( Rambling and Jewellery Pix )

The weekend was spent working on beads & pendants, despite my assertations that making beads when one sells beads for a living is a bit.... empty. Turns out making beads to match funky pendants you just made is actually quite fun.

Either way I finally got round to putting some of the beads and a pendant together into a necklace last night. ( Read more... )

What I dun today...

Disturbingly little actually. I spent a fair while telling cam how fab his envelopes (carefully lettered with the names of everyone he knew) were - and refilling the stapler so he could make more envelopes. Then I spent lots of time going 'they're great whips/fairy doors/flying tarantulas with rocket booster packs' (hey at least ( Read more... )

So... everything still chugging along in Stephieworld. Kids still on holiday, Geoff still working extra hours, Steph still flogging a dead horse hoping that business will pick up after the summer hols are done and eating far too much junk food. There is still way to much of the kids summer break left and Cam has had enough of being at Auntie Daxi's ( Read more... )

Its been a while - I plead broken fingers - but I have a new tutorial up on the site. As always, nitpicking constructive criticism appreciated before I put it up on the work blog!


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Online voting has begun for one of my necklace entries. Not many competitions are public voted but this one is. I'm by no means the best there but I do stick a hell of a lot closer to the theme (Channelling Cinderella) than many entries. And I'm unique :o). Should you feel like voting, passing it on or whatever, entries are here and mine is on the ( Read more... )

Something slightly less heavy after my at-length bitch about the mental health system (was locked to friends). The upside is that bitching at length did in fact make me feel rather better (which is, of course, why I do it, mainly)

Firstly... a picture for you


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A couple of bits I've been working on. I'm never ecstatic with what I create - I should do better - but the red necklace is possibly the best (technically) made item I've ever done and I taught myself the mesh technique for this necklace (with this necklace!). As a collection of three pieces done in the same time frame... I'm reasonably happy at ( Read more... )

The stupid thing is that while I'm an instrinsically chaotic thinker, I operate best when stuck firmly to a routine. I guess its the case that  any sort of meaningful and productive existance requires behaviour to be ordered rather than chaotic. So I'm living a paradoxal existance as a walking contradiction, naturally chaotic but with self-imposed ( Read more... )

I've probably been pretty quiet recently to anyone who can only read my public entries but thats mainly because stuff's been happening IN my head not out of it :-)

I'm quietly working on competition designs in my head. Sadly, I almost always have images flitting through my head as I drop off to sleep and I can rarely remember them in the morning. ( Read more... )