I recently found C.J. Redwine’s blog, The Last Word, which is laugh out loud funny, by the way.

And now I NEED a titanium spork. And it’s all her fault. I never knew they existed before.

Coincidentally, I had already written a spork [...]

I made it, and a couple days early, thanks to some encouragement from Dave and a 7300 word day yesterday.

I still haven’t finished the first draft of the book though. I need to figure out how my street smart but non-technical heroine is going to conquer the evil bad guy [...]

So, far I’ve been keeping up with my word count for NaNo. You need 1667 words per day minimum to make the 50,000 words by the end of the month. I’ve got about 7000 words right now.

My previous two books were lighthearted YA fantasy complete with princesses. I still have to finish editing both [...]

This was while ago but I never posted it. One of the many visitors to our bird feeder We’ve had this raccoon, a mother with two babies, grey squirrels, red squirrels, chipmunks, a hawk which caught several of the chipmunks, a grey fox, a buck, and of course numerous birds.

This was the last class I took in the Weekend of Clay and, in a way, the one which made the most trouble. Lanette taught us some metal working basics including how to use a sawframe and cut sheet metal, and how to make rivets. It was great, although you can see I need a [...]

Helen did a four hour workshop on PMC at our guild weekend recently. I’ve done a very little PMC (I’ll have to see if I ever posted the couple pieces I made) but not much and this was really helpful.

The manatee was from one of my own molds. I used rubber stamps to make [...]

I was going to cast this in Hydroshrink first (more about that later on when I get some more ordered) but when I went to open the container, it had solidified. So… on to Plan B which I was going to do anyway – Cold Cast Bronze.

Cold cast bronze is a casting using real [...]

Just in case you drop in to this blog every now and then and were wondering…

And the good thing is that I’m starting to feel alive again. I’ve been tied up with excessive hours at work so long (since November) that I’d forgotten what it felt like.

When you’ve putting in that many [...]