Creativity THWARTED!!!! :-P

I know what you were expecting to see when you came to see my newest post --- a gingerbread sled, right??  Yeah, and I was fully expecting to be able to post about one, yesterday.....but I woke up to something that looked a little OFF yesterday morning.....

....notice anything missing???
Let me give you a hint if you don't -- there needs to be TWO runners and small rectangles to assemble this sled properly....!
Want to guess where they went....??  Here's another hint.....

My little Minnie has doubled in size since she first got here, and now she can stand up on the edge of the counters and reach things that aren't way back on them.....and she loves my ornamental gingerbread!!!!  She's also decimated my gingerbread-garland-men population -- she's eaten at least 4 or 5, and only when my back is turned!!!  She doesn't even care if they have urethane or glitter on them - to her, they are precious forbidden treats, and worth the extra stealth that is required to grab them!  Naughty, naughty Minnie!!!

So then I decided I would at least put together the sled part, and while I was holding them in place and trying to fit in the back piece before gluing them (at least!), I did THIS.....

WHOOPSIE!
So.....I glued the broken piece together again and decided to back away from the gingerbread sled project for the day! :-{
Today I used the rest of my dough to make the extra pieces, and to make more of the "men".....

See how they have the flour on them?  That would go away if I wiped them with a wet sponge, but I'm going to urethane them instead, so I don't have to.  Maybe these guys will go in a glass jar like on the blog where I got the recipe?  Well, they are going on top of the fridge tonight!! LOL

I DID have some fun this weekend, the wool that I bought on ebay came in!  One of the sellers sent it like this.....

I loved it!!  I felt like I was opening a present! :-D
I am thrilled with the colors, just as I was hoping I'd be.....

Look at that red!  Wow!!  That's for the penny rug I showed in my last post.  And the brown is for the first penny rug I planned out a few weeks ago, it's going to replace the rust.....

This picture is from a week ago, I'm just figuring out how to arrange the pennies evenly -- it's trickier than you expect it to be!  I think the brown will be JUST the look I want for it - more drab than the rust wool.  I'm saving those for another penny rug, a waaaays into the future!! LOL
Now the tedious part comes.....the sewing!!  I got a little done last night......

I love the quiet, purposeful act of hand sewing, and crocheting and embroidery -- all the handwork crafts!  They are so soothing to me, peaceful and satisfying.  Women used to do these things out of necessity, we do them now as "Crafts", for enjoyment!  What does that say about our ultra-modern, ultra-technology world that we live in?  Obviously it isn't meeting the real NEEDS that we have as women, as humans! 
A long time ago, when my kids were tiny and there were no computers or i-phone things, and I was alone ALOT while my husband worked (I didn't have a car then, either), I used to dream about how wonderful it would have been to live in an Indian tribe!  You know, all the men went hunting, and all the women sat around sewing the animal skins and gardening, and caring for the children.  Now, we would think of that as "getting together", but it used to be a way of life!  *Sigh!!*  I definitely missed my time period.... :-)

This week will be spent CLEANING.  I cook for Thanksgiving, and it's only us, but I like it to look nice and clean for the start of the holiday season!  I get lots of yucky dust and clutter that accumulates around me (usually because of me), and now is the time to dispel it!!  Brian only works for 2 1/2 days this week (YAY!! :-D), so that's when I will make a real effort to vacuum and dust and put things away.  It should really only take me one full day, if I devote myself to it.....the problem is that I hate to clean -- it is the opposite of anything fun at all for me.  I have spent my life trying to appreciate the benefits of it, but it never gets through to me.....something inside me always rebels, and blocks me from getting my cleaning jobs done!  So, if I can get it done tomorrow, it will be a real victory for me!!......I'll get back to you! LOL ^-^