It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas......

Wooohoooo!  It's almost Holiday time!  Now, I'd like a round of applause for spending 11 hours and most of my remaining brain cell making his beaded ornament.  Yikes.  It was fun.  I think.  Let me ponder.  :)

Ok, then I got out my extruder and made this ornament.  I like it.  :D
Now I have to go back to my nice clean table.

Man, speaking of that....  I spent an hour yesterday writing a funny blog only to have it evaporate.  :(  Sigh................  :D

Getting Ready For The Holiday Season

Oh boy, I love the Holidays!  So, i dragged all these glass ball ornaments out of my closet.  They've been sitting there because I couldn't decide what to do with them.  The I saw Stormy's cool ornament and thought I would use up all the ones I have.

First I made a filigree one with my brand new wonderful extruder that the good folks at the claystore.com gave me.  Works GREAT!  Then I covered this one with a black and white mokume gane cane I made.  The *necklace* is made of beads and crystals.  I made a pink mokume gane one, too.  Then I put a few ghost canes on it and promptly forgot it was in the oven.  Now I have a pink ornament with yellow flowers.  :(  When Christmas rolls around I will skulk out in the dead of night and furtively hang it on our condo tree in the lobby.  :D  Meanwhile, take a look at this one and tell me what you think, please!  I will putting ornaments on Etsy as the Season gets closer. Thanks!

Thoughts On The Upcoming Christmas Season

Ok, I can hear all of you from here!  No bellyaching!  Christmas is on the way!  Truly, it is.  :)  So, I have been thinking about what to make.  A few years ago I made a bunch of ornaments.  They didn't sell until the next year when I practically sold out.  Naturally, eeejit that I am, I made more.  Did they sell last year?  They did not.  There was a huge sign visible to all but me that screamed, "Do NOT buy Christmas ornaments from Moe this year!"  Hah.  This year I am getting out that light the cops use to look for blood traces to make sure that sign is no where around.  AND... I am making ornaments.  I made a very cool mokume gane star in pinks and silver.  VERY nice.  It is cooking its little heart out as we speak.  I will make more stars as I am a big fan of stars.

And my friend informs me that about 100 billion Altoids boxes are on their way to me so I will be covering them, too.  Yes, Elaine, some will be winging their way to Canada to live with you, too.  Except you will have to wash them.  :)

So, what do you all think about stars for ornaments?  Anybody got any fun ideas of other ornaments that you think would be cute?  And is there a color for Christmas this year?  Ever year there is something besides the traditional.  I wonder what it is this year?  Anyone know?  It's probably puce.  :D