Jewelry making

Posted in Labels: , , , , , , , 8/06/2008
Like most women, I like things that are pretty and sparkly, so it comes to no surprise that I love jewelry. Moreover as I am not allergic to any "cheap" material (just allergic to gold, go figure :o) ), I can easily wear colourful fantasy earrings, necklaces and the like.

I had been looking at beads and crystals before but I didn't know how to start. So, I bought myself a book, the basic materials and set to work.

For the last two nights, I have been assembling basic necklaces, earrings and brooches (see the pictobrowser below) and I am quite pleased with the final results. I gave the small blue necklace away to a colleague because I miscalculated the lenth of the cable and it ended up being a real choker for me :o). The people I showed my makings to seemed to like what I made, but maybe they were just being polite.

Anyway, I also bought a few new books yesterday to make some jewelry using swarovski delicas and there are amazing pieces explained in it. I'd like to start marking those, but I think I'd better work my way up gradually : you cannot drive a F1 car, if you cannot properly ride a bike, right?

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Nature's colours

Posted in Labels: 8/05/2008
The summer months are passing by slowly but surely and for some odd reason these last months have had nothing summer-like except for the name. Apparently the weather gods have heard the skin cancer prevention messages and being aware of the harmful effect of too much sunexposure, decided to help us preserving our health by making sure we aren't seeing any sunshine. Thunderstorms, rain, and even floodings in certain areas, ... even for Belgium this is highly usual.

So before autumn hits our country, I thought I'd better take some pictures of the blooming flowers in our garden to catch a glimpse of the summer spirit, before it disappears again. ;o) Once autums sets in I'll try to take some pictures as well of the chestnut and fig trees in the garden. I counted the slowly growing bulbs and we should have around 20 figs this year.

While I was taking pictures of the different flowers, I noticed that the lavender was (as usual) covered with bumble bees. I don't like insects at all (just thinking about bugs makes my skin crawl - I even stopped on a service area along the highway once to ask a sturdy looking guy to remove the spider that I had seen crawling behind the sun screen of the car :o) ), but bees and especially bumble bees are the exception to the rule. Is it because I associate them with Winnie the pooh or the Maya animation of my childhood? I don't know, but I find them very likeable with their fluffy hair :o) Moreover bubble bees are very peaceful and don't react agressively (like wasps do) when you try to take pics of them, and, they are a bit slower than the butterflies making them easier to catch on film, or rather memory card. :o)

I also took some pictures of Lynn this weekend and I am so pleased with one of them that I decided to post it here. I just love my kitties to pieces.

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