Mondays....

I LOVE  'em!

Here's why....

Yep, I go Line Dancing & I love it!! 

There - I said it & it didn't hurt a bit ;)

Roll your eyes if you like. I've managed to weather the incredulous looks & the ''OMG ...Line Dancing???'' comments so far & I really don't give a rats.

Over the last few years, having lived in smaller homes that have no real gardens to speak of & with spending a lot of my worktime sitting at either the torch or a computer, things have started spreading somewhat. This is my way of hopefully controlling the spread. Who knows I may even reverse it, going three times a week as I am right now. I have clothes I want to fit back into.

Any which way it is better than being sedentary for best part of the day & letting various body parts seize up, because I tell you I've noticed aches in the mornings (& other parts of the day) where not so many years ago there were none....
One way to get rid of aches is exercise. I have that on good authority.

To those of  you who haven't rolled your eyes, dropped your jaw & looked as if you are trying to briefly catch flies when I have mentioned Line Dancing...Thank You :)

Baby Boy - thank you for not being one of the above, & also for letting your Baby come along & join me when she can. To my darling Mum - you deserve thanks just for encouraging me in everything I do :)

Easy Fix for the Winter Blues #3

Retail therapy!

Some new tools arrived today. Now to any self respecting flameworker, tools are second only to glass - or maybe glass is second only to tools. Who cares which way around it is anyway, since they go hand in hand.
To be honest I have been restrained on the tools front, I only own four brass presses & one shaper tool. I use the shaper the most.
However, for me anyway, the Chalcedony seems to react better with the graphite shapers than it does with brass. Given that my current obsession seems to be chalcedony it was a no brainer that I spend my 'tool allowance' (read; my birthday present to me) on some graphite tools that I have been eyeing up for some time.

They arrived from the USA this in this mornings post. Two wonderful graphite shapers from Donna Felkner of CGBeads.




Yesterday saw a shopping trip to buy Ms Gabriela a book to read during the holidays. A quick side trip into the shoe store to update her Chuck Taylor's saw Mum come out with a pair of boots.
OK I admit it, that sucker for shoes thing still lives on. I was drawn to the toe shape. What can I say!
I really, really don't like the rounded or chunky square toe shape on most of the boots around, & normally I find that anything that attracts my attention inevitably has a price tag that has a couple of zero's after the first number... and anything that has a couple of zero's after the first number I can't bring myself to wear to the torch.
This time I just wanted something that I could put on in the morning & wear to the torch, no heels or fancy stuff.


Ahh well they filled pretty much every criteria, flat, nice tapered & chiselled toe,& they are black.
I'm not sure whether I should be proud or dismayed that I actually own a non leather pair of boots now.
Then again, at $27.99 who gives a rats patootie!lol





Oh, and in the "Presentation is Everything" department, this weeks award goes to Donna for her tool packaging! This just has to be the prettiest presentation I have ever encountered when buying tools.