Doing some much needed deep cleaning here in the studio. Which is tedious, but also inspiring – as I rediscover half-finished projects, failed attempts and new ideas … I’m also creating listings … taking lots of photos, editing for uploading, trying for inspiring descriptions … Completely tedious, but necessary! Here are a few I’ve been …
Category: fused glass, non-glass ... dogs Tags: butterfly, Chloe & Ro, daisies, dinosaurs, elephant, English Bulldog, farm animals, heart, night lights, spoon rest, tea pot, teacup, the girls, unique jewelry, valentines
OH!!! It is SOO DH’s fault … He sent a de-funk Craig’s List item that promised a new storage rack/work station in my COE-90 designated work area. HE emailed the no-good listing to me. Now I WANT one! Shelves for my frits, upright storage for my glass, a place to tuck much-needed tools, AND a …
Category: fused glass, non-glass ... dogs, non-glass ... ER nurse, non-glass ... life Tags: badge reel, badge reels, butterfly, C3PO, CE5000, Clayton Hill Neo's, Clayton Hill Studio, cooking, coping, dichro, dichroic, dogs, ER nurse, fairy wing, four legged family, fused glass blog, heart, jello shots, jewelry, juggling, mom, night light, owl, plotter, private duty, seizure, star wars, swai, teenage woes, teenagers, unique glass, vegetables, vinyl cutting, warm glass, Yorkies
(S)he sleeps. Or, I slept … in the non-Pretty-Woman version of the tale. But, ya know, it’s still a happy ending. Crashing for 14 hours after a week long bout of insomnia, with 4 hour ‘cat naps’ in between several undesired periods of 24 hours of wakefulness. Apparently, I was testing something in my system. …
Category: fused glass, non-glass ... ER nurse Tags: butterfly, charms, Clayton Hill Studio, coral-berries, enamel, ER nurse, first day of school, fused glass, glass cabochons, insomnia, jewelry, jubilee, music note, necklace, pendants, pretty woman, snowflake, studio, tiny bubbles, torch work, twins
I’m staying creatively busy today. Grandma is in surgery, getting her artificial airway and feeding tube today. Arrgghhh! I hate thinking about it – so I’m trying really hard not to … Any louder and my music will be heard in the next county; if I work any faster, I’ll run out of band-aids for …
Category: fused glass, non-glass ... life Tags: biological mother, butterfly, cinco de mayo, cruella deville, family, forest man, fused glass studio, glass platters, grandma, irid glass, island scene, prayers, sugar skull
OK, umm – so maybe not with champagne, but … It’s over for another 364 days, WAHOO!!! And, look at what I made today. It’s a chainmail pinecone. Cuz – I can!!! And … it is “4 out of 5 intermediate advanced” on the difficulty scale …(?) Watch me go! Then I made this. …
Category: Chainmaille, crafts, non-glass ... dogs, non-glass ... life Tags: barrel weave, beading, boones farm, butterfly, chain mail, Clayton Hill Neo, crystals, done with taxes, jewelry, male pup, not champagne, pinecone
Let me just take a moment to say ~ regardless of how shameless it is … I love how varied my Etsy shop listings are looking right now. And – public awareness moment: We have only 55 days until Christmas … Just sayin’!!! But – here’s where I’ll start to get nutty: I have 2 …
Category: fused glass, non-glass ... ER nurse, non-glass ... life Tags: art shows, badge reels, blog, busy, busy mom, butterfly, Christmas preparations, Christmas shopping, Clayton Hill Studio, coasters, count down, dandelion, dichroic glass, ER nurse, etsy, family needs, four legged kids, frit, fused glass, gifts, glass ornaments, grinch, hand made, hobby breeder, home based business, iridescent glass platters, jewelry, melted, Neapolitan Mastiff, necklace, over extending, palm tree, panic, pendants, penguin, promoting, recycled, SANE nurse, santa, santa fe, sarcasm, shameless, slumped, south west, sunset, tropical, twins, warm glass, weekend wrap up, wine botttles, Yorkie, Yorkshire Terrier
Oh my! Busy week in the studio, as I work on and wrap up some projects and special requests. Angels, dichroic badge reels, pendants, and a special ornament (… here come the pictures): I still have more dichro cabs to run, and a few other projects I’m working on … such a good week! …
Category: fused glass, non-glass ... ER nurse, non-glass ... life Tags: angels, betty boop, busy, butterfly, dandelion, dichro extract, dichro glass, dichroic glass, ER nurse, fused glass blog, glass ornaments, glass pendants, good nurses, grinch jewelry, happy, koala bear, RN, roses, screen printing on glass, special requests, super nurse, warm glass, yorkie jewelry
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