Bottle Bead Day

Hammer At The Ready

   I'm one happy little beadmaker this morning, up with the lark ready for a day making recycled beads from wine bottles. I first need to pick out the bottles I'll use then take the hammer to them giving me some nice size pieces to use, then it's play time and we will see what we can come up with.
   I'm thinking ring beads, lentils with matching spacers and maybe tubes too, after that it will be just trial and error to see what I can produce, I'm really looking forward to it.
   I just want to thank those who sent messages about the slider toys, I did mention they can become a bit addictive and you find yourself fiddling with them when worn, but hey, they are fun and I've been told they make great keyrings or phone charms, even used as zip pulls seems to work so give them a try.
   It's just getting light here and again it's rather cold here in the fens and this may sound silly to some but when I sat down here with my cuppa looking out at the cold darkness I thought how those old tramps must find warmth in the winter, the guys you still see traveling across the country by foot or by bike, how the hell do they keep warm on these long dark nights, god we really don't know how lucky we are sometimes. Yes we all have problems and yes things are bad for some of us but we do have a roof over our heads and food on the table, we can change into clean clothes every day and we have hot water, none of which those guys have, and there was me trying to sort out christmas when really I need to start thinking of more important things and not myself.