Daddy Long Leg? No, it's Mummy!

I wondered, for a few days, why Daddy Long Legs had fat round bodies here in Australia. I was sure I'd seen more "Canadian" looking ones, but this one, in the corner of the ceiling, looked not quite right, with a big fat round belly. Hmmm...

A few nights later I noticed it had caught a bunch of midgies (miniature flies for those who don't know what midgies are)... interesting I thought to myself... must've left the light on and there must've been a bunch of midgies around, strange, but I give it no further thought.
The next morning, whilst wearing my glasses, I marvelled once again at the amount of midgies, and, all of a sudden, noticed that this Daddy Long Leg didn't have a big fat tummy anymore... hmm, maybe it was a Mummy Long Legs... ???
INDEED IT WAS, and those were NOT midgies!

I wonder if the "dry" looking one, at the top right of the picture, is the Daddy one! Spiders can be cruel!!

On the crafty front, I've finished, yesterday, the third attempt at making polymer clay pens nice enough to give to my brother and sister for their 40th birthday (yes, they are twins). Attempt #1 became beads - I'll blog about them when the pens are done, attempt #2 were nice, but just not "nice enough for a birthday present", but I think attempt #3 will work, if I don't carbonise them in the oven.

Other than that, I just joined this Flickr group:





The fun thing about it is that it is colour based, and it's open to ALL Crafts!!! Join in!!!

A Change Was in the Air Indeed

A change was in the air indeed, little did I know about it.
Seems February brings changes in me, the new year has settled in, a birthday is coming up, and I remember 4 years ago, giving my old website a face lift right around this time, now my blog gets... a bloglift!

Good bye old blog...

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Now, I'm still doing maintenance, so some of my favourite links are still not on the side bar, but they will come. Baby steps!

my bracelet, finished!

Well, dunno what's up with me, but I've been creating and I can't seem to stop (though I will have to to do laundry and the groceries, ... eventually!!!)
I got highly inspired by this blog and decided THAT was the way this tiled bracelet needed to be put together.

I made the tiles using the Krafty Lady domino set (AM245) and just love the way they look. The translucent doesn't look great in the pictures, it's a bit better in person. I got to use all sorts of odds and ends (Julie K, if you do stop by, you may recognise those charms!). I wish this was candy, because I am sure it would taste really nice!!!
I had a heck of a time with my jump rings, sometimes I think I need to make some oval ones, rather than use store bought ones (I got lazy, took me long enough putting it together without making my own jump rings, though I did make "some" of them... but yes, sometimes odd shape rings, oval or rectangular, would probably be a lot better than trying to force a round ring through the drilled holes on the side of those tiles. I still think I need to take a course in "proper" jewellery making!!!
ciao for now.