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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.

Here is the most current picture I have of Heather. It's been blown up quite a bit so the colors are kind of funny. I think Heather is an exact split of her parents. Corinne is below with Nolan and she looks so much like her aunt Cozy, Scott's sister. However, there is a lot of Jocelyn that shines through, too. Nolan looks just like his daddy, of whom I have never seen, only photos. Both of these pictures were taken in very early August, 2006

Been singing the flu blues

Well, gee, it's been about a week or so since I've been here. Was sick, still am. Have the flu or something so I've been keeping a low profile. Hahahaha, that's funny, a low profile. How much more out of touch with life can I get! Ventured out today but got sick in the store so had to cut it short and didn't get what I went for. I had wanted to get some cheapie paint, the little round ones that come with about 8 colors and you use water, I cannot think of what they are called, not real watercolors although they are water colors, I think. I was hoping to experiment with them on some drawings I've done. The cat eyes are Rocky's only his eyes are copper color, not yellow. I was afraid it would look really weird with copper eyes. Then again I guess I could have used orange/ginger color on the other part but I liked these eyes . They can use a bit more work but for not doing anything like this in more moons than I care to remember, I like it as it is. I am going to do more, maybe I'll put them here, too, so if anyone in my family reads this they can comment, or not. I just finished another pair of eyes and if I scan it I'll add them on here at the end, maybe, if I remember. Rob likes them the best, oh, I'll just add it here now so I don't forget. I'm so glad you can't see the little eyeball that is visible on the actual paper. I had started one up higher on the page and didn't like it so erased it and started another one, this one, and discovered the other eye was right in the eye whiskers. This is not Rocky although he was very well scrutinized for this. I wish I could draw the rest of his face, I know that I cannot do that. I tried but I get into all sorts of perception trouble and believe me, it ain't pretty. So I don't think I'll ever get beyond the eyes. OH well, I like 'just' the eyes.

I was thinking about Ernie today and got bummed out. Started thinking of dad and got even more bummed out. I keep telling myself that they are together, happy, disease free, etc. but sometimes I can't talk myself out of being bummed out. Daddy would have been 82 yesterday and Monika would have been 62 on the day before that. I hope she is with them. For someone who seemed to be so miserable for so much of her life I hope she is finally at peace and happy. I keep thinking about all the stuff she put in Ernie's coffin and I suppose he wouldn't have minded. He was used to her collection of clutter in their house so he may have expected it :-) I wonder what happened to all that stuff in their house. I only wish she had sent me Ernie's shirts.

Tomorrow I am mailing those booties I made. I received the check for them and after seeing the check and thinking about all that work that went into them, I don't think I'll be doing that again. I am disappointed that I never heard back from the lady at polkadotpunch about the monster dolls. I wonder if it would be wrong to call her? Maybe I'll do that, just for the sake of it, to satisfy my curiosity.

A couple of weeks ago I bought what I thought was polymer clay. I saw these great boxes of clay on sale for 2 dollars a box. I said to myself, what a deal! So I bought 6 boxes. I didn't get to them right away and when I did get to them, boy, if I could have reached I would have given myself a good swift kick in the butt. They weren't polymer clay, they weren't clay at all, it says right on the box in big bold letters Modeling dough! It's that play dough stuff, not that brand but the same thing. I made a little head out of it just in case it would work out for magnets but alas, after 3 days of drying it was still play dough, rough and salty!

Check this out, it's so funny! Shoes I visit these craft places often and thought this was so funny. I cannot see anyone using these, although it took a lot of imagination and skill to make these purses. Maybe in places like NYC or L.A., I don't know, maybe not even there. When we were in London I think I could very easily seen something like this. I have forgotten the neighborhood name where all the punkies were hanging out but there were things there I still can't believe. I wonder if they all still hang out there. Mohawks were very popular then and some were 2 feet, I'm not joking. I have heard it takes hours to get the hair to stand up like that but when I think of the people wearing them, would they actually stand still that long to achieve that look? I guess they would, either that or they put resin in their hair.

Speaking of London, I found my 800 year old piece of iron from the church gate. I wish I had written the name of it down. I lost my piece of dirt that I dug out of the castle wall, well, I didn't really dig it out, I just helped it out, it was already loose. It was from a castle in Gilford, or Guilford? It pre-dated Jesus and was unlike any castle you'd ever think one to be. I didn't find it romantic, I found it utterly scary that people lived like that, just pockets for sitting and sleeping carved into the walls, very small and cramped, earthy is an understatement.

Okay, I'm getting off here now but before I go, one more place to look at that's really cool. You can look anywhere in the world to see where these are happening. Goodnight...wait, a family picture is needed...it's (bear with me, he's my child) Rocky, one totally ticked of kitty for getting bright lights flashed in his face, can't blame him. But look at the other photo, same one, just manipulated and it really shows his anger! If looks could kill, I'm absolutely certain I'd be dead...see below...