Dragonsglass

Been a few weeks since I posted anything. I suppose laziness can account for some of it but I have actually been doing things. Creating in polymer clay and the kitchen. I believe the last things I posted were the Channukiots I made and the *eye* pods. Well the ducks have been a hit to say the least, with other folks since the chnnukiah recipient doesn’t have hers yet.

When I was showing the ducks to Moe, she immediately decided she needed five of them. Not only that, she decided that each one had to be different and specified what she wanted. She wanted a baby duck, professor, judge, hairdresser and piano tuner/runner. Hey…who am I to argue with Moe? So, I made her some duckies. They flew all the way to Hawaii all by themselves. I am so proud of them.

After I finished with Moe’s ducks I let the inner child come out and play with some left over clay. Lord, I should know better then to do that. But, I love these little critters and believe it or not one actually found a new home at the Interfaith craft fair I participated in last weekend. I call them B-Ogres.

Once the the craft fair was over it was time to start doing my Suzy Homemaker imitation. I blame this all on Lisa Clarke of Polka Dot Creations. She is always posting in her blog about the neat sewing creations she has made, or the wonderful things she has made in kitchen. Not to mention she is always posting droolable recipes. In out back yard we have several different fruit trees. We have fig, pink grapefruit, lemon, quince, pomegranate, a small peach tree and a madarin orange tree. This year the quince and pomegranate trees produced an over abundance of fruit so I decided it was time to make jellies. It took three days to pick fruit and make the jelly. (ok…I did take a few breaks to play with clay) After all was said and done I have 12 pints of pom jelly and 12 pts of quince jelly. The quince tree doesn’t even look like I picked any fruit. I put the jelly up in 1/2 pint jars so there is a ton of it!

Look at is shine in the sunshine. Yummers!

Now that the jelly is done it is time to finish Miss Munchies new shirt for the colder days. It is made out of the ribbed long underwear type material with paw prints all over it. yep…sickening cute it is and will be even more so when she is wearing it. I cut it all out last night and as soon as I am done with this post I am off to the sewing machine to put it all together!

And, because I don’t want anyone to think I have forgotten how to make pretties, here are 4 focals I made using Julie Picarello’s Mokume Gane technique that she shared at Sandy Camp. I still need to add a few parts to a couple of them and then they all need to be made into pendants, but I sure am happy with how they turned out so far. I forgot to add a penny to the picture to show size but they are all about 1 1/2″ tall (give or take). A bit of a change from my normal color palette but dang I sure love them. They will either head to Hawaii to Moe and her next craft fair or end up in my web store. I have a whole bunch more slices waiting to be made into new creations. Without further ado….the pretties.

And now some other type of news. On Friday I am having wrist surgery. Nothing totally serious, just the removal of a ganglion cyst in the tendon sheath that attaches to my thumb. Needless to say I haven’t been able to cane because of the pain the it makes the cyst grow. I am going to take a wild guess that my non-stop big cane making and reducing was the instigator of the cyst. It wil be done under a local (with lots of happy juice for me) and should only take half an hour. But…until he opens it up he won’t promise that. I will be in a bulky splint with my hand cocked back for 5 days. Needless to say that will make claying pretty darn impossible. So, I have books to read, and creating Zentangles. I am hoping I will be able to still surf and do a wee bit of typing until I get the splint off. Once that is gone the doc wants me to start pt at home using clay. Gosh…what a hardship that will be Thanks for stopping by!