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It is snowing like crazy this morning! Big, wet mid-April snowflakes. I thought I had experienced the best of the best snowstorms having grown up in South Dakota, but the springtime storms here are wild. A few years ago, the roof of the Old Navy (and several other big buildings) caved in from the weight of the very wet, very heavy snow. I was outside scraping my car windows this morning, and there's not really a big wind, but the big snowflakes hitting my face HURT! Amazingly, they actually have the snow plows out right now. In South Dakota, they're on standby at all times, but in Colorado, since we only get a few major snowstorms a year (which all seem to happen in March & April), they generally wait 2-3 days before sending out the snow plows.

In other news, I really really really want to buy this Precious Metal Clay kit. Here's a book on Amazon that shows the kind of things you can make. Basically, you take the PMC, and can mold it like clay, but when fired, it ends up solid .999% sterling silver, which is more pure than most sterling silver. I am very seriously thinking about cutting off my left pinky toe and selling it so I can afford this kit, then spending the rest of 2005 experimenting so I can have all new jewelry designs for events in 2006, selling enough things to buy my toe back. No harm done, right?

I was doing some searching online last night, and Denver's Urban Flea Market looks interesting- I'm thinking of possibly trying it out. I've never been there, so maybe I'll go visit first, then if there's a good crowd I'll give it a whirl. I've done too many events in the past few years that I've gone into with blind faith without ever having been to the art fair or festival. Some (many) have been complete busts, and just a few have turned out well, so a trip down to Denver may be in order. Maybe Becki will come with me...

Now I'm off to make some more solder heart charms. I am going to try to put some things on eBay this week in hopes of saving my little toe.