Model!

What a difference a gorgeous model makes!
This is Kerrie Clayton, daughter of my friend Dee Clayton and super gorgeous cool Hipstress (both of them).
This is a tiny silver plate anvil on a vintage snake chain. I love this one.
Here she is in the "Gin" necklace with fleur de lis and large jump rings.
This is a glass pendant with soldered edges. A page from a hymnal is behind glass, with a skull and crossbones in ink drawn onto it.
Here is the brass Victorian pendant with a skull.

Here are Kerrie and Dee wearing the new cuffs together.
I am so lucky to have so many friends to help me with this Etsy project. Kerrie & Dee are the perfect models. And the multitalented Dani Nelson so generously helped me step by step over the phone today with the technical details and she is making a banner for my store!
I am so excited about all this year. There are so many things brewing in the air...can you feel it?
It's all coming together. I'm telling you, success will rain down on us all this year!

I can not believe how fast the last week flew by. So many times I started to write but other projects just called to me and I was like a slave to it. I gave in every time.

On the left is a cuff I made earlier in the week. The other three to its right I made this weekend. I have a "new" silver chafing dish to cut up and hammer out. I love the pattern on this one; it's less common than the material I started off with.

I tried several different patinas, from fairly bright and clean to heavy patina. I am partial to the grungier look.
I also Made the cuts at the ends a few different ways. I think I like a straight cut like the two on the either side.
Ah, I love looking at them as a group. Don't you just feel rich when you have a bunch of your own work in stock piled up? Tomorrow I will add them to my new Etsy store. I am really looking forward to getting adept on this site. My goal is to be lucky enough to sell about as much as I can make eventually. The market is flooded with jewelry but what can I say, I think I'm pretty hot stuff. But perhaps more important, I'm humble. And fabulous!

As I said, I've been consumed by metal all week long. I feel very lucky that I enjoy so many different passions; restoration (automotive, antiques, wood), writing, metal smithing, woodworking and photography to name a few. Whenever I hear someone say they aren't creative or talented in any way it blows my mind. I don't believe it for one thing. Lots of people have latent talents and interests that have been long abandoned, but could be revived and I'm all for it.
So get to it! Pick up a pen and doodle on the power bill, something.
Come on...