Wow, time sure flies

There is a good reason this is titled boring, it's because nothing new is ever posted so there for it is boring! Lots of new stuff going on but alas I won't be adding it here now. Just remembered this was here and popped over. I'll be back, when I cannot say, hopefully within a day. Uh, that was an attempt at poetry. hehe.

Pictures of Michael, 2nd of 3 Great Grand Babies

Ok, here it is Monday and I'm anxious for the auction to be done and over. I'm still working on things for it, I have only the poncho to make a drawstring and ?? I don't know what I have left to do, I will have to consult my list but first I have to find my list!!!! I'm looking forward to going to the auction, it was a lot of fun last year so it should be fun again this year. The Madrigals - Tarah will be singing through the whole thing. When you get there you have awhile to walk around and view all the things up for auction and if you see something you like you bid on it. Then you have dinner & another opportunity to check your bids and up your bid if necessary and the the guy starts auctioning off the upper end items which are usually a day at a spa or car detailing, last year they had a HUGE tv, although it was used. Strange but oh well. Today I made two nightgowns for the two dolls Robyn is donating. If the bids are not high enough we will bid on them ourselves. Since the money goes into Tarah's account and Robyn and Joe have to come up with the money for the balance on the trip it just makes sense to bid on it yourself.

I have some pictures of Michael Jeffery, Heather's new baby. He's really cute and is about a month and a half old now. I'll have to look up the dates, well no, he was born on Dec. 14th, the day before Rob's birthday. Heather said she was trying to hold off but this guy wanted to see the daylight so at 11:45 p.m. he was born. Just 15 more minutes and he would have shared the day with his great grandpa Rob! It feels so weird to refer to him or myself as a great grandparent. Even more strange for mom to call herself great great grandma! I'm kind of use to it though since Nolan will be 3 this year. I don't have any yet of Jessica's baby, Jaydn, no that is not a typographical error, that is how she spells his name which is okay but the poor kid will be correcting his name to everyone for the rest of his life. I like the name Jayden, it seems to be be very popular now. First picture is Family portrait Heather, baby Michael and daddy Michael. Keep scrolling down for more pics.
















Jocelyn and baby Michael, she was up all night long too


















Sleeping on a cloud













Well that is it for now, I'm off to make jewelry unless I can think of something more important I should be doing.

Sliver and Gold charming

Back again quickly. I think I am going to drop this blog. I don't think anyone has seen it so it won't really matter. I had wanted one that would be for my family to sort of keep up on what's going on here but so far I don't think my family has seen any of this blog. I'll think about it, I may copy and paste the whole thing into a new one that will be for friends too. I have a picture of a pretty bracelet I have made for Tarah's auction at school. Actually I made 4 of them with matching earrings. I think they are all pretty. If I can find the picture that has all 3 of them in it I'll use that one. Found it! They are actually very pretty. There are no less than 88 beads of silver and multi color glass beads each on its own head pin attached to the silver link bracelet. The same with the the browns and gold. The other silver looking one is glass beads with silver foil and silver beads, maybe only 50+ beads. Well that is it, I'm going to go and work on a baby afghan that is also for the auction. So long, Judy

Wow! Nearly 2 months have gone by...

...doesn't really matter, no one reads this anyway! But I came across this picture I had taken of moms fishing boat which is mine and hangs on my wall. It's so gorgeous and I only hope it turns out as nice here as it does when viewing it in other programs. It just disappeared so I'll go and get it again. I was hoping it would be bigger but I uploaded using their largest setting and this is how big it is. That is ok, It's still really pretty. The background is actually a greenish blue. Greens do odd things on computers. Anyway, just found it and wanted to post it. I will have to write to all my sibs again and see if I can get someone to read these or at least look at the pictures and maybe, just maybe a comment or two. That is it for now, I am going to bed. Oh, it was my birthday today (10 minutes ago it' s now the 24th. Ah well, it was lovely while it lasted! goodnight...Judy

Thrusday but I could swear it's Friday.

I'll have to think awhile about the title of this. I'm really tired and not to clear at the moment, what a great time to write :-) Mom had her surgery today and she came out of it with flying colors. I was amazed at how good she looked and seemed to feel. It was done in the Surgical Center on Carrillo and Laguna streets, it was a real surgery, not like getting a tooth pulled. When I look at mom I can't believe her age, she defies all the rules, she just doesn't look as old as she is. She will be 80 in 2 years and I feel like I look her age, or rather she looks mine! And, Mom being mom, never wanting to put anyone out, made her own soup and toast for lunch when we got home, what a sweet trooper she is. I didn't stay long because she was tired and really needed some sleep, she was up at 4:30 and never went back to sleep. I don't see how she does it, I don't sleep and I look old and haggard, she doesn't sleep and she looks wonderful. God was smiling the day she was created.

So what is new, nothing. Oh, we have sold several things on Etsy at both shops. Actually I was just thinking that there had been no sales at the Azul Girl shop in so long that I might just move everything from it to the Sew Easy. And just like that, 2 sales, both for earrings. I think there is definitely a Christmas shopping boom going on and unfortunately we were not prepared because we have done well in the last month or so. It's to late to (I always get confused on the to or too) anyway, it's to late to start loading the shops up. Although I am going to attempt to get some more things up if I can ever make anything. I have the time I just never use it wisely and when I come up with a good idea I spend hours and hours planning it out and then by the time I'm ready to make it I see something else and spend the same amount of time planning it, it just goes on and on. What I need is a huge bulletin board so I can sketch what I'm thinking and move on without wasting time. I'm always afraid I will forget what I wanted to do so if I could just have a central place to pin up the ideas I might get more accomplished. I spend more time gathering the things I'm going to use than actually making it. Ah well, I used to be good at this so I guess I am thankful for those good years.

I was going to make some Christmas cards but the cards are a size I cannot locate anywhere for printing. I have looked in all my card programs, Works, on line, off line. It's a regular size but all they offer in programs is the half and quarter fold, oh and note cards that are the same size as quarter folds only the are half folds. I am going to check more websites that have card programs and hopefully I'll get luck, if not I'll have to buy more cards in the other sizes. I want to have two cards this year, I have one that is just Christmas and the other I still have to draw and color. I suppose I should do that soon since December is tomorrow. If not, there are plenty in the card programs I have have so I can tweak them to my liking.

Saturday I am going up to Lompoc for the Christmas Dinner show, no, that one is later on. This one the Madrigals and the regular choir will be singing. I don't think Tarah has any solo's this time. If she does she hasn't mentioned it. She is so active in school with choir, drama, Madrigals, it's amazing. I thought she was going to be the one who had few friends and hung back from the crowd. Quite the contrary. Joey is the more quiet and stays at home, he rarely does things with his friends, well he has reason though. His lung are so bad he's in pain and coughing every single day, it just wears him out and yet he is the entertainer at school. I think that also wears him out. Everyone expects him to be funny and keeps the group together. Big demand on a kid who is in such poor health. Well, and yet I don't know if he's in bad health, I just know that he feels bad and tired all of the time. I feel so badly for him, it hurts me deeply.

I will spend the night up there and come home on Sunday. I can't drive home at night unless I really have to or want to get home. Poor Rocky will have to sleep in this ice box all by himself.

Tomorrow Rob and Robyn leave for Africa...sigh. I just can't believe it's time already. It feels like yesterday that we booked the flight and yet that was 6 months ago. I am going to miss them so much. I like being alone but not at Christmas. I still have to do Christmas shopping because as of yet my bank (Rob) has not handed over any money. They will leave here tomorrow at 2:30 and they fly out of L.A. at 7:00p.m. and it will be nearly 40 hours before they set foot in Africa. That is not fun without stopping in one place long enough to go anywhere. They will have 8 hours in London but the air port is so far from town and that nagging "what if" is always there. What if we miss a bus or a bus breaks down and we miss our flight. Anyway, they are off tomorrow and I pray for a safe trip, all the way around.

Okay, my eyes hurt and I need to go to bed. I have a lot to do tomorrow since Rob still needs to pack! He is just awful when it comes to that. Later....

Another blog post killed by Adobe!

I am so disappointed that I could cry. I just finished a huge entry and lost the whole thing, again! My damn computer keeps freezing and it's an Active X problem, well it's Flash9.0cx, which is an Abobe problem which they know about and have not fixed! This keeps happening and I keep going to adobe and nothing is happening. Microsoft can't fix it so I have to ahhhhh, I hate this.

To briefly bring you up to date, I am working on jewelry, crocheting, sewing, etc. etc. We, Robyn and I as Sew Easy Creations, are finally up on the Mahar Dry goods website, this is the address http://www.mahardrygoods.com/category.php?category_id=52 . Robyn's are the colorful finger puppet monsters and mine are the barnyard animal finger puppets. I was so excited when I wrote about this in the post that was just destroyed by flash9 but now I'm to angry to be excited.

Robyn and the kids were here this weekend and it was fun. I'm sick again though, woke up yesterday feeling like something was coming and today it was here. I guess it's a cold, it feels just like what I had a couple of weeks ago that lasted for, what, 6 weeks?!

I have good news for potential choke victims. If you choke while taking a handful of vitamins you have a chance of surviving. If you are lucky and can cough hard enough, that little sucker will come flying out of your throat, in my case I think it was my bronchial tube or whatever you call it, and it was a vitamin C by the way, it will come flying out traveling at about 500 miles per hour and will land approximately 15 to 20 feet away unless there is a wall there, in which case it will go right through it. If possible, make sure no one is standing in front of you, if you can, because you just might put their eye out or you will kill them.

I am going to try and put my pictures in this and if it dies again, well you'll never know because this won't be here! I'll try for one picture that has a key ring made for Azul Girl, a bracelet I made for Tarah for Christmas which is her school colors-black and gold, and a set of 6 wine glass markers that will go into the 'booze' basket we are making for Tarah's Madrigal auction in February which is to help pay for their trip to sing in Italy in the spring. Pretty exciting. Robyn and I are making various baskets to auction off and so far we have come up with a yarn basket for people who are addicted to yarn as I am, a kitchen basket, a food basket (dried beans and fixings for soups, etc, a bathroom basket and hmmm, there is probably one or two more that I'm just not remembering. I'm also knitting a fur stole. Its turning out really nice. I'm using 2 strands of a fur yarn and one strand of a worsted weight acrylic yarn held together to make it extra furry and hold its shape. And ohhhhh, it's so soft!

So, below should be a picture, and here I will say good night...pardon typo's

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I just wrote a big long entry about all sorts of stuff and now its gone! For some reason my computer ceases to run and I have to end the task which means I lose everything. Sniff, sniff, I'm going to cry, maybe I'll try tomorrow. sigh.........

Gosh, I completely forgot about this blog! Doesn't matter, I haven't done much of anything other than the usual moaning and groaning. I was trying to get into Etsy and once again they are 'working on it' which means the site is down. They are supposed to be going from beta to v2 on Nov. 1st so there must be a lot of things going on there. It's just frustrating when you can't get to your shops to check on things. I don't have anything new to upload tonight so I won't freak out. I will have things very soon. I've been working on a few things and they should be done with in a few days. Providing I work steadily on them. That can change on an hourly basis.

I sure would like to get a few, no, a lot of things made for Christmas Shoppers. It's beginning on Etsy and I am totally not ready. I was so busy with all the large side orders that I haven't made anything. I could take a day off and go gung-ho but knowing me that would only produce one or two things. It takes me forever and a day to do anything anymore.

I sold another pair of booties to a sweet girl who is adopting a baby from China. These didn't go through Etsy so no fees to pay other than the Pay Pal fees. We sold Robyn's pirate doll to a girl in the UK and I had to hassle with pay pal because for some reason they kept saying I didn't accept international payments. Long story short I had to upgrade my account to premiere which it already had been done a couple of years ago. Whatever. I even have a pay pal credit card which I got when I upgraded. I think that place is so crooked. I wish there was another on line source for transactions other than pay pal. I had heard there was one starting with Google but so far I have not heard anymore about it. I even opened a Google account but I haven't heard a thing from them either. Who knows.

Speaking of google, this is actually googol, did you know a googol is the number 1 with 100 zeros after it. That is one huge number! They say you could never count to 1 million in your lifetime, so I wonder how many lifetimes it would take to count to a googol.

Have you been wondering about the lyrics to a song that's stuck in your head? Check this out, Lyrics Just wish they had a tiny piece you could actually hear so you know you've at least got the tune right.

Rob and Robyn leave for Africa on the 1st of December. That is not far away at all. I sure hope this is the last time they go during Christmas. It really upsets me. Mind you Rob has never been that in tune with the Christmas spirit, being he's half Scottish. More likely it was never a huge deal when he was growing up. They didn't do gifts there like they do here, nor did they make a big deal about anything else. I'm not totally sure if that is a trait of his family or if that is indicative of the whole of South Africa. Anyway, the next time they go it had better be in the summer, which is their winter and the weather in their winter is much like our summers so weather shouldn't be an issue.

I reckon that's it for tonight. I still have an hour or so to work on my things for Etsy so I will go and do that. It seems so strange sometimes to sit here and write to myself but oh, well, stranger things happen. Goodnight...

Christmas Before Halloween

Here it is the 10th and I'm not believing it. I am still sick but today I feel a bit better. Had a great conversation with mom tonight on the phone. I will spend the rest of tonight knitting a capelet I have started to be donated to the Madrigals auction in Feb. I think I will make two if this one turns out okay. They are furry, really cute. If I can remember I will put a picture of them up here when I am done. It's very difficult typing this because I have 17 pounds of fur on my lap and I don't have the heart to kick it off.

I received an email from a guy who would like to sell our finger puppets on his online store. It's called Maher Dry Goods . There are some cute things there, I recognize quite a few things that are for sale on Etsy so he must keep an eye on that place. The puppets are these animals and monsters. Robyn made the monsters and I made the animals. It feels so neat to have our things being sold elsewhere. My booties are in a gift shop in Georgia and the lady from polkadotpatch is still interested and I'm going to be talking to her tomorrow.

I was shocked the other day when I had to go to the grocery store, since I've been sick I haven't been out much and we are running out of food and toilet paper. I suppose we could go a little longer without food but the other is a must have! Anyway, there is already an isle for Christmas things up at Ralph's. There are ornaments, paper, ribbon, toys, dishes, other novelty items and it was really weird to see. Oh, and of course, they had very obnoxious Christmas music blaring from animated animals. Not that I mind Christmas music, it was just very annoying. However, I did buy some of the fabric ribbon. All of the Halloween candy is a few isles over from it. I don't recall Christmas things out this far ahead of Halloween.

Well that is it for me for today. I'm tired and need to work on the cape. No, I need to work on the finger puppets! Goodnight...

Just wanted to post these or I'll forget

Well here I am again but not for long. Just wanted to upload these pictures. I wanted to see what they look like outside of my photo program. I have manipulate some of these, my favorite being the big yellow eye and the red fur with blue eyes. This one to the left is not a favorite but I hope to fix it somehow. Anymore drawing on it and it will be a total loss so I want to somehow make it better with colors or applying ink. There are 7 pictures. Now I am leaving because of a huge headache which I'm hoping will also be leaving.
10-10, I just deleted the pictures, exept these two which wouldn't delete. You can see my other pictures at the azul website Azul Girl I made them into notecards and they are for sale. Wish me luck.