Akiva: Shani, if you come and help me with the laundry, I'll let you play with this.....(pregnant pause)...lint!
He then produced a fist sized wad of dryer lint and offered it to his bewildered sister. I swear.
(She didn't take the bait, in case you were wondering, and he continued about his laundering unescorted.)
In other news:
The Huz has returned from his five-day hospital stint. The kids had as much fun visiting him as they would on any field trip.
Look what's heading into the shop tonight:
I have been tumbling the same batch of glass for a week, with very little change. Sure, the edges are nice and smooth, but there's been none of that "frosty sea-glass" effect I was aiming for. I'll set out in pursuit of some better grit---did I really just say "better grit?"---tomorrow, and we'll see if that helps any. Meanwhile, I was playing around with some nice, thick annealed steel wire this afternoon and ended up with this bracelet:
And I really loved it. But then, I got to thinking. And I chucked that puppy in the tumbler with a couple pounds of stainless steel shot, and looky here!
Shiny! I have to confess, I've been playing with it all evening. The kids are starting to think I'm strange. So as soon as I get some decent pictures, into the shop it goes. It needs a name, though...any ideas?
Also, it rained today.
So I figured I'd hit you with a couple of gratuitous kid-with-umbrella shots.
And speaking of gratuitous:
That would be the 2 year old. Clutching her security-Glee-booklet.
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