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September 2004 - Archives
Now I know that I semi-promised to start selling specials here - but I just don't know if I can keep up with it yet...maybe soon.
(Saturday
25th)
After the race, I caught a terrible cold, combined with a serious case of "the fuglies." The Fuglies is what I call it when I'm on a streak of just making kiln after kiln of "ugly" beads...meaning beads that the world will never see. It could be experimental beads, or just stuff that I don't like. Finally the day before yesterday I think I got a break. I started making blown vessels and drawer pulls. It was fun and I think just what I needed- a break from making "BEADS" since I just couldn't seem to make anything I liked.) I'm still battling the cold -but I' wouldn't be surprised if I pull something out of the kiln which is "worthy" to put up for auction in a couple of days. I am SO picky about what goes on "the bay"...Usually if I feel I can make it any better - I won't list it. That's why I'm not such a "prolific" Ebay seller... (Friday 10th) Ok, finally back from Glass Stock in Oregon, and caught up on a bunch of work. Now I have a little time to tell you about Glass Stock. Wow, what a fabulous event that was!) Here are all the pictures I took from the weekend. Glass from 9 am to 9 pm every day! Is that heaven or what?! I learned a bunch of stuff, some of which I an use in bead-making, some for other projects. We had electives every evening after dinner, and activities and demos all day long. I got to try blowing a perfume bottle, making a paper-weight, pulling furnace cane, faceting glass, sandblasting, crossover (which is a mixture of lampworking and fusing, where you make the components to be fused on a torch first, then you put them on the sheet glass to be fused.) I also got to watch a bunch of fabulous bead-makers demonstrating beads. We traded beads, talked beads, and made beads (although the bead-making part was probably the smallest portion in the whole event. I only made about a handful of beads, but I still learned SO much!) Deb and Mike Crowley did a superb job, as did all the other people who helped, taught, demo-ed, cooked and organized! Wow, a big thanks to all of them!
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(Wednesday 29th) I posted a couple of auctions yesterday - for the
fist time in about a month and a half. That's how long my 'bout of the
fuglies' lasted. I did make some drawer-pulls and a reallly cute blown
vessel - but nothing for ebay until last night! I'm finally feeling
inspired again, and although Wednesday night is "sailing night"
here in Santa Cruz, I opted to stay home and am going to hit the torch
right now. I have some requests for custom jewelry that I need to make
beads for, and a special jewelry project that is part of a class I'm
taking - so I better get busy. This weekend (apart from work) I'm starting
a 3-weekend class in "stone-setting" which isn't related to
glass, but metal smithing (my other love) and I will be so busy trying to
keep up with work and this class.
Hm...I'm being awfully quiet lately. Well, after Glass Stock I
was busy catching up, then I went on a 4 day sailing race (the St. Francis
Big Boat Series in the San Francisco Bay). It was four days of pretty
serious racing. I crewed on a boat called Elyxir, a Santa Cruz 52 and we
got a 3rd in our class. It was pretty tough, and I'm still black and blue
from the "boat-bites" as sailing related bruises are called.
Here are a couple of more pictures, (on the top picture I'm the red figure
right behind the bright yellow figure in the middle of the boat):
Here
is the first thing I made after Glass Stock - not exactly what I thought
I'd make - but it's for an exchange through the Bead Hive Group on Ebay,
and the beads are for someone who loves purple, to travel, history, her
two cats and something else - I forget. I hope she likes them (they're
going out tomorrow.)
