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August 10, 2005
Some days are interesting
Letha and I made beads yesterday...I have loads of them in the kiln, but not everything is a gem...its raining outside, which is wonderful for us in August, but shooting pics, well, I have to get creative...I really only have 2 strands that are 'offer worthy', and they are pretty small...I tried my Target inspiration, but out of 6 beads, 3 of them ended in the water death (50% attrition is terrible), so I need to try that one again today...Letha left a Mercury stringer from her play day, so I used it to make some squeeze beads, but because I was just 'fooling around', the beads aren't the same size or even all that well executed...and then the biggest problem -
I was making more black lentils w/ the silver blue on them and 10 of the 16 I made came out of the kiln black..the silver had burned off from being in the kiln too long...there's a fine line between 'fabulous' and 'freakish'...So if anyone has the need for 10 black lentils w/ a little silverish look to them, I can make you a sweet deal...
the dog just went for a wonderful tear around the yard, she doesn't like rain, so I think Brian's walk with her was abandoned, so she has lots of pent up energy in her...I think she's burned some of it off, and I'm muddier for it, but hey, its like playing in mud puddles as a kid...you're allowed to get messy...
One of my favorite inspiration catalogs arrived yesterday, and I've already found about 5 beadsets I could make from it...one of the reasons I don't do remakes often is because new stuff is always around the corner...so I've always said 'get it while you can, cause you may never see it again'...I'm already thinking of new stuff to do today...
I tried a new MOretti yesterday, one that I've never used before, but has been sitting here for probably 8 months...a fun, deep plum (not silver plum)...I'll have a couple of those to offer in a bit..
so, there ya have it...Experiment day - some beads were successful, others were not...my bad bead jar is always hungry and I do my best to feed it, even when I don't mean to...chomp chomp...
Posted by Donner at August 10, 2005 12:46 PM
Comments
I LOVE these colors and those lentils are to die for!
Posted by: KLewis at August 10, 2005 01:28 PM