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finally, some new earrings and (what was I thinking) another large project

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I kind of had to spend  a few extra hours a day at work recently. I usually work early and open the shop at 8 and I have a young lady that comes in later and closes up at 6. I can usually get out of there by 2:30 or 3:00. Well for a couple of weeks recently, my young friend didn't have transportation, so we car-pooled. That meant for some long days for both of us. I took advantage of being stuck at the shop by spending some quality time at my enamelling station . I have accumulated quite a few beads and I figured I had better, at least try, to make some time to make something with them. The one above is a work in progress. I just thought it was such a happy color, I wanted to include it☺ And just when I thought our "one big summer project" for the year was done when we finished the greenhouse........ I finally convinced the stubborn man that lives here that the grass  was not going to get green, no matter how ...

Practicing.....

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Well, I told you I was taking an e-course, an online workshop.   It started last Monday and I am having a blast! So far I have made Balled headpins. Some wire thingies and some paddle headpins. And some awesome beads. The kit that I got came with the colors I used here, but I wanted to try some other colors so I ordered a few more colors (Ican already tell I will never have enough colors LOL!) and as soon as they got here I headed up to my work area to light up the torch and it wouldn't... light,  that is. So I got a new torch. It is different than my old torch and now I am having trouble finding "the sweet spot" in the flame to hold the beads to get good color. I am ending up with a lot of 'muddy brown' beads. Eventually I will get it down and then I will show off some more pretties.