Yippee, I got my studio back

with perks...new carpet and new a/c! I should be doing the happy dance, but I can't find anything even though all the containers are marked...it is going to take a few weeks to put them in some kind of order for work again.

The kids will be missed, but this is just awesome!

The cats are excited that they have all this space to lounge out. With the new a/c there was more open window and more natural light.

How happy can a girl be!!

Goings on lately...

Well, the bead/wire room is coming along swimmingly...that seemed to be the good choice of words for today as it has been raining most of the night and the quiet tapping on the shutters is still happening. That is a signal to me that it is going to be a good day to bend wire.

My newest creation is the aluminum cuff. Aluminum is such a fun metal to work with. First you need a very light touch as it marks easy and it crushes easy. On the other hand, you can really make some LARGE pieces and not worry about the weight. I also started to work with aluminum jump rings...so many colors, so many new ideas.

Have a wonderful weekend : )

Visit by muse

I have been moving around in the house, trying to make sense out of all the things going on in life, and while in the bead room/studio the muse came. I have been packaging beads to take to the flea market once it starts to cool off, and all of a sudden I had to stop counting and start stringing. It was nothing fancy, but it cute little bracelet of obsidian, copper and some vintage/recycled gold tone coated glass beads. These gold tone beads came from a bunch of jewelry that needed a new home so we clean them up and either use them in jewelry I make, or package them and sell them as recycled.

I can hardly wait until we get all this moving around in the house finished. : (

Lions and Tigers and Bears...OH MY

Actually it should be beads, rocks and pewter, OH MY.  It is taking over the house!!!  The whole house. 

I am actually converting the old home office into a studio/office for not only my jewelry but the starting of BeadsNGems(tones) to start paying for this habit that I love.  I feel like the chicken with it's head cut off running from point to point to point trying to get it all done and accomplishing very little.  Szarka, I think I know how you feel only in a smaller scale.  The website is beadsngems.ecrater.com if you want to visit.  I am adding items daily, mostly in the evening that is when it is quiet around here.

I love the shopping part of this whole experience.  It is the counting and cataloging that actually becomes boring.

Well, that is all that is going on around here at the moment.