Postings on Etsy

I finally got some things posted on my daughter's Etsy site today.  This is one of them.  I'm calling him Oscar - he reminds me of one of the guys in "The Odd Couple."  I sent a picture of him to my daughter, and now my granddaughter wants one in "puwple!" Better get to my stash and get one going!

I also posted a headband that I really love. My computer is not working very well right now, so it's not uploading anything very well, and after waiting 10 minutes for a picture to upload, I decided that I wasn't going to wait any longer, so....

Another Wonderful Day!

It sure was beautiful today!  The sun shone most of the day, and, so far, we haven't had the rain that has been promised.
My daughter came over after running an errand, and we went to Dollar General where I picked up a few things.  Then we did this wonder thing: we went through the drive through at Burger King!!!!!! I actually ordered a burger which I don't usually do because I don't care that much for beef. But sometimes I go against the grain, so to speak.
I've been working on finishing up some projects since dinner. I have a tiny teddy bear sewn and stuffed.  Now, I need to sew some felt circles for eyes and nose and embroider a mouth. Hopefully, I will be able to put it on the web site tomorrow. Then I tucked the ends in on a couple of scarves that I finished a while ago. I'll wash them this evening and photograph them tomorrow. I'm taking a break from finishing up a baby sweater.  It's so sweet.  It has a kind of lacey boder around the neck, sleeves, and bottom.  I also like the fact that it's such a soft yarn.  It's also a pretty color, being different for a baby item. I will try to put a pictue of it on the blog tomorrow - if I remember.  I have to work outside the house tomorrow, and I'm not sure how long that will take.
I'm hoping to work on a ring also tonight and sew some beads on a flower - ring? barrette?
I have so much to do around the house that I'm not getting as many crafts done as I'm wanting to! Just keep on keeping on.

Pattern Collecting Day

On bad health days, I spend some time collecting patterns.  I look up patterns on my phone sometimes and email the links to my yahoo account.  Then I look at them more closely and copy and paste to my word.I have TONS of patterns.  Now I have to feel like making things!
After so many years of having chronic illnesses, I guess that I have learned to live - to a certain extent - with having bad days.  I can't tell you how I used to resent a bad health day.  Another day out of my life, I'd think, when I'm not LIVING. Then I survived a sadistic, abusive husband, and I had even more bad days!! But I now respect these days and am thankful for being alive because I very nearly didn't survive my marriage.
Enough said; enough sadness.  I did get a lot of ideas and patterns to add to my collections and make for our shops: Ellas Green Nursery, jewisley4, and I Just Felt LIke It on Etsy. After all, as someone once said: "Tomorrow is another day!"
I work with several different media: yarn, fabrics, felt, ribbons, beads, and whatever strikes my fancy. And I'm interested in learning more new crafts - besides drawing!  I can't draw worth beans, but I do try to dry out my own designs which I hope to share with you later.
After all, "tomorrow is another day!"

A Little Visit from the West

Just had a wonderful visit from my daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter.  It was my daughter's birthday week, so they came out - she misses the changing colors of the trees.  It certainly was beautiful while she was here. We love to go to a pumpkin patch and corn maze in southern Indiana. It's become a yearly tradition to go as a family - my other daughter's family and my youngest have been going for years. Now Rachel and her little one come out to visit the pumpkins and Ella rides the pony - three times.  She now wants a pony. (You can tell she's one of us!)
We also mangaged to do some shopping, eating out (there's no Cracker Barrel where she lives), talking, etc. A GREAT time.  Unfortunately, I didn't get anything else on my Etsy site, but I did get a few more patterns and ideas, so I've got to get cracking!
Will post more soon!

Work, Work, Work

I posted some more things to my Etsy site - not much just a wall hanging and a couple of other things.  I added some baby hats to my daughter's site:Ellasgreennursery.  She doesn't have too much time now since she's five months pregnant, so I'm going to try to keep up her site and mine.  I also have an ebay site that I just opened to sell "things," and I've already sold a wedding photo album.  I got the album for a wedding gift, intending to fill it with pictures of the wedding, but things just didn't turn out very well, and it wasn't long before the couple was divorced! So now it will make a nice gift or something for someone else.
I have been so busy. I had to write a letter to the state: I'm being sued for something my son did which he wouldn't have done if the state had done their job in the first place - long story.
I have finished a few things; well, I just need to do a few little things to "tweek" them. Then they'll go on the web site.
My daughter and her husband and GRANDDAUGHTER are coming for a visit.  It's my daughter's birthday week. Her last twenty birthday.  Gosh, I'm getting old!
I need to finish a few smocked ornament kits - and try to pleat some Christmas fabric to make some more to try to sell on Etsy and at the trading post where I put my collectibles.
Better get back to work.  I'm cleaning the carpets today.  Hopefully, it will get up the little things that fall on the carpet - or come through from the basement.  We still have soot coming up through the boards from a fire we had in the basement years ago! 
Keep on keeping on!