Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all My Friends!

Wow, yes it has been quite a long time since I have blogged! It was such an incredibly busy month for me. All I can say..is I am sorry! I was very busy with my day job..which is NOT metal smithing. As a matter of fact, my family owns a mailing shipping store..UPS store like and it was seriously very busy. Yes, this is where I work a few days out of the week. (cat out of the bag!)

I am sure you heard of the term "going postal"..well I know what that means..literrally. ON top of 12 hour work days, I would stay up till 1:00 am to get some jewelry orders done before Christmas. I won't complain about my jewelry orders, as I love making jewelry...but I am completely utterly exhausted.

I have not had much time to make any new designs, except I have been working with gold filled metal now and I am pretty excited about it. I just recently made the faceted amethyst gold filled earrings shown above for my lovely mother in law. She loves jewelry...and the color purple...and yes gold.

I also have been trying to perfect my bezels. I am making smaller and smaller ones, which are not always that easy. When I first set this kyanite oval gemstone..it was very difficult. It really is beautiful in a handmade bezel as oppose to the pre-made ones. Making small bezels takes a lot of practice. I feel this is what I really really want to be good at in my jewelry making skills..so I have been practicing a lot!

So now that the dust has settled I will be focusing on some new designs and some new cabs for the bead shop!

I hope you all have a Happy New Year! Much love, good health, peace and joy to all my friends!