That’s what Den told Brennan this morning, or was it this afternoon. I don’t remember exactly when he said that. I can’t believe that I haven’t written anything in here for so long. I have been wanting to write about my clay adventures, but I haven’t even gotten a chance to play with clay in the last couple weeks, so I have nothing to show.

We went a small vacay to Las Vegas last week. It definitely felt like the hot side of the moon. LOL! We also visited with our good friends Klaudia and Jojo. Mostly, we hung out at Circus Circus where we stayed and swam, played lot of games, rode lots of fun rides.

Earlier in the week, I signed us up at the local Y. It is so worth the money because I will be able to exercise while the kids stay and play in the daycare. I so need to lose tons of weight. I admit that I have not been very good about taking care of myself. Also, I signed Brennan up for swimming, but I am not sure if he will get in the class because he is first on the waiting list. I hope he will get in and that someone will drop out. Brennan also starts his new preschool next Tuesday. He will be participating in the Los Angeles Universal Preschool (LAUP), which is a program initiated by Los Angeles County, which makes available free preschool to all four year old that live in Los Angeles County. We do have pay a small $400 fee, but this is for the entire school year that runs through August. Here is a small description about LAUP.

About LAUP

Los Angeles Universal Preschool (LAUP) is an independent public benefit corporation created in 2004 and funded by First 5 LA – the commission established by Proposition 10. LAUP’s goal is to make voluntary, high-quality preschool available to every 4-year-old child in Los Angeles County, regardless of their family’s income, by 2014.

LAUP is guided by a 10-year Master Plan developed by hundreds of educators, parents, government officials, and business and community leaders. Building on this plan, LAUP is bringing resources together from across the county in support of early childhood education. When LAUP has reached full scale, funded classrooms will serve more than 100,000 4-year-olds.

Other than that, August has definitely zoomed passed by very quickly. I can’t believe that summer is practically over. Personally, I’ve been mostly busy with building a Career Info. Center for San Jose University, SLIS program. My Archives class also started this week. I already have an assignment that is due at the end of this week. I been wanting to read HP, which I got earlier in the month, but only managed to read two chapters. Also, JoJo, gave me a copy of HP fan fiction that he binded, so eventually I need to read that. Also, I do have Misti’s and Donnette CJ’s. Sorry ladies I will definitely get to them soon. I am not sure if I will be able to attend the pizza party at the Clay Carnival, but if I do I have to make about 90 casino chips swap with all the other attendees. Good luck to me!

Well, I gotta run and brush the kids teeth and take a shower, before heading out to the Y. Yes, I haven’t done that yet today.

I’m so excited that registration is finally open for Clay Carnival. The only flucking thing is whenever I log into Paypal, it tells me that the account already has a card associated with the account. Of course, you fluckers. This happens every time I use Paypal. Things somehow work out, but still, it happens every flucking time. So I will have to try again in a bit to pay. They don’t accept regular cc for some reason, and I don’t want to send a check or do money order. I have the cc linked to Paypal, which is my preferred payment of choise.

As far as my claymaking endeavors, I haven’t been working too much. I am in the process of making a linked painted clay necklace, which was inspired by Dotty McMillan and her painterly polymer necklace from the Polymer Pizzazz – Bead and Button” publication.

This is the beginnings of it. Sorry the photo is so awful.

This is a flat rolled out piece of silver and grey polymer clay mixed together, painted with a layer of Key Lime Primary Pigments, sponged a few layers of silver and eggplant Adirondack Ranger Alcohol Ink, and a couple sponged layers of Pearl Violet Lumiere. After the paints dried, I stamped with a chain stamp (parts of Fragment I) by invoke arts with jet black Staz On.

After everything dried, I cut out the circles. I started the next process, which was piecing two of the circles together and then baking them. I am not quite sure how I am liking them at this point though. The clay was cracking a bit on a few of the pieces and the paint was kind of gunky and sticky before the baking of course, making the shaping and smoothing process a bit difficult. But I did finish baking them and when I get back home, I need to add a layer of liquid polymer clay. So stay tuned for the results of this experiment.

A week or so ago, I created this adorable looking hollow bead.

The grey and yellow colors and diamond shape was inspired by an article and furniture layout about home decoration, I believe in Martha Stewart Living, or it could have been in some other magazine. Anyways, as far as inspiration goes, I am inspired by everything around me, whether it be a page from a magazine, or perhaps even the scrawled yet amazing grafitti that I see on the walls driving down the 405 freeway.

Silver tube and silver and yellow seed beads were embedded into the clay before curing. I probably should add a layer of liquid clay over the beads, so that there won’t be a chance of them falling out. Other then being embedded into the uncured clay, there is nothing holding them in there. I can definitely see some potential in this focal bead.

So I can’t decide what hummus I like best, but it is between the Sabra Roasted Red Pepper and Trader Joe’s Mediterranean Hummus. This is the perfect late night snack that goes good with carrot sticks (well any vegetable for that matter) and Triscuits.

Hubby is away at Oxford University and I have the boys all to myself. Couldn’t summer school lasted just another week? It hasn’t been that bad, other than the fact that my poor big boy came down with a cold. Mostly a temperature and sore throat. The only place where I think he may have picked up from would have been the “sheeshee” mall with the outdoor fountain. Then again, I just realized that we were at a birthday party on Sunday, but then that seems a bit soon for something a virus to have passed over. But Elden on the other hand is just find, although I did have to call poison control yesterday.

This is what happened. I went to take a multi-vitamin, and I put the container, which I thought I had closed on top of the counter. I turned around to do something. I don’t even remember what it was, but a few second later I turned around and he had stood on a chair, which I guess happened to already be next to the counter, which he probably moved there earlier, and had the open bottle in his hands. I wasn’t quite sure if he even swallowed one, but he had this funny face like he did indeed swallow a pill and Brennan kept telling me that he did take one, although he didn’t actually see if he did. Iron, can be quite deadly to children, and I didn’t want to take any chances. The poison control operator told me that taking 18 of pills would indeed be deadly. He defintely did not take 18, but I was pretty sure that he swallowed one. She told me to watch him for a couple of hours and even said that they would call me back. I told them I think we will be okay, but did ask if there was anything to watch for even if he only swallowed one. She said, that his stool would be black. This morning his stool was normal and he was just fine, and I am still not sure if he even took one. I did kept asking him if he took one or zero and he responded with the latter.

It really take just a couple of seconds for something to happen. I thought that I had closed the bottle, but obviously I didn’t. Also, he is at the stage that he moves all the dinner chairs everywhere just so he can cause some kind of trouble, whether it is the play with the lightswitch, or to find reach for somthing that is just a bit too high for him. I serously want to just chuck the chair out the window. I know that he is in that “I want to do everything” stage. I guess I need to be even more vigilant with him.

Oh, and on Saturday when we were at Downtown Disney, he tripped and hit his mouth on the arm of a chair, which of course caused him to bleed. The bleeding was actually not too bad, so I really didn’t think anything of it, but the next day on Sunday, I realized that his front left tooth was chipped at an angle. It isn’t bothering him, but I do have set up for an appointment on Friday. I hope nothing else happens to him, at for the rest of this week.

Tonight we are at my parent’s house. We arrived late in the afternoon and had lunch with my dad, then took a little trip to Wal Mart. There actually isn’t one too close to where I live, for good reason. But I did need some essential items, like pullups, more couch medicine for Brennan, a birthday present and flowers for my mom (whose birthday is tomorrow), and a birthday present for kid whose party is this Sunday. Then I enjoyed a late dinner with my brother and we stopped at Best Buys. I needed to get a headset, since Second Life has voice option now and he picked up a few movies for $3.99. What a deal.

On Monday, I volunteered to babysit one his old classmates, Ms. S from his pre-school class. Her mom gave birth to two sweet preemie girls a couple weeks ago. The parents have been driving back and forth everyday to the hospital and will probably will be doing so for the next several months. Ms. S was actually born 27 weeks, but her twin sisters were born 24 weeks, which has added so many more complications. I hope the very best for these two little girls. If you can, please keep them in your thoughts.

I am quickly running out of server space. I am not quite sure if I should add more space or close down this domain. I have been thinking about creating a new domain space for my clay crafting, not clay crapping folks. I still enjoy my random blogging moments, although they are not seriously or political or really there is no major point in all my ramblings to the outside person, other than me. But I am seriously running out of space and I refuse to delete anything.

Anyways, so stay tuned. I am off to write another entry about my clay making endeavors.