Happy 4th of July

Wishing all the U.S bloggers a happy 4th of July and those of you who live elsewhere have a wonderful day too.

I'll be working this morning but it won't be a full day. I'll likely be out of there before 11. Then it'll be home to have a picnic with Gibbs. I think we'll have hot dogs.

Growing like a weed

The temperature has been hovering in the 80's the last several days. Wade had a thing on his desk that shows the humidity. It's reading 86%. It's really not very pleasant out at all. As I'm typing this I'm debating on mowing. I skipped it last week and now it really needs it but I hate doing it when it's that hot and humid. The thing is, it's not supposed to get any better. The entire week shows about the same.

Oh well at least some of the weeds make for good pictures.

Working on a project

Aside from taking Gibbs to the vet for his rabies shot I spent most of my day off working on a craft project. I saw a picture on Pinterest for a bathroom wall grouping. It included a cone shaped vase to hang and they had fake cotton branches in it. I would show the picture but it's from Etsy and I don't want to snag their picture. Any way, I liked the cone shaped vase and have browsed around in stores but haven't seen anything remotely similar.

Yesterday I was looking through my craft stash closet when I came across a paper mache cone. I also had some burlap and some jute twine. I've had all of this stuff sitting around for quite a while and decided that I would avoid the usual procrastinating because I might screw things up and just dive right in.

I started by braiding the jute to make a hanger. I stapled the ends to hold it together until I could hot glue it

Next I hot glued the burlap to the paper mache cone and I had myself a perfectly good cone shaped hanging vase.

These won't be the flowers I will put in it but I hung it on the wall (crookedly I might add) and stuffed in the flowers just so you could see what it looked like. Of course it looks like I had different lighting in all of the pictures so the burlap color looks different in every one. Also just to give you an idea of how big this is, the cone is roughly 10 1/2 inches high.

Eventually this will go on my bathroom wall along with another project I'm working on.

One half and then another

Saturday night I had a horrible nights sleep and when the alarm went off at 4a.m on Sunday morning I was not ready to get up for work. I dragged myself through the house getting dressed and then pushed myself out the door.

When I got to work one of the first things I saw was the two cake orders hanging on my table. I had forgotten all about them and dreaded having to squeeze them in to my morning. A cup of coffee or two was in order and then down to business.

The first one was due at 10:00

I had just started on the second one and was getting ready to do the writing when the lady who ordered it showed up and asked if I could take one name off because that person wasn't going to be showing up. I told her she was just in time since I was just about to do the writing.