The End of November

Wow, time is flying! The end of November already, yikes, Christmas will be upon us before we know it.

Thomas is leaving tomorrow, we will drive him to the city to catch a flight out. Hard to believe he was here for a month. We are hoping he will be back for Christmas.

Yesterday I warped up my loom, and started to weave. I have had a custom order for a rug waiting since September. My elbow has not healed but the worst of the process is the cutting of the sweaters. Well just the cutting of anything, not a great motion for my elbow.

I was great to be back at the loom though, gets me excited. I am not halfway done and already thinking about what I can weave next, what colours I can use! Very exciting for me!

So for now until I have rugs to list, I am listing jewelry. Two new pieces listed yesterday.

silver frost

copper rose

Bistro 305

This morning I took my sling off. My elbow was tender, but throughout the day even though you think you are not using your arm you really do use it. It is quite sore now. It is driving me a little crazy doing nothing. I can't even cook.

After dinner I noticed my junk email icon bouncing about. I thought it was another Twitter follower notification, but it wasn't. It was an invitation to join the blog Bistro 305 hosted by my cousin Kim. It will be a place for family and friends to share cooking and craft ideas. Right up my alley!

I am excited about this great idea, and will be anxious to watch it grow into some thing wonderful! Thanks Kim, I needed this right now, perfect timing!!

Tennis Elbow

 My doctors office called very early this morning, I had an appointment in emerg at three this afternoon to have my elbow injected with cortisone. It had been over two months and it was not getting any better.

 I am home with my arm in a sling for 24 hours. No heavy lifting for three days or so... no more jewelry making for me this week. Thomas is here, and will do the chores that need to be done. 

Let's hope this works, and will allow me to start weaving again.

Lilac Buds of Blue

Pretty little lucite, wood and copper earrings!

"Lilac Buds of Blue"

I started to take an anti inflammatory last week for the tennis elbow, but have had a reaction to the medication, so I stopped taking it. I will go back to Traumeel Cream and Traumeel tablets. A kind friend has suggested castor oil packs, so I am going to try it out. I did forget to buy some castor oil when I walked uptown. I will buy some tomorrow.

I had a convo on Etsy this morning, one of my rugs has been featured in this gorgeous blog, Peppermags! It is an honour and a huge thrill to be featured here!

Organic Lime and Blue Denim Sky

I have had what I think is a tough week or so. I have been on a poor me kick...

I have had tennis elbow for 3 weeks, and the doctor said to rest it for another 4 weeks. No cutting, no weaving, I have sales coming up, and not much stock. I   have all my felted sweaters here just waiting, teasing me...

My cat Lu is very very sick, he has cancer and is dying. We live 2 1/2 hours from the nearest vet. We had him there 2 weeks ago and were told to bring him home and love him. We are doing that, he loves to snuggle. He goes outside once a day, not for long. He is drinking but not eating very much. He is painfully thin, painful for us watching him fading away. He doesn't appear to be in discomfort, sleeping a lot. He purrs very loud when we pet him, and when he comes to sleep with us at night. He is not a good traveler so we promised him 2 weeks ago that we would not bring him back. We do not put humans down when they get sick, so we have decided to give him the same grace.. respect. Obviously if he gets worse we may have to change our minds. It is tough to lose an old friend, furry or otherwise. 

 I have become a sort of anti social hermit, I am not tolerating other peoples judgement of our decision of Littlebit's last days, very well. He is our cat, and we know him best.

To keep myself somewhat sane, I am allowing myself to make 1 piece of jewelry a day. It has been mostly earrings, though I do have other plans. One at a time.

"Organic Lime" 

Gorgeous yellowy lime green amazonite paired with light olive green freshwater pearls and a pretty copper leverback.

"Blue Denim Sky"

Beautiful sky blue lampwork Gillian beads, paired with denim blue glass donuts and an elongated copper kidney wire. I love blue with copper!

Tutti Frutti Drops & Cocoa Plum Pods

I am taking time off from weaving, well, time off from from doing much of anything. I have tennis elbow and a sore in my left hand. Too much cutting of denim I think, overuse... and I was just getting started. 

It hasn't been a very good week. We went to the city with the cat earlier in the week. During a phone conversation with the vet the week before , he suggested we bring Lu in to have blood work and an xray of his head. He has massive tumors on his neck and throat, and is now having respiration problems. However, when the vet examined him, he said he could not sedate him for the tests as he would not survive it. Poor old cat, we stressed him out with a 6 hour drive, he hates traveling, for nothing really. We will enjoy his company until he is no longer enjoying life. He is a sweetheart of a cat! We love him to bits!!

So... my stuff... I have been taking photos of some jewelry I made for my last local craft show, to get it ready to list in my Etsy shop. I am not very good at photography, funny I studied it in college for three years, it was my minor, but it was mostly dark room work.

Tutti Frutti Drops

Gorgeous fruit coloured freshwater pearls paired with pretty copper findings! 

Cocoa Plum Pods

Earthy mauvey brown lampwork beads with a gorgeous periwinkle swirl, made by Gillianbeads, very talented Canadian lampwork glass artisan. I have paired the glass beads with rich brown freshwater pearls, and elongated copper kidney wires.