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!

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.............

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!

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!!!!

Sweet Face

This is a really fun piece. The font is like a picture frame with a sealed paper image of a cute pink haired skull, I added lots of girly hearts in the clay.

On the back I used a rubber stamp for the word Sweet and used a sharp pointy tool to engrave the rest of the words.

This is the left over piece from where the picture is placed on the front of the piece, I drilled a hole and attached a jump ring and use it as a layering piece with the other pendant. I wear this piece as a choker and the other pendant on a long hot pink ball chain.

And here are the two pieces shown together. Special thanks to Roxy for modeling, she always makes me laugh!

Pearl Knotted Cherries

I learned some new tips and tricks to pearl knotting in this class, things that would really make you say duh!!! And the necklace is a cute & fun piece.

Twister

This is a spiral chainmaille bracelet, you don't use a clasp, you just roll it on! This is also a good layering piece. It was fun & easy, it went really quick.

Heart in Heart

This was a class where we learned to make a mirror image finish on a piece. I did pretty good, no matter what angle I was at or how I took the photo I could not get a good shot without having a refection of myself on the piece! This is a good layering piece.

Crowned Skull

I like the piece a lot, although I used a mold to create it, it took quite a bit of work to get to the finished state. Most of my pieces have a heart in the design somewhere if not, I'm usually putting one on the back of the pieces.

arrrhhh.....Surrender Your Booty!

One Sunday afternoon Troy & I went to a movie, after we got out of the movie I saw a sign on a store that said "The Artful Potter". Anything with the words Art, Craft, Creative, Hardware, Tools, etc always catch my eye & I had to check it out. It turned out to be a ceramics shop. You could choose any item, paint it, they would fire it and you could pick it up a couple 0f days later.

Those of you that have known me since childhood, know that me & my sis did lots of ceramic pieces in 4H Club. It had been years since I had even stepped foot into a ceramics shop, so of course I got all excited and made Troy stay and do a project with me.

I choose to make a "girly" skull(imagine that), complete with a pink star eye patch and Troy made a water bowl for "The boys". They both turned out quite well & we had fun too!

......oh and the bandanna lifts off of the skull and inside it says: "Surrender Your Booty" & around the outside of the water dish it says: Otis "Little Boy" Elvis "Piggy".......