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rhiannon_blackQuote of the day: The usual one in the trade, or used to be. Burglar wants a good job, plenty of Excitement and reasonable Reward, that's how it is usually read. You can say Expert Treasure-hunter instead of Burglar, if you like. Some of them do. It's all the same to us. (The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, J.R.R. Tolkien)
The week has--almost--flown by. Soon enough, too soon, it will be Sunday and I will be trying to finish up pieces for the call for entries Monday morning.
Pat, Sandi and I had a wonderful time at Blue Highway Pizza in Micanopy. We are all agreed that we'd like to do it again, and soon. Good pizza, and good service. We each had a small salad, I had one with pecans. It was yummy. We each ordered 12 inch pizzas and took boxes home. I built my own--had to have that pineapple, doncha know. Pat had the greek pizza with some sort of sausage added. Sandi had something very simple looking, looked like tomatos (sliced) on a white, cheesy background. She had them hold the garlic (I'm assuming it was raw or roasted or something). Sometimes, Sandi can be so tame or timid or something. She doesn't pour boldly.
Pat's new Saab station wagon is a nice ride. Very smooth ride and not a lot of road noise. It was nice to be a passenger. I will need to work out something though so that I only carry a house key because that little Vera Bradley that I'm using for a purse has absolutely no room for a set of keys, at least not my set of keys.
Sandi and I had a nice day yesterday traveling down to FDJ in Winter Park. She cornered the guy and grilled him about her thimble wax model issues. I roamed the store and kept picking up--stuff. Oh and what fabu stuff. I got a couple jars of Magic Flame and a 2 1/2 pound container of Sparex. I hit the pickle so hard when I have to pickle my copper that I feel bad, guilty, oh so evil, about using it. So now I have a way to make amends--an offering of Sparex.
I picked up a bunch of foredom attachments, the little grit brushes (whatever I should call them) in a whole range of grits, from something like 35 to pumice and maybe beyond. The buffer is useless to me, I mostly don't polish wide swaths of stuff but being able to get into small areas and get scratches out or buffed is something I need to do. And now I can.
Pat wants to come with us next time. I told her how Sandi joked that we'd end up going as a group, renting a bus. I had said that yeah, most folks, they rent busses to go to casinos or what have you. But no, we're nerds, jewelry geeks, we're going to the jewelry tool supply store. Woo hoo! Sign me up.
Whilst Sandi kept the poor guy cornered, I kept roaming. I found a Coiling Gizmo--the economy version. The lady there said, this thing is addictive, and I don't make jewelry. I figure if I like what I produce well enough and have enough use for them I can consider getting the Professional version. It costs a couple hundred dollars. The thing I got, less than ten, I think.
I also found, and could not leave there, calling to me plaintively, a micro corrugator. I mean, who the hell doesn't want--and need--their own micro corrugator. Sigh, happy sigh.
And then the ingot mold. I got another ingot mold. But this one is soooo spiffy. I can make round wire. I can make half round wire. I can make sheet. Isn't that the sweetest thing?
I asked about their Fretz stakes. I said, I know you sell the sets, but do you sell individual ones. Well, we can order any one you want--wait, let me check. Yes, we can order any one you want. Then the guy came out from the back room and said, you can take this one and I'll just use the one I order to fill the hole back up in the set. That's maybe the prize of the day. I have my own Bill Fretz mini stake, F6, the shell stake, aka the sinusoidal stake. I have a sinusoidal stake. Okay, so it's a Barbie stake for Barbie's Dream Forge, but's it's a sinusoidal stake. And it's small and I can practice making anticlastic forms with small amounts of metal and then move on to the grown up sized sinusoidal stakes. The blurb says that the F6 is good for bracelets. Well, and who do we know who makes bracelets, I ask you?
We also stopped into the Tandy Leather in Winter Park (it's in the shopping center at Aloma and 436 with the Dennys and Amigos) and I picked up some suede scraps for hammering on and a big piece of leather to put on my lap. It's big enough that I'll cut it in half probably and use the rest for something else. But it will be nice to half protection the next time I take glass class. It might also be useful when I finally start making my own tools, punches and stuff, from hex wrenches. I'll have to cut part off using the flex shaft and Pat says that it's like having a little circular saw in your hands. A slip could be messy. Not superduper messy but messy enough to be, well, icky.
I have gotten further work done on my felted drier balls. The three balls that I felted last week or so have had the additional yarn added. Other starter balls have had their initial felting. If I manage to motivate myself, I might get them wound up with the second round of yarn and get them felted, all of them, tomorrow.
Maybe.
The week has--almost--flown by. Soon enough, too soon, it will be Sunday and I will be trying to finish up pieces for the call for entries Monday morning.
Pat, Sandi and I had a wonderful time at Blue Highway Pizza in Micanopy. We are all agreed that we'd like to do it again, and soon. Good pizza, and good service. We each had a small salad, I had one with pecans. It was yummy. We each ordered 12 inch pizzas and took boxes home. I built my own--had to have that pineapple, doncha know. Pat had the greek pizza with some sort of sausage added. Sandi had something very simple looking, looked like tomatos (sliced) on a white, cheesy background. She had them hold the garlic (I'm assuming it was raw or roasted or something). Sometimes, Sandi can be so tame or timid or something. She doesn't pour boldly.
Pat's new Saab station wagon is a nice ride. Very smooth ride and not a lot of road noise. It was nice to be a passenger. I will need to work out something though so that I only carry a house key because that little Vera Bradley that I'm using for a purse has absolutely no room for a set of keys, at least not my set of keys.
Sandi and I had a nice day yesterday traveling down to FDJ in Winter Park. She cornered the guy and grilled him about her thimble wax model issues. I roamed the store and kept picking up--stuff. Oh and what fabu stuff. I got a couple jars of Magic Flame and a 2 1/2 pound container of Sparex. I hit the pickle so hard when I have to pickle my copper that I feel bad, guilty, oh so evil, about using it. So now I have a way to make amends--an offering of Sparex.
I picked up a bunch of foredom attachments, the little grit brushes (whatever I should call them) in a whole range of grits, from something like 35 to pumice and maybe beyond. The buffer is useless to me, I mostly don't polish wide swaths of stuff but being able to get into small areas and get scratches out or buffed is something I need to do. And now I can.
Pat wants to come with us next time. I told her how Sandi joked that we'd end up going as a group, renting a bus. I had said that yeah, most folks, they rent busses to go to casinos or what have you. But no, we're nerds, jewelry geeks, we're going to the jewelry tool supply store. Woo hoo! Sign me up.
Whilst Sandi kept the poor guy cornered, I kept roaming. I found a Coiling Gizmo--the economy version. The lady there said, this thing is addictive, and I don't make jewelry. I figure if I like what I produce well enough and have enough use for them I can consider getting the Professional version. It costs a couple hundred dollars. The thing I got, less than ten, I think.
I also found, and could not leave there, calling to me plaintively, a micro corrugator. I mean, who the hell doesn't want--and need--their own micro corrugator. Sigh, happy sigh.
And then the ingot mold. I got another ingot mold. But this one is soooo spiffy. I can make round wire. I can make half round wire. I can make sheet. Isn't that the sweetest thing?
I asked about their Fretz stakes. I said, I know you sell the sets, but do you sell individual ones. Well, we can order any one you want--wait, let me check. Yes, we can order any one you want. Then the guy came out from the back room and said, you can take this one and I'll just use the one I order to fill the hole back up in the set. That's maybe the prize of the day. I have my own Bill Fretz mini stake, F6, the shell stake, aka the sinusoidal stake. I have a sinusoidal stake. Okay, so it's a Barbie stake for Barbie's Dream Forge, but's it's a sinusoidal stake. And it's small and I can practice making anticlastic forms with small amounts of metal and then move on to the grown up sized sinusoidal stakes. The blurb says that the F6 is good for bracelets. Well, and who do we know who makes bracelets, I ask you?
We also stopped into the Tandy Leather in Winter Park (it's in the shopping center at Aloma and 436 with the Dennys and Amigos) and I picked up some suede scraps for hammering on and a big piece of leather to put on my lap. It's big enough that I'll cut it in half probably and use the rest for something else. But it will be nice to half protection the next time I take glass class. It might also be useful when I finally start making my own tools, punches and stuff, from hex wrenches. I'll have to cut part off using the flex shaft and Pat says that it's like having a little circular saw in your hands. A slip could be messy. Not superduper messy but messy enough to be, well, icky.
I have gotten further work done on my felted drier balls. The three balls that I felted last week or so have had the additional yarn added. Other starter balls have had their initial felting. If I manage to motivate myself, I might get them wound up with the second round of yarn and get them felted, all of them, tomorrow.
Maybe.
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