In Progress

The room I am moving into has awful fake wood paneling, so to deal with it I am hanging a grip of art on the walls. Since my jewelry box was exploding with stuff I decided to move everything into the built in drawers, but I'm hanging the necklaces on a pin board, then hanging it on the wall as art. When hanging my beloved "Rainy Day, Paris" print, I needed something lovely to hang with it. This fantastic print "Keep Calm" is something I had seen in a few magazines so I decided to search etsy and there it was. So excited. Don't they look good together.

Today was the company meeting for the Woodward Shakespeare Festival, which was very exciting. I got to see the stage and meet some of the cast who were not in attendance at the read through. Also got to show off my basic guitar skills. I'm teaching myself so that I can accompany myself and others during the show. It's really not as hard as I thought it would be.

Grateful

I had a day filled with negativity yesterday, so I thought that today I should conteract that with lots of positives. These are the things I am grateful for today:

1. My dogs (here Lego helps dad work)

2. Health - I have been living without health insurance for nearly my entire adult life, and so far have been lucky. I was reminded of this when I spoke with my insurance lady yesterday (the store is paying for me to get insurance) and I was denied coverage because my height/weight details were entered into the application incorrectly. No I am not 4'6" and 195 pounds, I am 5'6" and 195. Only slightly better!

3. Time - to myself, Grandma and my Mum have been on their drive across the country for two weeks, and I get four more weeks of blissful alone time before they return. In which time I must clean the house of my moving debris, ekk!

4. My Jobs - both of which have been remarkably flexible and willing to let me do a play in Fresno this summer. Hoorah for bosses that understand the need for someone to do what they love.

Have a lovely Friday!

nablopomo

I'm giving this a go.

Missed Weekend

I was planning to post some pictures of how my room is progressing, and the adventures I was going to have this weekend, but all went awry.
Friday night, when I was supposed to head up to the Lions Club Roping in Three Rivers, I was called by the alarm company. I had to return to the shop to make sure that we weren't being burgled. Turns out the battery in the alarm fell out of it's box, AGAIN. After dealing with the alarm company, it was too late to make it up to the dance at the arena, so I stayed home.
Saturday Heather and I were going to see a play at one of the local community theatres, but Heather had to bow out. It turned out to be a good thing since on of our boarded horses broke it's leg (with the owner out of town) and I had to deal with the Vet. It was 8pm by the time my Dad said he would take me out for dinner. As we were getting ready to leave I turned off the computer and broke the power switch! Therefore, all day Sunday was spent hand writing invoices.
Today things are looking up. I took the computer in to get fixed and it was a super simple repair. Huzzah!

Moving...

I've been moving to a new space. I promise to be back soon with pictures of what I've been creating. Right now, I'm working on a group of ACEO's that I'm calling the "Gallery of Broken Hearts".
I started rehearsal for "As You Like It" last week and am very excited to get to create three songs for the production. Wish me luck, this is new creative territory.

This is a prototype for a bracelet I wanted to make for my friend Brooke. Of course, once I started I realized all of the mistakes I was making, so this one will remain in my own collection.


In the one I finished for Brooke today, I used one color wire, and hooked the charms onto on ring back to back. I'll try to post a pic of the finished product tomorrow.

These were the fun little wires I worked with. Aren't they pretty!

Exciting news for me, I've been cast in "As You Like It" with the Woodward Shakespeare Festival. I will be playing Amiens, a part written for a man, but we're doing a sort of twist on it.

New Projects

I finally finished this frame. It was supposed to be a Christmas present for the girl that works for us, but it got put aside for more pressing projects, so now it is her birthday present. The idea came from Nicole, who makes jewelry trees every year. I said, 'why can't we put jewelry on other things?', she replied 'Let's go to Micheal's'. She is my perfect best friend. At any rate, I started with a basic unfinished wooden frame, painted it silver, then started glueing beads and jewels to it. It's such a basic project, with a wow result. I used Alene's glue, because it dries clear. It could turn out to be a pretty expensive frame, but I used a bunch of random thrift store jewelry.



My next project is a crown for one of my nieces. Here's the start to it. Since I started with multi-colored beads, I am going to continue using several different colors of wire as well. I plan to leave the wire under the loops unadorned, to allow for bobby pins.