TFT - 04.15.09

Bench Night last night! YAY!

I left work a little BEFORE 5, zipped home and got started preparing dinner right away. I had hoped to be at the bench earlier than I was, but maybe since the bench time went so horribly its not a bad thing that I didn't get there earlier than I did!

So, I made dinner which I thought would be SUPER quick, but turned out taking a while. I had about a quarter of a ham leftover from Easter, so I took all the meat off, chopped it up and made a sort of casserole. If I can just say.....

oh

my

gosh

how good that was.

In a nutshell:

I finely chopped some vidalia and put it in a large casserole with a dab of butter and some white wine - nuked it for 6 minutes or so, then added:
-Chopped ham
-some chopped swiss cheese
-frozen corn
-mustard (just a big healthy squirt or two)
-white wine
-half a can of cream of mushroom soup
-a spoonful or two of light sour cream
-more white wine
then.....

oh my...I found it

- a tiny bit of heavy whipping cream leftover.....that will be PERFECT.

Dump it in.

Nuke some more - maybe 10 minutes, stirring every few.

Oh. my. word. The rich creaminess that came out of the microwave and poured onto our plates...like heaven. Served it over rice...mmm. But thats not all. I baked some refrigerator biscuits and cut them up into chunks and put them on the top of our bowls. MMMMMMMM. Positively sinful it was so good.

OK, so then a quick clean up, help little guy get his homework out, feed the dogs, blah blah blah and off to the basement. SKWERRRRRRRRCK. Halt. Not so fast.

Did I mention there was a little box on the counter when I got home? Hmmm? Did I?


No?


Hmm, well THERE WAS! And it was from some of my favorite folks. The ones who work at Contenti.

It was chock full of little goodies. (boy those little goodies add up...) Lots of little attachments for my flexshaft....some of these:

http://www.contenti.com/products/abrasives/131-403.html in different grits
http://www.contenti.com/products/abrasives/442-610.html
http://www.contenti.com/products/abrasives/442-855.html
http://www.contenti.com/products/abrasives/442-817.html

a whole boatload of some of these in various shapes and grits:
http://www.contenti.com/products/abrasives/441-002C.html


some of these:
http://www.contenti.com/products/abrasives/440-272L.html

Some sandpaper cloth, some mini-mandrels for all those attachments, some ummm, hmmm, oh, sawblades...maybe thats it.

Lots of fun stuff. :)

Ok, to the bench we go.

You might have heard that I'm pulling through old pieces - trying to make them new - and I'm not doing too poorly as evidenced by the fact that I'm wearing an ANCIENT pair of earrings that I always thought looked really stupid, but after tumbling them for like 6 hours on Easter - I'm WEARING them today! ha!

But.

Yep, there's a big BUT.

Last night I retrieved this cutey and thought I'd make more links....in the style of the one the leaf is hanging on...who knew it would be so hard to make 'random' look right? To make 'organic' look natural? I must have gone through 4 or 5 feet of 16 gauge wire, most of it being scrapped and after I got what might look ok, I ruined 4 more 3-4" pieces of wire trying to make a clasp. WHAT THE HECK???!! Oy. So I finally decided I was 'done'. Put it on - it looked like crap. Seriously.


At that point I decided enough was enough. I called it a night - it was only 10:30.

*sigh*

So, for today - we've got more rain....which is a good thing I suppose, we really do need it. Baseball game for tonight is cancelled which is a good thing as my little guy has another research paper (they do start them young these days!) and we need to get crackin' on it! And maybe, just maybe, I'll have the energy to get back to the bench, but I'm not even LOOKING at that stupid leaf pendant. Well, maybe long enough to toss it back into the box it came out of....where it can hang out for another 6 months or so before I decide to look at it again. ;-)


Happy Wednesday ! Happy creating!

~Janice