What I did on my day off

Since my company has informed us that we have to take X number of vacation hours every quarter, and I had a day and a half remaining in that time, I took off today and half of tomorrow. It's been nice--I got a ton of errands run/phone calls made that I needed to do. Made cake for a work birthday tomorrow (I still have to make the peanut butter icing tomorrow morning), and brownies for my enameling class. *

Sleeping late in the middle of the week is grand. I approve.

I have a new workspace! Some friends who run Scare for The Cure and Haunted Trails are renting me a corner of their warehouse workspace. One of my friends asked me to permanently borrow a handmade jewelry bench (yay!), and one of the guys at the warehouse supposedly has a metals kiln. I'm going to go look at it this weekend. I am now trying to figure out what I'm taking over there (some hammers, some stone, sheet metal, some wire, saws...) and what will travel with me (pliers, precious metal, files...). I am going to order my torch and flexshaft soon, since I plan on moving in over my long 4th of July weekend. I need to get propane and oxygen too. (Adds to list.)

I'm enjoying my enameling class immensely, and I promise to have pictures up this weekend of what I've done so far. Actually, I've been doing more metalwork as prep for enameling than actual enameling--I want to start making rockets and robots and I'm working on some cufflinks for my Yuppie Adopted Little Brother for his 40th in a couple of days. They'll be late, but I think they'll look excellent.


*The oven was hot and the mix was there. :-)