A new work of art...in the works

This past week a friend of mine asked me to fire one of her glass art pieces in my kiln since it was to big for hers.  Well, it was a tad too big for my smaller kiln that has a 13" diameter (circle) shelf . If I try to put a 8"x 10" square the corners stick out over the shelf which doesn't work well when your melting glass..

So I needed to fire up my big kiln and I didn't just want to fire her piece by itself, so decided I had to quickly create a few pieces to go in with hers.   I decided to just make some templates and couldn't be happier with the out come. I used white glass with a variety of glass powders for the base. I will be adding shapes and lines to them, and if all comes out well, one of them will be donated to SaySi in the spring.  

Last night's full moon

After my day job yesterday, I went to my first Builder/Realtor function and had a great time! I spoke to some Realtors that I knew, and made connections with Realtors that I just met. It was so nice to just get out and have fun and mingle with people. It was a only a two hour event in a beautiful M/I Homes Model in the Ravello Subdivision, only about 20 minutes from my house, but in an area that I haven't visited in many years.  During the event I even won a drawing for a $50 gift card! I left as the sun was setting and on my way home on the highway, in the distance I thought I saw the BIGGEST lit up Ferris wheel I had even seen in my life, but I was wrong,.The big lit up sphere was the full moon hovering on the Highway. It was the largest moon I ever remember seeing.  It was big and orange and it was right in front of me, as if the moon moved 1000 times closer to earth.  As I traveled closer it moved up just a bit higher.  Since I was driving, there was no way I was going to get picture and even if I could have, it was going to look as magnificent as it did in realty, my phone camera is just not that good! 

Personally I have had good, like last night and some not so good days in the past couple of weeks.  Thus is life we take the good and the bad and make the best of it. 

On another note, I decorated for Halloween and brought out my baby doll that sits on an antique, milking chair from who knows where,  along with my other nic-nac Halloween  decorations.  I do enjoy this holiday. I love seeing the kids dressed up in their costumes and I love handing the candy out.  This year I also ordered a new Halloween dress.  I've been wearing the same one for more than a decade and saw a cute one online for less than $20.00, so why not.  I'll just put my Witches Hat on I'll be set.

So here is my baby doll with her cat, created by hand and signed by the artist.  By the way, my new dress will pretty much match hers.

Have a beautiful weekend!

Feeling pessimistic

Why? Good question. Maybe because most people that want to own guns have already bought them, have stashes of them, and if they "snap" will already have possesion of them to use them. I agree that most gun owners are responsible, law abiding citizens,  and I wouldn't want to infringe on their beliefs or rights, but really do you have to own a semi automatic, or the pieces that will equip it to become an automatic? Are you going to protect yourself, your family and neighbors from the war that is going to occur on our homeland? Is that why you own these weapons? Between the health care insurance crisis, and weapon crisis, I'm not sure what to think of politics, politicians, lobbyist and the crazies that live amongst us here in the United States.   This is where my pessimistic thoughts occur, there have been much bigger, more powerful govermnets that have collapsed in the history of human kind and right now the way we are going it feels train wreck about to happen. If politicians refused to do anything after Sandy Hook, why would anyone think they would do anything now? Actually I belive they passed more laws making it easier to aquire weapons, for anyone.  Oh yeah, when the politicians were targeted, wasn't that the day they were going to pass a law to make silencers legal to purchase?