It’s the Little Things… Blog It!

Little things, where do I start?  My love of glass probably started as a seed when in HS I was going to be a ceramic engineer, loving chemistry, math, and problem solving.  How the heck did I end up a Clinical Social Worker working on a PhD in Public/Population Health?

 I love the REACTIONS in glass.  I love the physics in glass.  I love having the glass teach me as it provides me therapy in “melting” the day’s problems away!  I love the AWE in observing the products of my and OTHERS creativity!!! 

 The sisterhood I have found in the glass world has recently sustained me when my professional world COULD NOT!  The “thinkers” as they are known on LE, are always there for me!  There are days that “thinking” does not have ANYTHING to do with work… LOL.

 Glass, the little things.  Life is frit, Frit makes pretty colors, Pretty colors make sweet beads, Beads and Glass make life bearable…..

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Loriola’s Tips for Better Photos!

how kewl is this!

http://therealloriola.blogspot.com/2008/01/long-awaited-photo-tutorialor-how-to.html

thanks g/f!!!

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Bluba’s Underwater World….

bluba, originally uploaded by serenasbeadery.

Bluba was made by Ms. Serena of Serena’s Beadery. She is an incredible mom and wife who does lampwork FULL TIME! Her hubby is also a very nice person and is super supportive of Serena. I think supportive spouses are a pre-requisite for doing lampwork, as mine is also uber supportive of me.

Anyway, back to the bead! Serena made this one and brought it last weekend to Becky’s in STL, which was AWESOME fun (thx Carl and Becky again!) She used my lapidary flat grinder to grind 3 windows into the beautiful underwater world she had created.

You can find more fun like this at Lampwork Etc. where we all hang out 24/7/365… Thinkers UNITE!!! LOL

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Steampunk Computer….

http://akacontrariwise.blogspot.com/2008/01/things-that-amuse-me-steampunk.html

and the person who made it:

http://steampunkworkshop.com/lcd.shtml

what a fun idea!

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snow patterns

snow patterns, originally uploaded by GButterfly.

at least someone found some beauty in today’s snow/ice thing!

My friend G takes some photos that are DA BOMB, go by her flickr and fave her!!!

http://www.flickr.com/people/42037390@N00/

Tell her Stacy sent ya!

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