What a great end to Memorial Day

My brother was being nosy, and wanted to find some of my grandfathers paintings. He and my mom managed to find some. My mom, brother, and I each got some of them. Now you are probably wondering why this has anything to do with Memorial Day, my grandfather was a Sergeant in the Army. I never got the chance to meet him however, he died right before my brother was born. I hope that I am making him proud with my art (even though I cannot draw or paint like he could).

I would like to give my sincere thanks to everyone that has served in the military both past and present. Thank you for risking everything for our freedom!

I am addicted

I really am. I cannot stop buying beads (especially pearls). If you could see the amount I have, well depending on if you are addicted too or not, you would be shocked. Despite having so many beads, I bought more today. I bought some pearls, and some handmade glass beads. I have a couple of ideas planned for them, so you will just have to wait and see!

At least it's a fun addiction right?!

Show coming up!

Art on the Green at the Pinehills is in less than one month! I have been busy making lots of pieces for the show. I would love to show some pictures, but the weather has not really been cooperating for really good pictures. Hopefully it will change soon.

Stay tuned for more!

Almost summer!

It's bad when the last post I had was mentioning spring, now I am talking about summer...oops. I guess spring really does fly by. I am almost done with my sophomore year of college (halfway done!), scary, but exciting at the same time. Thankfully that I will be able to make jewelry a lot more than I have been able to in school. And hopefully the weather will improve, and with that I can take more pictures :)

Until then finals and other work will be controlling my life.

:)

Spring!

Spring is just around the corner! :)

silver prices.....really???

Ok, so today Rio Grande posted the current silver prices....$34! Are you kidding me? I wish I would have known it was just going to keep going higher I would have stocked up on some stuff when it was $30.

Pretty please silver go back down :) I know a lot of people would appreciate that!

Mixed metals anyone???


praying that the silver prices go down.

New Technique

So about 2 weeks ago, I took a class with my mom at the Bead House. The class was Shrink Plastic, and we did just that, shrink plastic. There is some work involved, but it is so much fun to do. I cannot wait to be home so that I can really play with it more, because of course I can't really do it in my dorm (sigh.). Once I have some finished pieces I will definitely share them. :)

In other news, I recently applied to be in the Art on the Green show at the Pinehills again. It will (hopefully!) be my third time doing the show. I find out in the middle of March (wish me luck!). I will of course let you all know what happens :)
In non jewelry news, spring is almost near, which means a couple of things: warmer weather (and that much closer to summer) but also lacrosse season starts very soon. Lacrosse is one of my favorite sports-both to watch and to work for. I manage the men's team here at school, and their first game is next wednesday! :)

So basically school and lacrosse will be taking up a lot of my time, but it will be worth it because I will still make time to make jewelry!

Until next time :)




PS. sorry for the lack of cool pictures....