I've drunk the cool-aide big time ;)

Hi Pam and welcome to the nut house! ;-)

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Welcome Pam and I felt the same way when I delurked.

Sounds like you are going to be having so much fun in the near future. The funny thing about my home is that my husband has one bedroom in the house, I have one to myself, and then we share the master bedroom. I have full use of the garage because I'm the one who uses all the tools. He works on some things, but I'd kill him if he touched my tools and he knows it. We have two separate tool boxes that are clearly marked. He isn't even allowed to look at my dremel tool. I told him I'd buy him one, but he would never use it. He just covets mine.

The bedroom thing has worked out well. His bedroom is the office and a place for all his hunting junk. He has it decorated the way he wants it and that's fine with me. My bedroom is traditional. It serves as an extra guest room, but I use it to nap in and just to relax in. It's my little haven.

Thanks for the welcomes everyone :) And Starlia, you are right, maybe I need to offer him some house space if I want garage space - though he is very generous and would let me use any of his tools even though mine are off limits to him - we have separate tool boxes too - but that was his idea because I kept stealing his tools and not returning them in a timely enough manner. Ah... relationships... that's a whole 'nuther topic, hu?

:) Pam

Author of "Sometimes A Great Notion", "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", and ... wait for it ... "The Electric Acid Kool-Aide Acid Test". Hence the connection between Kesey and Kool-Aide.

Deirdre (def> as if I knew who Ken Kesey was ;-)

Actually, Tom Wolfe wrote "The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test" about Ken Kesey, the Merry Pranksters and the early years of the Grateful Dead.

You are right, and I already corrected myself. I knew there was a link between Wolfe and Kesey and the Acid Test... I just reversed its direction. The context is right, but the facts are wrong. It is something I do a fair bit ... so much that I have a phrase for it. I tell myself "You're 'blending' again!"

Deirdre

And if Pam wanted a phrase from it to use that works for her situation, she could say she's "ON THE BUS!" ('Cuz you're either on the bus or you're off the bus.)

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And a very good read it was. Barbara Dream Master

"We've got two lives, one we're given, the other one we make." Mary Chapin Carpenter

The first story gave a total of about 200 dead. Then the number jumped, and they said it was because the bodies were piled one on top of the other, so they didn't see them all. Somehow they didn't notice that the bodies were 3 ft. tall, laying down...... Plus the attack on the visiting congressional people...all those 900 people drank cool aid laced with arsenic (which causes a painful, contorted death),then quietly died laying peacefully, side-by-side. Something smells rotten, and it isn't from the jungle heat....... Barbara Dream Master

"We've got two lives, one we're given, the other one we make." Mary Chapin Carpenter

Why in the world would you want to introduce yourself with a reference to a pschotic mass murderer of children and others? Creepy.

Tina

Another one Bites the Dust!

you HAVE been assimilated...

ROTFL Cheryl of DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass

Hey, we're all sick here. We embrace it! :)

Ok, it's not creepy. Or it is creepy, but I'm not. Really. Husband works for Microsoft, when he first started all his anti-microsoft friends said he'd gone to the dark side - that he'd drunk the cool-aid - it's just an expression that is said ALL THE TIME around here. So when I asked him if it was a reference to Ken Kesey, he said no... it's Jim Jones.... well, who is Jim Jones then? Then the story and link. Yes, if I'd known, I certainly would have used a different subject line.

Well, I certainly think you sound fun rather than creepy. But the reference did upset me, and I was too tired to be more diplomatic.

All those wonderful plans and classes, etc. Sounds great. I took silversmithing, unsuccessfully, but still learned so much that it was well worthwhile. Whether for class or for your own reference, you'll probably want to get Tim Mc Creight's The Complete Metalsmith. Having poor dexterity, I am doing some work with PMC instead.

A bunch of us will be going to BABE bead show in Oakland in Nov. I might do a project with Sooz and whoever at that time. Might you be down for that?

Peyote is my favorite bead stitch. Now I'm doing some stringing which is kind of new for me. I haven't done any wire wrapping, but I like making wire loops, connectors, clasps, etc. I also like using lampwork, but with the dexterity thing, I don't expect to be doing lampwork.

Welcome to our wonderful, wacky world.

Tina

Thanks Tina, I will check the book out. I'm very interested in attending some Bead Shows soon. There is one coming to Seattle in December, but I do have a girlfriend I'd like to visit in the Bay area, so maybe BABE would work out as a little mini-vacation. I'm really looking forward to shopping for beads without my almost-3 year old tugging on my leg - I made a $40 mistake buying some freshwater pearls that way and I'm so mad about it.... should have just put them back and gone back later without him... then I would have seen just how flat they were on one side.... but I'll think of something to do with them. I guess I could treat them like cabs or something - but I'm not loving the whole cab look - just not my thing I don't think.

My "specialty" so far is tubular peyote necklaces - they take me forever but everyone loves them. I'm trying to figure out some variations on the theme... so far the shape, texture and color of the beads is what I'm loving about them, but I know I'll get bored if I don't find a way to spice them up a little. Just a little, though, I'm really into simple things.

There is a necklace/bracelet in the new Bead and Button I want to try out after I finish the peyote necklace I'm making now - it's got a twisted spiral center with lots of little vines coming off of it - I'm thinking the possibilities for variations on that are endless. It reminds me of a bracelet I saw at Glass Cat bead shop in New Hampshire this summer - it was all spiky with glass dagger beads - but I don't know how to make it yet - it may have been crochet and I haven't figured that out yet - I think I just need someone to show me what to do after the first row, and then I'll be off and running.

I'm having fun with the wire - making connectors and such too, but still learning about wrapping stones. I have some ideas, but they haven't come out exactly right yet. I just bought some beautiful glass beads from Wired Woman Designs

Carol in SLC New JustBeads auctions:

What page is the necklace in the new Bead and Button on?

Tina