Endless Whimsy: September 2009

9.30.2009

A day in the life of me!

Not that you all want to know - but face it, you're curious

Disclaimer: I KNOW my life isn't as hectic as some of you but it's got to rank right up there:

MONDAY! (most)
5:30am alarm and shower
5:40am breakfast and dress
6:00am gather stuff for school
6:15am leave for school
6:35am arrive and set up for day
7:00am plan for the day OR already teaching
8:00am-2:30pm teaching
2:30pm-3:40pm meetings or auditions
3:40pm-4:10pm travel time
4:15pm Wescustago Youth Choral rehearsals (I'm a conductor of a choir and an assistant)
8:30pm leave to go home
9:05pm home
9:15pm read Endless Whimsy convos and answer
9:20pm start packing any orders ready to ship OR make orders that aren't porcelain
10:15pm stop Endless Whimsy stuff and sit down to relax
11:00pm bed time

Tuesday
you really don't want to see Tuesday....

All I have to say is - Monday is my hardest day, the other days are basically working from 7am to 6pm.....no wonder I'm behind on orders...

I'm sorry!

9.29.2009

Thanks for the help boys. You're sitting on my computer and my packing materials

-- Posted from my iPhone

9.28.2009

Mancat Monday

-- Posted from my iPhone

9.27.2009

Sunday Comics With Stoli and Luxor

Click to biggify!

9.26.2009

Trying and TIred

I'm trying out McLinky finally, I read that it helps bloggers connect with each other, and you can meet new people. Perhaps that will happen to me! Meanwhile, I'm going back to bed.....

9.20.2009

Day seven

Poor radtech. They will get an earfull. My husband HAD to get an iPhone cover that wasn't overly expensive. So he purchased one for $15 (plus shipping) from radtech. And on the seventh day, you can see it's falling apart. All this iPod has done is go from car seat to desk to table. No dropping or anything. Note to self don't purchase iPhone cars from radtech.

-- Posted from my iPhone

9.19.2009

Chamilia and Troll beads

Note to self and others. Troll beads DO fit on Chamilia bangles. I just purchased a bangle and brought my Troll beads along to see if they fit. Sure do. I'm glad too because the bangle is way better than link bracelet any day.

-- Posted from my iPhone

9.16.2009

Cat that LOVES running water

9.14.2009

Luxor

He just loves to talk

-- Posted from my iPhone

9.13.2009

Sunday Comics with Stoli and Luxor

9.12.2009

How to take plasticizer out of polymer clay, tutorial

Lately, when I've been purchasing my Studio Sculpey clay - the clay has been so soft it's not at all workable out of the package. You can see in the picture below - on the left is a normal piece of clay just out of the package. On the right is a piece of polymer clay right out of the package, it has WAY too much plasticizer in it.

Just lightly pressing my thumb into that clay on the right made this imprint.

So, to make it workable I set out a couple sheets of white paper, no words please unless you want them in your clay! I then pressed more sheets of white paper on top of the sticky polymer. You can set a heavy book on them if you like, but you have to be careful plasticizer doesn't bleed into the book cover. For my clay, I didn't want it to get too dry, so I just left the paper on it without any weight.

After about 5 minutes, this is what the paper looked like. I thought the clay was still too wet so I pressed it into the paper again and left it for another 5 minutes.

I can tell the clay is a little drier now because when I press my thumb into the clay, it doesn't leave as big an imprint and the clay has little cracks in it. Don't worry, it's not TOO dry because when you start kneading and working the clay again the plasticizer from the inside of the clay will work through evenly.

It's unfortunately that many readily available brands are so inconsistent with the amount of plasticizer placed in the polymer clay, but rest assured that you can make it work for you!

9.09.2009

Stoli and the iPhone

9.08.2009

Poor poor Luxor

Luxor didn't want to get in the carrier so he got left inside.

-- Posted from my iPhone

AUCTION!

UPDATE!!!!! I forgot to tell you that this is all going in a cat bed for the auction. So a bed is included too!

So as part of my effort to contribute to HART, I decided that I'd put some of the 10% from the shop towards a 'cat-themed' basket for their "Litterbox Ball & Auction".

Here are some of the goodies:

and a porcelain sculpture from ME and a catnip toy from Jake & Micah!

9.07.2009

FUNDRAISER

Here are the 25 cans that I'm going to take up to HART along with $100 dollars!!!!

9.06.2009

I'm Balanced

I treated myself to an ArtMind mini-feeling....it's beautiful. If you haven't purchased one for yourself, you really have to. It's TOTALLY worth it.

1. THE PACKAGE (I edited out the addresses)

2. Opened up the package - look at all the detail!

3. A gift! and magnets!

4. The sculptures! Yes, two - one is for someone other than me.

5. Postcards - for someone! And my sculpture...look at that happy girl!

6. CHOCOLATE!

7. Balanced - just not balancing yet. There's special poster tape to put on the bottom and I was super worried it wouldn't balance but it held it like a ROCK when I tried it, just don't let your cats play with it ;-P

9.05.2009

Yea for geekiness

Now I can blog from my iPhone.
As you can see it's bed time for me and stoli

-- Posted from my iPhone

Happy Magnets

This week I received my happy magnets from ArtMind! Look how cute they are! The happy girl wasn't so happy when I opened up the package. But look at the happy colors - and I also got some pigments to try out in my glazes!!!!!!

9.03.2009

OUCHIE

Shame on you Stoli

9.02.2009

The Daisy Process

Here are a few snapshots of sending off Daisy sculptures:

9.01.2009

Jury Duty

We'll here's my check (for one day of work) the rest of the money will be coming........I'm In The Money!

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