Almost alive again

Ok let me tell you all first off.
I am STILL dented.
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and the other thing I have to tell you is I know what it feels like to be stabbed in the back. LITERALLY ........ that doctor stabbed me with that thar ice pick.
Mengele is going to have her hands full when I get back to her
cause I can't get my shoulders out of my EARS right now
I won't tell you about the back..... believe me
better you don't know
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ok
now onto other items on the list.

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IPA *** ( *** imminent period arrival)
so again it is almost that special time of the month set aside for one of violet's rants against the joys of being a girl.

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(WHAT and disappoint you all?)
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When I was a little girl, and doubled over with cramps that now I know would lay out a defensive lineman.........
I asked my mother
'oh mother
look at all I have to suffer
the bloated pubescent breasts
the rubber legs....... ( not to be confused with the rubber chickens they resemble)
the MOOD swings..........
nose bleeds
general achyness and malaise
not to mention these cramps that make walking impossible.
and the food cravings...... '

( I was a precocious kid what can I say)

'Oh mother......... with all this I have to suffer .........
what do BOYS get'
Yes I really was that naive at that point....... shit I was young.......
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and my MOTHER ( lieing through her false TEETH....... the bitch)
said to me
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'never mind dear, they too suffer'
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now I am an old old lady........ with visible panty lines....... when I am NOT wearing panties.
and the lines on my face match the graining of the leather seats in my van.......
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and I have discovered that MEN......... don't get ANYTHING
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have you recovered????
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ok so at about 65 or so they can't get it up and have a problem peeing........
( damn by that time we aren't interested in what they got anyway..... are we?)
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*** as an ASIDE I did not say we weren't interested at all, just that we were not interested in what a 65 year old had........ now if someone say...... oh.......... 30 or so was available.......... now that could be another story......****
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have you gotten your righteous indignation on yet??
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yes my darlink chicklets......
they get off basically scott free
so they lose their hair....... ( ok so everyone but BERNIE........who still has enough hair for 3 people, yeah right....... you all still doubt that 3 Stooges thing huh?- ONE more piece of evidence)

WE get the labor, morning sickness, stretch marks.
WE get the saddlebags, drooping boobs........ varicous veins
WE get mamography, speculums, internals and dowagers humps
and with all this crap.......
WE get to LIVE longer.....
gee thanks
isn't that special

so if they don't drop dead at 49 of heart attacks........ WE get to take care of them in their old age.......
then the little bastards drop dead on us...........
who takes care of US in our old age???

gees all this from a bad case of PMS?
AND I finally have totally realized.....

MY

MOTHER

LIED

TO

ME

and if you can't trust your mother........who can you trust???

til next time
vi is getting a shovel to dig that broad up and scatter her old bones to the crows

I was impaled with an icepick and then stun gunned

(Mengele click HERE AND HERE)

this is MODERN medicine?
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what there wasn't a stray voodoo witch doctor around?????????
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I am sure I would have been MUCH more comfortable with someone shaking bones over my head, even if they had to sacrifice some chicken feathers or something.

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I get some ICEPICK
test
followed by the STUN GUN test.
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Invented no doubt by a MAN,........ the same one that invented MAMOGRAPHY...
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and no one warned me.......sniff
and you all call yourselves my FRIENDS?
sniff
so
here I am, impaled, both arms, one leg and part of my neck and back......
THEN I went to see Mengele.....( that actually was the highlight of my day HIHI June and HIHI Kathy)
ok I have imminent period arrival..... IPA, so I had a san napkin and old clean but ok to be stained undies...... so what does the doc make me do?
lay on my stomach and he sticks pins in my BACK.............
oh
and the best part
every single time he zapped me
and I SCREAMED......
he said he was sorry..........
if he really was FREEKEN sorry he would stop FREEKEN zapping me........
my little body is now all dented where he zapped and stabbed me.....
my arms and legs kicked and contorted all by themselves.....
I am STILL in agony.........
sniff
now Bernie has yet to hear this whole ordeal
( and the first one that feels sorry for Bernie that he didn't get a chance to WATCH......and LAUGH....... may you pee yourself........... )

I can't even give anyone the finger as that finger was impaled and is protesting mightily......
sniff
so is my back, neck......legs.....
actually NOT one FREEKEN spot on my body feels normal

sniff
vi
send cheesecake, icecream, and amazon gift certificates.........

OH OH OH AND one more thing....( OK two)
I am DENTED
yes that's right
all that impalement and stunning dented me!
plus I really think I should have turned them stun gun thingies on his testicles .........no?
ZAP This big boy
damn
vi
who is going to go back to nursing her boo boos with some milk and a peanut butter sandwitch

Lil pumpkin headed guy.....new larger size!

here's him with a body....... no clothes yet however
he is getting ledderhosen.....
hahaha


there is his head again
he is going to be a LE of 3
then comes his sister, baby brother..... and momma, poppa, and aunt matilida........
hahahaha
oh man I am having too much fun here
vi

talk to you all after the neurologist

Been busy with THIS!!!

lil pumpkin head.........


oh and here is a blurry picture of a doe and fawn taken last night
they are out back under the apples

Due to public outcry

Ok so it was one outcry........someone who shall remain ( Minnie) nameless
that I have yet to post after my rant about getting old.....
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meanwhile I was busy doing that very thing.....

Snap
Crackle
Pop

Sad really when you wake up sounding like a breakfast cereal........ maybe that is why my husband channels bacon? He hears my Snap, Crackle, Pop and thinks of food???

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I sit on the side of the bed in the morning and replace bones back to where they belong before I can even attempt to stand vertically. They make noise........... LOTS of noise.

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ok on to my half ass post for MINNIE..........

(you all can blame HER when it isn't all that funny cause I been busy working--- Everyone turn and look at MINNIE and wave now)

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I am in the studio, I am working on some pumpkin headed guys...... only bigger ones this time.

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I have run into a few snags.

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you would think.........( you really would have, iffen you would have been here)

after 40 years of doll making.......

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I would remember that really really LARGE things such as LEGS

would not fit through neck openings which are way smaller then they are....

if you don't believe me go look in the mirror.........

hurry now.. we'll wait.

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are you back yet? did you see what I mean???

ain't gonna happen without either major surgery or something.....

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ok so what does vi do????( dumb ass broad that apparently she is lately?)

sews the legs INSIDE the body..leaving an opening at the neck........

ok so today we have engineering 101.........where in vi re-visits anatomy and construction..
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( Another Larry, Moe & Curly moment brought to you by ................... whoever is running this end of the universe........ WHY can't I have the publishers clearing house guys running this end......and my CHECK arriving???)

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ok so that is on the list today, as well as direction getting for the neurologist tomorrow.....

( where in violet discovers squirrels in her brain pan which would explain a lot)

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I tell you all............I really could use a secretary....... cause I also need to explain to the insurance company that they yet again screwed up the medical payments they are to have been making to the doctor and to PT.

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I suspect that I need a stun gun to explain to them.................

although they may want to see THAT in triplicate then tell me that it is a duplicate.

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So postwise today is light.......

I imagine that after the doctor on wednesday..... that things will pick up a bit?

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meanwhile I got three laperms running around here like all the hounds of hell are chasing them......

damned if I know why..

oye

til next time

vi

PS: and for the record.......I woke up with a ZIT on my NOSE.......

they are migrateing and it isn't pretty

what's a nice old lady like me

doing with acne?
for the first time in my life?
on the BACK of my NECK?????????

HUH?

( over the top of my HUMP no less)

ok so I accepted the decending boobs into footstool thing.

I didn't complain much about when my waist slid down to my ankles...... leaving lumps and bumps all over my thighs on the way down....

and who actually notices GRAY hair when you are loosing ALL your hair.....

the mustache and beard thing...... goes with the menopause that won't FREEKEN PAUSE already.........

And I don't argue I just twist and creak my bones back into place several times aday now..

I avoid raw vegtables if I have to appear in public within a day of eating them. ( ditto on the chinese food)

I wear my orthopedic shoes, and wonder how the hell I ever wore them 'candi' shoes when I was cute.

I actually do USE my reading glasses

I am looking forward to collecting social security and again being adorable and cute in grown peoples eyes.......

but I draw the line at acne.............. on the BACK of my neck over my HUMP......( wouldn't you??)

oh and the off handed comment from bernie doesn't help much.....

'it isn't nothing but a ZIT'

yet I am still married to him and he is still walking around BREATHING!

so I didn't break his legs or strangle him

( gee bernie I didn't mean to put this here broom in the way of you going off in the dark to the bathroom in the middle of the night....... how many stairs DID you fall down???......... BOTH legs you say??? ........... can I pick the color of the casts?......I'm here for you dear.)

now I want to see the owners manual, I am NOT kidding around.

I want to talk to customer service and I want to know WHERE in the owners manual it says.........

MAY develope acne prior to DEATH??????????????

hello??

excuse me

who wrote this stupid ass book???

Lemme talk to someone in charge I don't want any smart ass gum chewing clerk with perky boobs either.....

I want to talk to someone OLDER then me who understands......

someone who knows the thud you hear every morning about 5 minutes after you get out of bed is your ass hitting the floor and following you.........

someone who looks in the mirror and has SEEN their dead mother.......... and not realized they are looking at themself.

someone who has to get up at night 75 TIMES an hour cause their bladder is the size of a pea, and apparently they drank Lake Ontario before they went to bed.........

someone who knows the JOYS of night sweats.................

Someone who almost considered a duct tape bra to slow the decend into hell..

Someone that knows that the senior citizen specials really are a very good deal.......

AND

I want that person to show me the twit that designed old age...........

because I want to beat the living crap out of them and leave them for dead on the side of the road with my acne and hump strewn over thier limp body, with a broomstick enima to remind them I am serious..........

if I actually remember

next time

vi

just a glorified cat pillow

as I sit here and attempt to type this entry, I have amber sitting on my chest.
( she is so old she weighs a feather so it isn't the lung crushing experience that Thaddeaus is)
I realized that mostly, for all the things I do
all the accomplishments in my life....
I am really just a glorified cat pillow.
complete with internal heater.

This comes as a new idea to me......
imagine that......
however the cats have apparently known this forever.....and taken me for granted.

they are cold.....they lay on mommy......
tired,.... mommy
feeling under the weather...forget the chicken soup....... we got mom!

I began to get an inkling of this today while trying to knit a smoke ring in iris...... ( a neck thingy in a purplish color for the knitting impared) I kept having to gently remove (by twisting sideways and jumping up......) one of the four felines that decided that I needed 'company'

FINALLY they settled for hanging out on the back or arms of the sofa and giving me vile looks....

wonderful I get contempt from the cats.......

( hey you feline fur faces......... let me remind you WHO opens the cat food cans????????? and it ain't DADDY)

I also realized that I spend almost 24/7 with four cats............ I spend about 3 hours quality time per day with Bernie...... the rest is with the cats.....
It's a wonder I am not hocking up hairballs myself.......

well as long as I am not attempting to use the litter pan and covering it up I imagine I am still safe

til next time

For our Beloved La Bella Mengele

Ok June I Fixed your link it works now and brings you HERE

Dear June, here is a bunch of funny links for you......
and when I finish this post I will put a clickable link down on the bottom of the blog just for you...... ( above Ashley and Kathy's............ ok but we don't need to tell them that huh?)
that way I can also add to it for when you need a laugh
so anyway I did go through and pick a bunch of really funny ( to me anyway ) posts for you......
I have to find the bat one as well. that was pretty funny if I can remember where the hell it is
til next time
vi

http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/07/are-you-sure-you-are-cat.html

http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/07/insert-clever-title-here.html




http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/07/not-playing-favorites.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/08/whats-nice-old-lady-like-me.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/as-i-will-be-unable-to-post-for-few.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/07/thaddeaus-ate-it.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/03/as-menopausal-turns-caution-female.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/my-ta-tas-are-now-ha-has.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/06/there-should-be-constitutional.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/we-interrupt-this-blog.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/07/shower-day.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/my-husband-channels-bacon.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/woo-hoo-vis-getting-squished.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/06/make-notethings-to-not-do-again.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/coffee-and-daylight-and-laperms-oh-my.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/whole-lot-of-nothing.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/07/what-exactly-is-normal.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/talk-goatie-to-me.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/01/4000-year-old-cat-and-cookie-dough.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/as-cat-turns.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2004/12/caroles-back-from-indie.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/01/januarys-slump-cats-life.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/woodpecker.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/how-did-shrew-get-in-attic.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/wisdom-of-posting-prior-to-coffee.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/larry-moe-curly-really-are-running.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/thank-heavens-for-boring-days.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/03/dust-bunnies-are-not-to-be-confused.html

http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/03/larry-moe-curly-part-2.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/03/update-or-you-say-what.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/03/i-have-survived.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/03/on-road-again.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/03/new-tranny-is-thing-of-beauty.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/of-course-my-van-is-broken.html

http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/04/one-of-those-days.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/06/poked-and-prodded.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/06/can-you-spell-insanity.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/06/dont-hate-me.html

http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/85-strawberries-finished.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/bathing-mrs-bigglewood.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/i-fear-plague-may-have-arrived.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/and-word-for-today-is.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/is-it-me-or-is-world-spinning-faster.html

http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/03/jolly-for-day.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/06/someone-freeken-shoot-me-now.html

http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/shhhhhhh-we-dont-see-any-violet-do-we.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/doctor-mengele-is-got-to-be-my-pt.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/ah-tape-is-marvelous-thing.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/i-misplaced-what.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/you-know-its-bad-when.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/dr-frankenstein-lives.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/today-i-again-have-physical-therapy.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/07/la-bella-mengele-strikes-again.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/06/mengele-is-winning.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/07/thaddeaus-ate-it.html

I am STILL alive

like a timex.......... I am still ticking!
I drove to NJ in the heat without air conditioning in Bernie's truck.
right there you have to wonder if I am all there in my mind........

on the HOTTEST day of the year so far......I am driving at 1:30 in the AFTERNOON, so in the hottest time of the day as well....... down to an even HOTTER state.......

however it was all worth it...
I have good news.
because I have fought this disease so hard, watching to stay on a high protein low carb diet....
excersizing, and not eating processed foods I only need metformin & the other one....spirlactin?
NOT the chemical cocktail that normally PCOS patients get.
and NO hormones.......!!!
yeah!
I do have to take extra fiber daily before dinner and then take my meds AFTER.

We are hoping to see a decrease in the visible symptoms.
meanwhile I am continuing on my pt excersizes........ ( Can't let our beloved la bella mengele down now can we???)

So todays little preview of hell actually was a very good thing.

ok Cat news......
there isn't any! the bad boy of our little laperm universe decided that it was too hot to get into trouble!
my ladies are respectable today as well. Although great granny Fawn continues to be her active little self.. She is so cute when she hangs from the cat tree by one paw.......... our little monkey...hahahahaha

ah..................
peace reigns in our tiny abode.

knitting news,
I cast on for the 'smoke ring' from heartstrings in Alpaca cloud from Knit picks in the Iris color way.
I am using size 9 needles as it didn't look like it would be big enough on size 6......
gee I hope I am right about that. I seem to remember that someone said theirs was too small in lace weight.
however I am thinking of doing a second one in either dk or fingering.

In neighbor news.....
it looks like the neighbor that has been causing all the trouble and we are sueing is indeed going to be moving on if his wife has any say............... YEAH cause since he has been here he has caused us over 10,000. in damages to our property alone......

life is indeed looking up from my current vantage point.

and I go BACK to the doctor at halloween!

meanwhile I am free to work and start my medicine..
next week is the neurologist........and then we get me a new warrenty!
til next time
vi

where in violet pulls her arm off......

ok first off MENGELE was here!!! ( June, you can also drop an email... click over on the email thingy and take out the inappropriate things and replace with normal email thingies.. @ and a .************* oh and I left a voice mail for you)
damn and I missed her.....
she was here at the blog......
( yes mengele dear, I can see that if I remember to look.......)
you know I do miss you so you can call.......
and tell them Fairlawn girls to call also.... (KATHY has the phone number you know.....oh and Kathy you better miss me too big time.......hahahahahaha)
I may try and stop in when I go to the neurologist......

Ok I have been again having a bit to shoulder trouble but I discovered if I hold onto the door way and stretch and lean................ it loosens up a bit and I can do my excersizes.........
( that earthquake you all just heard was our beloved la bella mengele dropping in a faint)

ok
now my next project is a OLD OLD woman doll........ she will be all in light colors......( what's up with that whole light colored thing lately????)
I am trying to figure out how I am going to do her now....... needlesculpt or maybe with either a clay or what?
I don't have time to do it in porcelain as this will be also entering the fair august 20.

I don't know if I mentioned it but I got juried into Art of the Doll.... that made me very happy as it is all original artists.
ok now it is time for dinner.... Bernie is making sandwhiches so I am setting on my fat ass typing this
but HEY I did clean half the living room today.......so that has to count for something no?

hahaha
vi
who tomorrow will be off to meet the vampire doctor and be drained of all her pints.......

Where in violet takes a picture

Here is the finished Halloween doll..... She looks totally different from what I had first envisioned however I went with what she wanted to be......***



the furry flank you may see in the left side of the picture......is Thaddeaus'
he decided that he needed to help me as obviously I did NOT know what I was doing.
one second after the picture was taken he tried to eat the little cat...
I took it away from him and informed he that cannibalism would not be tolerated here.


*** violet has finally lost it and the nuts and squirrels in her head have taken over.... send cheesecake


Ok on the furry side of the family, Fawn has decided that necterines are a cats best friend..... better then catnip even....
Calpurrnia is getting a thing for bleach... ( you really don't want to know......but no one was hurt)

And Thaddeaus scared the crap out of a client when he WALKED down the stairs..........

Her comment?

"CRAP he is HUGE"

yes he really is as big as I say he is......all 20 pounds of romping stomping solid feline muscle.......
he can reach up about 42 inches as well........
and he reaches up when I am at the computer and taps me on the top of the head.....
so he is Big AND a smart ass...........

but you all knew that about our favorite bad boy cat........( visions of little motorcycle jackets and tattoos of catnip plants MUST dance in his head)

ok now
tomorrow is the endo.......
they will drain my blood and replace with sawdust.........
you all feel sorry for me ok???
send gift certificates to knitpicks and amazon............****



**** and this is funny cause WHERE to send them is unknown........
hahahahaha
ok til next time for real
vi

NOT playing favorites

Dear Calpurrnia,
your father expressed an observation that I am always addressing things to your brother,
thereby leaving you in the corner playing with a leaf.

My darlink blue eyed innocent baby.......MOMMA loves you dearly.
(not at 3am mind you.. when you jump with all your 4000 pounds squarely on my stomach, but that is another post)

After all my precious little blue eyed one, who ELSE would think to tear ALL of the garland off of every surface it was attached to and then sit in the center of the crime scene blinking up at me in all innocence.........
( the phrase..***good thing she is really pretty*** comes to mind here dear)

And my tiny baby girl........... I am so happy that you have so little on your fluffy little mind that you are happy in the corner playing with a leaf that you stole off of momma's patchouli plant.....which by the way...... please tell me it was your BROTHER and not you that put all those tooth marks in that poor poor plant???

I am happy when you are happy.........

But since your father wants me to talk to you as well as your brother, I feel perhaps I should mention that purring in momma's ear at midnight will not get you another helping of canned cat food. Churkeling in that same ear won't work either.......... try your father dear, he can't resist you......

And this whole thing that we turn into blue eyed kitten eating monsters as soon as we come downstairs to the main house........ well darlink.........that has to stop..... you don't realize that your meow is now drowning out police and fire sirens......
however WE do realize that and are looking for hearing aides as I type.

As to the little presents you left momma by the front door.. I don't find them quite as endearing as you probably do........
and even your great great gramma is ashamed of you.......
however I did NOT tell your father....... let him be happy in his ignorance.

I also do know it was Thaddeaus that disemboweled that doll in your crate.........
however I also know it was YOU that took off with wigging fiber........after all I saw it all over your mouth and back........

And my little lovely, I also know it is YOU that keeps stealing the Q-tips off the workbenches and out of the medicine cabinet in the bathroom....... you have a stash of Q-tips all over the house........ people already think we are slobs..........could you PLEASE put them somewhere else...... try the black hole that Thaddeaus has deposited all the cat toys into.

And darlink, stop sneaking up on poor ancient Amber and bopping her on the head while she sleeps, you know it takes her a while to wake up and then I HAVE TO EXPLAIN to her what happened........ she doesn't always believe me.

and my darlink........... one more thing......... those little pumpkin headed dolls are NOT cat toys...... no matter what you think......... they are not.
so stop taking off with them......... and don't tell me your BROTHER made you do it dear, Daddy may buy that one but momma knows better............

so my little darlink blue eyed one who can do no wrong................
momma loves you very much
it is just that your brother needs more 'reminders' then you do dear.........

with love
mom

Are you SURE you are a cat?

Dear Thaddeaus,

I love you dearly, however something has come to my attention.......

namely your ah........ Un-cat like behavior.

I can deal with retrieving you from the top of the book cases.....
and also from the top of the pot cabinet......
( I don't care what anyone says about that one.........YOU WERE ON THE DAMN CEILING......If 80% of the cat is touching the ceiling....... the CAT is considered to be ON the ceiling)

I have been able to ignore your chewing every FREEKING thing in sight....
( please stop chewing daddies purple insulated lunch thingy... he gets upset when his ICED TEA gets HOT at work )

I am resigned to the fact that every thing in this house has tooth marks in it.......Including me.....
and some thing look like an advanced case of termites have feasted.

I have even decided that there is an odd logic to liking your bath but HATING the evil and obviously torturious WARM TOWEL....... ( after all it has EATEN bigger cats then you......LIONS even)

But son, I have to draw the line somewheres.........

and that somewheres is the ceiling fan.........

I don't think you really would like going for a ride on the ceiling fan any more then I would like cleaning up what was left of you and the ceiling and the floor......
cause at 20 pounds ( give or take a whisker) I am reasonably sure that the ceiling fan would come crashing down on the floor......
taking part of the ceiling with it.
Now I do realize that the ceiling is Irresistible....... I mean it was just hanging there waiting for your little paws to come along.....
taunting you no doubt......
and I do respect that fact that you love a challenge.....
that is part of your charm.........

however son, believe me when I tell you.....
the ceiling fan will not do you any good....
so how about this one we decide to pass on???
or at least give it the old college try eh?

go back to piling up and dive bombing boxes in the living room......
or taking off with mommy's newly made dolls.......... and disembowling them in Calpurrnia's crate.....
or EVEN stealing daddy's MODEL cars and again hiding them in Calpurrnia's crate
( what does Calpurrnia know.....she is happy singing in the corner with her patchouli leaf)

but my darling curly headed son......
please for heavens sake.......
don't mess with the ceiling fan....
it really isn't a cat sized amusement park ride...........

love mom

vi is expanding........****

*** get your mind out of the gutter......

I have put up a beginning miniature blog.......sort of like my doll gallery.....
I am going to start to post the miniatures that I make there......
The live link is over there down in the link section.....
I am going to have it also live in the doll gallery as well
oh and in case you notice... my retail soap page is up there too.......
I needed a place to put the stuff I was getting asked to see on a regular basis.....so there you all have it.
Now as to the miniatures, yes actually I do sell them.
I used to do shows and now occationally they are on ebay.
drop me an email if you would like to know more.
The soap I have been selling wholesale only for the past 6 years.......I am starting to sell retail now.

WARNING

many of my miniatures are halloween miniatures, cause I love halloween

but the rest of my miniatures will be going there as well.

I just set up so you can don't expect much ok???

I will be posting a lot of past work as well as miniatures for sale there.

til later when I actually have a funny post

vi

YOOOO HOOOOOO

it's me....... vi.. didja miss me???

ok here is the pretty much finished halloween doll .......shhhhhhh

cause I am also going to post her on doll gallery link later

I am trying to get that doll gallery whipped into shape and it is giving me a hard time

but here are the pictures

a shower a day

certainly prevents air polution...........


pumpkin headed girl

I JUST out of the shower this morning.... ( having fought three little laperms to get INTO the shower.... they like water, unless we are actually BATHING them)

fawn helping me take pictures

drying off, when the phone rang.....

a friend of mine.......

she informed me I sounded a bit 'odd'

I said I was in the bathroom and toweling off.... having just gotten out of the shower.....

( actually if she had called about 2 minutes sooner....I would have sounded WATERY as I was IN the shower and yes I would have answered the phone...... I am pathetic huh???)

She expressed surprise I was just out of the shower and asked if I was going out.....

hmmmmm...........
I do shower regularly you know.............


another side of her


I make soap after all and need someone to test the batches........ not always will I want bernie to come out smelling like violets and roses.......

( although I don't actually want to smell like roses either........ but you know someone has to do it)

Anyway, I was then attempting to towel off, hold the phone

( and hold the phone NOT with my shoulder...... so as to prevent our beloved la bella mengele from crying when I would have to come back with my shoulders again in my ears)

getting dressed and fighting thaddeaus for a spot on the bed

This is a picture believe me..........that would cause blindness in about anyone.........

( oh and for the record........thaddeaus won........ and he is currently in the CENTER of the bed.. )

I just want to state here in black and white...........
yes I do shower regularly.....
the stench you may smell is actually the litter box........
THAT we don't exactly clean DAILY..........

just so that is clear now....

good back to doll making for me..
little pumpkin headed GIRLS

til next time
vi

What exactly IS normal?

first off here is the little pumpkin headed guy....... I like him but there is something not quite right about him....
any comments?

today is hopefully going to be a more normal day then we've had around here lately.
(last week and this past weekend seem so surreal)

I slept in!
THADDEAUS let me! Either he wasn't crying at 5am or I just simply did not hear him.
my toe...... yup still red/black/blue.........still curiously flattened...... hurts but I can deal with it
(hey after dealing with the pain from pt and my beloved la bella mengele........ a toe is NOTHING)

now it has come to my attention.......... that some folks are taking dibs on my bernie......
not to mention any names ( SHAGGY) however as I am not quite DEAD yet.....

I was wondering what brought that on?????
or am I actually DYINK
and no one AGAIN thought to inform me........

now given that in my family ........

the only difference between the dead and the living is the dead EAT LESS....

and that they

ALL STILL HAVE A FREEKIN OPINION

I would imagine even if I WAS dyink.......or even DEAD....

it wouldn't make all that much difference around here..... ( I would just eat alot less)

SOME folks would still hear my big mouth.................

( and just for that shaggy, If I die, I am going to CALL your sorry ass on the phone daily......... be fore warned and be very afraid)

now back to everyone's regularly scheduled day

til next time

vi

Insert clever title here

lets see............. since the stooges are in full force in my neck of the woods....
I figured I would update you all on some of that stuff...

first off......how stupid do you have to be to remove a boundary marker that you are ALREADY ( and currently) getting sued for removing once?????????????
hello???
is there a brain cell in there?
( he reproduced or I would say.....he really needs a darwin award)

now I had a lot to do today, going for mail, getting the pick-up inspected.... trying to finish up the CUTEST little pumpkin headed people.... cleaning the living room,
calling to see if medical records were transferred..... listing stuff on ebay......
you know.... LIFE.

what am I doing?
calling the police,
calling the insurance company
calling the surveyor.......
dealing with a thousand little details......oh and btw, the insurance company is referring this to their THEFT unit........

maybe that will help us
everyone that I spoke to that has had boundary issues with neighbors have told me......they moved..
that pretty much sucks but we are planning on moving.........

meanwhile I am dressed in 'town' clothes
which is not conducive to cleaning or even drinking Iced tea in.....

while I am beginning to LIKE primitive......... I don't want a primitive stain of tea across my somewhat ample bosom.......

( I don't see that on the covers of them supermarket romance novels...... tea stained ample bosoms.... actually mostly them bosoms are heaving.... well mine are in shock I think.......)

so I am waiting to find out if the cops are coming out and when the theft unit is coming out

and when the HELL can I get into studio clothes and get to real work here. I also need to excavate to find where the hell the living room has gotten to.

I know I left it somewheres in the house but I am not entirely sure where it is...... where ever it is......it has a fireplace in it....but so far I haven't found it yet.....

( I am not admitting to being a bit of a mess right now however, any semblance of that is surely in your own mind and has nothing to do with the two tables heaped with boxes and paper work that is right outside the kitchen)

now I mentioned the little pumpkin headed guys....... they are the CUTEST thing.......now I am not sure what to do about them...... you know..to finish them off.

I need something around their little necks.....maybe pumpkin leaves.....and a vest?

or bow?

they really are cute but I need them to be even cuter............... and finished looking........I am waiting for the pumpkin which I glued on to dry now.....

I think I am also delirious with the red and curiously flattened toe I am walking around on.

ok til next time

I am going to now go and pull out what is left of my hair.......

vi

Dear Lori,

the little pumpkin guy is a tiny cloth doll sewn up and painted with a little fimo pumpkin head.

I will try and take his picture for you tomorrow

vi

oh man...... the stooges are in full force

we just found out that moron neighbor AGAIN removed a survey pin from our property.....
and also ripped a sign down... off one of our trees
and then

to make sure today wasn't a total loss........

I dropped a corning ware 3 quart casserole on my toe....
which is now black and blue..... hurts like a SOB.......
and is a bit flattened......

I know ( from experience) that I have a fracture....... not compound obviously.....but a fracture non the less.......
bernie of course thinks I am crazy.....
( well it isn't his toe)

add that to the mess that is my neck/back and shoulders......
and well.......
lets put it this way
it is probably a good thing mengele can't see me now......

she would be in tears..........
all her hard work down the drain.........

there is also no icecream in the house
and let me tell you........

If I could hobble to the gun store...... I think I would shoot the moron neighbor and put myself out of my misery
thank GOODNESS tomorrow is another day

til tomorrow
vi
who did NOT have the best of weeks

ARE you sure it is Sunday?

Bernie didn't wake up channeling bacon this morning!

I am assuming his internal clock is off huh?
I mean most Sundays I have to hear him tell me over and over.......' I smell bacon'

( I guess it is better then him telling me he smells dead people or something like that huh?)

Maybe it was because we had talked about maybe getting bagels for today's main event.....

Sunday breakfast for us, as for most folks it s big deal........ HE ALWAYS cooks Sunday breakfast.......even when his sisters were here visiting he cooked Sunday breakfast.

So right now as I sip my coffee (which is not very good today for some odd reason) he is cooking his bacon.


finished lace scarf for my lace class in Siskin red.

The laperms meanwhile have taken this special time to of course get into trouble.....
I just shooed calpurrnia out of a doll house.
the little blue eyed one who can do no wrong was stuffing her fluffy little body into a story and a half doll house after the accessories.......
remind me again how much I LOVE THESE GUYS??
quick before I have to crate them.............

Thaddeaus is to get a bath today.................
calpurrnia is not due one but if she pisses me off enough........ BOOM she is going to be in the tub.


closeup of that scarf pattern


long shot

***STATS, this is based on a pattern from The Knitting Fairy, however I modified it a wee bit....



Ok I am going to start a tiny personal journal............... not this blog it is a public journal
I am going to start a personal one........( for my eyes only........hahahahaha)

the reason???
I am thinking I am at another transition point in my life.......... ( they happen to everyone periodically) and I would like to work out the next segment for myself.

I have done this at other transitions in life, I kept a journal while dad was ill for a while, until I got too busy to do it...... ( and too exhausted.......Alzheimer's is no joke)

So I picked up a tiny little note pad, just until I get the signatures that are lying around the studio sewn into a book .......... I have been wanting to do a bit of bookbinding anyway.....

(what you don't have signatures laying around in YOUR studio???????????????
and you call yourself an ARTIST????.......... oh.............wait you don't call yourself an artist?....... ok sorry.....never mind)

I really could get into bookbinding on a larger scale if I had a bit more space in the studio and bookbinders press....... Or even a hot type letter press......

like I NEED another thing to do around here...

but anyway back to the transitions..........

I have to decide what to do with my business, close it, ? grow it? change it? sell it?
then what to do with my professional life........
after all........now that I am down to one chin, a loose hump and lost part of my stomach rolls.........
I need to do SOMETHING no???
til next time
as my breakfast is ready
vi

ohoh....... I think I did me in

as I was released from pt, I figured that I was ok to start doing heavy work again....
well wouldn't YOU think that???
I started by cleaning the living room and throwing myself into workbench work

BIG freeken mistake

can you say........ vi is a moron.......
yes I know you can cause I am

my shoulders are killing me and I am having a bit of trouble keeping them down again......

can you say STRESS?????

I am doing my pt faithfully.. ( I don't want to have to have mengele rip my head off and shove it up my ass........this time she may NOT retrieve it.......cause I was a moron)

ok so what do I do???
more stretches.........and ICE

ice is my friend.....
I am going to encase my sorry ass and painful shoulders in a glacier I loves me so much ice
I am going to bath in aspirin and ice.......
see that blue woman over there.............. shivering......
that would be me

ok in other news
bernie is picking up 20 pounds of on sale boneless skinless chicken breast so I will be cooking all weekend....
no I never do learn do I

someone come over here and hit me over the head with the frying pan I so richly deserve??????????
hurry before mengele gets to me

I may not survive her wrath...........


NOW the big announcement

THE VAN IS ACTUALLY IN THE SHOP AS I TYPE

and on the lift!

ok that is the good news........I am waiting to hear the bad.....

which I hope isn't too bad.

lets see......

I finished that lace scarf........did I tell you all already? it is washed, slightly blocked and ready to go to the yarn store.

that was my pt scarf...........knit throughout most of pt.

so that is also over.

am I the only one that gets a bit lost at endings???

the end of a project?

visit?

season?

LOVE beginnings so I need to have a new project FAST...

something all consuming and endlessly fascinating.......

til next time

vi

Rosemary

Rosemary Jayne Zook

Rosemary J. Zook passed away peacefully on Tuesday, July 19, at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, N.J.
Born on Jan. 1, 1936, in Villisca, Iowa, she was the daughter of David and Wilma Zook.
A member of Morristown High School class of 1953, she held a B.A from East Stroudsburg University, 1971, an M.S from the University of Scranton, 1979, and a Ph.D. candidate from Bryn Mawr College.
A licensed psychologist who practiced in East Stroudsburg for over 25 years, she was founder and director of The Center for Human Growth Inc., East Stroudsburg.
An accomplished musician and songwriter, who had several compositions featured at a variety of venues, including the Delaware Water Gap Jazz Festival, Ms. Zook was also a published author, recently featured in The Seattle Times and The Baltimore Sun. Her commentaries The Monster Under The Bed' and Color Me Scared' eloquently spoke to how best to confront our fears in this ever-changing post-9/11 world.
Ms. Zook was actively involved in numerous community organizations and philanthropic causes. A trusted friend, loving mother and grandmother, and mentor to many, Rosemary had an irreverent sense of humor, a sharp wit, and possessed a unique generosity of spirit that was unparalleled. She will be sorely missed.
She is survived by two sons, David Robert Anderson, wife Chilon, of Cary, N.C., and John Stephen Anderson, wife April, of Cresco. She was also the proud grandmother of Crystal Cervino Dawson, and husband, Corey, of East Stroudsburg, David and Jessica Anderson, of Cary, N.C., and great-granddaughter, Stephanie Gross Cervino.
In addition, she is survived by her assistant, office manager and devoted friend, Janice Rushen, of East Stroudsburg; one sister, Muriel Fancher in Easton, Md.; and three nieces: Elizabeth Fancher, Ellen Fancher-Ruiz, and Susan Fancher-Ruzicka.
There will be no public viewing. A cremation will take place on Tuesday, July 26.
The family will receive friends and visitors from 2 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 27, at the home on 3871 Cranberry Road, Stroudsburg.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to AMDA, The Acid Maltase Deficiency Association, P.O. Box 700248, San Antonio, Texas 78270, or www.amda-pompe.org.

Personal points of view

My friend Marilyn and I were talking today, about view points.
She said that my view point is a bit unique from the average person.

Now I have always thought I was a forgettable type person, someone who blended into the woodwork.
Marilyn it would seem, differs with my opinion of myself.

I do however realize that I have a slightly left of center sense of humor.
As well as a rather distinctive voice......( stop me if you think I am wrong here)
beings as I am from jersey and all originally.

I was informed that it is highly unlikely that folks that have been exposed to me for any reasonable length of time would forget me........

I am not all that sure about that....... but Marilyn did say that so I imagine it may have some truth. As Marilyn would not lie to me

I am however not exactly shy when I do have something to say.

what brought this all up?

well as I am in the middle of endings and new beginnings....... I got to thinking if folks ever remember me after I am gone.

And In light of Rosemary's crossing, I wonder how my stint on this earth affects folks......

Also I don't know when or if I am going to be able to go back to pt, which in a way terrifies me as I am so afraid I will do my shoulders and neck in again. ( Will they remember me when if I have to go for my hands and knees???? )

NOW I realize how limited my world had become before, when my arms and shoulders did not work. ( MENGELE IS A SAINT I TELL YOU)

I did make the appointment with the neurologist so that they can start doing whatever to my hands...... which go numb FAST when I am actually working at my normal pace. Then the numb leg..........then the last thing is the knee that is numb and yet hurts all the time.

I also guess that with Rosemary having crossed over.. (the last day of PT) I wonder if she will remember me when I get to heaven???

( hush now I am going to go to heaven..........if for nothing more then the comic amusement-you all know how much Larry, Moe and Curly love me, and also in SPITE of all them folks that always seem to 'damn you to hell' hahahahah stubborn cuss I am)

I also just realized that I have to do some deciding on my business.
I have to change it to meet this new market climate, as well as my bodily limits....... no longer can I do 15 hours of production a day. So I have to grow it in a new direction.

The soap part will pretty much stay the same basically.. the marketing for it will change however.

The doll part is going to have to change the most. I am thinking of patterns and how to books now. With me only doing prototypes.

oh and I finished that lace scarf for the class I am teaching, I knit the entire scarf while doing pt.
it will always be my 'pt scarf'

gee true to the aries I am ...... I HATE endings.........

but I dearly LOVE beginnings..

til next time
vi

Endings & Beginnings

***First---------fast note to Kathy...... please go and click your link.......

well I have happiness and sadness today.
First the happy stuff.......
the doctor released me from pt, and said he was very happy with my results.........

that I did good in pt, YEAH for MENGELE!!!

I worked my ass off but if it wasn't for her magic hands......I would not be able to reach over my head.

( yes my beloved Bella Mengele, I did my exercises today and will do them tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow............. )

Now them folks down there at the PT place had BETTER miss me!
hahahahaha

ok I am now going to be going to get my hands done, so first I have to go to the Neurologist......who will look in my ear with a candle and wave to the squirrels that inhabit my head..............

well it is nerve stuff in my hands.....not bones....

After all that stuff then I get the knee done.......and I think then Mengele will have me back and be happily beating the crap out of me while I make smart ass remarks and document it all on this blog....

now on to the bad news,

a Person I respected highly died yesterday, she had MS.

In spite of her medical problems, she had courage and humor..... both things I respect highly.

I last spoke to her on July 6, and we caught up with what is going on.

Now while this was not unexpected, it still was a shock to me.

Rosemary, I know you can hear me...... And while I will miss you...... you are finally free of the prison that your body became.......

and now......

you can fly

I will miss you

vi

Thaddeaus ate it

fast note to Kathy...... please go and click your link.......

my little curly headed son, you know....... the one in the picture (click on his name to the right)
is such a darlink...... so innocent......... so sweet, mild tempered, loving, lovable.......( yeah right my ass)
he as some of you know.......will EAT anything
He disemboweled a woolen snowman I laboriously needle felted for Bernie.........
and now..... he ate my hat for my halloween doll........
and it was ALL FINISHED too......
sniff
he waited until it was finished
all weekend this hat has been kicking around the studio being pushed and pummeled into a remarkable semblance of a sugar loaf hat from the 1600's

in purple no less...........

sniff

not any more

now it looks like an ass wipe

with hair.

at least he left me the FEATHER that was decorating it

that was soooooooooooooo big of him.

ok in other areas.......

Mengele said I got about 75% strength and movement back in my left arm....... YEAH for mengele.

she didn't kill me today either......

ok you guys.......tell me the truth........am I dyink??????

after all mengele didn't rip my head off and toss it on the table...........she didn't forceable extract my shoulders and invert them......

so I ask you all again????

am

I

dyink?

you can tell me...........................

( after all you are all in the will.......)

ok so I called the orthepedic doctor and found out that my appointment is 9:30 on wen. I also told them....... lets do the wrists, elbow and my knees

damn, mengele gave me back shoulder and neck movement........lets see if I can again use my hands without them going numb every two seconds..

the woman is a miracle worker, but you better be good with pain if you go to her.

if mengele puts THIS body back together I want a 90K warrenty, and julia roberts legs.......

OH and if mengele pulls this off........she is deffinately going to cannonized....... saint mengele.......of the crushed and broken bones.

patron saint of formerly handicapped folks in this and any other world.

oh and she said my hump is moving around....... it is soft and pliable.

I don't know if I actually want a moving hump.............. ( shades of mel brooks frankenstein.....)

unless this hump moves off next door onto the moron's face.......and SMOTHERS him

with my luck this moving hump will slide down my back and add to my already impressively huge back end.........

hey but at least I can turn my HEAD

hahahahahahah

oye til next time

vi

rain rain............go away

it is overcast today, ordinarily I would adore it.
(yeah for misty overcast eerie fay type weather!!!)
however I wanted to take some pictures of the dolls and the knitting so today isn't all that great lighting wise to do that.

I am about done with the Halloween doll........ I made YET another basket as thaddeaus ate the first one.
this second one is oval and I think I am going to put a supportive bottom on it......
I have to make her little hat and cape next.....
I have the pumpkins and JOL's to fill her basket up
( thank goodness for sculpty huh?)

Bernie is going to recycling.......I am sitting home typing this.
He is going to online school for Kia today so I won't be on the computer.
I will finish my sample for my lace class.....and rewrite the instructions for my students.

I have a few more things to make for the fair and also halloween stuff to make.....
and I have to put some stuff up on ebay.

I don't know if I am going to enter any photo's yet in the fair..........I have a few I would love to enter but I don't have a color cartridge........ and I am not entirely sure that even if I had one, would this printer do the pictures justice????

TUESDAY night I am going to go to an online chat........... someone remind me ok? it is at 7pm

I am doing my pt excersizes faithfully and running around waving at the ceiling.........
I can't believe I can get my hands over my HEAD again!
oh MY
I feel so young!
Bernie even commented that my neck IS longer.... Bless mengele and all her descendants........

it isn't being held down and jambed up

And while I did NOT lose weight, I look like I did a bit
as there is a stomach, chin and part of a hump gone!
( that damn dowagers hump on my back.............ewwwwwwwwwwwww...... I remember my mom had one............ewwwwwwwwwwww)
my shoulders are down and back now instead of up and forward......
which means clothes fit a bit better as well!

ok
off to work I go
hi ho hi ho
til next time
vi

ALMOST done!!!

and this is how the wigging started

sorry about the blurry photo's

ok off to work I go
vi

violet's newest craze

is her arms!!!!
yes yes it is official
I can lift my arms over my head again!!!!!!!

yeah for JUNE ( la bella mengele)

I keep putting my arms up in the air.

It is a good thing I am home alone as I look pretty freeken funny walking around like that.

In other news, I was pretty wiped yesterday........
( mengele truly whipped my ass but good, quivering mass of jello doesn't begin to describe how bad off I was yesterday, and of course imminent menstruation isn't helping matters)

I also was pre-mentral, and had intermitten hot flashes.............
I think if I was a horse they woulda shot me huh???

Ok todays schedule after putting my arms in the air.....(thank GOODNESS for deodorant huh?)
is to finish this doll and do my pt.
I am painting fall leaves on the little apron that is going to go on her.........
I did her stomacher (stomacher and again here for a stomacher ) in orange! I may paint it with something later
and her bodice now I have to finish her apron, then needle felt her hair and do the last touches on her.
I am not rushing her however
But she looks like she will be cute however when she is done.

today I am exhausted, I can just go upstairs and sleep. I didn't even eat yesterday I was so bad.
Thaddeaus caught his little toe in the crate lock thing, and was yowling at 5am so I rushed to help him and then of course I was up
the ladies were up and wanting breakfast......
hell even the field mice were up after that racket.
a bowl of cat food made it all better for him
the little glutton.....
hahahaha

ok I hope for pictures for you all later so check back late this afternoon
til next time
vi

La Bella Mengele strikes again

well Mengele was in rare form today.

ok so let me preface this with telling you that she is really a wonderful lady. Her name is June and she is a miracle worker, she gives people back their lives again.
She knows her stuff and has given me back so much of my life I can't even tell you all.
I have actual motion now, and I can move my neck!
I also have some pain free times............I haven't been pain free in about 20 years!
she does this really odd thing where she twists you, and then holds you like that for about 2 whole minutes....... let me tell you the woman is a miracle worker.

There is a very special place in heaven for her, cause she really does go above and beyond.
And most importantly she cares.

She really does, you can tell.

And I am forever grateful and in her debt.

ok that being said...... Mengele reached new heights of torture today
Contortions like you have NEVER seen before
I didn't know that a human body of this size could actually bend that way.
Ok well last week she bent & stretched my poor little neck so far I swear I am three inches taller

seriously

I actually lost one of my many many CHINS!!!!!!

BERNIE noticed it!

( I told him that Mengele ripped it off)

Today Mengele got the big guns out...............................
she got the manual and her eyeglasses........

ok so here I am head hanging off the end of the table...... she tossed my wig down the other end of the table, and was yanking and twisting my head off until I looked like Linda Blair in the Exorcist
or at least a barn owl
The only thing we were missing was the projectile green pea soup......

she put the manual on my chest....... I Can't even See over my own boobs, even lying down the damn things are so freeken huge............. like a mountain range..........what toes????

which of course I was still breathing so it slid off to the side...... and down the slope
I did grab it
I held it as I know she needed to see it


you know you're in trouble when..........

Mengele is looking for a spot to place her feet so she can get better traction when she goes to twist my head off, and she decides that under my ass is the perfect place. Well the weight would hold her foot in place.

She puts me in to positions that even BERNIE wouldn't get me in...only her positions hurt like hell.......... ( he couldn't get me in.........I don't twist that way..............NO ONE twists that way)

Mengele has one hand on my neck and the other in the book........

after my little head is jammed down into my chest which caused me to talk like Minnie mouse.............
She asked me how I was doing...........

squeak squeak

ha
it's ok who needs to breath?????
I got shoulder movement!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I told bernie that she ripped my head off....shoved it up my ass and pulled it out my ear............
rinse and repeat........
I swear that is what it feels like........

however after the intense and excruciating pain goes away................. I really DO have a lot more range of movement and more and more pain free time!!!

but until that point there is not enough ice..........glaciers don't have enough ice..........


all this for me to come home, and hold the phone with my right shoulder AGAINST Mengele's orders.........
while yacking away a mile a minute with Mary, and typing this blog entry

talk about multi tasking
hahahaha
Mary is now afraid that Mengele will blame her................

I think mary is afraid mengele will rip HER head off.............hahahahahahahahahah

however Mengele did replace my head before I left.........
after all I couldn't be the headless violet, as I don't live in tarry town and my last name isn't Irving

Mary wants to not be in the middle of my shoulder and mengele's wrath.................
hahahahah
she wants a beeper on my head set (the one that thaddeaus took off with......HE DID!~and he ate it)

So Mengele dear if you read this ..........Please comment and tell mary that her head isn't next on the block as she really is afraid of you now.

til later..
oh and I will post more pictures of the doll later as she is pretty much almost done
but I am going out with Diane today for ICECREAM
and I got priorities you know
vi

after bath cat pictures and update on the halloween doll

ok here is Calpurrnia, she is all fluffy and curly again! isn't she the sweetest little thing?
don't let her kid you, she put us through the ringer for her bath!.

here is a better view of her ruff curls.
She just makes me melt.

here is our 'little guy' thaddeaus, as you all can see he is all fluffy and curly after his bath.
he actually likes the bath, he just doesn't like the towel part after!
he is a REALLY big cat, when bernie holds him, he covers bernie's entire chest and one shoulder....


Fawn didn't get a bath this week, she is due next week, but she was all concern that her great great grandcats were getting one.

When Calpurrnia cried Fawn got VERY upset and kept getting under our feet and calling Calpurrnia to reassure her. It didn't work really well however. but calpie is all clean and fluffy.....and has forgiven her dad...... me she loves today!

ok now that those guys are done,

here are the finished boots on the doll............ they enable her to stand up on her own but they are a bit large for her.

and here is the finished underskirt, I just finished painting the fabric for the overskirt, I am not sure if I should do any metallic printing on it however.

Time to think about ............

HALLOWEEN!

What you folks don't start thinking about halloween in july???
Why NOT?
Now I am not talking about the slasher, bloody, scary, icky halloween crap that is served up every year by hollywood............
noooooooooooooo

we all know that is crap right???
I am talking about vintage halloween

Friendly little jack o lanterns, ghostly folks, Happy rosy cheeked witches.......
those vintage vegetable people......

( insert hugh sigh here.....)

If you read me regularly ( and if you do thank you, I hope you enjoy your visit) you all know I am doing the halloween cloth doll...... nothing gorie at all, just sweet and pumpkinie....... ( it is a word NOW)

well I also joined a couple of new ( to me) yahoo groups, a halloween one, cloth doll one, and primitive one. At one group was the instructions for making a feather tree........hmmmmmmmmmm
always wanted one of them..........
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmm
have them little pumpkin ghosts for the dollhouse I couldn't stop making last year.............
hmmmmmmmmmm
I am thinking I really have got to clear the time and space in the studio to make one of those feather trees.

I have the wire, I have dowels, I think I even have the florist tape.............. CAROLE has the poultry feathers.............
this just may actually happen!!!!
which would make me very happy to finally have.

So my question to you all is................. in BLACK or ORANGE????

if I had poll scripting I would insert a poll here
but I don't at the moment
so if you have an opinion please post it in the comment section..........????

if you would be so kind
til next time
vi

stormious interuptus

damn don't you HATE when that happens?
a small but overly confident storm blew through here a whiles ago.
all puffed up with itself.
ha
it didn't last 10 minutes
all huff and no puff.
however it made me shut the computer down and it is still really dark in here.


For the doll folks looking for my halloween doll I am still working on ........ click HERE scroll down to the bottom for pictures
I will be putting updates on here either today or tomorrow

I am working on the boots for her right now

I am on a really tear right now.
I have stuff to make for competition, as well as the fall seasonal sales.
And inbetween I am making stuff for me.
( me, me, me......... mememememememe........ ok so actually it isn't really for me, but for the house............ but it makes ME happy)

ohohoh and I am making a new fall leave set of bags, ( small shoulder bag/sock tote, little matching tool bag, and large knitting/spin group tote)
I have a tapestry fabric with oak leaves woven into it. I am going to lightly hand tint these leaves in my favorite trio of colors......... ( magenta, orange, yellow)
I didn't start this set yet as I need to find some lining fabric .............
I think I would like a muted sort of fall leaves print.


right now, right this second i am having a blast
ok off to finish the macaroni salad and to finish the boots for the halloween doll
til next time
vi

The Cries of London

First off, I don't understand terrorism.
there are so many things in life that cause pain, 'acts of god', natural disasters, illness, natural deaths, accidents.......I can even understand crimes of passion.

I don't understand how someone could possibly do an act of this much violence to another human being.
how can a person in their heart between them and their idea of god justify this?
I can't even begin to fantom this
I can't get my mind around it.

it literally is too large for my brain to comprehend
my heart goes out to the folks there.
Mengele spoke to her family there and everyone of her folks are ok and accounted for...... thankfully.

Now the post that I had planned for today, I am still going to post, almost in defiance of the disruption that these people have tried to perpetrate.

How I design and make a cloth doll.

while I do start with a rough idea or sketch, ( which I did not scan sorry) from which I draft a pattern and make the body, I am not going to bore you all with that part....... nor with the endless tweaks that I do before I get one actually together so here are the 'work in process' photos

This is the overview of the finished body, with head attached

A close up of the face, this is the color that is most correct.

Wigging fiber just laid over the head to check coloration, this is a warm butterscotch and it is definitely a go. However the color of this picture is way off

the over view of the sewn, but not gathered skirt with hand painted pumpkins.. this color is pretty accurate

close up of one of the pumpkins, color is very off

and on WENDESDAY....... violet did nothing!

for the most part
I got up LATE.........
ok so I was up at 4 AM, but I hung out in the bed with the cats to almost 7am

I ate a scrambled egg, cheddar cheese, cream cheese wrap sandwich for lunch......
I got the mail
I paid the insurance
I argued with the insurance company over a claim that they had originally paid
I talked to the doctor......
I painted pumpkins on one of the dresses for a doll for competition.......
I made tetrazzini

in other words
I did absolutely NOTHING today

( that is my story and I am sticking to it)
I got pt tomorrow......
I was a very good girl and did my excersizes..... even though they HURT
sniff
am I getting ANY sympathy here????

( well I don't get much from bernie either......he said it was good for me)

ok well I am off to finish dinner
and bernie just pulled up
til next time
vi

what the hell is this???

http://blogshares.com/blogs.php?blog=http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com%2F#
???????????????????
oh my!

SOAP, beautiful SOAP!!! Loverly SOAP

I just cut up 10 pounds of freshly made patchouli soap. All slated for a client who can't live without patchouli, ( she wanted 30 lbs-they must be a VERY clean family.........)
I cut it different then normal so there is much less then 40 bars, but some are nice and large for the men in her family.
She is going to be thrilled!

I made it yesterday and now it will join the older more experienced soapies up in the soap room.
They will instruct it on it's future career.....

I worked on another cloth doll this weekend. She is very somber in an Addams family sort of way, without being macabre.
Soooooooooooo I was thinking..............
how about a sort of halloween without being scary sort of a doll?
I have been wanting to play with that sort of theme for a while....

( I LOVE halloween, but none of the horror and bloody crap, I only like pumpkins, and ghosties and witches...... maybe an occational banshee thrown in for good measure, although a dancing skeleton is pretty good here and there............... oh and BATS.... love me some bats and black cats......)

so anyway, I have her made, and I am painting tests for her petticoat, with pumpkins on it!, after I do the clothing I will do her hair.
( I switched last year to needle felting hair on these cloth dolls after I got the felting needles in Rhinebeck in October........... LOVE IT, and won't go back to doing it any other way!)

I drew out the next couple of dolls.... I am doing some experiments with cloth so we'll see how much makes the final grade and into the competition at the fair.

I still have the Toadcroft sisters to do as well.......

Hey I got the BESTEST present today!
mengele gave me a delphinium!
I have tried to grow them from seed, but they get about 4 inches high and keel over.
( and I have a VERY green thumb, ask bernie...........he swears I can grow a stick!)
she gave me one she divided off of her established plant so I have high hopes for this one.
wasn't that the sweetest most wonderful thing????
I love delphiniums, they are one of the definative english perrenial border plants, and really beautiful.

So thank you so very much mengele, you have no idea how wonderful that was of you........

I am thinking of what out in my garden I would have to share with you....... as it is not in good shape lately but IS full of obscure medicinal plants........ stuff no one grows anymore but really still work so very well..............?
agrimony?
red valerin

oh one more thing.......... Today our little calpurrnia has been with us a year!
and on july 17 her and her brother will turn two years old!
I just took a nap and little calpie slept up on my chest with her tiny pink nose next to mine.
hahaha
she is my little lady.......... and I am so thrilled that she joined our little family.
whatever did I do without them?
til next time
vi

FINALLY, I took the pictures of this doll finished

head shot


and with the red ribbon.....
oye

channeling bacon part 2

again it happened.......
my husband woke up channeling bacon

is this normal I ask YOU????

he said to me...... 'someone is COOKING bacon'

yea right bernie......and you can smell it even though it is 6am, and the air conditioners are on, AND one of the cats just used the facilities.......
but you smell bacon....

not just any bacon mind you........
PLUMROSE bacon!!!!

then because he is who he is
he also started to smell toast!

ahhhhhhh there is nothing like a sunday morning huh???

in other news, I can't make the weights I wanted to, as the rim weights were recyled by the tire people thursday.
Of course they didn't realize until AFTER I called and they said I could have them.

but I got a pair of ankle weights that I can remove the weights by the pound for 19.00 so it isn't too bad.
( target in case anyone needs to know)

I also stopped at the fabric store and got two new remnets for my bags, one is a dark navy with burgandy flowers very very sophisticated in a traditional sort of way.
and I got a yellow/peach/green with oak leaves, which I plan on tinting with watered down fabric paints in shades of magenta, purple, orange and red...............
however the tinting will wait until I get the lining fabric for that one.

I am thinking of lining the navy one in a dark reddish burgandy, really understated ( especially for me, huh? someone quick see if I have a fever???)

I am on a knitting bag/tote/ tool bag kick lately, even though I have been doing stuff like this for years, now I am determined to have sets for every mood.........
why I DON'T know
but I am
gees.......... and here I am with no closets!

also lately a song is running through my head........ 'wouldn't it be nice'
remember from the 60's..........
only I have changed the words a tad............
hahahah
just a tad......

'wouldn't it be nice to have an ipod
wouldn't it be nice to have a farm
wouldn't it be nice to have some savings
wouldn't it be nice for moron to be gone...............'

hahahah
oh man the stuff that inhabits my mind is SCARY

anyway it is playing over and over in my poor head......... there are other verses as well
that include things like closets and tunis sheepies

ok now I am off to sew dolls and bags........... possible a tunic top if I can figure out WHERE bernie put my rayons

oye
til next time
and I will post pictures so stay tuned
vi

Mengele just upped the anti

oh MY.........
just when I thought it was SAFE and pt was over.......
Mengele informs me that they DID get me approved for 4 more weeks
and guess what else???

she got some new torture devised for me

apparently I have no upper body strength.....
( ah, Mengele, did you NOT say to me......'nothing more then 5 pounds'????? see how good I listened!!!!!)

she has decided I need weight training for strength...........

oh my........
I can't tell you the screaming mass of heat that my muscles are right now.......

and I was informed by everyone that they will 'be really sore in a day or so'

oh man.............
and I need to do this weight stuff at home.

ok
I have some weights here...
but they are too large, they are 10 pounders.
so I need weights and I can't afford to spend a kidney on them
I have thunk
and thunk
and decided to make my own weights that will be able to be adjustable is weight.
and will velcro around my wrists and forearms.
I will use wheel weights from bernie's shop as the actually heavy stuff.
and some thing stretchy for the carrier........... with velcro for the fasteners......... maybe a fleece backing?

I plan on doing the little weighty thingies in tiny pillow of about 4 oz to 8 oz each...... and put them in little pockets in the carrier thingy that straps on.

it shouldn't take me alot of time to make and weight up the pillows

the most expensive part of this project would be the weights, but used wheel weights don't cost anything from a shop.

they are thrilled to get rid of them!

I figure a couple squirts of "DAWN" detergent should take the grease out.

If I am able to do this (and make it work, which I can't see why not) I will post either directions or pictures or something.......

Even if I have to buy the stretchy fabric and velcro I am assuming that it won't cost more then 12.00 for the entire thing!

and I am also assuming that I can do some pretty wild fabric no????
maybe even MAGENTA??????
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
hahahaha
I am thrilled with this whole make the weight thingy
if not really thrilled at the thought of actually struggling to USE THEM

let me tell you, it wasn't easy today, who know that 4 pounds and 5 pounds weights so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!

who knew muscles could get that hot and painful so fast????
oye
til next time.
vi

added to KC, Thank you so much sweetie, but Mengele doesn't want too much strain on my hands, and some of the excersizes involve movements that if I had a milk jug in my hands would deffinately do the carpal tunnel in.
we did discuss that option but she doesn't want my wrists stressed at all.
I am deffinately falling apart here.......
hopefully mengele and this tape will hold me together a bit longer?