Listing Saturday:: Reasons to slow down and really enjoy the holidays

1) No matter how much you do, you'll never really be ready for Christmas.

Slow down.

2) What would you rather have:: time for family and friends or the house immaculate and presents wrapped like on Pinterest?

Think about this.

3) We don't when our last Christmas will be or when you will all be gathered together again.

This is a fact.

4) Why be stressed and upset about the small things.

When you were a kid, did you stress about Christmas?

5) So many times, we don't enjoy the holidays.

You make the choice.  You can do it!

Stress and Murrini

When I get stressed I make murrini.

I have found that to be a zen activity for me.

My mind flows away from the stress and drifts deeply into the glass.

The designs flow as I work past my stress.

I find myself relaxing and more able to cope with the stress as I make murrini.

Can you tell I have been a bit stressed these past few weeks?

I'm getting ready for the art show.

I won't be taking these with me to the show,

but,

they will be coming to my Etsy store, eventually, along with all the other 

murrini I will have made by show time!

Stay tuned!!!

When I get Stressed, I Make Murrini and I've Sure Been Making A Lot of It Lately!

It's so many things.

I wouldn't even know where to begin,

but

I have been stressed,

and,

I have been making murrini.

For me, that is the great stress reliever.

As a result,

I have a lot of murrini listed in my Etsy store,

with more to come soon.

For my non lampworking friends,

murrini are small chips of glass that were formed by layering glass together to form a cane.

From that cane,

small chips are snipped.

These chips then become decoration on a bead by melting them in all the way or leaving them raised.

Here's one of my favorite murrini.

The result of applying these chips is a touch of silver and a floral pattern which may or may not interact with the glass below.

I love these murrini melted into the glass!

Murrini can come in all colors and even in shapes.

These hearts look great in red!

I think you can use hearts any time of the year.

 A barnacle murrini is one that has a transparent center and will fold in on itself.

See the example of this murrini?  I like this one, too.

It's called Barnacle Blue and I like the way it looks on glass.

 

Smudges is a multi colored cane.  The finished result has been compared to a beach ball.

It certainly has enough color, doesn't it?

 I've also started to twist murrini for a tornado type of finished look.

This is a barnacle twisted murrini.  It looks great on a bead!

I'll be adding more murrini to my Etsy store soon!

You should see my stash!

Anyway, I also hope to begin to add mixes!  They would be fun!

So, this is what I do to destress.

How do you destress?

PS:  Not to add more stress to your lives, but it's only 19 days until Xmas!

Yikes!

Six Word Story Sunday - Stress Relief

Cutting

Up

Tin

Equals

Stress 

Relief!

More has to be said here.

Cutting tin,

is very physical for me.

By the time I am finished,

the blood is flowing,

my heart is beating faster,

and stress is being flushed out of my 

system.

Sometimes I think,

"Who needs a treadmill?"

I just know

that the endorphins flow,

and I feel

better!