WHAT HAPPENED

to Sunday???? Seems I totally lost it!!!!

Don't have a clue what time I got up due to the time change. Did my usual,got my coffee,headed for my chair and got on the puter

I do remember talking to Julie and Lori Rippey on the phone. I also remember saying to Lori OMG it's 1:30!!!! I thought it was still late morning and I haven't done a thing!!!!

So I stitched a bit on my sampler and the quit to eat some lunch. Then of course it was nap time. Couldn't see the clocks to know what time it was when I woke up for a bathroom trip. I thought geeze my eyes feel like they still want to be closed,so I got a yogurt and layed back down on the loveseat. Guess I fell asleep again. Next thing I knew the yorkshireterrorist (Sissy) was jumpin' up on the loveseat cause she wanted to join me. I picked her up and we layed there for awhile more.

When I FINALLY did get up,I was just in time for Desperate Housewives & Brothers & Sisters and then bed.
So I lost the whole day!!!!! So many things I had wanted to work on, but that didn't happen and I feel bad about that.

It was a pretty pain filled week-end and when I'm asleep is the only time I don't feel the pain at all. But what a waste to sleep the day away. I didn't get up till after 8 today. I used to always be up between 5 & 6.

I know the time change had a bit to do with Sunday disappearing,but I truly hope that I get some work done today!!!!

Did anybody else have trouble with the time change?????

Sherry.....OUT

I THINK I'll JUST CRY

I've apparently done something REALLY REALLY bad on this blog. Everything's GONE

My template, My followers,My kitty clock,ALL my links to other blogs, My ebay link that I don't even know how I got it. Remember I had one of the dolls I've made at the top corner and that was my contact me link.

It's ALL GONE I'm so sad cause I really don't know how to fix any of this. Julie, Plumrun Creek, has helped me before but this is worse then ever and some of those links I got myself,not really knowing how I did it,but I did. I'm embarrassed to call Julie. She's done a lot of helping me with this.

I don't know what to do. I've tried and tried and I think puter dummy me only accomplished making things worse. NEED HELP!!! Guess I'll just go back to the crying thing.

Sherry......REALLY OUT

PS:I just listed my hooked rug this a.m. under HERE IT IS!!!! Now you have to click on that topic to see it. I had been anxious to know what you all thought of my wacky doodle rug. Iam SO sad,my followers are all gone and I so appreciated people wanting to follow my blog.

WELL HERE IT IS!!!!!!

The newest rug created from my drug and pain induced hooking!!!!

What can I say???? I guess this is a rug that people will either love or say,what was she thinking!!!!

Well John REALLY likes it!!!! Although that's kinda scary cause he has some pretty strange taste sometimes.

Guess all I can really say is that I did my best and put my heart into it just like I do with everything I make.

It's on ebay if you'd like to see more pictures. There's an ebay button over on the right.

So, what to do today!!! There are many nekked dolls to make clothes for, some that are dressed but need finishing work, there's needle punch needing the finish work,there's a sampler sitting here on my footstool more than half done,there's lots of wool calling to me too. I did just take a pain pill though,so maybe I should answer the call of the wool again,hmmmmmm!!!!!!!

Sherry.....OUT

BAR-B-QUE BEEF

I was given orders today to post more often on my blog. I won't name names,but she lives at Notforgotten Farm.
I told her that I have a good bar-b-que beef recipe for sammies and she said she'd like that,so here it is!!!!!

2 lbs. stew meat

1 cup water

!/4 cup sugar

1 med. onion - diced

1 medium size can tomato sauce

1/2 cup vinegar

1/3 cup worcestershire sauce

Brown meat and add rest of the ingredients

Bake at 325% for 3 hours

When tender smash with potato masher or use portable mixer until meat is stringy.

Now I must add a word of advice here. The 1st time I made this many many years ago,I poured the whole thing in a bowl got my portable mixer out put it on high and went to it. Next thing I new everything in the kitchen within 3 feet was splattered with bar b que including me!!!!!

So use a deeper bowl than I did and put your mixer on low,I'm just sayin'

Maybe tomorrow I'll show a pic of the wacky doodle rug that I'm almost finished hookin' But I don't want to hurt anybody's eyes,so we'll see.

Sherry.......OUT

DID ANYBODY LOSE A SHOE?????

Well HERE it is!!!!!
Yup I've still been stitchin'!!!!!! I have another sampler that I've been workin' on,but then yesterday a strange thing happened. I kept hearing this noise. It was relentless. Kept getting louder and louder. And THEN all of the sudden I knew what it was!!! YUP I've heard this noise before,many times. I knew what it was and I knew it wouldn't stop till I answered it.
It was the call of the WOOL!!!!!! Come cut me,come hook with me,I've been waiting!!!
So even though the sampler isn't finished,I answered the call of the wool. There's really nothing you can do when the wool calls,except get a rug drawn up and go to the wool. So now I'm hooking. Not happy so far with what I'm doing,seems I've done quite a bit of reverse hooking and I'm still not sure. But I guess I'm doin' another this is my brain on drugs rug. It's calling me again so I better get to it. These in progress rugs just won't leave you alone,unless you hide it in the closet.preferrably in a box with a tight lid on it!!!!!

PS:The stitcheries are listed on ebay,if you're interested. Thank You

Sherry.....OUT

ACTUAL FINISHED WORK!!!!!

These stitcheries are what I worked on last week. With the longer and longer naps everyday it seems to take me forever to get things done.
So last saturday and sunday I worked on finishing these,with big plans of listing them on ebay Sunday nite. DIDN'T HAPPEN!!!!! You would have thought I was new to this stitching and aging thing, not that I've done it since the early 80's and that I even had my own little cross stitch and needlepoint shop. I even taught many many classes on these hand arts.
All my aging was coming out really bad!!!! Colors of previous washed fabrics were running onto the stitchery. A MESS,so disappointing.

BUT being determined as I am, I was NOT going to give up!!!! Well I did have a thought of throwing the red flower one out. It was just a fleeting moment though!!! So I took it apart and redid it.

I still have another sampler that's all stitched,but I can't decide how I want to finish it. I did it on vintage linen so I don't know what the count is and I SURE wasn't gonna count the threads to find out!!! Especially with these old eyes!!!! But it ended up too big for a pinkeep.

I'm workin' on another stitchery right now. It's a pattern of my buddy Lori Brechlin, Mary Black's shoe pinkeep. Wonder if I'll finish it.

I feel that I've kinda lost my mojo after all these decades of making and selling my work. I used to make tons of all kinds of dolls. I still want to,but I just don't seem to have it in me right now.

It's just easiest for me to sit in my chair and work on things,but then ya need to get up and do all that finishing work. That's the part that I just don't seem to be up to doing anymore, but I'm trying,pitifully but trying. Long term pain and narcotics sure do wear ya down.

So anyhoo those 3 little pinkeeps are listed on ebay right now if you'd like to take a closer look THANK YOU!!!!

Sherry aka:The Queen.....OUT

YUP I'm STILL HERE!!!!!

Where do I begin. That reminds me of the song that was in the movie Love Story,hmmm that ending didn't work out to well either.

Well,I'm still very sick. I'm thinkin' of calling the people at the Guiness book of records, because I think I've had the longest running case of thrush. Yup I STILL have it,since October. I've been through all kinds of drugs for it. This last one he gave me the info on it said you only need to take one,but that's for a yeast infection of the va jay jay. He gave me a course of FIVE!!! One every other day. STILL didn't work. I have to call and get some more today.

To try to make this long long story short as I can. I'll tell ya that death gets spoken of often. My colon is shot, I've got several blocked arteries. My Gyne thinks that my small intestines are twisted from adhesions. The surgeon says but he doesn't know that. I tend to trust my Gyne. I've been with him his whole practice except for the 1st 2 years that he wasn't here. He's done 4 major surgeries on me & knows my innards well. He's always said that I shouldn't have anymore surgeries because I'm so full of adhesions & so susceptible to them soon as the knife touches me. He spent an hour talking to John & I and he looked so sad to have to say that I need to get the colon out or I'm gonna start to bleed. Then John said & he calls an ambulance,Dr. said yes.

I've had some not so nice treatment from 2 surgeons at two different times. There partners SURPRISE.
So I spend my days in lots of pain. I take Percocet & Bentyl all day. They don't really get rid of the pain,but I guess dulls it enough to keep me from sitting in a corner screaming!!!!!

So I hook and talk to Dear Caring friends on the phone. Can't do much else & I don't want to sit here & do nuttin' and wait for what the woman surgeon said:"If that colon bursts,it will be the worst pain you've ever known in your life"

There's just so much to say but I don't want to bore you to tears or you'll never come back here LOL!!!!!

I've put some pictures in of just a few of the rugs I've hooked and sold on ebay. Sorry about that empty space,but I posted 1 rug twice & couldn't read the Chinese well enough to completely fix it.

Do you remember that commercial that they'd show an egg & say this is your brain,then when the egg was broken & frying, they'd say,this is your brain on drugs.

That's what I say about my hooking. These are my rugs on drugs LOL!!!!!

The hooked red hearts will be going on ebay today.

I'm gonna try to do a better job with this blog!!!!!

Sherry.......OUT