This past week, I've had an outbreak of shingles. I've had it before and this particular type must be a chronic thing for me, meaning that apparently it's going to flare up now and then with no notice, or apparent rhyme or reason. I've had it about 3 times in the past 5 years, and none of the times I felt like I was under stress. But, I guess that our bodies react differently to stress. Maybe we're under stress when we don't even realize it. It's strange to me that it didn't flare up when my mother was sick and passed away and during the stressful time of her funeral. So, I went to the dermatologist yesterday and she prescribed me some medicine, both topical and oral. Today I noticed that my face feels like it's breaking out and I don't know if it's stress, or the shingles trying to break out on my face. It's bad enough where it is, which I won't say. I just hope this oral and topical medicine clears it up. The dr. looked me over pretty good and said that I have mild rosacea, which I didn't know, but I have noticed form time to time that my cheeks get red sometimes. She prescribed something for me for it but I'm going to look and see if there is anything over the counter for that.
Another thing that happened this week is that my MIL was in the hospital and she has a couple of places or tumors or polyps or something on her pancreas. The dr's told her that it could be cancer, but it might not be and they wouldn't know for sure unless they did an endoscopy to see for sure. She elected not to have that test done. Why, I don't know, but she's 92, so maybe she is either afraid of the results or she thinks she not going to live much longer anyway and just decided to let nature take it course. Another thing that happened is that one of my best friends was diagnosed with lung cancer this week. Just such a shock. I've been really sad and bummed out about everything, the shingles, my MIL, and my friend. Also, that fact that there are 3 other people that I love who have been diagnosed with cancer this year.
This wouldn't be a writing blog if I didn't say something about writing or books or reading so, on a lighter note, I learned about a new book that is coming out in January by Sue Monk Kidd. The title is The Invention of Wings. It looks really good and I can't wait to read it. I haven't really been doing any writing this week. Just haven't had the motivation or mood for it. I will get back to writing, hopefully when things settle down some.
One day last week I was in Walmart in the craft section and I ran across a neat little tool called a Kumihimo foam disk. Having never seen one before and being intrigued, I read a little about it and since it was only $3. I bought it.
There was also some findings, etc. and some satin type cord. I bought a roll of that and a bag of findings. I thought, what the heck, it was only $3 each. When I got home I went to the website for the manufacturer for this particular disk www.cousin.com and watched a video for how to make a bracelet. After that, I went to Youtube and watched more tutorials and realized this is very easy. So, since then I've made about 6 bracelets and 2 necklaces. I don't have them all photographed, but I did take a picture of the first one that I completed.
I have really enjoyed making these. I was able to find the satin cording at Hobby Lobby and I also found some at Joann's, but the end caps are not as easily found, nor are the lobster clasps in large quantities. I ended up ordering the end caps online. The lobster clasps come in packages no larger than 4 to a pack, which is definitely not enough since I'm planning to sell these in a local shop. If I were just going to make one or two, that would be fine, but I really want to bling these up a little and sell them, so I'm going to have to find a source that sells larger quantities of the clasps and end caps. I will post more pictures as I finish them.
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