Bah, Humbug!! Shoulda stayed in Bed….

Yep – shoulda stayed in bed!  Shoulda, coulda, woulda – DIDN’T!!!  And it was all downhill from there……..  Slept in, did my best fish-wife impersonation and screeched at the kid  to get out of bed, bolted around – trying to wake up somewhere in amongst it all – screeched at child again, slapped lunch together for said child who was way-too-slowly dragging his sorry butt out of bed, screeched yet again – child screeches back and….. then I forgot to drink my tea and it went cold!  (I know that’s the sole reason microwaves were invented – to heat up cold tea – but I really detest having to re-heat my very first cuppa of the day in a microwave!  Just one of my many idiosyncrasies…..).  Now that’s when I should have given up in disgust and dived under the covers to keep the world out!    But…..I didn’t….. after a few more reciprocal screeches we finally made the school bus by 7.35 seconds.

So….returning home….without skittling the cat in the driveway…(you know, you’d think he would have learned after 9 years of living with me, that there is no way EVER that he is gonna beat my car down the driveway and into the garage! But still he tries…)  I sat down at my torch – to finally melt glass – after weeks of it sitting there begging me to turn it on.  Do you think I could figure out what to make???  NUH!!  You’d think I would be just oozing with ideas of awesome beads to make – but – I didn’t have one original creative thought in my head!  Sad….. 😦

So, I looked at my ever growing glass stash for inspiration…..still nothing.  So I got out my sketch pad and started to draw beads and different colour combinations and shapes etc.  Well, I finally hopped on the torch after much procrastination (and after shooing the surprise visitors out the door) and a couple of hours later all I had to show for my trouble was 4000 stringers (ok a little exaggeration!), 3 motley beads and a headache!  I’ve gotta tell you it was the  biggest waste of my time whilst in front of the torch that I’ve had in a verrry long time.   I don’t know why I even bothered to turn the kiln on.  Never mind – there’s always tomorrow…..if I get out of bed!

Have a good one!! (Or at least have a better one than I did – lol)