Wee small hours

Yet again my sleep pattern is all out of sync, with the rest of the world but not to worry.

The last two days has seen the piece of wood for the mantelpiece taking shape. It's been cut to size and sanded down by my daughter, then yesterday afternoon I sat and gave it three coats of wax. It turned out even better than I hoped, so later today it will hopefully be finding its way to it's new home. My daughter also sanded down an old pine tool box which she has utilised for her tattooing stuff, that came up beautifully too.

The other piece of wood I bought was delivered and seems even bigger now it's here !! This wood is elder, and it'll be even more interesting to see the grain in this appear as it's been stood outside for quite a long time so is looking very weathered. That might have to wait for a few days though, as we have to sand outside and I don't want to annoy the neighbours too much so early on in my tenancy lol.

The house is slowly but surely starting to come together. The front room is almost presentable now, the kitchen just about passable and my bedroom is looking better than it did, but far from finished. So all in all I'm pretty pleased with the progress so far.

I was texting with my friend Ray who lives on a narrow boat yesterday, and he's planning on being around the Birmingham area from next week up until Xmas. So hopefully there's a good chance we'll be able to hook up at long last. We've been trying to met up for over a year now, but are never in the same place at the same time lol. The only problem is, now that I seem to be getting arthritis in my hand I'm not too sure whether I'll be able to manage to hold the tools to learn to make glass beads now. Time will tell I'm sure.

Back to work

Now the excitement of my friend Sharrons visit has subsided, it's back to work again. I spent yesterday finishing off the latest mosaic mirror, so once the groutings done, I'll put a photo on here. My daughter has also been busy and has completed a 2nd creation, this one has got a clock in it , so not only is it beautiful, it's functional too. Once the mirror is completed, I need to get on and do some stained glass angels as the gallery where they are exhibited has run out, also I shall be doing some more of the colourful suncatchers too. Although I hate doing the angels as they are so small, they quickly heat up when I solder them and that results in me getting burnt many times, they are good sellers, so....

Yesterday my friend Ray sent me a couple of photo's of his shop/workshop now it's finished. The 10ft extension on his narrowboat has certainly paid off. Hopefully I'll be catching up with Ray within the next couple of weeks, to learn the art of bead making as he's is going to be close enough for me to go and visit him. Also in the photo's is Bob his little dog enjoying the spring sunshine.