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Friday, March 31, 2006

 

Wow, it's been a while, huh?

 

And, interestingly enough, there were some major changes between my last date of posting and now. Some have to do with jewelry; others have to do with me personally.

 

Jewelry-wise, I got schooled (heh) on some of the finer points of metal-smithing and on some of the starter points of lampworking.

 

I can't thank K&D enough for everything. K&D, for those who don't know, are beady friends of mine from online. K flew here from the complete other side of Canada and D flew here from Texas. Wow, huh?

 

Anyway, they gave me more than my words of thanks can ever express… and meeting them in person was monumentally different from just hangin' with them online.

 

Okay, enough mush, eh? Let me get on to business, which means I'm going to try to recap all the stuff that I would have been putting in here over the past 2-3 weeks, had I been blogging

 

Oh, but first, here are my first two lampworking beads. Nothing I'm proud of, but I do plan to try real hard… practice practice practice..

 

 

Okay, what else? I made a KILLER pair of earrings thanks to Karen… and then the first time I wore them out (and ignored my intuition which told me to use the earwire cork/nut), I lost one. D'oh! Will now either turn the solo into a pendant, or will remake (gag!) the missing one.

 

I want to get back to Woman Resource… add stuff… TONS of stuff. And I want to nag Karen to write another amazing entry.

 

Went to Mom's and picked up a futon for Gabe. THANKS MOM! (BTW, the house looks amazing!) Didn't entirely get the futon "built" to optimal specs but it's serving its purpose (as a bed). Also worth noting, the cats love it! (This is all six indoor cats we have!)

 

 

BTW, while K was here, she remarked that Sharkie has no shame. I'm afraid I've got to agree with her. Although we like to say he's merely doing his impression of an Otter…

 

 

When he's awake, he does things like settle in on my pile of orders going out... and laughs?

 

 

And speaking of cats, Mon and I are a little behind on her Feeding the Ferals project. Although I also forgot to mention to her that I found another feral colony (no, not one that I'm going to feed… hmph!). And they're funny; they're ALL a variation of black and white… inbreeding… you gotta love it.

 

Okay, that was definitely not all jewelry-related news. Ha!

 

But here's one that's VERY not jewelry related.

 

Hm… how to express in words, some of the things I think about?

 

K&D opened my eyes to some things I had previously been unable to see. Part of it was just them, the way they are, the things they say… and I think part of it was just their presence.

 

During their visit, I saw some things with renewed (and different) vision (or point of view).

 

And now, if I don't get out of here I'm not going to accomplish anything today!

 

Later!