DON'T LOOK IF YUCKY MAKES YOU SICK.

So I mentioned that I recently had eye surgery, although I said it was my right eye and it's really my left.  I had cataract surgery several years ago and my eyelids fell as a result of this...who knew?  So the doctor lifted them, which was really kind of cool since it was all covered by insurance.  Not to mention that it was necessary, since I could barely see out of either eye since my lids were so squinty.  For about a year all was going well and then the left lid fell again, apparently not too unusual, but requiring yet another lift.  This is not a brow lift, but a lid lift.  They cut into your lid and stitch it up into the muscle that is behind your brow bone....Yikes!!  You have to be awake for this because they want you to be able to open and close your eyes.  They do give you a local anesthetic, which, I might add, hurts just a tad more than the bee sting they describe!!  Here's what I have looked like the last 4 or 5 days  This may gross you out.......sorry.  I will show you an after pic in a couple of weeks. It will be better, I promise.
                                       

                                                 

NEW LOOK...KIND OF

I changed things around a little bit, and it took forever.  I had more surgery on my right eye so I haven't been able to make beads.  Out of complete boredom I decided to tidy up my  blog.  I can't help it, I just like orange and pink together :)  Life is great right now.  Baby Jake is growing so fast.  I'll post a picture soon.  Son is happy and grandchildren are doing well.  Life if good!

MAYBE NOT

I've been re-thinking this bead thing.  I don't think I want to quit yet.  I've been in a slump for so long, but for some reason, lately, I feel renewed.  For one thing, a woman with an upscale shop had closed due to her father's death.  She called while I was down at my mom's and talked to HB.  She's re-opening and wants to have my jewelry in the shop again.  That made me smile because my pieces always sold well there.  Recently, I applied, and was juried into the Louisville Artisan's Guild.  They have a 2 day show in mid Nov.  Another positive opportunity.  So, for the time being, the wheels are back on the bus :)
I bought a new photo tent, which I love.  It makes picture taking so much easier.  Here are a couple of photos.

                                         

I THINK THE PARTY IS OVER

I've been a beadmaker for 13 years.  For the last year I have been in a bead slump, in other words my mojo is gone.  There is nothing there...nada, zip, no thing!  I've tried new ideas and resurrected old ones.  Neither method has been exciting for me.  In the "old days"  beadmaking was profitable, which is necessary if a beadmaker wants to continue to buy supplies.  The market is now flooded by a variety of beadmakers.  Many far more talented than I will ever be, but also with some very inferior beadmakers that sell their beads for a pittance.  I think it's time to step away.  I'm discouraged and honestly I'm tired of trying to make the silver glasses sing.  That combined with the fact that no one in the glass industry has ever come up with a decent pink glass has driven me over the edge, but truthfully I was way too close in the first place.  This past year has presented many challenges to me.  Some I've been successful in meeting  head on, however, others have changed me.  I have a show in Nov. that I will do.  I'm going to give it until after Christmas.  I have some new things I am going to try, and maybe I will paint again....  it's time for a cool change........http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bKwRW0l-Qk

WORDS

I saw this on FB:
Sometimes you just read words that strike you as being true.  Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I don't know, but if you think like this, it sure makes life a lot easier

WHAT CASS AND I DID TODAY

This is what we did since we were both feeling yucky.  Cass had her tonsils and adenoids removed on Wednesday morning and I have been fighting a bout of diverticulitis since Tues.  Neither one of us were liking the way we were feeling so we slept part of the day away while Pop (also known as HB) waited on us.  We ate Popsicles for breakfast and watched Max and Ruby on videos.  Thank you iTunes.  For lunch we had more Popsicles and Cass had a scrambled egg.  When then slept the afternoon away.  Although I have to admit I did spend a lot of time just watching my sweet Cass sleeping, and felt so lucky that I could do that :)

REAL BOOKS

I used to love to read, but in the past year or so, since I got my Kindle I've really cut down on my reading.  I would order new books and start reading them, but never finished.  Today I was in Barnes and Noble and I started wandering the new releases.  I read both The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, two of my all time favorite books.  I read both of them in book form.  I wanted to read the author's newest book, And the Mountains Echoed.  I was going to order it on my Kindle, but was wondering if I would leave it unfinished just like all the other ones.  I picked up the book and started thumbing through it.  I loved the feel of that book in my hands.  It had some weight, and there were pages to turn, and it had that book smell, it felt like it belonged in my hands.  It hit me then, this is what I have been missing on my Kindle, all those sight and smells that make a book a book.  A Kindle doesn't feel familiar to me,  It's cold and mechanical, sometimes you have to recharge the battery before you can continue reading.  Holding this book  I felt that desire to read a real book again.  I love carrying a book around.  Reading late into the night was something I always used to do because my books always went to bed with me.
So I bought the book.  Luckily it was 40% off.  I took it to my doctor's appointment and read it while I waited.  The book is sitting beside me now, waiting to be picked up again.  I plan to spend the next couple of hours reading. I am so happy real books came back into my life.  Anyone want to buy a used Kindle? :)

WORDS THAT MAKE SENSE

Just saw this on Facebook....so true.


                           

YEA GOOD NEWS DAY 8

Last week I had my head examined.....by an MRI.  I've had some symptoms that kind of worried me, but most of all I still don't have a good sense of taste or smell.   I lost it after I fell outside of Starbucks and hit my head.....remember, when my sweet husband was sitting in the car and I was banging on the side? It's the Feb. 11 2012 post entitled Oh the Pain.  You can read it here.  It's about halfway down the page.  Anyhow the MRI was normal, which was a relief.  So now I just have to worry about my shoulders, which both have torn tendons.  Damn, getting old is no fun.  The women in my family, both maternal and paternal live a long time, well into their 90's.  Which is great, if you have your mind.  I plan on keeping mine :)

DAY 7

Does it count against you if you just plain forgot.?  I had the best of intentions.  I always write late at night, after I have finished in my studio.  I got on the bed with my computer about 4:00 a.m. ( a perpetual night owl) and promptly fell asleep.  I woke up at 6 and put my jammies on....this happens frequently and always shocks me.  How can anyone fall sound asleep with a computer on their chest and their hand on the mouse pad?  I do it all of the time.  I used to smile at old people who took after noon naps, and now I am one. Karma is real, people!  Okay, it's 3:58 and I am nodding off.....I'm out of here.