Friday, October 14, 2011

TGIF

Thank God it's Friday!  It's been a rough couple of weeks.  Major family drama at home and lots of RAFO (running around and freaking out) at work.  It's finally starting to calm down, and I'm praying for a nice, quiet, drama-free weekend.

Aidan just started speech therapy.  He goes twice a week and LOVES it!  Craig has to trick, bribe or simply wrestle the boy out of the classroom when it's time to go.   I think he might have a little crush on the lovely Ms. J.  What's pretty ironic is the first really clear word he now says is "No" with the cutest little upward inflection.  I'm pretty sure this wasn't on the "first sounds" worksheet, LOL.

In the world of hot, melty glass I've been practicing making sculptural type beads.  Here are some little worms.  These are supposed to be suitable for children.  The first one I gave to Aidan didn't last a day, so I changed them up a little to make sure the head is more firmly melted to the body.  So far, the second one (made with the batch below) is holding up to the abuse a 3 year old boy can dish out!  These have a little secret, the blue dots glow in the dark.  What a fun surprise that will be for the kiddies.

this little guy appears to be worried about the Early Bird who gets the you know what...
 

and then some fish showed up in the kiln, maybe sniffing around for those tasty worms.

In the spirit of Halloween this little guy was supposed to be a Zombie Fish with crazy murrini eyes, but the one pink center murrini matches so well, that the other green eye side just looks like a weird mistake.


and then, my personal favorite of the bunch, a Tiger Fish