Kiss my Glass, Pt.1

Just finished my first glass blowing class and it was awesome. There were only two of us in the class (though the teacher is switching us to the 1PM class with his other two students so that he doesn't have to run the equipment for quite as long, which is expensive). I learned about the parts of the studio and how to work the glass. I made a marble and a glass snowman, which I will get back next class since it needed to anneal (cool slowly) so that it wouldn't crack.

Marble-y goodness.

The teacher was great, very patient and easygoing. He is in his early 30's and has only been running the studio for a year and a half. The first floor of his house is the gallery. I didn't get a chance to tour it yet, but I will be sure to next class and take some pics. I did however, need to use the restroom, and this is what I found.

Crazy bathroom sink!


Bathroom ceiling filled with glass.

I am super excited about it! I had a great time and could see wanting to take another class once this one is over. I told the teacher, as I was making my snowman, that I felt comfortable doing it, almost like I had done it before. Maybe in a previous life, I WAS one of those renaissance glass artists that I have drooled over all these years.

Happy VD

Here's a cool video from a site I like, called PostSecret, where people send anonymous secrets via postcards to be displayed online..

Happy Valetine's Day!

Strange but True

Want to waste an hour?

Only in America

You know how sometimes you are hungry for cheese cake, but you are too lazy to go to all the trouble of making one, you reach for the frozen Sara Lee cheesecake.

But you run into your next stumbling block - waiting for the cheesecake to defrost. (Who invented stumbling blocks, anyway? Seems like a bad design idea, and even worse to try to market. Think of the legal team that wrote up those warning instructions: Caution! If used correctly, product will cause stumbling.) Turns out, Sara Lee has worked around this issue, as it clearly states with its "Ready in 20 Seconds in the Microwave" emblem emblazoned on the box.

So why, I ask , has Philadelphia Cream Cheese (is there any other brand?) invented this:

It seems like all of the laziness of Sara Lee, but messier, and more time consuming. They suggest putting the filling into pre-made graham or Oreo cookie pie crusts. Notice that word PIE, i.e. not CAKE.

I think this product has been made for one demographic only; the one that will eat this filling straight from the tub with a spoon. The same one that may need to lift folds of fat to wash themselves and may, if they are not careful, grow into their couch.

And I'm proud to be an American!