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Saturday, November 15, 2008

Shoozle's fuzed glass spider pendant

It's simple, but so striking!!!

spider
Originally uploaded by shoozles67

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Lampwork beads... hmmm... polymer clay ideas...

Kye, originally uploaded by melaniemoertel.

Lampwork beads by Melanie Moertel.... and I can totally see some of this working in polymer clay...

I have some beads waiting to be baked, and ideas flying around my head... and a house that is in desperate need of cleaning (and I don't mean simply running a vacuum cleaner, either) so that my college age son can invite friends in. He says, and rightly so, that it is isolating our family to have things in such a state. Also, that perhaps it's because we are all fairly introverted that we create this isolation. Darn. How'd he get so smart?

Starfish Story
Once a man was walking along a beach.
The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. Off in the distance he could see a person going back and forth between the surf's edge and and the beach. Back and forth this person went. As the man approached he could see that there were hundreds of starfish stranded on the sand as the result of the natural action of the tide.

The man was struck by the the apparent futility of the task. There were far too many starfish. Many of them were sure to perish. As he approached, the person continued the task of picking up starfish one by one and throwing them into the surf.

As he came up to the person he said, "You must be crazy. There are thousands of miles of beach covered with starfish. You can't possibly make a difference." The person looked at the man. He then stooped down and pick up one more starfish and threw it back into the ocean. He turned back to the man and said, "It sure made a difference to that one!"