I have been keeping myself busy these past three weeks – It’s almost crazy! Believe me, I am not going to complain – not one little bit.
I want to thank all of you who tried to help me figure out what kind of Rock it was…. I believe it may not be a rock at all, but a piece of glass that has been poured to look like a rock. Funny if you think about it, but still the same, I like it and I am keeping it. So thank you all for trying to help me decide what it was! That was a lot of fun reading the comments here and on flicker.
Here are some of the cute little mice I had made up for one of my customers…. She and another designer are doing a line for 3 Blind mice. That was a hoot trying to figure out how to make the mice seem blind!
Then another customer need a few beads – like 200 of the first five strands of beads!! Yes, that was a lot of cane work and a lot of beads to roll out!
and last, but not least I also need to get a few sets of Flowers and matching spacer beads and matching Buds off:
It’s been fun! and it’s been busy!! I have flowers in shades of Red to finish up, plus working on some flowers in shades of white, and a dark pink/mauve color… they are turning out so very pretty! I can not wait to get them finished.
With doing all of these beads, I have learned so much!! I have NEVER wrote out recipes for my clay… now I am wishing I had! I was not even half way through an order and ran out of a color! I was STRESSED to say the least! I just reasured myself that changing one color for the set will not upset the whole set of beads – they are still going to match because the beads will still have the same colors, but I assure you, that was a turning point for me! And a little friend of mine gently reminded me to do the same, (thanks Leah!! I don’t know what I would have done with out you my dear sweet sister!!)
I also have learned to make bigger canes…. give me a lot more respect for those MONSTER canes you see on video and that you see Jana, and Cat working with! All I can say is WOW girls – I don’t know how you do what you do without distorting more of the cane! If I could I would just hug you and tell you, ” JOB WELL DONE! “ I do now, have a greater understanding and a little bit more knowledge, but then again, my “big cane” is not even a 1/3 of how big their Monsters are, so my knowledge is only a fraction of theirs… PC, it’s such a wonderful medium to work with – always learning something new!
Well, I am off to make some more flowers!
Happy Claying!! :0)
