aaand i missed a day already. heheh. i have a decent excuse, though. i spent the afternoon/evening/and well into the night making my niece's birthday present. she is a huge disney princess fan...what 3 year old girl isn't?? so, i decided i was going to make her a rapunzel wig, "Tangled" style. i went out and found all the supplies i needed (it is ridiculously difficult to find yellow yarn. i ended up with a pale yellow textured "baby" yarn), came home and got busy. about 10 minutes into the project i made a grim discovery. someone, at some point while i was away for the summer, spilled something very sticky on my sewing machine. no good. i am now sewing machine-less with a few previously promised projects coming due in the next couple of weeks. i am facing a bit of a conundrum. anyway, because of the death (no fixing that sticky mess..i tried for nearly an hour.) of my machine, i was forced to do the sewing by hand. blarrrgh. there was a whole lot of yarn cutting, untangling, gluing, sewing, untangling, braiding, untangling, re-braiding, and decorating. hot glue really hurts...this was the end result:

and now on to the thankfulness..

Day 2
yesterday, i was thankful for rice. it is so very versatile. 

Day 3
today i am thankful to have a place to live. i have friends who don't, and it sucks to not be able to do much to help them. it also makes me think about how close i am to being in the same situation.

this is what makes me smile:
it was a winner.