A jaunt to Winter Park

Today I went to Winter Park which is about an hour and 20 minutes away. They have a jewelry supply there, FDJ Tools. I coulda spent my whole paycheck there but I didn't dare. I bought a few things among them some practice copper. I made a bracelet from it and boy, I need some more practice. I do much better with the precious metal clay. But I'll keep practicing and make something bootiful, hopefully.

Rich went to Live Oak with most of the animals, I only have Spencer and Denver with me. They are my 11 year old Goldens, so sweet.  Here's a picture of Mr. Denver.

New Jewelry

I hope to be making some new jewelry soon, unfortunately my day job keeps getting in the way. Of course, in this economy, I'm happy to be working. I'd like to do some more pieces featuring fish. People seem to really like fish. This one I call Fish Bowl. It's made from precious metal clay which is particles of clay mixed with binders and water. After you have molded it, you fire it in a kiln, the binders and water burn off and you have pure silver (.999).  Cool, huh??

Walking the bridge

This morning I walked the Melbourne Causeway as I do most of the mornings that I'm off work. It's a beautiful walk, this morning I saw dolphins swimming about, on rare occasions, you can spot manatees. The causeways here are the only "hills" we have. Years ago I had a dexa scan, aka as a bone density scan, and it showed I had osteopenia which is the precursor to osteoporosis.........Yikes! The doc gave me Actonel which I took for just a couple weeks and decided I didn't want to take a drug for this, so I started walking. The second dexa scan I had was just a year ago and it showed that I was in the rating of a 25 year old, so ladies.........start walking! It does pay off.

my first blog entry

well, what can i say? i'm married and have a grown daughter and a zoo. i'm owned by 5 golden retrievers, 4 horses and 1 donkey. 

my daughter is preparing to move to texas and that makes me sad, i'll surely miss her. hopefully i can visit often. i forgot to mention, i have 2 yellow lab granddogs too.

one of my hobbies is creating jewelry out of precious metal clay. right now i'm taking silversmithing classes also, i'm really enjoying it.