Funky Art Queen

Happy Easter Weekend everyone!  I'm so glad to get Good Friday off from work!  Three day weekends are the best!  Finally, I have time to work on some jewelry.  I've had this book for some time and from the very first time I saw the pieces with concrete used for color-I wanted to try it.  I ordered the concrete and color tint several weeks ago and I have been dying to try it out.  I made these pieces a couple of weekends ago with the intention of filling the little cutouts with colored cement.  I feel like this will be a way for me to have color-that you know I love-with the silver pieces.  Just more opportunity for creative ideas with the pmc.  So, I worked on these two pieces this morning.  I'm waiting for the concrete to dry-then I will clean them up and post an after pic!

Hey all.  I am getting spring fever! You? It has been warm here in West Texas this week (like the 80's).  I'm seeing people out in shorts, sandles (OMG gotta get a pedicure) and all kinds of spring/summer wear!  As always, gotta say this is my favorite time of the year.  I just get a renewed spirit-I'm so not a winter person!  I have a lot of things on my mind in the creative department that I want to share with you.  Hopefully, it will keep me focused if I write it down! LOL I'm so loving the Precious Metal Clay!  I'm learning so much.  I'm still very much in the basic and intro level.  I search the internet over for tutorials and instructions.  I even joined a yahoo group on this topic.  I have ordered some copper clay and that is my next adventure.  Eventually, I want to make a group/line of jewelry that is mixed metals-more specifically, copper with silver.  I have always loved copper with silver. More things I wan...

Happy Groundhog Day! 2011 First of all, let me just say that I'm very happy that  Punxsutawney Phil predicts an early spring on Groundhog Day 2011 !  I'm so not digging the cold weather we are getting here in West Texas.  We don't know how to deal with it for the most part.  We get like two days a year of a little ice and a little snow.  We went from 72 degrees and sunny this weekend to 3 degrees right now.  The roads have been icy and and dangerous.  That probably makes you people up North laugh....but we are just not equipped or prepared for this stuff.  We get no practice on driving in this weather and our systems are just not in place.  I don't like to be cold and I don't like cold weather but I know it is necessary so I just duck my head in my little neck scarf and bundle up with layers of clothes. Next.... ..Power Outages!  So this morning, we were doing our usual routine....getting ready for our jobs etc.....and right when I wa...

And we did not have to call these guys-too bad! I have wanted a kiln for so long and I finally purchased one of the Paragon jewelry kilns back in November.  I had so many hand stamping jewelry orders that I decided that I would not try to use the kiln until after the holidays. I was so anxious about using it....I don't know why.  I just had visions of burning down the house or using up all the electricity in the neighborhood and causing a black out or something......really.  I don't usually get this alarmed about something but for some reason I was just anxious about it.   I finally tried it out last night.  I had already done much reading and watched some online tutorials so I had no more excuses!  I did it!  I first fired one item of pmc-an OM pendant like this one .  It turned out good so I fired a little tray of items.  I can't show you them yet because I have to clean them up.  Maybe tonight I can show you.  Anyway, I am thri...