Barbara [Svetlick] Wilson

Blogamatically Challenged

MARCH 18th

March is 'get up and get healthy' start to my life. I am pretty healthy but watching others struggling with the normal things about age, the rising costs of care and prescriptions, we have now started walking every day and eating as much natural food as we can. This involves soups, salads and fruit and elimiating bread and other processed food. We haven't eliminated in all those things you crave like chocolate ice cream cones, but just not eating them frequently. I do think chocolate is good for you but not many would disagree even if there was information saying it isn't.

We head back to Vegas next month for Glass Craft & Bead Expo. I like this show and the casino which is not on the strip. I stopped by Bullseye Glass on Saturday when we visited the bead show in Santa Fe and picked up more green rods. I hope to take at least twenty-five sets of flower beads this year. I find I get frustrated with the small color palette of glass but there's not much I can do other than whine or pull my own colors.

My clay adventure is moving along with obvious mistakes that come with the learning curve or any art medium. I have learned that they charge you to fire pieces by both what firing and weight. So, basically I need to make sure my things aren't too heavy. They also charge to use the furniture which you must use if you want the bottoms glazed. I'll keep keeping on until I figure it out.

There are no good movies out right now so date night needs to start looking for something new to do. Lewis was sick for our Anniversary so the gift we received to a great restaurant will have to wait until after Vegas. In the meantime, it is torching, torching and more torching.

Barb