I have pictures of my new studio up on Flickr. They can be found here.
My hose came today, so I rushed out to Lowe’s to get a couple of screws and a canister of propane. Tonight after dinner, we went down and attached my new GTT Lynx to the table, connected everything, tested the connections for leaks, tightened up the connections, and turned on the torch! I made a [...]
Tuesday was tax day, and my mother stayed home to do her taxes. I kept her company while making a mock-up of her mother’s day present. It’s going to be a nice necklace. I made a second mock-up last week, just to be sure I knew what I was doing. Yesterday I started on the [...]
I forgot to mention that I registered for The Gathering – the convention for the International Society for Glass Beadmakers. I made hotel reservations today. I’m staying in the convention hotel which will be expensive, but convenient. Now all I need is plane tickets. I’m so excited!
I also forgot to mention that I got my [...]
April 11, 2008 – 11:42 AM
Gosh this week has been busy. Tuesday night was the NAMI meeting, Wednesday I had bell choir and Wednesday night supper at church, and yesterday I went to the circle meeting with my mother. I haven’t had much torch time this week, but hopefully once my studio gets situated that will change.
We got the table [...]
We went to another opera on Saturday. It was La Boheme by Puccini. Sort of a sad story – most operas are. It was nice, but with my memory I hardly remember the story now, and a week from now I’ll have completly forgotten it. Still, I enjoy going. Next season there are going to [...]
Yesterday when I woke up, there was an e-mail waiting for me saying I had made an Etsy sale. A total stranger bought the beads pictured here. It was my first sale of just beads. I was so excited and happy!
We spent most of the weekend working on the basement – preparing it to be [...]
The last couple of days have been real good. Tuesday, the air conditioning people came to give an estimate for the hood installation and ventilation work. The estimate was a bit more than we had thought it would be. But, my mother decided to go forward with it. I’ve ordered the hood which will ship [...]
