The Wigglebutt Blog

The shed kit. Looks exciting, huh? This is the end of day 1. Keep in mind Honey spent the morning going to town to get the kit and footings. We spent about 3½ hours getting to this point. We are now level and square. And it's time for Nascar ... And this is about ready to start. Here we are after day 2..... We worked on this from 8:30 to 5:00. It still needs the roof and some trim and, of course I will paint it to match the house ( that's the way I am), but I think we did a good job. We didn't kill each other ( he was ON HIS WAY OUT a couple of times, but then he came around to my way of thinking) and I like the way it looks so far. Just a side note:  If you don't here from me in a couple of days, send help. I'm probably still too sore  to get out of bed. Happy Mother's Day!!!

Say hello to my newest dragon baby. He seems to be quite suspicious of that tail thing. ☺ We are back to having Sat & Sun off.  YEAH!!! I don't think I will have any time to clay this weekend though.   My Honey is in town picking up a shed kit, so we will be spending the weekend building (or at least starting to build) a shed.  Apparently he has amassed too many toys and he doesn't have room to store them all. The good thing is, I love to build things and the weather is supposed to be sunny and near 60°, so I'm actually looking forward to it =~) Summers are SO short here in Alaska, any chance you have to be outside, ya gotta take it!

I am officially in love with handmade lampwork beads. Aren't these gorgeous? I got these on Etsy from   Julsbeads I have never owned any lampwork beads and certainly nothing so perty☺ I absolutely love these and my photo does NOT do them justice.  If you are into handmade beads you HAVE GOT TO GO HERE . I actually came across this very talented and totally hilarious bead maker/ blogger during this last OWOH Giveaway. I have been a follower of her blog ever since. If you want to get to know a very sweet and funny person, go HERE . She is super full of personality and super generous.   I say generous because look at what else she sent to me! She just sent these along as "extras" and I gotta tell ya that I just can't stop touching this one.  It is definately my FAV!! (Once again, keep in mind my not so great photography skills, this bead is to DIE for!) It is going to have to remain in my possession permanently. At least some of the other beads are desti...

My Honey and I decided to have the shop open on Saturday, this week and next week since the deadline for changing out studded snow tires is May 1st.   Most people wait till the last minute and then panic if they can't have it done,  "RIGHT NOW!   While I wait!!" Attitudes can get really ugly the closer we get to the deadline, so we are hoping this will ease a little of the tension.  But I really hate working six days a week.  It puts a damper on my claying. I was able to complete a couple of necklace sets. I like this one, But I LOVE this one! I have about 8 more in the works, but until after next week it will probably be slow going.

You might remember a couple weeks ago I told you I got this book I got so caught up in playing around with the silver on Saturday and the polymer on Sunday, that I had to put the baby dragons on hold.  They aren't quite ready to hatch anyway=~) These may not look like much just yet, But after a scrub-a-dub-dub and a refreshing dip in liver of sulfer they will be awesome:) These still need to be cleaned up around the edges and varnished to a shiny shine ( I think I've mentioned before, I don't sand:) Aren't these colors yummy??? They make me think of sherbert. I love sherbert.  drool  Especially sherbert with vanilla ice cream. drooool Sorry. I'm back. I had to go add something to my shopping list. Once I get these to a finished state where I can start actually putting them together, I will take some decent pictures to post.  Until then, I will show you one I finished last week. This one is faux jade with the oxidized silver pendant. I will get bette...

I swear, it happens every year.  And every year it's soooooo depressing. Here is Lily and Scoobie Doo basking in what April has once again brought us. Sunshine and 10 inches of new snow. They are predicting snow through the weekend.  yea =( My weekend will be spent playing with the Art Clay Silver that arrived this week and starting some new baby dragons.  I'm thinking young dragons, really young, 'egg' young☺ I have some ideas, we'll see how they play out. I have been enjoying 'mindless' claying this week. My husband got me flowers one year in a clear glass vase shaped like a swan.  I've had this for probably 5 years or longer and I finally decided on a "Faux Jade" to cover it with.  It still needs a good coat of varnish (I don't sand☺),  but I think I like it.

If you are a regular, you may remember me mentioning that I was in the process of redesigning  my website.  I knew it was going to be a big undertaking and boy, was it ever!  There are a couple of pages still under construction and of course these types of things are never really "finished".  But, after spending over a month loading adding changing tweaking, I think I like it. ☺ Sooooooo........... If you happen to have some time on your hands, I would love it if you would wander over to wigglebutt.com  and let me know what you think.  I really would appreciate ANY feedback. Well that takes care of the Launched and  favor parts, now for Listed................................ This little lovely is now in my Etsy shop and so is He and so is this  cutie pie Oh,  I almost forgot.  I'm trying out Facebook.  It seems to be all the rage right now.  You would probably laugh if you knew how long it has taken me to figure s...