Too Many Talents

Okay, first of all, I dropped off the end of the planet this weekend. You probably noticed that I didn’t even post my fave Instructables this week, partly because I’ve been busy, partly because I’ve been forgetting, and partly because even I think this blog needs to be better – the question is how.

Besides that, it’s been a fun weekend (I soooo need to start taking photos!). I was fooling around with an old empty bottle wondering what to do with it, and then I realized it was made out of lovely white plastic – so I drew on it! >:D It’s a guy holding up a wooden sign that says “Save the Coins!” Can you guess what I’m going to use it for?

I also had loads of fun making two whole batches of cookies! XD Me, my parents, my brother and sister-in-law, and my entire church group are now stuffed to the gills with cookies! Oh yeah, totally fun! One of them was a pistachio nut, coconut cream pudding cookie, and the other was an almond, banana pudding cookie. The banana one tasted like banana bread to me, but net time I think I’ll use pecans instead of almonds, and I’d prefer it will more banana flavor.

One more thing – I have the archive back in place on VacancyComics.com!!!!! XD This means that I just need to make some models and a few backgrounds and we’re back in business! I can’t wait!

I had a great culinary weekend! My sister made us apple fritters (I’ve been craving them for months!), my Mom taught me how to clean and prep chicken leg quarters and how to make baked fried chicken, and my brother taught me how to marinade and grill chicken! Yummmm!

Besides that, Mom and I must enjoy aching muscles because we worked hard and cut up a bunch more wood to heat my parents house. For some strange reason it was a little easier this time. Hmmm, can’t have anything to do with I’m getting used to it, right?

I did some more work on my comic strip. I now have two more that are almost ready to post.

Oh, one more thing – a friend of mine asked me on Friday if I could crochet a little hat and vest for the baby of a friend of hers. The poor little tike has a terminal form of dwarfism. My friend also mentioned that there is an ongoing need for little crocheted hats (I think she’s part of some support group for mothers who loose their tiny ones), so I’m going to see how many I can make for her.

Ah, what a good weekend. Firstly I made about a billion (okay, more like a dozen) little beaded waterlilies. So beautiful, if I do say so myself. Sadly, I have tried finding a true pink Delica bead, but I’m having terrible luck. I’ve ordered “pink,” “rose,” “fuchsia,” “melon,” “violet,” etc. but none of them look like a true pink. I’ve decided that I’m just going to have to call them up and get some help from some other eyeballs (that aren’t seeing them on a computer screen).

And then I got a bunch of stuff done on my Vacancy Comics website. The site has a brand new look now, and I’m starting to put the archive back into place. After the archive is back on the website, I’m going to work on making some models and backgrounds to make it easier to make the comics. Hopefully then I can start being much more regular getting new ones up.

Aw shoot! I had forgotten that Monday was a holiday! (I so need to get decent Internet at home. I so wish I had better choices.)

Anyway, on Saturday we were all not feeling too good so we sat around watching TV all day long. I learned a new word though – Photic. It means light, or emitting light. That means I’m a photic fan! I like things like LEDs and EL wire and glow-in-the-dark, etc.

Now the real fun came on Monday – I helped my Mom do a bunch of sawing wood. She doesn’t have a furnace at the moment so we’ve been gathering wood for her wood stove. I had no idea I was so out of shape – OOOOWWWWW! I seriously need to get better exercise.

I’ve been making beaded Indian corn and tiny beaded stars for my sister. I’m making some jewelry for her. I also made another Fire Mountain Gems order including a whole bunch of wonderful Delica beads (my favorite seed beads). Except, I forgot to order some blue beads for my sister’s 4th of July earrings and some epoxy glue for all this beading I’m doing. Too bad the local area is seriously lacking in good bead stores (I can’t believe we have several sunglasses stores, but no beading stores). Oh well. I guess I have an excuse to make another order.