Jim and I had planned to spend Christmas in Florida. But by the time we got around to buying plane tickets [October], it would have cost us $1000/roundtrip [each]. So we opted for going the week before, which cost us $400/roundtrip. Still expensive, but way better than the alternative. $#@*&^ airlines.
Last week my friend Michelle posted on Facebook that her friend Joe needed to find a new home for his male rat Franc. Apparently Joe has to travel a lot for work, so Franc got lonely. But Franc is SO cute and so sweet… hubby agreed we could adopt him. This morning at 9 I picked him up and this afternoon I got him all settled in our spare large cage.
This weekend I created 3 new stars for our living room window. I dressed them up with pre-tinned copper wire to make them look like snowflakes. Pre-tinned means it’s already been dipped in solder so it saves me the headache of trying to lay an even layer of solder over it. It’s very easy to hold the wire designs with needle-nosed pliers and solder them to the stars.
Abbie warned me a couple times that the stained glass spider web I made in October was probably too heavy for the hooks I added in November, since they were soldered directly to the copper foil border. She wasn’t kidding! Today I took the web down to my workshop and barely applied any pressure before the hooks peeled off, taking the copper foil with them.
I made 9 more stained glass stars 🙂  Now I’ve made 17!  I can’t show pictures of them all yet, because some are gifts.  But I’m making a bunch for Jim and I as well!
Not something you usually see in the same sentence, but my weekend was all about caulk and cat butts. Yesterday poor Bonkers had his butt shaved to remove gobs of greasy mats. This past weekend I caulked for the FIRST TIME EVER! It’s another DIY milestone.
60 feet of LED holiday lights strung up with a silver star garland in the downstairs hall + 40 feet of LED holiday lights strung up in the basement workshop! And some festive disco balls thrown in 🙂
I’m on a roll!  Holy cow. I made a raspberry star 2 nights ago before bed, a garnet/blood red star yesterday morning, and a smaller, clear glass polka-dot/bubble wrap looking star yesterday afternoon. Then today I made 3 more!
