It seems I have crafting ADD – there are so many things I want to work on or try, that I work for so long on something, lose focus, and move on to something else. I’ve moved from polymer clay, to making hairbows, to picking up some new watercolor paper blocks and even some nice [...]
Last week after reading how artificial sweeteners like Splenda and Aspartame could potentially goof around with one’s triglyceride and blood sugar levels, I decided to give up diet sodas. The week before, my gynecologist ordered cholesterol and other similar blood tests for me as I’d never had them done before, and while everything else was [...]
So today was “bring your child to work day” at work, and I brought my four year old daughter with me. We had fun, and she got to play with one of her friends that she met at a coworker’s daughter’s birthday party. Anyway, after the morning’s events, everyone went to a pizza place down [...]
I have to give huge kudos to a handful of my coworkers. When we started our project I think we had well over 2300 tasks to tackle. As of when I logged out of my work computer this evening, there were less than 1000 tasks left. I will be glad when this is over, I’ve [...]
Relatively speaking. Kind of. This pertains to my full time day job. Short story, we’re salaried. As thus, if our company wanted to make us work 16 hour days with no compensation other than our regular pay and a clap on the back, they could. The edict is to do “this task” by “this date”. [...]
So I baked the Santa, Snowmen and Angel beads I made over the past week, yesterday. Here they are all together: I forgot to put halos on the angels, and I’m debating whether to add them since their flesh color already seems to have darkened just from the 30 minutes they spent in the oven [...]
I tend to flit back and forth between projects. So I started painting the picture of my daughter, got as far as getting a little of the undertones of her skin in place, and then set it aside in favor of working with my polymer clays again. Hobby Lobby is opening stores in town, and [...]
Based on one of my previous posts where I said I was going to start back into drawing and watercolors.. well, here is my first project: On an artists’ forum I recently joined, it was suggested in a class that was done back in 2006, to try overlaying a the reference photograph and the sketch [...]
I figured I’d reorganize the blog space a bit, I moved one of the columns over to the left side, and then added a “handmade holiday” badge over on the right. I would like to try to buy handmade stuff again this year, as I tried to do two years ago. Not quite sure what [...]
