Art!!

I love making my jewelry and I will keep doing so, but now I'm also going to try my hand at painting with watercolors. So for the past few days I've been playing around with painting landscapes. I'm going to attach two paintings to this post that I've finished already. Last night I stayed up till after 1:00 am painting a portrait of my youngest son Justin, from looking at a photograph of him. I try to stay patient with myself but I could tell right away that I'm a little rusty at this watercolor painting thing. I did have some frutstrations trying to make shadows and light areas and stuff. Trying to get his eye's in the right place, his smile just right and such. You know I've never been really good at this, though I've never really tried but....I'm already trying portraits of people???? What am I crazy??? Yes just a little. Oh well ya gotta start some where right? I'll keep working on his portrait and hope it gets better every day.  I did take some pictures of my landscape and I'll attach them to this blog so you can see where I'm at with watercolors. Now just remember when you look at them......I am noooooo professional nor do I claim to be. I'm just getting started. I'd love to hear what everyone thinks though (just please be kind:) ~Sharon

New Christmas Bangles!

Pretty Lace and Ribbon Bangles

I love how these turned out.....Lace and Ribbon Bangles! This one has a pink bangle with a lace design and a black ribbon running through it.
Order yours at Mozzafiato!

Sterling Silver

I am trying my hand at making Sterling Silver Jewelry. My wonderful son Brandon purchased me a Precious Metal Clay (PMC3) Kit. The kit comes with silver clay, tools and a hot pot. I made my first Silver Ring today YAY! It was fun but a bit nerve wracking. Fun playing with the clay and knowing that it was going to turn into beautiful silver when I was done, but nerve wracking because they say the clay dries really fast so you can't mess with it for very long. Well they were right! I almost messed with it too long. I could feel it drying while I was working with it. Thankfully I managed to make a pretty silver band. I scratched my name in the band because I thought it would look cool, but it really didn't, so you can't see my name in the pic, it's on the other side. I see it as all trial and error, I want to become really good with this stuff so I can sell it to everyone. But for now I'm still a little shell shocked and nervous about making another one, I mean after all this clay is pretty expensive, I really don't want to mess it up and have a big silver glob of nothing.  So what I think I'm going to do is order the spray they sell to keep the clay moist. And I think I'll buy the silver clay paste or syring they sell so I can make things to attach to the jewelry, like silver flowers, leaves and such. Things to make my jewelry a little ornate. I can't wait to get really good with this stuff because I am sooooo excited about adding silver jewelry to my store on Etsy. I hope you all visit, say hi and maybe purchased something that I've poured lots of love, sweet and tears on. And stay posted....I will post my progress with PMC!

Jewelry!!!

I have been busy, busy, busy creating my pretty bangles and a few other things. I think I'm getting better at it every day. My bracelets are getting prettier every day. I finished this gorgeous green and blue bangle bracelet last night and took it out of its mold this morning. Clean it up and wore it with my green and blue sundress. Funny because it matched my dress exactly, my son even asked if I made it that way on purpose and I really didn't. I just thought it would be pretty so I made it was a happy accident that it turned out to match. It's for sale, I can always make more just like it for myself. I hope everyone who reads this blog, takes a look at my jewelry on Etsy:)