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Here are two necklaces I made yesterday. Once I get started, it's hard to stop!

Have a great week!!!
Loves from the Queen

Summer Time and the Living is Easy!!

Oh what a life!!!
Loves from the Queen

PS: yesterday's post should have read "precious" instead of "previous" great niece.....

My previous great-niece, Emma

Isn't she a doll baby ? I'm going broke buying her cute outfits ! This was at Easter.

Cinderella

I thought I was supposed to be The Queen? I think I got mixed up with Cinderella somehow? Vacuum, scrub, polish, clean oven, wash linens, cook, scrub toilets.....what is going on here??? Calling Prince Charming.....oh I forgot he is helping me vacuum!!!!

Gee, at least I'm getting better and did not destroy anything while being domestic! That's good, right ??

Another beautiful day in Georgia, this spring has been totally awesome weather! I dread the heat coming up soon.

Well to the showers so I can get to looking like the Queen again instead of the scrub woman!!

They are coming to take me away

Will someone just give me an old vintage rotary dial telephone and a pad of paper and pencil?!!?

Does anyone in this friggin world have as much trouble with technology as me?? I really do not think I am stupid???

My iPhone works ok (today anyway) but the Bellsouth password in my iPad just up and disappeared so I could not get emails. Went to Apple store who said I have to re-enter the password. Ok, no big deal, right? So I look up the password on our list of passwords which is about 5,823,914 pages long because you cannot use one password on everything which would make it way too easy and we sure as hell don't want to do that, do we??? Enter the password, says it is not correct, go to website to try to reset password which has to come by postal service in 7-8 days (because the ponies have to go slow I guess)??? So go to phone store, they cannot change my password but give me phone number to call for tech support. I take a deep breath and call the number, which is answered by someone in India who speaka-no-English-too-well.... My blood pressure by now is off the charts so i told hubby that I just cannot deal with this, throw the damn iPad away! So he calls and gives the operator all the information we have except for the middle name of our fifth grandchild....transfers to the tech department who takes all of the same information again and then tells us it is the wrong tech department so transfers us again, during which the phone connection fails. So we start all over again, thank goodness hubby has more patience than I do because we lose the phone connection again and start over a third time with two more transfers, each asking for all of the same information... FINALLY we get to someone who can help us, but we have to log on to the computer, which is also not working for the third time this month, so we log on with the other cell phone and get the password changed. Ok, now everything is fine, right? Oh no, no, no, no...... I put the new password into the iPad and it tells me to log on to Yahoo first. So I try to log on to Yahoo but guess what???? Yep, you got it, THAT password will not work either. So I get a new password from Yahoo which takes three tries, a phone call, a text and an email.... Now my passwords for Apple and for Bellsouth and for Yahoo are all the same, which should be good, right? Try to enter new Bellsouth password into iPad again and it says "cannot connect, server failed"????? What the f---- does that mean, other than I am in same exact position I was FOUR HOURS ago!!!!

Screw it, I'm getting a big, strong friggin cocktail and put every piece of tech equipment in the garbage tomorrow....

Loves from the Tech-Challenged AND Domestic-Challenged AND totally pissed off Queen

Latest Creation

Fresh off the beading board, my latest bead embroidery piece!!!

I haven't had any domestic challenges the last few days as I have been on my ass in a chair out on the porch, enjoying the fabulous weather and stitching away...

Loves from the Queen

Testing Testing

This is a test, this is only a test ....

Had there been an actual emergency, you would be seeing a bottle of wine instead of my cute kitty cat !!

I downloaded an app for my blog so we will see if it works , but I'm not holding my breath....

The Queen's New Jewels !!!

This is the clasp I made in Deryn Mentock's class.  We sawed it from a copper sheet, filed it, textured it, patina'd it, made a bezel and soldered it to the clasp, inserted the stone!

Here it is after the beads were added to make the completed bracelet:

And this is the charm bracelet I made in Deryn's other class, using 3 empty watch faces.

And this is the necklace made from vintage parts created in Diane Cook's class.

These are Deryn Mentock's sample pieces (the teacher).  I could only dream to be as awesome as her!!!

So now I'm off to mop floors.....what a change of pace?????  The Domestic-Challenged Queen cleaned toilets yesterday, can you imagine?  I'm losing my queenly dignity???!!!!

Loves from the Queen

HELLO.......FINALLY! Photos from The Art Retreat at The Prairie.

I gave up on the iPad working with my blog, so I am using hubby's "real" computer.  I wanted to share some of the photos from the art retreat in Round Top, Texas.

This is the Ranger Lounge, used to cook, eat, drink and take classes

The photo above is Danny, he lives on site and serves as groundskeeper, maintenance man, carpenter (building a barn now) and HE IS THE COOK......a very, very good cook!!!!

Below is a shot of the landscape outside the building

These are a couple of "staff" members, serving lots of love and attention:

This is looking out the front door of the main house (where I stayed).  It is out in the middle of NO WHERE, believe me..............

This is Rachel Ashwell's shop, she owns this place....very expensive items in the store!

This is one of the cottages, which are the living quarters.  Most of them are just a bedroom and bath for one or two persons, very roomy.  The main house where I stayed had 3 bedrooms plus a kitchen, dining room and living room.

It was absolutely wonderful and I can hardly wait to go back.  They will be doing these retreats twice a year now, this was the first one.  Tomorrow I will share the awesome items I made in the three classes I took.  I know you are burdened now with the anxiety of it all, but please don't lose sleep, I'll have them posted within hours, ok???   Bah Hah Hah....

Loves from the Queen

No Recent Brain Farts

Gee I must be getting better, no catastrophes to report. My art retreat in Round Top, Texas (population 92) was fantastic. Unfortunately I cannot share photos on this friggin blog account. At least Typepad did respond this time and I know what the problem is. Of course for a techie like me, I don't understand how to do something to fix it. I spent six hours on it yesterday with no results except a lot of very bad cuss words.....Let's drop that subject or else I'll need another drink.... Round Top, Texas is about an hour's drive from Austin and the weather was warm but a wonderful breeze. The lodging was The Prairie by Rachel Ashwell. She is the decorator who invented "shabby chic" and has written many decorating books. She bought this place a couple of years ago and has renovated it in her "shabby" but adorable style. The floors and walls may be worn out old barn wood with white Muslin triple-ruffled sheets and fabulous French chandeliers! There are five or six old cottages on the 40-acre ranch which are the guest rooms with bed and bath. A big old barn type building is the kitchen and dining room. Very rustic but in good taste and out in the middle of nowhere!! I made a necklace with old vintage jewelry pieces, a bracelet with three vintage watch faces which we gutted and put other stuff inside and the best thing of all (which I still cannot believe I actually made) was the clasp/focal for a bracelet. It began as a sheet of copper and we cut it, sawed it, textured it, patina it, made a bezel and soldered it to the base and then set a jasper stone in it! I wish I could share a photo but will email a picture to you upon request. It is awesome and now I have to string some beads to it. Everyone there except me was from Texas, but they were all very sweet and fun and talented. One gal told us the story of meeting her cowboy husband. He was a REAL cowboy who did rodeos and stuff. She was at the rodeo and saw this tall, lean cowboy with his hat and boots and tight Wrangler jeans. She said "ooooh, that there is nice looking" and told him to turn around so she could see his FACE!!! Too funny. Well I know this is boring because The Domesticately-Challenged Queen has not exploded anything this week????!!!! Oh but listen to this....I opened the door to the shower in Texas and was met face-to-face with a Scorpion!! He was about three inches long (but again, I cannot show you the picture of him smiling up at me....). Up until that point, I thought I could really live there...... Loves from The Queen