A Hail of A Day including Burnt Charms!

You may have read that it is raining hard in California. Yesterday we had a sudden deluge that perhaps lasted all of fifteen minutes if that but come down hard it did...here you see it in our backyard... and on the street out front of the house...

and this my friends is hail on the back patio cement...

a little flooding down the side of the house in front...

hail on the patio table where I did my outdoor painting last summer...

hail on the patio furniture seats...

flooding on the patio floor...

and then sunshine! I looked for a rainbow, but couldn't find one.

So then I got busy with my new Polymer clay rolling out

charms for embellishing art quilts and other mixed media works of art!

I followed directions to the letter

but remember

I cannot cook!

and so do not know my stove very well...

I turned it on to 275 degrees F.

set it for 15 minutes as directed,

but neglected to move the oven tray from the broiling position

to the much lower baking position

and proceeded

to

burn

my

charms

!

Something I suppose only I could do. They were lime green clay when they went in

and

BLACK

when they came out!

But I did my best to save them.

I painted this one with gold sparkly glue and wrapped it in

jewelry wire,

not too bad I think

! I tried to find the butterfly that was stamped on this one

using acrylic paints...

And the green leaves here with dark green acrylics...

a tad of varnish maybe or more light green on top might

fix this one even more.

I'll try later today.

But this one stamped with the fern stamp

is the best I think.

;-)

I won't give up my day job yet!

And I will keep trying. **************

I must also tell you that I let the stove top slam down on my middle finger of right hand while

attempting to get some gunk out of a groove on the front.

I will live, but it did hurt and bleed for a while.

I'm wearing a band aide now.

;-(

*******************

And Henry V has not been feeling well

for two days now.

We should have taken him to the vet yesterday

but thought we'd watch him.

He's not eating.

Spits up saliva.

Cuddles on my lap

A LOT.

I hope he gets better soon.

Send kitty prayers please.

Thanks.

!