What You've All Been Waiting For

Ta-da! This is really the first thing I started. A necklace and earring set! Thanks to Peter and my dad I figured out how to take the pictures I need.
When I started this, I could not believe how nice it looked! I didn't know you could make stuff like this with just pliers, wire, beads, and a little time. I may be making more stuff, but I made a deal with myself that I will buy no more jewelry making stuff until at least the end of May. That way I can evaluate how much money to spend on this here hobby. But I have a spool of wire and a spool of beading thread and some beads so I can probably still indulge myself just fine. :)

wanting it to happen

My favorite part of Perelandra, the first book in Lewis' space trilogy, is the part in which Weston is making a speech which Ransom is translating into Malacandrian. It brings an amazing amount of clarity to silly humanist reasoning. Here's just the last bit.

"I may fall," said Weston. "But while I live I will not, with such a key in my hand, consent to close the gates of the future on my race. What lies in that future, beyond our present ken, passes imagination to conceive: it is enough for me that there is a Beyond."
"He is saying," Ransom translated, "that he will not stop trying to do all this unless you kill him. And he says that though he doesn't know what will happen to the creatures sprung from us, he wants it to happen very much."

More Creativity

As I find myself with less school to do, and sort of at loose ends due to a lack of decision about my future, I am really having fun with being crafty. I bought a copy of Beadwork Magazine while buying stuff for my other project that I mentioned earlier (which is finished but I'm having difficulty taking pictures where you can see it clearly, so we'll wait on that) and yesterday I bought the stuff to make a project out of there (yes, this is getting expensive; I'm going to have to start selling the stuff or something if I'm going to keep this up). So last night and this morning I made it.
I'm going to have to figure out this photography thing if I want to keep showing off my work, because y'all can't see it very well.

Potato soup

I make dinner Wednesday nights, and sometimes I have a hard time deciding what to make. I did find a really good recipe this week (just stumbled upon it) that everybody enjoyed. It's a spicy potato soup! I cut the cayenne in half (a tablespoon is a lot) and even so it was very spicy. I liked it that way, but that's a personal choice. Anyway, I was happy to find a potato soup with some meat (Italian sausage) in it because I love potato soup and it's quite filling but I feel that it needs a little help to make a complete meal. I served it with (store-bought) sour-dough bread. (hm. Note to self, maybe, just maybe, I should consider getting sour-dough starter going...hm....)

I'm being creative!

"cre·a·tive
adj.

1. Having the ability or power to create: Human beings are creative animals.
2. Productive; creating.
3. Characterized by originality and expressiveness; imaginative: creative writing.

n. One who displays productive originality: the creatives in the advertising department.
cre·a'tive·ly adv., cre'a·tiv'i·ty (-ĭ-tē), cre·a'tive·ness n."


I was at the library yesterday and I picked up a book on making cool stuff with wire, so I checked it out, picked something I wanted to make and bought the supplies to get started. Now, it will be a little while to finish that 'cause I need to buy a few more things, that I will probably have to get from a craft store instead of Wal-Mart, but I'm feeling pretty proud of myself, doing something creative for once. Also, using my nifty new tools, a barrette, and some beads I had lying around, I made something pretty without any help from anybody! Behold:

I know you can't see it very well, but I can't get a better image right now, so it will have to do. It's really pretty; just trust me