Dream Healer with Ghost Beads

It have been more than a few times I've been called, "The Dream Healer"

I started making Ghost Bead necklaces around 1987 I think, 

Maybe it was 1988.

I read about them while trying to calm my 2 year old each night from night terrors. 

One vivid one I remember was she was dreaming that I was covered in worms, they were going in my eyes and out, in my mouth and out my ears.

When she was screaming in the middle of the night I did what any parent would do and I ran to her and scooped her up and tried to comfort her, the next day is when the brousing came out on my eye - she had punched me with all her little might to get away from the worms.

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Years later, I was making this same kind of necklace for my grandchildren.

Today I make trendy jewelry with ghost beads, but keeping with tradition I bless the beads provided by Mother Nature and smodge with sweetgrass and sage.

Here is a sample and others can be found at

MadeByGrandmasHands.etsy.com

Smudging

~00~ Grandma

To all the homeschoolers and teachers out there, after "Math" Coronavirus Pandemic

Teachers!

Everyone should have a new level of gratitude for all'y'll.

I know I do.

I'm a stay at home Grandmother, not nearly retired but old enough to. I have my adult daughter moved back home after a nasty break-up with her husband, and she works full time that means one thing! I don't have time for proper grammar or punctuation - the monsters in my house will be awake soon.  I have to hurry.

I shouldn't complain right? I mean there are grandmothers out there that don't have any grandchildren..... Come and get mine.

I never thought for a second that being a grandmother a stay at home grandmother during a pandemic would inflict this amount of (no words).

I know people are dying threw this pandemic and I should be grateful that I:

I have grandchildren around me

My business has no business

My couch is worn out

My husband has a memory problem

I gained 18 pounds

I'm potty training one kid

I'm trying to get another one to stay away from tv

And the oldest, what can i say she has her own phone

3, holly fuck I didn't sign up for this

I raised my children

I'm not a teacher

I swear way too much to have kids around me full time

I drink, yup I have a hang over right now.

By the way, this is the first time I've had a hangover, now i know what it is.

Seriously!

I need this pandemic to come to an end.

I have a new respect for teachers, I think I said that already, maybe I'm not hungover but still drunk from last night!

Yes I worry! I was teaching the kids how to fart the day before yesterday. Not exactly, but you know what I mean? They just let wind fly like it is something they are proud of. So I taught them how to fart, without anyone hearing and they don't even need to use their manners when you fart without anyone hearing you, what could be better than not having to excuse yourself?

I have a need to bead.

Yes, I just changed the subject.

Holly fuck here comes one now.

Quick, sit still, close your eyes, don't move.

Rory: Grandma!
Rory: Grandma, I'm awake now, moms gone to werk.
Rory: Grandma, are you sweeping? Y'r ewes are crowesed, 

Rory: I'm 5, did you know that grandma?
Grandma: Yes, I knew that....
Rory: Ha ha ha I twikted you I'm 6

Hazel: I dont talk, give me everything I want or I'l hold you at my highest screaming pitch possible.
Grandma: Grandpa can I drink and wear ear plugs and watch kids?

Ana: my dear sweet Ana, some day when you are all grown up and married I'm still going to be alive and I"m going to move in with you. I'm going to leave my clothes all over the floor, eat in bed, leave my dishes in my room, talk to my friends on my phone all day, tell you I don't like meat or what you are cooking, suggest that some restaurants are still open at this hour, stamp my feet and drag them down the hall, tell you "I can't clean my room it's too much work" I'll ask for a treat in front of your kids so I have them all yelling, I'll fart when the feeling is there, I'm going to lean back on your dining room chairs, and yell at your kids.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Did I mention I have the need to bead but I don't have time?
This is the last thing I made, made with ghost beads, Ghost Beads are a Navajo tradition to bead with for protection.  This is a custom order that I made for a little stinker.

Before I go, I'd like to leave you with this

Do you like my glasses? I said to the youngest grandchild in my view,
Grandchild: " no"
Me: why not?
Grandchild: "bracuze ver scawy"
Me: "I'll take them off then, they don't work anyway"

I need for this to be over soon - we all need our lives to be less stressful.

April 20/20 dedication to the families, friends, teachers and first responders who lost their lives in a senseless mass shooting in Nova Scotia (22 death count)

~00~ Grandma (aka Cindy) or Crafting - madebygrandmashands.etsy.com

Sea Glass Jewelry

I'm living in Canada's #1 Beach destination!!!! Woohoo 

Surrounded by Surf, Sand and Sea,

If the ocean gives you Sea Glass,

Make Jewelry

Changes to Etsy 2020 Killed my shop.

That was what my title was going to be then I got to thinking, hey! 

I know how to work with change

First

Stop complaining - use that time to make product

Second

Over Research - only qualifies the problem you are having

Third

Seriously Reevaluate - what you have and make it better

S.O.S

I've noticed a lot of traffic, decrease in sales by 80 to 90%, changes that benefit US sellers, paid promotions, cause and effect in algorithm

My plan! More listings, good quality photos, short descriptions, blog posts, Instagram and Pinterest. 

Take the time to write each buyer a note, include a surprise, wow them, then ask for a review

EYE CANDY!!!

Seaglass Earrings

Seaglass Necklace Pendant
This week, new product, photos, description and post to social media

If you like this and want to see more
Visit My Shop
etsy.com/shop/seaglassing

The Answer to Painful Cold Diabetic Feet

I'm so excited about the upcoming Etsy Spring 2019 Market

These are my 70's slippers, don't you love them?

That 70's Slipper

In Pink

In time for Easter and the Sprint Market. Find these and other crochet items @

madebygrandmashands.etsy.com

These are the Answer to Painful Cold Diabetic Feet, the bottoms are a warm Canadian Made felt that I handcut to size then crochet the slippers onto. Felt bottom sole are flat so they don't hurt painful diabetic feet, extra warm and sized to fit.

Thanks for viewing,

Cindy

~00~ Grandma (aka Cindy) or Crafting - http://scrapandwrap.ca

Cinderella's Slippers! Proof a New Pair Can Change Your Life

I Love a good snowstorm!! Especially days that have a high wind on the Island and everything is shut down and we stay in our P'J's and slippers all day. 

I was inspired by our last storm to combine a cloud white yarn with a rose  and gold.  This latest colour combo celebrates our last snow storm. I make these in baby booties, kids & children even adult sizes.  What makes the cloud look? It is the super soft yarn that Bernat has introduced me to. I'm all about comfort these days so if your anything like I am, you will want a pair of these for everyone you know!

I'm a Grandmother who has spent precious time putting socks and slippers back onto little feet. When I designed these I made sure to make them stay on slippers or bed socks with a drawstring. 

Years ago I worked nursing elderly Among the many complaints I often heard. "The knots in the crochet hurt the bottom of my feet." 

So I designed this slipper with a Canadian made wool felt sole. I cut and punch the holes and crochet a slipper onto the soft warm sole.  My slippers found their way to many a seniors feet especially the ones with diabetes. Then I started hearing, "are these every cozy, warm, comfy, I don't take them off, I wear them to bed, oh they are great they don't hurt the bottom of my feet."

I love the comments on my slippers and they have become my best seller at farm markets, and events around the island as "Cinderella's Slippers.  If you are visiting Prince Edward Island this summer be sure to look me up at MadeByGrandmaHands.etsy.com

Or find me on facebook.

Proof a New Pair Can Change Your Life!

Cindy - for short

~00~ Grandma "C"
MadeByGrandmasHands.etsy.com
SeaGlassing.etsy.com

Grandmother Abuse

I recently haven't been around, Oh you noticed!

I worked so hard to read, write, comment on blogs and get followers and then life got real for me and it all went to hell in a hand basket, then gave it all up to take care of all these cranky, don't eat peas, tv watching, video playing snot nosed generation of grandchildren I have.  Did I say that? I think I might have.

Don't get me wrong I love children especially the behaved ones, and I also love crafting and blogging. I've done neither of the last two as I am an Abused Grandmother.

It started last June when my daughter-in-law went back to work and I was watching little Eric full time, FULL TIME, means going shopping after work, it means staying at work later because someone didn't show for shift.  It turned out to be 7am to 8:30pm most days and I was exhausted. Then my lovely daughter left her husband and moved in with us. I'm a full time, taxi, mother, diaper changer, cook, entertainer, referee, the list goes on.  It starts at somewhere in the middle of the night because Victoria works shift work so my baby monitor wakes me up and I stub my toes in the dark to get to Hazel before she wakes anyone else up. God only knows if a child awakes in the middle of the night and they are 4, they think it is morning already and the tv should be on, and "I'm hungry, I'm hungrr" plays over and over.  When it is morning, Ana gets driven  to School, I fight with Rory to get dressed because he wants to just watch tv, he says he doesn't do anything yet because in his words, "I don't want to". I then take him by the hand to his room where he sits on his bed and hisses at me like he is a cross between and vicious snake and a grandma eating monster. What the hell is that?


You know when it is going to be one of those days.  Today I was all excited because I wasn't on the clock. Ya, no the kids are staying over at their dads, my son and his family aren't here YET.  So I decide to start to blog again because it is something I like to do. Well I'm typing away and I hear Hazel who is 10 months old talking away in her crib, every once in awhile she lets out a cry that sounds something like, "grandma, come get me mom is gone to work and my brother and sister stayed at dad's house yeasterday but he was busy so mom brought me home, did you not read the note she left you?"

I thought I would blog today, so I'm going to anyway she can stay safe in her crib until I get this done. But this is what I wan't to be doing and won't get a chance to.

Make Moccasins

Make Jewelry

I wanted to finish beading my vamp for a pair of moccasins

I was going to work on a weighted blanket, get it finished

Maybe make a bracelet

Or make a hair stick for this tooled butterfly

Whatever I thought I was going to do today will be put on hold until 3:30pm. I guess her chatter has gotten a tad bit loud by now I should go get her some breakfast. 

Just remember, Grandmothers are there to teach, hold, love, and have fun.

If you have children - think about the short time A grandmother has.

Diaper Time!

Messy Mum Bun Bennie

What is a Messy Mum Bun Beanie?

Simply said it is a hat with a pony tail elastic knit in the last row so you can wear your hair up and still be warm in the cool months ahead.

I have been making Mom and Me hats with messy bun elastics and have put them on my site,

etsy.com/shop/madebygrandmashands

come on over and have a look.

~00~ Grandma (aka Cindy)