September 11

Peace is Patriotic

Personally, I don't wear the flag. I grew up with the feeling that that is disrespectful; in early 70s Ohio with a Green Beret dad who distained 'hippies' with flags sewn on their jeans you kinda got that idea. The funny thing is that Dad now has tons of flag shirts and coats and socks...mostly made in China, I like to remind him!

this wallet is from Sewcosmic on etsy.com...go visit her and buy a flag from an American designer.

ICE resin and casting fun

I played around with the new ICE resin we just got in from Susan Lenart Kazmer. I love this stuff, it is so crystal clear and easy to use. It even washes off your hands easily. I made some molds using a two-part silicone molding compound and molded a tiny baby doll and some other objects. I tried coloring the resin with some pigments, too, and was pleased with the way the pigments mixed in so smoothly.

The two bezels are also from Susan Lenart Kazmer. I filled them with watch parts.

Right now I have some leaves drying and will try coating them with resin...mmm...I think I will pretty much resinate anything that stands still!



Look for some tutorials on how to use resin with hollow forms and for casting later this week. The ICE resin is available at Panopolie and Ornamentea today and will be at Ornamentea.com later this week. The bezels are coming to both stores by the end of the week and on line next week. I gotta go look for a tiny plastic deer to cast, I have an idea for some earrings.

Lost Items and Super Powers

I lose things.

Generally, these things are just misplaced, not permanently lost. I find them later, in the bottom of a pocket, sometimes stashed in one of my zippy bags or even just floating around a tote bag with the Rhodia pad and spare shoes and smooshed granola bars. Once I found a bracelet I was sure had been lost for years in a zippy bag that held colored pencils and small dollies. Beads, phone messages, car keys, all these things get lost and found on a daily basis in my life. That is my superpower, I can lose things in just seconds. The weird thing is that I am also good at finding things, even when I did not, myself, loose them. So maybe my superpower is short term lost-and-found.

These glasses are lost. I got them earlier this year, it had been a couple of years since I had gotten a new pair. I went to visit my personal eyeglass stylist and good friend Elizabeth at Vision Park and she hooked me up with these. They have a groovy wood grain on the front and this teal color on the inside. I wouldn't have picked them myself, but that's the thing with Elizabeth, she suggests a pair you wouldn't usually try and they look great. The glasses made my eyes look really green and the color went with everything. That is her superpower - picking out glasses.

I think I really, really lost these glasses. I toughed it out for a while with an old pair that wasn't the correct prescription. I searched inside every jacket pocket and behind every end table. I looked around the entire house, the office, both stores, even the walk from home to the shop. No glasses. If you see them, don't let me know.* I have already seen Elizabeth again and am quite happy, now, with the replacements.



*I am just kidding, seriously, I would love to see them again. Just in case the 'old' ones show up I choose another pair for the replacements and I love them. Elizabeth tried to talk me into just getting the wood and teal ones again, but I know as soon as I do that I will find them behind the book shelf or in my sock drawer.