So…I went to the eye dr. today because while trying to sew things I’m continually missing what I’m sewing and poking myself in the finger, leg, you name it…I’ve poked it.  All this while wearing my reading glasses.  Yeah, yeah, I’m old.  Damn it.

I went to a new eye dr. today.  Loved the office, the staff and the dr. was completely fun.  Professional yes, but lots of fun.  Looking for a good vision clinic in the East Valley (Ahwatukee area)?  On the Jen-o-meter (hey, it’s a new rating system) I give Arizona’s Vision 2 eyes wide open.  Professional office, CLEAN, lots of options in the frames and all the new testing equipment.  Bonus points for being funny.  I appreciate that.  Anyone who can make me laugh always earns bonus points.

My new reading glasses will be in soon enough and I will be able to craft without pain.  Well…that’s the story I’m sticking to right now.  It may not actually be a vision problem.  It may just be because I’m not very good at this crafting thing.  Enthusiasm doesn’t always equal quality.  But I’m not trying to get on Martha Stewart, I’m just here to have fun.

After we left the eye dr I went driving around looking at rental properties.  Let’s just say it’s awfully hard to view street name/numbers with dilated eyes.  I could drive alright, but seeing the names of streets wasn’t happening until I was right on them.  So after calling on a couple of places and getting shot down (everyone is wanting a rental house these days in Phoenix), we hit up the grocery store and came home.

Why did we go to the grocery store?  Remember that bread I talked about making last night?  Does the word “brick” mean anything to you?  How about “door stop”?  How about “give it to the military to throw at enemies and then there’d be no more wars because these suckers are dense and taste like crap”?

For some reason, Than likes them.  Does that say something about my cooking skills?  Should I be offended or get Than’s taste buds checked out?

I’m rambling because I need to put up some kind of craft by Friday and I can’t decide what I want to do.  Anyone have any ideas?  Leave a message, email me (badlycrafted@gmail.com), send smoke signals, something.  It will have to be something made using felt, puffballs, pipecleaners, drawing or, or….papier mache. Or maybe I’ll just surprise us all and do something really hard.

Hang in there bc’ers….I’ll be back with a project soon.  Just don’t count on it being Batcat.

Oh yeah, btw, while on vacation I drew stuff.  One guess as to what I was drawing.  If you said Noah’s Ark, give yourself a prize.  Addiction, thy name is Jen!  I also found out that G’s cousins daughter is an artist.  As in ARTIST.  She’s a teenager and does an amazing job drawing people.  She is NOT a badcrafter.  She’s the real deal.  I’m a cartoonist, Mahalia is an artist.  Hoping she continues.  We sat together at a family get together drawing in our sketch books.  I loved every minute of it.  Someone who “gets” me.

Here’s the Noah’s Ark.  I made it “colorful”.  My normal color pens are running out of ink and I’m running out of cash so I used, ahem, “other” colors.  Once everything is in the same boat, I’ll spring for more pens.  Or I’ll continue to hope that the Prismacolor Fairy drops by and leaves me a crapload of pens.  Or pencils.  I’m not picky.  Well. I am, but not where Prismacolors are concerned.

Edited to add:  It helps if I actually put the picture IN the post.  (smacks self upside head)