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Lots of new things have been happening recently! Bruno is growing like a weed, we went to visit the family in Birmingham last weekend and took him for a walk up at the Lickey Hills, it was pretty misty and with all the fun he was having playing with the other dogs there he was absolutely soaking when we got back to the car. Bruno is my first dog, I can't help but wish I'd made it happen sooner, he is everything I wished for and I am thoroughly enjoying having him in the family! Amber is pretty confident around him now, but Deeley is still very timid. We'll get there though - I just thought, in our house now there are 14 legs!!! Hehe!

I started by new job last week too, I was quite entertained when I saw my "office". We're in the middle of an office move so I'm just working at a spare desk, it's lost in the massive room. I'm enjoying the peace and quiet though, at my old job it was very open plan and echo-ey, here I have perfect peace and am working so much faster, it's lovely! The job itself is mind-blowing, using cutting edge technology and state of the art equipment. I can't put too much here yet (it seems some people at my old place have grudges to bear, sigh) but this job could be the making of me, and at the same time it may well bring my high-tech employment and my low-tech hobby together in a most exciting way (ooh, I wish I could say now, but...)

Here's a happy photo. I LOVE colour, so when I knew I'd be making a number of molds for the Snowflake Frodo run, I needed to keep track of them so colour-coded them. I actually have a brown mold complete now to add to this selection and next up will be a white and a black. Unfortunately the snowflake combined with the texture of the pony are pretty tough on mold rubber, I got over 50 models out of each of my Little One molds, but I don't think these will be anywhere near that many, so I'm planning about 25-30 per mold this time round. The molds have all come out well, apart from the blue one - the model moved while the rubber was curing, so I put that mold onto a little stack of wooden tongue depressors (large lollipop sticks) to make sure the model still casts perfectly flat.

I caught myself having a bit of a moment a few days ago, when I was tidying all my mold-making kit away to make room for the casting stuff. I was looking at my rubber mixing bucket and admiring all the little bits of coloured rubber that have survived my attempts to clean it. Somehow I just felt it had a story to tell. Apologies if the picture is sideways, I'm still working out the kinks in Blogger and Picasa.

I found out some exciting news today, it's to do with my "Little One" sculpture - I've had a cool idea - more details on that when I know more myself! Til next time...