I subscribe to the Etsy newsletter. I look at what they send me on a daily basis, except maybe the weekends and then I check it out on Mondays. There are many great things that are made on Etsy by many different people. I enjoy looking and “window shopping” at times.
In a recent news letter Arrik was featured and had a collectors chest on there. It looked really cool with a glass top to display your collections. It had many different types of configurations, that any collector would be happy.
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My first time at a real torch. As I don’t have mine fully setup and going yet, I was really happy to hear that FlameTree Glass in Rosewell, GA was having an open torch day. I had gone up the Saturday before and bought my regulators and stuff. Lance said that he would show me how to do some fuming really quick. I thought that it would be a great opportunity to learn, so I went up.
I want to show you all what I had made, with the help of Lance of course. I was in a learning process. I do think that I got the fuming down, and this afternoon I’m picking up the last items I need for the torch. So I am really hoping to get some bench time in tonight. I have to figure out what I’m going to do about the wind though. I do not want the torch to come back and bite me. I don’t want to be burned.
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On one of the forums that I frequent, a post was made about a lady that had everything in her home tossed out by mistake. The foreclosure company re-keyed the wrong house, posted a letter on her door and let her know it was a mistake. Then they tossed everything out of the house in the trash. News Story: CNN
How would you feel if you came home to an empty house? It wasn’t just a well and good mistake. The foreclosure company offered her $5000 for restitution. I enclosed my email to team@brenkus.com below.
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I currently have everything that I need, with the exception of oxygen, to melt and blow glass. This weekend I went to FlameTree Glass and picked up some tube, silver, regulators, hose, and flashback arrestors.
If the wife is feeling up to it, I’m going to see if she will pick up a tank of oxygen from AirGas. You see I work all day and AirGas closes at 4:30pm. this means that my job, 7:30am to 5:30pm, doesn’t leave me any time to get gas for the glass. This task will have to be entrusted to my wife. it shouldn’t be an issue at all. I’m just hoping that they will load it into the van for her.
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I have been sick the past couple of days. Yep, I still went to work. There is something about being an hourly employee that makes you go to work no matter what. Even when I was a salary employee I still went to work even though I was sick. I just don’t call out sick unless I just can’t get out of the bed.
So my fever broke this morning about 5am. I woke up covered in sweat. I thought that I would just get up and get something to drink. When I got back to bed, I was freezing cold. My shirt was covered in sweat and had gotten cold from the air in the house, which made me cold in return. To the point I was shivering.
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