want to do. where am i going with this? on my lupus online group, there are always people who say that they can’t talk about their illness with their partner or friends or even family, sometimes, because they will think that they are just whining and get annoyed. it stunned me how widespread that behavior really is, how many people don’t really tell anyone how they feel. they feel like strangers are the only ones they can talk to. don’t get me wrong, i don’t like to bitch too much on my blog, i drop out of site when i feel really bad. but one of the things i can’t stand is those phoy blogs (by similarly phony people) who act like they are perfect, nothing is ever wrong and while i appreciate a gorgeous blog, i think that unless it is a blog devoid of any details of your life (which is okay, too. design blogs and such) it is kind of a lie to let other people feel like your life is perfect because it serves a bit like magazines covers where an already gorgeous and ultra thin person is airbrushed to be way more skinny and perfect. it makes you think that you are a loser. your meals aren’t all gorgeous and nutritious and served on fine china with lovely silverware and linens. your kids drive you nuts sometimes. or a lot. your cats puke all over your house and knock everything over. you didn’t have the energy to get dressed, let alone look cute. i think that if your blog is about your life, there should be some unperfect things as well. they don’t make you seem worse, they make you seem like a real person. they make you relatable, rather than making readers feel bad about themselves. i have had so many positive emails and comments from people saying that they appreciate that i am “brave” enough to put in the negative stuff. i am not brave, i am just the kind of person that will tell you whatever you ask. i really will. i always have been that way. at thist stage in my life, not so much embarrasses me. i do what i do, i am what i am, i am okay with that. so on one hand, thanks for loving me lumps and all, it really does mean a lot to me. but on the other hand, i encourage others not to be afraid to put negative details in your blog. if you feel like crap or had a really bad day, or whatever, don’t be scared that people won’t like you. bitching and moaning all the time is one thing, bu saying what is going on and how you would like to make it better…that can be a great way to get advice and kind words, as well as getting it off of your shoulders. just my opinion. and i am loopy on migraine meds, so best i go before i say something even more strange. ya know?

love you all…
n.

oh jeebus, i was talking to jake in the kitchen just now and thought that i might have posted whilst in the throws of a migraine. holy shit. i used to write in my journal sometimes and it was not even as bad as that. i think i was dozing off while typing and then snapping awake and writing down what i was dreaming. i was about to delete it, but jake told me not to so that people could see what migraines do to a poor unsuspecting brain. i didn’t even realize that i am quite that bad. i love the parts where you can tell i blanked out for a minute. or 15. who knows? i also love that i somehow posted to livejournal and blogger. here is to hoping that i didn’t do any migraine emailing. that could be bad. if i sent you a jumbled email outlining how your life is in danger and you should become a dog catcher, disregard it. gah! clearly i have been overdoing it a bit, but now that i have figured out how to overdo it, i am kind of riding the wave until it crashes. i guess that the fatigue and migraine seem worth it to me, although if i get one bad enough and end up in the hospital, i will probably be singing a different tune. anyway, i am foggy and tired today, but much better. here’s to hoping that i don’t get another one tonite, or at least, i keep it to myself.

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so i am trying to get it out as ai fprget every second …the migraine easting up braincess. chomping. when you havce a migraine and take your meds for it, and the trt to spell the words so they know what you see, what this is all about and you cannot pul it goether. or you can for a second d=n…i felt like i just had t doooooooooooooooooooo something. i keep lookin at my hands to see where my needles are. even in my dreasm things are messed up. no one is allowed to go to schfool . i can spell. i saw a crazy attack on a sitting girl. i am seen=in gthins. i gkeep forgotenning what i awas going to saw because i have dozed off, but i sear i had impofa wnr i thought i was holding dish of food and no===but i am super hungry, although, deleriously tored too/

in my dream ym doctor told jake to give me massafes and i never told jake and when found out he was mad at me. but it never happened at all. just now, i thoguht that i was lying on a raft in the ocean with my leg up on the side and ialmost got flipped and it is far far away. i just woke up up again and woke myself up scared that i was falling into the icy water. i notice that a turnk full of my yarn is slipping into the water and then i snap awake again here typing. i go back and am in the strage section wwhere other people are freaking out and i trty to calm them down. i see some lovely old furniture, i take a gloved hand to dust it off and i wake up. kinda. dunno if this will make sense or it, my mind just pulling in all directions. migraine meds and a migraine do bad things to my poor brain trying to undersatnd where even aluna is going or meaning and then i lose the thought. now i am cooking, now…thinking of a friend getting pulled up by her waist like a circus performer and she is shocked and is sfrfeaj dj. i realize that i a am in bed with my laptop, husband, ktties, and am typing, slowblxccxxxxxxxxxxc dozing trying to help someone in my ffihgt ,tahtdidn’t wanna dye. i have a feeling that someone in out extended chain of friend or family is going to die, or be hurt vvery badly. i am so out of it that i have to shower and let the migraine do
be safe okay

well, i put two pieces into the artstream studios show and they got accepted, although i am not sure if anyone will get turned away or not. anyway, they are available and are priced lower than i usually sell my things for, so go and check em out. it is for breast cancer research. also, i got a nice note from the peeps at lime and violet letting me know that i was mentioned again in their podcast, which i thought was really nice. there is a link in the toolbar to that if you are interested.

the photos above are of some of my most favorite mixed media pieces. i really need to mount them or frame em. i don’t think i can bear to part with them. i love that woodgrain wallpaper. it would be horrid as wallpaper, although it would be cool to cut out on a larger scale and stick on the wall for a larger version of that piece, ya know? hmmmm… what does jake think?

i have been working my bum off to get caught up on everything. as always, i am really behind. i got my yarns for orders spun up, plus several extras. i did 6 or 7 big bobbins full today, which was about 8 hours of work. i don’t tend to take breaks because once i stop, i realize how exhausted i am, but i have been pushing past being tired like i used to when i was in college, and then i realize how i did that and why i got really bad migraines and strange maladies (like mono…a half dozen times) all the time. it is sort of like dieting…once you push past the hunger, you kind of forget about it. will it bite you on the ass? yes, but at the moment, you can handle it. that said, i have been having a horrible time sleeping. i push past it when it is earlier because i don’t want to sleep for a couple of hours and be up all night, and then i am not able to sleep at all. i will be tired, but overtired, if that makes sense.

it is so hard to balance things. i can’t really shift gears, so if i am spinning, i have to just be spinning all day. i don’t check emails until i am done, i don’t stop to eat, i don’t go anywhere, i don’t pack orders, whatever i am on board doing on whatever day, that is all that i do. when i switch gears, i realize that i am exhausted and that is it.

i got another circle piece done last night. well, not totally done, but i want to add crocheted lace around the outside of a few pieces but i think as barbe suggested that drilling holes in the piece may be the only way to attach it other than glue, which i don’t want to use.

my eyes are really tired, so off i go, but i do plan to get the yarns skeined and photoed so you can check em out. packing orders, etc, and skeining yarns is on the slate for to-morrow. and then i have to get my studio cleaned up. and then the bedroom. it is a stye. i cleaned my desk up in the studio and i look at it longingly, wishing that the whole room was like that. le sigh. i explained to jake that when i look at organizing and cleaning, i can’t just do one thing, or one small part, i want to do it all at once, which i can’t, so i don’t do anything and it gets more and more out of control and i feel guilty about it, as well as anything else i am too tired to take care of. so. i really need to get organized and try to do a bit of daily maintenance no matter what i feel like.

here are some rings i crocheted. i am not sure if i posted photos of em before. they are so fun to wear. so happy.

xo
n.

i got some new and really lovely yarns listed on the luxe.etsy shop if you guys wanna pop on by. i plan to get some valentine’s yarns done this week, too. despite it being a bit late.

i am also hoping to get some of the circle collage pieces into the artstream studios valentine’s show. i need to send them for to-morrow, if it isn’t too late. if they don’t go there, i will list some of them. i have been having a lot of fun with them, i am interested to see where they go.

xo
n.

jeebus! sorry i dropped out of sight there. i had a baaad night yesterday and spent today doing nothing at all. no internets. no reading. no crocheting. no nuttin! i am feeling a bit better now. how bad did i feel today? i got stuff in the mail and didn’t even open it. i think that i overdid things the last couple of days and then that time of the month was not a good combo with that. so. i puked. i sweated. i cried. i showered. and showered again. and then again. and once more. with some more puking, sweating and crying in between. i asked jake how long it would take me to get a handle on my body and what is what.

so, what have i been working on? well…

some of these will be going off as gifts, and a couple not shown will go hopefully go to the artstream valentine show. i need to take some more photos that show the whole thing to send. what else?

they will be listed sunday on my etsy store, www.luxe.etsy.com

barbe let me know that i got a shoutout on the yarnmarket news top 10 spinning fibers list via my buddy shannon okey, which is nice. i need to stock up the shop a bit. so check back, okay? i will also be putting some of the circle collages up for sale there. i love the bright ones, but i love the white on white, ala malevich. you would not believe how much time i manage to spend on one small piece. i have been punching out tons of paper circles in the various sizes and colors ahead of time and attempting to keep them semi-organized by color so i don’t spend even more time looking for something. i still do, but ya know. for the white on white, i have all kinds of printed things, vintage books, dictionary, sheet music, the inserts for my medications (seriously), maps, magazine pages, old notes and letters, bills, all kinds of things. i never throw anything away, so. i glue them down mainly using my finger. i originally used a glue stick, but it seems so wasteful to use a whole glue stick and have the plastic holder leftover, you know? why don’t they have refulls? so i use tacky glue, which i like better than mod podge because it doesn’t stay all sticky and you can use any kind of paint over it. i then use diluted acrylic as well as white guache, but i go over and over and over and over with my number 0/3 and 0 round brush. it takes me forever. i don’t know that it should, but i like process. i look at other people’s work that is supposed to be layered and look old or processed, but they really didn’t take the time to do the processes and you can see it. i do plan to make some postcards and bookmarks from copies of these pieces, and do some embellishment. i think they will be nice extras for orders. i personally love bookmarks. i actually first started making the circle things at this time last year when i was doing the valentine’s postcard swap on flickr, which i am doing again this year. i got invited! woot woot! i learned a hard lesson about making things the right size so you pay for a postcard and not a letter. also, i learned that if it is the right size, it can be as heavy or thick as you want, and still be the price of a postcard!

today, i got an order returned to me that was never picked up from the beginning of december. no one ever contacted me about not getting their order, and it said that they had gotten reminders and never picked it up. i wonder if it was a gift or something. i will email them and see what is up. i assume postage will need to be paid again even if it is the same address, right?

so, today was a wash, which sucks. i always feel so guilty and don’t let myself do anything at all, if i had the energy to. izzy came up to suck my hand and farted the most stinky fart about 2 inches from my face. it reminded me of her insanely gross kitten farts when she was a baby. she also has gross fish breath which is odd to me, pavel never had bad breath when he was so young. he still doesn’t really and he is 3 i think. the sisters have hideous breath, but they are older, so that is how it goes. if kahlo is anywhere in the bedroom licking herself, i can smell it. g-ross! pavel is next to me here snuggled up to his papa. we have been putting this kitty stuff called “calm down!” in their water, and pavel has been a lot less agitated. he still fights with the girls, but it is not nearly as bad and he has been coming out and sleeping with us much more, instead of sleeping in the closet or on top of the fridge. i think it has helped to calm izzy down a bit, too. she still bites me all the time. i am the lowest rung on the totem pole in this house. i really am.

so, i have been wanting to make another non-holiday wreath. it is one of the only forms of decoration in this joint. i found some things that would be very versatile as to what you made with them. remember i made this pom pom wreath last year?here are some i had bookmarked…
a yarn wreath
another here
and here
and the rockin adrian purdeeeeee!
paper “>wreath from martha stewart gave me lots of ideas. fabric flowers? tulle? gorgeous papers rather than plain white? ooooh. it could be amazing.
like this gorgeous one made from fabric scraps really cool.

off i go.
xo
n.

1. What is your occupation? tightrope walking yarn spinning artsy fartsy junk loving coffee drinking bleeding hearted liberal. how’s that?
2. What color are your socks right now? none. bare feets whenever possible.
3. What are you listening to right now? myself typing. and my stomach growling. and jakie sleeping.
4. What was the last thing that you ate? a giant granny smith apple and then my sleeping pill. so technically the pill.
5. Can you drive a stick shift? no. i was a nanny right out of high school (which kinda put me off of kids) and they wanted me to learn to drive their 100 year old stick shift volvo even though they lived right in squirrel hill, which is very easy to get around with the kids, and attempted to make me learn on the hills, even though the car would stall and not start unless you ran it down a hill. i left the job in the end.
7. Last person you spoke to on the phone? barbe wire. i mean barbe st.john.com hee.
8. Do you like the person who sent this to you? yes, i do! she is a kewl grrrrrl.
9. How old are you today? 35. wow. i can’t believe that. people tend to be surprised that i am THAT old. which would be insulting if they didn’t mean that i didn’t look it. does that make sense?
10. Favorite drink? coffee, i think. i am a total coffee snob, so only good coffee, black, one spoon of raw sugar. um. i love guava juice too. but not the sugary one.
11. What is your favorite sport to watch? strong man. oh, when i actually can catch it, i loooove the ecochallenge too.
12. Have you ever dyed your hair? nope. my natural color is pink. i mean black. i mean blonde. i mean red.
13. Pets? 4 cats. pavel is the only boy. izzy is the krazy kitten. kahlo and peeps are sisters and they hate each other.
14. Favorite food? hmmmmm. tricky. sticky rice with mango. i loves that stuff. i like sesame cold noodles and i love middle eastern food. all of it. okay, most of it. lamb makes me violently ill, and i would feel bad eating it anyway, but most other stuff i love. i especially like that there are tons of different little things to eat in a meal since i have a short attention span whilst eating, so that is perfect for me. also, i love spinach lentil soup from ali baba, which is nice and thick and lemony. soo good. i should learn to make it.
15. Last movie you watched? caberet.
16. Favorite Day of the year? valentine’s day, i think. i alway wished i had someone who loved me and spoiled me, since i was little. and now i do! who would of thunk it? i have always tried to send my single friends something sweet on v day because nothing sucks more than to get nothing from anyone. remember in high school when they have that crappy thing where you can buy a rose or something for someone and they get them delivered in home room so that the person that gets nothing can feel like an asshole? i would send anonymous ones to the people that i knew were nice but wouldn’t get anything. i should have sent myself one. i usually at least got one from a friend, although when you are in high school you are still humiliated to sit next to someone with 3 dozen roses.
17. What do you do to vent anger? fall down the stairs. oh wait, that is what causes the anger, a cat tripped me. or puked inside my purse (that has happened. more than once) if it is a cat, i might yell halfheartedly. no one is even kind of scared of me. they don’t stop what they are doing or even blink. it is embarassing, really. and then i feel dumb that i yelled at all. i hate yelling. if it is any other thing, i tend to swear a lot. and then, there are the times that i don’t feel well and get really pissy, in which case, i just take a pill and a shower and try to relax.
18. What was your favorite toy as a child? we didn’t have many toys because i abused them and my mom didn’t want to buy them. i had a spirograph that i enjoyed and my dad always let me have records and books and some art supplies. those things i of course love to this day. thanks dad. i was also known for breaking other people’s stuff and trashing their barbies. gee i wonder why. i would break something, put it back and then leave, promptly, waiting all night for the call saying that i was going to be a 4 year old in prison
19. What is your favorite season? summer or spring. i would say fall, except that i get bummed out knowing it will be winter in a second and can’t really appreciate it. i wish it lasted longer.
20. Hugs or kisses? both.
21. Cherry or Blueberry? i love both if they are fresh. i hate cherry flavored stuff, though. ew.
26. When was the last time you cried? last bad migraine i had. i was in the shower in the middle of the night crying. i usually feel better after that for some reason.
27. What is on the floor of your closet? a box full of vintage fabric, linens and aprons. also a laundry basket with clean laundry that jakie did for me and i never put away because i am a lazy mofo.
30. Favorite smells? jakie’s skin. he has such a nice smell that is the same since i met him 14 years ago. the smell that comes from the laundry exhaust outside. the smell of rain (oooooooh yeah!) pies and bread baking. sexy smells. i like em. i don’t think that anyone should think that they smell bad. unless they do, then they should!
31. Who inspires you? my friends…i have several close friends that have gone through really really rough times, making their way with no help from their family, dealing with mental illness in addition and still being able to find a wonderful partner and a nice life for herself, or just dealing with a history of abuse and neglect and still growing up to be a world traveling, artsy craftsy animal lovin’ diva. some wonderful women that i have had the pleasure to meet that have severe health problems, more than i do, yet are insanely productive and always positive, which really is such a huge thing, especially when you feel crummy. that inspires me. and my husband. he is the most kind, generous, openminded, forgiving, sweet and sexy man i have ever known. he is a super organized and neat person. i am the opposite. and then some. he never yells at me. he never tells me not to bring anything new in. he never tells me to stop hanging my things up everywhere. he never tells me to get a REAL job. he always has my back. even though he went a christian school, he is very worldly. he knows soooo much about all kinds of music and literature and it was all on his own. all. he is like a sponge, just ready to take more and more in. open and ready. i wish i could be more like that. i will try. i will try to be more like all of the positive people that i admire.

32. What are you afraid of? my husband being hurt in any way, my animals being hurt, sick or getting lost. i am also afraid of the dark. always have been. except now, if i try to walk down the hall in the dark, i imagine samara from the ring walking after me on the broken ankles with the water behind her and it freaks me out. odd, eh?
36. Number of keys on your key ring? 2 because have been too lazy to pick up the rest of my keys from gabe.
37. How many years at your current job? 3 or 4 i think.
38. Favorite day of the week? friday or saturday. weekends are jakie days. woot woot!
40. Do you think you’re funny? i crack myself up sometimes. sad, but true. giggle. i reread my journal sometimes and i haven’t even intended it to be funny but it cracks me up.

i worked on more of the circle pieces today. i need to take photos of those. i did take photos of the other ones but not the ones i just finished a bit ago. i am really tired. so i am outta here.

if you want to do the meme, go ahead and do it. make sure you let me know so i can seee!

whell whell, whell. i like it spelled better that way and i am attempting to start a movement. anyway, i talked to my friend rosa for a while today while getting other things done. anyone who talks to me on the phone knows that i tend to take the phone into the shower, or talk whilst dyeing, spinning, gluing, and the phone LOOKS like it, too. then jake reminded me that we needed groceries. i popped into joann’s and picked up more varnish (i used up 2 bottles doing beads!) and glue and paper for another circle collage. man, they tire me out. i will post photos, i promise, but jesus, my brain is twisting itself into knots to put the right thing in the right place and i feel like it is a puzzle. it is kind of odd. i feel that way about a lot of the artsy things i do. they kind of drain me. i don’t realize it until i am done and i feel…winded. does that make sense? anyway, i have been taking the energy pills the doctor gave me and they have been working fairly well, although when they start to wear off, i get very shaky. i assume that is why, anyway.

i picked up groceries and a roasted chicken for peeps to eat this week. i shred the white meat and feed her that until they eat it all up, which only takes a few days. they loves the chicken. not izzy, she only eats her special fancy kitten food. no interest in anything else. then i sat and punched out a zillion circles and did most of a circle piece, i may mess with it a bit tomorrow, but other than adding the hanger and varnish, it is probably mostly done.

over the past few nights i have been crocheting rings, i did it until really late last night and i have actually had lots of new ideas popping into my head. i just dunno if i can construct them or not. i will mayhaps try it presently if i don’t have too shaky of hands. those little hooks are not good for that! i also got a bunch of paper bead stitch markers done to put into orders yesterday. i am no jewelry maker, so they are not perfect, but i came up with a design that i think will work better than the old ones. again, photos to-morrow. i swear.

off i go!
xoxo
n.