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Details of Glass Equipment For Sale

Kiln interior

Below is the list of glass fusing and lampworking items I have for sale.  Prices are negotiable.  I’ll sell as a group, or some items individually.  Shipping will be the actual cost.  The kiln has the original box.

The Hothead is currently misplaced, but I know it is here.  See what cleaning craft cabinets [...]

Beaded Art Doll

Thought I’d show you what I’ve been working on for a looooong while now, one of those projects that my family says “Haven’t you finished that yet?” because I only work on it in spurts.

Y’all know I’m not a particularly focused individual, so of course I have many UFOs (unfinished objects) sitting around [...]

Glass crafts going by the wayside

I’m thinking about selling my glass crafting equipment as it has been sitting around for at least a year.  My son may want it, so I’ll have to check with him, but I have no idea when, as a new dad with an already ignored wood turning hobby, he’d find the time to use [...]

The Magdalene Sisters

I recently watched the 2002 movie, “The Magdalene Sisters” and it has been haunting me and infuriating me ever since. Have you seen it?

Here’s the description from Netflix: Quote…This unflinching drama charts several years in the young lives of four “fallen women” who were rejected by their families and abandoned to the mercy [...]

How to make a UTEE Tile

To make those UTEE tiles I melted clear in the melting pot and poured it over some rubber stamp sheets, removed when still warm and trimmed some down with scissors.  Some I left just as they solidified.  Then, when cool, I embellished some with PearlEx powders or a transparent acrylics and then poured more [...]

Chain Maille Kit Leads to a New Jewelry Maker

My DD and I went to check out a college a few hours away and while she was hanging out with friends who are doing a summer program there and getting an insiders view of the campus, I went shopping…alone.   Oh the joy!

I had two intended targets: books and crafts, but being [...]

Rug Disasters and Friendly Plastic Strikes

I should have named this blog Dealing with Craft ADD because seriously, nothing has yet to hold my attention for more than one project and that’s no way to become skilled.  Sigh.

So, we are still working on DD’s dorm room rug, but a re-invented version. Turns out the huge ball of yarn we [...]

Playing with Yarn

Between glass, beads and textiles, fiber crafts seem to be winning my attention lately. I guess that’s going back to my roots, as I learned to knit when I was 5 and was sewing my own clothes as a teenager.

My daughter and I have started a project for her dorm room to cover [...]

My Crafts

The last month has been hectic and unpredictable. My step-mom went home to be with the Lord, which is a good thing as she was 90 years old and had been in considerable uncontrolled pain for several years, but still it of course, leaves a void in life.

School ended and that meant dorm [...]

Ha, I’m an extremist!

Who would have thought? I’m a fundamental radical extremist, as described by Karen Armstrong of the U.N.’s Alliance of Civilizations in this YouTube video. If you don’t want to listen to this woman’s rantings in full, start at the 4 minute point to hear her call me, and other Christians like me, well…pretty crazy [...]

Happy New Year

Yep, I realize I’m a bit late to the Happy New Year party, but you can blame that on my uppity computer. It started the new year by crashing…not just a minor inconvenience crash, no this time, it refused to be resucitated easily and required a complete restore, which of course required reinstalling all [...]

So Many Options

I have been researching marketing ideas lately and have come across some interesting resources, but I am a little overwhelmed at the variety of possibilities and when I get that way, my response is like many, I do nothing, or do several poorly.

So, here’s a small list of options: The old faithful: forum [...]