The Way It Used To Be...

I have been wanting to go back and  read my blog from the beginning. I wanted to see what it used to be.  I want to go back to when it was fun for all. And all for fun.

The last couple of years have not been a lot of fun because of doctors and cures for what ailed me... I came through it all with flying colors. I am ready to start over and get things going in the right direction again...

I finished one of the frames for the closet shelves for Tessie's dressing room yesterday afternoon..

Zar immediately wanted to see how high to hang the rod.  When I went in the bedroom, he was making Tessie reach as high as she could in the frame.  That's where the bottom shelf will go.

I ignored the two of them. This morning I decided to start reading my blog from the beginning. I wanted to see what had changed.

It was fun back then... Not so much now. 

We are going back to the beginning with Tessie in tow.  She was the one that suggested that I go back and see how it used to be. 

I got as far as the first year.  I was entertained by the old entries.  I want to get back to having fun with it.

No more Gloomy Casey. It annoys Tessie.  Not to mention Zar, and not to mention ME!

The pile of Tessie's clothes is just like I left it yesterday. It is going to have to stay that way until the dressing room is finished. Please ignore the mess.

The pile of stuff in the workroom is going to be cleaned up a little bit at a time.

I am actually enjoying going back to the beginning.  I keep running into old friends in the comments. I am no longer in touch with a lot of them. I do miss that.

Some of them are still around.  I am going to see if I can find them.

I am going back and work on Tessie's dressing room now. That will probably get me into more trouble that out of trouble. Tessie is pulling on my pant leg.  She wants that Dressing Room finished in the shortest time possible... I probably won't take more than a couple of days, after I finish it, to make it look just like my workroom in the above photo. 

See you tomorrow.

Big Mistake...

No Not the Thompson Seedless grape vine I planted.  That was on purpose.

The mistake was on the part of the Terrible Two.

They are forcing me to bead the handles on my pliers.

I got out the bead box that I had been working from.  There were two unfinished watch bands inside.  The top one is almost done.

The bottom one is not even close. It looks finished, but the watch has to be(somehow) attached to the band.  That step takes a while. 

The watch band is off of an old plastic watch that died a horrible death, years ago.

I liked the band, so I saved it.

Did I mention that I am going to finish those before I start on the handles of the pliers?

Oh... And I still have seven other watch faces that need bands.

How exactly is beading the jewelry tools supposed to make me want to do minis?

I did something this morning that is way more likely to do the job.

I went back to the very first blog entry and came forward.  I got as far as July of the year that I started writing... It's hard to believe that I have written every day for that long. I had forgotten some of the early tutorials that I did in the beginning.

If you ever decide to do that with any blog, You have to start at the bottom of the page and work your way up, one entry at a time.  Blogger has them arranged so that the oldest one is at the bottom of each page.

I think that this is the time of year that I usually get nostalgic about that... On February 23 I will have written 3,650 entries +. There were a few days that I did extra entries. That is 10 years worth!

The blog has kept me going all that time.  It's hard to be unhappy when you have so many friends following, reading and making comments.  Thank you all for hanging in here with me! Maybe I will try for another ten years, starting on the 24th of February.

See you tomorrow!

Oops!

Oops is right!

Tessie caught me as I was going to bed and asked if I had done the blog?

Me.... Blog, what blog.

OK.  This is not a very good catch. 

Now Kota is yelling at me for not doing it...

The only sympathetic one is Walter. 

He even turned on the light so that I could see to write!  Sorry about the lateness, but I did actually get it done before midnight.  I promise to do better tomorrow and from this day forward.  I will NOT forget again.

Goodnight.  See you tomorrow!