Linda's Magic Workshop - Linda Britt Design

Thunderbird Supply is one of my favorite suppliers.   They have 3 stores (Gallup NM, Albuquerque NM and Flagstaff AZ).   My dad and brothers ordered from them also.   When I saw they had an in-store semi-annual sale, I put the date on my calendar and just had to go see it.   Saturday I asked Luana, my quilting and walking buddy, to go with me.   It’s a 2 hour drive from Prescott and we thought it would be a great outing!   We left about 8:30 a.m. and Thunderbird was our first stop.   As you can see it is a very clean well organized store.   They had all the things on my list and Kevan was very helpful showing me what I needed.   But it was one of those times where the picture story in my head was based on no reality.   I was expecting a big warehouse with people stumbling over themselves to get the best deals.   Maybe, I spent too much time at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show!   Kevan My Purchases I’m glad I went, met the people, saw the supplies and know that I will

Sharing my work from Hadar’s class with you is making me remember and document what I learned.   It’s a really good thing!   Details can be so easily forgotten.   In between assigned projects, I made a pair of earrings from a slab of copper and a slab of brilliant bronze.   When you really look the top layer of one earring is plain copper and the back layer of the other is textured bronze.   The pieces on the top layer started out as a single shape and I cut them to look like cracked mud.   (At least that is what dried cracked mud looks like here in the Southwest).   Since the two materials have a slightly different shrinkage rate the cracks became a little wider.   After I sanded and fired them, I polished them and made them into earrings.   These were fun and I’ll make other earrings in a similar style.   I also tried my square pliers and love what I can do with them. This pair of earrings sold before I could get them in my etsy shop!

  Winter, snow and being in the house a lot makes me want to cook.   I happened to pick up my grandma’s cook book.   It is very old and a wonderful look into what her life was like when she was cooking for her husband and their two girls.   I think she also cooked for men who worked for them at the farm.   I loved having milk and cookies at her house.  She usually had a cake when I visited her! I wanted to share some of the pages and let you enjoy them too.   The book is well used.   Grandma gave it to my mother and now I have it.   Once in a while I try to decide what recipe I want to make from it but I seldom get past reading and remembering.  I love this story about the rose jar!