It's been so hot and humid here that my primary activity has been attempting to breathe. That's the ONE thing I miss about the apartment: Air Conditioning.
Macy, our new puppy (six months old) is doing great! She's very well housebroken, and she has had zero accidents. I'm discovering she kind of has a *thing* about chewing, but she gnaws on the strangest stuff: Empty Irish Spring box, bobbin of Nymo, tea candle. She's not destructive, by any means. I think it's just a puppy thing. I still haven't taken any good pix of her, but I did snap one grainy icky image the other day that I put here:
My spool beads are turning out WAY cool! I started with the wooden spools, which I stained a medium oak. After a half dozen of those, I started doing the same thing with some tiny sterling spools. OHMY. They are delicious! I couldn't do flat odd count peyote (the spool was only three Delicas wide) so I did square stitch around them. I love, LOVE them!
I've been spending time putting auctions up, and I gotta tell ya... I wish I enjoyed selling as much as I enjoy melting stuff. LOL! On a good day, I get about ten beads done. Of course, I don't torch every day. I WOULD, but I have to take time from the torch for selling, shipping, photographing... It's very frustrating, and I've not yet found a solution. I'm thinking about offering more groupings... like "grab bags"... at very excellent prices. Thoughts about this? I'm thinking about five beads in a grab bag for $20. Focals, of course. Not "seconds". No pics.
I've had some computer issues lately. Well, email issues to be precise. I think I screwed up my email filters. So if you've emailed me and haven't received a response, please try again. If it's about my lampwork, please email me at snipped-for-privacy@blackswampglassworks.com --- I use that for "work" related mail only. My buckeye-express account gets hundreds of emails a day, and sometimes I miss something important.
Anyone waiting for beads, my printer broke and I had to get another. Which I did yesterday. So now I can get remaining packages ready to go. I also splurged and got myself a wireless router and card for my laptop. Now I can handle all my business stuff in my second floor workroom! Yay! I was spending too much time going from basement to second floor when getting things ready for shipping. And with the heat and humidity lately, I simply couldn't do it.
Ok. I think that's about it. Back to work for me :-) Tink out.