Fortune Cookies

I've been in a Chinese take-out rut lately. With the Chinese take-out has come the usual assortment of fortunes. But tonight's fortune...

Well, I'm just not sure I'm ready for fortune cookie induced guilt trips.

And what was this fortune?

"The world will look a little better with some love given by you!"

Drag the Lake, Charlie

This Drive-by Truckers song has played at least 5 times in the last 4 hours via my "randomized" playlist in Windows Media Player. An impressive statistic when you consider there are 12,202 items in my playlist. So I thought I'd share. I know the style is not to everyone taste, but the lyrics are great!

Credit to my sister for recommending the group.

There's a monkey in my Christmas tree...

Dolphins

I started taking a stained glass class last year, in September. I had to skip several classes, because of other obligations, so I've only completed 2 other projects. One is a sun catcher, done mostly to learn the techniques. The next major project was a lamp shade, small but time consuming - the base is only about 8 inches across, but made of 300+ 1/2 inch pieces of glass.

Dolphins is the most recent, and I think, the best so far. I cut all the glass, except for 1 piece, and did the majority of the soldering. We put a copper patina on the solder, because I did not want the silver of the solder to distract from the blues and grays of the rest of the piece. It measures 12" x 18".

Now, I have to figure out where to hang it.

Next project is a gift, so can't say much else about it, but the project after that will be designed using quilting squares.