I Heart Macro! Birthday Treat and a Bug

I Heart Macro!

Happy birthday to Me!!!

My favorite gluten free birthday treat:

Strawberry Ice Cream with almonds.

 

Last of the season grasshopper!

I heart Macro!

Weekly Photo Challenge - Sunset

Sunset

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Sunset

Three Beautiful Things This Week

Three Beautiful Things This Week was inspired by a wonderful blog that Clare writes called Three Beautiful Things. Everyday, Clare writes about 3 Beautiful Things that happen each day in her life. It's a wonderful blog! I can only hope to imitate her in a very small way.

1)  It's been a very busy week.  I'm getting ready for a show in two weeks.  It's amazing how many ways I can multi task when the pressure is on!  I'm pleased with the results!

2)  Jenny has come home for the first time in ages!  I'm thrilled that she's feeling well enough to do this again.  I know it's still hard on her physically, but she's come a long way!  Her health is improving!  I am thrilled.

3)  Pixie has been guarding her couch with the kitties home.  She feels that her couch is only hers.  Of course, the kitties don't care.  The look at her and walk away.  I think that Walter is playing hard to get!  He loves Pixie, but he wants to be top cat!

The Lucet and an Idea. Let me know what you think, please.

I'm getting ready for a show in two weeks, so

rather than stress about it,

I pulled out my lucet today and made cords.

I made some of these cords today.

Some, I had made earlier.

Using different fibers, you make different kinds of cords.

As a personal taste,

I have found that I like to wear my lucet cords in groups.

I used thinner yarns to make these cords.

This group of cords looks very dainty when worn.

 This is my favorite grouping of cords!  I wear these frequently rather than a scarf or necklace.

I made this cord using leather.  I added my special bead to the cord!

These are some of the cords from the collage.  Put them together and you have a nice scarf to wear.

All right.  You get the picture.

Now, here's my idea.

I would like to raise funds to donate to the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.

I would like to sell these cords for $5 with 100% of the funds going to the MMRF.

Now here are my questions

1) Do you think these cords would be something people might like to purchase?

2) Do you think $5 per cord is reasonable?

Please let me know what you think. 

I would like to find some way to help raise monies to help eradicate this cancer.

There has been so much research done in the 7 years since my husband died from this disease.

New medications have become available, and Jenny is benefiting from them.

I'd like to help somehow.

Let me know what you think.

This is very important to me.

Thank you.

Bead Soup - Take 2! Huh? What?

I joined a Bead Soup exchange on Lampworketc.

This is a different exchange from the one that Lori Anderson hosts.

First of all, there is no blog hop.

Second, after the components of the "soup" are sent to each partner,

that partner makes a piece of jewelry and sends it back as a gift to the original sender.

Does that make sense?

I hope so.

I think it's going to be fun!

I know that my "soup" is on the way.

So, today, I decided that I had better get everything finished and get my "soup" on its way to my 

"Soup" Partner, Sue.

So, here's what I've put together.  I started out with a very big mix.

 

I pulled everything out of drawers that I thought would go with the skull key I made.

You can see the skull in the middle of this enormous soup!

I also made some spacer beads and some wavy discs.

Here's how I narrowed the first bit of soup beads.

I decided that this would be the basic "stock" from which I would work.

I knew I needed some colors to make the darker colors POP.

I seasoned the soup with some pink toned pearls, some red textured lentils, some silver colored spacers, and some black beads.

I seasoned the soup with some small metalic discs.

I liked the look.

 I changed the seasoning a bit.  I took out the discs and added some bicone shaped red beads.

That made the mix a bit more spicy.

 

Then I found the final ingredients for the mix.  I spacers and some more black beads.

For fun, I added some dice beads!

Now, that should be fun!

I can hardly wait to see what Sue sends me!

The challenge will be on!