nothing sudorific here i’m afraid

i don’t do things that i should when i don’t feel good. sometimes it’s the next right thing to do and sometimes my choices may not be as right as i make them out to be. the little wheels on it squeak some.

i am working on jewelry through this recent bout of feeling crummy. i have boxes of stuff around here at the house (and you have probably seen some of it) of necklaces that just need to be remade. redesigned. and parted out. i already know i will have a big pile of ready to smelt silver. now would be a good time to have mold equipment. and some knowledge of the process. you could make your own shapes the other things.
to me, going that far out with process is too much. some things i just like off the rack….. i think creating a ring from a piece of half flat wire is groovy but i don’t want to be hanging around fire while it heats it hot enough to melt.
i saw my sister catch on fire when we were real little. when i was 9 or 10 or 11, i saw my mama get an even worse burn from canning water she poured down her dress front. i was in the kitchen when it happened. too many people were in that tub.
both of them were okay, but both of them suffered a lot because of it. i can only hang with fire long enough to make head pins and solder jump rings closed.

right now, i am still all about the seed beads. i like making mats. and tubes. i finally figured out more about right angle weave with beads. so much of what there is to do is connected by an amazingly small group of basic stitches. some of the stitches coming off the basics will cause your brain to swell and bleed, but that come later.
i am so bad about making a project with a new stitch and not following orders…. i already want to substitute beads for other beads…. and generally if it’s not already my kinds of colors, i make it so when i put it all together. and then while i am making the piece of jewelry i get ideas and try to apply the ideas and make a hot mess that i have to take apart and begin again and my messy assed me is banished to the other side of the big room away from my work table.

i ordered this butterfly by mistake…. it has two spikes on the back that you stab through and hold with. so i stabbed through the peyote square and covered the stab marks with another square and zipped them together and decorated it. i wanted to find something besides chain to hold the work. i did not feel like kumihimo. and my supplies are too big for what i needed. i remembered seeing an article in a jewelry magazine discussing picot stitch. the writer met a street sellar making picot stitches into neclaces and selling them as the tourists waited. i found the direction pretty quickly and it worked exactly right. i’ve ordered more butterflies…..

***well…. i went to photobucket to upload my photos. the other place wants me to give them money or they will only let me keep my latest 200 pictures. i must have broke 200 then…. something is missing in what i am doing to get pictures here and if you see one, good, i tried what i was thinking and it worked. or poo, it did not. let’s look and see.

you can upload to FB and then put it here..just a sec am going to cut and paste info here that i noted for woman in the moon

when you post to FB it is going to ask you do you want higher definition. say yes. then you can right click on the picture and save picture location (url for only picture) then go to OD and open the picture installer, paste url as ususal. have not adjusted size yet, but it is probably the same. for privacy go to ghostery.com. wont have lurkers/spyware/or an overloaded cash.

as for the 200 limit where ever you are, why not open another acct with a different email addy?? gmail.com is fab. and free. and please stop abusing you for being you. after all now matter where we are, there we are, as is. and that is good enough. (hugs) i love you , you gem of a woman you.

just d

May 7, 2012

I am glad that the butterfly you ordered by mistake turned out to be a success. Its just a shame that all our mistakes don’t end as successes. ~ hugs ~

Robin W

I hope you feel better soon! Hugs and Love,

Pretty necklace. I love your artwork.

Everything in Between

Sheesh, I know I’ve said this before but I wish you were closer. I have so many pendants that need a finish. I love dochroic glass and have tons of it with the bales but nothing else. My sister does some bead and jewlery work but she seems to have lost interest. I love what you do.

Maui Jim

May 8, 2012

Aloha… Ryn: 40 to 50 feet high…! Smiles…

jamez

May 9, 2012

RYNote. Goodness you found my entry in sort order. The Rosary Tree & Hart on Chalice Hill are just whimsical names to 2 photographs, Im sure you will find info about the hart but the tree I think someone left a bead ringlet in the tree, Sweetheart and I were sat beneath the tree, I suppose someone left it after a time meditating on that same bench; its that sort of spiritual place .

You seem to enjoy your jewellery work, its good to have a craft to enjoy while your recovering. Our weather is still chilly for May, & people leaving doors open are told to shut that door its cold! Last night at class I almost shouted the opposite, it was the door of the kiln, you can feel a 1000 degrees across the room! Not smelting just enamelling; I dont think I would smelt in the house!

May 10, 2012

RYNote. We dont have many goats reaming here, it is a sheep; I dont know the breed.

You may want to look at Picasa or Flickr for your photos, they are easy to use and I believe they are free. Get to feeling better!

ryn: The liter box thing is my only quagmire. I’ve got to figure that out if I’m going to keep one. I can’t have my dogs eating “candy bars”. p.s. How are you feeling today?

Happy Mother’s Day!

ryn; i have other fears..the fear of dinging doors inside and outside my tin can home on wheels. the fear of getting old. the fear of rising prices on a fixed income..and i should be saving more and somehow, it is just not going to happen…

May 15, 2012

RYNote 1. I think Ludo is a fine name, there was a news reporter on the BBC called Ludo, Ludovic Kennedy was the anchor of many late night news programs, also he was serving on a Royal Navy Destroyer in WW2, and was an eye witness to the sinking of the Bismarck. Merlin is also a fine name for a pet; or an engine!

RYNote 2. Once in a shop I heard a farther shout Cromwell – put that down Poor little lad he had a good pets name, the problem of having new century aspirational parents!