We had another snow day on Thursday. My mom and sister came over and worked on my project. We've had Christmas glasses with our names on them (so we're not always washing glasses) for I'm not sure how many years. They were looking pretty shabby so we found new glasses and etched everyone's name on them.


They turned out pretty good. We used my mom's cricut to cut the names out of vinyl and then used etching cream. It was a pretty quick and easy project. I had done some glass etching in the past and the die cutting machine really makes it go quickly. and does a nice neat job.



Saturday I went to my mom's and she and my aunt, sister, and I worked on some bronze pmc (precious metal clay) stuff, I wasn't crazy about the bronze clay. I thought it was hard to work with. My sister, Laurie, is a certified PMC instructor. This was her project, kind of. She wanted to try out the new bronze pmc, but our real project is going to be really cool. They're bezels made out of silver pmc with our initials on the back and then-this is the hard part-finding something to fit into the bezel. Will post pictures when they're finished.


After our pmc morning, we took a silver bangle class here. It was really fun and the bracelets turned out really cute (not the greatest photo)! I made three, and have to finish two of them.


Laurie had made up a kit for me as a gift one year with everything I needed to silver solder-something I've always wanted to try but I never felt knowledgeable enough to use it-Well, no more! We really learned a lot. So now I need to break that stuff out and get to work. I was looking through all the stuff I have for projects in my craft room closet and I should never be sitting on my ass doing nothing!