I added the first set of silver studs to etsy tonight, I will be listing a smaller pair tommorow along with the pink candy jade and black(peacock)keishi pearl cluster earrings. Its late and I have packing to do so will finish tommorow.
Gnight!
Serena
So I havent gotten anything I needed to done.. the house is a mess.. laundry and dinner still need to be mad. But I got the torch working and got some silver melted down and made some awesome studs! Melting silver is addictive... watching it turn molten.... I have one large and two medium pairs done and 3 small pairs ready to be soldered(need more silver for posts.) Here is the large pair... the mosquitos chased me back inside before I could get the medium ones photo'd. I still have to get back for them and cut them posts down.
Before I flee outside to enjoy the sunshine... here is the necklace that I am working on.... I am kind stumped of what to do next... it needs something.
I went ahead and added a link in the chain past the rose quartz dangles of three rose quarts rondelles.. I think that is what it needed. I plant to work on it more today if I get the chance... But I have tons to do, we leave for Taos thursday and I need to pack, clean out the car AND we are headed off to Walmart to warranty the battery on the car... seems its got issues and its fairly new. Of course we are planning a vacation... everything has to go wrong... Altinator, Ujoints, the thingy that we had replaced this spring... that was expensive and WE(of the experienced mechanic household) had to take it to the Lincoln dealer to have fixed, now the battery.. but its all getting done and I can hope nothing else can go wrong...
I have a couple more pictures to post... so I hope to be back later...
My Friend Dani sent me a link to a new online storeplace kinda like etsy... except its free to list yout items!
My new shop is :
http://WyndFyreDesigns.ShopHandmade.com
I will have to make it a clickable linke later... for some reason I cant do anything other than type today on blogger... hmmm... I still have my etsy store of course.. But figured it would hurt to start one up there to... I am contemplating braving the mosquitos to take some pictures... Cant decide if I can stand the smell of the bug repellant though its makes me sick.. Its been a loooooong week and I am so glad for the weekend.
Serena
So I keep telling myself to post something.. Update this place. I chatter out ideas in my head as I listen to people drone on in life... then when I zip over here to post POOF the ideas are gone. That pretty much describes today. I found a cool blog I wanted to mention... got distracted and Xed out of the page.. and now I cant find it or remember who it was... I need to post more pictures and sutff, but I take all my pictures outside.... I also need to fire up my big torch and work on some stuff that the little torch just cant handle.. (oh and the little torch is not my friend and wont work for some reason.) WHY do I not do this? Because those amazing water filled pictures I posted a while back.. that 8 inches of rain that fell in our oh so dry area.... did you guess it yet? I have stayed holed up in the house because the enture region is now under the control on the mosquito hoard... My dear husband is mosquito not tasty person number one... mosquitos never ever bother him.. he has been in my life for 10 yes 10 years and until the last few months he has told me I am insane when I do the insane mosquito bitey fleeing twitchy psychotic frenzy thing... BUT guess what... this world domination batch of mosquitos doesnt care that he isnt supposed to taste yummy... I guess he doesnt smell good to them, but they sure discovered he must me tasty.. and since hes a decent sized bear of a guy he has plenty of food for the hungry hoard... I now get to enjoy the male version of the insane mosquito bitey fleeing twitchy psychotic frenzy thing... But my mind wanders... due to that I have Not wandered outside to take pictures, I have not played with big torch....
I have made a new necklace and matching earrings... and a simple pendant, but no pictures yet soo... I will have to reschedule show off my pretties...
I heard on the news this morning that they will begin allowing residents back on Galveston Island! My uncle is headed back that way today I think. He's keeping everyone updated on his blog: http://www.seasidefamily.com/kelleys_korner.htm
I found a quote for him that I felt fit him and his church well.. "Don't tell God how big your storm is ... Tell your storm HOW BIG YOUR GOD IS!!!!! As soon as I saw this I could SEE my uncle and his church in my mind. They will stay strong, rebuild and be a light to others to find their way to recover from an unimaginable storm...
Keep them in your thoughts....
S
I havent worked on jewelry in days. My heart just isnt in it. I've spent almost every moment I can stand listening, reading and watching everything I can about what is going on in the Galveston area. It breaks my heart. Every Galveston report I see just gets worse and worse... Thats my families home there. My Memaw, my Uncle Kelley and Aunt Chris, My Cousins Kel and his family, Nathan and his new family.... I feel so lost thinking of them not being able to go home and not knowing what will be left to rebuild, and I feel like there is nothing I can do to help. I cant even put the way I feel right now and I know its nowhere near what they are going through. Dad, Fran, Kelley Chris, Memaw, all of you... I love you and I am so glad everyone is ok. I love you guys.
My uncle Kelley has a blog that he is updating with information about the damage on the island.
http://www.seasidefamily.com/kelleys_korner.htm
Serena
So it stopped raining.. still gloomy, but not raining.....
Here's a little taste of why I will be inhumanly exhausted at the end of my work day......
That is Texas Tech University Jones Stadium... I didnt take these pics... not sure who did, they just got forwarded to me. Tech has a game Saturday and they are scrambling to get the water pumped out in time... I am ready for today to be OVER. Its been wild....
Now on a more serious note than even this... Ike is still on the move... A big chunk of my family is in his path..... I will be glued to the tv this weekend watching the news reports and worrying..... Keep them in your prayers for me please.....
Serena
The news says 8+ inches! Its not currenlty raining. Time to go to work. News reported that Texas Tech is closed. So off I go to work soon to see how bad the chaos can be. I want sleep
10PM the news reported we are over 7inches and its still raining.....bleck.
UPDATED 9:31pm we are offically over 6 inches if rain in the City of Lubbock. They have issued a state of Emergency for both city and county and most of the area schools have canceled classes. We just got home from dropping Wyatt off at the Grands house for the night and filling up the truck with gas... we filled up and it was 3.49 a gallon, we followed my Sister in law home to make sure she got there safe in her little car and then when we went back by where we had just filled up the gas prices were 3.55 a gallon. Many of the roads are flooded out. THere are three main roads into town from our house and the two main ones ofthe three have police and fire personell sitting at the intersection making sure people make it through and pushing the ones that dont out of the intersection..... Mike put out his new rain guage at 6pm and when I waded out through the pond that is our yard to check it at 7om is was already showing and inch and a quarter. Wild stuff. I am contemplating braving it to check the rain guage again for grins.... ...ok its 3/4" higher than before.... now i AN GOING TO GET READY FOR BED! BRRRR.....
5.48 inches by 6pm today and its still coing down in buckets. You cant tell our driveway from our ditch and the playa across the streed is about 50 feet past where I have ever seen it before. Parts of town are impasable. Wyatt is driving me nuts! He is bouncing off the walls..... Tempted to just send him out in the rain to play! Bear the bunny is running around the house exploring and loving being a house rabbit. And you know what? all this rain and we arent even on the coast where hurricane Ike will hit! We are getting remnants of Lowell this far inland. I can only imagine how the path of Ike will affect the state... YIKES!
I will be back later to post some more pictures of new stuff.. been busy. Gonna go eat dinner now
Serena
I love love BLue tigers eye. A little love story for you....When I was 7 or 8 I was at a flea market with my mom and found a large piece of blue tigers eye with no gold streaks in it. I fell in love. If I remember right he wanted like 10 dollars for it. I think I had like 2 dollars and I was heartbroken. He took pity on me and sold it to me for my two dollars. I treasured it . With all the moves I dont know what happened to it. But it facinated me and something about it touched me deaply. When I started designing jewelry I started looking for blue tigers eye remembering that pretty piece from my childhood. At the local gemshow I found a vendor with some quarter sized polished nuggets. While chooseing 3 for myself I had a strange realization, the color of blue tigers eye is eirily similar to the deep blue of the love of my lifes eyes. His eye color has always facinated me, I like to think that when I saw that breathtaking streaked blue so many years ago... it was a part of the twisted path that led me to the man I love so much. When I found this piece I chose it for its unmarred blue. No obvious gold streaking. I wanted to compliment it but not draw attention from the piece itself so I put a simple silver bail on it and paired it with a teeny faceted apatire rondelle to compliment the lighter blues and a sterling silver flower to make it a little more feminine. I have worn it nonstop since I finished it. I did go back and buy the other blue tigers eye she had, it has gold streaking through it but is gorgeous also. I havent decided what to do with it....
Its hard to capture the lighter nuances of the blue tigers eye. It looks darker in the pictures than it really is.
I love these... Chameleon lampwork beads from Java Bead, gold keishi petal pearls, green adventurine rounds. Of course the heapins and earwires are all handcrafted by me.
Ive been busy this weekend!
Dark Blue Apatite faceted nuggets with clustered keishi cup pearls on sterling silver headpins hanging from sterling silver 20gauge earwires handcrafted by me.
Still in progress.. this will be the matching necklace...
I am having a huge sale in my etsy shop. I want to move everything I have listed out.
Check it out!
wyndfyredesigns.etsy.com
even the Clearance priced items are reduced even more. Some of the prices are $10 or more off!
~Serena
