Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! My how time flies! We have had so much snow already this winter! Above is a picture of the kids and their snowmen! We went out and made them on New Years Day. From left to right: Miranda and her “Hawaii inspired” snow woman, O Payton and his smaller but full of style snowman and Gabi with Ms. Antarctica 2008. It was her idea to add the hair and I think it turned out perfectly!

My finger is doing well. The stitches came out two or three weeks ago now and I have regained feeling in the tip. The drawback to that is that it is hyper-sensitive. I’m sure it will dull or I will become used to it. I still have some pain but nothing like the first week. If I extend my arm and my fingers (like I’m trying to reach something that is up high) I get the strangest feeling. I think that is either the bone shifting or maybe a ligament that’s trying to heal. It is still a bit swollen and the nail is growing so I think that I may still have a fingernail! It has the crushed fingernail look but that should grow out. So all in all I’m going very well!

I got back on the torch for the first time yesterday! It went really well. I actually made a clown fish murinni. I’ve been wanting to work on making these for some time and this is the first that has actually turned out! It is a long and skinny clown fish but a clown fish none the less! Today I am going to try another. I haven’t decided what yet.

I hope you all had a great holiday and will check back in soon!