Friday Randomness

It is Friday again already, can you believe it?  Another week down and now we are all healthy.  Maggie is off her antibiotics and painkillers.  Look, her face no longer has a bump the size of a plum growing out of it!  Poor girl had to have two roots drilled out that went bad long after the tooth had been removed.

Although we are still hitting the high temps like this (and this is in the shade!)...

I am fooled into thinking fall is just around the corner.  My willow is shedding her leaves by the dozens.

Her branches are becoming bare in spots.

Eggs?  Did somebody say eggs?  

I like the teal and purple mixed together.  I also like how the white pushes the grey out of the way, but it's not exactly looking like ivory speckles, is it?  So I will be trying another route and color combinations this weekend.  Because there will be torch time this weekend.  I'm due some free time!

Here we have a cute little egg...

However, it became a casualty during the cleaning/dremeling process.  I etched it anyway, just so I could show you all the color combination of speckles on the grey.  And also to show you what most of my bead casualties look like....the dremel touches upon a week spot in the glass close to the hole that likely would break if the bead was dropped several feet onto a hard surface or with extremely rough handling/wear.  While it makes me sad for beads to not survive the annealing and cleaning processes, I would much prefer it happen while they are still in my possession and not after they have flown to new homes.

This is a cool bug I saw on the nature trail last weekend when Lorelei was here.  I have never seen anything like it.  Anyone know what it is?  Tabitha?  :)

The bug then inspired some of these beads.  Will have to work on replicating the white on black spots.  Couldn't get any of my normally reactive white frits to form the dark brown rings like on the ivory beads.

We also saw this strange, fat-legged bug.  That's the real name, too.  Fat-legged bug.  I wonder if his antennae cause him headaches.

And now, what at least one of you (Mellisa) has been waiting for for weeks...Pictures of Little Horse.  He was making silly faces at me as if to say "Stop taking my picture already, Mom!"

Seriously, enough already.

This is getting boring.  I'm going to nap.

Ok, if I smile, will you please put the camera down and come rub my belly?  Please?

Hard to see that he has a real shoddy hair cut and how uneven it is, other than his spotted skin is showing through on his side.  This is what happens when the girl child 'helps' me with hair cuts! :D  Perhaps this weekend I will get to do the final touch up so he is more respectable.

And one last shot of all the grey eggs etched.  No shiny-ness here!

I know I said there was a giveaway coming soon for one of my blog followers, but soon is relative.  Maybe next week.  I need to finish updating my spreadsheet with all your names and links first before I can do the random number generator to find out who the lucky winner will be.

Ok folks, that's it for pics and not as much randomness as I thought I had in me.  I hope you all have a most excellent weekend!  We will be recovering from our first week back to elementary school and 6am alarm clocks.