What's Going On ...

And after the walls are painted, I'll hang up my sampler collection...the colors will match perfectly and frankly I haven't hung anything up (except the funky IKEA lights upstairs) because I want to paint before anything goes up...now that we have some furniture and colors to work with, it should be easier to pick a wall color..sure, am I doing this backwards...probably..but so what...

I've scheduled a day to work on my glass painting, but it won't be for a couple of weeks...while I did buy the tools and some enamels, its not enough...(Dodie knows of what I speak)...plus, I need to get the sheet glass and some kiln shelves and they aren't in stock yet...its all on order...and should be here by the end of the month...so no new painted beads till then...course, I REALLY really need to take the pics of the class beads, but I've been tied up doing other stuff (like shopping) to get it done...on a good note, I FINALLY got time to take the organic beads off the mandrel and make 2 bracelets from them...I have officially moved onto a new (old) bead style and am not making any squeeze for a while...so all of ya'll out there who are sick of the squeezes, get ready for some old familiar faves that you might find more flexible in your design plans...

I'm still feeling the organic vibe, even tho some of the ones I've been dabbling with haven't made me happy..you know what? I need to go back to my roots of organics and pull out familiar (known) glasses that cause reactions...I have success with those...when I try to force a reaction, I don't always succeed...trial and error are such an elusive couple...

I hear that the new iPhone will be ONLY distributed thru Cingular/AT&T (which is who we are with) and should be out sometime in June...I am looking forward to it, and I think if it does what we hope it'll do, that we'll both be picking it up...Brian told me that the next computer I get should be a Mac as well, and I think I agree with him on that...I love my Dell, there's nothing wrong with it, but I also am familiar with Macs, having used them for years at the computer game company...I had a blue one a few years back, bought it JUST because a $60 beading program (how to chart brick stitch, peyote, loom, etc using Delica numbers) was Mac-only...a $2000 machine for a $60 program...alas, I sold it after awhile and kinda miss it, actually...I think Brian wants me to go Mac because he's tired of all the tragedies that seem to befall me and my Dell...who knew that plugging my iPod in would cause the screen to go black w/ a blinking cursor? good grief...