100 of Something I still don't understand and a Mummy Makeover!

It was one of 'those' kind of weeks....most of the time was spent as Nurse Jacque after a lot of these:

While the grandkids were off doing a lot of this:

And I really wanted to be doing this:

Unfortunately I found myself sequestered in the sick ward.....and I have done my time in there you can be sure.  Luckily I have my hoard stash of projects so I worked on a few.

I wanted something easy to do in the 'no brainer' category so I would be able to finish it between appointments and nursing. 

I picked one of my projects which was to do an upcycle of these 80 pennies, 1920-2000, that I gave my dad on his 80th birthday.  It has long faded and some of the pennies were falling off so I thought it would be oh so fun to do '100 years of pennies' so I decided to get 5 years earlier and 5 years later than the 80 and have 100 years of pennies!

 

Little did I know at the time this project would launch my OCD and processing anxieties through the roof.....It started so simple - I took off the pennies from the 80's frame....put them in order...enjoying my coffee and the morning news shows......  check and done

On to step 2 with a smile!!!  I started laying out the pennies 10 down and 10 across starting with 1915 and was going to end on 2015 = equaling 100 years of pennies when I was done - right????

 I was totally thrown off by what happened....I had an extra penny and it was dated 2015.  I thought maybe I duplicated one, no, I thought I messed up the order - no, I double checked my math 2015-1915=100 yes 10 x 10 = 100 yes!  Why the heck did I have 101 pennies. 

I worked myself up into a dither - I had people on txt, email, phone, in person trying to figure it out....in the end only The Addie could explain to me and he could explain it but honestly I still don't accept it.....

So the only consolation to this was that I have 100 pennies - not 100 years of pennies and I am very sad because if I added 2015 to make 100 years of pennies it would throw my OCD into overdrive and I have enough going on.

 

The finished product does fill the space I wanted on the wall but I can't help to think it is mocking me every time I look at it.

Then I moved on a Mummy Makeover.....I got this mummy at the 99 cent store - I don't like scary mummies - I like happy mummies.  I knew I could make her over to enjoy being a mummy more!

 

I painted her ugly skeleton face white.....

 Re-wrapped her a little....and gave her google eyes....

 And when I told her about the 100 pennies - by the look in her eyes I could tell she was not happy!

 And if Mummy ain't happy ain't nobody happy.