MORE SPIRAL BEADS AND SPIDER CAT

Did you ever try to take a picture of a bead that was so shiny you couldn't even take a picture of it with no lights?  I had that problem with this one.  I have been on a roll with spiral beads lately and this one was done with the ends of a leaf cane that I did.  I showed this bead to some ladies and one of them picked it up and said "these are my colors and I want this bead".  SOLD IT.  The other spiral bead that I made with my friend's cane that I posted last week has also been sold.  A friend I worked with 20 years saw it on facebook and said she wanted that bead and I should put it on a necklace.  Got an amazing price for these beads, maybe I better start making more spiral beads.

SPIDER CAT

I told you my little Buster was a climber.  He's 6 months old now and he's always into something.  I had the door to the patio open on Saturday and I was cleaning the pantry.  I heard a noise and I turned around and there he was going up the screen door.  Yesterday he spent the day diving in and out of the waste baskets in my office trying to get the plastic strings that beads come on.

This is more fun than I can stand.  LOL

CANE SWAP AND MORE BUSTER ANTICS

Our clay guild is having a cane swap and I'm still experimenting with different types of canes to see what I can come up with.  I need 12 canes, 3 inches long.  Yesterday I made a couple Kaleidoscope canes.  I left one in tact after I cut it in half and put the two pieces together.

This is a picture of the end piece.  I wrapped the other two pieces up to keep them clean.

This is one piece of the second cane.

This is also a piece of the second cane.

These are the four pieces from the second cane that have been reduced.  At least now I have the concept of what I think I want to do but I want different colors.  These were done with left over canes and pieces of clay.  I'll try this again but with brighter colors.  It's a great way to take a cane you don't really like and make 4 different canes out of it.

HE'S AT IT AGAIN

Buster has had me laughing non-stop.  He's been wonderful.  I still think about Booboo but this little kitten is the love of my life right now (except for the big guy I live with).

This is where I found him this morning.  Took some work to get him down.  I still can't figure out how he got up there.

Wednesday he decided to get up on the fourth shelf and sleep on my purse.  When he got up, the purse started tipping forward and I was sure he was going to go flying and get hurt.  He did a flip and ended on the third shelf with the shoes.

He was holding on to those shoes for dear life after that.  At least he doesn't think my feet stink. :0)

Everyday is a joy and a new amusement with this little guy.  I think he has a cold.  He's been sneezing and coughing.  What do you give kittens when they get a cold?

MISTER BUSTER AND GRRRRRRRRR DOCTOR

Mister Buster has been with us for 17 days.  We changed his name from Teddy to Buster.  He just isn't a Teddy.  I forgot what kittens do.  They get the crazies 2 or 3 times a day.  I've had to put all my knick knacks away.  He flies from one place to another and he's so fast I can't catch him.

He has a brand new comfy bed that my husband bought him but he won't go in it.  When he's not tearing the doilies off the tables or trying to eat the poinsettia plant, he sleeps on my oven glove that I use for polymer clay.

He is a thief among all his other fun things.  So far I'm missing a crochet hook, a tube of chap stick the pens off my desk, 3 pair of earrings (I found those).

He gets in the refrigerator every time it opens so we have to be careful.  He hit my neighbors dog the other day.

The dog growled but Buster didn't care.

At night he gets in bed with me and he stretches out next to the pillow.  And that's where he sleeps all night.  He weighed almost 2.5 pounds when I got him.  Now he's a little over 3.5.

I'm exhausted but I'm happy.  He's a joy..............till the next bout of crazies.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR DOCTOR

I went on facebook Tuesday and whined.  Had lots of people sending me great ideas.  I had a doctor's appointment at 10:15 with an orthopedic surgeon on Tuesday.  Got there at 9:40 to fill out paper work.  Finally got called in at 10:25.  At 11:00 no doctor so I went to check and the girl said she would check.  11:15 I went out again and another said she would check.  11:30 I went out again and a different girl said someone would be in right away.  At 11:40 I put on my jacket and grabbed my purse and a nurse came running in the room.  She said she was sorry that I got over looked because my paperwork was stuck to another patients but the doctor had to leave.  Does LIVID describe me now?????????? 

  I had shots in my back two months ago that didn't work so I wanted an MRI to find out what was really wrong.  I thought maybe my back and my migraines could be related.  She told me that what I had wrong was mechanical and that I didn't need an MRI and that I could have shots again in March.  So now my face is red, my blood pressure is up and the tears are ready to roll.  I've had chronic back pain since last September and it feels like a knife going into the left side of my back and my migraines are getting worse and more often.  It's prevented me from sitting and doing polymer clay and beading.  This nurse was so irritating.  I picked up my stuff and told her about the pain and that we weren't getting any where and she wrote me out a prescription for a narcotic and told me if I needed more I had to get them from my doctor.  She said if I didn't believe what she was telling me I could call the doctor and talk to him???????????????????????????????????????

The tears started before I got to the door.  I stopped at McDonald's and got the biggest ice cream cone they had.   Wednesday I woke up with a migraine and I'm sure it was stress from Nurse Ratchet and Dr. Dufus.   They won't be seeing me anymore.  I tried to get into my doctor but can't get in till the 23rd of January.  I think I should send a bill for my time.

I did learn a lesson though.  I will not sit in a little back room in a doctor's office more than 20 minutes without checking to see what the problem is.

Thanks for listening to my story.  I think I'll go get some cheese to go with my whine.

EARRINGS ARE GONE - BACK TO CLAY -YIPPEE

Mailed the earrings and coral necklace this morning so now I can get back to claying.  Yippeeeeeeeeeee

A WONDERFUL GIFT

My husband and I go to breakfast every Sunday morning at the same restaurant.  We see the same people in there every Sunday.  One of the ladies is a member of my golf league.  We usually chat for a couple minutes.  Last year on the 4th of July I was wearing my beaded flag bracelet and she raved about it so I gave it to her.  Last Sunday she handed me a little bag with two wrapped items in it.

She knew I love cats and she knew I lost Booboo.  These are refrigerator magnets.  The wood one on the right looks like it had been inlaid.  The metal one on the left has Boo's smile.

LIZARD TAIL PENDANT

Finished one of my pendants today.  I used black chain, large silver beads and black volcano beads.  Showed it to my husband and he said it was too long so I re-did it shorter and I like it better.  His suggestions don't always work but most of the time he's right.  (Who said that?)

Camera and I are having a fight again.  This should be brighter.  Click on the picture to see it better.  I really like it.

Hey Booboo, got two new cats but they don't like tuna and don't make noise.