Monday, July 30, 2007

Steph's Chandeliers

These are a Japanese chainmaille weave. It was a little tough working with those tiny rings, but I put on my reading glasses and wa la! These earrings are great, you can wear them with jeans and a T-Shirt or with a fancy schmancy dress and they pair fabulously with either!

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Twinkle Ring

This ring broke too, but it broke while I was wearing it. I think it was because I made it too thin. Keep checking my blog, I will make this into something else. It was a nice ring but will be even nicer.............

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Laugh Out Loud

This class was a supposed to be a hammered ID bracelet. Because I'm such a perfectionist I have to file and sand and get everything just so before I fire it. And I broke my bracelet while it was in the dried clay state before I fired it.
I had three words on there, I can't remember what the other two were, but I was able to save one end with the heart hole and the word laugh. I figured I make it into a charm.
I fired it and then it was time to hammer. Because it was supposed to be a bracelet the end with the heart was a little curved. The perfectionist in me wanted it to be flat so I thought that I'd hammer it flat, I hammered it flat! And again I broke it!
I now keep this on my work table to remind me to Laugh Out Loud! It's not the end of the world when something breaks, use it to your advantage and make something else out of it!

Monday, July 2, 2007

South Beach, Florida

Here we are on South Beach in Flordia on our vacation in June! It was my second trip to Miami and Troy's first. We drove from Miami to Key West and went to the most southern point in the US. The water is so warm it's almost shocking! We had a very relaxing time, we both needed it! I LOVE THE BEACH!!!!