Thanksgiving Day 2010

This has been a blessed day.  Family, loved ones and our furry babies all are well and full.
The weather is rainy and in the high 50's.  Unusual for this time of year, but we are grateful.
Sorted through some buttons this afternoon, needing to get rid of many non-competition buttons.  I have enough wreaths to suit me, so what to do with them?
Thank You Lord for this day, our friends and family and our many blessings.  Amen!

Wet Sanding

I cannot remember who told me about wet sanding the first time, but I am sure glad I heard about it.  Most of this day has been spent with my fingers in muddy water, wet sanding each piece, each bead until I have them all ready to be glazed.  All one hundred of them today.  Not as many as usual, but with the clay class pieces, it should be enough to fill the kiln.  

more beads and buttons

Made some more stoneware beads and buttons today.  Should have a kiln load so I will start wet sanding soon and hopefully will get to fire this weekend.  I am anxious to see how the clay class pieces turn out.
The weather is cooling down and has been a bit rainy today.
Tonight is the end of Dancing With the Stars...sure miss Maks!
Got a visit from a button friend today.  She had found the Burwood oval football player for me and I am so glad to have it.  My husband was a high school football quarterback and the button reminds me of him.  He thought it was "cute".  That's more of a comment than most of my buttons get from him...lol
Tonight is beginning to feel wintery.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

beads and pendants

Worked off and on and only got a few beads and pendants made.  Mine are shaped by hand and some of these are two sided which took a bit more time.  I made a mold for pendants from an old Victorian salt shaker and am anxious to see how they will turn out, but it will be a while for those.  I am planning on glazing these after they dry in a couple of days and then fire them once.  I've done that before and they turned out fine, so I hope these will too.

Sunday 11 21 10

Today was a blessedly restful day.  Much to do this week but most of all I get to make some beads!

Clay Class

Had another clay class today, my last one for a while, so I was able to raise a tiny bit of money for my local Humane Society.  We made Christmas ornaments-angels, trees, etc.  Some kitties and dogs.  I didn't have enough sense to take pictures, but it was fun and now I can get back to my beads and buttons.

The Moon 11-18-10

The clouds were thick last night and were circling the moon and it was so lovely I took this picture, but the clouds did not show up as I wished they would have.

I have my clay rolled out for tomorrow's clay class.   I hope to get to work on some buttons for my button club and maybe some new beads.  The new glaze keeps calling me!