OT Can we have a roll call.

Wow, Kathy. I'd looked at that Layne's Legacy site in past years, and didn't realize you were a part of that! Very cool. I remember admiring the work there many times!

Nice to meet you and your wife, Carl!

I am totally in awe of your quilts! Wow! What beautiful work! That's something I would like to try if I had more hours in the day, or if I ever give up beading and glass!

I've done some fusing, but not recently. Another thing I need to get back to. It is a lot of fun.

Your wire wrapping looks very nice. I've taken several classes at the Wm. Holland school, and plan to go up there again this summer.

Hi gang,

I had to write when I heard about Patti. Got Google working. So then I needed to respond here too.

I'm Tina, living in my log cabin in Alaska with my husband and his Queensland heeler (crazy ankle biting bitch). Pete does massage, Reiki, shamanism, etc and also cots trees and has fibromyalgia. I am a happy person with organic Depression (my brain gets too full too fast). I'm a recovering alcoholic (18 years) who thinks most drugs should be decriminalized if not legal and taxed. I'm involved in a new engine that weighs about 50 lbs for 200+ hp. I'm a pacifist who eats Rudolph and Bullwinkle (no Bambis up here). I'm a crafter with almost sub-normal manual and digital dexterity. And I've been around here for at least 10 years (until my computer crashed last fall). Oh yes, and I love OT posts.

I do quite a bit of stringing. My favourite bead weaving stitch is peyote. I crochet very durable beaded purses. Made jewelry for my daughter's wedding last Sept. I love the silver spoon I got from Shirley.

Pete tells me it's supposed to get down to -30F again tomorrow night. Last month we had 3 weeks of minus 35 to minus 55. And then the temp went from 45 below to 48 above in about a week. That's the same temperature difference at going from 20 degrees to 110 degrees in a week. We had to bring all our frozen foods in from our outdoor freezer (the wooden box on the porch) to the electric freezer in the garage.

Interesting comments here about Face Book. I've never even looked at it.

Isn't it cool that there is such a variety among us in our craft/bead/ jewelry projects.

Thanks for this post.

Tina

glad to see you're back!

(been using Google for years. Took some getting used to as well.)

Aloha, Maren HiloBeads: Beads - Beading Supplies - Hand-made Jewelry

Yeah, I'm not at all fond of Google. Partly because I have to sign Pete out of Yahoo to use it, and it's his computer I'm using.

Got to get me a new computer. But there's no use in getting one unless it will do all I need. I want a lap top with CD RW and with ethernet. Or whatever it's called that will allow me to travel with it and connect without wires. And I want it to be able to beam over to a TV screen, since we may have to get TV over the internet when they close down analogue TV.

It really irritates me that analogue is being shut down. Those of us who live where reception is poor can currently tweak the signal to at least be able to get a poor signal. It's bad enough that everyone will now have to pay for cable, but for people like me who have to cable service available worse. I think it's un-American to block public broadcasts by going exclusively digital.

(Boy, what a bitchy post!)

Tina

Hi Jerri,

This is the first year I've participated in the Layne's Legacy project. I stumbled onto the site while looking for info on the bead quilt squares. When I needed some inspiration a couple months later, I ordered the bead kit. Then it sat for a bit while I thought about what I could do with those colors ... and it just all fell together. I'm really looking forward to the surprise of the colors / beads in this year's kit, and hoping it's something I can use some new skills to put together. The bead kits go on sale to new participants on February 16.

Hi Shirley,

I'd love to hear more about your time in Malta, if you wanted to share. I've hope to visit there some day, and have several friends who have done so. We have a pharaoh hound, which is actually a breed from Malta -- Maltese rabbit hounds or Kelb tal-Fenek, the national Hound of Malta. As soon as I get my bead loom constructed, I'm going to attempt a loomed pharaoh hound portrait.

I'm looking forward to pictures of your new and improved, easy-care garden. I'm in the midst of converting parts of our yard / garden to areas requiring less maintenance. Still trying to convince dh that we don't need ANY lawn, and that gravel or stepping stone paths through native, asian or meditarranean vegetation would be best -- little or no watering, and no weeding!!

We've had many flocks of robins visiting our yard recently; they seem to take turns with the chickadees and grosbeaks. I think of you when I see the robins. Hope you can entice another to spend time with you.

Tina, my son and I completely agree with your thoughts on the TV change ... we've decided it's a plot by government, cable and television companies to make some money (economic stimulus??). We've never paid for cable, and I really don't want to start now. But I also would like to be able to continue watching the local stations, and PBS. Fortunately, we had to purchase a new TV set two years ago, so we do have a digital TV now, but still had to purchase a new VCR and new antenna in order to record and adequately access the digital channels.

I must say, though, that I'm enjoying seeing clear digital pictures instead of the snowy or shadowy pictures we often had to watch before. Hope you're able to work through this without too much fuss.

Can you not just open a second tab in your browser?

Not sure you can beam it, but we have a TV now (our old one broke) that you can connect to a computer as if it were a monitor.

Being in an area that's so hampered by terrain that I just barely have cell phone reception at home (3 miles from the tower) or at work (under 2 miles from the tower - it works fine on the other side of the building, but if I have it in my pocket in my office I have no signal, looks like the ridge gets into the line of sight), and where people are rather spread out, a lot of people don't get cable and satellite is marginal (low elevation, and when the weather is bad there's a lot of attenuation), losing the analog signal for those people here really sucks as well.

(OK, admitting, I missed that part of you too).

Aloha, Maren HiloBeads: Beads - Beading Supplies - Hand-made Jewelry

It is really a long story. DH and I were engaged to be married and we were going to get married on his next long leave at Christmas. He knew he would be away for about 18 months. That was 1954. He was in the Royal Navy. However he rang me were I worked and said that he had to go in the next

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I'm here! Sorry I'm late - seems to be my MO lately.

Sterling is my name and Sterling is my game. I'm a stringer, but not a weaver. I don't use those teeny tiny seed beads cause they're just too small. A person could go blind using those! I like to use gem stone beads, sterling silver, and pearls. Trying to make the ordinary look extraordinary. *lol*

I don't chat much here in RCB, cause frankly - I'm a cynic, and most people don't want to hear the ramblings of a cynic.... so I keep my fingers away from the keyboard and to myself and I lurk most times that I am able to check out the RCB. I am a busy person, as are most of us beaders. My husband has his own construction business and I do his books. UUGH!! What a thankless job. I'd rather be beading!! I also work full time as an Insurance Specialist at a large Orthopaedic surgical practice. Another thankless job!! *lol* Again, I'd rather be beading!! We are also in the throws of remodeling our house. Yeah, you read right.... not just a room but the whole freakin house. I am also trying to find time to put together my web site but you all know how that is... not enough time in the day to do the things you wanna do. Anyway, that's me and I am waving to ya from the back of the room. Just don't make me stand up and give a speech cause I suck at public speaking. I'd rather be beading!! *grin*

Sterling

Armand And Kerry are still here though not as often.

Heather from Victoria, Australia here.

I pop in here from time to time to see what's going on. I've made hardly any jewellery since I stopped selling it but I did buy quite a few flameworked beads last year (not Chinese) and do intend to start making stuff again soon.

I did make a pendand for a friend's Christmas gift using one of the flamworked beads I bought. She seemed to like it a lot but then it was a beautiful bead so what was there not to love, particularly since it was in her favourite colours. Of course I didn't get around to photographing it. That is a habit I must break.

Good luck with the robins.

You know, we always love to have a man show up here in the group. There's usually a different perspective. So how do you have the time to do all these crafts? Are you retired or just lucky? This is a great place for information. Not as busy as it used to be, unfortunately. But people here are still willing to share and teach.

But Las Vegas? That place spooks me. Fairbanks is a desert too, so who am I to talk!

Tina

I expect us to have fewer fuzzy pictures. Which is to say, fewer stations that will come in at all. We have no "line of sight" broadcast points at all. And no cable lines at all. Even when we pay for those cable/satellite services we get poor pictures -- no line of sight to those either in this location.

Of course, watching TV isn't such an interesting thing most of the time anyway. I can't stand talking heads or sit-coms.

Tina

Yeah, we don't get cell phone service at home either. But some other folks do. But I hate to change carriers, and phone numbers.

Tina

PS I'll remember to send some bitchy posts for you!! :-)

Hey Sterling,

If Maren can like my bitchy posts, we can also like your cynical ones. Actually, I miss all the "personalities" from back when I first started here. I think we are poorer for the discouragement of OT posts.

Glad to see you.

Tina

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Ahha! We have a Heather in Canada AND a Heather in Oz.

I made a whole pile of jewelry for "grandchildren" while I was visiting my mother in Calif in Dec. That includes my sisters' granddaughters, and also a keyring for a grand-nephew. I brought along stuff I didn't want t use for the good stuff, and then gave my granddaughter whatever I had left for her to bring to Brownies (or its current equivalent). Got rid of magnetic clasps too, since they work very well for kids but have some problems for pacemakers, computers and other things. It was a fun change. Though I made a little good stuff too.

Unfortunately my camera also crashed!! Next month things will be better.

Tina