Happy Spring!!!

Hey friends! Happy Spring 2015!!! I just got home a little while ago from my 6 month thyroid check-up. Things are looking good. I got an ultrasound and from the looks of it, things look ok, but she will go in later to give things a better look and get back to me on it. She says my thyroid has shrunk and that eventually it will shrivel and be hard to see. Not sure how I feel about that, but the pills are working and hopefully this dose will be the right one...until I start losing weight and send my body into a rage all again. LOL! Oh well, I'll worry about that bridge when I get to it.

So today I am cleaning like a monster because I have guests coming over tomorrow. But I'm also kind of in a funk because I want to try making some videos of some new rubber bands I got recently for the Rainbow Loom, yes I fell into that lovely trap. I love working on that thing, well things now, I got a second one to make cuff bracelets with. So I found some different bands I wanted to try for fairly cheap, and I got a really cheap loom that looked interesting that I wanted to try out, if it's crap then it was worth buying for the bands and hooks, so no big loss. Yep, it was that cheap. LOL!

What else? Oh, I have yet to open Dreary. :-( Just haven't found a good time for it. I might try in a bit while the light is good because I want to play with my new little girl. Still waiting to get a shipping notice about my other girl. The seller seems to be a good seller, so I am sure it's just taking them some time to mail her off. I can't wait to see her too.

But that's about it for now. Just wanted to pop on to say, HAPPY SPRING FRIENDS!!!, and let you know what little bit is going on here with me. I'll post again soon, must get to cleaning. Take care friends, by for now.

Spring: A Lovely Rebirth

Today was a simply stunning day. Blue skies with just a few wispy clouds floating by, the trees are blooming, the air smells amazing, and everyone is out and about. I have been lurking everywhere online and in life, licking wounds and dealing with my health, but now Spring has sprung, it's time to shake off the dust, figuratively and literally, and start living life again. So I have decided to start with some Spring cleaning. So much dust, so much clutter, I am so ready to purge things and get rid of tons of junk I really just don't need.

I have a blog post in my drafts that I need to post. It explains a lot about what I've been doing this past few months, as well as what I plan to do this year and in my future. I just need to work on it a little more before I post it. For now I just wanted to post a quick post to say hi and that I'm still here. I have plans for this blog and I hope to start working on them soon. Yeah, I do tend to hangout on Tumblr every day, but it's just not the same as my blog here. I think I can get things out more here and be more centered here. So expect to hear more from me and my "plastic crew" soon. Until then, I hope you are all enjoying Spring and the warming weather. Take care peeps. Bye for now. :-)

What have I been up to lately?

So my sister bought some doll heads for her Volks and Obitsu dolls and as a trade I volunteered to root some of her heads.  One is done as of today.  Going to start on the next one in the next couple of days.  I want to work on a Liv doll wig I started a couple of weeks ago.    But here are some pictures of the doll head I completed.

Sorry for the crap pictures.  My camera seems to be slowly dying a slow painful death.  But until I can get a new one I’ll have to make do.  So the colors here are like a neon orange and blue color mix.  Did you know orange and blue are complimentary colors?  My sister has originally started the rooting of this doll, but then the Volks body she was working with broke.  Well I have figured out how to fix it, so hopefully there will be a finished picture of this gal soon.

But that’s all I’ve been working on as of late.  I have been wanting to work on amigurumi patterns, but I can’t figure out how to make what I want to make.  I have an idea, but then I will have a problem when it comes to the eyes.  I might have to crochet them too since I don’t have safe eyes and I want to make my stuff kid safe from toddler on up.  But since I won’t be selling the actual items but the patterns then I guess I could just get some eyes for the pattern as a suggestion.  I’ll have to look into that.  I want to get some Suncatcher Eyes so badly.  I think a purchase from them is in my near future.  And I’m also thinking about making some sewn stuffed animal patterns as well.  I have some ideas in mind for special animals and items.  Stay tuned for that.    Still working on some stuff to get things organized and sorted, but it’s coming along.  I have two more doll posts coming this week and then I may go quite again for a while as I continue to organize.  Man I wish I could sort out my camera issues.  That would make me so happy.  This pictures were taken on the quick so I knew they’d basically suck, but my camera is just having issues with normal zoom pictures.  Maybe I need to tinker with the settings.  It’s getting testy in it’s old age.  I hope to be able to buy a new one soon.  I don’t know if I could ever go as far as a Nikon although they are mighty beautiful.  Maybe one day.  Hey, a girl can dream.    Bye for now kids. 

Loves ya,
Mouse

Screw it people! I need to talk!

Yeah, I’m back here talking again because I need to just talk and really don’t know where to do it.  In the past couple of days life got hectic for others around me and I can’t help but feel stressed over it.  I don’t even know where to start.  I guess with my family.  So both my parents have diabetes and high blood pressure.  Now my dad’s is more under control, but my mom has had both longer and it’s out of control and she doesn’t take care of herself, well neither of them do, but she’s worse off.  I’m worried about her big time and don’t want anything bad to happen to her.  And I know life is so crazy that something could happen to her and that thought just scares me.  I can’t imagine my life without my mom in it.  I know one day I will have to face that truth but I would like to think I have a good amount of time before I have to face that horrible moment.  My sister and I have been trying to get her to watch her sugar but it’s not easy when my dad keeps bringing unhealthy crap into the house.  I can’t say I’m innocent of such acts, but I worry more about others than myself.  Yeah, my mom’s the same way. 

 

Posts coming tomorrow…errr later on today.

I got glutened yesterday by a product that is gluten free, and might I add super yummy, but processed on flour lines.  I didn’t know that until after I had helped my sister polish off most of it.  An hour or two later had me in bed sick as a dog and getting a rash.  I’m feeling a lot better now but still a bit of breathlessness and panic.  So the posts I wanted to make today will have to wait.  *sigh* Well they will be better if I am not rushing through them so I can lay down again.  So expect a post from me soon. Bye for now. 

Loves ya,
Mouse

I never knew Ken was into bondage!

So I was cam chatting with my friend last night and she showed me a picture of one of her daughter’s Ken dolls.  So what was so special about this guy?  Well let me try my best to tell you the story.  Sarah correct any of this if I am wrong.  So Sarah heard her girls laughing and was wondering what was up, so she walked down the hall towards their rooms and as she got to her youngest’s room a Ken doll landed at her feet.  Looking down and seeing what was done to the poor guy she instantly felt sorry for him.  Why?  Have a look.

 

Steampunk done the right way.

So I’ve been meaning to post about this for a couple of days now and kept forgetting.  A friend of mine showed me this link and I had to share it with you all here since I know some of you like steampunk and some of your like furniture and décor, and some of you like all the above. 

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So, what is this a picture of?  If I am guessing right, it’s a steampunk USB Flash Drive.  Now what would it go to?  Well their steampunk computer of course.  Check out the awesomeness here.  I’ll talk to you all later.  Must go do my 10 miles before the day is out.  Take care and be good until next we meet.    Bye for now.

Loves ya,
Mouse

One Man Disney Movie

Ok, one last one for tonight.  I was watching Jackson Pearce’s live show tonight and she mentioned the One Man Disney Movie and someone put a link in the chat and I went to go watch it.  Awesome, awesome, awesomeeeeee.  If you like Disney movies or just great singing from a very entertaining guy then this is a must see!  Enjoy!

Ok, now seriously, I’m off to watch that movie.  Night. 

Loves ya,
Mouse

Much better.

Ok, so after a was his hair is soft but it still had that same shellacked look.  It lacks the volume that prototype has.  And while looking at his face I now know what bothers me about the lip paint.  It looks like when you drink deeply from a glass of mile and pull back and have a milk mustache.  Looks just like that. I may have to change it one day so I will feel better about it.  It just bothers me. Meh.  But his hair is washed.  What I did was let hot water run through the hair and it broke down the glue used then I took simple liquid hand soap to get the rest out.  Washed more with hot water, then rinsed with cold water.  Dried it off, combed it, and it’s fine.  Got some fly-aways but I prefer them over the glue.  When it dries I will try giving it some volume and see if I can style it some.  Meh.  Ok, going to watch a Korean movie my sister loaned me days ago.  Talk to you all soon.  Be good.  Bye for now.

Loves ya,
Mouse

Jackson just got cooler. :-)

So I was stripping Jackson to go attempt to was his hair, and when I took off his shirt I noticed his yen-yang tattoo at the base of his neck.  Ok, that’s pretty cool.  Makes me like him even more.    Going to wash this crap out of his hair now.  Wish me luck.    Bye for now.

Loves ya,
Mouse

*sigh* I hate prototypes.

So I got another doll today for my business venture and well, I’m glad I wasn’t overly excited about getting this doll because the real doll depresses me.  So the doll in question is Jackson Jekyll from the Monster High doll line.

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Prototype here seems to have a rounder and softer face.  The hair is way nicer, even though I know I just need to was my doll’s hair, but sometimes when you was the hair you make the situation worse.  But I will be trying it because I hate the shellacked hair.  Also he seems to be more smiling or have a neutral expression on his face and the lip paint seems to follow the mouth line which looks good.  His eyes look warm and smiling.  He just seems sweet and nice and warm.

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*sigh*  Then we get the real doll.  Are you kidding me?!?  Ok, so let’s just gloss over the whole glued down hair issue?  Ok, no, let’s not.  What is the deal with gluing down the hair?!?  It makes it look nasty as heck and what would really be so bad if they hair was free flowing?  Ok I guess the whole static cling thing, but couldn’t they use something like a hair gel or something like that that would easily brush out?  I just don’t get it!  Ok, moving on.  The face, it’s sharper and edgier, but not in a good way.  It makes his face look very androgynous, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it just doesn’t give me the feeling of attractive male but more like an in between being.  The lips.  Ok I don’t know if this is for everyone, but my guy’s lips almost looks like he is doing a comedic drag queen show.  The paint goes way over the lip line and the ends point up at the corners in this weird kind of mock smile.  However the middle line of the mouth forms into a frown.  It looks so freaking weird.  I just can’t get comfortable with it.  The prototype looks like the lip paint went with the lip line and into the lip crease, so much better.  The eyes, while on the prototype they look almost almond, on the real doll they are a weird oblong shape.  And he looks like he has raccoon eyes.  The shadowing is just bad on this one.  Really bad.  I like the eyebrow piercing, and am kind of shocked to see that on a Mattel made doll, but I thought it was a nice touch.

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Now my final issue with Jackson is the fact that he has Popeye arms.  They are held at an awkward angle and when they fold in they look almost how Popeye holds his arms.  I could easily picture anchors on his arms for some reason.  I kind of want to put an anchor on one of them now.  Humm, it’s an idea. 

*Warning, doll nudity ahead.*

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As for the rest of the body, it’s ok.  It fits in with the Monster High line.  His arms look beefier than they should be when you look at the rest of the body, but it’s a decent body.

So like I said, I got him basically to try making some things for to try selling, and I did want him because I wanted a normal looking skin color to go with different colors better.  I also have my Frankie still that I plan on fixing her paint issues instead of getting another one of her.  And they will be my Monster High models.  I wanted to get Ghoulia and several more dolls but the Ghoulia they have is a sexed up version of her in my opinion, and so I decided to pass on her.  So I will just stick with what I have.  Oh, one cool think about Jackson, his sandals fit Liv Doll Jake’s feet.  Their feet are practically the same size.  But those sandals seem to be big because it’s hard to keep them on either of their feet.  But I might get the male clothing pack for Monster High just for the shoes to see if they fit Jake, but I will try my Ken shoes out first.

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His clothing are your basic Mattel productions.  Simple cotton shirt with I believe rayon shorts.  Hemmed pretty decently, but I think the shorts would have been nicer in cotton also.  But it’s decent for a basic doll.  I might want to chance getting Holt later on to see how he is, but I think for now I am done with the MH line.

But yeah, those are my views on Jackson.  I have nothing against the doll, because when I saw the prototype I knew I was going to get him.  I wanted to own him.  But taking a closer look at what Mattel churned out just bummed me out.  But I don’t expect much from Mattel any more, so I knew not to expect perfection.  I think with some tlc he could look a little better, so I may attempt to doctor him up some.  Well I am off now.  I must do my ten miles on my exercise bike and then I’m going to try seeing if I can come up with a pattern for Jackson.  Talk to you guys later.  Be good until then.  Bye for now. 

Loves ya,
Mouse

Rest In Peace Dame Elizabeth Taylor

So if you haven’t heard already, famed actress Elizabeth Taylor died today at 79 years of age from congestive heart failure.  She was surrounded by her kids when she passed away, which I imagine would have been the way she wanted to go.  I was shocked to hear of her passing.  Ever since I was a kid I’d always hear about Elizabeth Taylor in one way or another.  Either a movie my mom saw that she’d think I like, or in her White Diamonds commercials, or that she was a good friend of Michael Jackson.  She kind of one of those icons you think will never die.  But in the end, I guess we are all human and we all face the same sad end. 

I feel sad that I didn’t look more into Elizabeth’s career when she was alive.  Now seeing the news talk about her past movies, it makes me want to watch them.  Of course I watched Cleopatra, but other movies I haven’t, but I plan to watch them.  I’m hoping Netfilx has some of them to watch.

In high school I had a teacher who loved her.  He’d told his wife if Elizabeth Taylor came to the door and asked him to leave his wife for her, he would.  I was thinking this morning if Mr. Bryant is still alive I wonder how he is handling the news of her passing.  I say if he is still alive because he was about Elizabeth Taylor’s age at the time I was in school, he was a very large man, and well yeah.  So I just wonder what he is thinking today.

Ok, this post is getting super sad.  I guess I just wanted to post to say I was sad to hear of her passing.  There really are no more iconic people any more besides Betty White left to be amazed by.  And I guess it just shows that I’m getting older because so many people I remember from my youth are slowly passing away, and well yeah.   There is just no avoiding the unavoidable and we all need to live life to it’s fullest.  Whatever the fullest is to you live your life to achieve that so you can look back as you lay on your deathbed and say you have no regrets because you accomplished a lot, you lived happily, and you leave this world a better place because you were here.  I think Elizabeth did that, and I hope one day I will too.    Talk to you guys later.  Bye for now.

Loves ya,
Mouse

Matting my matte spray.

So I think I may have found a solution to my matte spray glossiness.  Still in the middle of my face-up, but once I am done I will see how my idea works and if it does work I’ll let you in on my secret.  It would be nice if I did solve this issue.  Fingers crossed tight.    Talk to you all later today and I hope to have pictures for you. 

Loves ya,
Mouse

Happy Spring!!!

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Nope, not a fan of Spring, but it’s here for the next three months so let’s make the most of it.    Here’s hoping your first day of Spring was awesome. 

Loves ya,
Mouse

Matte spray is not created equal.

So I am working on a face-up of a doll started back in during Dizzy’s Place days.  It’s a My Scene Chelsea and well, it’s going ok-ish except for one problem, the matte spray I am using is more satin than matte.    If you are going to sell a matte spray then make sure it’s matte.

The spray I am using is the Krylon Matte Finish spray.  It dries quickly, outside you don’t smell the odor when you spray, and it has it’s own built in way of keeping the nozzle clean.  You can start working on it again after about 10 minutes of drying and depending on if you followed the directions there is minimal to zero tackiness.  It’s awesome except for the fact that it makes it look like the doll is sweating like crazy.    I am hoping that maybe it just needs to dry fully over night, but something tells me that isn’t the case.  I settled on that one because everything else was glossy at the store I was buying it from.  I might have to try Hobby Lobby for another spray.  I was looking for the ones suggested in the Monster High tutorial I showed you guys a few posts back.  I didn’t want to get MSC since I’d have to wait on shipping and I wanted to try some stuff now.    Oh well, I will see how it looks in the morning and decide what to do then.  The layers are helping with the face up, but she looks like summer is here and thriving and I don’t like that.  I’ll update you on her look tomorrow.

Also I am working on rerooting a Liv doll wig.  I cut out the hair, which had to be the easiest hair to remove.  Since it’s done with the loop rooting method, all you have to do is loosen up and pull out a root or two from the part or thatch and then cut the hair short as possible the you can pull out each row easily from the inside of the wig to remove the little bits.  I flipped the cap inside out and just scratched the little hairs off with my nail.  Was done in no time.  So now I have a cap ready to go.  I also decided to prep my hair by cutting it into the length I wanted.  I’ve had this pink Volks hair I won off of Ebay for years now and decided it was time to use it.  It was so hard to make that first cut but once I did the rest went smoothly and now I have 4 bunches of hair ready to be rooted.  Can’t wait to get started on that tomorrow too.  It feels nice to be crafting with dolls again.  I missed it.  I’ll have pictures tomorrow for you to see of my current status.  Until then be good.   Bye for now.

Loves ya,
Mouse

Still crabby…

So I am still crabby and to make matters worse I am extremely tired now.  My eyes hurt bad and there is something up with my html that makes me site look weird on Mozilla.  Or maybe it’s the webhost, which I hope I don’t have to leave, but if it won’t display my site right then I may have to consider it.

So my site is live again and this time with my old Camp Celeb story.  Looking through that story made me laugh so hard.  It’s horrid!!!  It’s like the worse kind of B movie out there but I love it so much because it was my first big project.  I didn’t time myself right with college classes and camp and well in the end I was rushed, forcing myself through over half the story within a few days.   So it shows.  Oh and word of advice, if your pictures are dark, don’t try to bring up the brightness, just retake the picture.  You’ll like the outcome better.  What am I talking about?  Read the story and you’ll see.  This was in the beginning of my doll collecting and one of my first photostories.  Speaking of which, I have some of my very first stories under Specials on my website.  Mostly for practice taking pictures.  Feel free to have a look there too.

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Ok, so while looking over my site I noticed some things that irked me.  One, Internet Explorer will correct your html where Mozilla won’t.  Mozilla is one cranky B much like myself today.  So could you guys do me a favor, pretty please?  :-)  If you view my site in Mozilla and see something weird, could you give me a quick comment on it?  I’d love that.  That way I’ll know something is wrong and can work on it.  Which leads me on to my other irk.  My story is “as is” from when I uploaded it years ago.  I just today went through it and fix some kinks in it and noticed due to some html issues some of my pictures didn’t show up.  What irks me is that no one told me.  I know people read the story, and I know they must have seen the picture or pictures missing and yet they didn’t tell me.  Why?  I’m the kind of person that if I see something offish about someone’s site or blog or whatever I will pass on a nice note telling them what I saw to give them a helping hand.  Not one person did that for me.  I don’t know if people are scared of offending people so they don’t do that or what, but I am saying here now people, if you see something buggy, I want to know.  I can’t fix it if I don’t know about it.  But please, no smart comments about my picture quality needing to be fixed or adjusted.  That ship as long since sailed and I only uploaded the story for prosperity.  :-)  Kthanx.  Future pictures I will allow some suggestions on how to better the quality, so be prepared to help a girl out.  :-)

Well I do hope you guys enjoy the site and the story and look forward to future ones coming very soon. I am currently working on one that I have been making images for.  I’m very excited about it.  My pictures still need some work but trust me, they are better than that B Movie I call Camp Celeb.  LOL!  Ok, this chica is muy tired.  So before I get stuck in this position I’ve foolishly sat in for a while, I am going to take off and try to get some sleep.  I hope you all have a great day/afternoon/or evening depending on where you may be in the world, and I will talk to you all later on today.  Bye for now.  Mouse out!  Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…

Loves ya,
Mouse

Just a little bit of AHHHHHH!!!!

Ok. so I’m a might bit pissy right now.  I’m hormonal, which is never good, but then add on to it men in my life being very douchey and well you don’t have a good mix there.  Then sprinkle on some “been working on my website for 24 hours and finally have it to a place were I can accept it only to realize I have to upload about 100 files and the file manager on my webhost only allows for 3 uploads at a time but then I found a place where they tell you how to upload a lot of files by zipping them up uploading them and then uncompressing them in the sever and that was only after I’d spent several hours uploading stuff by three files at a freaking time!!!”…I honestly feel like crying right now.

Ok, so I got the bitching out of my system for now.  I guess.  I don’t know.  Just been frustrated lately and don’t know how to handle it.  I guess right now sleep would be the number one option, but I want to work on my site some more.  I know, I know, it will still be there after some sleep but I just want to be done with it so I can work on something else tomorrow.  Ok, I just had three mini chocolate bars and I feel a little better.  I think I need to go get something full of chocolate tomorrow or make brownies.  One of the two.  I need a pick me up, and I don’t care that I should be dieting right now because I had to temporarily give up exercise.  It’s because of the exercise I’m feeling like crap right now.  I think I need a week of chocolate to get myself back on track.  No…seriously…where’s the Mars bars?  I think I will push forward with the website and get it done so I can mark it off and work on something else tomorrow.  Ok, off to go work again.  Thanks for reading my vent/rant.  Just need a few deep breaths and chocolate.  Lots and lots of chocolate…

Loves ya,
Mouse

I want to continue building my army.

So some of you may remember my poorly neglected Bobobie girl Christmas Noel.  She is my first and currently only bjd.  I had been searching for a bjd for years that fit me and it was the tinies that got my attention the most.  So I decided to try a Bobobie to see if I like the size.  While the stringing is an issue, still need to find some elastic to restring CN, I love the small size.  Well I hit Junky Spot today to just look around since I hadn’t been there in a while and I saw the cutest dolls that I want to add to my army.  I want one of each of them so bad.

These are limited edition Impldoll bjds.  I think they are so adorable.  Junky Spot has them in green…

blue…

and pink.  If you look at their little faces you can see how each has their own expression.  They are limited to 50 made worldwide.  I even whoever gets one but whoever gets all three oh I am so giving them an ever look of jealousy.  LOL!  They are 10 inches tall so they still fit in my tiny army size.  I like dolls up to mini dollfie size, but much bigger than that and they lose the appeal to me.  But I just love the expressions on their faces, the color of their resin, their size, but one of the things that I really love is the translucent resin on their hands and ears.  Squeeeee!!!

The green I really liked because he would make a perfect “Yoda” for me.  I wanted a green Bobobie for my Yoda at first but this little green guy is so adorable.  The odds of me getting one are slim to nil but a girl can dream.  :-)  Just had to share these little gems with you.

On my list news, working away diligently on it.  I worked on my website this morning since I couldn’t sleep.  I almost have all the photostories ready to go and then I made a new Ecrater site that reflects the 333 Designs name.  I thought I’d keep The Goodie Bag for that since I won’t be selling anything I create there, but I want all of them to have the same name so I decided to make a new shop.  Trying to make a brand name I guess.  Also made an Ebay shop, not that I will use it, but just in case I want to try selling my stuff on Ebay I have the account.  So slowly but surely I am working on it.  I’ll update you soon on how the website is going.

Loves ya,
Mouse

*Sigh* I hate buyers remorse.

So why is it when we find something we REALLY want and buy it that we feel buyers remorse?  I mean we should feel excited that we are finally getting the item we coveted so much, but right now I am feeling foolish for buying a kind of pricey item.  It was a treat to myself since I haven’t bought anything in a very long time and have been feeling so down lately.  I knew I wanted the item when I first found out about it, but then today when I had the cash to spend I just couldn’t bring myself to do it and then the next thing I know I clicked “Place Order”.  Ahhhh!!!  So much money!!!  But I know once it’s here I will be doing the Snoopy Dance.  Until then I will feel ultimately guilty for spending so much cash, but sometimes you just have to treat yourself…right?  Ok honestly if I was a little “richer” I would have bought this in a heartbeat no second thoughts about it.  So I knew I wanted it.  But I kept thinking I might be able to get it cheaper if I wait it out, but also if you wait you miss out on good deal.  So I’m partly glad I jumped on it because if I hadn’t I may have missed this deal.  It was actually cheaper than the original retail price of 80 dollars, so feel I got a good deal on it.  I won’t mention what I got now so I can sweat it out for the next week and then come back and hopefully be happy that I bought it and let you all see how silly I was being about having remorse.  ;-)

Ok, so in the mean time I need to keep myself busy.  I think I need a To Do List.  I love lists actually.  I love seeing the strikes through the items on the list I’ve completed.  I have a lot of items I need to work on this month.  So here goes, my fabulous list.

To Do List-
1. Respond to lovely blog comments.  (Yes, I know I suck at keeping up with them.  So super duper sorry to you lovely people who leave them.)

2. Furginia Day! (A day of pampering to my poor sick baby.)

3. Clean spare room and organize craft items. (That room is a scary mess that forces me to purge big time.)

4. Sew something!  Anything!  (I have been making excuse after excuse for not creating any thing.  That stops now.)

5. Make my shop banner.  (I finally figured out what I want it to be!  Yes, I’m THAT excited about it.  Now I hope I can pull it off how I see it in my head.)

6. Put items in my shop. (Well that’s what I’ve been shooting for.  I did have a shop open before but since changing the name that something that more reflects me I haven’t reopened, but I will very soon.)

7. Work on website and get photostories uploaded. (I have several stories to change the html on so I can upload them.  It’s a long process but hope to have it done soon.)

8. Scan cross stitch patterns and do reviews and post about them on website.  (Two recent projects I finished I need to upload.  Those posts coming soon.)

9. Make new blog banner and avatar.  (I like my layout of my Blogger blog but I kind of want a banner and avatar more to my liking.  So that will be changing for summer.)

10.  Lose 10 pounds this month. (I have been working on it, but not with much success.  But I still plan to lose at least 10 pounds this month.)

11. Work on novel and finish by the first day of Fall. (Need to have it actually done and revised and ready for submission before NaNoWriMo this year.  I have a story ready for NaNoWriMo and can’t wait to knock it out this year.)

12. Organize my bookmarks. (They are a filthy mess.  Instead of working on them it’s so much easier to ignore them and just collect more.  So I need to organize them.)

13. Catch up in forums. (I desperately miss my forums,  so it’s time to catch up in them.)

14. Catch up in blogs. (I’ve gotten so behind on some blogs.  So if it seems like I am not reading yours, don’t think I have abandoned you, I just need to catch up.  And I will be doing that this month.

15. Work on laptop and get it fixed. (My old Gateway is still busted.  I need to work on it and get it back working because I like using it better than my Toshiba.  So will be working 0n that this month too.

Ok, so there is my to do list that should keep me busy for the next couple of months.  Everything must be done by either the end of this month or by the end of summer.  I will update the list every Friday to show what I’ve gotten done.  Big list but I am determined to complete everything.  :-)  Wish me luck.  ;-)

Loves ya,
Mouse

All clear!

Just an update.  Got a phone call about half an hour ago.  Dad’s heart is all good and there are no blockages.  He’ll get to come home around 3.  :-)  Very happy to hear that.  Now I feel relaxed and want to catch up on some sleep.  LOL!  But I will try to hold out until tonight.  Ok, off again.  Bye for now.

Loves ya,
Mouse