The Wigglebutt Blog

I don't know why it affects me the way it does. Yes, I know it's just October 10, 2010, but 10-10-10 will never happen again in my lifetime. It's like the year your child is exactly half your age. It will only happen once in your lifetime. Wow. North America's largest earthquake. Good Friday Earthquake of 1964, measuring 9.2 on the Richter scale. Approximately 50,000 square miles (80,465 square km) were affected by the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake. Great Land of Alaska - Facts and Trivia 

Have I mentioned I like Autumn colors? Hoping to get time to do some sculpting tomorrow. With any luck I will have a WIP to show off soon. "Polar Bears are actually considered a marine mammal and therefore are protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act." Great Land of Alaska - Facts and Trivia

"Alaska law prohibits the use of billboards along Alaskan highways." "Approximately 70% of the roads in Alaska are unpaved." Great Land of Alaska - Facts and Trivia Termination Dust (much thicker and farther down the mountain than last week when this was taken) Alaskan Welcome Sign  

I spent two solid hours today taking pictures of pendants (to list) and some necklaces ( to post, then list ). When I say taking pictures, I mean sitting cross legged on the floor with my mini tripod in front of my homemade light box ....for two solid hours. I'm not as young as I used to be, so after about the first hour or so, sitting cross legged on the floor gets to be less fun. Anywho, when I was done taking the pictures, which looked great in the camera monitor, I uploaded them (or downloaded them?) to the computer and promptly decided that buying my new camera maybe hadn't been such a great idea. The colors were wonky and everyone of them was too dark, nothing like they had looked on the camera monitor. After ranting to my Honey for about 20 minutes about how I shouldn't have to do massive amounts of PhotoShop redo  to get my pictures to look right, he discovered that I had somehow accidentally adjusted my "exposure compensation" to almost as low as it would...

I finished another batch of leaves Well, I thought I was finished with this batch. I really like that the colors were so vibrant,  but they seemed almost too 'bright'. I added some "antiquing", a fancy way of saying burnt umber acrylic, and I like them much better. I have a ton of these, now I just need to figure out what to do with them ☺ I'm planning on spending my evening installing jump rings on these bad boys while I watch Criminal Minds. I do love watching TV in the evening, I just can't JUST watch TV.  I always have to be doing something with my hands.

 "Alaska has about 365 million acres of land. Of that, only about 160,000 acres has been cleared, built on, or otherwise directly affected by people" Great Land of Alaska - Facts and Trivia As many of you know I live in Alaska and I love it MOST of the time.  I have lived here for over 18 years and have seen VERY little of it. (Lots of different reasons but we won't get into that right now.) In an effort to learn a little more about the State in which I reside I decided to do a little research and I came across a very informative and enjoyable site.   It is maintained by a fellow named Douglas Gates.  He lives in Soldotna / Kenai, Alaska (No I don't know him personally, I got the info off the site) You can visit yourself by clicking the link above or click here . Some of the trivia I already knew and some I didn't. At any rate, I find all of it quite interesting and thought  I would include at least one, sometimes two interesting bits of Alaska trivia ...

I had a ton of things I was planning on working on over the weekend in the crafty department, but after writing my previous post, I felt compelled (more like obsessed with the need)  to experiment with making some fall leaves. This is the first batch These were done with acrylic paint. I wasn't sure if I liked them at first but they have grown on me. hahahaha!  I kill me☺ These are the second go-round. On these I used alcohol inks. The color was a lot brighter before they went in the oven. They seem to have lost some of the color during the cure but I still really like them.  They are a little more 'elegant'. Next time around I will try curing then applying the inks and see how that works. After gathering everybody together for this group shot, I realized I like them combined. I still want to try to get the inks brighter  and that will just give me even more variety. That is, after all, why some many people enjoy fall foliage, right? And something else...