A Bazillion Things..... (loooong post)

So it's been over a week since I sat down to blog, I've been too busy reading other peoples blogs and creating my lil butt off... So what's new you ask? A bazillion things!!
It was my 26th birthday yesterday... mostly uneventful.. the holiday delayed my birthday cards so I got 3 phonecalls in a row, I got to talk to my grandmother in Indiana, my Dad in Mississippi but I missed my Aunt Steph in Wisconsin cause I was eating dinner at that point.. Have to call her back.. My Dad and I have these awkward conversations on the phone (last night was no exception).. We just don't know how to talk to each other I guess.. He's lived in Mississippi my whole life and I live in NJ, I did live with him for almost 2 years back when I was.. oohh 8...so it's understandable.. I love him he loves me and we know that and thats what counts. He sent me the website he's set up to show the construction on their new house and in the email he suggested my man and I come down for a visit...that made me so happy I seriously almost cried.. I'm an odd one I guess.
My sweety brought me home some flowers and a stuffed froggy (I love stuffed animals, I have BAGS of them from when we used to go to 6flags every week.. those claw machines.. I'm also a herpophile- I love lizards, reptiles and amphibians.. so stuffed frog = win!)
I used my christmas gift from my mother ( a GC for a 1hr swedish massage at her salon) The massage was great, then I slept funny last night and re-kinked my shoulder... oh well....
When I got home from the shop I tried to finish my project for this weeks Thursday's Sweet treat... Well I finished it.. at 10om missed the deadline. so I'l post my pics here and email Natasha for the mini treat... along with last weeks theme.. which I will also post here...
So I had made these heart beads.. I intened to make them earings but I couldn't get the wirse to bend right or them to hang correctly.. so.. They became my first ever bracelet.. and I love it!
The theme was Dreaming in Color..and I got my inspiration in the oddest place...
Last week I made a statuette for the challange and I was putting her on a base with taller flowers around her.. when I was doen I decided that it looked wa too cluttered and took away from the statue.. so I took down the flowers.. pulled the cover of solid clay off the scrap I used for the base and balled/twisted up my scrap clay and left it on my workspace.... trying to think of what to do for this week.. staring at the log of clay.. it hit me.. the colors in it were hypnotizing me... I took a thin slice of it off and the inside of the log looked so ... psychadelic... I HAD to use it for this week's challenge...


Neat-o right? So night before last I used chunks of the scrap off the end and formed a bunch of hearts.. mainly 2 sizes... then I took slices off the log of scrap and flattened them with my polyroller.. one side striped the other swirly .. I covered the tops.. alternating sides of slices used, peirced them with the charm wire and baked... and went to sleep.. Yesterday I constructed the bracelet..I used a charm wire in each and looped them together, andded a few rings for length at the end and a clasp.. this is the result....
While hanging to dry before heat setting the glaze...

and three different views of it on my wrist, so you can see most of the nifty patterns




I also made two pendants the same way...

And... a turtle! in this pic he's hanging out with the turtle I made last week.. they were glazed at the same time...
hhmm that photo is a bit blurry isn't it.. I apologize!
So.... you know when you forget to put out the recycling? Good thing I forgot this week because I scrounged two Guiness bottles to hang my projects from while they were glazed... my man came home to this site yesterday and laughed so hard he nearly cried.. not sure why it was so funny to him.. I was just being innovative!

Ok I'm jumping around a lot here forgive me... Last week's Sweet Treat Challenge was where the wild things bloom... I made this statuette..

The pictures just don't do her justice! Each rose is handmade petal by petal.. no molds here! I had some pointy ended roses, mostly bigger than the ones I used here.. I made more of the smaller ones which I did use... the larger ones were given stems and added to the base I mentioned before... then being to cluttered were disassembled (back to pointy ended roses for now)....
Speaking of clutter and roses.. I was shocked at myself when I pulled out the ziplock baggies that had my roses in them.. I have soooo many little things that I'll fear I'll never use... check out all the neat little things I had stashed away... (click to enlarge)

one say I will find a use for all that stuff... a mushroom fairy garden... lizard and frog magnets....who knows.. but I shouldn't forget about them all again!

And lastly... in previous posts I mentioned redoing my bathroom.. well the paint is finaly on the walls (save a bit of touch up here and there needed with a small artist brush)And well.. I'm not sure if I like the color or not.. I don't NOT like it... but I sure don't love it.. I do however think it does what we wanted.. make that green look less 1970's... What do you think?



Well thats all for now.. I had waaaay too much to say.. I still have more but damn this post is long enough no? My purple dragon is done baking/cooling.. time to glaze him! Maybe I'll post (shorter) again later..
And if you read all of that.. you deserve a cookie! A whole plate of cookies...