Hi!!  I just sent a Newsletter today…it is the first Newsletter that I have sent out in quite a while.  It actually confirms to me that I should be in the studio melting glass more often.  Thank you for all of your support!! 

Life is going fabulous.  I have a new job that I am really enjoying.  I am helping teachers integrate technology in their classrooms.  It is very interesting!!

I am off to the Post Office to ship boxes off.

More soon!

Take care~

Fay

Hi!  I hope everyone is doing great.  Things in my life are going fabulously.  I just started a new job which I am loving.  I am finding time to get back on track with melting glass regularly which is uber cool.  So stay tuned for bead updates. 

Also, I am teaching a few classes in May and June.  Check them out on my website.

More soon~

Fay

Best wishes for a very happy birthday Pyro! 

She is 3 years old today and ready to celebrate!!

Today is the day…Election Day.  Did you Vote???? 

It took me barely 30 minutes to go through the line and vote today.  Not bad at all!!

Are you as confused as me about the time this week?  For most of my life the last weekend in October we changed all of our clocks back one hour.  Today, technology changes it for us.  Recently, our government changed this yearly phenomena to the first weekend in November…so this week half of my clocks are one hour off. 

I am so confused!!  I can’t wait for November 2nd to be in sync again. 

Anybody else have this issue in their house?

Hi!  We have been having this discussion in our group of friends…how can you tell how your dining experience will go?? One of our friends feels that if the establishment has awesome bread, the rest of the food will be fantastic too.  I feel that I can tell all about a restaurant by their salads…if the lettuce is wilted, has brown spots (or black), has the stem of the lettuce in your salad, etc. warns the diner that the rest of the meal is going to be not up to par.  A salad should be crisp and fresh.  A restaurant should never mix old salad fixings with new salad fixings…if a restaurant skimps on the salad then the chef will skimp on everything else. 

We went to an Italian restaurant right near our home last week…having never tried it before we were hoping it would have homemade pastas and luscious meals.  I love privately owned restaurants.  And it has been our goal to find the perfect Italian restaurant since we moved to Florida.  Anyways, the bread was fabulous!! Then it went downhill from there…I ordered a Chicken Cesar salad with the dressing on the side and after hearing that they had created their pastas fresh daily I wanted to order a side of penne with olive oil.  After our waiter checked with the chef, he came back and said that the chef would not do that…I could have a side of penne with their pomodo sauce or order an entre’.  They are not Carraba’s, they are toooo high end and did not do special orders.  hmmmm…first time I ever heard that at an Italian restaurant!  But we forged ahead…and my honey ordered their lasagna with the fresh pasta made daily. 

Unfortunately, our meals were less than desired.  The salad came out as a very small salad (cost $7.99 for the salad, and $2.99 for the chicken) with wilted, blackened romaine lettuce…very old lettuce.  My hubby’s lasagna ($15.99) was cold…so he sent it back…came back cold in the middle again.  So the bottom line is that we are amazed this restaurant is still open.  It is having its one year anniversary next week…we doubt it will have a second!!

Small changes on their part could make them a place to go to!  Unfortunately, some Chefs egos are larger than their restaurants.  Let’s remember QUALITY food has a customer return. 

How do you rate restaurants???

Whoop!! Whoop!! the Tampa Rays won the play-offs!! The Rays are going to play in the World Series! How spectacular is that?!! This is the Rays first time in the World Series…gotta love newbies!  Hope they hit a lot of homeruns!!!! Go Rays, Go!!

Hi!  I love Duff and his peeps on the show Ace of Cakes.  Duff owns Charm City Cakes in Baltimore.  Does anyone watch it??  Mary Alice cracks me up.  And I enjoy watching the team banter back and forth…like brothers and sisters.  Their cakes are amazing! and I am inspired when I watch them recreate real things.  I wonder if it is easier to recreate things in cake or in glass???????

Maybe we need to have a challenge….

I think I want to be Duff and Ace of Glass!

Hi! The Get Together was amazing.  There were over 20 us that gathered at the new Industrial Arts Center in Gulfport which is only 35 minutes away from me!  We shared tips, tricks, and showed off our pretties.  I demoed a lizard.  When I first started lampworking, I learned how to make these from Al Janelle and made bunches of them.  So I thought since I live in Geckoland, that a Gecko type bead would be perfect as the first demo for our gathering.  I can’t wait for the next Get Together November 8th.  So if you are a glassy peep, come on over and hang out with us.

Here is a picture of a Lizzie that I created on a hothead my first year lampworking.

Hi!  I am so excited-only two more weeks until our first Tampa Bay area lampwork get together.  Yippeee!!!!  I need to practice a bead to demo…I am thinking of something Halloweenish…that should be fun!!!  Maybe something ghoulish…spooky….booorific!

Hope to see you there!!