its a normal day here in Pflugerville

apart from the weather, anyway. Unusually for this part of Texas, it has been very wet this summer and slightly below normal temps which I am not going to complain about, 90f compare to the usual 99f is believe or not, so much better.



So this afternoon I have been playing with some polymer clay. I got a whole stash of it about 18 months ago when I was convinced I would be busy making little figures. Well, I didn't bargain on being too clumsy for such a task, so that soon fell by the side. Anyway, for my July journal page, I had the brilliant idea of using my memory of Carnac in Brittany from our trip last summer. I had gotten some beads on Friday to work with but they weren't quite right for what I had in mind. So this afternoon as a way of relaxing and becoming more free with my work, I got busy mushing up some clay. Fortunately I am very good at making mud. So now I am all set for starting my July page, however before that I have finish June. It getting there but beading a piece measuring about 9"7" is actually a lot of beads as I have found out!



After that I did some browsing of some blogs. I actually came across a blog that spoke to my pride the other day. I have taken the liberty to copy what she said



" was also looking at my list of blogs that I visit and the list of blogs that are on other people's blogs. I look for mine there. I don't see it that often but I was thinking that it would be a real compliment to see my blog on someone else favourite list. I was also remembering when an artist I knew re-formatted her list and took my name off her blog and the slight hurt I felt at that."



I must admit I thought I was the only one who thought that way to be honest. I remember being really offended when someone deleted me from their blogroll which is stupid because I don't know anyone on these blogs, so why was I offended?

Then I discovered bloglines and so now I only add a blog or website that I don't see linked to the blogs I normally visit. On my bloglines I have 4 categories, craft, fine art, bead journal and personal with 45 feeds. Some weeks it can be more or less as every month or so I go through the list and see if they are still posting. Getting bloglines has been so much better as I can go there in the morning, check to see if there are any news posts and it can be done in 30 mins most days. Of course then I look to see if anyone has commented and if it someone new I will check out their blog which means the 30 mins can quickly become a few hours if I am in the mood to follow the trail of comments to new blogs.

So if you don't see your name on my blogroll, please don't be offended, it really isn't personal.