Saturday 22nd September

Now, in my everlasting search for the perfect opening sentence for a blog entry, I've been trying to think up lots of let's grab hold of my audience!!!

And yes, you're right, I couldn't come up with anything. Nothing has actually been happening - except what seems to have been an unending day after day of work - if it's not getting up first thing to go to work, it's getting up to go to work in the middle of the night. And now I have a few days off, do I have any money to go and do anything on my days off, even so much as go visit the family? Of course not, not until Monday at any rate. Aha.. come Monday though..!

So what am I going to write about? Well I could go off on another of my Amazon crusades, but I'm sure that everyone has their own little Amazon gripe. So excuse me if I duck out of exposing my Amazon gripe to the nation, it's ultimately very boring.
Actually I'll admit I'm not feeling too bright today. I slept late, and even when I got up firstly, I felt headachey, and then secondly I felt sleepy. I even went back to sleep, a sure sign that yep, I ain't feeling 100%. So if this is a totally dull blog, forgive me. Come back next week, it might have improved!!!

I do have one thing to write about which is really interesting. I was sent this link to a new group on Flickr, The Monthly Scavenger Hunt. (Link is: http://www.flickr.com/groups/monthlyscavengerhunt/ )
and it's fantastic! Every month they publish a list, and you get to go off and photograph stuff on it, and then make a montage out of the photo's and post it to the group. It's so random, you've got to love random. The lists have things like 'heirloom', and 'Black Object', so open to interpretation, which I just love.

I really admire people who can put this sort of randomness together and make you look at a few objects and think, wow, that's great. A few weeks back I saw some wonderful photos in the photostream of one of my contacts, PaperFlowerGirl.
(Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/paper-flower-girl/ ) She had photographed what appeared to be a random collection of items on her desk, in colour matching groups and they are really fantastic photos. I did a sort of frankly poor homage photo's, well I'm interested in this kind of thing, but I'm no master of it ok, and I was quite pleased with my photo's. I'd paste them but I'm using this live writer Beta thingy, and frankly if I want to post a photo, I have to cut and paste and use the real bloger poster. So why not? I'm fed up with not putting enough photo's up.

. The idea is that the top bit is gold, the middle bit is green and the bottom section is red.

Heck, I hope that comes out a bit bigger on the blog than it is here!

These are really things off my desk. My desk is a mess, it's always a mess and frankly it's always likely to be a mess, which sort of leaves me with lots of things to choose from to make photo's like this. That's life as they say.

Anyhow what else have I been up to? Not a lot as I said. I could write a thesis about the bus service in Bristol right now, the amount of time I've been spending waiting for them to turn up, and of course the numbers of times a bus turns up on time in this city you could count on the fingers of one hand. Less than that. I have been doing a lot of work - jewellery wise that is, making the final downhill run into the big Xmas sales. These are a few of the things that I've been putting together:

I've been doing a lot of these metal and single bead type bag charms - not everyone wants a bag charm loaded down with beads!

This one is a bit less 'beady' than

the Bagcharms I normally do - but it's got some

lovely peachy crackleglass beads, and a big agate

donut at the bottom.

Anyhow, these are the things I've been up to - boring, but then that's average life for you! All of the bagcharms can be found in my Ebay shop over the next week or so - these are going on sale then.