Back from Texas

I'm back from riding out to Texas with my daughter Tara and her labs so when I got home, I made some new jewelry to keep my mind off of her leaving Florida. Boooooohooooooo. I uploaded a couple pieces to Etsy and Artfire. I also uploaded my entry for the April Team Challenge for the Florida Etsty Street Team. The challenge is "fuzzy" so I made a donkey pendant, as my donkey Cocoa is very fuzzy. 

Tomorrow it's back to work.............

Road Trip

I'm outta touch for a few days. I'm riding out with my daughter and my granddogs to their new home in Texas. I put my Etsy and Artfire shops on vacation while I'm gone. I'll be back April Fools day, see you then!

I'm back

Wow! My computer crapped out on  Thursday and I finally got it back last evening. Seems it was a power supply problem. I use an iMac and rarely, and I mean rarely, have a problem with it. It spoils me so when I don't have it, I'm beside myself. I was able to use an old clamshell iBook but it's a bit crippled as I don't really keep it updated. Anyhow, I'm glad to be back in action. 

While Rich was in Live Oak with the dogs, Lyric and Legend both got sprayed by a skunk. Pppppeeeewww. We used a remedy that really didn't work all that well and they still smell rather bad, although it's not as strong. 

I worked on a couple of custom Golden Retriever pendants, a portion goes to Golden Retriever rescue. Here's a picture of them.

New stuff

I'm getting ready to add a couple of new things to Etsy. One is a pmc musical sheet with notes dangling and the other is a pair of silver earrings made of fine silver and sterling. Today we were under tornado warnings but thankfully nothing happened. Now it's really chilly outside. A good evening for making some jewelry. 

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.