Crafting again

After feeling pretty sad for the last few days, I forced myself to start doing the other Dr Marten boot yesterday. To my surprise it's come on really well, despite the fact I haven't enjoyed doing it, but I think that's probably down to me feeling low rather than anything else. This time I've used different sized pieces of glass and mirror to give it a different look to the first one. Today all being well, I'll be doing the beading round the edges of it. Last time I used tiny seed beads this time I think I'll try slightly bigger ones.

When I was way visiting my daughter, I woke up one morning with a very painful shoulder blade. I thought I'd just sat in a draft or something, but 5 days on it's still really painful. Typing seems to aggrevate it, so I've kept this to a mimimum as much as possible, but it doesn't seem to be helping. I think I'll have to make a quick trip to the doctors if it isn't any better by Monday :o(

Once I've finished the boot, I'll be finishing off some dichroic glass pendants I've made, at a very reasonable price. These pendants come complete with a 16" chain and in a gift box. I'll be putting these for sale on here, at a ridiculous £10 plus £1 P/P.

Felt and Glass

I've spent the last couple of days alternating between doing the mosaic boots and making a felted panel. Both are going well, although I accidentally let the grout on the boot dry out too much. Getting dry grout off seed beads and glass is a pain in the arse trust me !! I've accidentally done this before so you would think I would have learnt my lesson ...oh no, not me.

I managed to get the main panel of felt done last night, I'd forgotten how many times you have to roll it backwards and forwards to get the roving to felt up lol. Then this morning I added some very pretty coloured tie dye wool by needle felting it. Now I'm in the process of adding some bead detail, I wish I had more bugle beads but never mind.

Another slow start

My inability to sleep later than 4 or 5am, can sometimes make my start to the day slow and sluggish. Often by 9 or 10am I'm tired and sleepy again, sometimes I give into the longing for more sleep and curl back up for another hour or two, other times I won't give in. If I don't give in, this inevitably can find me fast asleep sitting bolt up right in my chair up at 5pm, my body forcing me to get some sleep whether I want to or not lol !!

Most of the time I enjoy this twilight world I seem to occupy, being wide awake while the world sleeps on. When all 8 of my kids were living at home, it was a positive luxury to have an hour or so alone with my thoughts. A godsend to have some crafty time with my latest creation without prying fingers or constant interuptions. Those few hours alone kept me sane that's for sure. But now I'm older, it can be annoying to feel sleepy at the very time I'm at my most creative mentally. This is probably why the boot project is taking me so long to get into, but I've made progress today and the first boot now has a trail of tiny mirror tiles winding their way lazily round the boot, the rest of the design will as usual appear as I actually put the other bits and pieces in place.

Todays photo's are more dichoric pendants. This pendant has texture to it, done by firing to a slightly lower temperature so the glass goes less molten than usual.


This is one of my favourite pendants, the same glass is used, but by turning the smaller piece of glass over it's possible to give the pendant depth to it.



Finally today is a collection of the last batch of pendants that were down the gallery, most are now sold and when I've finished doing the boots I'll finish off my latest batch of carbons that are sitting ready and waiting for bails and chains.