Ok. Trying to get back into the swing of things, why not start by bringing you a tutorial from the internets?
At the Belvedere Bead Blog, you can get instructions on how to make glass leaf beads.
I personally like the hand-sketched instructions…almost as much as the beads. I’m a sucker for a nice sketchbook though…being that I can draw/sketch to save my life.
Enjoy!
Yes, that’s right. THE Goodwill Industries now has an auction site. shopgoodwill.com I haven’t decided if this is better than shopping in the store or not. On some levels I think it might be. I can’t imagine cruddy stuff warranting the time it takes to list and describe an auctions. So that is a time saver, not to mention you can shop and bid from the comfort of your own home.
Another pro is that you could get some nifty stuff that you wouldn’t see in a regular retail store and you don’t have to go paw through other used stuff.
The only con I can think of is that it could catch on and you wouldn’t get it at as much of a bargain as you might get in the actual store. Although I do hear that there are people who scour the Goodwill’s and hide things in wait for the red dot sale, or something like that.
Regardless, in my brief browsing of the site I noticed lots of craft supplies, vintage jewelry, etc. If you know what you’re looking for you might get something good to repurpose into your own pieces.
And, you’ll be helping a non-profit. That’s alway a plus.
I ran across this handy little app when I was searching for recipes and wanted to print one out from a site that didn’t offer print-ready copies.
Print Friendly is a little tool that converts any web page into a printer-friendly format, or in to a pdf. It makes it ready to print without all of the extra stuff you don’t want and even allows you to delete any other content (like images) on which you would rather not waste paper.
You can drag the little icon to your bookmarks bar or put an icon on your web site.
I think there are many other uses as well, however, I haven’t taken the time to explore further.
Have fun and I hope this makes your day a little bit easier somewhere along the road.