Checking in

I'm just checking in.

 

I do hope you are having a good Thanksgiving weekend.  We mostly slept the day, went out for dinner at "The Dinner Bell". drove around for a bit, then back home, to sleep again.

 

We are not feeling Bad, we just are not feeling good either. We have both managed to hurt our right knees.  Jerry's happened a few days before he got laid off of his job and Mine started three days ago.

 

Now we are waiting for a phone call.  There was a Email but it came in way to late to be able to make the call. Jerry will try to make that call today but it's iffy if anyone will be in an office on the day after Thanksgiving.

 

Growing up, Mom almost always had to go to work the day after Thanksgiving. On those few occasions that she did have the Friday after off, we usually went to visit our Grandmother in Missouri. 

 

Saturday after Thanksgiving, we would decorate our Christmas tree. Even after leaving her home and getting married, I decorated the tree the Saturday after Thanksgiving.  I have no plans for a tree this year.  There is no place for one here.  I will be decorating for Christmas, I just won't have a tree this year.

 

An Ornament I made for a friend

I know I said I would post this picture a few weeks ago. I got distracted. I made these for our friends Donna and Larry. Donna had a love bird who was named Barney and was almost 14 years old when  died this past summer.  He was a very special bird and I know he is waiting for his human friend at the rainbow bridge that all pets wait at, to greet their human friend.

 

Larry loved Roosters.  When I saw this rooster I knew it was the perfect gift for him.  Unfortunately, Larry passed just a week after I gifted him this present. Larry loved to tease people that he liked and he must have liked Jerry and I cause he would smile and tease, just a little, every time we were over for a visit. 

 

 

 

 

How I made these.

Miniature figurines

Plastic Drink cups from Dollar Tree

A Large roll of Cork from a crafts store, Hobby Lobby if I recall.

     (I'll be using more of it very soon)

Silver Braid (Wal-mart in the ribbon section of the fabric's area)

E-6000 Glue

 

    I cut the cork with a circle Die that was just a bit larger than the rim of the cup with my Cuttle-bug.  It did get flattened out a bit and distorted a little but not enough to make it not work as I wanted it to. I glued each figure o the cork with some E-6000, making sure that the cup would still sit on the cork once the glue was dried.  I had thought of some artificial snow but then thought better of that. But if you want a snow ball effect, this is the time to add some to the cup.

    Once the figure was dried, I used the same glue around the rim of the cup, then placed the cork on the rim, and allowed that to dry. Turn over so the cork is now the floor.

I then glued the braid around the rim of the cup, the small ridge at the bottom (now the top) of the cup, and a loop to the dent of the cup as a hanger for on a tree.

 

I considered a few bows for around the top, but ran out of time to make those.  But then I could have used a couple of artificial Holly leaves and berries if I had thought about it.

 

Next time I get to a Crafts store, I am going to the mini train area or the Christmas village area and find more mini's to work with.

 

 

 

May your day be blessed and may you find joy in the small things of living every day.

Billie C.