What are your interests or crafts?

**Mary Kay** · 06-02-2009, 08:15 AM

I repeat..this is not the main floor of the ECF, don't worry about hijacking, spelling or anything else. We are here in the Women's Room to share, play, inform and most of all to support each other! It's nice to stay on topic, it's better to rise above it.
Just try to keep to the topic in the main forum. That's where the serious business is.
The only rule down here is to play nice, any sniping or flaming will get you a fast ride out on the back of your broom. (no offense to Lucky and her wicked witches broom).

**lorraineg57** · 06-02-2009, 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by RazorNribbonz

Lorraine, You just discribed so many "typical" days... So many times I was the only nurse on the floor..Exhausted from a 16 hr shift.Only to be told my replacement didn't show and if I walked off the floor I'd loose my license..Not enough time to do all that was to be done and threatened to be fired if you stayed over to finish ( I had found meds in the trash = nurses tossing them cause they didnt have time to pass them all..because their job was on the line)

But the day I walked off was the day I almost lost a patient because I couldnt find any proper equipment..She was blue and choking ( having been laid flat with a G-tube by a negligent cna - whom I later found asleep under a bed)..There was no oxygen or suction tubing in the whole facility..The Dr wasnt returning my call and I had to leave this choking woman just to call 911..I've never felt such terror in my life...Later, upon telling my Director of nursing what happend she shrugged and said " you handled it"..I cried all the way home and never went back...

And they wonder why they are in desperate need of nurses...I do realize my story is not typical..And in no way would want to scare someone from doing this..My situation was just really bad...And horrified me too badly to try any other nursing postions.

So yea, give me hairspray and paint anyday! lol

wheew, sorry..I truly did not mean to high jack this thread...I thought I was over all that truama..Guess not.............Back to fun stuff > Im going to paint bullet holes surrounding a lit cig on the front of my 510 PCC, I think lol

PM'd you...hope you don't mind.

**thatgirl1985** · 06-03-2009, 01:50 AM

Wow. I'm glad I am not in the medical field. I am in another field that scares most folks it seems---TEACHING. Just graduated with my teaching degree and am desperately trying to find a job. Who would have thought THAT?

Crafts? Hobbies? Oh dear! I enjoy the following when the urge comes:

Music (guitar, piano)
Art (drawing, digital art, decoupage)
Craft (knitting...have too much yarn!)

I want to learn glass fusing and slumping at some point. It would an expensive hobby, but it looks like a blast! I love dichroic glass. So fun!

Oh and I love to vape.

**lorraineg57** · 06-03-2009, 02:59 AM

Originally Posted by thatgirl1985

Wow. I'm glad I am not in the medical field. I am in another field that scares most folks it seems---TEACHING. Just graduated with my teaching degree and am desperately trying to find a job. Who would have thought THAT?

Crafts? Hobbies? Oh dear! I enjoy the following when the urge comes:

Music (guitar, piano)
Art (drawing, digital art, decoupage)
Craft (knitting...have too much yarn!)

I want to learn glass fusing and slumping at some point. It would an expensive hobby, but it looks like a blast! I love dichroic glass. So fun!

Oh and I love to vape.

My 25 yr. old teaches high school special ed in DC. She just got her masters last year. I think some of her kids are almost as old as she is....hehe.

What is fusing and slumping?

**Mary Kay** · 06-03-2009, 03:03 AM

dichroic glass:

**lorraineg57** · 06-03-2009, 03:10 AM

Originally Posted by MaryKay

dichroic glass:

ooohhhh.....pretty! Is it just for art's sake or can it be used for tiles and such?

**Mary Kay** · 06-03-2009, 03:29 AM

Just the little bit I looked up on-line, It's used for jewelry, tiles and art pieces. I am sure there are lots of uses.

**thatgirl1985** · 06-03-2009, 02:29 PM

Slumping and fusing is just a fancy term for forming hot glass and sticking it together to make things.

And yes, that is dichroic glass! So fun and colorful! I see no reason it couldn't be used for tiles, mosaics, and such.

Have you guys ever been to Etsy :: Your place to buy and sell all things handmade

It is a place where you can buy and sell handmade things. I like to get ideas from other artists.

Lorraine: Your daughter is in a great place with her masters and teaching special education. Special ed. teachers are hard to come by it seems.