Inspiration Abounds

Today is another weird Central Texas winter day. The sun is shining, it's warm, and I've been walking around the yard. I found bits and pieces of STUFF around T-man's shop. In a couple of weeks, I'm going to have a PLAY DAY with my clay and my resin and bits and pieces of things that are not necessarily beady. Maybe I'll put together some objects made with metal pieces (and metal-looking pieces) that can become jewelry. By the way, I love the whole Steampunk genre and wish I had more time and resources to delve into it on a bigger scale. In a couple of weeks I'm attending a function through my alumni association, billed as:

. . . an eclectic talk by popular Trinity professor Mike Kearl. Entitled The Futures of Times Past: Retro-Futurism and the Retreat of the Golden Age from the Future to the Past, Professor Kearl's multimedia presentation examines both past utopian visions of the present and contemporary depictions of dys-utopian futures. It develops how these trends underlie the rise of retro-futurism, steam punk, and apocalyptic chic in the arts.

T-man says it's right up my alley. But I digress . . . .

There I was last night, beading along, mango mojito at my side, when I decided I did not like the tension of the piece I was working on, plus I thought I could somehow make it look better or more refined or something. So I took it apart, unbeaded it. Yep, that's what happened, true story. Damn, it's a good thing I've got a small stockpile of samples to send off. However, I must finish two seed bead projects (you saw part of one of them the other day) and get them in the mail by the end of February. As long as I have days like this, it won't be difficult. Days like this are full of inspiration.

I'm off. I'm going to run by and visit Gaye for a bit, then come back to put a pot of pasta sauce on the stove and then bead my fingers to the bone! Yep, bead to the bone! (oh, that is a very bad play on words)

Mission Accomplished

Hah! Take that, computer spies.

You know, you would think people could make better use of their knowledge. Virus scan tonight! No mercy!

Argh

That's not an imitation of a swarthy pirate, that's frustration speaking. I am seriously considering the ramifications of throwing this computer through the window. Yeah, yeah, common sense wins out --- new window, new computer, new bird bath. But I just want you to know that it took five minutes to delete an email this morning! I'm going to run an spy ware killer here in a few minutes and see if that helps.

Oh, and cynicism abounds here today so I'm not much fun to talk to, either! This too shall pass.

It is such a blindingly beautiful day that I may take the beads outside to work. Of course, I may come back inside blinded by the flash of the Swarovski! Ah, such a small price to pay!

Bead it! Go on, scram!

I Made A List

Actually, I made a general list with deadlines. I'm sure there will be other tiny things that go in between the lines. I've actually already crossed one thing off. Yay! And I always use a red pen to cross things off, because then I can see PROGRESS. I must also put the deadlines into the calendar just in case the list gets MISPLACED! And yes, I've done that plenty of times. I've learned now. I've also added the deadlines in red. Yes, I like red pens. I also like purple, and green, and blue, and turquoise . . . . Basically, I love pens. I love them almost as much as I love beads! Ask my family. Oh, and this is just deadlines for February with one in March (so far).

Today is filled with beads. Fortunately they are not spilled beads needing o be picked up. There is not much else going on Chez Buchle. It's warmer, the sun is shining, birds are singing -- well, you know the drill. So I guess it's off to work for me!

February 28^th and March 1^st I'll be helping Carol Wille with her booth at the San Antonio Bead Market, which will be at the Live Oak Civic Center. I happen to have it on good authority that there will be some vintage acrylic flower and leaf beads on hand. Yum!

Brrrrr!

It got f#@@#ng cold last night! And then the wind howled for a while. And then it got a little colder. But alas poor Ariel, she had to go to school! Poor baby wanted a late start at the very least, but no go. It is a full school day. And it is still very breezy and very chilly out.

Today's deadlines are met! Woo hoo! Celebrate! Now the day is free for me to bead and meet the next BIG deadline. When did my life become a series of deadlines? I thought I gave that up years ago: deadlines, meetings, more deadlines, meetings that interfered with deadlines. Well, I no longer have all the meetings -- the cats refuse to attend. Anyway, here is one of the latest projects that have the next deadline:
You can see why I've had to force myself to work on it. Then again, maybe you cannot. The other High Priestesses of the Goddess of Beading probably know. Whatever. I'm just about done now. And I have another right on its heels with much cooler, soothing (to me) colors. I'll post pics of all unknown projects when the time is right. I don't want to totally lose that element of surprise, you know. Plus, while watching TV with Ariel yesterday afternoon, I had a sudden inspiration which is now in the sketch pad. We'll see if I can graph it without losing the details. And yes, I'll share it later. You must be patient!

Falling . . . .

Temperatures, not me. It's 10:30 now. When I took Bella out at 8:00, the temps were in the low 60s. Now it's 45. By the time T-man gets hom, we should be in a small ice age.

And yes, I still want to go live in Alpine, where it snows every year.

What?

Low temps? Freezing rain? Ice? Here?


Well, it is almost February after all and that is our coldest month. I guess it's just time. So with this in mind, today's musings will be very short as I have driving to do and I hate being out in the cold. I want to leave and get back in the shortest time possible. I plan to come home, send some emails and then do some beadwork (imagine that). Mind you, this is what I PLAN to do. Life has a way of interfering.

Question: if you have the opportunity to be home during nasty weather (assuming most of you don't work from home like I do), do you create or do you vegetate? Inquiring minds would like to know.