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!

Wire Rings!!! I'm making them:)

Besides making Bangles for my Etsy Store, I've started making Wire and Bead rings. They are so much fun to make and so cute! I've always wanted to make rings, but never gave it much thought till lately, so I started playing with some wire and beads and Voala!!! Adorable wire and bead rings were born. Please go to my Etsy Store and check them out. You'll love all my jewelry.

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:)

Finally!

I think I may have fixed my computer problem YAY!. Nothing seems more frustrating. Well I do want to let everybody know that I have been working on something very unique. It's called Poly-Fabulous. I have been experimenting with differnet mediums and am making purses and eyeglass holders out of a mix polymer glay and fabric. Shockingly enough it's fabulous! It looks like marble but feels like leather! I am currently selling them on etsy. Look to the right of this article and pick on the picture. You can visit my new store. Leave me a comment and let me know what you think!

Prom!

My son and his girlfriend are at prom tonight. She's a senior this year so there's an exciting buzz around my house and it was fun watching her get all prettied up and ready for the big night. My son just shaved his face, threw some gel in his hair and slipped on his tux 30 minutes before they had to leave and he looked gorgeous(must be nice!) It pretty much took her all day to get ready. And she started early this morning by going to have her hair styled and her makeup done. And she started everything before I even got out of bed this morning! Actually she started preparing weeks ago with the picking out the dress, shoes, hair accessoried, jewelry, wrist corsage and all the other little details.
I was surprised a few weeks ago when she asked me if I would take her senior pics (not cap and gown) at the Botanical Gardens. I've never taken pics for a special occasion. Certainly not pics that will need preperation with posing, light and all that stuff. I told her that I would, but not to expect much out of me because I am NOT a photographer by any means. I was a little worried that she was expecting these perfect pics to magically appear in her camera. But she assured me she was going to love whatever I did. So off we went. Thankfully my son (her boyfriend) went a long to help her pose and to help me figure out good angles. I really don't think my pics would have turned out very good if it wasn't for him. Who knew he had photography in his blood?!?! The Botanical Gardens were gorgeous that day, we walked around posing and taking pics of her and my son. Maybe a half hour after we arrived other people started showing up in droves wearing prom dresses and tuxes and photographers with there fancy big cameras to the garden. We had a hard time keeping them out of our pics and us keeping out of theirs. But we managed. One thing I thought was smart was she took a bag of clothes and accessories with her so she could change in between shots so as not to have all the pics with her in the same clothes. She changed in my car.
Well I think the pics turned out amazingly well after her and I got home that evening we edited them with a special program she new about. And I do believe I've fallen in love with her little digital camera. I had no idea a little camera like that could work so well.
Well here you go, I'm adding some of the pics to this blogg. We haven't edited all of them yet. I'll add more to my blogg as they're available.