Texture

The SaTeam has decided to try some blog carnivals, where everyone blogs about the same topic. Gives people a chance to see how things affect one another and to links up blogs.

The topid this time is "how does texture affect your work?" I love texture! I think that's fairly evident in my spinner rings. It's rare I do a ring without texture!

My favorite texturing tools are Jim Moore's texture stamps, I have several but really and kicking myself for not getting a dozen or so. They really are my favorite tool in the studio right now.

This ring has two different texture stamps work onto the base, then hammered rings added. Layering textures add interest and fun to a piece. I don't think texture is something I will move away from any time soon!

Other SaTeam bloggers writing about texture in their work are

Danagonia

C My Designs

The FamiLee Jewels

Bead Sire

Nicole Hill

Better Days

Amethyst spinner ring! Better Days, size 9!

Sheep!

My morning walk/jog takes me through a local trail that sheep are often in the fields beside it. Today I ran into a whole herd of them on the trail!

I think they were feeling a bit pudgy so they decided to join me for my jog portion! They followed me all along the trail on the bluff, and through the trees. It did get a bit un nerving for a few moments when the whole herd belted up behind me and the lead sheep nibbled my shorts!

Bye guys! See you next time and remember cardio is an important part of any healthy lifestyle!

Warm Autumn

“A good friend is a connection to life, a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.” Lois Wyse

I was thinking over the weekend how much I like the new gallery, well it's not new but it's new to me. I like being a "part" of something. We are planning a couple fall events, a bring a friend night and a Christmas open house. It's nice to have someone to bounce ideas off, and someone to enjoy the fun with! The School House Gallery really seems to be the place for me, it's allowed me to create on a more efficient schedule. I've got more work done in the last couple weeks than I have in ages. In fact I'm out of silver!

In a insane world it really is nice to have good friends, I'm trying this week to implement a "spend less time on the internet" plan. I feel I waste too much time cruising around forums, and the drama on the forums tends to suck the energy out of me. SO my plan is to spend less time online, and the time I do spend online should be more efficient. I'd rather converse with good friends online than get caught up a drama.

Warm Autumn, I listed this ring in my etsy today. And as I wandered the garden a bit tonight it felt like autumn was on the way, maybe just a little bit. I noticed an abundance of crickets tonight, do they come out more in the fall? My sunflowers are heavily in bloom, how I managed to plant the shorts ones BEHIND the tall ones is beyond me? I have been cutting the shorter ones and bringing them inside so I can enjoy them, as I can't SEE them in the garden behind all those tall ones with the big, bright heads.

mmmm labradorite

I love this spinner! Labradorite and a heavy patina, it's really yummy! I've got a few more similar on the way!

Next!

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain

Ever sit back and say “gee I wish I did more of X”? Anything you want to do and haven’t, someplace you want to go but have yet to see?

For me its Alaska, that’s the next on my must see list. I’d actually be happy with any place with snow and northern lights.

I wistfully dream of a small remote cabin, snow to my knees, northern lights, good friends and maybe a nice dark beer!

Spinners Galore!

It's been HOT here so I'm making spinners galore! All in my etsy shop!