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[Peep_Show]

"And now for something completely different...."

Just got back from my annual trek to Las Vegas to take classes at the Glass Craft & Bead Expo. Had a full day of making glass animals, which was great fun...especially since the instructor was a Monty Python fan and ready with the quotes. Really one of the best classes I've taken there and the instruction was stellar (although my skills weren't so much due to lack of practice.)
Attached are a couple of the day's many creations. I was whipping out hummingbirds like crazy!


Alas, my Angelfish was not so cooperative and fell off the punty and into my lap -- 950-degree molten glass mayhem (luckily I wear a suede apron) -- and bounced onto the floor a minimum of three times and it shows...I salvaged it, but it looked like a special needs specimen in comparison to the instructor's model. It'll reside on the shelf next to my one attempt at glass blowing as a reminder that maybe I just shouldn't.

Sadly, I didn't make any glass animal chickens (yet).

 

[pennyJo1960]

Wow Peep how talented there they are beautiful

 

[Peep_Show]

When I was alone did not cook or do dishes isn't that way we4 had paper plates and bowls hated cooking for just me

Cooking as a single is a hard adjustment. The dog gets fat.

 

[ronott1]

"And now for something completely different...."

Just got back from my annual trek to Las Vegas to take classes at the Glass Craft & Bead Expo. Had a full day of making glass animals, which was great fun...especially since the instructor was a Monty Python fan and ready with the quotes. Really one of the best classes I've taken there and the instruction was stellar (although my skills weren't so much due to lack of practice.)
Attached are a couple of the day's many creations. I was whipping out hummingbirds like crazy!
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Alas, my Angelfish was not so cooperative and fell off the punty and into my lap -- 950-degree molten glass mayhem (luckily I wear a suede apron) -- and bounced onto the floor a minimum of three times and it shows...I salvaged it, but it looked like a special needs specimen in comparison to the instructor's model. It'll reside on the shelf next to my one attempt at glass blowing as a reminder that maybe I just shouldn't.

Sadly, I didn't make any glass animal chickens (yet).

That sounds like a good time!

I will be looking forward to some glass animals in the future

 

[bruceha2000]

There is no climate change there is not climate change there is no climate change ooops not in Kansas anymore

Read this just after hearing a radio item on how the glaciers are melting much faster than expected.
"A new study shows they are losing 369 billion tons of snow and ice each year, more than half of that in North America."

https://www.wgbh.org/news/science-a...ing-is-shrinking-glaciers-faster-than-thought

 

[pennyJo1960]

I do believe half is natural but the rest was our Grandparents now us

 

[bobbi-j]

penny do they clunk around and make awful noises in the dryer? I tried clean tennis balls once and the noise drove me nuts. That was a very short experiment.

I use wool dryer balls, and they don't make a sound. Not that I've noticed, anyway...

 

[pennyJo1960]

We use them actually 6 of them love them

 

[drumstick diva]

Do the wool ones cause more static electricity when taking out of dryer? I really got zotzed trying to remove flannel sheets from the dryer. I decided to let them sit in the dryer till they decided to behave.

 

[ronott1]

Do the wool ones cause more static electricity when taking out of dryer? I really got zotzed trying to remove flannel sheets from the dryer. I decided to let them sit in the dryer till they decided to behave.

The woolzies remove static electricity from the dryer and help the clothes dry better- softer and faster.