The Woman of 1,000 Hobbies

Brad Pearson Egg

admin — Sat, 05 May 2012 04:04:16 +0000

This bead is about 1.3″ on the long axis. I made it during a class with Brad Pearson, who is an excellent teacher. Much larger than I normally work, but I really like how it came out. This bead was made using Effetre soda-lime glass on a Nortel Minor Burner.

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Lampwork Jewelry

admin — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 04:31:33 +0000

My sister Jeanne made these beautiful pieces of jewelry. I think its more a testament to her jewelry making than my bead making though. She’s got a fantastic eye for combining things asymetrically, and managed to take a batch of wholly unremarkable beads and turn them into something beautiful. All beads were made using a [...]

Nail Polish Collection

admin — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:27:24 +0000

Here’s my nail polish collection in all it’s glory.

Prior Polish Designs

admin — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 02:10:07 +0000

Here’s a gallery of nail polish designs from the last year. Let me know if you’d like to see a tutorial or description of any of them.

These are done with a combination of regular polish, striping polish, acrylic paints, Konad or Bundle Monster stamping plates, glitter, and fimo clay slices. Two are from tutorials [...]

Pinky Vines

admin — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:19:13 +0000

On a pale pink base of Sensationail LED cured polish in Pink Chiffon I used a sponge to graduate the color to the slightly darker Sally Hansen Bubblegum Pink. The vines were painted with Stripe Rite striping color (no name) in an iridescent blue-green color. I bobbed the color on a pallet and used my [...]

The insanity of diets

admin — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:38:59 +0000

I’m a big fan of Matt Schifferle over at Red Delta Project. He has a very no-nonsense approach to fitness and is a great resource for instructional videos on bodyweight exercise techniques. My opinion of Matt jumped even higher when I read this article by him: When Healthy Diets Attack! In this article Matt has [...]

Miranda’s Capelet

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:15:19 +0000

Next in the series of designs that Miranda has requested is the rose capelet. (See also the Bunny Express Vest). This is another design that she saw in a Happy Happy Clover manga.

Here is the design drawing I found on my table. It was followed by several others, but this one I think captured [...]

Miranda’s Bunny Express Vest

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:15:13 +0000

Miranda frequently leaves little drawings around of designs she’d like me to make. I can tell its time to do something about it when she keeps showing me alternate views of the design. I can get a hint.

Here is a recent item I made for her that was inspired by her favorite manga Happy [...]

Pattern Weights Tutorial

admin — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:25:13 +0000

I’ve created a tutorial over at Instructables, showing how to make these decorative and functional pattern weights. I hope you enjoy it.

Dragon Coloring Page

admin — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 06:17:50 +0000

One of my kids asked me to draw them a coloring page of two dragons fighting. Here’s the result. I’ll try to post some more coloring pages, as this is a regular thing for them.