My Sweetie

A picture really is a priceless!!!

I'm Winding Down

Well I've finished the Craft Shows now. I'm officially on sabbatical from selling. I have a few pieces left and will hopefully just sell them by word of mouth. Above is an Exclamation Pendant that I was commissioned to do. The stone is garnet.

Last night I bought 5 rough cut cubed diamonds. And this morning a pair of biwa coin pearls on Etsy that are inset with clear topaz in a 18k gold bezel. In the next few months I hope to be able to fabricate with ease small gold bezels together to form organic looking pieces. Of late, Todd Reed has been an inspiration to me. He a self-taught jeweler who is very in touch with the organic side of fine jewelry making at it's best.

Moving onward with Jewelry

This past week has been hectic for me. I've been crazily making jewelry from all my hundreds of semi-precious and Swarovski crystals. I made about 12 necklaces of freshwater pearl necklaces at 11:00pm or 5:00am, to have them sell instantly. Earrings, oh my, last week, I made about 40 pairs and all sold. I'm exhausted, but feeling good that my supplies are dwindling.

What irony, I wanted to move my jewelry that has been sitting in my jewelry room, some for 2 years now, and when you tell everyone that you are moving on to different jewelry projects, then all of a sudden, wham.... people are wanting my jewelry...

Finally read the camera manual

I've been really trying to work on my photography with this digital camera I have. I actually read the manual and went online this week.

Here is a photograph, without a photo tent. I used one halogen lamp, put camera on the P zone, and changed the AEB to 1. Done in the dead of the night. I'm pretty pleased that my photo came out as good as that. No photoshopping done to it at all.