Dark Night.

I realized yesterday that I never use black. And I don't know why, because I love black. Actually, it's probably because black, and dark dense colors take more heat to work and when they're molten they are really blinding! So I would get tired out pretty quickly. ( I am such a baby!) But now that I have my new torch, the black melts down like butter! And as far as the blinding issue, I just need to remember to flip down my dark lenses, duh! These Dark Night babies are going on etsy.

My Kiln is Possessed!

Oh! What a day! It's enough to drive me insane! My stupid kiln has a mind of it's own! I turn it on, set it on my usual holding temperature, then bang out of no where it's ramping up to over 1000 degrees! WTF?!? So I turn it to low and it won't settle down, finally I just had to turn it off. And this continued all day. I'd turn it on to low, it would get crazy hot, I'd turn it off, and on, and off. I could barely go inside for a drink of water for fear it would get raging hot and ruin all my beads! My husband thinks we just need to change a switch...I hope he's right!

Sorry this is so grumpy. On a lighter note, I do think I made some cool beads today. I'm looking forward to seeing them tomorrow! :)

The Beads and the Life.

Here's a set from yesterdays batch that I thought were neat, but they were so hard to name! Usually when naming my beads I look at them and try to quickly associate with them, but this morning I was stumped and kept thinking about spicy exotic food! You'll see more of this when you see another set I'm listing called Creole. (I guess I'm hungry.) So I ended up calling them Toasty because they're all the warm colors of a roaring fire. They'll be going on etsy.

Now on to the life portion of the blog... So we have this coyote that has been hanging around. When I first saw it I thought it was so cute, out in the field, hunting for mice or what ever. But then I realized it was watching our house! And then I thought what if it's stalking our cats! THEN, I worried about the walk I take down to the mail box every morning. (It's a little less than a quarter mile down a wooded driveway.) My husband assured me the coyote is probably more scared of me, but still. What if it's rabid?!? Ok, now I'm just being an alarmist, but I'm carrying the machete with me none the less. Ha!

What the?!?

Surprise! This is one of the reasons why I love boro. (For those of you who are unfamiliar with bead making, this may be technical blah, blah.)

So I was making these beads and I was going for the blue greens, but I threw some persimmon in there for fun. I always flame strike, instant gratification I guess, but I figured if I didn't flame strike the persimmon wouldn't come out. Boy was I wrong! That color popped like no other!

These surprise babies are going on etsy.

SUPER SALE!

I've started a super sale in my etsy shop. Since I'm closing shop for March, (details below in Mondays post), I've decided to offer free US shipping, $2 international shipping, and put lots of sets on sale up until then. Since I'm holding off on ebay until after I get back I should have lots of new bead babies in etsy.