nimbleknot

New Masthead

Now that I have a new air conditioner, to the tune of $9100, I got a little creative.  Really though, doesn't that sound like a small fortune? Ugh. But I am happy that our home is now properly set-up and our electric bill should be a little over $100 instead of $400 per month. It was no small task. It took three men 10 hours to install and re-duct our entire home. Our home is now zoned and it has an air purification system. I am happy about that. But honestly, the BEST thing about getting a new air conditioner? Is the box it came in. It's literally 4 feet sqaured and is now the permanent residence of my five year old son, complete with door, window and mail slot. He even has his own address.

Okay, so yea...the masthead. I wanted something a little more colorful to represent some of my work. All the bears have new homes all over the world. And for the first time, I have NO bears! I am sold out, thanks to everyone who has so kindly taken an interest in my creations. But I am working on "something" right now and will hopefully have it completed in the next few days.

It's hot...

...in my house. My A/C died today and it's 89 degrees in my house. Really. Why is it 92 degrees in October in the state of Texas? It's SNOWING in Nevada. For crying out loud. Oh, I forgot...it's humid too. Yuk. Anyway, it makes me very cranky. My neighbor is an A/C repairman. He came over, as he has many many times and tried to fix it. But, the project is too time consuming for him. He works fulltime as an A/C repairman AND works weekends for himself. He literally doesn't have the time. I really think he's the nicest man I've ever met. He was so sad he couldn't fix it for me. I have to wait until Monday and call the local repair guys. I can already tell it won't be cheap. Last week we had our water softener repaired. That was $250. It never ends. Before that it was the cracked windshield on our truck, the leaky dishwasher, the A/C starter, the leaky free-on. I will never own an Amana A/C unit again as long as I live. We had so much rain that our oak trees grew like mad. They are 100 year old oaks. But they had so much new growth, and some old, they were hanging dangerously close to the house. One wind or hail storm could have taken down a branch on a car, or worse...our neighbors car. So we spent $500 to "barely" trim them. The full job would have been $1000. Anyway, being hot and sticky in my house makes me crabby.

I decided to list this set on ebay. It will not be available for purchase after the auction ends. So hopefully some lucky collector will win the set. I spent many many hours working on the details for this set and I really love it. I was going to keep it for myself but decided to let it go. I love the colors in this piece, especially the color of Margarita. It comes with a handmade wooden rocking chair. The photos of that can be seen in the photo "Gallery o'Bears" of this blog. Or you can go to my flickr account too. Or heck, go to the ebay auction link and check it out there.

Please pray for a cold front in Austin, Texas as I would love to sleep in my bed upstairs. But it's too darn hot so I will share the couch with my two kids, husband and poodle.