gearing up for trivia 2moro

it's that time again. Time for another trivia tournament. This time it's gonna be me, da banshee, fizzle and jon-no-h representing our team. hubby has to work.

I made us bottlecap pendant necklaces to wear with our team name on them ^_^ I'll take a pic when they is done.

Been watching jeopardy and cash cab the past 2 days. Hoping we do okay.

Kinda sad hubby can't go with us too. Damn them for having a 4 person max. and damn Joe Dumar's Fieldhouse for needing him to work. At least he'll get Sunday off.

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wasn't gonna mention this, but last night I had a very disturbing dream. In it I was "with" another man. someone I had a huge crush on in high school and recently reconnected with. Usually dreams like that take place in the past, but this one wasn't. It was kinda present time, kinda past.

I woke up feeling like I had betrayed my hubby.

I haven't told him. But I don't like the feeling one bit.

I don't want to hook up with this guy, and I definitely don't want to be with anyone else but my hubby. I know it's just a dream but i've spent all day trying to figure out why i had it and what it means.

No time for much

trying to finish my commissioned afghan.

Found out today that the person that ordered the 2nd afghan apparently has ordered many crocheted afghans and not paid for them. which pisses me off. Thankfully we weren't really counting on that money.

So happy I have finally figured out the secret to bottlecaps with the diamond glaze. Eventually I want to use real resin, but this is good for now.

xoxox

too tired to even blog

Yesterday was the beginning of why i hate being a woman so today I was uber tired and cranky aND just all around not a joy to be around.

Which figures cuz we had a catering job out in Ann Arbor tonight.

We got thru it. And now we're home and gonna curl up and watch some TV and totally zone out ... hell I might even fall asleep at a decent hour again (fell asleep last night at midnight)

xoxox

It's official ... my hands hurt

I spent a good portion of last night un-crimping bottlecaps with pliers and woke up today to sore fingers. grrrrr. Which is making crocheting a bit difficult. I've never had the muscles in my fingers ache before. it's a weird feeling.

Preparing for trivia

so excited! hubby's gonna be able to go to trivia tonight!!! it's the first time in awhile for him!

Been watching Cash Cab and Jeopardy all day!

oh! and the tournament is this saturday!! Can't believe it's here again already! Working out our team, but it looks like it will be Jforce, da banshee, hubby and me. hopefully we will rock it out!!!

and now back to crocheting and watching TV. I can't wait to finish this afghan

I'm sure you're sick of bottlecap stuffs

but I am pretty sure I finally figured out the secret!!!

remember this one?




Well check out the new and improved version




the details are still a little fuzzy ... think I would prolly have better results if I use photo paper, but I didn't have any in the house and I wanted to experiment.

And now presenting the rest of the bunch:

this one I made to go with my beerings. It's kinda bleh but it's just for me




of course the red wings one you've already seen ... I'm still working out how to add a stanley cup to this one.




This one is NOT in a Stella Artois cap .... just plain old budweiser. I'm thinking ofmaking a bunch and giving them to my fellow dart league players on Thursday. (and i kinda got impatient with this one... you can see the white ring around the pictar where I didn't let the glue completely dry before moving onto step 2)




one of my faves. Altho she lost some detail. Again I think if I used photo paper I would have better results, but this one is just for me so I don't care. AND i kinda like the impressionistic quality of the fuzziness.




And this one is my absolute FAVORITE!!!! I can't wait to attach a jump ring and wear her!!



So you wanna know the secret?

CLEAR NAIL POLISH!!!!!

Yep ... that's right.

Apparently the modge podge reacted in a fuzzy way with a combo of the ink of my printer and the diamond glaze stuff i'm using (altho I'm thinking I may move onto real resin cuz I'm not sure the diamond glaze is getting hard enough for me ... course doesn't help that it's humid as all get out here)

So even tho I followed directions to the letter, I was still getting subpar results. Until I saw someone else who used rubber cement to glue the images down and then sealed them with clear nail polish before adding the resin. a lightbulb went on in my head and I decided to try it and BINGO!!!

All in all the process for each pendant takes about 3 days each. 1 day to flatten out the bottlecaps and remove the rubber ring and then glue in the image and then seal it with the nail polish. must let glue dry first which lately has been taking about an hour.(refer back to dartboard cap) next day when everything is dry you can punch the hole and attach the jump ring (or do it before you add the image, just as long as it's done before you add the resin). LaY on a flat surface and add a layer of resin/diamond glaze and then set it down and leave it the hell alone!!!! let that sucker dry for at least a day. If you want to add more resin (like to try and make it dome, which is hard as hell to do) add it after you've let it dry for at least 24 hours.

Since I'm not a very patient person the waiting is frigging hard. But it's so worth it!!!