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A Box Full of Bubbie

A good box is never too small, just squish right in.....

Loves from The Queen and Bubbie

Don't Worry, Be Happy!!!

This little video is so uplifting. I wish everyone had this guy's attitude!

http://wimp.com/happiestman/

Have a good weekend and.....be happy!

Loves from The Queen

Now It's The Coffee Pot

Domestic Goddess Brain Fart #74324....

Yesterday, the computer, today the coffee pot......

Did I ever tell you how nice it is to have a man around the house? Especially if he makes the coffee every morning and brings it to you in bed? We've had this new-fangled coffee pot that grinds its beans and does a hula dance and everything else. But I have not had to make coffee because my precious, adorable, sweet, considerate husband makes it for me. Yes, I am a spoiled brat....and I like it that way!

This wonderful person I see first thing every morning with a cup of coffee in his hand had an early meeting today. So he gave me instructions how to take the coffee pot apart and clean it, which I actually did properly. So this morning I put the beans in and hooked up everything on top, put the water in, put the filter into the basket.....but I could not get the basket to go back into the coffee pot. I tried every which way and being the VERY impatient person I am, lots of bad words were coming out of my mouth. My kitties just sat there and stared at me like I was insane, well.....

I tipped the pot back so I could look inside and, of course, most of the water spilled out all over the counter and floor = more bad words. I finally called The Coffee Maker Man himself who was trying to have breakfast while this frantic bitch was asking him how to insert the f-----ing basket into the f-----ing coffee maker. He calmly told me how it just "slips right in" and cannot understand why I cannot do it. Luckily I heard him say something about the basket hooking onto the little door, not inside like I was trying to do. So I tried it that way and s.u.r.p.r.i.s.e!!!!! It worked.

So all is well, right??? NOOOO.... Remember spilling all the water out? I forgot to put more back in, so I had a full basket of ground coffee making one-half cup of coffee. Can you say "expresso on steroids"??? Geez, I think my brain disappeared when I retired, must have left it at the office???

So I put more water in and (believe it or not) remembered to turn off the grinder because the beans were already ground. VICTORY at last!!!!

If this is how the day started, maybe I should go back to bed???

Reminds me of another Domestic Goddess story when I was just a young thing newly married and had in-laws over for my first dinner party. I heard somewhere that if you put a little salt in the coffee grounds, it takes the bitterness out. Back then in the olden days, we only had crappy coffee before the good $700 per pound stuff. So I put a little salt into the grounds, and put a little more, and put a little more because they didn't say how much and if a "little" is good, then "a lot" is better, right??? My mother-in-law took a sip and spit it out all over the table, pure saltwater. Of course, I had already impressed her with my half-baked bloody chicken because I didn't know you had to pull those loose parts out of the cavity?

Oh well, I'm an artist, not a coffee maker....obviously!!!

Loves from The Queen

Still Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-ing!!!

So, here's what I have to do to post my products in my etsy shop:

1. Camera not charged yet
2. Take photo with iPhone
3. Go to iPad for larger screen
4. The Cloud did not pick up pix
5. Email photos to myself
6. Open email on regular computer
7. Download photos to regular computer
8. Go to shop new listing, download again

I thought computers were supposed to make life easier?

When all else fails, watch a kitty cat!

This is one smart cat!!
http://wimp.com/sukicat/

Look at this beauty from Germany.
Loves from The Queen

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....

Okay, these electronic and computerized gadgets are going to give me a stroke!!!!

On my new shop page, I'm trying to load more items to sell. Yesterday was fine for about 30 minutes, then it would not upload photos. This AM was fine again for about two items, now the photos won't upload again. That damn crazy revolving circle just goes around and around and around!

Im agonna scream, I'm telling you......

So I get my new little camera out and figured I'd try that because it will load onto the big normal computer. Battery is dead, must be re-charged....

Is it just me??? Probably....

The most irritating part is totally wasting a couple hours or so, that just pisses the hell out of me....

Loves from The Frustrated Queen

New Etsy Shop

I've finally set up a shop to sell my creations on Etsy. There are only two items there right now, because I cannot get the procedure to add photos all of a sudden. Grrrrrrrr......

Anyway, if you want to see what is available for sale, go to:

queenmarcyoriginals.etsy.com

Hopefully I can get more items downloaded soon.

Loves from The Queen

Busy Busy

I decided to do something different this weekend. I took some brass cuffs and etched the metal (see second photo) then aged them and decorated with filigree pieces connected by teensy weensy screws. On three of them, I stamp embossed in solder like I learned at the Texas art retreat. I made a few mistakes, but it's a learning process and I'll be more prepared next time. Let's put it this way, next time I will go over the instructions BEFORE I start......

Loves from The Queen

Sleepy Puppy

OMG, is this the most adorable thing you have ever seen????

http://wp.me/paUB-qXZ

Here is a bracelet I made for a friend's birthday. Now that she has received it, I can show it to you!

We are meeting friends for dinner tonight at our favorite Italian restaurant. They have the BEST garlic rolls in the whole world!!! I am drooling just thinking about them.....

Have a great weekend.
Loves from The Queen

Today Is Hug A Cat Day!!!!

As if I don't hug my kitties every 30 seconds anyway, now we have a holiday for it? So go find a cat and HUG IT...

Here are a couple of cute kitty videos.

http://wp.me/paUB-qW4

http://wp.me/paUB-qVm

These are felt kitties made by an artist I found, aren't they adorable???

Loves from The Queen

Rain Rain, Don't Go Away!!!

It is raining this afternoon and I.Love.It.

I could sit here on the screened porch or in bed and listen/smell/feel the rain every day. It's just so calming and refreshing. I guess I should move to Seattle???

I was down in my art studio (aka craft room) taking apart some old jewelry and re-fashioning it. I love to do that. I'll take apart several necklaces and bunch them into similar color schemes because I don't wear them, they are boring little single strands (not gawdy enough for The Queen) and then put them all together, re-arranged into a 2-3 strand awesome piece!!! I needed a break from the bead embroidery.

So have a good week, I hope it rains again tomorrow while I'm still in bed drinking coffee......ahhhhhhhh, doesn't take much to please me.

Loves from The Queen