An Offering of Myself to the World

Stained Glass (attempt number one)

For the last month or so, I have been working with stained glass. I always thought it would be cool to do some stained glass art without realizing the time, equipment and effort that is involved. I don't know if I would do enough of it to justify getting the equipment for myself. I have been going with a friend to one of her friend's who does a lot (and I mean lots) of stained glass and has all the equipment to mess around with. We only go work on the glass once a week for about three hours. My first attempt was this butterfly...

The main thing I learned from this piece was that it is very difficult to do anything with stained glass that is curved. Straight lines work the best. It is also a very dirty, smelly and painful art. I have already burned myself with the soldering iron. And I know eventually I will cut myself on the glass. Probably not the best type of art for a klutz!

My next attempt was a candle with holly but it was worse than my first. I am using patterns that someone else has drawn and I think I would like to do my own pattern rather than using a pattern by someone else. So this weekend, I am going to devise a pattern of my own.

Come, sail the stars with me...

With all the bad news going 'round now-a-days with the election, debates, and the loss of everyone's money, I have decided to totally emerse myself in music in an attempt to drown out the screams. Yeah, like I wasn't into music before. Anyway...

I found out that one of my favorite groups, Starsailor, are going to release their fourth album early next year. Supposedly, this album was to be released in September of this year but the band had a change of record labels which lead to the delay. Their last album was released in 2005 which wasn't that long ago but feels like an eternity. Here is an awesome video of James Walsh, the lead singer of Starsailor...