Well back to staining wood instead of sewing!

Spouse finishing deck rails. Making them pretty, pretty not your normal old rails. But guess who gets to stain all of the wood going into this project. That is correct - me. Well with this cold I have had no hearing for over a week so since staining wood does not require a lot of need to hear anyone - it is not so bad doing it. Sewing does not require hearing either but husbands commute keeps him away 13 hours everyday so I am glad to help him out.

I do give credance to us having come from the ocean as eyes, ears, nose and throat are all connected. I think our ears use to be gills, why else would they drain into the throat. At least that is what Doc told me (the draining not the gills) and since I had strep throat it is still swollen thus the ears are still full of fluid making it impossible to hear. What a bore,

Included a picture of part of the extended back garden. Moved three rose bushes from front garden to here. Also planted  Dinner Plat Dahlias and a Peony. They have to make an appearance. Since we live in the Appalacians rock are plentyfull and make a good border. The black thing in the middle is where the bubbler or fountain is going to reside. Bought a tiller for $75.00 bucks from Appalachian Lawn and Garden and it works like a top. The only way to get the ground stirred up. The thing is no beauty however since it is used, rusted and very old. But so am I and I still work

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May life treat you well,

Caroline

On the road to recovery

Seems I had more than just a cold - my looks could have landed me a great part in a grade B horror film. John Carpenter where are you when needed? I work for scale!!!!! I still cannot hear anything, which would mean taking John's directing, directions difficult, but can breath and see, so we are getting there. Anti-bodies mean I cannot ingest my favorite wine, for now, but the positive is I have lost six pounds as I have no appetite. Not the way to do it though. Had to postpone for a week my meeting with the personal trainer at Golds Gym - really wanted to get started this week.

Moving on with planting in gardens and helping Dave where I can on the building of our deck. Today, besides putting four more plants in the ground, I will work on king size quilt. This is a sit down job and after 50 years of sit down jobs you know I can handle it. Take a look at a couple of the rather large strips. I have to do a 'quilt as you go' because I do not have a long arm quilter and cannot afford anyone to quilt it. Besides the quilting is the fun - really get a zen thing going with the movement of the quilt under the needle and seeing something great happen.

May life treat you well,

Caroline

Oh terrible, terrible cold

I have a plan and am all set to get going on it - when wham, I am floored with a horrible cold. Without going into all the aspects of a bad cold I just want to say that I am not able to work and anything I want to work at this week. Yes I used the word work. I find no disgrace in using that word even when what I do is for me and my partner/spouse Dave. Well I will be well in a couple of days and will press on.

In the meantime may life treat you well,

Caroline

Does anyone have some unused time they could give me?

Hi,

I know that I have to connect with the internet world to make a go of my business. The days of living in a world of ones own and only going to craft shows is very much over. This goes for my partner and spouses business also. He is photography and I am fiber arts. We are both over 60, me way over and it was a hard decision to really get involved with the internet. It takes a lot of time from what I love doing. He still has a full time job - so it is up to me to get the marketing done for both of us.

In that vein I have bought two books that I hope will help me achive my goals of selling well on the internet. "Inbound Marketing" by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah and "Recipe for Press" by Amy Flurry. I already study everything Etsy has in their seller handbook and feel I am understanding this brave new world. I have a Twitter account, a Facebook account, am on Pinterest, Linkedin, also on Etsy (dcfabricart.etsy.com), and am setting up our new web page under our own domain dccreationsart.com. Need to get on Flicker, and I also have this blog - so I am really moving forward. But it is very time consuming and for a dyed in the wool procrastinator like me, difficult to keep up with. Ooops, almost forgot I have an ever extending flower garden I have to work on. I salivate over David Austin Roses and want to get some in the ground.

We are going to make a success of this - I was a computer programmer for over 50 years and know my stuff - just have to apply the discipline it took to be a great computer programmer to a great designer, blogger, web designer, chatterer, etc. etc..

Now you know why I need some time, please.

May life treat you well and give you all of the time you need to make it work.

Caroline