The weekend wrap-up

Spent a lovely day on Saturday with my best buddy charityflint. We had one of our glass classes. This time we were doing fusion and making jewelry. We could either make three pendants or a pair of earrings and a pendant. I chose the three pendants and Charity made a matching set of earrings and a pendant. This was a new studio we went to and it was really, really nice. And it's also the closest one to my house that we've been to, so it's very convenient. The woman who runs it was really great. Very friendly. I can see myself taking more classes there. Charity and I both signed up for their mailing list. It was funny because for the first time, Charity and I were the only two out of a class of fourteen, who had ever worked with glass before. We were being called "the professionals". :-) It was nice to help out the other four gals at our table when they had questions. When we were finished everyone walked around and took a look at everyone else's pieces. It astounds me how different everyone thinks when given a blank canvas to create something. Some of the pieces were very good, and all from first time students!

Here's a picture of mine, of the raw glass. We pick up the finished pieces hopefully this coming weekend. I was very excited because we finally got to work with dichroic glass. It's the big multi-colored block on the left. I can't wait to see what that looks like when it's all melted.

Charity and I went out to lunch afterwards, then I did a bit of grocery shopping and headed home. I left the house at 11:15 am and didn't get home until 4:30 pm! Busy day!

On Sunday the hubby and I headed out to my comic book store to pick up my monthly stash of books and then we had lunch out. Got back to the house and spent the afternoon reading all of my comics, plus starting a Doctor Who book. Ended up taking a nap for about an hour then while we ate dinner we watched The November Man with Pierce Brosnan on On Demand. We missed it when it was in the theater and we're both big fans of Pierce (since his Remington Steele days!). It was a good action movie but had a few plot holes.

I also watched the two hour series finale of The Mentalist. When that show first came on I was such a huge fan. But the Red John storyline just dragged on and on and ON for six freaking years. When the show got moved to Sunday night at some point I ended up stopping watching because it was constantly pre-empted by football. But when I heard the Red John storyline was finally coming to an end I tuned back in for that one episode. And it was completely anti-climactic. Then when I heard that there was going to be this big time jump, both Rigsby and Van Pelt were leaving the show, pretty much everyone was leaving the CBI, etc. I once again stopped watching. Then when I heard this was going to be the final season I tuned back in to see how it all was going to end. And honestly, it was the most boring season ever. I really never saw the romantic chemistry between Lisbon and Jane. But somewhere along the way they fell in love and then got married in this last episode. AND she's pregnant. [shrug] I won't miss the show, but at least they were given a proper last season to tie everything up. Unlike many shows I've really liked and have gotten canceled.

And that was my weekend! How was YOURS?