More Fun Than a Barrel of Minis...

I am doing several loads of wash, cooking bean soup, cornbread and  working on this while watching squirrels chase each other around the yard.

Therefore, not much in the way of minis.

I have been working on this piece, a little at a time, for a while now.  The center stone was the middle of a pretty old Native American turquoise bracelet.  The stone was set in silver and by the time I got it, both sides had broken off.  That is, the part that went around the wrist.

I found it in a bag from an antique shop.  I refuse to throw away a perfectly good piece of turquoise.  It was either take a chance of prying it out of the silver and breaking it or leaving it in the silver and working over it.  I chose the latter.   I glued it to a piece of gray leather and started beading around it and over the silver that was sticking out around it.  So far, it's working...




This is what was more fun than a barrel of minis.

The new batch of squirrels are out in full force today... I don't get a lot done when  they are chasing each other around the yard.

 These are two of the new ones.  They don't stay around when I go out there, but they are fun to watch through the windows.

About all the minis I got done today was planting the pups from these two succulents.

I am keeping my fingers crossed that they will grow.  Just a little water and lots of rooting hormone on the stems. We shall see what they do.

I am going back to see what other mischief I can get into for the rest of the day.

See you tomorrow...