Bangle and earrings prototype

Woohoo! Just whipped up my first dangle bangle and earring set. Heart bead and rose slices were made earlier from shaded rose cane, sanded well and finished with floor polish. (still am amazed that it works so well on polymer clay!)

Instructions for both bangle and cane came from Cindy over at Polymer Clay Tutor.

Short and sweet!

ETA: matching mommy & me bangles!

Looks like a basket of flowers

Here’s what I came up with for the Diva’s weekly challenge. Didn’t intend for it to look like a basket of flowers… at first. But when I noticed that I just went with it and added floral and greenery looking tangles.

Tangles used: Groovy, Mumsy, Botanica & Boxwood, Scrawlz.

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Challenge #68: Hybrid/Strircles Duotangle

Quickie post for today’s theme. Idea is from the Diva’s Weekly Challenge #68.

Little bit has been sick and now I am hoping that I am NOT coming down with it myself. Surely it is just the “normal tired” because of a strenuous karate class last night and not being able to get to sleep until after midnight.

 
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So here are a few of those things that covered it:

Earth Day tangle for the Diva's challenge #67.

Beads made from Cindy Lietz' "Rose Brain Cane" tutorial

Finished Turtles and Dragon. Still amazed that I can use floor polish and wood paste on polymer clay!

More sooner or later. Dashing off again!

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And then there were two!

And then there were two!

Slowly I’m getting to these little dudes! The second one came out nicely. He’s a chunky lil dude and I love the way the silver bar wraps around his shell and holds the Jolly Roger in place.  He’s been baked but needs patina too. I think I’m going to wait until the third one is baked and patina all 3 at the same time.

See those wonderful watch innards in the foreground?!? They were a birthday present from my sis. How cool is that!?!!

OMG! Minwax paste and Pledge floor polish (with Future shine). I’d heard they worked well on polyclay but didn’t realize how well till I tried them. Wow!!!

A is for Agua & Antidots. B is for Bumps. C is for Cirquital & Cockles (& Muscles)

Weather’s been fantastic so we’ve been out alot and I’ve not had time to document much but here’s something just in time for Tangled Tuesday.
These are my first ATCs for my first swap! Off to bed with me now. Going to try to be good and get up early to stretch and run!

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This week’s was extra special as the theme was for the Four Diamonds Fund. Sam and Jessie wanted to join me and if possible donate their cards. Makes a momma proud! So for art this week, the kids tangled!

Sam’s is not finished yet so I will add his (hopefully) later today. For now, here are Jessie’s and mine:

It was fun to hear her describe this to me. Don't ya just love her labeling?!? Her tangle is the dragon scales which are also diamonds.

Here's mine. I love how the paradox tangle will create something completely new when placed close together. Even though it kinda looses the 4 individual diamonds, I thought it still good in a symbolic kinda way.

Health-wise I think things are starting to look up. My back is fine now and I think we’ve hit on a migraine medicine that may be working. If I can get quality sleep now I think I’ll be set. Although I was starting to enjoy the insomnia-induced, all-night art/craft time.

So I started making calls. Orthopedic office made appt for another ESI (epidural steroid injection) and told me to go back on Neurontin and take oxycodone for pian. I made a long overdue appt with a new family doc too.

Thursday I went in for the ESI. The staff and doctors at Advanced Radiology really are wonderful. The injection hurt and really did feel like they had poked “Steve” in the eye.

After the numbing wore off though, things got worse. I had a horrible headache, my leg hurt even more and my back was aching. Friday I was able to get to the Amish and to the Planetarium but I was crashing… on a Friday (visions of another ER trip going through my head).

After a few phone conversations, and the help of a friend, I was back at Advanced Radiology with the diagnosis of a spinal headache. The doc was wonderful at explaining things.

I agreed to go with a “blood patch” to cover the spinal leak caused by the ESI. Basically they draw some of your blood and inject it into the same space the ESI went into. Wholly beejeebers!!! The blood draw didn’t go well and the injecting… That was nearly more pain than I could take!

It’s now Saturday. I felt pretty good when I woke up. Pain at a 2. But after about 5 minutes of being up that pain was at a 5 and didn’t go away when I lay down. essentially I am back where I started pain wise. Frustration.

With a little luck, the ESI will kick in this afternoon. Barring that the increasing Neurontin should start helping. Barring that the Oxycodone should knock me out. Depressing.

I hate to end on a downer note so here are a couple really great things that happened this week:

The kids are still loving the yoga so there is some great good coming from it. They are getting really good at arm balances and backbends. It is cute to see their faces light up at doing things they thought beyond their level.

At tea time this week, Jessie read poetry aloud for the first time. Very cool! Afterwards she even wrote her own.

And if that isn’t enough goodness, I’ll close this post with a quote from Jessie: “Thank goodness you have family and friends to take care of you. ”

Indeed!

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I had intended to do a third C5k session on Friday but decided against it. Hurt too much.

But I did one session more than last week plus yoga so I’ll mark that as improvement. Hmmm… May stick with week one until I can get three days in one week.

On the homeschooling front, I tried something new with Jessie’s handwriting worksheets. I had her practice writing in both Spanish and English. Made the sheet using StartWrite software. She seemed to like it too. Always a bonus there.