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02 Sunday Jun 2024

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yesterday my memories reminded me that eleven years ago, we went on a cruise and ended up in Seattle where we took a glassblowing class… it was great fun…

we had to wear cotton, which explains my delightful outfit, lol…

I made a purple float for the pond and it came out very well…

later I took a photo of that same float in the pond… oddly, it sat lower in the water than the others, so I got it out and discovered it had water in it…

I couldn’t figure out where the water was getting in so brought it into the house and set it on a yogurt container on the counter, hoping it would drain out…

somehow I moved and knocked it off the container… and it broke into many pieces…

🥺…

pleased…

01 Tuesday Jan 2019

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for the last four or five years one of my first acts of the New Year has been to change my Chihuly calendar from the last year to the coming one…

when I went to change it this morning and turned up the last page of the 2018 calendar it was a lovely photo of a Float Boat… I love the circular shapes and gorgeous colours and was sad that I wouldn’t see them…

when I opened up the 2019 calendar the first photo was of Mille Fiore… lovely blues and purples… the calendars have a few months before January and a few after December…

the January picture was all clear and didn’t make me at all excited…

so I changed it… cut the photo out and put it over the clear pic, lol..

I am pleased with the final product…

later in the afternoon I spent some time in the hot tub and thought of the various places I have seen Float Boats… the first place was at Chihuly Gardens and Glass in 2013 with my daughter and son-in-law when they were living on Vancouver Island…

I’ve also seen lots of photos in books on Chihuly…

and my favourite was from our visit to the Atlanta Botanical Garden in 2016…

lovely memories…

bubbles…

05 Thursday Jan 2017

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last night I made Friendship Soup that had been a Christmas gift…

the recipe called for a pound of hamburger, canned tomatoes, pepper and water…

it also called for tomato paste, but I didn’t have any so added some Clamato juice instead…

browned the meat…

added the tomatoes and water…

took it to work this morning and it filled the crockpot to the brim… it made a huge amount of delicious soup which everyone loved…

as I was washing the container the Dawn dish soap produced a bunch of bubbles which floated all over the kitchen and brought a smile to my face…

made my day… another awesome special moment…

float…

13 Thursday Jun 2013

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yesterday my parcel arrived from the Seattle Glass Blowing Studio and Gallery… we spent a wonderful hour there after the cruise where I made a float and Cyndi made a beautiful glass bowl…

I had been blown away by the gorgeous Chihuly Garden and Glass, and had great fun making my piece… Ron came along and took pictures while we worked… the three below were taken on my iPhone by Cyndi…

really difficult to blow the bubble and you need excellent teamwork...

really difficult to blow the bubble and you need excellent teamwork…

when we talked with Dale Chihuly he said he had 90 people on his team and after making one little float I can see how you could use many hands…

very hot glass melting onto float to make weighted bottom...

very hot glass melting onto float to make weighted bottom…

our instructor was excellent…

flattening the bottom of the float...

flattening the bottom of the float…

they put the pieces into a kiln where the temperature comes down slowly over 24 hours so we didn’t get to see the final product until it arrived…

my outfit is particularly lovely as they recommended wearing cotton clothing… I found these pants with crabs on them the day before and as they were way too long we cut them off and I rolled them up…

Cyndi and Crystal were texting back and forth about how embarrassed they were that I was going out in public dressed in such a fashion, lol…

while at the Glass Blowing Studio I splurged and bought a stunning bowl…

my float looks pretty good… it is round and purple and will go into the pond…

float that I made in Seattle...

float that I made in Seattle…

what more could a person want, lol…