Cheesehead with Sticks

It’s raining. I would soooo like to call in sick to work today, however if I do there is no one else to get the job done. No such luxury for me today then!

My sister-in-law and I are taking the little kids “camping” this weekend. I say “camping” because we are going to a not so cheap family campground that is a mere 6 miles from my house (it’s over an hour from hers). But, we are sleeping in tents and it is supposed to rain all weekend – so we will be “roughing” it.

I haven’t got much get up and go lately. I think I am still recovering from taking the Girl Scout troop camping a few weekends ago. Did I post about that? Probably not. It was a lot of fun. Many of the girls had never been camping before and I think they all had a great time. We even got a visit from this lovely creature.

It’s a Luna Moth – perched on a 4 x 4. It is about 3 inches wide.

I have one more thing to share with you. I spent some of Saturday working on my necklace for the Pink Artist Block Party 09. (I had intended on spending ALL of Saturday working on it, but then I fell down the rabbit hole and spent a shamefully long amount of time rearranging my farm on FarmTown. I could have knit an entire washcloth and a half in the time I spent. It’s shameful!)

Here is what I have so far. Not much, but most of the “hard” stuff is done.

Keeping in mind the reason for the fundraiser, the words on the scroll  read: “She never thought of herself as a strong WOMAN until she looked back at all she had OVERCOME. Then she knew she was as strong as a MOUNTAIN.”  The scroll will be rolled up and kept shut in some way that can be pulled out and read and then rolled back up, so it will look like a paper bead. I used vintage buttons for the links you see.

As I was making the button links I just kept imagining all the history those buttons “witnessed” before someone cut them off their garment and put them in a jam jar to reuse some day. Can you imagine the “girl talk” they heard? The babies that touched and tried to eat them? The special occasions they may have been worn to?  The obstacles that their wearer had overcome?

I just LOVE working with old items and imagining their previous lives and what they “witnessed”.

This necklace is inspired by a project in the book Semiprecious Salvage.