First snow and Jewelry Lesson
Nov. 10th, 2008 09:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
olivia_suttonHi all,
My mom and I went up north, well, to Montague north of Muskegon, for a lesson in making layered glass jewelry. It was really fun and I even got to peek in the kiln (oooh, scary) to get an idea of what my pieces will look like. I can't wait til Friday when I get to pick up my pieces (I made nine) and so can Mom. We'll also put bails on the pieces so I can use them as pendants. And I'll probably put them on liquid silver or seed bead necklaces. Beading is also a hobby of mine, along with reading and writing fanfic of course, and I've probably been making jewelry for like 8 years.
The drive home was pretty nerve-racking because it was snowing, hard. And I-96 is awful in the snow -- there's a lot of open country and fields so the snow just blows across the road and it's hard to see. There's also a lot of bridges (over other roads and over rivers) that get icy. So it was a slow drive home. And I wasn't even driving - Mom was.
The jewelry lessons were fun, tho. And, even with the awful drive, it looks like the snow might stick -- it depends on how cold it gets tonight and if it continues to snow or stops. Overall, the snow was better than yesterday, where we had a bit of snow, which didn't stick at all, then rain, then freezing rain and hail, then rain again. That wasn't fun. I'll take snow over rain any day.
--Olivia
My mom and I went up north, well, to Montague north of Muskegon, for a lesson in making layered glass jewelry. It was really fun and I even got to peek in the kiln (oooh, scary) to get an idea of what my pieces will look like. I can't wait til Friday when I get to pick up my pieces (I made nine) and so can Mom. We'll also put bails on the pieces so I can use them as pendants. And I'll probably put them on liquid silver or seed bead necklaces. Beading is also a hobby of mine, along with reading and writing fanfic of course, and I've probably been making jewelry for like 8 years.
The drive home was pretty nerve-racking because it was snowing, hard. And I-96 is awful in the snow -- there's a lot of open country and fields so the snow just blows across the road and it's hard to see. There's also a lot of bridges (over other roads and over rivers) that get icy. So it was a slow drive home. And I wasn't even driving - Mom was.
The jewelry lessons were fun, tho. And, even with the awful drive, it looks like the snow might stick -- it depends on how cold it gets tonight and if it continues to snow or stops. Overall, the snow was better than yesterday, where we had a bit of snow, which didn't stick at all, then rain, then freezing rain and hail, then rain again. That wasn't fun. I'll take snow over rain any day.
--Olivia
