April Showers...

Bring May birthdays. Mine was this past Tuesday (15th - bad things happen on the ides, you know). So I'm officially pushing 30 now. That's right, I'm 25! :) So, what've we been doing lately... let's see.

There's this:

It won 2nd place at the show a couple weeks ago. 1966 Austin Mini pickup truck, right hand drive, manual transmission, royal pain to drive on cold mornings (just ask Dan). Dan's parents took their Metropolitan and we rode to the show in this. Then Dan took my mom for a spin around the neighborhood. Look at this happy little face (to the right):

Such a happy mama.

And these that I made in jewelry class. They're carnelians bezel set and mounted on sterling silver. There's a hole in the back of each stone to let the light shine through. And yes, they're a little uneven. They are handmade, after all! And I'm not so good yet either. Beer cap for scale (yeah, we're classy up in this blog).
And then this HUGE copper cuff that I beat on with some chicken wire and a hammer for over an hour to get this pattern. About 3 1/2" wide. It's not pickled at all so that the pretty swirly colors stay. There's some purple and blue to it. Jewelry class starts up again in a couple more weeks, so I have some time to come up with new ideas. It'll be fun! Twice a week for 5 weeks now. So we actually get 2 extra classes for the same price.

Ma's been making some neat stuff, too. Just haven't gotten a chance to take pictures of her stuff yet. She's made a bunch of nice silver rings and stamped words on them.

I was trying to transfer to IUSB and finish my Master's... but that's not happening now. They have had unknown problems processing my transfer, which means I went to class and did homework all week for nothing. SO. MAD. Really, really wanted to get into this GIS class because they normally only offer it at IU Bloomington's campus under another course number. That would mean I can take it again for credit here, since I already took it last year. Wish they would at least tell me what the problem was. I know it didn't look great that I dropped out and moved last year, but still. You'd think they'd want my money at least.

Oh, got the car back! 2 months and $13,000 later.... geesh. Anyhow, it's in one piece for the most part. They still have to fix some things that are minor. Missing bolts, missing plugs.

Discotheque.

Started making something with that Disco Lights!



Bic pen for scale. Think I'll probably try to make 2 scarves as presents. Unless something else that uses 1 skein of TT presents itself. I decided I was SO not gonna spend big bucks on the rest of the yarn I'd need to make a whole sweater out of this stuff. Even though it would be really pretty.

Obligatory yarn closeup:


Oh, look what my mom and I learned how to do this week! It's not yarn-related, so brace yourselves ;) :

We started our jewelry making class on Tuesday night. Everybody made rings. This one is sterling silver, put through a press with a piece of old window screen so that it looks like snake skin. It's got some firescale on it, but that's the only way you can see the pattern really... otherwise I'd have to figure out how to put patina on it and that's just too much to learn right now. So firescale stays! But do I give this to Jason or Dan? Decisions... Class is gonna be fun, but I'll be dragging the next morning at work -- we have to be in the studio Tuesday nights from 6:30 - 9:30 pm. Anyhow, hurray for torches and molten metal!