Suppl-eye candy. (Get it?)

(Blog randomness while I wait for the winners to contact me.) 

Numinosity sent me these! For no reason! She made the glass head pins and
the metal tubes coated in glass. And yeah, that's Roman glass. I know!

And look at this haul.

 I feel all wacky after having been out of the studio for FOUR consecutive days. Now I'm in there and it's like I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing. Busy with this 'n' that, blogging, cleaning. Yes, cleaning. We're having family over for Christmas and we thought they might like to breathe something other than dog hair. So I went on a cleaning spree. I took out vent/grate things and vacuumed out all the dust in there, went under Bingo's bed to the fuzzy world beneath, scrubbed the bathrooms, vacuumed the mess o' cables under the computer table, vacuumed under the bed here that I sleep in but was originally hubs'. And I kept bumping the hose tube around a couple books/albums he has down there, vacuuming those too. Kept feeling some longish thing bumping around. I suddenly see what looks exactly like the handle of a handgun. I kinda freak. I nudge it with the vacuum hose and realize its a rifle!

Petra sent me this crap load of awesomeness.

And I just got so pissed and shocked. Hubs has been hiding a rifle under the bed I sleep in! His fucking hick ass dad must've insisted he bring it to Chicago for, like, self defense, which makes no sense. And I kept thinking of what I was going to say and how he'd be all shamefaced... and I'd be like 'Give it back to your dad and we'll never speak of this again!" or something equally dramatic. Also "You know me, you know my values, you know my ethics! How do you THINK I feel about fire arms in my house?' etc.

 So hubs gets home. I'm telling him how I vacuumed everything.

LOOK! That is a pig snout. Have you ever seen a teeny ceramic pig snout before? No, you haven't.

Leeetle hoof.

"And guess what I found under the bed?'
He's like "What?"
"What do you think?"
"What, I don't know!"
"You don't know?"
"I don't know!"
"A fucking rifle!"
"Oh yeah, the prop I used for my final project in Film 208" or something to that effect.
"WHAT?"
"What? Did you think it was real?"
"WHAT?"
"Wait- You thought it was real?"
"Bbbbbbuuuut.... "
"You thought it was real?!?!"
"Guuuu...."

 My favorite of all is this tiny house-shaped bezel.

"Oh my God are you insane!!! A sawed off shotgun under the bed where Bingo's toys roll under and he crawls in there to get them? Are you crazy?"
"Nnnn-.....uh..."
"It's plastic! Didn't you notice?"
"I didn't take it out! It felt really heavy against the vacuum hose."
"What the hell would I be doing w/a sawed-off shotgun? Do you know how illegal those are?"
"I don't know what kind of gun it is!"
And then there was him laughing and me just sitting there with my mouth hanging open. Him asking if I'd told my parents next door- which of course not. Me having to rewind all the angry discussions I'd been having with him in my mind for the previous few hours....

 Little shrines and windows from one of my guilty pleasures,
Alphastamps. I couldn't resist! 

And Bingo bouncing happily around us which he does at the sign of any animated conversation.
That was my day.

Gorgeous crusties from shipwreckdandy.

This was an incense holder. I spent 5 hours cutting off the top and bottom so I can use them for bead caps while making the center thing small enough to use somewhere. Best-smelling dremeling I've ever done.

More Kuchi to maybe make bracelets.

Pile of Indonesian babies. And on top you can see some scutes Janet made. She molded them from real alligator scutes (an external bony or horny plate or large scale. Yeah, I didn't know what that meant either.)