So you know the old saying 'everyone has a book inside them', well I thought just that.  I had to get that book out and entertain!  So I sat down at the keyboard, fingers poised over the keys....and nothing...absolutely nothing.  I couldn't even think of a funny joke or even the myriad of funny things that have happened to me over the years,...nothing.  Just a big fat blank screen with that cruel cursor...now I know why they call it that, flicking at me, mocking me with a big fat nothing.

So that wonderful novel will have to wait.  Those grand ideas I had of imparting knowledge to others, well that will also have to wait.

I did have one idea.  That little collet maker I bought and have had no success with.  I think I figured it out...place the wires in the slots and slide the 'sleeve' over the shape.  Solder the tips together.  Remove the 'sleeve'.  Take the basket off the form.   Solder the jump rings inside the basket.  Remove the unnecessary ends and form a seat at the top of the basket to hold the stone in place.  Solder onto the desired form or piece and set the stone.  Bingo!  Well almost.  I stupidly cut the wire to size. Placed it in the form, put the sleeve over the form and soldered the tip of the wires, which I had so neatly cut...disaster.  I now have a collet form with the wires stuck in it and I can't get them out without filing them.  What a disaster....

So along with the blank screen, the cursor mocking me,  I now have a collet maker which I can't use! Brilliant.  So if you have an idea of where I'm going with this let me know.  I'm sure I'll have another crafting disaster to share with you soon