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October 16, 2007
Out of nowhere...
I received news last night that a very good friend of mine's husband was killed in an accident yesterday afternoon...I feel like I've been punched in the stomach, because I wish I could do something, but there's nothing I can do from here...I've spoken to her on the phone and I'll fly up and see her in a couple of weeks after the hubub of family and friends have made their way thru her home and life and things quiet down a little...I don't want to be a pest or in the way, she's gonna have enough to do without worrying about extraneous folks in her way...but once things settle down and she gets things situated and is ready to just kick back and do nothing for a week, I'll go hang out with her...walk the dogs, knit, cook, watch movies and spend time together...
I'm plugging away on the torch, I sat down yesterday and knocked out all the stringer beads in one session...I didn't plan on it, its just what my hands started to do on their own...I cleaned them this morning and they turned out pretty good...I made extras of each bead for insurance, in case any of them popped off or just cause i like having extras ya know...today is 'pressing' time...squares, lentils and the like...these are the trickiest I've found, because you have to have just the right amt of glass on the mandrel - too much and you have those excess edges, too little and the bead isn't shaped properly, not centered before pressing and the bead is lopsided, oh the minefield that pressed beads can become if you're not in the zone..at least that's what I've found for me..plus, I'm doing various sizes and shapes, and as such I have to adjust accordingly...this isn't a complaint, merely to say that these days can be tricky, take time and patience and hopefully the dog will not bark at the toad as she was this morning, and make my hands jump...she was really adamant that this toad not be in our yard...I had to pull her off, I thought she was gonna try to eat it...and it was a biggun...
Sigh...
Posted by Donner at October 16, 2007 01:12 PM
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Donna,
The moment I read "a very good friend of mine" on your message I knew exactly
who it was...checked her blog and sure enough...it was her. I was amazed she
was even able to type out the message.
I'm glad you're going to be there soon with her. She was the first person I
ever bought lampwork from since as she put it "I could fill a bathtub"...much of
what I bought from her was your work.
So sorry you lost a friend.
Posted by: Julie at October 17, 2007 10:11 AM