Today being the hottest day since Adam blamed Eve for the weather, I decided to try my hand at friendship bracelets to take my mind off it. Which it did.
First I did a few inches of the current weaving which I know how to do. Then I set up threads for an eight thread bracelet project.
These are not the actually easy ones we used to make way back. These are described as easy and to judge from the YouTube comment, other people were as baffled as I about the paths of the threads. Also how you follow every step and your threads don't end where the video says.
After numerous tries and retries, I finally emerged with a simplified, three thread, version of the easy (!) one, which would fit a hamster, after all the thread loss from false starts.
And here's the output. I'm not done yet but I wouldn't say I was an adept beginner.
All this was happening against the background of Gary rushing in to borrow a tool, I think he's at the stage where whatever he needs is at the other house, and FedEx dumping off a huge parcel, a neighbor jumping in to ask should he bring it in out of the hot sun, and my saying it's not mine. I checked the name -- future tenant next door!He made FedEx come back and move it to their step.
Throughout I was trying to get my right ear hearing aid to work. I tried everything I knew, cursing this happening on a holiday, audio closed, and after resetting it twice, plugging unplugging, having it work several times briefly, finally got it fully charged, and it's held up all day.
All good, until I suddenly felt something in my mouth a while ago that wasn't food, and found a section of a molar had fallen off around an old filling.
It doesn't hurt, good, because holiday weekend, but I quick ordered the antibiotics I have to take before dental visits, to be shipped Monday. They say. Monday I'll set up a dentist appointment.
So this has been more eventful than anticipated. It's taken my mind off the weather anyway.
Happy day everyone, I guess.
I hate it when I find a piece of tooth romping around in my mouth although it is better than breaking a tooth in half.
ReplyDeleteI was eating a bit of chocolate and wondered at first if it was a nut! Noooo.
DeleteI always hated feeling yet another tooth break apart. It got to the point where there wasn't any tooth left to fix a filling to, hence the dentures...
ReplyDeleteI think there's another crown in my future.
DeleteWhat a day. Fingers crossed for the tooth to stay painless.
ReplyDeleteYes, especially on a holiday weekend.
DeleteHamsters deserve friendship bangles too.
ReplyDeleteJust opening the door can blast you with knock out heat.
I am guessing your aids are rechargeable, and I am due for those in a couple of years, but I am now wondering. I think I might stick with the batteries, which last a week.
Not to worry you, but of course it will, last time a found a piece of tooth floating in my mouth resulted in root canal filling.
They are rechargeable and this is the first charging problem I've had. The reset seems to have fixed the issue. Batteries need quite a bit of dexterity to change, so that's worth considering.
DeleteLast time I had this tooth issue I got a crown. I think that might happen again.
Hope the tooth trouble is fixed quickly and easily. Some of those bracelets look complicated but you will work it all out with time and practice.
ReplyDeleteStay cool.
The tooth will be expensive! And I'll keep on with the bracelets. Some of the videos edit out the bits I need. Especially if they're selling a book..
DeleteAs my daughter would say, 'oo de lolly, oo de lolly, golly what a day!'
ReplyDeleteYes, NADM!
DeleteYes. Those are the kinds of days where you just have to ask, "Really? REALLY? And now this too?"
ReplyDeleteMay today be better.
Handsome Son is visiting so there's that!
Deletemy word - talk about eventful. Dental oopses always seem to happen on holidays - i believe it is one of the laws of Murphy.
ReplyDeleteYes, that and furnace breakdown! Followed by homeowner breakdown.
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