More Hummingbirds

This time in color with audio.

Hummingbirds Video

Hummingbird Feeding Frenzy

I've shown you pictures of our crazy hummingbirds before but now we have a video. Pretend it's 1960 because it's in black and white.

Hummingbird Feeding Frenzy

Mail Art

I just have the best customers ever. Whether it's beads or rubber stamps, I truly appreciate my customers. This fabulous scene is by Mary Passe. It's so serene and I just love how she used our hummingbird and trumpet vines stamps together. I'll be updating the gallery on our website in a few weeks so if you have any art with Beeswax stamps, send it my way! Emailing artwork is just fine too.

The April POTM is up. You can find it here:

Beeswax April POTM

Skunk Video!

We got a good video last night of our little skunk. She is just so adorable! She's also a little camera shy. We'll leave her be now. Ignore the date on the video, Wally didn't set it after putting in new batteries.

SKUNK VIDEO

Skunk Butt

Wally found a large hole on our property with a big mound of dirt next to it. He didn't want to put the camera there because he assumed it was just a ground squirrel home. So what? I love all of the critters so I insisted he put the camera out by the hole. Turns out it's the home of a skunk. She's adorable....isn't she? Just not the end of the skunk you want pointing towards you. I hope she sticks around. I love going out at dusk during the summer looking for skunks roaming around and hunting for bugs. They're so much fun to watch. Many years ago Wally and I were on a hike and along came a momma skunk with a bunch of little babies lined up behind her. We stopped dead in our tracks and they just walked on by, a foot or two away from our feet. It was one of the cutest things I've ever seen.

Taking Webbing a Step Further

First, one more layered Clio bead that I webbed. Clio was layered over a striking glass that turned blue. I'm thinking that reduced Triton would look very similar.

I've gotten a little fancy now and I've added silver foil into the mix. The next bead is Clio over Hades. I did a couple of layers of silver foil on the Clio, then did my webbing technique and encased.

The last bead is my favorite. It's just Clio, two layers of silver foil, webbed, lightly reduced and encased.

Clio over Ekho

I still have a lot of layered Clio beads to photographed but I think these may be my favorite. Both are Clio over Ekho. Depending on what Ekho decides to do, determines the color of the bead. You know how silver glass tends to have a mind of it's own. In many cases it ends up being a good thing. The first bead is multicolored with green, pink and lavender. The second bead is more deep amber, burgundy and purple. I just put down some Ekho, struck and reduced it and covered it with Clio. Then I did my webbing technique, did a light reduction and encased. I can't seem to put the Clio down! Very cool glass.