Today was all about Art Every Day Month as I treated myself to a class with Tricia Hall of the Bead Boutique.  She closed her retail doors but teaches in her home and around the area and if you ever have a chance to take a class with her, do.  She’s a great teacher and it’s always an adventure!

Today we made silver flower earrings – everything, earwire included, by hand.  These are Argentium silver and can be silver shiny but I like them antiqued.  That gives them a bluish tinge.  I would have stayed and made more in her well-stocked space but my car was wanting to overheat (it does sporadically, I never know when and I was an hour from home) and so I wanted to hit the road before the local traffic started its way North and made me sit which is what makes the car overheat.  So I plan to split these up into 3 pairs of earrings and make more later.  The “flowers” are made by heating 24g wire over water, forming a ball and letting the ball drop into the water.  I got 6 good flowers and lot’s of duds, but was getting better with practice and think I can use the “duds” anyways because Tricia says I can use the dapp on them (I have one) and they respond and cup pretty well.  We’ll see (maybe I”ll do that for tomorrow’s offering).

Tricia took the picture of me without my knowing it – I was laser focused.  Fire.  I’m given to burning myself regularly.

NaNoWriMo

The goal is 1500 words,  Nothing written yet but I’ll be on it by 6pm and I should be able to get that before I drop into bed.  That will put me across the 40K mark, and that is a real goal for me today.  But I can do it tomorrow if I have to.  Life is intruding and I have to adult a bit, which totally sidetracked me.  It is what it is.

update:  total words, 40004, today’s total:  1,415