The Week is Progressing

I hope all of you had a good Bastille Day.  I almost ordered French Silk pie last night in honor of France, but broke down and got Coconut Creame instead.  "Despicable Me" was absolutely delightful - we laughed throughout the movie and the littlest girl's eyes could rival Puss 'n Boots' eyes in Shrek.  It is most certainly a movie that I will buy on DVD when it becomes available.  One thing that appealed to the adults in the audience - Gru (the main villian) goes to the bank for funding for his current evil ploy.  The bank is the "Bank of Evil, Formerly Known as Lehmann Brothers".  All of the adults in the audience were laughing over that one.  If you have a chance to see this one, do so.  It's not just a kid's movie, it is a movie that you can take a kid to but still enjoy as an adult. 

"Despicable Me" is a definite winner.  Go and see this movie!

Le Tour de France hits the flats today transitioning to the Pyrenees by the weekend.  It's a day for the sprinters, and although there may not be much change in the overall standings, it will still be a fun stage to watch.  The fireworks of mountains and men on bikes will reconvene on Sunday.

It's very orange out of the packet, but clean and easy to
work with.  I like the product so far.

The saga of my charms for the PMC Conference continues, but at least I'm getting somewhere.  I was finally able to make my PPP of my sigil by purchasing a new light fixture from Home Depot yesterday morning.  Putting the new bulb into the new fixture resulted in success.  I made a positive and a negative image, chose which one to use and started work with my Art Clay Copper.  I added too much oil to my first 50 grams, so opened another packet and started working without adding anything.  It is tough to start working with - but once I got it rolled out once, it was an absolute dream to use.  I made more than 40 charms and put them into the dehydrator.  I know that some of these won't survive being vetted after sanding and refining, I'm hoping that I will get between 30-35 usable charms out of the batch.  After I refine them I'll start firing them.  With the heat we've been having, I'll run the kiln overnight to keep any heat overage under control.  And since I do want to enamel them, I'll charcoal fire them.  This should be fun!  Now I just need time and that's going to be hard with my having to work all next week while Chickie is on vacation.