Silver has tanked in the last couple days. So I bought some more while the price was low. I don’t like dipping into my funds without planning, but I know, in the long run, it will save me money. On a whim I bought just a foot of half round, to try making a ring. [...]
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Achoo!
I wish I had some new photos to share today, but I don’t. I am in bed, trying desperately to be well. Last Sunday (not yesterday, a week ago,) I started feeling not so healthy, and I still am not really sure I am climbing back out of it. Coughing, goo, huge sinus pressure…I am [...]
The summer zenith
Summer! The height of summer! Here in Oregon, we have skirted the heat that is oppressing so many other areas in the United States. I am grateful to not be blanketed with relentless heat every day…but the cool isn’t doing my tomatoes any good. The blueberries have come out, and are fat globes of juicy [...]
Shelling out
Summer, you go by so fast. As usual, I have had problems getting into the studio for myself. And I want new work! Summer is such a creative time for me…in my head, anyway. I have been making lots of shell focal beads…and I need to get them to the coast to approach a few [...]
Strawberries and hulling them with Glass.
It’s here! Summer! Even our backyard garden agrees. Despite the cold spring, we finally have red, juicy strawberries in the backyard. And while we were gone to the coast over the 4th of July weekend, raspberries appeared on our vines, as well! Hard to believe it is already July. Even though my garden DOES [...]
Sizing
I’m thinking about making larger focals for my Riveted series. These: I bought a lovely focal from a bead artist in South Africa that is larger than my 1.25″ across ones, and it is very large, but dramatic as a result. I figure for these Riveted focals, which are very time intensive and [...]
Schedules
I started a post last night, and then right in the middle of it, realized I had scheduled myself into a corner! I set up a weekly babysitter for Derek, so that I can have some torch time during the week, while he is not in school. Thursday was the day our wonderful sitter [...]
Summertime Creation
Every year I try to get one big project done on the house. I mean, one that I can do personally, most of the time. Sometimes it is something I need someone else to do, and then I need the money for it. This year, the “money” item was new insulation in the attic, which [...]
The monkeys are almost out.
When I got home from school in my formative years, my Mom always pasted a sign on the screen door with the “School’s out” rhyme on it. Such a feeling of elation that was, summer JUST beginning, all those weeks ahead of me with no school. Derek’s school ends next week. His very first year [...]
Fun with Wood
When I work in glass, 98% of the time I am using Bullseye, a wonderful, fabulous glass that just happens to be made less than 15 miles from my studio. I’d love it anyway, as the glass itself is a wonderful product, but I love just walking into the store and picking out exactly what [...]
