Some women move furniture around, I move blog designs around!
I’ve been working with a new premium WordPress template called Headway for a few days now. It has a lot of power. That’s a good thing. But it also means it’s taking me a bit longer to figure everything out, and get it just the way I want it. So if things look a bit out of place, know that I’m working on it. I probably should have done this offline and then moved to the new template. But then that’s not the way I do things. It’s the same when I have company and I try out a new recipe. Every time I do that, I think, “hmmm…. probably should have tried this out first.”
If there is anything constant in my life it is change. So here I go again changing the look of my blog. I just purchased a premium theme called Headway and installed it about 10 minutes ago. Based on what I’ve seen it will take me a day or two to get thing looking the way I want. So if you happen to drop in today or tomorrow, please pardon the mess.
Update: After several hours of playing with the new Headway theme, I’m reactivating my old theme until I have some more time to get things the way I want them.
Update 2/4/10 – Decided to tackle this again. Having trouble arranging columns the way I want them. I’m trying to get two sidebars stacked on the left, post in the middle, and two sidebars stacked on the right. The second sidebar on the left just doesn’t seem to want to go there. I am also having trouble getting my banner picture to upload.
Made some progress. But still have a lot of tweaking to do.
Broken Handkerchief Vase
Oh so sad. Someone please pass me a hankie! My handkerchief vase is broken.
This handkerchief vase came out of the kiln last Tuesday. It was made from a beautiful purple opalescent glass with one side that was iridescent. I brought it into the house and placed it on my kitchen counter. I put in a votive to see just how beautiful the light shimmered in this new vase. During the night we had one of those really loud thunderstorms. It woke me up; enough for me to think that I should go to the kitchen and get a flashlight in case the power goes out. Unfortunately I wasn’t awake enough! I stumbled into the dark kitchen groping around on the kitchen counter with my hands. You’ve probably guessed by now, that I knocked over the vase. When I heard the crash, I knew immediately what I had just done. I was so discouraged, I didn’t even turn on the light to see what it looked like. It wasn’t until the morning that I say the results.
Recycled Glass Soap Dish
Today my recycled glass soap dish was featured on topetsyfinds.blogspot.com. This eco-friendly soap dish is made from recycled glass. I take wine bottles, remove the labels, clean well, and break into small pieces. The pieces are then put into my kiln to fuse together. The next day the flat piece is put on a mold and placed back in to the kiln. It is slowly heated to form to the mold and then slowly cooled down. Add a bar of soap and you have a great upcyled hostess gift.
I've been around glass my whole life. Both my father and grandfather were stained glass artisans. In 2002 I started working with stained glass, and in 2009 I started to explore fused glass. My blog is mostly about my journey in glass what I've learned and what I am exploring. It's a wonderful adventure! Please visit my website. 
Some women move furniture around, I move blog designs around!
