Hello late on Tuesday night. Jerry and I went to the gun shooting place and practiced shooting our guns. After the break-in of his truck and the theft of my $2500 laptop, Jerry decided I should keep my gun loaded and in my nightstand. He brought it to me and showed me it was loaded. That made me VERY nervous. I do not feel totally comfortable with that gun yet. He understood and decided we should go shoot some more. My new paper man is VERY dead, I'm happy to say, and I took my sister's suggestion and hung him up in my garage so any theft-minded passersby would see that whoever lives here owns a gun and can shoot it!
The top of the nightstand wouldn't work either. I could grab the lamp, or the alarm clock, or my glass of water and all of that would have to be AFTER I found my glasses on top of the nightstand and put them on my face! My point is, I'm not sure if the nightstand is a good place to put the gun. The policeman at the class we went to said that his wife has hers ATTACHED to the back of the headboard. Wish I had thought to ask HOW she attached it. Would it be hanging from a string? Stuck on with velcro? Be inside a holster that was superglued to the headboard?
I took a picture of my new blouse today. It isn't that exciting really, and it is a pattern I have made before. Remember the Amoeba blouse? My sister saw the Amoeba blouse hanging in my closet and said it was awful, so I guess I was right about that one. Phylly and Jerry said yellow buttons looked good on this blue floral blouse, but I don't like them. I am going to change them to blue.
I think the reason I don't like them is that they would distract from the necklace I am trying to make for it. I made a necklace today, but it looks awful. Jewelry-making is definitely an art.
I picked out some beads from my very large collection that matched the white and the blue in the blouse. Then I strung them together in what looked like a pretty design. I finally got gutsy enough to actually use a bit of the 14K gold filled chain I bought and attached it to the necklace.
Here it is laying on a scrap of the fabric, and then a picture of it on my neck. The idea was to make a hanging bobble to make the necklace form a V-shape, like the neckline. You can see that was a total failure!
The white beads look terribly out of place to me -- sort of like cocoons -- and the whole thing is too big and bulky for my neck -- except for the tiny gold chain that is more my style. I hate drawing attention to my 62-year old neck anyway. Tomorrow, this necklace will become a bracelet with just the blue beads and the gold spacers. I can make some simple earrings too.
The blouse is so busy with all those gigantic flowers, that it doesn't really need jewelry at all. Plus, everything I make and wear is casual, and jewelry is so fancy. BUT, I have spent a small fortune on all these pliers, and jewelry MUST be made!
It is after 10 PM, and I am tired. I shall get in my jammies and snuggle up in my bed with my Ipad so I can play Scrabble with Margaret.
Hugs, Joy
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