Happy Easter!!!

Happy Easter What a wonderful Easter day we're having. Ohio has seen 3 days of recording breaking temperatures (warmer than usually). Flowers are blooming and the birds are singing. Momma robin is busy, keeping her little ones fed. We can't help ourselves. We have to get outside and work in the yard. I love my flowers and can't wait to get my hands in the dirt. my nails are paying dearly for it though. My hands are suffering not only from the gardens, but from our bath remodel and finally....getting back into making porcelain beads. In future posts I will have a brag page about the Tuscany finished bathroom. Turned out marvelous!!

We are working hard on step one. First you have to slice approx. 1/2" slabs of clay off the blocks, roll them out to an even consistency. the next step is rather tedious which is cutting the shapes out. We stand so long at this, we bought foam pads to stand on. Ken does most of the cutting, and I put the holes in the beads. It doesn't seem like it's a hard process, but if your mind isn't on task, you cut crooked and run the holes in the beads at a slant. Either way, the bead just becomes scrap. We've been at it for 4 days now. We've made about 600 beads. Doing the math, you can see that creating precise beads takes dedication. 2 of us, putting in 9 hours a day. that's an average of 75 beads a day. And....the worst part is yet to come.....sanding!!! that is one job I really don't like. I'd much rather be in the gardens.