20 Loads of Laundry Later...

And I'm still alive! It is so nice to have a washer and dryer...no more dragging the kids to the laundry mat to wash 2 weeks worth of clothes at a time. LOL....I can't lift it, so I have to slave drive the kids! That's when having 3 comes in handy! I know, I'm a mean ole Mom!

~We now have front loaders~ you shoulda seen all of us, Otis included watching the first cycle go Around and Around...... LOL. It's the little things in life! Hahaha

I have been working on a special gift for a friend, so I thought I show you a quick peek...Any guess as to what it's going to be? I can't tell ya yet.....don't worry, as soon as she sees it, She'll know~and she'll guess the right answer.......Maybe she'll keep it a mystery, too? LOL


LMAO.....So, You thought I was done with the pineapples, huh?? Not yet. :) Cora has her's.....and Chris, don't worry~I have a set, set aside with your name on it. This next picture of what I'd like to giveaway...Yes! My first blog giveaway.........

Here's how this is going to work.....If you'd like to receive this Pineapple Polymer Clay Dollhouse dish set......Leave me a comment letting me know you want to enter. On April 3rd....I will put all the names into a hat, and pick a winner. Here's the catch.....If you win, You must do the same......Make a gift and Do a giveaway! Kinda like Paying it forward.....Anyone want to play??


Next, we have a picture of JD's casualties...I didn't realize he'd broken a few the other day........This just goes to show that Sculpy can be very fragile! The teapot is missing the knob on the top, and the 2 pots are missing a handle..


OK *Please excuse my dust bunnies, they keep me company.......So. I forgot to show you this the other day. My oldest picked these up at the dollar store. I want to use the hair dryer trick to see if I can't get the doors off the one on the right...Both will probably get repainted at some point. Good looking out Drew! (Yes! That's the cover to the Big Love Season One DVD on the left!~ I dunno why, but I love this show!!!!!)


*Currently watching My Fair Lady.

And speaking of movies....Mercedes recently asked me What my all time favorite movie is....and well I replied with a long list. I can't just chose one. I watch them every day, Yes.....it's my guilty pleasure. When me and the bf first got together I was bed ridden for a while, so our dates consisted of buying a movie, and cooking a meal at home. And here 5 years later, we have one heck of a collection. I love having them....but they sure are an eye-sore. In my other life, they'd be covered up by long curtains or something.....and, no, I've never counted them....

Guess What?

Yup! More pineapples.......Yesterday was a waste as far as being productive goes. I spent the morning on the computer, and after a doctor appt. in the afternoon, I came home and slept all evening. Of course the bf came in when he got hungry to see 'what time I wanted to wake up'...LOL....Good thing I know how they are, so I already had a pizza ready to go in the freezer. Thank god! to whomever invented the pizza cooker! Plug it in, put the pizza on the tray, and set the timer to 20 minutes...then ding~ It's done! So easy the bf and the kid can do it!!!

After dinner, I did manage to make a few more accessories. I like all of them except the little one in the front with the handles~ the handles are simply too big! Other than that, they'll make a good addition to the ever so large collection of pineapple stuff I have sitting on the coffee table. JD, my black cat, tested their durability this morning when he knocked every last one of them onto the floor! Way to go JD! Thanks for helping buddy!

OK, I'm off to go find a longer dryer cord. Seems the one we got with our new dryer is 2 inches too short to reach the outlet! Just my luck!!

And Even More Pineapples!

Aren't you excited!! Hahaha......Don't worry, I'm starting to get over it myself. Here's what I made today:

I really like the pots with the little handles, too!! I tried to make a cutting board, but it turned out a little too big; although, it will probably work for Cora's Barbies~ looks a little trippy, doesn't it! (You should be able to click on these pictures to make them bigger) Look, I even attempted to make a salt and pepper shaker!

Thought I'd show you the progress so far....It will be interesting to see how many of these we can fit into Cora's kitchen!!

......and it will be scary to see how many of these little things I have left over. Maybe someone out there would like to do a trade? Cora gets first dibs......and then I'll put a set together and post a blog about it.....

Until tomorrow......

More Pineapples!

I made a few more dishes for Cora's house! I even made plates! Didn't get too productive though, you wouldn't believe how bad my hands still hurt from trying to reduce that cane!

I really like how this lid turned out!

And look...I still have ALL this left? Scary, huh?? BTW...I take the ends of the cane that didn't turn out, and put them in my mini food processor. I use these 'crumbles' as the base for all my dishes!

The Pineapple Cane

Sometimes I like what I do....sometimes I'm just not impressed......This is one of those times! Remember how my daughter decided that she wanted her kitchen to be done in pineapples....
Here's the beginning of a pineapple cane......

Which turned into this......

Then I filled the gaps in with a yellow/gold mixture.....Do you see how big it got...Of course my smart *ss boyfriend says..."Why didn't you just make it smaller?" The truth is, I have no idea how big these canes are going to be...I just start building...and this one ended up bigger than the palm of my hand~ and about 2 inches thick!!

....and then you gotta pull and squeeze.......You see the pineapple disappearing....it's ok, we'll find it again in a moment...

See....there it is.......The bottom got squashed, I needed more clay around the bottom of the cane. You believe I probably used 4 blocks of Sculpy just to do that background!

Then I made these with slices from the canes......

...and these.

Like I said, I'm not that impressed...they're pretty and all...Just not as good as I had wanted them.......LMAO, and now I have about 2 foot of Pineapple cane to do something with, lol!!