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April 27, 2007
Get going...get going...get going..
Mornings...ugh...I started a new continental bag last night and was up till midnight working on it...so 6:00am didn't arrive shiny and happy as you might expect...I never expect it to arrive that way, and today was no different...but I have appts to get to and beads to clean and I wanted to get stuff done early...
One of the hazards of my new tiny studio is the a/c vent that blows right on my torch...the flame flits around just enough that I can't do any decent stringer work...at all...and we all know that evenings are better for me than mornings to get beads made...so yesterday Brian (after hearing me complain about this long enough) picked up some 'vent covers' that are in essence magentic plates to cover the vent...
and last night I tried one and it worked perfectly...I was able to make beads and the room was warm...after I was done, I popped the thing off, so as not to ruin the a/c air duct and we'll put it on again when its time...pretty cool solution and keeps me working..can't complain about that...
I've found that I've turned into an Etsy junkie...I have spent way too much time (and money) on little things...worthwhile little things, things that I love, new artwork that I covet, but I had to stop...put it away...back away from the Etsy...until I can control my urges...I think this is how I felt about eBay back in 1997 when I first discovered it...I searched for All Things Titanic and kinda went loopy...I did find some fantastic deals on eBay, I'm not sure you can find them anymore, with all the corporate-ness that's there now...I could cruise for antique diamond rings and find real ones that people were selling from their jewelry boxes...now its all 'antique style' and the prices are what I'd pay in NYC...not so much of a deal anymore...I do enjoy when Jay Leno does his bit about 'weird things we found on eBay' and asks the audience to guess if the item sold or not...last night he showed a rock that looked like Al from Happy Days (sold for 8.00 and change) a fish stick that looked like HIM (didn't sell) a piece of meat that looked like Africa (offered at .50, didn't sell) and some other things...people are funny about what they will buy...and so am I...
Posted by Donner at April 27, 2007 08:05 AM