2 unidentified postcards: maybe one is yours!  First one is all white yehliu geopark.  next one Russian steel plant. if yours, please contact me.  thank you.

where in the world is your Vagabond?

Jackson, South Carolina

I'm making Freeze 'n Frit glass powder objects, using some of the swirls and curvy lines of Sizzix die cutters. To make the frit molds i need to cut the craft foam. It’s too thick for regular paper punches. And the electric Sizzix Vagabond cutter works perfectly. I found the blog and contest while I was waiting for my Vagabond to arrive. It works perfectly. And after the black frit powder and green aventurine powder arrives, I will make swirls, stars and curves to go along with copper metal keys I’m cutting out of thin copper. I cut the copper by hand; I don’t want to dull my die cutters. I may try embossing the keys with the machine, using an embossing stencil. As it is I rub and buff the impression with a bone burnisher.

After the Frit freezes in the foam mold, I will take it out and quickly put them on my kiln shelf before they melt and then fuse them. It’s magic! The little bit of frozen water hold the molded frit together long enough to fuse the shape. Then I will put the glass and copper elements on my glass blank and fuse. The final step will be slumping the decorated glass blank into a mold. It will either be a functional bowl or an object to admire.

steampunk frog

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~ Dr. Seuss

Jefferson Davis's Boyhood Home

fish swimming in deep waters

Felipe the Goldfish got a deeper 30 g halfmoon tank today; now when he picks rocks off the bottom he doesnt stick out the top.    he's finally swimming in the middle.   we were beginnning to think he was never gonna get outta the bottom 10. 

66 year accumulation in Kansas

How does one go thru a 66 year accumulation?  slowly, particularly if its 94 to 106 degrees.  and not easily when one lived a thousand miles away.   My dad bought the farm in 1945 when he returned from WWII.  In a small suitcase in the attic we found his uniform.  He married in 1946, and  so started the acculumation of grain tickets, fertilizer bills, our spelling tests, christmas cards, etc.    In the mid or early 80's my mom started showing signs of alzhiemers.  and then things got more involved  and less tidy.  all in all. its complicated my life.  each time we're there we bring stuff back and it gets piled in my studio.  and now getting ready for the final load.   i wonder if i'll find my studio again.

location location location

 pix to follow...found fish parts i didnt fire last year.  blue and  green.

  and some boats to take up higher.

 hunting for my templates; know i must not have been the last one  to touch them or they'd be where i've looked.

 something good is going to come because of clean up time.

 11 days til latte time.    two free drink postcards are waiting.

Factoid:  in 1997 tiger woods won his first green jacket by 12 strokes.  april 13th 1997  FYI and mine its 4/13/2011 now in SC.