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....

Snow...lots of snow...

I know I am not alone in saying this...I really want a snow day tomorrow. We are supposed to get hit pretty bad, and it was snowing a lot earlier (so fingers crossed!).

I have made a lot of earrings lately, making more ear wires for the earrings that I have already made. I will try and take some pictures of them to share :)

Other than that I have been busy with the start of second semester, homework, meetings and work has pretty much filled all of my time. It is all worth it though.

Part 3 of Update: Random Awesomeness

The last two posts were more organized, this one will be a little more random, but awesome.
A friend of mine at school took some really great pictures of my jewelry, and here are some of my favorites:

 

 

I still have to figure out how to make them into the normal picture format, so when I do I will post more....

I was very fortunate this Christmas, I got a gift that I had been wanting for awhile....a Durston rolling mill :) I was very happy and thankful when I got it on Christmas morning. I haven't been able to use it yet though, because I need to find a place to put it...but as soon as I do I will make lots of new pieces. :)

I am not a fan of winter, especially the snow part. I would much rather be walking on the beach, then walking through the snow. Snow days are fun, but not fun when they interfere with plans or cause power outages. Thankfully the recent snow storms haven't interfered with anything, and I'm hoping that any other storms that are coming continue to be like that.

My break is going by pretty fast, I will be back at school in less than 2 weeks. I did well last semester, and I am hoping that I am going to continue with it next semester. Two of my classes next semester are nursing classes and they require that I take a test called the ATI. ATIs are worth 25% of my grade in the class, so it is very important that I am ready for the test, but thankfully I have all semester to prepare myself for it. It is definitely a little nerve wracking though.

Back when I was in school, my friend and I ordered Chinese food for a study night, and both of my fortune cookies were great. They were:
"Don't be afraid to take a chance when the opportunity of a lifetime appears." and
"Pray for what you want, but work for the things you need."
Probably the best fortunes that I have ever gotten from a cookie.

I think that is all I wanted to talk about, but who knows there might be a part 4 :) you will just have to wait and see.

Part 2 of Update: Last Best Craft Fair

The week after my mom's show, I had a show at my old elementary school. It was the first time that I had participated in the Last Best Craft Fair, and it was a good and successful experience to do it. I stayed up late the night before the show because I did not think that I had enough stuff, but it probably was not necessary because when I was setting it up with my mom, my tables were easily filled up.

My mom made me this to match my business cards. I love it :)

Lots of pearls, and lots of silver, a combination I really like.

My poppy set :) I still need to make a pendant and dangle earrings to match though.

See all of the those bracelets on the display....I had two full displays of them. Stretchy bracelets were what I did when I first started making jewelry, and if you couldn't tell, I really liked to make them...

Over 100 glass pendants, I really do love making them because I never know how they will exactly turn out, and no two are the same, even if I try really hard to make them to match.

Thank you to everyone that came to the show, I really appreciate it. I had a lot of fun at the show! :)