yup, still here

we've been spending time out in the yard every day -- tearing down the parts of the fence that we're going to rebuild

two panels are totally down and we've prepped the other panel that will come out (we're trying to keep enough fence up that we can keep the dog in the yard while this is going on!)

today we hope to get a lot of that old fence wood cut up and hauled out to the trash can since tomorrow is pick up day
even so, I have been working on some things in the studio

this new bead embroidered piece of jewelry, for instance

(this is the piece all those brass pieces I was talking about last week are for)

these two pieces are the very back sections where the clasp will go when the necklace is all finished

this piece will take a while -- there are 17 bead embroidered pieces, and these two are the smallest ones

and this is hot pad number 3 for the Christmas box -- the front and the back



slowly but surely!