No Pics, Just News

FIRST, I have to thank everyone that has voted for my design submission to Stringing magazine! If you haven't yet (ahem), go here and vote for #96: http://www.stringingmagazine.com/gallery/black-white-challenge/ !

SECOND, happy birthday to my favorite sister in the whole world!

Sorry I don't have any new photographs to post just yet. I do have some new pieces that I can't wait to share, though! One is called Davy Jones's Locker that I'm super-thrilled with. I made that one for Talk Like a Pirate Day back on September 19th. I was busy making iron-on designs for T-shirts just for that fabulous holiday. Buck up, me hearties! More treasures be on their way, so keep yer eyeballs keen. Arrrgh!

So, um, yes. T-shirt embellishments kept me a little busy, and now Halloween preparations have begun. I'm currently putting together a fancy, new, pirate coat for my costume. I loved my existing pirate outfit, but Halloween is always so cold here that I needed something that provided a little more coverage. Besides, I will not wear high-heeled boots again. Well, not as high as the boots that I used to wear with my costume! My 4-year-old wants to be an owl, so that's going to be an interesting project. I've got a men's brown sweatshirt, some felt, boas, and furry fabric. Maybe I'll have some non-jewelry pictures to post soon too!

Besides making oodles of stuff, I've started taking Mandarin Chinese classes with my IRL BFF. It's hard, but it's an enjoyable hard. Kind of like a puzzle or something. Anyway, it's a couple of hours a week to be surrounded by adults.

I'm sleepy. I promised my little one we'd work on her owl tomorrow, but I will definitely try to get some jewelry pictures taken and post them ASAP. Zai jian!

Forget Pedro!

Vote for Summer!

I couldn't help making the Napoleon Dynamite reference there. If you haven't seen that movie, vote for Summer anyway! This coming Monday, Stringing magazine opens up the online polls for the winter design challenge: Black and White. In July, I told you my design had a lot to say. Well, I call it "Word Monger" and this is the photo I used for my submission.

Please visit http://stringingmagazine.com on Monday (or anytime before October 15th) and vote. You can only vote once, so tell everyone to vote for Summer! Hmm, I should make a T-shirt. Anyway, the necklace is made of poetry beads, clear glass, and velvet beads in two strands with a lobster clasp. I tried hard to keep the words random--sorry, no secret messages. The only secret-by-design is in the prop in the photo. I'd like to explain why I took the picture this way. The pages you see are of Shakespeare's Hamlet where Polonius is asking Hamlet what he is reading. Hamlet replies with "Words. Words. Words." Oh, and Hamlet also says that Polonius is a fish monger. Mix it up a bit and voila! you get "Word Monger." That scene was probably my most favorite from the Mel Gibson Hamlet movie. Sigh.

What will I get if I win? I get the picture of the necklace published in Stringing magazine along with my name. Woo-hoo! I guess if it was a cruise or something I could take all my beloved supporters along with me. Sorry about that. I hope you're not too disappointed.

In other news, we had a couple more birthdays (both my folks) fly by. I made Mom some jewelry, but I didn't get a chance to photograph it yet. Don't worry, I know where she lives. ;) Besides that, it's been so dark and rainy for so long that there just hasn't been any good light to use for a photo shoot. You ought to check out this web address and see just how flooded it got around here in Wichita yesterday. http://www.kansas.com/static/slides/091208readerspics/ We didn't get it bad like any of the people in hurricane country. It makes you stop and pray for the safety of those folks.

I'll close for now, but don't forget:

VOTE FOR SUMMER!

Happy Labor Day

Everyone can relax now; black shoes are officially permissable! Not that I care. My favorite summertime shoes are a pair of black Mary-Jane Crocs. Who makes up these fashion "rules" anyway??
I've got a few new pictures to share today. And sometime between tomorrow and September 15th, I'll post my contest submission photo. So, beginning on the 15th, you can vote for me! Yeah! Did I tell you how much I love you guys?

Confetti (glass beads and pendant, necklace is 16")


Go Green (long--28"--and short--16"--necklaces with acrylic and glass including millefiori)


GiGi (long necklace--about 28"--with acrylic and glass)


February Rocks (pearl, glass and amethyst clustered on a 16" necklace)