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8/18/10
I don't know if
there's anything I can say about this....
North
Dakota Bois (California Gurls Parody)
7/8/10
I haven't post
anything about my bead in the main blog in a looooong time, I've been
leaving that to facebook,
but I wanted to show off the beads you can
make from one of the latest CGBeadrollers - cones. I thought this
would be a nice shape, but after making the example beads, fell in love
with it for a focal bead shape. I smashed the smallest one
flat, me like.

7/6/10
This is 4 days
progress. <big sigh>
Maybe leaving the 5 year old nephew to his parents to watch instead of
bringing him to my house one day
(which frankly, is suppose to be a job site) and the 6 year old
daughter the next day,
would help get the job done on a more timely manner, cause frankly, I'm
tire of taking a shower in the camper. </rant>

7/2/10
This was from a
couple of days ago. It shows the main bathroom now cut off from
the mastbath in the back.
Insulation is going up as we speak. Big storage closet, whorlpool
bathtub, 48" shower, ventilation (finally), duck heaven.
6/23/10
Yesterday this was
my main bathroom and master bathroom. Now where am I suppose to
pee?
<ok, don't answer that. That was a loaded question.>

6/18/10
My last few
pictures of Wayne as his mommy. I took him to my sons today, so
I've magically transformed into grandma.
He's an adorable photo subject, so I'm glad I'll be able to photo him
again.

A
kittens first experience with cat litter....
He thinks it's a toy, cause every time he moves, it trickles downhill
like sand.

Hi thinks he's a pony. This kitten is real confused.

It's pretty fuzzy, but I couldn't believe he sat down like a puppy, not
many cats will sit this way.

6/16/10
A couple of better
picture of the new part-time studio help.
I think my son may take him, so at least he'll be close by for me to
see what he'll look like all grown up.


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Left
is a close up so you can see the pretty markings. He has that
cute
little white patch, but the fur on his chest and legs have indivual
white hairs that are a bit longer than the black fur. He's
already a stinky poo machine and with no mama cat, guess who gets to
sub with cleaning up...
He moved on the picture below and it got fuzzy, but it's a good picute
of white hairs. Almost looks like a bears legs.

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6/15/10
I stepped outside
last night around sundown, and look what I found hopping through my
yard. He's looks to be around a month or two old and very bony, I
was surprised he lived till this morning. Since he's so young,
he's already filling out, though, but you can still feel his
bones. He's soooo adorable, so I don't understand why our 4 adult
cats don't like him (well, duh on that one, though). Not sure if
I'll keep him though, 4 adult cats will determine that, but I'll get to
enjoy him while I'm fattening him up.

6/6/10
Happy Birthday to
my husband Steve.
May the next decade be as happy as the last.
(that's all I'm sayen about age)
Love you, honey...
5/11/10
This is my first
rose of the season. Last fall when I cut my roses back,
I cut this one back farther than I ever have, and wow, I got a two
handed rose.

5/9/10
The Known
Universe on YouTube
Happy Mothers Day
5/3/10
Tina' Eyes

My Chihuly rosebush, two stages

5/1/10
If you haven't
seen this, you need to, it's hilarious. Some Afghanistan soldiers
blowing off steam.
Telephone
Remake
4/29/10

4/18/10
Sad news, it's
been a week since I've seen Mouse. He's my black & white
cat. I've lost treasured cats before, but this is different, I've
had him longer than any other cat. Each pet has their own unique
personality and traits, with Mouse it was that he was a bit
cross-eyed. He loved being scratched under his chin, but you had
to approach him from behind or he would duck as if you were going to
hit him, but I'm sure it was just that he saw two or three hands and it
scarred him.
My Mouse montage:
My favorite pix of him - actually, one of my all time favorite pictures.

"Does my butt look big?" Mouse was a
rather large cat

His favorite way to sleep - like road kill ......

This was the time he lost his battle with the hot tub, we found him on
the roof, mad as can be.
Sure do miss my Mouse.......

4/13/10
These are from a
book called Disorder in the American Courts,
and are things people actually said in court,
word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters.
ATTORNEY: Now doctor , isn't
it true that when a person dies in his
sleep , he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?
ATTORNEY: The youngest son , the 20-year-old , how old is he?
WITNESS: He's 20 , much like your IQ.
ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?
WITNESS: Are you shitting me?
ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time?
WITNESS: Getting laid
ATTORNEY: She had three children , right?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: How many were boys?
WITNESS: None.
ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?
WITNESS: Your Honor, I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a
new attorney?
ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS: By death..
ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?
WITNESS: Take a guess.
ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?
WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard
ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?
WITNESS: Unless the Circus was in town I'm going with male.
ATTORNEY: Doctor , how many of your autopsies have you performed on
dead people?
WITNESS: All of them.. The live ones put up too much of a fight.
ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 PM
ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?
WITNESS: If not , he was by the time I finished.
ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
WITNESS: Are you qualified to ask that question?
ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a
pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No..
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you
began the autopsy?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive,
nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and
practicing law.
3/24/10
We now have infamous cats. My son found a picture from my "How To
Arrange 5 Cats" series on icanhascheezburger.com. Funny thing
though, the person who heisted the pix didn't know the source.
hmm I think I want this person to do my taxes next year. My cats
on cheezgburger.com
3/12/10
Went out for a drive, and look what followed us home?? Can we
keep it??
Well, since it's already in our back yard, I guess we'll have to. Don't
chya just hate it when that happens??
26 footer

3/6/10
I guess it's time for me to do an update. I had surgery Monday,
everything went fine, but I'm still a bit worn out. duh There are 4
glands in your neck (parathyroid) that make a hormone (PTH)
that control the amount of calcium your body transfers from you bones
to your blood stream. From there, calcium runs your electrical
system. Usually it's only one gland that will go bad, but for me,
it was all four, but since you need calcium in your blood, only 3-1/2
were removed. What was fascinating was that, during surgery,
blood tests monitored my PTH levels, and when they hit an acceptable
level, the surgeon knew to stop. I'm tired and sore, and
the anethetia made me sick longer than I think I realized, but I'm sooo
much better.
2/12/10
Fifth snow fall this year?? Wait, let me check my mail. Yep, it says I
live in Texas. Over 8 inches here, and officially
12.5 in Dallas, a new 24 hour record, and the second highest total in a
season. This one was so pretty, I took a night picture, too.


2/6/10
You might be a lampwork artist if:
- You have a flower garden just so you can have models
for your next set of beads...
- You notice instead of it being dark outside, it's
Moretti black...
- You chase fire trucks...
- You pause the evening news so you can see the anchors
necklace...
- Your favorite coffee cup sits on your work table with
coffee and pulled glass in it...
- The neighbors know from the squeals in the morning
that you pulled your best set ever out of the kiln...
2/4/10
I don't care what Punxsutawney Phil said the
other day, one of my cats brought a bird inside today.
I say spring is just around the corner.
1/9/10
1) Dang, I've been looking for that raccoon skin hat, that's where it
went to..
2) The furniture ate Bruce.
3) Remember that Twilight episode "Little Girl Lost"? where the little
girl fell through
the wall behind her bed and into another dimension, then the dog
followed her?
4) "Bruce has been working hard on his weight lifting career"

1/2/10
How's the beadroller business going, you may ask? Well, I just
spent the afternoon transforming the rest of the spare bedroom into my
warehouse. There's shelves along the other wall, too, and a
photography table on another. For company? there's a hotel up the
street..... and I get to take more of the house square footage as
a deduction, life is good.....

12/29/09
What is up with this global warming??? I know I'm in northern
Texas, almost Oklahoma,
but snow for a third time this season??? Does anyone have Al's
phone number???
December 29, 2009

12/28/09
I was a very good girl this year, Santa brought me not one, but two
lumps of coal.
In the form of matching diamond earrings. Hubby done good - happy
camper I am.....
12/25/09
Merry Christmas from Texas
This is the first time I can remember it snowing twice in one winter
season, here in north Texas.
December
2, 2009

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December
25, 2009

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12/9/09
Oh man, what did
she do ???
She added Gift Certificates !!!
YEY - Just in time for Christmas !!!

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12/4/09
Bruce (the rock star formerly know as Hayden) was seen romping with
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11/17/09
Three
more demo videos.
11/12/09
After my Steve's being after me for 6 month (no kidding, 6 months), I
did two demo beadroller video's a few days ago. I've never heard
myself on tape before, and it was kind of like a puppy hearing its own
bark for the first time, it scared me. I've added a
page to the catalog and will keep adding to the library, and
there's a link on the left of the page.
11/3/09
Happy
First Anniversary to my daughter Kara, and her husband Dave.
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10/27/09
Had a big scare this morning. Tina was missing when I got up,
took 1-1/2" hours to find her. The closet behind where Steve
sits, the ceiling is unfinished and sometimes the cats go up in the
rafters, but they haven't lately cause there's more stuff on the
shelves and it's tougher to climb.
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Somehow
she got up there and
was too terrified to come back down, or even meow. She almost
never goes outside without me, and they are working on the street a
block away, so outside was out of the question. I just knew she
was
somewhere in the house and I'd find her dead of a heart attack or
something, cause I've let her get overweight. Treats are now
on ration. Theeeeennnnn..... I couldn't believe it, she'd
been down for 15 minutes, when I saw her trying to climb up to get in
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10/25/09
Big news for me this week, well, not for me actually. My daughter
and her husband put a bid on a house and it was accepted
yesterday. Their first home, wow. Just in time for their
first wedding anniversary next week. On a silly note - ya know
how pillows stick when you try to put a pillow case on? Well, I
decided to blow into the case when the pillow was half way in, and it
just dropped to the bottom. Pretty neat, hah. Only took me
50 years to figure that one out (slow learner).
10/12/09
In a nut shell:
- friend & wife have cat & dog (german shepherd)
- dog plays rough with cat
- friend afraid dog will kill cat one day
- wife leaves, neglects to take her cat
- friend sells house
- estranged wife finally takes cat - to friends house - who has two dogs
(german shepherd & rottweiler)
- friend & my hubby are at BBQ cookoff
- friend calls me - cat is being terrorized and needs to be rescued -
now
- cat has new home - finally safe
- meet Hayden..... now we have five again....

10/6/09
It's not often I take a class, in fact, in 8-1/2 years, I've only taken
3. Leah
Fairbanks is one of the founders of the lampwork movement in
the United States back in the 1990's, so when I found out she was
teaching a class within driving distance of me, I was excited. As
a group, we had a blast and as a class, we learned a lot. One of
the ladies took a looot of pictures, and I'll post some as soon as I
get the disc of them.
Im'
really happy with my first ever aquarium bead. It's 1" wide by
1-5/8" tall and is a testament to Leah's teaching abilities, for sure.

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These
are two of Leah's beads that I bought at the class. The long one
is 1-5/16". The black & white is 1-1/4" with a black spinel
stone that her husband imbeds for her.

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9/26/09
We had a lot of rain here a few weeks ago and now the spring floweres
are blooming. To the right are our crockus, and I don't know what
the red ones are, but they are in yards all over town. Oh, and by
the way, Happy Birthday Daryl.
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9/22/09
I've been pretty busy the last few days. I just finished
assembling 4 new beadroller tools, that's the most I've done at one
time. Then I decided, since I now have 22 tools in the line, that
was too much for one catalog page, so I've been redoing that. Phew,
time consuming, please check it out.
9/6/09
I have a husband that like old movies, but once in a while I question
his sanity. He got into a 'gag me' 70's mood. Charles
Bronson has got to be on the list of the worst 10 actors in history,
not just one, but we watched a string of his movies this weekend. Then
there's 'Foxy Brown". Finally found out that afro's were
good for hiding guns in, and that
intro to
the movie, priceless.
8/28/09
Finally, an update on my trip to Seattle. I won't clutter up my
blog with the pictures, instead, the trip has it's own page and a
permanent link next to my other Seattle trips on the left. But
here is a picture of one of my favorite subject, Kara's cat.
Seattle
2009

8/6/09
Holy
Cow, it's on YouTube.
This was the video they played several times at the gathering, before
demo's and meetings.
I can't tell you what an awesome industry I have been blessed to be a
part of.........
8/2/09
That was the best Gathering I've ever been to, I guess considering it
is the only one I've been to,
ya, it was great. Two days of "name" lampwork beadmakers doing
demo's on the big screen, wow, I learned a lot. I bought a
Japanese style torch, am excited about that. Here's a short
youtube demo so you can see what they look like.

Two open torch nights where we could "jam", wow. That's one of my
beading buddies, Ginny, showing how she encases. There were
around 40 torches set up. On the second night, the hotel fire
alarm went off (false alarm), but it was so funny to see all those
people at the torches look around as if to say "what.... fire
alarm? We are playing
with fire here..... and I don't have time to evacuate, I'm in the
middle of a bead".

But I think the best part was the bazaar on Saturday. There
is
probably no where else in the entire world that you could find a bigger
display of individual handmade artisan glass beads? Think about it - -
100 artists displaying thousands of handmade beads - -
wow.

7/21/09
I just picked up the prototype base for the beadrollers. I'm real
excited about the design. I gave my fabricator some specific
requirements, and let him have free reign to design the scrolling. He
came up with (what else) flames. Awesome.. We are still working out
production details and pricing, but they should be available in a
couple of weeks. It will hold the tool at approximately a 30
degree angle, in one of two
directions, allowing you both hands free for holding your mandrel and
glass rod and still be able to use the tool, with easy access to pick
the tool up for refining your work. I'm off my first Gathering
tomorrow, see ya'll in a week with pictures. (Gathering: the annual
lampwork beadmakers convention)

7/14/09
I know, I promised a new cat picture, I took one and it's
horrible. Steve's out of town and it's a bit of a production to
'arrange 4 cats' sometimes. But I have a picture of another
little friend in the house instead. We live in a house built in
1902 and sometimes it seems the wall 'leak' of bugs, so gecko's are
always welcome here. This guy just wanted his picture taken.

7/9/09
Once again, I've been chastised for not updating enough.. sigh,
kids.. she has an iphone, isn't that what texting is for? (I'm just
kidding, Kara. Don't hit me with a barrage of texts,
I'm sure your boss would much prefer you 'work' at work. lol). So I'll
update on the tools, there are 15 in the line now
(click on 'catalog'), two more to be unveiled in a day or two, and a
stand (finally got to that) at the metal shop being prototyped. My
health's is getting better.. Our cats are entertaining, as
always. I've thought of a new 'how to arrange cats' series of
pictures, I feel like a bottom feeding paparazzi, but they don't mind,
they get treats out of it. I'll rally the troops for a picture
soon.
6/24/09
Well, I think I'm finally out of the woods. "What do you mean?",
you may ask. Well, I've been sick this year, and thanks for
asking.. Since February or so, I've had a whole host of pain
problems, on a scale of 1-10, it was an 8 quite often. I know
I've been flaky in the past, but this brain fog I don't wish on anyone,
I would forget conversations and things I did that morning, along with
a host of other problems. Hindsight, it's been building for a
long time, though. After a couple of tangents and a specialist
that blew me off, I got my family dr to allow me to get my vitamin D
level back into normal range before doing a ct scan of my head (dread
to think what he would, or wouldn't, find in there, if you know what I
mean). Normal range for D is 30-60 ng/ml, mine tested at 25 and
both drs thought that wasn't significant. phhh Treatment is one
megadose pill a week for 8 weeks, I saw results in 24 hours. It's
been 10 days now, I'm still run down and have a ways to go, but I think
I'm going to ask for an honorary degree for finding the problem
myself. I'm hoping to get my bead career back on track, now that
the fatigue is going away and my focus is returning again, too. (what
were we just talking about???)
6/7/09
It's been a long time since I've posted a youtube video, and in honor
of Steve's birthday (that's my husband and his birthday was actually
yesterday) I'll post a link to one he sent me. I hate to say it,
but it's a bit apropos. Happy birthday Steve.
Ode to
Forgetfulness
6/4/09
Two new rollers, actually they are version #2 of a couple already in
the line. Chunky Oval's now have a slot for big hole mandrels,
and the big hole Garden Variety now has an smaller slot for regular
sized mandrels. Wow, can you believe 12 tools in the line already?
Check the catalog for details.


5/20/09
I have a very big and exciting announcement to make.
cg-beadrollers
now has a European distributor.
Christina
Stofmeel of Frit & Glas - located in The Netherlands
(there are flags on the
left side of
the page to choose a language)
Feng Frit
Factory on Etsy
FenG
Lampwork Beads on Etsy
FenGlicious'
photostream on flickr
It will take a bit for us
to get
squared away and get Christina up and
fully running, but for now, please visit her sites and ogle at her
beads.
5/12/09
Number Ten... Tube Trio / Frit Holder
The tutorial is now online for your convenience (link is on the left)

5/2/09
Number Nine, Number Nine.. Ok, I know I've aged myself with
that.. This is the ninth tool and has five smaller cavities with a
smaller mandrel
slot for making small holed beads.

4/30/09
I'm real excited to introduce the new handles for my line of lampwork
beadroller tools. When I first stared developing the line 3 month
ago, I was buying a generic handle and wanted something that had a
'wow' factor to it. I found it. My tool handles now have
flames. Took me over a month to procure them and it was worth
it. The latest in the line is the original on steroids, a chunky
oval trio. Check the "tools" catalog for the complete line.


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4/27/09
Ya, it must be spring, I'm taking pictures of flowers. This
is my first rose of the year. I cut them back quit a bit last
fall so they should be plentiful.
My new handle for the tools are on their way, I'm excited.
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4/11/09
Spring is popping
up here. We planted tomatoes early this year and had to cover
them 3 times for freezing nights. And on the health front, I'm on
my fourth different high blood pressure med in 9 months, this sucks
trying to
find the right one. Reminds me of my teen years when you had to
go through a lot of crappie boyfriends to find the one didn't make you
sick to your stomach.....
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4/7/09
A bird in the hand
is worth two in the bush. I have a literal
exception to that rule - not when the bird in the hand is the one you
just took away from your cat in the living room. It's spring and
that
means young birds that are not cat savvy yet. It's the first of
many
for the season, I'm sure. It sure was happy to fly away, I sure
was
happy I didn't break it's neck pounding on it, Weazel didn't care, he
can find more to bring in...
This picture is of a wild flower
growing in my side lawn. I wish I knew what it was, it comes up
every
year, only one plant so there's only one flower, but it's square...
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4/5/09
There are a few websites I enjoy check everyday, one is NASA's
'Astronomy Picture of The Day'. Today's was especially
cool. It's a one hour time laps of the sun. It takes a few
seconds to load, but it's so worth it. Orange
Sun Oozing
(fyi: I now stock 1/4" mandrels for big hole beads & 1/4" brass
tubing to line them with)
3/31/09
We've been busy around here - ordering stuff. Since I've designed
some of the new graphite beadrollers to accommodate a larger mandrel to
make pandora style beads with, I decided to expand and carry
complimentary "stuff". First there was the beadstand for large
hole beads, then came the plethora of requests for a small shaft to
hold regular holed focals. Gotcha covered. Now I've put in brass tubing for coring those
pandora sized beads. The 1/4" tubing for mandrels is on order,
with other sizes to follow later. Steve's been amazing at finding
this stuff for me. Have a look in the catalog.
03/26/09
Been lazy about showing off the newest tool. It's another pandora
style plus, this one shapes round beads. Actually I haven't been
lazy, I've been tired. I went to get a prescription fill a few
weeks ago and the manufacturer stopped making it so the pharmacist
called the dr to get a different script. When I went to pick it
up, they told me that instead of taking one pill a day, I would now be
taking half the amount twice a day. Some how I missed the part
where it was a completely different formula, too. Found that out
when I went back to the dr today. All better now, back to
business as usual.

03/9/09
I've had an interesting weekend. I'll back up to Thursday. Kara (DD)
flew in from Seattle to help me with a bead show. I've done art &
craft shows, but never a 'bead' show. To make a long story short, it
wasn't worth my time and if I do another one, I'll be a bit more
selective. The Bead Market is well advertised so the crowd was good, I
guess that's how she justifies the outrageous price of the booth, but
my sales weren't good enough for the time & effort I put into it.
Live and learn. At least I'll have a week with my daughter. In other
news: I've really been enjoying making the slider beads with my new
mold, for the Pandora/Troll bracelets and promise to get my catalog up
and going again. I've been putting a sterling silver core in them so
they can also be worn on a chain necklace or even a ribbon or leather
neck cord.
Here's a picture of my fourth tool, the letter opener & beadpen
mold.

02/15/09
We're up to three tools now, and expecting our fourth next week, and a
stand to hopefully follow soon after. I feel like an expectant
mother. This one will do barrel shapes. Two with a regular
hole size mandrel slot and two with a slot for a larger mandrel to do
Pandora Style beads with. What are Pandora beads you ask? Pandora
Charm Bracelets

02/07/09
Well, here's my second tool. Three ovals, next sizes up. I
even went and got some nice material for backdrops. The lady at
the fabric store asked me what I was up to and when I told her it was
for photo backdrops, she said her best friend was a photographer so she
helped me get the right stuff. Boy was she right. Got to
go, there's a James Bond marathon on one of the channels and it's been
a long three weeks getting the tools up and going, so I'm out of here.

01/31/09
Introducing
cg-beadrollers - mold on a stick.
All those wonderful ovals I make, bet you thought I hand formed
them. Well, my dirty little secret is out, I had a mold made last
year and now (finally) I've put it into production. If you're a
lampworker and would like to have one, they'll be in my catalog soon,
or just email me for now. It will also come with a tutorial on
how to make a perfect bead with a cavity mold. I already have in
mind to make the next
one, it will have the next two oval sizes up from this mold.

01/30/09
Two atoms are walking down the road and one exclaims,
"Oh my God, I
just lost an electron!"
The other one asks, "Are you sure?"
To which
the first replies, "I'm positive!"
I was exchanging website links with Alex (my sons girlfriend) one day
and she gave me a link to 1saleaday.com
Great, thanks Alex, just what I need, another sight with stuff I can't
live without, that uses 24 hour sale only impulse buying tactics. I'm
already hooked on Woot.com
At least "1saleaday" is different in the fact that it has fun and
useless information, like the joke at the beginning of this post. Ok,
I've wasted enough time today..
01/25/09
So, Steve's been telling me about this commercial and I finally got to
see it. I love this guy, and it's on YouTube so I can see it
anytime I
want to - Vince
with Slap Chop. I was always the kid who would watch the
commercials and walk off on the show. Give it to me short and sweet,
get your point across in two minutes or less or I'm out of here. Vince
with Slap Chop is the most entertaining commercial ever produced. Shamwow was ok, but
annoying as h*ll. Slap Chop is great, and that duel screen chopping
scene was hilarious, "you're gonna love my nut"??, and when he throws
the competitors product over
his shoulder and it lands in the sink, classic slapstick at it's best,
"taco's fettucini linguini
martini bikini", and of course, the line "call now, within the next 20
minutes, cause we can't do this all day". Vince is the best.....
01/24/09
Sometime opening the kiln in the morning just makes my day cause
everything turns out better than I imagined it would.

01/17/09
This is my "I'm so lazy" blog entry.
I don't know what it is about blogging, but sometime I just hate to
write. My last post was a couple of days before the anniversary
of moms passing, and the holidays were fine, getting better to handle,
end of story...
So many new things that I've tried the past few weeks. I've
finally started to use my big hole mandrels - 5/8" & 1/4" holes -
and have learned to core the 1/4" with sterling silver tubing to make
slider beads for the Pandora/Troll bracelets. I also took a
mandrel out of moth balls that makes a heart hole. I want to sell
them as toggles and am coordinating with Kara to have her make the
toggle bars out of silver. Then there's the thimble mandrels I
bought, those are too cool. Why the big jump in creativity? I signed up
for a bead show, no more art & craft shows, did several
last year and they just suck toooo much. I hate standing and
explaining to someone what lampwork is only to have them say "nice
bracelet" and walk off with that deer-in-the-headlights look. If
you're in Ft Worth March 7-8 I'll be at The Bead
Market show (don't forget my Etsy
store) and yah, Kara is going to come help me, excited about
that I am.



11/25/08
How
to Arrange 4 Cats -
The sequel - part one
Cats - squared. Maybe this is why one should pay attention in geometry
class, so one can arrange their cats.

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Bead
Review 2005
The
Wedding
(Mr. & Mrs. Whitney)
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someone close my mouth for me,
this pool
trick shot
left me speechless
360 degree panorama pix
Paris by
Night
Evolution
of Dance
amazing, note the language
fishy
card trick
Telemarketer
Nightmare
audio
Chris
Bliss
the Beatles juggler
The
Godfather: scammer upsets the Mafia
are you a Star Wars fan?
Emperor
Palpatine get a phone call from Vader
This has been around a while, I just found it again
How to
Fold a T-Shirt
David
Hasselhoff's
"Jump In
My Car"
German
Coast Guard
John Walshes
Family
Watchdog
find registered sex offenders near you
David
Hasselhoff is
hooked on
a
fealing
this
kid is too cute
Fat Kid
Gay Dance
my
husband found this
(yes, it's clean)
Men In
Coats Vidio
Tom
Cruise Is Nuts
John
Titor time
traveler
click on 'John's story'
left hand column
Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii
January 2006
short
version - 32 pix
long
version - 337 pix
my
Seattle Sep/2005
trip
my
Seattle June/2008
trip
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TRIBUTE
TO MY MOTHER
My Aunt Ruth's poem
If
Tomorrow Starts
Without Me
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