When life gives you lemons.....................

Who am I kidding?  Make lemonade?  Who has time for that?  When life gives me lemons, I want to throw them at someone.  But I don't even have time for that. 

 

 

Don't worry, I really do count my blessings, but sometimes enough is enough, and we have had sooooooo much illness in our house the last two weeks.  And I have two big shows that I must prep for during this time, and did a release for collabs that I have been working on forever. 

 

Here is a brief overview of my last couple weeks.

 

Tuesday Sept 11th, julia gets stomach flu all night.

Wed Sept 12th she is better tummy wise but runs a fever

Thursday, she must stay home for the 24 hour fever free rule at school

in the meantime, littlest, collin now has a yucky cold that keeps him up with a stuffy nose.  waking for him wed and thursday nights

Friday the 14th, collin gets stung by two bees at once, reacts poorly

friday night (night before my show) collin wakes with croupy cough, hardly able to catch his breath and 102 fever

saturday 15th, collin seems better, off to do my show, dad watches him

saturday night, his fever is back and now my oldest has a runny nose and cough and its flaring his asthma.  I am awake every 20 minutes for a 3 hour stretch between the two of them

sunday 16th- finish my show, dad makes them all rest and we all sleep sunday night

Monday- collin seems better again.  monday night, fever

tuesday 18th, collin goes to the dr. and has a double ear infection and tonsilitis- goes on antibiotics

Tuesday night, Julia wakes with high fever and croup so bad we land in the ER

Julia runs fever on and off till thursday, no fever all day thrusday

Friday morning, fever is back, and so is the bee sting reaction on collins hand a week later?????

Saturday night, more croupy coughs, and collin almost knocks his tooth out wrestling his brother.

Sunday (tonight)- aidens birthday dinner and cake. (11 years flew right by)

 

Please note the gigantic container of hand sanitizer by my sons head.  Yeah.  One in every room.

 

Tomorrow, julia goes to the Dr.

Holy moly.  And I was doing good too, I really was. 

 

And then I lost my favorite hole punch pliers. 

 

(wah wah wah)

 

They are gone.

 

They fit all the rivets I have perfectly.

 

I finally got some time in my studio today, and they are no where.  no where.  I looked everywhere.  Now, needless to say, its been a crazy two weeks.  I have stuff everywhere.  No doubt, I was punching a hole when someone needed first aid of some sort.  but I checked the freezer, and the medicine cabinet. I checked the car, the basement, and I even crawled under my desks and clean my studio. I found lots of things. 

 

Not my pliers.

 

Have you seen them???  They look like this.

 

Did I mention they fit my rivets?  Perfectly?

 

Why are they so important?  Well, I need to make a bunch of sea glass jewelry, and I got this great idea for a way to prong set, without having to solder wire standing on end on sheet. I could punch holes with my pliers, and feed through my rivets  (which fit snug and perfectly) from the bottom so they stand up

 

Add a little easy solder paste and torch them to stay in place....then add my cab or sea glass, and prong set them.  EAsy Peezy...........except...................

 

Well, I couldn't find them, and my brain could NOT make lemonade.  I could not move on to another task.  I just simply could not.  I had to try this.  It had to happen. 

 

So I went to Ace to find a drill bit that fits my rivets perfectly.  It was hard, but I found one.  (still grumbling that my poor pliers must be missing me somewhere)

 

I thought I'd try it out on something that had been laying on my desk forever because it wouldn't solder together right for me.  This moon face needed to be set onto this copper /brass setting.  So I drilled my holes, fed my rivets through, soldered them, and prong set the moon.  I hammered it just a bit, to harden the prongs..........Voila! 

 

I used my crafted findings rivet machine to add the rest of the goodies, and its getting a sea glass drop on the bottom and beading and such.  Its the moon over the sea.

*sigh*

 

I didn't make lemonade, I think I just sucked on a bitter lemon along with a little vodka.  Maybe tomorrow I will make lemonade, or maybe earrings, cause they need to get made too. Anyhow, it will work out.  Mostly, I am hoping for better health in the upcoming week. 

 

My show this coming weekend is on LBI New Jersey (long beach island) and its a mini sea glass festival.  My hubs and I go a day before and stay a day longer and make it a little get away without the kids.  I am praying that we are all healthy by then so I can just enjoy my time away with hubs.  We need it.

 

Thanks for listening to the rant.  The missing pliers was the straw that broke the camels back.  I am still smiling though.

 

Thanks to everyone who has been supporting me through sick kids, and shows and who has made the launch of Genea and my collab sets a success.  You guys rock.