The jewelry in my previous blog post is for sale at boundless gallery. I'm
real excited about this place, they have a really easy to use gallery style
format and three programs to choose from. Let me know what you think of it.
thanks
Jan
| I'm having a terrible time with the camera. I do better with the beads just laying on a white background but had to photograph these things on the manaquin and that's where the problems started I guess. Some of them came out yellow even thought I used the "tungsten" filter. Anyway, the first one is already up on Etsy, hoping someone will absolutely love it. Here is the really pretty one, the wavy tubes are silver. There is a sprinkling of Dichroic glass floating suspended in the bead. The turquoise things between the tubes are wire thingies. See the color difference between these two. I have no idea why that happened. Anyway, the second one has silver spacer beads between the tube beads. I like the tornado bead, its so easy to make and when I screw something up all I have to do is wrap it in a clear stringer and smash it and I get the tornado bead. These next two are just some other ones I did. The last one was suppose to have Psyce reactive glass on it but turned baby poop brown and didn't do anything so I swiped some other reactive blue stuff on it and it shined right up. You get the idea.......LOL tootles, back to the torch for more fun. | |||
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| What a week, I've had a bit of a health issue lately. My mouth was burning so bad and my tongue in particular that I could hardly eat. My lips, inside and out felt swollen and the corners of my mouth were splitting out. Weirdest thing. I finally couldn't take it any more so I went to the doctor. Her immediate response was that it was probably a vitamin deficiency. I couldn't imagine that but then I don't eat very well. They took blood test and low and behold my B12 was almost nonexistent. So then I started doing some research to see just what B12 was and what it was needed for. In the meantime I started taking vitamins. However, what I learned was that the vitamins aren't going to do any good. I take Prilosec for acid reflux and apparently that's what has caused me to get this way. B12 needs hydrocloric acid to break down so it can be absorbed and Prilosec slows or reduces the production of the acid AND as we get older we produce less. Who knew there was so much magic chemestry involved. So, I stop the Prilosec and hope for the best. In the meantime the doctor gave me this wonderful mouthwash that they call "magic mouthwash" (I kid you not) Its peach colored, syrupy sweet and numbs the mouth completely from the burning and pain. What a miracle. Apparently it has steroids in it and really is helping with the swelling and all. Its been so hot here I haven't dared go down to the torch in the hot basement. I miss it but it really just isn't the place to be in the heat. I took the time to make labels for all of my glass rods. Somewhere around the third trip upstairs hubby says "are those all different colors of glass"....ahhhha ammmm yes, they are. Opps, guess he haddn't noticed them coming into the house a little at a time. My bad. Kind of like all of the fabric, and threads, and beads and polymer clay and on and on. And I wonder why I'm still working a day job. Sheesh! | |||
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| Man, it has been so hot here in the south lately. I know that historically August is the hottest but dang. Too hot to go down and even torch. Yesterday I tried going down early in the morning but somewhere around 11 it was just too hot to go on. I don't think I'll even go down today. It's bad enough being in a house that has an air conditioner that is too small for it, we have a big room air conditioner in here and it can't even keep up. Yesterday was horrible. Anyway, time to organize the studio anyway. I've been playing with a few new things lately. A lampwork technique called the "tornado bead". I love them. There are so many different variations you can get. If you get a chance pop on over to my Etsy shop and check them out. Last night I sat in here and perused YouTube for some new videos. I found one on how to make wire rings, I think this will be perfect for all of my orphan beads. I can make rings out of them. Here are a few of the ones I made. I tried using a button for one of them and actually like the look of it, not all buttons are meant for this technique but I have a ton of them so some of them will work. Hope you are all keeping cool one way or another. From the looks of it the whole country is going bake today. | |||
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