Tips: Here are my favorite etching tools

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Beads: Instead of getting steps...

... on my pedometer, I just had to make something (or two things)!
Okay, so now I'll go outside. (Have I mentioned that I am an indoor cat and even on a beautiful day would be just as happy inside playing with clay or drawing? Sunshine coming in the window is good enough for me.)

Beads: KatMan Can Do!

Is he a cat or man? you decide...

Demonstration: The "etching" process

I finally posted some photos on flicker to show you how I do my etched focals and bead sets.
You can see the photos and my notes here: Demonstration of the "etching" process

It shows how I went from this:

to this:

You can see more of my etched beads on flickr.

Beads: Low-calorie doughnuts!

Etsy Treasury: Goats!

I have liked little goats since seeing The Hunchback of Notre Dame movie with Maureen O'Hara as the beautiful dancing girl Esmeralda and her pet goat, Djali. I have run into a real goat at a petting zoo or two but my best experience was with one guy at Rob's parents' farm who followed me around all day like a dog. When we had to go in the house he climbed up on the porch, baa-ing for us to come back out. He was a funny fellow. I did an etsy search for goat and other keywords and came up with this...

 Click here to go to the real thing and investigate the items.