Jewelry Design

Birth of Venus

Art Bead Scene hosts a monthly jewelry challenge, and this month’s inspirational art was “The Birth of Venus” by Sandro Botticelli. Isn’t it amazing that here we are in 2009, and we continue to be inspired by a painting from the late 1400’s? That is just incredible. I really love this particular painting, and part of that […]

Happy Weekend!

Did you enjoy that beautiful weather today?? And it’s going to be a beautiful Saturday too! I haven’t had the chance to slow down all week and post on the blog, but here I am now. And yes, it’s 1:00 a.m. If you know me, you’re probably not surprised. I do have a few pretty […]

Sweet hearts and metal hearts!

April 8th….today is our anniversary. Can you guess how many years we’ve been married?? Fourteen years and 4 kids later, here we are! I came downstairs this morning to find several notes like this around the house: I know I’m a lucky girl. I think I’ll just have to keep him. 🙂 I recently finished […]

Peeps and friends

Peeps…you know those sugary yellow marshmallow chicks that are in every Easter candy isle right about now? The Easter bunny always brought us Peeps. I’m not sure how many we really ever ate, but it just wouldn’t be the same if they weren’t tucked in our Easter baskets all the same. I’ve featured those famous Peeps […]

Behind the scenes

Remember this group of colorful beads? They’ve been transformed in to a finished piece of jewelry and I’m going to take you behind the scenes to show you their journey. 🙂 Each of the beads were made in to “bead units” with sterling silver wire. Some were embellished with bead caps or spacers, some […]

Double Feature

Here’s a necklace that I made for myself a year ago or so. I wanted something in neutral tones…black, gray and silver. It’s loaded with onyx, peacock-colored pearls, silver, Czech fire polished crystal, mother of pearl and some Swarovski bicone crystals. If you look closely you’ll see it’s actually two separate necklaces made to look […]

All willy nilly

Do you use this word, willy nilly? Apparently Alice in Wonderland did, describing a place where things happened randomly….all willy nilly. Willy nilly sounds so silly. Today I spent some silly moments with my little guy trying to take pictures for his baptism invitation. The picture will be transformed to look like he’s floating on a […]

Fun Friday

Hello friends Are you as glad as I am that it’s Friday? I don’t know where this week went. Today was a special day for my 2nd grader…he was a President for the day! The second graders put on a play this morning about Famous Americans. A few weeks ago they completed a book report […]

Low key and not complaining

Hi everyone! Thanks for stopping by. Low key…that’s the kind of day I had. With the holiday today I had no where I had to rush off to…so rare and wonderful. Two of the boys were off skiing with their Grandparents in WV, so I was down to just 2 at home. Why not bake […]