She's Baaaccckkk........

I was taking photos of the stained fireplace surround this morning when Tessie arrived on the scene. She announced that the photo that I had of the surround was "tres boring".....

Where she picked up that phrase, I don't know. She has been watching old movies on DVDs for the past few days. I think that was the result of watching "Breakfast at Tiffany's". At last count, she has seen that one, I think, 7 times in the past week. I told you she was "going Hollywood" on me. Heaven forbid that she get a look at "Gone With the Wind"! She will probably burn the house down and make a dress out of my living room draperies!

Anyway, she volunteered to pose with the work. I have to admit that the one of the fireplace surround was a bit more lively than taking the photo on a paper plate.I stained that this morning.

I finished the beaded handles on the pliers last night. Yup. She had to pose with those. She seems to feel that more is better when it comes to beads. I am very happy with the way that they turned out. Now, if I can just keep them out of Tessie's reach. She can just barely lift them, but she says that they would work well to "Pinch things that misbehave....". She didn't mention any specific things. I am very nervous. Am I considered a "thing"?

She insisted that I get back to carving. I am not so sure that she doesn't have her eye on the Clockwork Cottage. She is a bit jealous of the two fireplaces in the new house.

I did succeed in doing all of the stop cuts on one side and started carving a bit. Then she insisted on posing with the piece so that you could see proof of work.

In case you don't know, stop cuts are simply vertical cuts along all of the pencil lines so that when I start shaping the leaves the knife hopefully won't cut something off that is on the other side of that cut.

This is it, her proof of work. Personally, I think that she just want her photo taken again. At the end of the photo session she announced that she wants to be "America's Next Top Model".I have a feeling that she is back for good and that's bad! I'm not sure where Regie is hiding. He probably saw her with the pliers.......

Back to the carving, doing real laundry and real housework. I wonder if she will want to help with the last two.....?

See you tomorrow.