Okay so you thought the Sumco letters were kick ass? Well apparently you didn’t catch my picture of the day on

She cleaned those letters up for her new studio, but the studio doesn’t have enough wall space. They are in the Ribbon Jar right now, but might go into storage because they are quite massive, and I do want to put the row of chairs there. Haven’t decided. So what I’m getting to is that we still have some left over letters, and I am planning on getting back over to Sumco for some of those. We want to do some kind of swap, so that we can spell things we want, or get our initials, or maybe cool fabric, whatever. Would that be something you were interested in? I was thinking I could just put pictures up of the letters individually and take offers on each one. It will be a few weeks, I’m still unpacking my craft room and working on Ribbon Jar like crazy, but I wanted to get a feel for if this would be something you are all interested in. Let me know!

So when I was younger I got to go to all these cool places for take your daughter to work day; job sites. My dad’s in construction and I loved picking up little left over things or cool looking pieces of "garbage" from the sites, like those little metal pieces that come from putting in new plug boxes, I still have my collection of those fake coin like things. So when my dad acquired a closed Sumco plant I was ready to rummage. This place is the creepiest, coolest playground. The company relocated the crystal growing facilities and wafer manufacturing to Ohio/overseas, both too far to take all the weird equipment they had at the Salem plant. We’re talking huge equipment, strange equipment, and miles of wire and duct work. I’ve been there twice already to get some shelves for my jars, and laundry area (see
There are so many tubes at this place; pink tubes, florescent tubes, iron tubes that look like Augustus Gloop could get sucked up in one, all kinds of tubes.


I’ll be back for you little a just you wait.