:D

My big box of beads and wire has been delivered!

Just two and a half hours before I can go and rescue it from my porch and make stuff.

Possibly I should have spent my lunch break writing and not surfing the internet, but whatever. There is stuff in my head and 1000 words doesn't actually take that long.

EDIT: Also, I will be glad when mark gets the reading filters implemented, because I would like to be able to check my reading list in the computer lab without worrying about suddenly having a screen full of boobs or something. Not that it's a guarantee, but I can filter out the most likely offenders and save their posts for later.

lol clumsiest

I got home in very high spirits today, ready to embark on "People Might Pay Me For Doing Fun Stuff? :D version crafty."

Cooed over my two rather spendy packages that arrived today. Prettypretty lampwork beads, and a big box of basics and some fun stuff.

No photos yet, and there won't be any until I get a big bright light, but I did manage to mostly finish a necklace I began a while ago - needs some glue to hold one bead, and I might attach the chain differently later. I have beads set aside for matching earrings, too. It didn't turn out nearly as well as I had hoped, but considering my skill level when I started it, it's not too tragic.

I also made what I thought was a pendant but is more of a necklace now. It is named Concentric - gold wire, three pearls, loops and a squiggle. Of course, as soon as I attached Concentric to its chain, I realized I need some bigger jumprings to finish the piece. Oops. Maybe tomorrow I will make them.

I also managed to: pinch myself several times with pliers; drop tiny gold components twice; and spill non-permanent rubber tool-coating goop on a dining room chair and my own hands (with bonus getting it on my hands more/again trying to clean up spills).

Fortunately there is no rubber goop in my hair or on my clothes, and the tools have been more or less successfully coated for tomorrow's use.

Now, bed. Sleeeeeeep.