My garden is winding down …. We do have a handful of beautiful sunflowers (standing amazingly proud and tall) in their 5 gallon buckets, as DH wouldn’t let me cut any holes in the black mat he so painstakingly installed this spring … We also have the sweet potatoes, some beets, winter squash and the …
Category: bulldogs, chickens, crafts, fused glass, gardening, Neapolitan Mastiffs Tags: birthday cards, bubbles, card making, closing the pool, elephants, marigolds, paint splashes, penguins, poppies, pups, sad to see summer end, special requests, spoon rests, summer garden, sunflowers, warm glass studio, zinnias
Both physically and creatively – with baby steps! I must not have been successful at the dodging-and-weaving game with our swarm of flu/URI-crud patients last weekend in the E.R. … I’ve been fighting sinus pain/snot and body aches this week – the best way I know: Lots of vitamin C (orange juice), strong medicine (ummm, …
Category: bulldogs, cooking, crafts, fused glass Tags: card making, english bulldogs, ER nurse, foiling on cards, fused glass blog, Linda, sick, special requests
Of turning 29 … Yep, that’s what I celebrated this week. I’ve spent the last several years avoiding specific numbers, while I slowly acknowledge – and am just about ready to – fully gear-up – and possibly embrace … turning 50 (read: F.I.F.T.Y; “The BIG 5-0”!!!) … Yeah, sure … IN ANOTHER 363 days. It’s …
Category: bulldogs, crafts, fused glass, life, vitrigraph Tags: aging, birthdays, Chloe, clothes for dogs, coe90, cooking, ER nurse, experimenting, familly, fused glass studio, murrin cane, special requests, stamping meets glass
To the coolest tool ever! And such a small investment. After struggling for years, look at what I can do … Such small holes! It’s called a Dremel Work Station, and mine cost about $40 (I love Amazon!). So, I’ve been working on necklaces and cabs. Lots of them! Now to take …
Category: fused glass, non-glass ... dogs, non-glass ... life Tags: back to school, back to school preparations, Clayton Hill Neo, Clayton Hill Studio, computer woes, dancing monkey, dancing orangutan, dichroic glass pendants, dremel, drilling holes in jewelry, drilling small holes in glass, etsy store, fused glass studio, glass enamel jewelry, hot glass cabochons, jewelry, neapolitan mastiff pups, projects, special requests
Or the Mad Hatter … or just plain crazy. Whatever … The experiments continue! I do love the day of the internet! Much to the annoyance of DH (… and my accountant … and my bank account …). Sooo much to learn! I have [quite] a few different experimental pots brewing on the (bunsen) burners: …
Category: fused glass, non-glass ... dogs, non-glass ... life Tags: anniversary, bubbles, ceramic underglaze, CMC and glass, crackle, enamel, experiments, fused glass, glass experiments, glass marbling, glass powder, glass webbing, hot glass, insomnia, internet, iridized glass, maggie rose, mega mini, night lights, Nora, oil, presents, shopping, special requests, stringer, studio, torch, wafer, webbing, Yorkshire Terrier
To bring you an afternoon with internet searches and technical support. My favorite … trying to figure out why something computer/electronic isn’t working. But special thanks to Mike at USCutters, and my fancy plotter is up and running again!!! (Now, I have no idea why my other, less expensive Eclips is misbehaving … but that’s …
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This weekend, while at work someone asked me a couple of questions: 1. How long have you been a nurse? [Oh! … Oh! Wait … I know the answer to this one!!] “Umm … 24 years.” 2. Do you still like it? [Oh … Umm … Well … So, you see – it’s complicated… (You …
Category: fused glass, non-glass ... ER nurse, non-glass ... life Tags: bad choices, buying time, clayton hills Tubitha, complicated, complicated life events, complication, death and dying, dignity, drama, ER nurse, family, family crisis, florence nightingale, fused glas studio, hate, love, neapolitan mastiff breeder, not, nursing home, special requests, stringer, sucking it up, teaching, tubby, weekend wrap up, wrong decisions, WWU
Guess what? I have water in my studio!!! I KNOW, right?!?! How incredibly cool is that! So – from here on out, most days that end in ‘Y’, you can find me in the studio … Those projects I had going from the last post are done: A stringer bowl and several spoon rests (12 …
Category: Chainmaille, crafts, fused glass, non-glass ... ER nurse Tags: calla lily, chainmaille, chrome, color reaction, crystal earrings. weekend wrap up, earrings, fall colors, flower power, fused glass studio. glass bowl, jens pind linkage, jewelry, leaves, retro, santa fe, special requests, spoon rests, stringer
Means I’m one happy girl. I broke down on Monday and purchased an instant download tutorial for a weave that I’ve liked but couldn’t quite figure out (felt like I needed 3 more sets of hands to complete). And now, I am a Four Winds mailing fool! Here are some earrings (with stainless steel, copper …
Category: Chainmaille, fused glass, non-glass ... life Tags: agate, anodized aluminum, cobalt, copper, earrings, four winds weave, fused glass studio, glass night light, glass spoon rests, jewelry, sandhill cranes, shaggy loop bracelet, special requests, stainless steel, stringer bowl project
A few good hours in the studio, and I’m one happy girl! That added to the fact that the stitches are FINALLY out, I’m healing and starting to feel human again! So – my good day: It actually started a few days ago, when DH and I took some items to local shops, and I ‘peddled my wares’ …
Category: crafts, fused glass, non-glass ... life Tags: dichroic glass, digital water slide decals, earrings, experimenting, feeling better, fused glass studio, peacock, pendants, playing, sand blasting, special requests, vinyl plotting, wire wrapped jewelry
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