TaDaaaa! Lampwork Beads have arrived!!!

Well, finally available on my
www.glassbygundula.com
website, I've worked up the nerve to list some of my beads.
I made it clear that I'm a beginning lampworker, I won't resort to calling my beads "baroque" as one seller does on Ebay, but some of the shapes are not perfect, lots of room for improvement here and of course, my pricing reflects that.

I'm working on a large custom order of cabs right now but hope to soon have the time to actually make some jewelry out of my beads.

All the dogs are fine, I'm ok.

I really like these cabs

Just listed 10 dichroic cabochons on www.glassbygundula.com, here’s the smallest ( priced at $ 4.00 ) and probably my favorite, solid coppery gold dichroic overlaid with green, gold, blue dichroic, puts me in the mood for the Fall season. And with a humid 95 degrees today, no rain in sight, I am looking forward to the cooler days of October, well, more like November around here….
If you need to work on you Fall line of jewelry, look these over to see what you can do with them! Here’s the page, they're the last ones: http://www.glassbygundula.com/page2.html

It was bound to happen…

Yesterday I took Daisy to the Vet, her right front paw was a little swollen, she was licking it constantly and would not let me have a good look at it. She had been throwing up the night before, wasn’t eating and not even running after squirrels. She could walk but seemed to be in pain and it didn’t get better after a day.
Well, Dr. Robinson shaved her leg and discovered puncture wounds. He couldn’t really say what got to her, we are thinking a snake but not a venomous one, sure hope Daisy knows and remembers and stays the hell away!
There was inflammation, and she was running a fever, indication an infection, so now she’s on antibiotics for 2 weeks, and anti-inflammatory pain medication, and she’s already much better today, much perkier and alert. As I type, she’s even nibbling on a chicken leg, I think she’ll be fine.
I took some more packages to the Post Office today and chatted a bit with Stephen, the Postmaster.
He told me about a retired glass blower that lives just a few miles from me, I left him some of my business cards and he’ll see if this gentleman would like to talk to me about Hot Glass. That would be so interesting!
Well, got to re-stock the Glass by Gundula cabochon shelves, and get to work on the Fun Stuff!!

we're back home!

The dogs couldn't be happier, and I'm glad, too!
I've got my notebook for the next trip out of town, and I lampworked some beads today, the sun is out after a brief thunderstorm that cooled things off a bit, life is good.
Yesterday I had lunch with Dorothy and Harry, my friend Joe's Mom and Uncle. Harry had been to town and served up a wonderful deli lunch, complete with Coconut Cream Pie. Everybody got to take leftovers home, and I'll share the rest of the pie with Daisy and Niki tonight. I'll add a sliced banana and top it with Peanutbutter Cup ice cream, yummy! Great way to end a good day, hoping for many more.
In the morning I'll go to the Post Office to mail an order ( thanks, JH! ) and unless it rains, I'll take the dogs to the swimming hole just 5 more miles down the road.

Computer Woes!

Or rather: Modem Woes!
I'm still here in Houston, but the way things are going for me I'm trying to get out of town ASAP. We had a severe thunderstorm on Saturday and a bolt of lightning fried one of my TV's and, alas, the modem of my computer.
So here I am, taking advantage of the Public Library, my tax dollars at work, and I think later today I'll go shopping for a laptop.
Daisy and Niki are ready to get back, too, it's been too rainy to even go to the dogpark, not that they would mind the mud but I would!
And the lampworking is not going real smooth either, yesterday I was discouraged but then, this morning, I came up with a few color combinations that are working, so I'll play some more!
I should be back at my cabin by Friday, sure hope everything is ok there!