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Some of you may remember how I feel about spacers. But I had a feeling this day would come, and now it's here. I'm making spacers.
Surprisingly enough, I am finding it strangely addictive.
You know how it is - everything I do always has to be completely over the top. So if I'm going to be making spacers, I'm going to make more freaking spacers than anyone has ever made in their life. Hell, I'm going to make more freaking spacers than EVERYONE has ever made in their life. Hey, I am nothing if not fiercely competitive.
I seriously cannot believe I made so many spacers.
Spacers aren't all bad, really. I guess they can be quite useful if you make jewelry and stuff.
Making them is kind of challenging. I keep trying to fit more and more on each mandrel. I started out, a few days ago, being able to make just two or three, and now I'm up to six or seven. Yay me.
Besides, there is something rather satisfying about seeing my kiln full of mandrels and telling myself, hey, I made 200 beads today. I mean, when I make interesting focals and stuff, I end up with 5 or 6 mandrels peeking out of the kiln, at the most.
Having to clean the 200 beads the next day totally sucks, but c'est la vie. I'm getting used to spending a lot of time over the sink with my dremel.
Making spacers is a good way to use pretty colors that I don't have much of a use for in my real beads, like all those weird Vetrofond odd lots that seemed like a good idea to buy tons of at the time. Or Reichenbach 'Mystic' colors that look really gorgeous as spacers but seem to lose their pearly sparkle if you work them too long. And anyway, I have way too much glass lying around as it is, and when I go back to making interesting beads, I plan on focusing on Bullseye.
Spacers are cool. They're colorful. They're round. They're cheap. They have holes in them.
See, I'm thinking positive. Now please bid on my spacers. Thank you.
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Totally Cracked Me Up
From Sarah Moran's blog:
for the first time in a couple of weeks. I really should read it more often, because
whenever I read Sarah’s blog, I always feel perfectly okay to be me – my cynical, negative,
unapproachable self.
I found myself laughing out loud, and I knew she meant it in a good way, before I even read the rest of the paragraph.
I'm so glad I bring out the cynical side in people. Haha. 
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Good. I wouldn't want anyone perceiving any "veiled threats". Ha-ha.
So, hey, then... about those spacers. The next person who tries to order them from me will be sent along to your ebay auctions. My kiln is small-ish and I don't have the gumption to put 6 or 7 beads on one mandrel.
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Some of the spacers looked so jummy I could have bid for them. Then I remembered I can make quite good spacers myself and I do not have Ebay account (or what ever it needs to buy there).
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