Busy morning here at work. Busy night tonight. If everything goes according to plan, tonight I'm hosting my younger sister, Melissa, for dinner and a movie of some sort. I have a little bit of worry about it. ( Familial angst.Collapse )
Had a fulfilling and productive weekend. Socially, I had coffee with
noralita after dance class, went to the tattoo museum with afoundobject, then spent some time with some friends in Virginia. There was hot tubbing in the snow, fantastic food, and all around warm fuzzies. I also fed goats animal crackers, which somehow just seems wrong.
Jewelry-wise, I made a bunch of earrings and a necklace. A bunch of the earrings are copper and brass based. Some of them are my interpretations of Loreena McKennit's song, 'Marrakesh Night Market,' and there's a necklace in the works for that one. I also made some floral earrings with beads that I bought because they reminded me of Monet paintings. Swirled raspberry and periwinkle and mint green and peach. But what I made with them reminds me of Japanese tsumami kanzashi... pretty, but very different. Already sold a pair, actually-- my roommate's boyfriend really liked 'em and bought a pair for Dixie. Regarding the design,reedrover suggested that I do hairsticks with them, but as the flowers are made of glass, they'd be too heavy to attach to a pin at the top of a stick. My idea was to get hairsticks with a horizontal hole that I could get a stiff jumpring through. Or a couple of suppliers sell hammered silver sticks with a sturdy loop at the top. Alternately, they'd make cool bookmarks. I also made a pretty necklace with gold filled chain, speckled glass, and pretty pink cut crystal. Simple and sparkly.
( Spoilery comment about 'The Tudors.'Collapse )
Otherwise? Dude, it is abysmally cold outside. 22 with a windchill of 15. I almost froze to death on my way to work this morning. Can I just fast-forward to March?
( ETA: Pointless quiz.Collapse )
Had a fulfilling and productive weekend. Socially, I had coffee with
noralita after dance class, went to the tattoo museum with afoundobject, then spent some time with some friends in Virginia. There was hot tubbing in the snow, fantastic food, and all around warm fuzzies. I also fed goats animal crackers, which somehow just seems wrong. Jewelry-wise, I made a bunch of earrings and a necklace. A bunch of the earrings are copper and brass based. Some of them are my interpretations of Loreena McKennit's song, 'Marrakesh Night Market,' and there's a necklace in the works for that one. I also made some floral earrings with beads that I bought because they reminded me of Monet paintings. Swirled raspberry and periwinkle and mint green and peach. But what I made with them reminds me of Japanese tsumami kanzashi... pretty, but very different. Already sold a pair, actually-- my roommate's boyfriend really liked 'em and bought a pair for Dixie. Regarding the design,
reedrover suggested that I do hairsticks with them, but as the flowers are made of glass, they'd be too heavy to attach to a pin at the top of a stick. My idea was to get hairsticks with a horizontal hole that I could get a stiff jumpring through. Or a couple of suppliers sell hammered silver sticks with a sturdy loop at the top. Alternately, they'd make cool bookmarks. I also made a pretty necklace with gold filled chain, speckled glass, and pretty pink cut crystal. Simple and sparkly.( Spoilery comment about 'The Tudors.'Collapse )
Otherwise? Dude, it is abysmally cold outside. 22 with a windchill of 15. I almost froze to death on my way to work this morning. Can I just fast-forward to March?
( ETA: Pointless quiz.Collapse )
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