There is a god! Today I found this image still on my camera and was able to download it, and greater surprise! was able to find it. I had planned to put flowers inside the cape but when I was ready to start that, something stopped me by saying, "sequins." It was a  good suggestion.
This is not a very good piece. The Ty Co. put the nose on crooked, the ears are not identical and in many places my lousy mood left gaps in the bead rows. But it is done and the record is there of what a rough time I was going through. The bat IS a good representative of those days.

For four days now W7 has hidden my photos from me.   Yesterday it gagged up my photo program all day. I cannot do my blog without the photos. So I am giving up this pleasure because it is too frustrating to try to use such a flawed program. It has been lots of fun but I prefer a peaceful existence so am pruning off the blog. And to think you will never  get to see the bat with his magical wings.

Yesterday's lost picture was found today to be in the file. This is a different photo. The nose is not done and I have not yet started on the cloak. In the file the bat was lying on his side but when I found it and popped it into the blogger  program, some saint entered it upright. I AM blessed!

This is today's photo! I never did find the one from yesterday.
All the black beads are on one side of the cloak. I am getting very tired of black and am planning a surprise when I get the other side down. So do I give up in celebration of finding this  photo or go, with the halo of  good luck to look for the lost bat!

I wanted to show you the progress I have made on the bat. But again the Big Window is closed and I cannot find the two photos I took this morning. I was even going to show you the necklaces I made when I gave up beading animals. I tried, I really did, but the necklaces were SO boring  I decided I preferred the agitation of trying to make the animals. So last night I returned to the bat and I tried to show how much better he looks with more beads on him.
I refuse to let this program get me down. I will make my animals, photograph them with the hope that someday the computer will gag and bring them all out.

Today I can even show you the necklaces. Progress!

I  think picking the bat and those black beads was a bad idea! Also getting windows for my computer was an even worse one. I am, as you see, still fighting with the program. Today (not yesterday) I was able to find this photo but as you see the ability to upright it are still beyond my capabilities  It is utterly amazing. When I can get my computer to do what I want, when I want it, I feel good, adequate, capable. Days like this when I have to accept things I know should be changed but a machine defies me, I feel like the Alzheimer's poster child! Or maybe a funny colored bat!

Either my computer is learning what I need and giving it to me before I get lost or I am sharper today and can figure out how to direct it better. I was able to send the photo where I wanted it to go. Maybe it is the relief that Heidi has said she will take over the website for me is clearing my brain..          
  Instead of joy to have that worry calmed I am feeling that giving up the website means I need to try to hang on to what I can do with more energy so I am  fiddling with the puzzles.
Last night I finished (or quit on the little monkey.) I had beaded the brown part of his face and then decided it did not look good (the eyes were too deeply sunk in) and cut it all out. My hands strayed to the bat and I am trying that. Maybe it has something to do with "bats in my belfry."