Butterfly

I've been spending a lot of time on facebook and not enough

time on here, but I haven't totally been doing nothing.

There have been so many beautiful embroidered pieces being

shown by various beaders. Jean Hutter can whip one out a

day I swear...I'm almost embarrassed to say this but I have

been working getting this far for two weeks. Tore it out

three times, and spent lots of time just looking at it.

I'm so anal when it comes to beading, abstract is hard for me.

But I'm on the right track now (not going abstract but...)

and this might get done by the weekend. The cabochon is from

my good friend and ceramic artist Melanie from Earthenwood Studio.

The tinier ones are also from Melanie, I've been saving them

for a while. Lots of greens and bronze beads, little bronze flowers.

I'm thinking green for spring. Of course the picture doesn't

do it justice, no sun today, but its not freezing outside either.

And the days are getting longer....

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.