April 10, 2017
I’ve got a hat-trick going now. After months of no inspiration for my creative motives I’ve suddenly been inspired to “create” for three days running now. This pendant, utilizing an agate slice combined with some glass bi-cone and seed beads… Continue Reading…
April 9, 2017
With my previous creation hardly cool, after being worked by my fingers, before it was snatched up I could still feel the creative urge flowing through my veins. Not wanting to waste that urge I set my fingers to work… Continue Reading…
April 9, 2017
Linda has been gone this weekend to visit the grandkids (and to be sure, to visit Ryan and Charissa as well). She left me behind to prepare income taxes. I spend half the day yesterday doing that and then overdosed… Continue Reading…
April 5, 2017
Paid a visit to the doctor today who is treating my knee problems. One element of the result was the scheduling of arthroscopic surgery for mid-May, on a tentative basis in case an alternative approach doesn’t work. During the processing… Continue Reading…
April 4, 2017
Finally, this morning, I got resolution to my Etsy snafu (See April 1 Post). The sad thing is that while the end result was what I wanted, they never DID express an understanding of the problem and even in the… Continue Reading…
April 3, 2017
Several years ago I employed my meager landscaping skills to create a tiered section of one of our flower gardens. I carefully dug and leveled courses on which to lay the row of cinder blocks which would serve as the… Continue Reading…
April 1, 2017
I’ve used an Etsy on line shop for about 3 years now, for selling my hand-crafted jewelry (to begin with) and then some of my vintage costume jewelry as well. The meager success of that venture was never enough to… Continue Reading…
March 31, 2017
For a couple of years now my knees have been telegraphing signals to my brain which, when translated, communicated the fact that they were getting worn out. At first the communication came in just little snippets or flashes but over… Continue Reading…
September 11, 2016
I awakened this morning at 4am feeling the flush of victory! It all started at a vendor fair where my girlfriend had set up a wonderful display of her Norwex cleaning supplies and was doing a brisk business as she… Continue Reading…
July 20, 2016
My little grand-babies are coming for a visit this weekend. Even though we are blessed by the fact that we see them regularly, it is not often that we enjoy the opportunity to have them here, “over the river and… Continue Reading…