Well, Luxor again ate something he shouldn't have, but so far so good. He's not gotten sick.
This is what he ate - 18 inches of a clay cutting nylong string. Here's the eaten portion:
And here's my new one that will be under lock and key. As if that would help!
P. S. Do you see Luxor checking out the string????
Featuring - All Red Candy for February!
Growing up, I absolutely LOVED Atomic Fireballs. I remember at one point eating so many that my tongue was raw. I also got to the point where they weren't hot anymore. Your tongue would get really red and if your teeth weren't completely clean - they'd be pink!
This February - I'll be reminiscing my favorite candy with you - with one condition, it has to be red!
From Wikipedia:
Atomic Fireballs are a round, cinnamon-flavored hard candy invented by Nello Ferrara in 1954. They are a form of jawbreaker. The outer layers of the candy are a bright red color while the interior layers are white.Read more...When initially introduced by Ferrara Pan, the company had a manufacturing capacity of 200 cases per day but demand quickly rose to 50,000 cases per day. According to the company, approximately 15 million Fireballs are eaten weekly.[1] "The spicy flavor and the exceptionally long lasting candy was instantly popular (coupled with the popular culture obsession with all things atomic at the time).[2] The outside layer of the Fireball is quite mild. After a moment in the mouth, the smooth ball of hard candy releases a spicy cinnamon flavor.
They are made with the hot panned process with ingredients of a single grain of sugar, syrup and flavor. The hot pans tumble the ingredients around until the fireballs snowball into the appropriate size. The process lasts for about two weeks. By the end of the process the fireball consists of at least one hundred layers. The fireballs come in two sizes, a pea size and the more popular full-size (7/8ths of an inch in diameter) which comes individually wrapped.
Also recently available are chewy fireballs, with the same flavor of the original with a chewy texture.
Luxor has eaten my entire 16 inches of clay cutting string. I try so hard to clean up and keep things out of his mouth. He ate a hole in my cashmere sweater, but it wasn't much. And in December he ate 6 inches of a shoe lace of one of my piano student's. All of my clothes are under lock and key. I just am beside myself. He eats so much that he's not supposed to.
I am such a horrible person for leaving this stuff out. Why can't I clean up everything? Why does he always find stuff to eat? Why Why Why? Why can't he just LEAVE MY STUFF ALONE? I'll never forgive myself for this.
I hate myself - utterly disgusted with myself. Just disgusted.
Do doctors think that everyone should take time off their work to be able to come to an appointment? What gives? They go and schedule my annual exam and put the time for 11:15. Come on - I work. And with the economy the way it is, if I leave early, someone else has to cover for me. Not very kosher. So now I have to find someone else to take me on that has realistic hours.
Does anyone else find that Doctor's hours are very inconvenient?
Here are my two current works in progress!
So,
I've been chompin' at the bit to get some more porcelain pieces in the works. I've been completing some custom orders in polymer so that's still going, but here's what I made last night....
A mold for a small circular dish
A mold for a square dish
Another scalloped dish with a pedestal
and.......
the parts to a cat dish that is an 'opened tuna can'.
I'll put that together tomorrow, and I have a small bag of scrap clay ready to go to make kitty sculptures......I'll probably be making a bunch of small ones for the time being!
Thanks for listening!
how's the lay out now? I tweaked the HTML to allow some extra room........
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And the winner of the Porcelain Give Away is:
Mitsy from ART MIND!!!
Congratulations on your win and thanks to everyone who comment on the blog about the layout and the porcelain.
Mitsy will receive a sweetheart porcelain figurine!
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The porcelain is ready to start trickling into the shop!~
Here's the first of hopefully many in the porcelain line - if this sparks an idea for a kitty, please comment and let me know what it is!
From the listing:
