Monday, April 12, 2010

Two Pairs of Earrings for Studio 41!!!!


Amethyst nestled in stamped and dapped copper. Little silver hand crafted "soul" and "dream" charms. Peridot drops. Handcrafted sterling earwires. Soooooo happy to be creating again!!!



Stamped copper, hammered brass and stamped silver hung on handcrafted sterling earwires with turquoise dangly beads. Fun!

I'm so very happy to show these pieces!!!! It's taken about a month to slowly make them, but it is beyond wonderful to be able to sit at my workbench again and lose myself in jewelry nirvana~~~ I'm able to work about 5 minutes at a time as I must be very gentle with my wrists. But that is 5 minutes of pure happiness~~~

I'm so humbly grateful to God for healing. I'm so thrilled to be back at work! And back making jewelry. Amen~!

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Things are gettin' better~


Finished Linda's earrings this morning~~wow! Took about a week and a half for these, going bit by bit. YAY GOD that my wrists are improving. Gratefulness just washes over me.

Started this necklace in June 2009, but had to set it aside. Finished it yesterday when my Praise Band buddies Jane and Nancy came over for a beading-chick flick-taco salad party. THE BEST TIME was had by all.

Here it is on...modeled by my neck~~ I just LOVE it! It was inspired by a necklace that was worn on "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Part 2".
May your Wednesday be blessed~~~I go back to work tomorrow! I'll be doing mammograms again! Time to save some lives~~~To God be the glory.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Making earrings for Linda





Very carefully, very slowly, yesterday and today I worked on these charms. My wrists are doing OK....This is a big step! They will be for my physical therapist Linda. We've spent lots of time together last year~~
I'll work on her earrings tomorrow---yay!

Friday, March 12, 2010

Smile

On the wrist front: so far, so good! Little aches, but the physical therapist said there would be a bit of that. Thank you all for your kind wishes, love and prayers. I'm humbly grateful~~

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Yahoooooo!!


Just made my first set of earwires since March 2009! My physical therapist told me to try making a pair...I still remember how! Now time to wait and see if my wrists ache from the movements...tomorrow should let me know if I'm truly better.

Wait wait wait (grin grin grin)

Monday, January 25, 2010

Granddaughter Time



Allessa and my son Robert and his girlfriend Leeann spent some time with us Sunday. Good day~! I found out that Allessa doesn't like dollies the way I do....I STILL love dolls!

Have a blessed day all~It's a rainy yucky Monday in Northern California.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Earrings~Heliador and Copper...yum!



My babies...my first pair of earrings I've made since April 2009. Created patiently, bit by bit, 5 minutes here and there, carefully in order to protect my wrists. I love them!
They sat at home for a while, as I enjoyed the fruits of creativity, the first in so very long. And today they went to Studio 41 Gallery in Benicia. Lovely day~~

My wrists are so-slowly improving. The pain flared up for a while, but now seems to be subsiding---knock on my wooden head! :-D And now I must be patient and do my best to rest them to allow them to heal completely. I'm not very patient. Really. My physical therapist Linda theorized that patience is the lesson I'm to learn from this experience...rats! C'mon, God, why can't You just assign a book on Patience and give me a multiple-choice quiz? lol!

So may you have a blessed rest of your week, all my blog friends. And pray for me to gain patience! Thank you so much! Also, keep praying for our world, especially the people of Haiti. I have such trivial things to complain about when compared to their tragedy. May God and His people give them comfort and aid. Amen~