Beading and photos

I've been beading a bit again. I was looking at the messy shelves in the kitchen and found this bracelet I'd started. 

I've been trying out a camera app that can give really great results. Here are some shots I've take with it. 

I've stopped dying my hair and noticed how old I could look the other day when A was FaceTiming C!

Here's William looking good. 

This photo is taken with the app and I love the way it looks. 

Happy New Year

I'm currently sitting with William part laying on me because he wouldn't settle with all the firework bangs.

We had a good day swimming then lunch at McDonalds. Played a bit of Monopoly. Watched a film called 'Fluke'. P and A didn't manage to stay awake till midnight. Hopefully you two will sleep in a bit tomorrow. I'm going to be very tired.

Right, it's gone quiet firework wise. I'm sure no one would start with them now so I'll try going to bed again. He's very settled though and a bit cute. Earlier he panted and barked a little and generally didn't know what to do with himself when I tried to go to bed.

Goodnight.
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Hi

P, I am in bed and you are downstairs with Dad and D watching Liverpool play. It's almost ten at night. You seem very grown up at times recently.

Today we saw Cinderella.



I loved looking over and seeing you both smiling while you were watching it.

William came too and was very good. We had lunch and met the cast who were lovely to us. This year we even got lollies at half time which was very kind.

Dad and I are loving that now D is older we can walk William together sometimes. It's so lovely for us to get out together. We chat about all sorts of things while we are walking.

Love
Mum
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More progress

It's gone well so far. I have two bags of clothes for charity and my wardrobe currently looks like this.




There's an awful lot of stuff on these shelves though



And I'm not great at getting rid of things.

Ohh well. I'd better plough on.

He's still here cheering me on




Xx

Progress

It's empty




But this is the pile I need to sort out.


These are the shelves.



He's still here






Sally
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Lampwork beads - encasing

Just found this in my drafts. I need to get cracking so will just post it rather than checking what I've babbled about.

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Hello Everyone

I made these beads a little while ago and haven't got around to showing you them yet.

I read Corina's words on encasing in Passing the Flame. I definately improved thanks to her words of wisdom. I also took the opportunity to practice a bit more stringer work:


I made one transparent amethyst bead. Can't remember why:


I had another go at one of these. Corina talks about encasing without distorting the design underneath. I've not mastered that skill yet as you can see from this bead:


More stringer practice and trying out a colour combination that Corina talks about in Passing the Flame:


A very complex cane I made up. Complex because there were a lot of colours that included some goldstone stringer. I quite like these colours but would have liked more depth. I think there should have been more transparent colours and I really do need to write my colours down:


These are just some beads I made from twisties. They are small ones:


Another complex cane that I like very much. The encasing is ok here. It's very even but I would have liked to have kept the wrapped rounds more in tact. They got a bit squashed as I added the encasing:





I was practicing encased dots. They are as hard as Corina says:


That colour combination again:


I was trying to copy some beads Corina has in Passing the Flame. They are white and clear and look great. I did ok with these but they need a dark background:





More encasing and stringer practice:





I've now properly run out of bead release. I've been eking it out for ages and have come to the bottom of the pot. It's not a good time for me to be spending on anything other than the essentials due to some expensive dental work I need.

Hopefully I'll get some soon though do I can crack on with my lessons. Although it's a tad hot at the moment to sit with a kiln and a blow torch!

A Challenge

Hi

I know it's been ages. Today I want to achieve something other than my usual pottering and I thought that if I told you about it I wouldn't feel so daunted. Who knows how far I'll get but I want to try. I have until 2:30 so let's do this.

I want to clear the bottom part of this:




That's my wardrobe. Bit messy. My plan is to clear the bottom half so that I can fit my craft stuff in and get rid of the shelves downstairs. It's a big job and I'm stalling the start of it.

Stage one is to get everything out and be selective in what I put back so that hopefully I only need the top space.

This guy is rooting for me



In his own way.

Sally
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