I got around to finishing the bracelet for my wedding a few days ago - it's a small sterling silver Byzantine chainmaille bracelet with 4mm lapis lazuli beads and tiny 3mm ivory freshwater pearls.
I'm holding a sale on my jewellery - it's summer, the sun is shining, and I need to clear out some old stock. So, all of my jewellery in my Etsy, DaWanda and ALM shops is discounted by 40% until the end of July.
My Etsy shop has the biggest range of products, so go and see if there's anything you or your loved ones want/need/deserve. Go, now!
Today has been productive! So far, I've made breakfast, done two loads of laundry, been to the pharmacy, half made dinner, hoovered, and taken lots of photos of jewellery.
New photos of old work:
Todays Thing is the below pair of earrings. They use silver plated wire, surgical steel ear wires and pewter discs. They complement a necklace I'm slowly making using the same discs - I'll show pics when done (if it ever gets done!).
Purple People Eater bracelet and earrings:
Photo from the window, for those of you stuck under the snow:
Today's bracelet, done instead of doing anything more useful:
This is mostly just a post for me. So feel free to ignore it.
Done already:
Registered with French tax people
Registered with doctor and had appointment
Made appointments for dentist
Bought large amounts of healthy food for the week
Made and listed this bracelet:
I haven't forgotten I'm supposed to be writing about Christmas. I'm working on it. I'm also working on finishing my story (up to 61k by now). And sorting out my tax return for the UK - that one's more a sort of passive sorting out, some may call it procrastinating, even. Possibly even ignoring it and hoping it will go away.
But I am also still making jewellery, and have three new bracelets that I made yesterday to show you.
18,017 words and I'm rapidly running out of outline. Hopefully inspiration will strike soon, because otherwise the last 30k words are going to be very, very slow going...
Today we went for a Sunday roast at something pretending to be an English pub just back from Monaco. Venue left something to be desired, but the food was good - I was too full to have sticky toffee pudding. This is a tragedy. I weep for my lack of sticky toffee pudding. I shall have to go back, one day.
Since it's grey and cloudy here today (I weep some more, extra-theatrically) I don't have any nice scenery photos to show you - you can have pictures of my last pieces of jewellery instead.
I'm in the middle of sorting through pictures from the weekend - Paul's sister came over (Hi Claire!) and we did touristy things. The weather is still lovely, so we might go somewhere new and exciting this week. Or not.
I've finally got around to taking some photos of new pieces of jewellery I've done - you're the very first people to see them, don't you feel special? The turquoise piece is a companion piece to Isis, a lapis pendant that sold the other week, the carnelian bracelet is as far as I'm going with anything remotely related to Halloween colours, and the last piece, the sardonyx and pearl pendant is so pretentious, I'm not sure even I can bear it - it's a pendant inspired by a religion I've created in my head for the book I'm still planning to write next month. Religion doesn't even play a huge part in the book. The listing of that one may have to wait for a bit, til I work out whether it plays a role in the story...
I've been lacking some inspiration recently, so my new pieces are tending to the simple and boring. I like Byzantine though, so here are some pretty pieces:
I've been busy making things the last few days (that and sitting on the beach; unemployment is so hard...) so below are some photos...
Now we've moved, in between unpacking, I'm slowly getting back into making things. Quick set of pictures below, of a pendant, a pair of earrings and a couple of bracelets, in styles I've not made before. That, and spending time on the beach - it's so much quieter on the beach now August has ended, it's fabulous!
Pendant:
Bracelet 1:
Bracelet 2:
Earrings:
Oh, and a photo of a palm tree that was sitting on my phone. Just because it's still summer here.
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