Slowly, but surely! We did a bit of spring cleaning in the studio, as my packaging room was over-run with more boxes than I would ever need for shipping. There is no before photo, but trust me – it was crazy out-of-control. And, I tried to reorganize one of my storage/display shelves … There is …
Category: chickens, cooking, crafts, vitrigraph Tags: card making, Clayton Hill Studio Etsy, feather plucking, Miss Hannigan, murrini cane, organizing, paper crafts, procrastinating, Spring cleaning, taxes, temporary coop
And a little of that. This week in review: Starting with this super-cute pic of my sisters. Makes me smile every time I look at it … AWWW – they LUV each other! I spent a bit more time cleaning and organizing the studio … or trying to, anyway. Here is my storage for card …
Category: bulldogs, cooking, crafts, Uncategorized, vitrigraph Tags: card making, Chloe & Ro, chowder, coe90 murrini, copic coloring, date night, embellishment storage, ER nurse, mostaccioli, organizing, vitrigraph cane
Our youngest daughter was sick last week … and then DH & I both came down with a virus that wiped us out for a couple of days. [Yep Baby Girl in Ghana, and we get sick too!] So, I made her a get-well card, along with a Halloween card. And, our oldest son turned …
Category: bulldogs, cooking, crafts, fused glass Tags: birthdays, cane, card making, celebrating, Chloe & Ro, coe96, flu, fused glass studio, murrini, organizing, ornaments, recipes, water color
I became (re-)obsessed with stamping, coloring and card making this week. I know … It’s been a strange week! Ahem … back to card making. I’ve reorganized those supplies, dusted off my stamp storage, dug in to my water colors, copic markers and distress inks. So, yeah … MAYBE I ordered a few more things. But, …
Category: crafts, non-glass ... dogs Tags: alcohol pens, card making, Chloe & Ro, cowbell, heat cycles, organizing, stamping, studio cleaning, tim holtz, water color pens
Yep. Time for a bit of ‘distraction shopping’. I watched a few videos about copper enameling and PMC (precious metal clays) with glass … So, I’m stocking up on what I need, waiting for some items to arrive and scouring through my books. Hope to give this a try in the near future. Meanwhile, it …
Category: crafts, fused glass, jewelry making, non-glass ... dogs Tags: Chloe & Ro, cleaning, copper enamel, day of the dead, fused glass blog, jazz, modern, musical instruments, organizing, pmc, shopping, spoon rests, supplies
Glass Expo is this week. Nope, I still can’t go. Dangit! So – I’m staying busy … It’s been several weeks in the making, but I wanted to make some ‘cloud tiles’ … So, I did. And, tonight I cut those beauties up into future pendants: Here are the tiles going in, mapped out for …
Category: fused glass, jewelry making, non-glass ... dogs, non-glass ... life Tags: cane, Chloe the Bulldog, cloud tiles, cutting cabochons, fritrini, glass expo, glass frit, glass jewelry. custom requests, murrini, night lights, organizing, still can't go, whine
I’m 3 days into it, but WOW! There is an actual studio under all of this!!! I’m thinking [hoping, praying … BEGGING!] one more day ought to do it. We’ll see … A few days ago, a fusing group on Facebook started posting studio-selfies, I mean videos – way cooler than selfies! [BTW – thank …
Category: fused glass, jewelry making, non-glass ... life Tags: bracelets, cleaning, deep clean before open-house, facebook, fused glass crazy, fused glass jewelry, hamsa, keychains, motorcycle jewelry, necklaces, nurse earrings, organizing, penDots, URI, virus, wine lover
Cheesy, I know … But – I’m happy! I have all three kilns ROCKIN’ (Hummmm … Click … CLACK!!!)! I’m getting some custom items moving along … [Plus – a few future badge reels I’d like to dedicate to all ‘Nurses who boycott The View/JB/WG’ … SNARL!] Finally got around to photographing some shop listings …
Category: fused glass, kumihimo Tags: back on the horse, boycott Joyce Behar, Boycott The View, boycott Whoopi Goldberg, bracelets, Christmas preparations, cleaning, cremation jewelry, custom orders, dichroic glass, dog love gifts, ER nurse, fused glass, glass jewelry, glass studio, kumihimo, melted bottles, memorial glass, nurse stethoscope, organizing, ornaments, playing in the studio, responsibilities and committments, scenic layering, Stella Got Her Groove Back
Spring Cleaning … Also known as: What to do when you are avoiding grown-up responsibilities (although, I DID get my nursing competencies done … and – hey, I have 6 [count THEM … S-I-X !!!] more DAYS until taxes are DUE! … It’s called procrastination, people – EMBRACE IT!!!) … So … I can’t be …
Category: fused glass, non-glass ... ER nurse, non-glass ... life Tags: adult priorities, avoiding responsibilities, burning off glass, christmas, dog, ER nurse, fused glass, fused glass ornaments, glass expo, glass ornaments, glass studio, hairspray, kids, organizing, puppy, santa, silver on glass, Spring cleaning, taxes, thermo-web, vegas, warm glass experiments, wine making, work
