Time Off

The ocean washed over Hwy 12 this week, so I've been cut off from my workplace. Excellent. So what to do to make up for not making $70 doing mindless work? Broom casting!!! Well, actually I've been doing pine straw casting. This is where one melts metal in a crucible and pours it into a bunch of pine straw tied together with a rubber band. You can get these really cool shapes and then make jewelry out of them... so here is the first ring, which is going to my sister. There will be many more where this came from... I'm still choking on all the fresh pine smoke that I inhaled while casting in my damp garage tonight.

See where the metal slips through the straw?

and here's a new lace cowl I'm making with clear beads that look like rain droplets... very pretty. I might keep it.