Defensor

This little guy is called Defensor. He's not evil, just hangin' out, protecting his owner. He is a Peruvian ceramic bead, strung with black stone chips and glass gunmetal bicones and silver e beads.

Fall on the Mound wasn't as successful as I'd hoped, so now on to new ways to keep going in this economy.

Here's another piece!

This one is called Heart of Stone. It's kind of silly, because the heart isn't actually stone, it is polymer clay. The beads in the necklace, however, are semi-precious stones. Oh well. If anybody thinks of a better name, I'm open to suggestions.

I give up!

Okay, obviously I'm never going to post on a daily basis. However, I will try to maintain once every week to 10 days. I didn't win the Visual Arts League Show- gee, big surprise, my entry was one of two 3-dimensional pieces there. But, the good news is that a girl came up to me while I was holding a piece (Seaside Cross- see the July 1st post) and said she liked it better than anything else she had seen. The best part is that I was holding it because it wasn't accepted into the show, and I was getting ready to take it home. So, someone likes my stuff, even if the "artistes" don't.

Here is the piece that was supposed to be July 5th. It's a mix of glass beads and polymer clay.

Catch-up!

Well, I missed yesterday, so here's 2 today. Both are from the Texas Waters series. First is Summer at Galveston. I'm not happy with the picture- it drapes much better on a human neck. It has glass beads, freshwater pearls, and Hill Tribe silver accents on a silk cord. The second one is called Fall at Fairfield. It is mostly jasper with freshwater pearls,copper, and some beautiful fibers that don't really show up in the picture. Fall at Fairfield is another piece that is being entered in the Fresh Ideas show. Enjoy!

Texas Waters

As promised, here's the next of my posts for the week. This necklace and earrings are from my Texas Waters series, which will eventually celebrates 4 different Texas lakes or seashores during the 4 seasons. We'll start with Spring at Grapevine, which includes sterling silver, freshwater pearls, wire mesh ribbon, kyanite, and these really great blue and brown slices which I've never been able to identify, but they look good!

Things I hate...

...fibromyalgia, back pain, rainy days... Actually, I just hate that they keep me from getting anything done. On the upside, I did finally make a Flickr page since my incredibly talented sister (who actually was interviewed by Lucasfilm earlier in the week) kept insisting I had to. Here is a piece I posted on it. This one is in a private collection, but it's still one of my favorites.