I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I had a great time with family on the western slope (Delta) of Colorado. Here are just a few pictures of family. It was the first time Sky wasn’t with us. In fact it was the only time we weren’t all together since […]
Recently I saw an article about uranium glass that glows under florescent light. I found it fascinating and I read up on it; here is some of the info I learned. Uranium glass is glass which has had uranium, usually in oxide diuranate form, added to a glass mix before […]
I recently took another trip to Ottawa Canada for a business trip. It was freezing, but so pretty. I really love Canada, it’s such a wonderful country and amazing people. Here are just a few pictures from my trip. I just love the canals and the architecture. If you get […]
Something that you may not know is most metals, except for gold or fine silver, tarnish. Most of the time I use a sunshine cloth to keep my jewelry looking new. It cleans gold, silver, brass, copper, and glass. But I had a couple of really tarnished pieces and didn’t […]
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I had a fantastic Thanksgiving with my in-laws on the western slope. I have so many things to be thankful for family (my husband, daughter, son, daughter-in-law, granddaughter, mom, sisters, brothers, nieces & nephews, cousins, in-laws), friends, and of course my job. […]
Every two years my family has a reunion. This year was really fun, several of my cousins (many of which I had never met before) came to the reunion. It was wonderful, I really enjoyed meeting my cousins. The picture on the left is my brother, sisters, nieces, nephew, daughter, […]
In my last post I talked about my fused glass class with Laurie Spray. In this blog I wanted to talk about the Airbnb I stayed at while I was taking the class. The airbnb host was Nancy and she was a true delight. We had a wonderful time together. […]
Y’all know I love fused glass flowers. This month I took a class with one of my favorite people – Laurie Spray in Bonny Doon California. Here is a picture of of Laurie and me. I just love her. This is my third class with Laurie. I also took a […]
After taking the cookie class (see previous blog) Lela and I took another cooking class (BTW I don’t enjoy cooking). The class was at the French Kitchen in Colorado Springs. They gave me a nice bag because I signed up for another class. I made chicken and dumplings. I so […]
So I really love learning new things so recently I took 2 classes… Cooking classes!! The first class was a French Macarons class. This was more of a demonstration but I still enjoyed it. The class was in a local shop. Nice shop and instructor. What I learned from this […]
