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October 21, 2004
Who's a Procrastinator? Raise your hand later...
10:00pm Thur night - One last post to say I'm shutting down my computer tonight (Thur) and will be back on line once I hit Seattle tomorrow...or maybe if my layover is long enough in Dallas, I'll fire up the wireless and log on - but don't hold your breath...See ya'll from Seattle, I'm taking my camera with me for extra goodness...
Nancy B gave me the name for the purple set of beads I made last night - while I was making them, Amelie was blissed out...the auction will start tomorrow and run through next Friday - i'll be back by then and can handle the shipping, etc...
I'm REALLY proud of the two hollows I made - they are TINY!!! 8mm and 10mm each...get out a ruler and mark off 8 and 10mm and you'll see just how small these guys turned out...I rarely make hollows, but when I taught a couple of weeks ago, my student asked to do hollows...the one I made came out better than I expected, so I've been making more (All Hallows Hollows anyone?) and I thought 'well, lets see if I can incorporate them into a tiny set, why not?? And voila (ha, i checked the spelling this time!) I was amazed that i could make a hollow that small...Needless to say, i'm inspired to see what else I can do in the hollow world that I rarely tread in...the entire strand is smaller than my beads of late...after making the Booberry set and those beads were 5mm, I really liked the look of them, so I tried to get that small again...due to the surface decorations, these are slightly larger, but overall the entire strand looks very small to me...They really sparkle in the sunlight and I hope ya'll enjoy them...
Well - who is surprised to hear that I've put off all my errands until today - the last possible day I can do them before leaving town...? anyone? anyone? What can I say, when it comes to running errands or staying home and working, I'll choose home every time...I got a lot of work done yesterday (even have a new set for eBay - I've completely ignored eBay the past few months) and got everything shipped that was here..the house is rather bead-less at the moment, but that's GOOD...
My friend Susan wrote yesterday and said I should give ya'll more insight to my background and even consider installing a webcam so you can see me work...I have Brian hot on the wireless webcam trail looking for options on how to get this going...I know some other sites use webcams, in fact when i was first starting out, I used to visit MotherBeads because I could watch her work...but I didn't want to be seen as 'copying' (its really funny how worried we all get about infringing on others ideas), but isn't the internet all about spying on what others are doing? So, hopefully I can get setup for ya'll...I told Brian I'd pay, if he'd install - which is what he does for a living (he's an IT dude) so it'll be like playing with toys for him...Its great having an IT guy in the house to fix all my computer problems...and I do some stupid stuff sometimes but he always laughs at me and fixes the problem...I did customer service/troubleshooting/quality assurance for computer companies for 14 years, so when I have a problem, the LAST thing I want to do is troubleshoot it...I have a definite love/hate relationship with my computer...I just installed Mozilla Firefox as my new browser because so many pop ups and spammers are cruising for IE users...Firefox works pretty well, except my bookmarks are all jumbled and I can't figure out how to line them up properly, but I've always disliked the dictatorship of Microsoft (I still have Netscape 7.1 installed on my machine too) so I do my little part to support other software whenever I can...
I'll be glad to go into my previous-life stories (I worked for a famous computer game company here in Austin for 8 years) in more posts, and I really need to update my Artist bio but for now, you get to experience my kitties...oh and for the record, the addition of Amelie to the house makes our cat total "7"...
Posted by Donner at October 21, 2004 10:05 PM
Comments
Love the cat picture. Mine likes to curl up on plastic bags
Posted by: Gail at October 21, 2004 10:36 AM
Hey Donna....do you see my hand raised? I'm a big time procastinator...ugh! I'm the same way about running errands. It's getting really bad. I'd rather stay in and make beads. I even started having the groceries delivered and now my kids are much happier :) There just never seems enough time for making beads and running errands...I'll choose beads every time.
Posted by: TaraHarris at October 21, 2004 10:41 AM
Hey Donna!
Your comment (procrastinators raise your hands later)cracked me up. I love clever sayings like this. It reminds me of a knock-knock joke I read in the most recent Readers Digest...
"Knock, knock"
"Who's there?"
"Control freak. Now you say, 'Control freak who?'"
Heh.....
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at October 21, 2004 12:18 PM
Hey Donna, a bead cam would be awesome!and Tara's grocery delivery service sounds terrific. I think that since we'd rather be making beads than anything else we should get some sort of beaders benefit package for example my DH get's all the goodie benefit like eye, dental, medical, prescrition etc. But what about us beaders? we should get services like cleaning lady, grocery delivery,someone to come in and do laundry etc. those types of things so we'll hardley have to leave our studios lol!
Posted by: Marianna at October 21, 2004 12:59 PM
Aw....Amelie has "kitty bliss"....I wish I had 7 kitties....I only have 1 semi-cranky 19 yr old. She is getting quite "mouthy" in her old age, always meowing at me to do stuff for her. I think I am being trained by her. :-)
I bought her an automatic waterer recycler, and she has "kitty bliss" now, full time running water, no meowing to get mom to turn it on at the sink all the time!
Posted by: Nancy B at October 21, 2004 01:04 PM
I have the name and number of a reputable cleaning lady, I just haven't called her but I plan to...my house is 'neat' but not 'clean'...vacuuming, bathroom (ugh!), are the biggest obstacles and would just like someone else to come in and clean..
I have considered an automatic water recycler too...I think our cats would love it and it'd keep them out of the water dish on my studio desk thats full of glass bits...i still think I need a clone to get all this stuff done...
Posted by: donner at October 21, 2004 01:35 PM
water recycler what a great idea I'm ganna add that to the xmas list my cats usually get fake mice and other strange cat toys in their stocking each year but this year the water recycler will make them think they've struck gold! lol!
Posted by: Marianna at October 21, 2004 03:17 PM
I just had to comment on the adorable pic of your cat sleeping on the pizza box. I love your site and come here often, and seeing this today made me laugh out loud. She's so cute with her tongue sticking out and everything. Reminds me of the funny places my own cats like to sleep. Priceless! I love the purple beads, too. You rock. :)
Kandice
Posted by: Kandice at October 21, 2004 06:56 PM
WOW.....Donna your new ebay set is beautiful!!!!!
Posted by: Rachel G. at October 21, 2004 07:25 PM
I agree with Marianna...beader's benefits. Let's get someone one that. And a Water recycler...that's a great idea. Does it work for dogs, too? Our kitty has these cute little dishes for food and water...but our dog Jake always sneaks in and drinks up all her water...no matter how much water he has in his bowl.
Posted by: TaraHarris at October 21, 2004 08:15 PM