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A co-worker and I were talking, we both make jewelry and have a metric ****ton of materials and plenty of tools.

Would anyone be interested in a jewelry-making party?

The idea would be that you use our stuff and make a bracelet, earrings, etc for a set cost -- bracelet $10, earrings $7, something like that and keep what you made.

If anyone has extra beads, wire, etc they can bring it along to use or share if they wish; if you bring your own tools be sure they are clearly marked so they don't get mixed up.

This would probably be somewhere like Hebrews coffeeshop as they have a meeting room.  If there is enough interest (say 5 people) I'll check on
their terms.

Vacation day today, doing some self-maintenance before going to work and then to OKRF tomorrow -- generally on my days off, I go ahead and get up pretty close to my usual time so as to keep my schedule and not mess things up for myself...today I left the alarm off and slept in.  Especially since I was up for a couple of hours during the night!

The infuse-ing oils are outside int he sun, the everclear tinctures are inside -- the St John's wort is veryveryGREEN rather than red, I'm supposing that is b/c I sed the dried herb rather than the fresh-picked flowers/seeds/tender leaves.  Wonder if it'll still work. 

Also have a pound(!) of dried Motherwort on order, will be making a tincture with part of that.  Anyone want to split the remaining portion?  what'll you swap me for it?

May also be offloading some dried hops and mugwort in a few days...wound up with WAY more than I can use in a reasonable time.

 

Yep, I'm on one of my "upswings" and getting project-y.

Ordering off the 'net and shopping locally for makings for ointments, tinctures, lip balms, and bath salts. 

If you've had any I've made, either from "scratch" or from kits, please let me know what you did and didn't like about them? 

Also, I'll be looking for testers for a few things...let me know if you're interested :)
(This won't be *for sale* type stuff b/c of regulations and all, but if someone wants like 43 of something I'll probably ask them to cover the cost of materials!)

Also, if you have small glass or plastic jars with lids (up to 2 oz) -- or lidded tins of the same size -- I'd be happy to put them to use.  Let me know how much you'd need for them.

Attempting to learn to knot the cord between pearls on a necklace.  I keep getting a gap between the bead and the knot (and I mean a BIG gap).

Yeah, it takes practice...but right now I'm getting practice at picking up the beads after I get frustrated and throw them!

Finally started on Yule prezzies --

( Piccies! )