October: So Far, So Good....

Spending almost all my time at home lately (which is actually fine by me) has afforded me the opportunity to get back to beading.  My craft table was overloaded with projects ready to work on when life went sideways at the end of August.  It's been so great to get back to it!  

Picked up a couple of glass floats up in PTown this summer and added the beaded strand to it.  I need more of those mirrored tiles to work on the second float.

Drilling the hole through this agate slice was time consuming and required 3 drill battery recharges. Then added the beads for a window hanging.

I'd started this in August and just wasn't feeling it at the time.  I was glad to get this one finished at last.  That red bead on the left strand glows in the dark.

Labradorite & glass beads on the left, watermelon tourmaline on the right.

Matching necklaces

I just love those funky bead strands that are in craft stores and Walmart's craft section!  I restring them in the exact order as they are in the store.  

Another necklace.

I found this rainbow string of beads at Walmart.  Put them on memory wire with a prism on the bottom for a swirly effect.

My friend Ruth has commissioned 3 driftwood hangings from me, one which was requested to be blue & brown.

Annette commissioned this from me, in memory of her sister Debby who passed away this spring

I love love love mini bottles.  I got 4 up in PTown at the same place as the floats so I had fun embellishing them. 

I made this for my stepdaughter.

And this one too

Ta-Da!  My Bear cross stitch is finally done too!

Cool clouds one night

And THEN my friends Deb & Jim sent this Seahawks goodie package to me!  Russell wanted to tear into the M&Ms but there is no way I'm opening it!  The bracelets are wicked pretty and I can't wait to use the cookie cutter.

This one is the coup de grace!  The Space Needle in chipboard to assemble and paint!!!!!  I can't wait to start working on it!!!!  If I do the Hawks colours, I will have to tone down the lime green.  I can't stand it.

I have never been a 'one day at a time' kind of person but this whole past month has forced me into that mindset.  Just taking one day at a time to catch up on my crafting!

Starting the New Year Off with Cookies & Crafts

Now that I bake, I just can't buy commercial cookies anymore.  They taste so chemically.  The last Seahawks game of the season was going to be on TV for a change, so I decided to use my new cookie cutters to make some Hawks sugar cookies.  Also picked up a Jones Green Apple Soda for the game...based in Seattle and bottled in British Columbia.

Even Sasquatch is a 12th Man!

This is the rest of the batch.

My craft table is, as usual, a white hot mess.  I decided that I have to make the projects on it before I move onto other things.  This pink glass drop needed to get a beaded hanger so whipped that off in a few minutes.

Russell bought me that crystal after LAST Christmas...of 2014....and it, too, was waiting for a hanger. I found these beautiful beads this fall and whipped that one up as well.  Yes that's snow in the background...first of the season.  

I found this little jar in Target...I bought 2 of them.  Stuck glitter tiles on this one.  It's so pretty!

Last year I purchased that gorgeous rutilated quartz wire wrapped pendant from my friend Robin. Also last year, my friend Lynda gifted me with those beads, which used to belong to her sister Cyndy, who passed away a few years ago.  Cyndy was part of my 'group' back in high school and it was so heartbreaking to lose her so young.  I wanted to do something special with them.  It was by happenstance that I pulled out the bag of beads and the pendant at the same time and realized how great they'd look together!

I had these metal and glass pendants sitting around so I added the decorative papers to them finally to get them off my table too....and into one of my many beading boxes for future use.

Still chipping away at the projects on the table but it already looks way better than when I started.  I should've taken a before picture but I was so mad at myself for letting it get that bad!  Next up is one more necklace and add embellishments to the glass float I got up in PTown last fall.  

That's Right Bitches!!!!!!!!

Best. Superbowl. Ever.  

GO SEAHAWKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To say that I'm excited about the Seattle Seahawks making their second Superbowl appearance in their history is an understatement.  The last time was in 2006 and they lost to the Steelers due to really bad refereeing.  This time they are playing the Denver Broncos and I really, truly hope Seattle wins!!!  

A 'seahawk' is an osprey and the logo design is in the NW Native/First Nations art style.

Lookey what my dear friend Rhonda sent me, via Federal Express!!!  It arrived yesterday!  I had a Seahawks tshirt but I don't know what happened to it in the move.  Now I have a new one to wear today!

12th Man flag on top of the Space Needle! (for non-football fans, the 12th Man represents the fans;  there are 11 men on the team, 12 counting the crowd).  

CenturyLink Field is the loudest stadium in the NFL and it was built to maximize crowd noise. The decibel level is off the charts and has the potential of doing real auditory damage. Some of the visiting teams have started to wear specially made earplugs.  I think the fans recently made the Guiness Book of World Records for crowd noise.  The Hawks used to play in the old King Dome that was imploded in 2000.  

There has also been fan-caused seismic shaking which is picked up by all the local Richter scales. Think about that.  The fans are causing earthquakes.  HERE is a link to a story about UW scientists studying these fan quakes during the playoff game against New Orleans in early January. They are calling them 'Beast Quakes' because they seem to happen when Marchawn "The Beast" Lynch makes a killer play.    

Too bad the Superbowl is being held at Giants Stadium in northern New Jersey instead of Seattle!  

This is especially funny.  I mean really, what are the odds???  

So yeah, I'm hoping so much that they win.  Almost the whole country is rooting for Denver, making the Hawks real underdogs.

I may treat myself to this little beauty, if they win.  Although it's too pretty to really leave out in my yard in the elements!

GO HAWKS!