I've been making beads the last couple of days. It has been *ages* since I have been able to get to the torch. Both days my year old border collie, Grace, ended up laying under my work-table and twice I dropped hot glass on her! Yesterday it was a boro piece I was trying to repair and dropped a piece of it on her and today I was pulling a raku cane from frit and dropped a chunk of frit on her head. Poor Gracey! Thank goodness neither accident resulted in any pain for her. I am not entirely sure where the first piece landed but both times there was the scent of burnt fur and today I ended up digging the piece of frit out of it's little dog-fur nest on her head!
Thank goodness there were no yelps or even dirty looks. I guess there is something to be said for walking around in a fur coat full-time. I'll be encouraging her to use the doggy bed that is well away from the torch from now on.
If I have anything worth sharing in the kiln tomorrow morning I'll try to post pictures.
- Sandy