Best Card Messages - Greeting Card Messages. Buoy fish float on Etsy, a global handmade and vintage marketplace. Rope Buoy Ornament. Look what I made today! A hand tied glass fishing float net! « In the Studio with Ruth Bleakley. I’m back from my 2 week Florida vacation feeing revitalized – and sorely missing the sunshine! Over the past few days I’ve been tackling my catastrophe of a studio, cleaning it up in 20 minute chunks (even setting my chicken-shaped egg timer to keep me going).
When things get busy for me, you can tell by how much stuff is piled in my studio, but I plan to wipe the slate clean, put away all guilt-inducing half-finished projects and relax for a while. I still like to keep my hands busy, so I tried something COMPLETELY new today – hand tying a net! Yep, my compulsive craftiness knows no bounds.
Glass fishing floats were used for many years to hold up fisherman’s nets, before cheaper plastic and styrofoam floats became the norm. My pal Bryan Randa from the local craft show circuit gave me this ball and an even larger green one to try tying nets on. This year, I bought myself a cool turtle! JAPANESE GLASS FISHING FLOAT NETS. Look what I made today! A hand tied glass fishing float net! « In the Studio with Ruth Bleakley.