Just a random note about my stupid big toe that got bit by a spider last week (literally a week ago today). It has been itching less and less (thankfully), and I noticed yesterday that the swelling had all but totally gone down–leaving me with a wrinkly toe. >:( It looked like crumpled paper, the stupid thing. It still itches just a twinge, but like all the websites I read about spider bites, it has Continue reading
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SO CUTE!!!1!!
I spent a good five hours last night playing with the Crayola Model Magic, and since it has to be used all in one sitting, I decided I’d make as many snail magnets as possible. I had already made about a dozen leaves with magnets in them for tiny snails, so I made the bodies for those first. Then I switched to my snails with tiny balls of yarn as their shells. I left them overnight to dry, and Continue reading
Pictures!
K, so I have pictures for some of the things I’ve been making. The snail magnets still aren’t done (I haven’t even made the snails yet, having gotten only about four and a half hours of sleep after going to bed at seven–and Kitty woke me up three times!), so no pictures of them until Saturday, probably. At any rate, I’m gonna go in chronological order starting with those done Continue reading
Oops
Well, rather without realizing it, I’ve stayed up until six in the morning again. I became aware that it was becoming late when all I was finding on TV were infomercials. Whoops. Well, I was immersed in what I was doing, so I didn’t care much as to what time it was, though now that I’ve slowed down, I’m getting groggy. Too bad the husband has fallen asleep on the bed on the Continue reading
Getting old?
I periodically have these moments where I suddenly have a moment of “oldness.” I really can’t use the arthritis as a sign of age since I’ve had it since I was eighteen. Sometimes I feel like the fact that the 80s are coming back is kind of a sign of getting old, but not really because for some of us, the 80s and early 90s never really left. When I was teaching, I’d find a new white hair about Continue reading
Heal, toe!
Like the title? I thought about entitling this rant as “heel, toe!” as if ordering the toe to calm down, but I decided I liked “heal, toe!” better because the rant’s about my injured toe. Still, it’s funny, right? I mean, get it? Heel? Toe? Yeah, I guess I’m really about the only person around who’d get a kick out of even thinking about the play on words for a rant that only three or four people will Continue reading
Scattered
At some point I need to get my life back on track. Then again, I don’t know that my life has ever really traveled along one track, ever. At the moment, I think I simply have too much going on in my head and not enough of it getting out and organized or done. I mean, yeah, it’s great I focused on doing th Etsy stuff for a brief period, but there’s a lot of directions I want to take that which Continue reading
Have I mentioned I’ve been crocheting?
I learned to crochet for two major reasons: to be able to make pillows like the one I grew up with, and to make spider toys like the ones we all used to beat each other with. I’ve made a number of pillows like the one Gramdma Ringwald made so long ago, but I had yet to make any spiders. So I sat down this week to try and figure out how to crochet a ball. Seems simple Continue reading
Relaxing?
Well now that I’ve got Golden Snail Designs up and running on Etsy, I figured I’d take a break from making stuff for the site (this after making sixteen stitch markers that look like snails last night) and instead get back to making stuff for family. I’ve been working off and on on Katie’s blanket in between pillowcases or sewing elastic into hats. To be honest, all the squares for the Continue reading
I’ve done it!
I finally posted my first two items to Etsy. I started with the pillowcases because they’re prettier and more interesting than the half dozen hats I’ve made so far. Yesterday I took a lot of pictures and pestered Katie quite a bit trying to get all the little details worked out about the site, and now I’ve finally listed something. Madness. Continue reading