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I made this beige cabochon a couple of months ago and originally beaded it with brown and gold seed beads but wasn't happy with the way it turned out. It sat around for a while until on the spur of the moment I decided to pull off all the other beads and re-bead as in the picture.

I was messing around with some silver wire tonight and came up with a variant of the fibula type of pin.

The large central bead has copper mesh enclosed in it to form the bunch of grapes type motif. It does work as I've tried it in my blouse with the pin hanging vertically.

Sitting in the garden this morning, one of the cat's, Nancy became transfixed by something in the greenery. I thought she might have heard a mouse rustling but no. She pounced and I saw that she had caught a dragonfly. I tried to take it away from her before she could eat it. Predictably, I took it inside to photograph and here it is.
Dragonfly

Just trying out directly linking to my picturetrail account.
Here's another bead I'm currently wearing

This was posted on the FritHappens Forum I look at every day.
"To commemorate her birthday , actress/vocalist, Julie Andrews made a special appearance at Manhattan 's Radio City Music Hall for the benefit of the AARP. One of the musical numbers she performed was 'My Favorite Things' from the legendary movie 'Sound Of Music'. Here are the lyrics she used

SING IT!!

Botox and nose drops and needles for knitting,
Walkers and handrails and new dental fittings,
Bundles of magazines tied up in string,
These are a few of my favorite things.

On the 14th of June, Roll-Royce had an open day. They tend to run one once every couple of years with Airbus on the same day for the families of employees to take a look around the site and see some displays (Airbus is located just over the road from Rolls-Royce in Bristol). This year was on odd one without Airbus to give families a look around the new site and the new buildings that have now been built as part of the site regeneration. I went along as it was too nice a day to stay inside and the displays can be interesting.

I tried taking some panoramic photos of the site while there and the image below is one of them. This building can be seen by the public from the A38 - the other main panoramic image I took is not visible from a public area so I won't be posting it.

I'm currently writing this on the laptop as we had a 10 minute power cut yesterday and it apparently caused the power supply in the computer to fail despite it being connected to a surge protected adapter. So a quick trip to PC World this morning to leave the box with them to fit a new power supply. Goodbye £60---I could have bought a lot of glass with that.

The pink cabochon whose picture I posted on 18 May cracked because of some compatibility problems with the two glasses used and the three layers in the fused piece. I wanted to replace it and finish the pendant and I've now done so.
Pink Cabochon

Something for a special person. I may need to make it slightly smaller depending on the size of her wrist.
KAT Bracelet

I keep trying to perfect my skills and am reasonably pleased with this session of beadmaking. I particularly like the central one but each of these takes me about half an hour to make.
Thursday's Beads