Here’s a sneak peek at the newest additions to my Etsy shop, ClayDreamsPottery. I hope you like them!
Details can be found at https://etsy.com/shop/claydreamspottery
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. Oscar Wilde
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Tag: jewelry
Experimenting
DABBLINGS
I’ve been trying out some different crafts in the past few weeks, mostly jewelry, but also glass dyeing. I’ve for sure not perfected my glass dyeing technique, but it’s fun to try different things, different shapes and different colors. Here’s a sample; this what they look like before they’ve dried –
And this is about 24 hours later, after they’ve had some drying time. I love how they start out opaque and then slowly clear and true colors appear.
Now my challenge is deciding what to do with them, pretty much every horizontal surface in my house is taken. I’m thinking I might take them to the nursing home where my mom lives, I think she’d enjoy them on her windowsill. With the sun shining through, they look like stained glass.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Babymama had a birthday last week, here’s Mr. Iknead’s and my gift.
I finished it about a week before her actual birthday, it was so hard not to give it to her ahead of time! I couldn’t wait to find out if she liked it. She did and has worn it several times since.
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Robert Fulghum
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To Share Is Human
To Share Is Human
So I saw this bracelet in a catalog
iCOVET
So, I saw this bracelet in a catalog (one of about a jillion that I get) months ago and fell in love with it right away. What I didn’t fall in love with was the price tag, $88.00 but I kept looking at it, checking to see if it had gone on sale, looking at it some more, then more checking and more looking. Finally, last week, as I was doing more looking, one of the little voices in my head (yes, I have a committee in my head) said, “You could totally make that, you know”. So I set about doing just that. I’ve been playing around with jewelry making and experimenting with different things, I had a spool of waxed linen cording and little silver beads that didn’t work for another project and this is what happened:
This one’s mine This one’s theirs
Pretty good for a total investment of about five bucks and thirty minutes, wouldn’t you say? And it fits perfectly (I have very skinny wrists). I did good, in my never to be humble opinion.
THE GRANDS
Babydiva’s baptism is scheduled for Saturday, so we tried the family baptistmal gown on her Saturday and I’m happy to report that it’s a perfect fit; the bonnet not so much. She’s the fourth baby to wear it. OK, technically, she’s the third since her dad, Babydaddy, couldn’t squeeze into it when he was her age. But, he did have it on for a minute or so, so I’m counting that as a wearing. If I remember correctly, he was very, very bad tempered about trying it on, too. Isn’t she a beauty??
Babydiva AKA Harper
BY THE BOOK
Am reading American Passage , a history of Ellis Island, which has always fascinated me and on my Nook, Killer Photos with Your iPhone. I’ve pretty much quit using anything but my phone to take pictures, this book has already taught me a lot, both how to set up a good photo and how to use my iPhone and its features to make pictures. Hopefully my pics will improve the more I learn. I’m ashamed to admit that I had to ask Mr. Iknead what kind of phone I have, 3G? 3GS? It’s a 4. Learn something new every day.
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. Abbie Hoffman
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