Where have I been?

Cowabunga! I can’t believe it’s been almost a MONTH without a post! What have I been doing? Well, most recently, I was spending time with my younger son, John, car shopping. Long story short–he has a car!

I’ve also been in some more charm swaps thru the Charmsters from Art & Soul; namely, Dirty Dozen, Going Grunge and Mica. Here are my charms…..Going grungeAnd these are my Mica charms–the theme was ‘Home’–mine are titled ‘Le Chateau’.Then I also made some ‘Button Fairies’. I was really having a time making these charms–they just weren’t coming together fast enough, and I ended up cutting it pretty close timewise. So I needed to do something that was just ‘fun’–yeah, right! My fingers were so sore when by the time I finished these! I started of with thinner wire, but it just give it the body that I like, so I switched to a heavier gauge, which I liked better, but the tradeoff was–PAIN!!!!! But then, I guess I didn’t have to make 8 of them. Don’t laugh–I planned to make 18!–but kinda ran out of buttons. Well, that’s not quite true. I have buttons, but just not ones that I wanted to use for them. You know what I’m talkin’ about! And I was thrilled when my daughter wanted one for her bulletin board at work! And while I’m at it, I’m going to post the latest quilt that I made. It’s a Stack n Whack–and huge! It needs a little more work, then it’ll be going on Etsy….. I don’t know why it’s so dark, so here are some of the individual blocks: Well, that’s all for tonite–gotta keep artin’! TTFN!

Art & Soul Hampton Fatbook Swap

These are the pages that I submitted for this swap. There were 2 books, and they were AWESOME!

Boy, did I hit the MotherLode!

I went garage/yard saling a couple of weeks ago, and I came home with all of this! There weren’t any adds in the newspaper, so I just drove around and looked at what signs were posted. Then at the last one, I overheard 2 ladies saying that there was one at a church. Well, there’s a church down the street from me, and they have the awesomest sales. So I drove by, on the chance that it was them–and it was!!!!! The majority of items came from them.

Since I’m already having trouble…..

I thought I’d try to load some pics–let’s see if THAT works! So here goes…..these ATCs are what I’ve been working on over the weekend.

Blog header trouble!

Well, I’m here, again!  I know, I’ve been MIA, but I went to Art & Soul in Hampton, VA!  I don’t know exactly what happens to me when I get home, but I go into major pitch mode, and give my house/studio a major overhauling.  But that’s a good thing!

I also had to get some swaps out–and will try to post pics.  I say ‘try’ because that brings me to my next time expenditure–blog header!

I found a site that has free ones, and have been trying to upload it–unsuccessfully.  I have an email into WordPress–this shouldn’t be that hard–and it doesn’t look so when I try to do it!

So that’s where I’ve been, and what I’ve been doing……

Well, I bit the bullet! I got a blog!

Now what do i do?

Please bear with me as I get situated.

The reason that I’ve procrastinated is that I couldn’t hone in on a name.  I thought about calling it ‘The White Cottage.’  Growing up, the ice cream stand was named that.  The man that ran it was a big guy, and his 2 middle fingers of his left hand were missing.  The thought of him being able to make such wonderful ice cream with 2 fingers missing–well, I wondered how good it would be if he had all 10!

He had a wife, and she hated The White Cottage.  When they got real busy, she’d come out and help–making mean eyes at everybody!  She had a mole on her cheek, and 1 big black hair coming out of it–you know–like witches have!  But then I thought, ‘She couldn’t be a witch, and have a husband that made such great ice cream–and with 2 fingers missing!’ 

This debate still rages!  Oh, and they had 1 son, who looked just like his dad.  So, for one night at least, she didn’t make mean eyes….

Then I wanted to call it ‘The reCycle Shoppe’, because I like repurposing things.  But that’s not all that I do, so that just didn’t seem to fit.  So, for now, but not for long, the banner up there will be Oohzhulia’s Weblog.

Well, that’s enough for right now–this is giving me a headache, which I got from thinkin’ so much, AND reading the terms of service–ICK!

BFN,

Z