Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles, CA

Tuesday, 11. June 2013

Hanging-out, chillaxing and surfing

‘Adorable’, this is our colleague Sarah’s favourite word. Sarah is 26 years old and also works in Celeb’s studio. She is in charge of the orders, some of the sanding, assisting with glass making and looking after the stock; a bit of everything so to speak. If someone has a question, she is the one to go to as she knows where everything is and can always help. Sarah also lives in Celeb’s house and we share a room with her. At the weekend we went out together and promptly made our first encounter, in the middle of the street: A Mexican who owns a little restaurant down by the sea, told us of his experiences with beer in Germany, how big and tasty it had been. He then invited us to an American beer in his restaurant. I have to say that I am not overwhelmed by American beer, as it is sweeter and contains a lot more hops. I simply don’t really like it. There are always at least 42 different types of beer in the supermarkets, which everyone’s very proud of.

Tuesday’s evening walk ended at his place and we had a drink with two new friends who we had only met at the weekend. On leaving, he invited us to visit his friend’s Jacuzzi. We exchanged numbers and were planning to fix something for the next day. Unfortunately we then lost the piece of paper with the number - Celeb’s cleaning lady is really thorough. What a shame that we couldn’t get through to him even though I left a message. Wednesday evening on our way back from the sea, we bumped into him again. What luck! Within half an hour we were sitting in the garden in a tub of hot bubbly water. What a great way to spend a summer’s evening. They told us stories of how in the 70’s here in the Canyon of Laguna Beach the first big drug deals started, and even today for some this is still a side-line.

We were busy working on new lights in the morning. Learning how to marver is very high on our agenda here.  They use the marver for everything from shaping the piece of colour to the shaping of the final glass piece, this is a totally new move for us and it is good to take over some of these ideas into our working life.  For example; they make a clear post and then cut colour onto the tip of the post, then all warmed through and all marvered on the marver to get the colour complete over the clear post, making it a nice overlay.

Over the last weekend the waves here in Laguna Beach were perfect for surfing. Unfortunately we haven’t tried it out yet, but we surely will soon. We slept one night in the truck right next to the rolling waves and had a super view the next morning.

On Sunday we went into Los Angeles and walked through Hollywood and Beverly Hills. This is quite a distance which everybody else drives, but as we are still not keen on parking the big truck we preferred to explore the area on foot.

And by the way, ‘adorable’ means lovable, attractive, delightful, magical or simply an adorably good word!