I love how REAL these look. They look like GOOD people who have lived full lives. I love the attention to their clothes, the different ‘texture’ of the faces, the sweaters, suits, etc. I’m in awe of this lady’s talent.
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Cat Humor – I’ve discovered our cat has quite a sense of humor. Today she decided it was funny to try to scare me, pouncing on my leg whenever she could hide and saw I was going to pass her. She pounced several times while I was trying to get our chicken breasts ready to put in the oven for our dinner tonight. Thank goodness I’m wearing jeans, or the skin on my legs would be in ribbons. I squirted her with a big bottle of water to try to discourage her, but it only is a short-term deterrent now. She is now tired, and is trying to ‘woo’ me into a good mood again, curling up in the bread basket I keep for her beside my computer. Am I awful for enjoying her more when she’s sleepy?
Medicine Frustration – I spent a long time before lunch trying to arrange for my vet to mail a prescription to Chewy.com for our dog, Amber. The heart worm chew pills are pretty expensive and I found that I could save about $13 with the transaction. There would be even more of a difference usually, since the vet was having a sale now which still didn’t make them competitive. I completed the order, then called my vet’s office to ask them to mail the prescription. They told me “they didn’t do that.” SO. I had to cancel the order and am back at Square One. I guess I’m now forced to buy the pills from our vet, since all the pet places now require a prescription from your vet. Wasted time and frustration.
Wood-Burning Pieces – My husband and I just came in from our shop. We took my two plaques and one of the pegs out there so that he could drill shallow holes for me in each of the plaques. He has fancy measuring equipment, finding the peg had a width of 304 thousandths and actually had a drill bit close to that. He drilled two shallow holes in each of the plaques for me. I’ll go up to my art room in a bit and continue working on the designs. When I finish, I can put some glue in the holes and shove the pegs down securely into them. :0)
September Accountability – To date, I’ve lost 35.4 pounds and there is/are (can’t decide which is grammatically correct) 32.2 inches less of me. It’s a start.
I hope your day is going well.
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I finally finished adding extra pics to my item listings on Etsy. Quite a laborious job, but it could increase my visibility, so I’m game.
I’m now focused on trying to get my stuff to show up on Pinterest. It’s where I find a lot of the beautiful things I share here. When they pick up a picture from you, they provide a “Visit Site” button you can press to be taken to the item and then you can also click on the name of the site to be taken to see ALL of their work. This would increase my visibility a lot, so I’ll work on that.
I did find that some of my stuff is already showing up there. I’m not sure how that works, but I’ll research it. I also discovered a “search box” at the top that has probably been there the whole time – the YEARS I’ve been enjoying the site – but never used before. DUH.
All this work has eaten up my time and energy, so I haven’t worked on my latest wood-burned pieces much. I need to drill a ‘bowl-shaped’ spot in two places for the pegs on these plaques I’m making for pets’ leashes, etc. I JUST figured out that I can go ahead and DO that – but NOT add the glue and the pegs until all the wood-burning, painting, and varnishing are finished. ANOTHER DUH!
I had to really make a lot of notes to myself about the trash people adjusting their schedule for pickup this week due to the Labor Day holiday. It shouldn’t be a big thing, but routine around here is the main thing that keeps us on track, so when something changes, it throws us off. My husband was running around, thinking we had messed up not gathering trash yesterday as usual. I had told him about the change, but he had forgotten or didn’t listen to me in the first place. :0) Anyway, we just gathered our stuff and drove it to the bottom of our driveway for pickup tomorrow. A note -it will go up so we won’t forget to check on the trash tomorrow and drag the can back up to where it lives.
A shout-out to my friend Nora who just brought home an 8-week-old Maltese puppy to be a new part of her family. She is over the moon, having had to wait a long time to find one, and then wait for her to be old enough to bring home. Welcome to your new family, Skye!
Have a happy day.
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I just read about strikes by hotel workers at vacation destinations around the country for Labor Day. After reading several articles, the issue seems to be a complicated one, and I’m certainly not in a position to judge.
My husband wants to go to our local grocery store this morning, so we’ll do that, hoping it’s open. We have no plans otherwise.
I hope to finish adding pics to my Etsy site today and then will experiment with whether I can make other changes. I think I’m almost to the finishing point on my ‘cat’ wood burned sign, too. I’ll post a pic when it’s done.
Our weather is cooler and less humid today – an extremely welcome change. I might actually spend some time outside today!
I hope that you are enjoying a wonderful family and friend time today filled with fun things and lots and lots of love.
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I’ve had fun finding funny sayings on mugs and sharing them with you. In my travels on the net, I’ve gathered some mugs that I think are absolutely gorgeous. Here are the first of them –
It’s quite rainy-looking outside right now. We may get rain around 2pm today. I say, “MAY” because we were due for some yesterday, but only got very overcast skies for a time and some thunder, but no rain. It would be good if it comes. Update – now the sun has come out…
I hope you’re in the middle of a family-and-friends weekend celebration of Labor Day. We’re having a quiet one, and hopefully will talk with our son on either the chat program or the conference call today or tomorrow.
I just asked my husband if he “missed getting the memo.” I went to the bathroom and was joined by Amber, our 95-pound yellow lab, and Monster Cat (aka Jet). Both were playing and stretching, rubbing up against me over and over, making it a bit difficult to finish what I had gone in there for, since it’s a small space. I really don’t think we could have fit my husband IN there, if he HAD gotten the memo. I love my animals, but a bit less companionship at that time would be nice.
I’m about half finished with my project of editing the items on my Etsy site. They want me to add more pics for a lot of my items, so I’m doing that. I’m all for making changes that might give my stuff more exposure. I’m also continuing work on my two newest wood-burned pieces – ‘cat’ and ‘dog’ signs with pegs for leashes, etc. I’m trying some new techniques, having a great time.
Have a blast with those you love!
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