No Time Like the Present

Or, maybe 'No time. Like the present?'

I had no time to make presents this year. Well, I made a few, but nothing like I wanted to.

This week I am still trying to recover from whatever my 'aliment of the month club' delivered to me. I am not watching adorable grandchildren so it almost feels like a Christmas vacation. Except, of course, that Christmas is over, and I also have my traditional 'after Christmas migraine'. (yea, me!)

I experimented early in the month with some leftover wool yarn. I was curious as to whether or not the pompoms would hold up in the wash. They did that, and also the dryer. One even tried to escape and spent a few days all alone on the basement floor.

Now that I had them, I wasn't sure what to do with them. So, today I wondered if my jewelry glue would work on wool. It did.

Then I just went crazy with more, yes MORE, junque that I have laying around my humble albeit cluttered abode.

I have glass beads. Somewhere. I found them in the garage just outside the porch door. I did learn that if two old aqua glass beads come joined together, you cannot separate them by putting them into a sandwich bag and cutting them with a very large butcher knife. It just doesn't work. (if anyone would like some aqua glass bead crumbs, i have some in a baggy.)

My old jar of buttons just happened to be in a picnic basket on the back porch. I was hot from floor scrubbing, so I sat out there for a bit to cool off. It was a pretty and snowy afternoon, so I made the must of my time.

In the button jar I also found some wee bits of crochet. AND, long pins with glass beads on the end.

Oh...then I just went crazy.

A large button serves as a base for the snowman. I glued a small doily to the button to give a snowy effect.

I think she needs arms, and a tiny purse of some sort flung over one, like it doesn't care.

But sometimes I don't know when to stop.

Like, I should have stopped when the smell of the jewelry glue started making me feel queasy. But, I didn't, and now I have a migraine. And a very sore neck, and a stuffy nose, and oh, you don't want to know what else...

But, I have a snowman!