A chronicle of the meanderings, false starts (which in retrospect, while sort of embarrassing turned out to be highly instructive), epiphanies, selective apathy (still evolving), wild mood swings, opinions (subject to frequent change), and life lessons of an inveterate dabbler (and her latest dabblings).
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Ceramic Gear Links!
I recently got these super cool ceramic "gear link" rings from Karen Totten. I got them in shiny dark pomegranate and matte celadon.
I started with the pomegranate ones for earrings. I pondered and pondered. I wanted to wrap something onto them but it took me a few days to come up with the engineering.
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them. -- Kahlil Gibran
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. — Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 - 1900)
Floral Stamped Copper
With Aqua Glass
A Satchel of Lavender
With Hippie Fringe
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. — Albert Einstein
Aqua Terra Jasper
and Copper, of course
My Copper Baby
All Grown Up
LinkReferral
Speckled Lampwork
With Brass
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! — Friedrich Nietzsche
You're Pressing My Buttons
And I like it
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. — Groucho Marx
Ring of Fire
Metalworked earrings
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain
The wisest men follow their own direction. — Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
This is My Kind of Donut
Delish
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends. — J. K. Rowling
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it. – Mahatma Gandhi
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying. -- Woody Allen
Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time. ~Deborah Chaskin
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. ~Maya Angelou
Women, don't get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you're twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches into a condor. ~Billy Elmer
Great design, great idea!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely striking! And they flew right out of the shop, didn't they?
ReplyDeleteI really like these. Nicely done!
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