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someone close my mouth for me,
this pool
trick shot
left me speechless
360 degree panorama pix
Paris by
Night
Evolution
of Dance
amazing, note the language
fishy
card trick
Telemarketer
Nightmare
audio
Chris
Bliss
the Beatles juggler
The
Godfather: scammer upsets the Mafia
are you a Star Wars fan?
Emperor
Palpatine get a phone call from Vader
This has been around a while, I just found it again
How to
Fold a T-Shirt
David
Hasselhoff's
"Jump In
My Car"
German
Coast Guard
John Walshes
Family
Watchdog
find registered sex offenders near you
David
Hasselhoff is
hooked on
a
fealing
this
kid is too cute
Fat Kid
Gay Dance
my
husband found this
(yes, it's clean)
Men In
Coats Vidio
Tom
Cruise Is Nuts
John
Titor time
traveler
click on 'John's story'
left hand column
Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii
January 2006
short
version - 32 pix
long
version - 337 pix
my
Seattle Sep/2005
trip
my
Seattle June/2008
trip
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TRIBUTE
TO MY MOTHER
My Aunt Ruth's poem
If
Tomorrow Starts
Without Me
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6/24/09
Well, I think I'm finally out of the woods. "What do you mean?",
you may ask. Well, I've been sick this year, and thanks for
asking.. Since February or so, I've had a whole host of pain
problems, on a scale of 1-10, it was an 8 quite often. I know
I've been flaky in the past, but this brain fog I don't wish on anyone,
I would forget conversations and things I did that morning, along with
a host of other problems. Hindsight, it's been building for a
long time, though. After a couple of tangents and a specialist
that blew me off, I got my family dr to allow me to get my vitamin D
level back into normal range before doing a ct scan of my head (dread
to think what he would, or wouldn't, find in there, if you know what I
mean). Normal range for D is 30-60 ng/ml, mine tested at 25 and
both drs thought that wasn't significant. phhh Treatment is one
megadose pill a week for 8 weeks, I saw results in 24 hours. It's
been 10 days now, I'm still run down and have a ways to go, but I think
I'm going to ask for an honorary degree for finding the problem
myself. I'm hoping to get my bead career back on track, now that
the fatigue is going away and my focus is returning again, too.
(what were we just talking about???)
6/7/09
It's been a long time since I've posted a youtube video, and in honor
of Steve's birthday (that's my husband and his birthday was actually
yesterday) I'll post a link to one he sent me. I hate to say it,
but it's a bit apropos. Happy birthday Steve.
Ode to
Forgetfulness
6/4/09
Two new rollers, actually they are version #2 of a couple already in
the line. Chunky Oval's now have a slot for big hole mandrels,
and the big hole Garden Variety now has an smaller slot for regular
sized mandrels. Wow, can you believe 12 tools in the line already?
Check the catalog for details.
5/20/09
I have a very big and exciting announcement to make.
cg-beadrollers
now has a European distributor.
Christina
Stofmeel of Frit & Glas - located in The Netherlands
(there are flags on the
left side of
the page to choose a language)
Feng Frit
Factory on Etsy
FenG
Lampwork Beads on Etsy
FenGlicious'
photostream on flickr
It will take a bit for us
to get
squared away and get Christina up and
fully running, but for now, please visit her sites and oogle at her
beads.
5/12/09
Number Ten... Tube Trio / Frit Holder
The tutorial is now online for your convenience (link is on the left)
5/2/09
Number Nine, Number Nine.. Ok, I know I've aged myself with
that.. This is the ninth tool and has five smaller cavities with a
smaller mandrel
slot for making small holed beads.
4/30/09
I'm real excited to introduce the new handles for my line of lampwork
beadroller tools. When I first stared developing the line 3 month
ago, I was buying a generic handle and wanted something that had a
'wow' factor to it. I found it. My tool handles now have
flames. Took me over a month to procure them and it was worth
it. The latest in the line is the original on steroids, a chunky
oval trio. Check the "tools" catalog for the complete line.
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4/27/09
Ya, it must be spring, I'm taking pictures of flowers. This
is my first rose of the year. I cut them back quit a bit last
fall so they should be plentiful.
My new handle for the tools are on their way, I'm excited.
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4/11/09
Spring is popping
up here. We planted tomatoes early this year and had to cover
them 3 times for freezing nights. And on the health front, I'm on
my fourth different high blood pressure med in 9 months, this sucks
trying to
find the right one. Reminds me of my teen years when you had to
go through a lot of crappie boyfriends to find the one didn't make you
sick to your stomach.....
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4/7/09
A bird in the hand
is worth two in the bush. I have a literal
exception to that rule - not when the bird in the hand is the one you
just took away from your cat in the living room. It's spring and
that
means young birds that are not cat savvy yet. It's the first of
many
for the season, I'm sure. It sure was happy to fly away, I sure
was
happy I didn't break it's neck pounding on it, Weazel didn't care, he
can find more to bring in...
This picture is of a wild flower
growing in my side lawn. I wish I knew what it was, it comes up
every
year, only one plant so there's only one flower, but it's square...
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4/5/09
There are a few websites I enjoy check everyday, one is NASA's
'Astronomy Picture of The Day'. Today's was especially
cool. It's a one hour time laps of the sun. It takes a few
seconds to load, but it's so worth it. Orange
Sun Oozing
(fyi: I now stock 1/4" mandrels for big hole beads & 1/4" brass
tubing to line them with)
3/31/09
We've been busy around here - ordering stuff. Since I've designed
some of the new graphite beadrollers to accommodate a larger mandrel to
make pandora style beads with, I decided to expand and carry
complimentary "stuff". First there was the beadstand for large
hole beads, then came the plethora of requests for a small shaft to
hold regular holed focals. Gotcha covered. Now I've put in brass tubing for coring those
pandora sized beads. The 1/4" tubing for mandrels is on order,
with other sizes to follow later. Steve's been amazing at finding
this stuff for me. Have a look in the catalog.
03/26/09
Been lazy about showing off the newest tool. It's another pandora
style plus, this one shapes round beads. Actually I haven't been
lazy, I've been tired. I went to get a prescription fill a few
weeks ago and the manufacturer stopped making it so the pharmacist
called the dr to get a different script. When I went to pick it
up, they told me that instead of taking one pill a day, I would now be
taking half the amount twice a day. Some how I missed the part
where it was a completely different formula, too. Found that out
when I went back to the dr today. All better now, back to
business as usual.
03/9/09
I've had an interesting weekend. I'll back up to Thursday. Kara (DD)
flew in from Seattle to help me with a bead show. I've done art &
craft shows, but never a 'bead' show. To make a long story short, it
wasn't worth my time and if I do another one, I'll be a bit more
selective. The Bead Market is well advertised so the crowd was good, I
guess that's how she justifies the outrageous price of the booth, but
my sales weren't good enough for the time & effort I put into it.
Live and learn. At least I'll have a week with my daughter. In other
news: I've really been enjoying making the slider beads with my new
mold, for the Pandora/Troll bracelets and promise to get my catalog up
and going again. I've been putting a sterling silver core in them so
they can also be worn on a chain necklace or even a ribbon or leather
neck cord.
Here's a picture of my fourth tool, the letter opener & beadpen
mold.
02/15/09
We're up to three tools now, and expecting our fourth next week, and a
stand to hopefully follow soon after. I feel like an expectant
mother. This one will do barrel shapes. Two with a regular
hole size mandrel slot and two with a slot for a larger mandrel to do
Pandora Style beads with. What are Pandora beads you ask? Pandora
Charm Bracelets
02/07/09
Well, here's my second tool. Three ovals, next sizes up. I
even went and got some nice material for backdrops. The lady at
the fabric store asked me what I was up to and when I told her it was
for photo backdrops, she said her best friend was a photographer so she
helped me get the right stuff. Boy was she right. Got to
go, there's a James Bond merathon on one of the channels and it's been
a long three weeks getting the tools up and going, so I'm out of here.
01/31/09
Introducing
cg-beadrollers - mold on a stick.
All those wonderful ovals I make, bet you thought I hand formed
them. Well, my dirty little secret is out, I had a mold made last
year and now (finally) I've put it into production. If you're a
lampworker and would like to have one, they'll be in my catalog soon,
or just email me for now. It will also come with a tutorial on
how to make a perfect bead with a cavity mold. I already have in
mind to make the next
one, it will have the next two oval sizes up from this mold.
01/30/09
Two atoms are walking down the road and one exclaims,
"Oh my God, I
just lost an electron!"
The other one asks, "Are you sure?"
To which
the first replies, "I'm positive!"
I was exchanging website links with Alex (my sons girlfriend) one day
and she gave me a link to 1saleaday.com
Great, thanks Alex, just what I need, another sight with stuff I can't
live without, that uses 24 hour sale only impulse buying tactics. I'm
already hooked on Woot.com
At least "1saleaday" is different in the fact that it has fun and
useless information, like the joke at the beginning of this post. Ok,
I've wasted enough time today..
01/25/09
So, Steve's been telling me about this commercial and I finally got to
see it. I love this guy, and it's on YouTube so I can see it
anytime I
want to - Vince
with Slap Chop. I was always the kid who would watch the
commercials and walk off on the show. Give it to me short and sweet,
get your point across in two minutes or less or I'm out of here. Vince
with Slap Chop is the most entertaining commercial ever produced. Shamwow was ok, but
annoying as h*ll. Slap Chop is great, and that duel screen chopping
scene was hilarious, "you're gonna love my nut"??, and when he throws
the competitors product over
his shoulder and it lands in the sink, classic slapstick at it's best,
"taco's fettucini linguini
martini bikini", and of course, the line "call now, within the next 20
minutes, cause we can't do this all day". Vince is the best.....
01/24/09
Sometime opening the kiln in the morning just makes my day cause
everything turns out better than I imagined it would.
01/17/09
This is my "I'm so lazy" blog entry.
I don't know what it is about blogging, but sometime I just hate to
write. My last post was a couple of days before the anniversary
of moms passing, and the holidays were fine, getting better to handle,
end of story...
So many new things that I've tried the past few weeks. I've
finally started to use my big hole mandrels - 5/8" & 1/4" holes -
and have learned to core the 1/4" with sterling silver tubing to make
slider beads for the Pandora/Troll bracelets. I also took a
mandrel out of moth balls that makes a heart hole. I want to sell
them as toggles and am coordinating with Kara to have her make the
toggle bars out of silver. Then there's the thimble mandrels I
bought, those are too cool. Why the big jump in creativity? I signed up
for a bead show, no more art & craft shows, did several
last year and they just suck toooo much. I hate standing and
explaining to someone what lampwork is only to have them say "nice
bracelet" and walk off with that deer-in-the-headlights look. If
you're in Ft Worth March 7-8 I'll be at The Bead
Market show (don't forget my Etsy
store) and yah, Kara is going to come help me, excited about
that I am.
11/25/08
How
to Arrange 4 Cats -
The sequil - part one
Cats - squared. Maybe this is why one should pay attention in geometry
class, so one can arrange their cats.
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