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Gee I must be getting better, no catastrophes to report. My art retreat in Round Top, Texas (population 92) was fantastic. Unfortunately I cannot share photos on this friggin blog account. At least Typepad did respond this time and I know what the problem is. Of course for a techie like me, I don't understand how to do something to fix it. I spent six hours on it yesterday with no results except a lot of very bad cuss words.....Let's drop that subject or else I'll need another drink.... Round Top, Texas is about an hour's drive from Austin and the weather was warm but a wonderful breeze. The lodging was The Prairie by Rachel Ashwell. She is the decorator who invented "shabby chic" and has written many decorating books. She bought this place a couple of years ago and has renovated it in her "shabby" but adorable style. The floors and walls may be worn out old barn wood with white Muslin triple-ruffled sheets and fabulous French chandeliers! There are five or six old cottages on the 40-acre ranch which are the guest rooms with bed and bath. A big old barn type building is the kitchen and dining room. Very rustic but in good taste and out in the middle of nowhere!! I made a necklace with old vintage jewelry pieces, a bracelet with three vintage watch faces which we gutted and put other stuff inside and the best thing of all (which I still cannot believe I actually made) was the clasp/focal for a bracelet. It began as a sheet of copper and we cut it, sawed it, textured it, patina it, made a bezel and soldered it to the base and then set a jasper stone in it! I wish I could share a photo but will email a picture to you upon request. It is awesome and now I have to string some beads to it. Everyone there except me was from Texas, but they were all very sweet and fun and talented. One gal told us the story of meeting her cowboy husband. He was a REAL cowboy who did rodeos and stuff. She was at the rodeo and saw this tall, lean cowboy with his hat and boots and tight Wrangler jeans. She said "ooooh, that there is nice looking" and told him to turn around so she could see his FACE!!! Too funny. Well I know this is boring because The Domesticately-Challenged Queen has not exploded anything this week????!!!! Oh but listen to this....I opened the door to the shower in Texas and was met face-to-face with a Scorpion!! He was about three inches long (but again, I cannot show you the picture of him smiling up at me....). Up until that point, I thought I could really live there...... Loves from The Queen

Domestic Brain Fart #5

Well I pulled the chicken penis joke on my hubs and he just looked at me and said "that is the neck".....so it wasnt near as funny as I had hoped it would be!! But of course the joke backfired on me. I did not think leaving that in there would hurt anything, but the area around that piece was bloody! I cooked the chicken according to Pillsbury directions but I guess it was not long enough or else having that "thing" in there caused it?? Geez...will I ever learn. I had a memory of the first time I baked a chicken during my first marriage. Of course it was when I had my crabby mother-in-law and others to dinner. I did not know then that all of the gooey innards were in there and just put it in the oven without taking them out first. We cut into it and blood splurted out!! This was the same one-and-only meal I made for inlaws after she took the potato skins I had peeled and cut more potato off of them saying I wasted too much! I had heard or read somewhere that if you shake a little salt on top of coffee grounds it takes the bitterness away, so I did that.....except I am the kind who thinks if a LITTLE is good, then MORE is better?? We had saltwater coffee that day too - what a disaster everything was that day!!! I cleaned bathrooms today, so did not get into much trouble except having a hissy fit trying to get the toilet bowl cleaner bottle to open up. I can tell you we have way too much glass in our master bathroom! One wall is floor to ceiling mirror, two huge mirrors over the sink countertops plus two shower doors and three glass panes the size of the shower door surrounding the shower which was inside and outside! My poor right arm is hurting so badly that I had to sit down and have a medicinal cocktail....it feels better already....amazing!!! I just told my hubby that he cannot take a shower and mess it up, I want to gaze at it for a couple of days! I am beginning to see why we paid the weekly housekeeper so much.... Have a great evening. Loves from the Domestically-Challenged Queen

SHE'S BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK.....

We had a fantastic cruise last week with great weather, great friends, great ship, just great everything.  The theme of this particular cruise was 50-60's Rock-n-Roll.  We all dressed one night for the sock hop (I'm in the polka dotted skirt).

So, back to work, but.................

ONLY FOR 19 MORE DAYS!!!!

Look out retirement, here I come!!!

 

 

WHY I TAKE TERRIBLE PHOTOGRAPHS ????

 

REASON #1

A certain fuzzy friend of mine

has decided that my photography tent

is his own personal condo!!!

Box-Hab instead of Re-Hab????

This cat from Japan, Maru, is so cute and so funny.  He is addicted to boxes.

www.cuteoverload.com/2012/01/14/caturday-night-boxhab/

If the link above does not work, go to www.cuteoverload.com and pull up the video.

I know I have been missing in action.  We are on vacation next week, so I have been trying to get a lot of last minute things done before we leave.  Plus I have been spending way-way-way too much time on Pinterest!  If you have been living in a cave and do not know what Pinterest is, it is a website where people post photos of anything and everything.  You create an account (free) and then set up your personal "BOARDS" for various topics - like "pets" and "travel" and "food" and such.  Then you can download your own photos ("pin") and/or "pin" any of the other photos that you like.  You can go into other people's boards and "pin" from there as well.  It is a neat way to collect photos of things you love.  If you have 2-3 hours to spare, go to my "Board" and see all of the items I have collected.  You will see that I am spending way too much time there.....

 

A Catty Christmas

I do not think my earlier post of the website address for the New Year song works, although I typed it exactly as shown in an email I received.  But you know me and technical stuff, let's not talk about it.

If you can pull up www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/109-cats-celebrating-christmas.

Here are a couple of cuties:

Hope you had a very Merry Christmas!!!!

Merry Christmas from Bob Hope

This is about 10 minutes long, but so awesome, especially for those of you who remember Bob Hope entertaining our troops during the wars. 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-HeETwJSUc&feature=player_embedded

Tis The Season.....

Wordless Monday after 4 days off work.......