The Wigglebutt Blog

A very quick quicky this time☺ Been very busy getting the garden and greenhouses  ready for winter. Back to being a couple of weeks behind. Not bad though, considering☺ I'll be more wordy next time, k?

Yeah...... I know I suck at blogging☺ But I'm a busy, busy gal☺☺  I seriously started this necklace over a year ago and  finally finished it. Whew!☺  This is another Nicole Hanna tutorial. I'm really heavy handed when I work with wire and I am really trying to get more used to working with thinner gauges without breaking the wire every time I touch it☺ Most of Nicole's tutorials call for 22g and 28g so it's really good practice for me.  Some polymer clay components by me☺ Keeping it simple again so I can keep up.

Another quicky post☺ This actually gets me caught up again;~)

 More YOJP pictures. And a little about the yard and garden☺ I used a tutorial by Nicole Hanna for this one  Made this bracelet using the same weave pattern  as this necklace from Week 20  I struggled with this one, I had a heck of a time  with the length. But super happy with how it turned out☺  I struggled with this one too, and I'm not so thrilled  with how it turned out, but I just wanted to BE DONE with it. lol So, as they say, It is what it is. I am in love with these. So cute! As you know, if you have been around for a while, I usually fall a little behind on the project in the summer months. Like most everybody else, we always have a lot going on in the summer. Lots of planting vegetables Tomatoes in greenhouse #2 Hot peppers in greenhouse #1  and  flowers and more flowers. There's more but this is already one long-ass post! lol So I will just leave you with this......

It's June and I haven't posted in a month and a half. I'M SHOCKED! HaHaHaHa!!! I slay me:~) I am currently only about two weeks behind on the project And I am planning on some ~me~ time this weekend to play catch up. I'm just here today  to throw some pictures up of  what I've submitted up to this point. Later today or tomorrow I will be back with some gardening  and greenhouse updates:) (which is what has helped put me behind, as usual☺)  Apparently I used 26g on one and 28g on the other. LOL.... Can't really tell with the naked eye (obviously) or they wouldn't be different☺

Still keeping up and  still spending a lot of time in the greenhouse☺ Peppers, cabbage, cauliflower and some squash in the far back just hangin out til it's warm enough to plant them outside more cauliflower,  peppers and broccoli on the other side here☺ I have the blue totes (where the tomatoes live) set up with a drip system on a timer and the temporary pots with the "outside" plants are on another timer with soaker hoses So far it's working out very well☺ It took a little work to set up the soaker hoses but very worth it. WAY better than spending 1 1/2 everyday watering!

I like all of these but I'm particularly pleased with Week 14☺ Week 12 and 13 were kind of quicky designs to keep up with the project while spending far too long  trying to accomplish Week 14☺ haha! Usually when I start with a tutorial (which I did for this bracelet) I can't seem to  put my own spin on it without ending up with something that is just horrid. The kind of thing you look at and say to yourself "What in the hell is that supposed to be?" The vague idea in my head seems do-able  but I always seem to end up with "What were you thinking?" "What were you even trying to do?!!!" But I like this one☺ I even tried to finish the ends of the cuff like the tutorial and ended up "trimming" the wrong wire (oops) and had to come up with my own end design with what I had left to work with☺ The focal bead is, of course, made by my absolute fav glass artist Juli Cannon of Juls Beads. C...