Sneak Peek, Cast Froufing and a Confession

I haven’t been posting much lately. It’s not because I haven’t been working on things. I have. I’m trying to finish up my last cane chair so I can show you the finished results. I have one chair done. Here’s a peek:

 

It’s mean to tease you like that, but I wanted to show them both together.

It’s harder than you can imagine to work on things while standing on one leg. If you don’t know, I had surgery on my foot to remove a stupid bone spur that was growing into my Achilles tendon. Apparently, the spur went around the entire back of my heel, but angled away from the bone toward the tendon at about a 45-degree angle. They had to repair the tendon, so I can’t stand on my foot for 7 weeks. Actually, 5 weeks and 3 days, but who’s counting?

My foot looks like this right now:

I covered my cast with the cheetah print duct tape to frouf it up.

The tape is already pulling up in places, so I plan to switch it out for the zebra print tape in a few days. Either that, or the blue/purple tie-dye pattern. I’m not sure yet which way I’ll go, but I’m guessing the zebra print.

I’d made a cast cover for it for when we went to see Les Miserables last weekend.

Here’s my shiny, out-on-the-town cast cover.

I made it out of swimsuit fabric. I liked it because it kept me from scratching my other leg with the cast, but the silver started wearing off after a few days. I have some more fabric, so I may make another one.

I get around using this knee wheelchair.

Like my basket? It didn’t come with one so I had to come up with some way to carry things. I put my cast on the seat and then push myself around with my good foot. It’s a little interesting to try and go up and down stairs, but fortunately our house is mostly on the main level. It’s all man cave and boy’s rooms in the basement so I don’t need to try and go downstairs right now.

I do have some other projects in the works. I’ve got a roadside rescue shelf I’m trying to finish up. I’m working on making a purse for my sister out of my late-nephew’s army jacket. I’ll be helping out a fellow blogger reupholster some chairs and I’m excited for that project.

Finally, I thought I’d share make a confession. Back at Christmas time while Baby Girl was home from school, she taught us this game to play in church. You know, when the speakers are not quite able to hold our attention. Not that they don’t all have something terrific to say. Just sometimes, it’s hard to stay focused.

The game goes like this. One person starts by writing a sentence and then hands the paper to the next person. That person then draws a picture that matches the sentence. They fold over the first sentence and hand it to the next person, who only sees the picture. That person then has to write a sentence that matches the picture. They then fold over the picture and hand it to the next person. It continues on.

Here’s our best creation:

The first sentence reads: Once a girl with a golden tooth proposed to a boy with a wooden leg.

The second sentence says: Some ugly girl proposes to a Pirate Ninja.

 

The third sentence says: The sad, desperate carnie woman proposed to the agile ninja elf man.

The fourth sentence says: A pregnant vampiress offer a gift to a cat-man on a flagpole.

What can I say? Sometimes we are not a very reverent family. We’ll work on it for our next Family Home Evening lesson.

Suesan