Copper Fun

I'm just aching to play with metals. I am slowly collecting tools, but for now I play with what I have. Hammers, a grinding wheel/buffer, a propane torch and various forms of copper. Here's the result of all that play. A choker with copper, glass, bone and christmas beads.

A Week Off

After 3 years, I took a week off work just for me. I did a whole lot of nothing. I didn't plan anything and I told no one that I was off. Just to rest and take care of little old me. I highly recommend doing this. I realized after taking care of everyone else there was little or no time for me and it was time to rest. I read some,
organized a few things and took care of a few things that had been calling my name or simply bugging me.

I did play and make a few pieces of jewelry, much less that I thought I would make this week, but I guess that is a testament to how wiped out I truly was.

Shell necklace with leather and copper

Unakite donut, copper, wood beads, peach calcite, bauxite, old copper tubing that I cut into rings and leather

Inspired by my friends at WetCanvas - a copper charm bracelet with green jasper, amazonite, hematite, bauxite, old 'found' copper tubing that I cut up and a lot of fun with a hammer and a propane torch


Snowflake obsidian donut and silver

Bracelet with colbalt blue glass millefiore (Italian for "one thousand flowers") beads, fresh water pearls and silver