Healing and Pinterest

 I have been silent for a while. Things have been going along fine since my surgery to ready my jaw for the implantation of a tooth that will let me chew food.

This last surgical procedure was a lot easier than the last one. Of course, the last one was more involved. The abscess and the hole it left behind, the difficulty with the third root on that wisdom tooth and waking before it was over. The pain was pretty intense, as well.

So, to say I was not looking forward to another adventure in my mouth is an understatement. While I was sedated this time, I was not completely unconscious. I needed to be aware to move my head when told to and I am nothing if not obedient when someone has a needle and other tools coming at my mouth.

Having a background in medicine, you would think I would not close my eyes tightly to avoid seeing sharp tools approaching me. I have no problem watching or even being the one to impose a sharp object into someone else, but I suppose this means I am just like everyone else who wants to avoid the very thought of pain. 

While I am happy that I am well on my way to recovery and haven't taken a pain pill since day 2, I am not happy with my lack of energy. I wake in the morning and find it hard to drag myself out of bed. I have been either sleeping later or getting up and trying to push myself into action.

I might muster up enough ambition to piddle in my garden to be for a bit of the day, but then I find I must rest, or even take a nap after only an hour or so in order to be able to get enough energy to make a meal. I do not like this!

I have been finding some crafty stuff to keep me busy while sitting around. I definitely have enough interests for this. My current passion is rock painting. I started with small rocks and painted a family of lady bugs. Those were easy enough. I sealed them with clear nail polish. Then I did a bigger rock and made a frog. He turned out okay. It is hard to find rocks that have the shape of an animal or insect. I have some good-sized rocks and picked an oval shape that weighs about 7 lbs. I hunted an illustration of a lizard and traced it onto the top of the rock that is somewhat rounded, but mostly flat. I painted my lizard to look like he was just sunning on the rock, even shadowed one side to give him a little depth. I was quite pleased with the results.

This made me decide that I wanted to paint all the rocks that surround my many garden beds and have all manner of wildlife depicted. After a sleepless night imagining the outcome, I changed my mind. It could start to look a little like a paint crazed insane person lives here. Less is more, I must repeat this to myself until it sticks!

Changing gears, I gathered up all the empty pots I have accumulated since we moved here. Some of them are nicer than the plain and flimsy pots that most plants come in. I decided to paint them with some bright colors to match the neon green umbrella on the deck. I had already put light turquoise rugs down and am trying to pull those tropical colors in that will make it look intentional.

The outdoor loveseat and chairs are black metal, and I plan to make cushions for the seats, and I picked up some throw pillow covers that are very bright with green, blue, purple, yellow and orange floral. All the colors are super bright. With those colors in mind, I painted some with flowers and one square pot has frogs and lily pads on each of the four sides. 

Tiring of that project and still not up to the frustration of the bobbin tension on my sewing machine, I turned to aluminum cans. Yes, you read that right. When I am watching TV in the evening, I also troll Pinterest for ideas of what to do with everyday items that are basically trash. Tomorrow, I will enchant you with my latest creation and the process involved. Giving away my inspiration secrets, that is just who I am!