Ugh...From Virus to Virus

Well, I seem to have gotten over my cold, but now my computer is sick. I've no idea how this happened, because I am an extremely cautious computer user...but what my poor laptop has is devastating and it looks like it will require a complete wipe to fix it. I am writing now from our old (olddd) laptop, but this is not where I do any of my work...in fact, the memory is so low on this laptop it isn't even an option for handling it all.

S0 for now this project is all-encompassing...no beads getting made while I figure out what to do (and begin the process of backing up everything so I can transfer it again after the wipe).

Add to that the fall break from preschool for the next two days, and I probably won't have any new beads until the weekend, at least! I am about to cry!

Auction and a Birthday

Here is the set I just listed on eBay tonight, ending Monday evening. I love these beads, and especially because I worked with Double Helix's Olympia Rain, the first time I've used any DH glass. I am only like 4 years behind the curve, but at least I have a good excuse. I actually ordered the glass (which is obscenely expensive) three years ago, thinking once we bought our house and got out of the corporate apartment, I would be making beads straight away. And then John was born! Anyway, it is a dreamy glass to work with, it flows so differently than Effetre.


Tom and I are taking a quick excursion to the mountains to celebrate my birthday. I think it will be only our second trip without kids and we are both looking forward to it.

Finally!

Feeling better, good enough for beads! Update later today...

Still Sickly

Ugh...no new beads. Hopefully tomorrow. The whole house has been sick now, so hopefully we've turned the corner, but not yet enough energy to get out to the studio.

Puniness

Is that a word? Puniness? The state of feeling puny? Anyway, that's where things stand right now...starting with Sam on Sunday (turned out to be double ear infections), and a little something running through John and me - until yesterday afternoon when it hit me full-on. Sore throat and head congestion mostly, but I'm a bit doped up on Nyquil so it's hard to tell.

I listed a new auction on Monday so I'm a bit late in posting it here, but it runs through tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon:


The crud has slowed my work considerably so I'm not sure when my next auction will be. I do have some new focals on Etsy!

Soap Boats and a New Auction

One thing I remember from my early childhood is "soap boats" - which seems to be a phenomenon in my family (poor Tom had never heard of such a thing). It's when you lather up the hair really well, take the lather into your hands, and then set it afloat in the tub. John LOVES soap boats and asks for them at every bath. I hope he remembers them fondly when he's older.

Tom, of course, teaches them other equally amazing bath tricks such as "soap beards." At first John would stick his whole face into the suds, coming up with lather all over his face. Now he has learned to strategically place the suds onto his face - and he insists that you do the same, otherwise he will apply the suds to your face himself. So bathtime has continued to be a very wet, soapy affair.

In other news, here's a new auction. I haven't been this excited about a new design in a while, and I plan to play around with other colors in the future...

Hello Nose...Meet Bead

Friday night, if all goes well during the week (meaning Sam finishes his work and stays "in the green" at school, and John stays off the naughty chair at school) is "watch-TV-in-Mommy's-and-Daddy's-before-bed" night.

So all went well this week! Yay!

(Before I go further let me remind you that John LOVES beads. I let him carry them around, usually one of my larger single color beads. But last night I gave him a small Czech pressed glass disk because he keeps hiding the spacers, and they are expensive!)

Do you see where this is going?

I put them in our bed around 7:45 and went to their rooms to get their pajamas. I came back to our room and sat on the bed, and this conversation ensued.

John: Mommy, bead!
Me: Yes, John, where's your bead?
John: (points to nose)
Me: It's probably in the bed somewhere. Did you drop it?
John: (scrunches up nose and sniffs/blows)
John: Mommy, bead! (points to nose again)
Me: Did you put the bead in your nose???!!!
John: Uh-huh!!!
Me: Oh no, John, did you really? Is it really up your nose?
John: Uh-huh!!!

So immediately visions of spending all night in the ER on a Friday night, just to get this thing extracted, start dancing in my head. I tried to feel it but couldn't...I tried to see it but couldn't...

I took him downstairs to Tom, who was sitting on the couch watching TV. Told him what happened. I laid John back on his back under the lamp and went to get a flashlight. Finally, with a little manuevering of the nose, I could see the slightest edge of the bead...wayyyyy up in there. Tom immediately picked him up and said, "Okay, I'll take him."

Never one to let someone else do what I can do myself, I asked him to wait while I got the tweezers. It was worth a shot.

As I came back downstairs with the tweezers, I heard Tom say, "Yeah, that's it! Woo-hoo!"


Tom had held one nostril shut and told John to "blow hard" and THANK GOODNESS that bead flew right out. Whew and Yay Tom!

New Auction

Auctioning my bead bowl. These are extras, experiments and mini-sets.