tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31065796088364078742024-03-18T05:47:25.340-04:00¿Qué Onda Q'town?My Life & Making Art in South GeorgiaLois Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04908293685852842432noreply@blogger.comBlogger255125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106579608836407874.post-51817744730275124112018-11-02T09:19:00.000-04:002018-11-02T09:19:06.136-04:00ColorworkA sweater and a pair of mittens kept me bust during October. I am still working on Boyland Knitworks' Sipila Sweater. I have made more progress and am now almost done with the yoke. I am also finishing the Till Death mitten mystery knit-along.<br />
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<br />Lois Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04908293685852842432noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106579608836407874.post-90045427921573060822018-06-21T12:26:00.001-04:002018-06-21T17:51:11.791-04:00Fascism 101This morning I posted on Facebook after I spent about 45 seconds hunting for an article that touches on each point made by this sign. They are listed below in the comments. I could have made better choices to illustrate the points, but I will leave it up the my friends to add what they think are more salient examples. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lois.moon.7/posts/10214900403616496?comment_id=10214902100698922">My Facebook list is here</a> .<br />
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**Today after I posted this, FLOTUS actually put on a jacket that perfectly summarized the current administration's position on human rights. I thought it was something from the Onion, but truth continue to be stranger than fiction when the sitting president et al are involved.<br />
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<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/21/politics/melania-trump-jacket/index.html">Melania dons jacket reading, "I really don't care. Do U?</a> CNN<br />
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3) <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/05/politics/trump-nickname-rankings/index.html">The definitive rankings of Donald Trump's nicknames for his political enemies</a></i> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">By </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/profiles/chris-cillizza" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">Chris
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">5) </span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://psmag.com/news/research-finds-that-racism-sexism-and-status-fears-drove-trump-voters">RESEARCH FINDS THAT RACISM, SEXISM, AND STATUS FEARS DROVE TRUMP VOTERS</a> by Tom Jacobs, Pacific Standard</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">6) </span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michellefabio/2018/04/06/department-of-homeland-security-compiling-database-of-journalists-and-media-influencers/#3e3718e86121">Department Of Homeland Security Compiling Database OfJournalists And 'Media Influencers'</a> By Michelle Fabio, Forbes </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">8) </span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">J<a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/4282873/jeff-sessions-church-immigration-family-separation/">eff Sessions used religion to justify family separation —his own church called him out</a> By Maham Ahedi, Global News</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">9) <a href="https://corporatepresidency.org/corporate-cabinet/">Trump's Corporate Cabinet</a> Corporate Presidency, Public Citizen</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">11)<a href="https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/trump-budget-eliminates-pbs-nea-funding-1202695205/"> </a></span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/trump-budget-eliminates-pbs-nea-funding-1202695205/">Trump’s Budget Again Proposes Elimination of Public TV, ArtsFunding</a> By Ted Johnson, Variety</span><br />
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This pattern is free on <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/colvin-hat" target="_blank">Ravelry</a>. And no, my head is actually a normal shape...I was so excited to finish the hat that I took photos before any blocking. The yarns I used are listed <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/projects/LilyDixon/colvin-hat" target="_blank">here in my Ravelry page </a>where I am LilyDixon.</div>
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<br />Lois Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04908293685852842432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106579608836407874.post-39233579588499736612016-09-25T11:34:00.000-04:002016-09-25T11:35:22.438-04:00Learning to knit<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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My mom came to take care of me in June after I had surgery. Every time she visits I ask her to bring one thing - Russian tea biscuits. This time I think she brought me some from <a href="http://www.lucyssweetsurrender.com/c-10-russian-tea-biscuits.aspx" target="_blank">Lucy's Sweet Surrender</a>, but I will take them from almost anywhere. If you don't know what these are, you probably haven't visited Cleveland, Ohio. I search a bit and found their origin is a bit foggy and often confused with Russian tea cakes aka Mexican wedding cookies. You can see <a href="http://forums.egullet.org/topic/86769-russian-tea-biscuits/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://urbanecleveland.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/tea-biscuits-take-1/" target="_blank">here</a> that while their origin is mysterious, you can find them all over Cleveland and if you discover them elsewhere, ask if the baker is from northeastern Ohio. <br />
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We planned to make Russian tea biscuits last month when she was here. One thing led to another and we never got around to it. Yesterday I decided it was time. I hoarded a number of recipes on Pinterest and decided to make <a href="http://culinaryliterati.blogspot.com/2009/02/russian-tea-biscuits.html" target="_blank">this one</a> from "Do you know a good recipe for...?" I actually planned to make <a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/03/22/russian_tea_biscuits_recipe/" target="_blank">this recipe</a> from <i>Salon</i> because of the discussion of Cleveland and Lax & Mandel bakery, but some wires were crossed when I got working. My mom brought from Ohio <a href="http://shop.braswells.com/main.sc" target="_blank">Braswell's red raspberry jam</a> that turns out to have been made in Statesboro, Georgia. It is perfect for this recipe.</div>
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<span id="goog_6513654"></span><span id="goog_6513655"></span>I made the dough the day before and refrigerated it. In the morning, I chopped all the nuts and fruits for the filling. Since this is Georgia, and I didn't want to make a run to the grocery store, I used pecans instead of walnuts. My pecans came from a local orchard, <a href="http://cloverpecan.com/" target="_blank">Clover Pecan Company</a>, and are the Stuart variety. I bought them in May at the <a href="http://valdostamainstreet.com/activities/farm-days/" target="_blank">Valdosta Farm Days </a>market and popped them in the freezer (my favorite way to store nuts, dried chiles, and ginger). My recipe called for raisins and dates/figs. I prefer sultans or currants, but those aren't to be found in Valdosta except around the winter holidays so I used golden raisins and dates. Remi and I planted a fig tree this spring which has grown a whopping six fruits. Next year we should have enough that I will use home grown figs.<br />
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I had divided the dough into four parts and as I rolled and filled each I learned a little something useful. Rolling this dough between sheets of plastic wrap makes it much easier to get it to the proper shape and thickness. I also discovered that after topping the dough with jam, nuts, raisins, and figs that using the wrap to assist rolling the 14 inch long piece helped me to get a tight roll and to place it seam side down. After spending some more time in the fridge, the dough logs get sliced, brushed with frothy egg white, and topped with sugar.</div>
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They are delicious! I was worried that I would not get that Cleveland deli taste, but they are so good that I took a few to my brand new neighbors. <br />
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I bought myself a little <a href="http://www.knittingloomfactory.com/wooden-craft-bead-loom-beazu-seed-beads-crafting-thread-high-quality/" target="_blank">Beadzu loom </a>and have woven a few pieces. The first one, above, is based on a <a href="http://www.sova-enterprises.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=19334" target="_blank">Latvian floral bracelet</a> pattern. I used 11/0 Toho beads and put in the edging with 15/0s. I really had no idea what I was doing so I went to YouTube and watched some videos. I wanted to figure out how to loom with as few warp threads as possible, but I decided I might just try the most basic method first. I used Nymo to thread the loom, but have since read that if I use Fireline or another thread that is difficult to split, I might be able to pull the warps through the finished piece in sort of a serpentine so that I end up with only two threads to deal with at the end (see video at the end of the post).<br />
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I stitched the piece to a thin piece of leather and found the perfect bead for the closure.<br />
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Next, I decided to try weaving with some 15/0s. Crazy, huh? Well I decided that looming went so quickly that I might as well use the tiny beads I love so much. I had seen this pattern in a Bead and Button a few years ago. It turned out that the crazy part of this attempt wasn't the 15/0s, but the 37 warp threads!<br />
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I'm still looking around for the perfect leather or Ultrasuede to back this piece. The cream beads are matte finish and the red are Toho <i>inside-color jonquil-hyacinth lined</i> (TR-15-303/c).<br />
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Now I must get busy with the camera in order to show off what I have been doing since last spring. Lois Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04908293685852842432noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106579608836407874.post-42627219679205325912013-06-29T10:02:00.000-04:002013-06-29T10:02:03.355-04:00Howler monkeys<div style="text-align: center;">
Just outside the hotel room in Quepos, Costa Rica</div>
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<br />Lois Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04908293685852842432noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106579608836407874.post-49746198968882124512013-06-13T08:08:00.000-04:002013-06-13T08:08:48.151-04:00Just back from Costa RicaI just got back from Costa Rica. Two other Spanish teachers and I took 17 students for a week touring Costa Rica. No time for a full post - more later with monkeys, sloths, iguanas, hummingbirds, and volcanoes. For now I have just a bit of inspiration. From the town of Sarchí, home to the largest ox cart in the work, here is something in a smaller size.<br />
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<br />Lois Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04908293685852842432noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106579608836407874.post-65267850759979632872013-05-05T09:07:00.001-04:002013-05-05T09:07:45.406-04:00Arabic motif braceletApparently I didn't manage to write a blog in April. I don't know what happened to the month. It was here, I blinked, and it was gone. Only the bills remain.<br />
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I loved the colors in Marcie's piece and had to make one myself. Actually this is the second one I made. The first I completed a few years ago, but I used thread that was a little too light weight and had problems with the aventurine beads breaking the thread. For this piece I used 4 mm aquamarine and 6 lb. Fireline. No problems.<br />
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Gwen Fisher commented that she saw a similarity to the <a href="http://loismoon.blogspot.com/2013/03/star-light-star-bright.html#comment-form" target="_blank">Archimedes Star </a>in this design. I see it too. All the little triads and groupings of six. I have been reading Gwen's article "<a href="http://www.beadinfinitum.com/TilingTheoryStarWeavesG18X.pdf" target="_blank">Using tiling theory to generate angle weaves with beads"</a> and am excited about thinking through angle weaves (RAW, CRAW, MRAW) in a new way. I am a very big picture person - I like to understand how everything fits together before I start exploring details - and this article helps me wrap my mind around the weave and imagine possibilities.Lois Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04908293685852842432noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106579608836407874.post-84416560094887394442013-03-30T08:22:00.000-04:002013-03-30T08:22:23.928-04:00Miriam's GardenThis piece is based on the Carole Horn Neptune's Garden bracelet from the December 2011 <i>Bead & Button</i>. I used the size 8/0's listed in the magazine for the diagonal peyote base, rolled the edges, added three Czech floral buttons for the closure, and then went all Miriam Haskell adding beaded flowers and leaves until I had a corsage bracelet. I think this piece went from being Neptune's Garden to Miriam's Garden.<br />
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The 8/0 peyote base is very supple even though I stitched it with 8 lb. Fireline. It was easy to add the embellishments to the base because of the large 8/0 holes. I tried to get a good balance between matte and shiny beads. I even found a spot to add a pearl.<br />
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<br />Lois Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04908293685852842432noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106579608836407874.post-12292536510783181632013-03-16T10:49:00.001-04:002013-03-16T10:56:09.577-04:00Star light, star bright<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I finally got out the camera and the light box this morning and took some pictures. Above is a preview of some of the blog entries coming soon. Today I''m sharing the gold and blue piece.<br />
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A few years ago I caught a glimpse of <a href="http://gwenbeads.blogspot.com/2009/08/archemedes-star-in-beadwork-magazine.html" target="_blank">Gwen Fisher's Archimedes Star</a>, but I didn't have the pattern. <i>Beadwork</i> recently had a 50% off deal on back issues so I grabbed the Aug/Sept 2009 issue. I have been reading <a href="http://www.mmmbeads.com/" target="_blank">Maggie Meister's Classical Elegance</a> and am currently enamored of the gold and anything color combination.<br />
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I ordered a great cache of gold beads in all sorts of sizes and finishes to see what I liked best for various projects. Here I combined some<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Preciosa-Ornela-Czech-Metallic-Champagne/dp/B006FRYR2Y/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1363443767&sr=8-2&keywords=preciosa+champagne+gold" target="_blank"> Preciosa Ornela champagne gold </a>11/0s with tiny 13/0 <a href="http://www.avalonbeadstore.com/products-page/130-charlotte-cuts/metallic-gold-sbc005mt/" target="_blank">one-cut rocailles </a>and Japanese <a href="http://www.fusionbeads.com/Size-11-Sky-Blue-Lined-Transparent-Light-Peach-Round-Japanese-Seed-Bead" target="_blank">sky blue lined transparent light peach</a> 11/0s. I've linked my sources and bead colors because I buy completely on-line. Perhaps once a year I get to a bead store and am able to buy seed beads, but mostly the stores I come across do not have the selection of seed beads I need. So I thought I would help out my fellow on-line buyers with the details. I can't tell you how many times I've ordered what I thought to be the perfect colors only to have something completely unlike the picture show up in my delivery. Don't I wish I had sample cards!<br />
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Although the pattern called for Japanese 11/0s and 15/0s, I decided that the smaller size of the Czech beads would be offset by the 13/0s. This worked out fairly well although the sky blue beads would have been easier to work with if they had been smaller Czech 11/0s as well, but in the end the piece is still very pretty. I like the antique feel the one-cut 13/0s give to the piece, but if I made another one I would use all Japanese or all Czech round beads for more modern, clean lines. I think the key to bead selection for me is to have opaque beads for the star and have jewel-like transparent beads fill the points.<br />
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Blogger has gone a bit crazy on me, but I'm trying to keep up my glacial posting schedule and crank out one post per week so I'm just going to write below the photos and not log off and plan to come back later. <i>Later</i> seems to have a way of eluding me.<br />
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This week I've got a feather pendant which I made from a French pattern from <a href="http://l-atelierdemimi.skynetblogs.be/" target="_blank">L'atelier de mimi</a>. Her blog is linked in the photo caption and has some beautiful examples of her <i>plumes</i>. The little butterfly is a charm from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/GardanneBeads" target="_blank">Gardanne Beads</a> and the <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/108975764/20mm-21-pcs-a-strand-of-turquoise-blue?ref=sr_gallery_35&ga_search_query=magnesite+beads&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_page=3&ga_search_type=all" target="_blank">quatrefoil bead</a> is turquoise dyed magnesite. The pattern uses 11/0's and 15/0's of the same color. I pulled out some dark bronze Toho beads that had been rolling around in the bead cabinet for some time. I got to whip up a fun piece and tackle my stash at the same time.<br />
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The final photos above are shots I took in the light box which my mom gave me a few years ago. This is fitting because I made the Blossom lariat for her. I wrote all about the piece in an <a href="http://loismoon.blogspot.com/2013/01/blossom-lariat.html" target="_blank">earlier entry,</a> but I will repeat that the blossoms are a pattern from Leslie Fraizer (Trumpet Flower Necklace, <i>Beadwork</i> Aug/Sept 2012). These flowers have captivated me. I just finished another lariat in a completely different (and very Pantone Spring 2013 colorway), but I still need to photograph it.<br />
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Finally, my husband has continued to build onto his mother's house in Mexico. A few years ago he had a bedroom/bath room suite built, and now he has bumped out the living room. He wants to make sure that his sisters' families will all have plenty of room to visit their mother during the year when he can not be with her. Unfortunately, all this building has really taken a toll on her beautiful garden. I have a feeling we will be working on that next. Below is one of the new windows in the living room and some calla lillies growing next to nopal cactus.<br />
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<br />Lois Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04908293685852842432noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106579608836407874.post-56501695606267313002013-02-18T08:02:00.001-05:002013-02-18T08:02:43.205-05:00Saw it and made itHow much time do you spend perusing Pinterest? I spend a little too much time being dazzled by the gorgeous beadwork I find. I thought I'd better start making some pieces I'd seen on Pinterest to justify the time investment.<br />
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One of my favorite wearable pieces is this bracelet by <a href="http://lucila-mia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Lucila</a> based on a pattern by <a href="http://www.entrecollaresyperlas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Amparo Santos</a> aka <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Quimeras" target="_blank">Quimeras </a>on Etsy. Every few days I would see it again and finally I decided to make my own. I went to Lucila's blog and saw that the base component was designed by Amparo Santos whose patterns I have used before. <br />
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Lucila found her amazing turquoise in Puerto Rico, but on my limited budget, I used turquoise dyed magnesite 8mm and 4mm beads.<br />
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When I bought the magnesite, I found these matching quatrefoil beads and decided to use the as clasps. Somehow they managed to perfectly fit. Although Lucila finished her bracelet with coral beads, I wanted to keep a simpler color palette and stitched the 4mm's a bit more tightly together.<br />
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This piece is really a labor of love. Each component with a bezeled 8mm bead surrounded by four 4mm is an individual piece. There are 33 of these components stitched together!<br />
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Lois Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04908293685852842432noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106579608836407874.post-8949203663609866012013-01-27T08:38:00.000-05:002013-01-27T08:38:43.971-05:00Be still my heartWhen I saw this group of beads from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/gaea?ref=seller_info" target="_blank">Gaea </a>I knew exactly what I wanted to make. I had been stalking Gaea's Facebook page for a few weeks trying to pounce on a winged heart and a good looking set of beads before someone reserved them. Finally success! You can also buy <a href="http://gaea.cc/" target="_blank">Gaea's</a> beads at her website and at <a href="http://www.limabeads.com/Gaea-Ceramic-Beads-C4199?lima_campaign=Lima%20-%20Artist%20-%20Gaea%20-%20US&lima_term=gaea%20beads&lima_source=google&lima_medium=cpc&lima_target=&lima_placement=&lima_match=p&lima_pos=1t1&lima_net=g&lima_mob=&lima_content=23410294186&gclid=CMHgmMXNiLUCFQSqnQodGFoAUQ" target="_blank">Lima Beads.</a><br />
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Even though I knew what I wanted to make, it took me awhile to get around to putting the piece together because they arrived just before the start of school and all the difficulties of the fall term.<br />
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The wirework is dark annealed steel which matched the loops on the pendant. The spacer beads are copper, the enameled bird is from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/GardanneBeads" target="_blank">Gardanne Beads</a>, the little etched copper charm I made myself, and the tuquoise seed beads are vintage from my stash.<br />
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The necklace it about 36" long and the seed bead length hangs around my neck and ends just above my collarbones. The wirework has a nice drape because of the Goldilocks weight of Gaea's beads (not too heavy, not too light). The smallest beads are about 6mm and the largest around 12mm. I sand my steel wire, then rub it with steel wool before forming links. For this necklace, I lightly hammered each loop and jumpring.<br />
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This was my first attempt to etch copper. I followed at tutorial similar to this one from <a href="http://copperheartdesigns.blogspot.com/2008/04/tutorial-how-to-etch-copper.html" target="_blank">Copperheart</a>. I bought my ferric chloride from the hardware store...it is used in pool cleaning. For resist I used StazOn permanent ink and a stamp with tiny detail. I have more to learn about etching, but I was happy just to get any result. I need to practice a little more.</div>
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<br />Lois Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04908293685852842432noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106579608836407874.post-60468581184881054952013-01-13T09:29:00.000-05:002013-01-13T09:29:29.916-05:00blossom lariatA gift made for my mother based on Leslie Frazier's Trumpet Flower Necklace in the Aug/Sept 2012 <i>Beadwork</i>. I picked out a color palette to coordinate with a winter outfit and my mom's favorite color of nail polish.<br />
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<br />Lois Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04908293685852842432noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106579608836407874.post-58007646850149378222012-12-25T12:07:00.001-05:002012-12-25T18:06:24.174-05:00Mixiotes de Noche Buena<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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A few years ago Remi and I were in Mexico for Christmas. Dinner for Noche Buena required that he get up at the crack of dawn to kill turkeys with his cousin for dinner. My Christmas Eve dinner only required early rising for the 18 mile trip to the grocery store in the next town.<br />
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Remi's brothers came for dinner and we repeated Thankgiving and ate another multinational dinner for Christmas Eve. Pollo con chiles y epazote, tortillas, sweet braised carrots, mashed potatoes, mac & cheese, cranberry sauce, spinach salad, and chocolate cake covered in bittersweet ganache with sea salt caramel and Tahitian vanilla bean gelato. <br />
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My brothers-in-law who having been working here for a few years are obsessed with mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce having eaten a few Thanksgiving dinners with us. I added sweet braised carrots from the <i>Joy of Cooking</i> for a little more traditional American cooking, and they requested mac & cheese. I had never actually made mac and cheese, but had a great easy recipe for it from Ellen, my bf of 30 years!, which oddly I'd written inside the cover of a Rick Bayless cookbook after eating some at her house a few years ago. The boys were a little disappointed that I didn't make spicy pecans to top the spinach salad and Remi explained to them that the blue cheese dressing was vinaigrette with <i>queso apestoso</i> (translation: stinky cheese...yes Mom, I know you agree).<br />
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Even though they didn't have to kill anything, the guys were in charge of the main dish. They made<a href="http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/09/what-is-mixiote-mexican-food.html" target="_blank"> mixiotes</a> with chicken with sweet and hot peppers, <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/home_blog/2012/01/epazote-wormseed-.html" target="_blank">epazote</a>, and onions en papillote. In Mexico we would have wrapped it all in the outer skin of the maguey or century plant. I have had mixiote wrapped in maguey and it is delicious, but also illegal because peeling the outer skin of the plant can kill it. I just read about some sustainably harvested mixiote so I'm pretty sure we won't end up eating our little packets of food with our heads shrouded as if we were having some bizzare dinner of <a href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/flirting-with-the-forbidden" target="_blank">ortolan</a>.<br />
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Javier and Joel are really interested in learning to cook more than eggs. We have been talking about recipes and I'm dying to get Joel's recipe for green sauce which Remi says is fantastic. We have a food exchange going: they teach me the green sauce and I teach them <a href="http://www.sokolowskis.com/recipes.php" target="_blank">pierogis</a> with peppers and sausage (you can take the girl out of Cleveland...). They had pot roast with potatoes somewhere and were asking me about the recipe. They were pretty into it while I was telling them about browning the meat on all sides and trying to figure out the translations for the various herbs, but put the brakes on when it came to the actual cooking time. So I guess I know what's for dinner the next time they visit.Lois Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04908293685852842432noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106579608836407874.post-9888982393194801972012-12-21T07:12:00.003-05:002012-12-21T07:12:33.349-05:00Happy End of the World<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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