I got a pasta machine:)

Yippee!!! Way to go Candace!

Oh man, that is so COOL!

Cheri - jealous

So many things done in clay are SOOOO much easier with a pasta machine.. way to go. Diana

OOOH OOOOH, now you get to do Skinner blends!!!!

Would you use those to cover a Skinner box?

-Su

What, pray tell, is a skinner box? Diana

A piece of lab apparatus named after the behaviorologist B F Skinner. There's an urban legend that he raised his daughter in a box as an experiment, and from that mistaken concept came the phrase for people who aren't well-socialized that they'd been 'raised in a Skinner box'.

For an interesting read on Skinner, his daughter and the box try this:

OOOEEEOOO there sure is alot of serendipity and coincidence surrounding your PC beginings. It's meant to be you know! I can see you comming across a torch at a yard sale...

..Stephanie..

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. Anna Freud

I had a feeling it had to do with BF Skinner, but hadnt heard of that rumored box. The actual contraption he did build for his daughter sounds interesting, but weird. Thanks for the explanation. Diana

ohhh and then you can do those braided rainbow canes WITH the Skinner blends (is it obvious I need more sleep ?) I got my machine about a month ago and it's the best thing for working with clay.

Yep:) Can't wait to make Skinner canes!

No....and um...no. lol No babies inna box for me. (Yeah, I know, he didn't acutally keep his daughter in a box)

Oh I wish! LOL! Now that I think about it, things are sailing along swimmingly, aren't they?

I can't do them yet, I don't have a wavy blade:( Sleep? What's that?

how about improvising ? I don't have a wavy blade either so I used a paintbrush handle to indent the front and back (after seeing something similar in a book) then squared it all up again and cut slices off using fishing line. Sleep is what I get when Di and J haven't been corrupting me into new hobbies!

I'm good at improvisinig:) I'll figure something out when I go to try it. I too, have lost sleep over things that were pushed upon me to try (ahem, tri cuts, Jalynne?)

That is way cool! I love it when stuff happens like that.

DH had me cleaning in the garage on and off all day. Today was the first time he actually saw how sick I've been getting. Anyhow, we found some polymer and books for you.

Isn't it like a skinned beaver?

Maybe a skinnier beaver.. ..wait... nooooooo Starlia... we must not encourage Candace in this line of thought. Bad on us... Diana