NO MORE NAILS!!!

Big bummer! I came home tonight and started to finish the fish, but ran out of nails! And it is freezing out! Don't think I am going to head back out just for nails, so that ends my work for tonight and tomorrow morning :-( Which leaves me 2 days to finish it before January 1st!!!

Here's what I got done before I ran out of nails:

The Pup is Happy I'm Home

KC is happy I'm home more now as opposed to working 65-68 hours a week as well as taking two classes (I know, crazy right??) She layed with me last night while I worked on the fish. She has also almost gotten knocked in the face a few times when she walks up to me while hammering. She just wants to see what I am doing. Then this evening she was checking out what I was doing once again, Kevin was in the bed room resting and she wanted to play so she kept coming over and dropping her plush Piggy right on the fish. She enjoys coming to check out what I am doing.

The Other Bottle Cap Project

So the other day I hinted at another bottle cap project that had me going though fish withdrawals because I needed to finish those before Christmas. I obviously couldn't let on to what those were until after Christmas, which is now! I made coasters! Here is a photo of the ones I made for Mara, with a bunch of her Australia caps. She started crying when she opened them, thinking she liked em :-) (Photo courtesy of Mara, you can tell, cus if it were mine, the coasters would all be going the same way)

What a Weekend off can mean...

Sore fingers, a very happy puppy that her mommy is home, and FISH PROGRESS!!! (which is good since I have a less than week to finish it!)

What the fish looked like when I started yesterday:

And here is what has been done so far this weekend (and it's only 2:40pm!)

Made my day!

Jokingly today I asked Kevin to bake the cookies I need for my work holiday party and to cut the nails off the back of the fish. To my surprise he came back with "the fish is done". Apparently he had already gone and taken off all the nails that go through to the other side, without me even asking! After realizing this I recalled him hinting about the fish and how I only have two weeks left to finish it (YIKES!). When all along he wasn't doing that to be a brat, but for me to go look at the fish and notice what he had done. This just made my day! Can't wait to go home and check it out after work! But will there be cookies?

Going through Withdrawls

I am going through bottle cap fish withdrawls! I haven't been able to work on it in what seems forever! I did take yesterday off of work and worked on another bottle cap craft, one that is due for Christmas, that was fun and a nice break but I am ready to start back in on the Fish. Which won't happen tonight seeing as I have a final tomorrow... I have taken the weekend after Christmas off and am crossing my fingers that I am able to get A LOT done then, seeing as the deadline is fast approaching.


Okay, now that I have that out, back to the school work!

Wild Blue

So I was just looking at some items for christmas gifts on Etsy (which I love love love!) and came across a blueberry beer soap made with Wild Blue beer, which goes with this cap!

Getting there

Getting there with the fish, will have to grind off the nails that are sticking through on the back pretty soon so that I can continue adding more caps. Next time will look into smaller nails!

Here fishy fishy fishy....

Do any of you remember that skit from Sesame Street where Burt & Earnie are fishing and Ernie isn't using a pole but has a fish call? "Here Fishy Fishy Fishy!" Believe it or not that skit used to scare me when I was little, the thought of all those fish jumping into the boat....
Anywho... got some work on the fish done last night, here are some updated pictures.

Nail Biting

Biting my nails in anxiety over whether or not this fish will get done by the deadline of January 1st!

Just got my work schedule for this weekend at the studio and am wondering if I will be able to fit in the fish at all!!

Fingers crossed, but I also have a lot of other things I need to get ready for the Holidays... guess I'll start on that list so that I can visualize what I have done and what I need to get done.