Icing on the Cake

All righty then, I finally got a little caught up on all the

busyness of last week. Heather and I spent two days

working with our etching projects, but of course we

couldn't do a couple of stampings we managed to make

a hundred pieces of brass and copper. Talk about over

doing on a first time project! We cut, stamped, etched,

pickled, polished and made some killer stuff.

We have a nice video to that Heather is gonna edit and

put out so you can see.

Then our friend Melanie from Earthenwood Studios

came for a couple of days to visit with Heather and stay

at my house. We spent a day (a very long one), getting

our pieces ready to make some resin pendants.

Heather and Melanie pounding, heating and preparing

stuff to put into our pendants. I was taking some pictures

and making a couscous dish for lunch. I got a little behind,

couldn't find any of my small items to put into my pendants.

So needless to say I still have things to make. Beverly and

I can work on some when she gets here. I paid very close

attention and managed a couple of pieces, so I can finish my

stuff later .

These are the four finished pieces of mine, above.

A couple of Heather's pendants....above.

And these are Melanie's. Three totally different artists,

and three totally different looks. We used Ice Resin that

I purchased from Ornamentea.com. Very easy to mix and

super easy to pour. No smell, but could be messy, so take

your time! Heather will be heading home soon. That's gonna

be a sad day. We have had so much fun these last few weeks.

But she'll be back at Christmas and my sister and brother are

coming in here intwo weeks. Best summer I've had in a long time.

This week Geary and I head for the tennis championships in

Indianapolis. We love to go to those matches.

Its the 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July! Today's a day for parades and
families. Fireworks and cookouts. Cold beer ...yum!
It's warming up nicely around here with just a chance of
rain (between you and me, it looks like a good chance.)
Geary and I are going to a party on Donovan Lake.
A friend of ours plays in a band and we are gonna go and
hear him play. Everyone else is up north at the lake,
boating and watching fireworks. I love these holiday
weekends.

Here's my display of fireworks. Heather and I had a little
clay play day. These are hot out of the oven and not quite
finished. Need some sanding and antiquing. But they are
gonna be nice when I'm done. In the next picture is a little
present from Heather, she was busy "hatching" eggs...lol!
Can you "spot" it? Ok, enough of the innuendos.

Next week we are playing with metals and etching.
We have bezels for resin. Heather found old books and I
have paper, stamps and ink. Wahoo....its gonna be great.
For next weekend we are planning on going to the
Renaissance Faire at Battle Creek. The theme for the
weekend is Believe the Magic, but darn, we don't have our
Faerie wings made! So we'll have to look like the regular
visitors. I have this idea for a costume that I would really
love to make and wear one of these days. I see it very clearly
in my mind. We'll take lots of pictures for sure. Its gonna be
fun.