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Adventures in BronzClay! -- Posted on August 17, 2008 Hi Everyone! ![]() The big tubular thing is a whistle a la Donna Penoyer. It doesn't have a mouthpiece but it toots pretty well anyway. And it is so pretty! The other pieces are for some other projects underway,and the two little tabs that don't quite match in size are going to be earrings. I'm going to be doing some more bronze in the near future. I also have a pretty picture of some beads that are a revisit of a design I was doing last summer. These are in fairly light summery colors. ![]() I have several pairs of silver lentil earrings to be made available. And those pendants made with the big hole beads (see below) came out really nice. I'm going to get some pictures today and we'll have them available next weekend sometime. ![]() -- Posted on July 27, 2008 I've been home from the PMC conference a whole week already. ![]() Now here are a couple of Big Hole beads. They are flat, feature a lot of twisties, and have a big hole. I'm planning to put some fine silver rings through the holes so they will hang on a chain or cord and face front. ![]() and this blue one: ![]() And I am also making these. Some of them are pairs for earrings. Some are still waiting for their match. ![]() Wait! Wait! I almost forgot to show my newest curved bead! ![]() Whew! That's a lot of pictures to put up in one day! Now I'm going to get back to some silver I'm working on. I want to get a kiln full of silver fired so that I can clean up my tools and open a package of BRONZclay! Yes, you heard me right! I'm also going to update the beads for sale pages soon. I love Summer! I hope all my friends and family are having as nice a Summer as I am. -- Posted on June 19, 2008 June 19th. I have been trying to catch the kitten for 5 days now. I almost had her yesterday with a crate held up with a stick tied to a long string. The kitten finally went under the crate and started to eat the chow. But the crate was sort of small so I waited until both front paws were in the bowl and the kitten was munching excitedly. My heart was pounding! I yanked the string! ...and the plastic crate sort of slow-mo floated down and the kitten was Out Of There like lightning. -- Posted on June 15, 2008 I went back last evening to look for the kitten and check to see if the food I'd left had been eaten. Food was untouched. But the kitten was mewing close by so I tried for another hour and a half to catch him. This time I met my nice neighbor, Debra, and we tried to corner him, coral him, and tempt him with shaky box kitty food. No dice. So we both left food for him and I was too tuckered out and had to go home to shower and remove 9 ticks. Yuck! -- Posted on June 14, 2008 Took Angel for a jog/walk but she didn't feel well, looked like a tummy ache. So I cut the walk short and on the way home we heard a kitten mewing in about the same spot I found EB 2 years ago. After I couldn't get the kitten to come out of the bushes, I took Angel home and came back with a pet carrier and the RAV4. I crawled through the brushy woods for about 3 hours trying to catch the kitten. There may have been two of them. I finally was exhausted and covered in ticks so I gave up. I hate people who dump! I would like to hurt them. Seriously. I feel bad for the kittens that are probably going to starve and then meet with a bad end. So damned sad. -- Posted on May 29, 2008 Good news today! Look who's driving! ![]() Then while we were all still whooping and hollering etc. the Fed EX guy pulled up and unloaded Charlie's new trike! ![]() Travis took me for a short drive and then Angel and I took a short walk while Charlie assembled his new vehicle. We went for a spin around the park. This has been a busy day. Finished project -- Posted on May 16, 2008 Oh boy, a long thought out project is finally finished. It is a bracelet that I made for a friend's son's bride. Her name is Sarehna. I think a lot of this just-starting-out couple and I wanted Sarehna to be surprised with something special. I noodled for quite a while about the button clasp which I made with PMC. Once that was done I had to make a LOT of white-on-white small round beads. I made twenty or so of the beads then embarked on the weaving/assembly of the bracelet. I was about 2/3 done with it when I realized that I needed yet MORE white-on-white lampwork beads, and back to the torch I went. Thankfully, neither EB or Biscuit found the 10 dangling cords at my project desk tempting to eat and destroy while I got the extra beads made. Sarehna loves the bracelet and she intends to wear it for the wedding! I was secretly hoping she would and I am really glad that it fit her wrist. I would have been pleased for her to wear it and enjoy it on the honeymoon, so imagine how thrilled I am that she likes it enough to wear for the ceremony! Anyway, here is a picture of the bracelet. ![]() You know, I don't think that picture really shows how this pieces sparkles and WoWs. Try again: ![]() This picture was taken outside with natural light. A little better. I must say, silver is hard to photograph, and white-on-white beads are hard to photograph. Together; a challenge. This next project is something I made to wear to the upcoming Bead & Button Show in Milwaukee next month. It is one of my curved beads along with some matching short tubular beads. I snipped apart an old pukka shell necklace that I haven't worn for years and used the pukka shells and some small turquoise beads for the filler. It has one of my PMC clasps for the closure too. ![]() I wonder what other old stuff I have that I should snip apart and use? Hmmm... -- Posted on April 12, 2008 It was a beautiful day yesterday and Charlie had just bought a new handheld GPS. So we went GeoCaching. We went to Cedar Lake where there was a cache called "Ce Da Lake" LOL. We hiked a little over a mile both ways, took off shoes and socks to wade through two creeks and followed the path up and down the hills through the beautiful woods. Trilliums were coming up in patches all along the way and we had a great hike. We found the cache too! It must have been a real new one because we were only the second people to sign the log. ![]() On the way back Charlie's shoes blew up. ![]() -- Posted on March 21, 2008 Today is our 22nd Anniversary! Hooray! -- Posted on February 28, 2008 I went to a party last weekend and made a new necklace to wear. It features a Patti Walton pendant that I bought about a year ago. The clasp came from the Bead & Button Show 2006. I'd been saving the clasp for *just the right project*. ![]() It is 16 inches in length. The pendant wears nicely just below my sternal notch. All the small round lampwork beads are made by me, the rest are pearls and seed beads. I double-crimped the ends for strength insurance. Angel is doing fine. She had nightmares for a couple of nights after her ordeal in the pond. Hey, I didn't get any sleep either; I kept going over every detail over and over in my head. What I could have differently etc. But I'm sleeping so well now that I overslept this morning and was almost late for work! I must have been asleep when I got up and turned off the alarm and crawled back in bed. I'm off next week from work. I'm starting the vacation with a root canal but then it'll get better. I have a gift card to our local spa and I'm scheduled for a lux pedicure. I've never had one and the brochure sounds really good. I have some other stuff to get done, stuff like pet vaccinations, then I'm taking my pretty feet to St.Louis for ACLS Recertification on the weekend. I really know how to spoil myself, don't I. Powered by Coranto |