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March 15, 2005
Spring Break!!!!
Its exactly one year ago today that I started counting the hits on this website (scroll to the bottom of the page to see the counter)....over 122,000 hits in one year - not too shabby..thanks for coming to see me! (oh, and I have the code in that counts CORRECTLY, not each time you refresh the page - I prefer an accurate count, thank you very much...)
Where to get the CZ's? Rio Grande carries them, Robin at Glass Diversions also has them, in nice easy to buy amounts, so you don't go broke! Molly at Heritage Glass carries them too...I also bought some from a chick on WC, but I can't remember who...Kim Miles also mentions a place on her website...make sure they are small enough (below 3mm from what the experts say) and are hard enough (that they don't melt, sorry Genea!) to handle the heat..I use the 'glue on a mandrel' method, where I glue the CZ with Elmer's glue on the end of a 1/16" mandrel, and stand it in small glass till it dries..then I make my floral, poke the hole, then add the CZ, then encase...
Its Spring and the Ladybugs are out in force! Brian brought home a bag of them over the weekend and their job is to eat all the bad guys in our garden...They are so impressive en masse, I just want to put my hand in there and let them crawl all over me...
After being very gently nudged by Leslie to show her how to put CZ's in a floral bead (and having never done it before I showed her, talk about pressure..ha), I went on and made 6 CZ encased beads yesterday...the first one is the worst, and I'm gonna keep it as my 'first attempt' at this, but the others are ready to go...gonna go get some snaps, its actually rather dark and cold out this morning, so lets see what happens...back shortly..
Oh, and I took yesterday off cause I just needed to relax and decompress....today I have two different appts, so I'm not sure how much I'll be around, but I'll try to get some stuff made while I can...thank goodness the rest of this week is lookin' wide open...time to buckle down and get some glass melted...
Posted by Donner at March 15, 2005 03:00 PM
Comments
HOLY CRAP! Great florals, Donna! So, I guess I took YOU out of your box, huh? Nice job!
Leslie
Posted by: Leslie Rudden at March 15, 2005 08:48 AM
WOW!!! These are fabulous!
Posted by: Gwen Youngblood at March 15, 2005 11:43 AM
great florals Donna! the are beautiful! where did you order your cz's? i got some from a hobby store and mine melted! :( dont you need to be really careful not to melt them??
Posted by: genea at March 15, 2005 12:34 PM
great floral beads! I also loved your star beads from last week!
I wanted to let you know that most ladybugs that you buy will migrate out of the yard where they are released. They are usually collected while they are in diapause and when they "wake up" they are programmed to disperse. If you want to have ladybugs in your yard during the spring, summer and fall, I would reccommend planting mexican milkweed- it has a species of aphid that feeds on it (which stay on the plant) so there is always a food source for the ladybugs. It also attracts Monarch butterflies.
If you want some I usually have a ton come up in the spring- let me know!
wizzie
Posted by: wizzie at March 15, 2005 01:15 PM
Wizzie, you are so right! all our poor little bugs flew away, even tho we have white flies (or so we think) on our LadyBanks roses, that we thought they'd feed on...I need to come get some mexican milkweed!!
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at March 15, 2005 01:36 PM