Christmas Crafts

Due to the income evaporation at my house this year, I have decided to make all the gifts I am giving.  I like to bead and crochet, so, coming up with ideas should be fun.  I already have some awesome pictures of what I want to do in mind.  Any donations to the cause would be welcome 😉

I like to use natural materials for beading.  Stone, bone, wood, shell, precious metals, silk, leather, pearls, horn, precious and semiprecious stones especially.  I dont like glass and abhor plastic beads.  The only exception would be vintage beads, and unusual ones at that.  I hope to have a bit to spend later this month so my hands will be very busy.  I will post pictures of my wares when I finish with them 🙂

Stop the World, I wanna get off! *_*

Pay bills, go shopping, cut up dear meat, cook beans, start dinner, finish insurance paperwork, finish insurance enrollment forms… eeek!

And at some point get some rest…

Sleep is not a common commodity for me at this point.  Thank goodness the family is heading to the parents house for the week end.  The kids are out of school the whole week, and I’m off for most of it.  And hubby will be home too, so I hope to get a lot done.

The manga scanlation group that I participate in can also use my help, so, I hope to at least get some things done in photoshop.  Its a great way for me to unwind because I get to exercise my meticulous patience.  No rush, no hurry, just perfection (or at least as close to it as my meager skills can get it).

We will not be spending Thanksgiving at my parents’ house.  This is a first.  We have always spent the holidays there, and we will spend Christmas with them.  Eventually, we may even have them here for the big feast.  There is usually sooooo much work involved in the making of the meal that I think it may be getting to be too much for just one person to deal with.  I have older children that will help me, but when we are at Mom’s, they don’t usually do anything.  So, my sons will learn the fine art of turkey roasting.  I am making sure the men I raise will be able to cook for their beaus… nothing quite like a guy cooking dinner for you…  The girls will love them. 😀

Well I had better get packed…

Hmmm

Ok.  I hve this really cool website www.rainydayplans.com.  I created it to learn how to make sites.  And now that I have this awesome website, I have absolutely no ideas for content.  The suggestion box is now open.  I already have this blog, soooo, not really sure what to do with a very powerful joomla cms.  I really like the site though…  Ahh well.  I’ll figure out something eventually.

Friday Fun

Well

Spent today with the hubby.  First we went to take care of some very frustrating medical stuff.  After much huffing and puffing and trying to blow each other down, we finally settled on getting lunch.  But not before making a detour to Home Depot.  Found some things there they didn’t have the last time and found out some of the stuff we need they won’t have for a while.  Also found out we need a lot more money to do what we really want to do.  Like we didn’t know that already…

Went to eat lunch and sat outside to watch the town go by.  Not too bad really, although someone ought to create a licensing department for stretch pants and shorts.  Really people, you should be able to look in the mirror and just know that you shouldn’t wear that in public.  Spare our eyes, please.

After that we went grocery shopping and I spent 3 hours trying not to run over the poor man.  he can’t turn his head to see in any direction other than straight ahead, so avoiding him at the same time as everyone else was an adventure in cart control.

So just waiting for the kids to get home, two of which should have been here 20 mins ago…