The Wigglebutt Blog

Well, the little fellow that I mentioned here  has arrived safe and sound at his destination in Munich so I can show him off now. This fellow went to Germany to live with Birgit She named him "Sutton" after the name of my home town. I think it fits nicely☺ And I am still plugging along on my "tubular peyote" thing. lol! Someday I hope it turns itself into a necklace. I know it's not 'perfect' but LOOK! IT'S TUBULAR!  and it's WAY longer than the totally deformed 2 inches of completed bead crochet that I disgustedly threw out after 'thehellishtwoweekordeal' of trying to teach myself how to bead crochet. (for some reason some of those beads want to look purple  but they are lying, they are brown) I haven't been feeling overly inspired lately, (it could be weather related - ie. winter sucks!) but I did try some experimenting last weekend with tinted liquid polymer. I was going for a 'faux' ceramic look. I used blue because it...

Let me start by saying --> I CANNOT DRAW <-- I've always wanted to be able to draw, but I am just not artistic in that sort of way. I do a lot of doodling but in more of zentangle way, not actual doodles of people or things. Then this morning as I was having coffee and perusing my blog roll,  I came across this post by Donna at Doings of Doone She wrote: "Give yourself a quiet calm undisturbed Hour. Listen to your most lovely music whilst you draw - and do NOT listen to any thoughts in your own head - for this one hour You Are Mine, and you will enjoy your love affair with Art .... I Say Do IT.....Do It Now - you can always curse me for the wasted hour later...." And: "Get sketching people, it ain't hard girls... Art is not the preserve of the 'talented' " So I figured OK. What the heck. And guess what... I drew a face ☺ She is NOT the face I was supposed to draw. She is NOT proportional. She is NOT shaded properly. She is also NOT hi...

I have been busy. I have been busy making myself frustrated:~( I saw this necklace and I really liked the look of it.  It was a bead crochet necklace. Well..... I love to crochet so why not teach myself how to bead crochet. I spent every evening for two solid weeks trying to figure it out.  I would get about three rounds into it and loose track of where I was and that would get torn out and I would start over. Once you get 4 or 5 rounds in you can better tell where you really have to go next but I could never get that far. At the end of the two weeks I decided to try ONE more time and I actually got a piece of work that was almost 2 inches long and it was so NOT RIGHT that I gave up (for now) on bead crochet. Since I felt like I hadn't accomplished anything in two weeks I decide to do something with some pendants I made ages ago☺ This is the third try for this FINALLY simple necklace. I knew I wanted to use the pink turquoise square beads, (I don't know why but ...

I got these pics in an email - (photographer and source unknown) They made me smile so I thought I would share the Love☺ My Scoobie Doo looked just like him as a baby. And yes this boy would have definitely climbed right on in. In other news... I did finish up a new baby dragon this last weekend  but I can't show you just yet. He is on his way to Germany and the recipient hasn't seen him yet. Don't want to ruin the surprise.

Just thought I would share our latest weather.  AAARRRGGGG! If you've been around a while, you know I love Alaska. I just love it ALOT MORE in the summer;~) Keep in mind that we had NO snow on the ground when I went to bed last night. Not because it had melted, mind you. It has been in the single digits or minus for the last week. No. We didn't have any snow because it blows away almost as soon as it stops coming down. In our neck of the woods in the winter the wind BLOWS. So...when I got up and looked out the window this morning we had  about 10" of new snow, by the time I got home from work the snow was trying to blow  up over the hood of my FULL SIZE Tahoe as I was coming up the drive way. Honey estimates about 15" so far and it's still snowing like crazy. They predict another 4" before it "tapers off" tonight. I'm just very thankful that I don't have to drive anywhere for the  next two days, today was horrible. On the other hand Honey ...

I have accomplished a few crafty things in the last few weeks, just haven't had much chance to post cuz Honey has recently found a "Snow Machine Forum". Alot of chatting about and photos of snow machine  (or in most parts of the country - snowmobile) adventures. So he has been spending a bit more time on the computer than he used to, which means I spend less☺ The good part - more crafty accomplishments. The bad part - less show and tell. I was really getting in a funk about winter and I was crocheting  neckwarmers and wristwarmers like mad, so I decided maybe I should stop the winter wear for a while and think summer. I found this pattern for a summer "Straw Hat" and knew it would  be perfect for my sister.  She loved it so much she sent me a picture☺ Isn't she cute?  I want her hair. I also found a pattern for a bag that looked cool First let me say, I didn't think it would be so hard to take a picture of a bag. This was my experiment so I followed th...

Ok, I used the random number generator and this is what we got;~) The first number picked was Comment #153 Mila of Bellbookandcandleseason will receive this The second was Comment #119 Kim Dellow of  Crafty Makes will receive this Third was Comment #49 Regina of  Southern OOAKS will receive this Fourth number drawn was Comment # 38 Brigit of Swapping Howdies will receive this   And the final number chosen was  Comment #34 Tanya of  3Cats Creations will receive this This turned out to be quite the International event for me this year. If the profiles of  all of these wonderful people are current, there are 2 prizes destined for the UK, 1 for Germany, 1 for Italy and 1 for Alabama USA! How cool is that? I has so much fun again this year and I want to thank everyone for their wonderful comments☺ Congratulations winners! You should  be getting an email in mere moments ☺