I'M BACK

Been a crazy month. I've gotten a few beads made, but not nearly as many as I would like. Getting ready for an open house tomorrow. Should be fun. Took a class at Hot Glass Houston last month and taking another this month. Glass classes of course. Tee Hee!!! I have 44 days until the Gathering in New York. Gotta get those beads a cranking. Want to be able to trade for the wonderful beads of other great artist.
As always keep crafting and talk soon.
Lori

Sandblasting

These were all blasted for a Military ball. Hope they bring them lots of money. Each one was hand cut and then sandblasted.

We Won, We Won

We won first place in Free Speech with our Art Car. I can tell you we got some pretty excited girls here. (and Brad) Lauire text me tonight to tell me we got first place for the Peace Mobile. Woo Hoo!! How awesome is that?

Unimog Decorating

So, a friend calls and says my husband entered his Unimog in the Art Car Parade. I'm thinking, cool, then she says will you help me decorate it? Sure! What are friends for right? Well it got decorated today, well partly. There is still some work to do, but here is what our Peace Mobile looks like. It is a Unimog, turned hippie chickie. We cut out all of the vinyl today with the help of my trusty Cricut expression and my Gypsy. We started around 9 am and ended around 5:30pm. We took a lunch break and ran and got some pretty decent Mexican food. But we worked all day. We had a blast. Even Coby, Laurie's dog tried to help. Brad and Laurie's mother were also there. We laughed and joked and talked all day, but we got some serious work done. I won"t be in the Parade, but I'll be watching to see what happens. Hope they run it on TV. Peace and Love !

Lori

Busy, busy

So no pictures to post today, but I have been busy. Working on a few projects. Got a lot of sandblasting to do this week. Making beads and some chain maille. Hoping to get a good day in with some fusing as well.
Decided it was time to organize my days to accomplish more. Worked very well today, let's see how it holds up this week.
Wish me luck

Today's creations

Here is what I did today. It is a shaggy loop bracelet and earring set done in sterling silver square wire with a swivel lobster claw clasp and silver ear wires. There are a total of 144 jump rings. This set is for a customer, but you can have one made for you. Just send me an email texasartangel@gmail.com we can discuss sizes etc.. I love doing Chain Maille, I find it relaxing. I'm going to working on one new project a day 5 days a week. Getting ready for an open house and this makes it a little easier. I figure instead of staying up all night the days before the event, if I do them a little at a time, I'll have quite a little inventory ready for the sale.

I've been trying to get everything set up for ebay and etsy. It is taking longer than I had expected. But I will get it going soon.

Hope you have a fantastic weekend.

Celtic Cage Chain Maille Earrings

Today, a friend and I spent half the day trying to figure out this pattern. We had to make jump rings and then make a few adjustments. Once we got it going it went fine. First pair took us 2 1/2 hours. Goodness, now that we got it figured out, it shouldn't take that long. I wasn't able to get a good picture of the pair but I did get a good single one. So you will have to imagine a pair. Hope you enjoy them.

Lori