What a Lovely Friday!

What a beautiful Friday!  The clouds look like cotton candy and the sun is shining bright.  I might grab my sneakers and head to the park.  I've really been MIA on the blogging scene lately.  I hope you girls forgive me.  I just finished up a project for my aunt-in-law.  Simple silver necklaces with a few birthstones for Christmas gifts she's giving away.  I hope they are well recieived.  My favorite is the Sacred Heart with the citrine stones.  After I oxidized and polished the piece it really came to life.  I love the halo around the head.

 

 

I'll be taking a trip to the Pittsburgh Glass Center tonight for the Hot Jam.  This is a free event where you can watch the master glass artists at work.  I've thought of taking classes there so this might be what finally pushes me to go ahead with it.  Sue from Sue Beads and I were talking over lunch a few weeks ago and she said this is where she learned how to make her stunning glass beads.  Her little gems are so gorgeous and I think she's running a sale right now.  I'll show off some earrings I made with her beads a little later.  Here's the link to her Etsy shop. 

We hope to make the Christmas Carol movie this weekend.  We went to the theater last weekend and they were sold out.  What a bummer!

Ok, that's it for me.  Enjoy yourselves and put up those holiday decorations if you haven't already!  Oh, and I'd love to see pictures of everyone's decorations to get us in the festive mood.  :)

*Exploding Crimpers*

Yeah, you heard me right.  Exploding crimpers!  That's what happened to me today.  I was using my crimpers and half of the crimping part (not sure what you call that) came off and flew across the room.  Now I know I'm hard on my tools but come on.  I still haven't found the missing piece yet.  It made a loud pop and my sun conure starting squawking because it even scared him and he's on a different floor of my house!  The funny part is, I was looking at the crimpers afterward to find the manufacturer's name and I noticed this.

Can you make out what it says?  "Use Safety Goggles".  I just started laughing when I saw that.

And here's what I was working on when the explosion happened.  Some simple stringing designs.  I've had these cornflake pearls for quite a while but I didn't know what to do with them.  I have tried matching them with other beads but it just takes away from their beauty.  So, I decided these would be strung as is with a nice clasp.

My mom wanted a piece similar to one that was bought recently from my shop so I made this for her.  She actually designed it while she was here picking out all the beads and chain.  Hope she likes it!

I'm way behind on putting items on the Bei Mondi and Bei Mondi Etsy shop so I'll try my best to do that today.  Please be careful while using your tools ladies.  You never can tell when one might decide to fight back.  Enjoy your Thursday!