Cindy's ramblings

Gotta Do Something Fun

2012-01-31T12:44:00.002-05:00

Jim and I have been at home together for the last year and a half. He has been offered a job driving over the road. I look at it as an opportunity for him to succeed with something he

wanted to do. Our lives will change again of course but it will be a positive change.

Today we are getting out of here(the house) and do some things that are fun.

Tomorrow he goes to the sleep doctor. It's a new thing to get his medical card for his DOT.

I have decided to mix my loves

2012-01-25T12:27:00.001-05:00

Bored

2012-01-19T11:16:00.002-05:00

Right now I feel like I am sitting still (creatively). I really have no inkling on the direction I want to go. I find that everything that I do bores me. I look around my studio and my office and the basement and I wonder why I feel this way. I could have a huge crafts sale and get rid of all of it and not miss any of it. Maybe that is what I will do.

2012-01-08T12:56:00.000-05:00

Dot and her mom, Tosha. The pup is 16 weeks old today. Such a big girl already.

New Year

2012-01-07T10:43:00.003-05:00

The first picture is RAYCE the day he won Student of the month.
The second picture is the Santa I gave to my sister for Christmas. I found I really do love painting ceramics still. The new year is finding me with an organized office and a new outlook on the fact that our production has to get going.

WOW! It's a twofer day.

2011-12-06T09:31:00.004-05:00

Today I have two workshops. One at 2:15, the other at 4:15. We got our first snow this morning. Just enough to cause problems. Wish me luck.

WOW! It's a twofer day.

2011-12-06T09:31:00.001-05:00

2011-12-04T09:34:00.000-05:00

The boys are coming over today to make presents.

Winter Fun

2011-11-29T10:05:00.001-05:00

2011-11-28T09:46:00.000-05:00

Happy Thanksgiving to All

2011-11-24T10:10:00.002-05:00

We are getting together this afternoon at my sister's house. The bird is in the oven. It should be ready about 1:00.

Update on Dot. She is at least 3 inches taller than Trina(our Scottie). She is a real cutie. I will post pictures this weekend.

new candleholders

2011-11-06T10:31:00.001-04:00

These are a set of candleholders that I made and took down to "Gifted Hands Gallery"

I can make these in lots of beautiful colors.

New Baby

2011-10-19T11:13:00.003-04:00

This is Dot. We brought her home early last night because it was supposed to go to 32 degrees. All of her sisters and brothers went to other homes last night so they could stay warm.

New Work

2011-10-19T11:09:00.003-04:00

Here is a nightlight and a business card holder. There is a lot more new work to come.

A Day of Rememberaance

2011-09-11T11:52:00.002-04:00

There were so many days of tragedy and triumph in my life so far. Today 10 years ago is another among them. Joey was watching TV and I was coloring my hair. He was 3. The special report came on and I watched in horror as the first tower fell. The tears fell as well. Then the second tower fell. Our lives changed forever. I will never forget that day or the day that John F. Kennedy was shot. Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, John Lennon all men who changed our lives one way or another.

Today we remember all of the people who we lost that day. May their families find solace with the World who will never forget.

Another Boys Week

2011-06-13T09:39:00.002-04:00

Today the boys came back for a week of fun and swimming. Of course it looks like it could rain all day. I had plans of going to the barn in the mornings and swimming in the afternoon. The pool water has fallen to 72 degrees so they probably won't go swimming either. I guess this calls for a readjustment of plans.

2011-06-03T15:06:00.002-04:00

We have had the boys this whole week and I have to admit they can wear me out. Either that or these Shingles are responsible. We went to the barn this morning and the heat took everything out of me.

Rain rain go away

2011-05-24T13:52:00.003-04:00

Today more showers and chance for severe storms. We may never get the pool up.

Today I am showing you a new pendant. I have a lot of pendants to choose from and you can have your choice of a twisted neckwire or black silk cord or just a bail for your use with whatever you have.

Joplin Tornado

2011-05-23T11:19:00.002-04:00

Kansas and Missouri are known for horrible tornadoes but the one in Joplin is right up there with the 1957 Ruskin tornado. My prayers go out to the people in Joplin and to the families of the lost.

WOW! It"s been longer than I thought!

2011-05-14T13:58:00.003-04:00

I can not believe it has been over 2 years since I have posted on my blog. So much has happened since then. We had a really bad accident. Jim's neck was broken and my ankle was crushed. Jim retired and his knee needs replaced. I have to admit that we are relatively healthy right now.

Flat Stanley comes to Kansas City

2009-02-19T16:10:00.005-05:00

Did I tell you about the Flat Stanley that came to visit us. Rayce who is in kindergarten has started to study geography with the help of the book "Where in the World is Flat Stanley. Flat Stanley is a regular little boy who woke up one morning and was flat as a piece of paper.The teacher mails the Flat Stanley to people and they write back with pictures and stories of where Flat Stanley is visiting. I enlisted my sister and we took off on a beautiful day and took Stanley to the Plaza, the Liberty Memorial, The Nelson Art Gallery and a couple of other places around Kansas City. Tricia held Stanley and I took his picture with the places behind him. We had a great day.

I brought Flat Stanley home and wrote about where we had been and a little history about those places, printed the story and the pictures and mailed them back to his teacher.

Busy, busy, busy

2009-01-18T14:06:00.003-05:00

This has been a very busy month so far. I thought January would slow down a bit but so far I have done 3 girls scout workshops with a total of 62 girl scouts. I still have two more workshops scheduled with at least 20 girls each.
I received my check from the Gifted Hands Gallery and it was more than I thought it would be and my new fish plate had sold. Lots of other stuff sold too.
After my February 2nd workshop, I will take time to do taxes, clean the house, and reorganize my workspaces. Also, oh yeah do some new work that I have had in my head for a long while.
My sister is starting reconstruction on February 6th so I will stay busy. I hope the surgery goes well.

2008-12-26T21:22:00.002-05:00

I hope everyone got what they wanted from Santa. We had a nice day. I fixed pork tenderloin, fresh brussel sprouts and boiled new potatoes with pineapple upside down cake for dessert. Tricia and Penny(her dog) came over for dinner.

Sunday, the baby, Hudson will have his 1st birthday party at his other Grandma's. Monday we will go to Tricia's and all have our Christmas. Santa will truly have come to our family then.

Holiday prep

2008-12-18T15:09:00.002-05:00

These are a few of my jewelry designs this year. I have the earrings in both posts and wires. All of the pendants are different.

The last three months I have mainly been teaching Girl Scouts to make their own pendants. I added them up today and there are 149 little girls that have designed their own pendants this Fall. This is really fun for me. I feel like I am making a difference and educating more people about stained glass and fusing. In the workshops we fire a pendant with my little Quik-fire kiln so they get to actually watch the different stages of warm glass. I have the last Troop of the year in my kiln right now and I will fire them tomorrow. They will get them back this weekend.

Next week I will wrap presents and get ready for Christmas. Our Christmas will be quiet but after the 27th our grandsons and daughter and son-in-law will be here from Dallas and then the fun will begin. That week we will exchange gifts for Christmas and celebrate two birthdays, Hudson's the 27th and mine on New Year's Eve.

Branson Trip

2008-12-03T11:31:00.002-05:00

Thanksgiving was nice. My son and his new wife, Vickie came in so I cooked the traditional Thanksgiving fare. The food and company was great. They left to go back to Greeley, CO about 4:00 p.m. Short visit but a nice visit.
Hurray! Let the celebration begin. My sister, Tricia's last Hercepton treatment was over. We went to Branson, just us girls, Tricia, her best friend, Pat and me. Tricia and I went to Dixie Stampede on the Friday night and it was their Christmas show. The food was good and so was the show.
On Saturday, we went to Branson Landing and the one store I went to find was closed. Peace Frogs, Both of our girls collect frogs so I was going to get them T-shirts for Christmas. After wearing ourselves out walking we had dinner, saw the city Christmas lights and crashed at the Hotel. We left to come home Sunday morning. It was a fun weekend.

The Westies

2008-11-23T10:40:00.004-05:00

These are the latest in the puppy series. Mikey is the handsome devil on the left and Mimi is the Miss Princess on the right. These dogs belong to my friend Sheila who also owns Jasmine the sous chef. These were fun. The leather jacket has silver brads, while the jewels and pink boa add a 3D touch.

Mikey is also wearing a blue bandana around his neck.

Dallas

2008-10-18T17:18:00.002-04:00

I have been home for five days now. I am still not on my schedule nor have I done anything useful. I am busy with the Girl Scouts. I delivered Troop 7660's pendants to them today. I have another program in Paola Monday.
My trip was uneventful. I loved being with Mel and the boys. I missed them before I was on the plane.
Penny and Trina were glad to see me and so was Jim, Gus and Max.

2008-10-08T11:12:00.002-04:00

This is Sparkle! Since we don't have a cat of our own I got to make her up. After she was finished I have to admit that she reminds me of Gilenda from" Wicked". It has been a year since Tricia(my sister) was diagnosed with breast cancer and treatment began. I read "Wicked" while she was in surgery. Her mamogram came back clear last week. We are just holding our breathe that everything else is good.
I am getting ready to leave for Dallas tomorrow for 6 days. I will have oodles of pictures to show when I get back. I can't believe that I haven't seen my kids since June. I know Hudson will have grown a foot.

2008-10-05T12:06:00.002-04:00

Well the shows are over and so is summer. My glass has gone to the gallery and I have finished Max. I have also finished some other new work, That is on my website.
I leave for Dallas on Thursday. I can't wait to see Melanie and her beautiful family.

2008-09-05T00:30:00.002-04:00

I have been reading some of my favorite blogs this evening and I as always am intrigued by Margot Potter's latest on losing friends. I can understand this as all of our lives are so busy and when keeping up with each other becomes difficult we let go those who we don't feel share our place in life. This happens naturally in moves across the country or just across town. It also happens when we don't share the same focus as well as ideas.
Margot also mentioned that she doesn't like being hurt. Who does? I find that I do not let myself get close to people so as to not be hurt.
I don't even know if anyone reads my blog but I hope my thoughts count somewhere.

Princess Trina

2008-08-02T13:27:00.002-04:00

This is Trina. She is our rescue Scottie. Trina was a mommy in a puppy mill. She is very shy and afraid of everything but she is my Princess.

She really deserves that Tiara.

Here is Gus- He is the Star

2008-08-02T13:25:00.000-04:00

new pet personnas

2008-07-31T11:21:00.001-04:00

I am furiously working on new pet personnas. Ihave finished Trina and I will get her uploaded soon.

By the Sea

2008-07-25T13:17:00.002-04:00

Jasmine

2008-07-25T13:16:00.000-04:00

So much going on!

2008-07-25T12:56:00.002-04:00

So much has happened in the last month. I had my cataract surgeries. I no longer have to wear glasses for distance. 20/20 First time in 50 years. Just reading glasses. It is a big adjustment.
Thought I would post my newest works. By the Sea, a mixed media bathing beauty.
Jasmine, Pets with Personnas, also mixed media.
I am now an approved vendor(teacher) for the Girl Scouts. I will be teaching them fused glass pendants. Busy! Busy! Busy!

2008-06-23T23:58:00.002-04:00

This has been an incredible day. Jim won $60.00 at work and I am going to receive my new lenses, toric lenses during my cataract surgery free. They are normally $1000.00 per eye. I hope our luck continues.

My grandsons are here from Dallas with their Mom so they are very welcome. The weather is finally acting like Summer so we are getting to use the pool, ride bikes and have a great time. They go back to Dallas on July 2nd. We always miss them terribly. They are truly a blessing in our lives.

New stuff

2008-05-04T13:58:00.001-04:00

Hi! I know it has been a long time

2008-02-27T00:19:00.003-05:00

Patricia, my sister had her last chemo treatmen last Thursday. Things went terribly, but then that is Murphys' Law, is it not. I help[ed her get her house kind of together today. Trash day is tomorrow... She is planning to go back to work on the 27th of March. I hope that she can make it.

I thought you might like my business card holder.

Jewels that remind me of Spring

2008-01-09T12:01:00.000-05:00

Today it is 35 degrees but the sun is out. Tricia and I are going to KU Med for her 4th round of chemo. We will probably be there until about 8:00 tonight.

My cousin Terry has fallen off her back porch and broken her pelvic bone in 2 places. She is in the hospital but Medicaid has said that they will not pay for any rehab or anything. Missouri is really a sad place for the poor. Our Govenor Matt Blount really should be removed from office about this type of thing.

The necklace is really cool. The blue and green glass remind me of Spring.

Happy New Year!

2008-01-05T23:02:00.000-05:00

Gus is feeling the Holiday letdown. I have been working all week on stuff for Gifted Hands Gallery. I think they are going to have to be my only focus for awhile.

Tricia has her fourth chemo treatment on Wednesday.

Our Ninth Grandson-We've got a baseball team

2007-12-28T23:46:00.000-05:00

Hudson Wayne Livingston

Birthdate 12-27-07

7 lbs 13 oz. 19 inches long

Merry Christmas to All

2007-12-22T23:48:00.000-05:00

We have had our Christmas due to Family health reasons. I hope all of you have a wonderful and beautiful Christmas. You are in my heart and my prayers.

This angel dog is Penny and you would not believe what my sister and I had to do to get this picture. Did I call her an angel?

My sister, Tricia had her 3rd Chemo treatment on Thursday. So far she is not sick this time. She is halfway finished.

2007-12-22T23:38:00.000-05:00

I will send a handmade gift to the first 3 people who leave a comment on my blog requesting to join this Pay It Forward exchange. I don’t know what that gift will be yet and you may not receive it tomorrow, or next week, but you will receive it within 365 days, that is my promise! The only thing you have to do in return is pay it forward by making the same promise on your blog. So basically, if you comment and you’re on, I’ll send you something that I've made!Once you sign up, copy and paste the above paragraph on your blog, and three other people will receive your handmade gifts

2007-09-10T15:04:00.000-04:00

Today I have joined a new group. It is fiberartsandmixedmedia.ning.com. It looks like it can be a lot of fun.
Today is rest day after the three most useless days of my life. We did a show in Edgerton, MO called Pioneer Days and actually sold nothing. It is so depressing to do a terrible show. I really believe the economy is a lot worse than we know. I have another Art Show in 2 weeks. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Getting Ready for the First Show

2007-08-20T00:40:00.000-04:00

This is the mad dash week before the first show. I seem to not be making much progress but I shall pervail(I hope). I have seven shows and one trunk show before December. I hope I sell out for every one.

2007-07-10T00:31:00.000-04:00

I'm just sitting here tonight pondering where I actually belong in the universe. I seem to run into a lot of deadends. I know most people do but I seem to go the wrong direction at those dead ends more often than not.
Today all of the scare of Mel and her family moving has dissipated, at least for the time being. Rob doesn't seem to be able to find that job that wants to pay him huge amounts of money that he thought he would. They have sold their house and moved in with his Mom where I quess they will be for a while.
Today all I got accomplished is running around and paying the bills. Nothing accomplished in my studio but Mel and I did manage to get Rayce to actually swim!!! YooHoo!!!! We have been working on that all Summer.

To Open or not to open?

2007-06-14T15:35:00.000-04:00

After my last art show, I am just about ready to scream. This should have been a great show. Lots of people etc. but I have never sold so little in my career. Some people(family and friends) think I should open a shop. I don't know.

We looked at some spaces yesterday and they are just so expensive.

my work

2007-05-19T00:43:00.000-04:00

Useless day

2007-05-19T00:05:00.000-04:00

Have you ever had a day that you really didn't want to do anything? Today was one of those days. I have exactly a week before a major art show and aI don't want to do anything.