and the pile gets larger...

silver plated copper wire and various glass beads and crystals.

green bracelet

Remember those spirals a while back? Well I've finally done something with them! It must be the marathon of Survivor Man that im watching that has finally inspiraled me!

the pile is growing

adding on to the stockpile

as auntie holly justly calls it...


yes. i know the inventory is growing, but the profits are not, just trying to build up for spring.

to go with the necklace...

....a bracelet. tadah....

happy valentine's day

happy valentine's day. our special way to celebrate was for me to burn a big batch of cookies then max went to the parent meeting at the asilo. fun fun fun for everyone!

how did it end up?

that blue bead and copper wire eventually grew up to be a necklace. i finished it with an egytian wire chain so the links would be smaller and turn around the neck nicely. now lets see if i can do a bracelet and some earrings to match.

she did again

as soon as she wakes up or gets home from school, i yank the diaper off. i cant always get her on the toilet in the morning, because i think she pees when she knows still has the diaper on. but after school i can usually get her at least once. today she held her pee for hours until she was bursting, she crossed her legs, sat very still, did everything but agree to go to the bathroom. eventually she couldnt hold it any more and sophia ran up and said 'diaper.' i said nope, we're gonna sit on the toilet. the response was 'no thank you, diaper, hurry.' but i plopped her down anyways and she went on the toilet! wooo hooo! next goal is to get her to poop on the toilet...i was suprised she didnt today because i made korean pancakes with lots of veg and she ate half an apple. she has amazing control - doesnt get it from my side of the family. we have to pee often and when we gotta go we gotta go, without hesitation!

ive been working on this bracelet. i dont know where im going with it. maybe it will become a necklace because the 'chain' is so darn big. i like the idea, it looks so klimt.

just found this:
i was so excited when i saw all the wire wrapping on metal workers. i looked everywhere on how to do it. finally i found the right key words and stumbled up a tutorial just now. check out this woman's stuff it's fantastic: studio heath. keep your eyes peeled for future work. maybe i will actually make something out of it.

im outta wire/nude-y booty

darn, im out of 18 gauge wire, thats annoying, ive been all over the city looking for more. well here is the last bracelet made out off the last of the wire that i had.



so last night i got fed up and sophia went totally bottomless. she held her pee for hours, but she went on the toilet! wahlah! same thing for this morning, as soon as she got out of bed, i yanked the diaper off and she ate breakfast with her little double char siu bao nudey booty - and again she went on the toilet. lets hope it keeps going.

some new stuff

this morning sophia woke up early and went to play and bounce on her dad and wake his lazy but up! there was some nice light in the background so i shot some pix, this is about the only one that came out.








here's some stuff ive been working on:

the bracelet is from eni oken's tutorial.











not crazy about this copper ring, but i wanted to just play with some different weaves and new twisting technique










it was hard and complicated, but it was kind of fun to do something new. it took me forever to figure out how to attach the bead/cab...i think i lost quarts of blood from all the small cuts i received in the process...but at least we got some safety glasses, so i didnt lose an eye!

the next set of spirals

okay here are a few more added spirals. but i still dont know where to go from here....

going to castorama to get some wood now, so i can finally use my new drill. i cant wait!

here' s some more

i've given stuff out to friends to try to sell at the office, and so ive got things all over the place, ive been desperately trying to build up an inventory. there are beads and wire bits EVERYWHERE. what ever is left over im going to try and put up on ebay or etsy or something and take to some stores to see if they will carry them.

Latest Jewelry

Here is some more stuff I've been working on. The bracelet is yellow garnet and silver beads. Design is from Eni Oken's Chaos Bracelet, i finally broke down and bought the tutorial. I would have done so eventually, but i just wanted to see if i could figure it out for myself first. I would have never been able to do so. Eni Oken rocks! The garnet is from the one of the stores on via settembrini. Some of the other stones are from the fiera artigenato.

Some of the stuff i've been working on

I've been trying to get my jewelry groove on and do some pounding and twisting in time to sell some presents for the holidays. I know the pictures suck, but i just take them so i can keep track of what im doing, what im selling and how much ive hope to sell them for, and apparently to blog, altho the latter is an after thought.

bracelet 2

Project number 2, finished another bracelet, a pair of earrings and started on a ring. actually 2 because i'm having a hard time with the first one. loveee the internet though, you can find just about anything here, and then you just need to use your imagination to build on that http://www.lapidaryjournal.com/stepbystep/dec04.cfm shows a step by step process on how to make a simple ring.

Making Jewelry

I keep saying I'm going to start making some jewelry to sell, but this time I mean it. I've been listening to the Harry Potter books (yeah I already read them, but I like to hear them too) while on the internet searching techniques and I've been gettin down and dirty getting some practice in. Today I finally completed a bracelet, it took me a little more than a day, I'm so slow!